how do you pay the bills?

iamnotcool · Post by **iamnotcool** » Thu May 03, 2007 10:14 am

Johnisfaster wrote:
iamnotcool wrote:Chef over here, though I'm still attending classes, so the bread that I can be making (no pun intended) has yet to be seen.
I used to want to be a chef. I love cooking though I rarely get into it.

I would tend bar if I wasn't such a lush.

It's not as hard as some make it out to be. All you need to do is pay attention to what you are doing, and everything just falls into place. In fact, i'd compare it to music production...cant let things sit too long, they go bad/stale...you have to be original...you have to prep your food much like you prepare you samples, in the sense that poor preparation makes for some disorganized and half-assed cooking...the list goes on.

fun job though.

jesso · Post by **jesso** » Thu May 03, 2007 10:24 am

I dress as Elvis Presly and stand on busy street corners in Dublin so that lots of people can come and find me as part of their corporate treasure hunt day.
Also have a wedding band for the bread and butter...
www.thepanoramics.com
You wont believe it unless you see it.

brightonalex · Post by **brightonalex** » Thu May 03, 2007 10:27 am

I am an elevator tester. It has its good times and not so good times.

stallos · Post by **stallos** » Thu May 03, 2007 11:14 am

brightonalex wrote:I am an elevator tester. It has its good times and not so good times.

hmmm a lot of ups and downs you could say

I'm working for a small software company that makes really boring banking software. I'm exceptionally motivated by this as you can no doubt tell

Syntheme · Post by **Syntheme** » Thu May 03, 2007 11:19 am

extortion and kidnapping

j/k

brightonalex · Post by **brightonalex** » Thu May 03, 2007 11:20 am

That's right - IT HAS ITS UPS AND DOWNS!!!

Actually I'm not really an elevator tester. I am a Publisher of court cases, but there aren't many puns for that.

deckme(N)tal · Post by **deckme(N)tal** » Thu May 03, 2007 11:34 am

i work at the marketing department of UPS....and it pays one third of the bills...and no discounts on shipments...

smartass303 · Post by **smartass303** » Thu May 03, 2007 12:04 pm

i´m pretty much unemployed, therefore broke all the time BUT in good ol germany they pay your Appartement as long as you manage it to make them think that you`re seriously (pfffrt) looking for a Job.
So the rest is money i don`t pay taxes for, bar, wardrobe, gigging... oh yeah and i have a girlfriend! She helps me if im Super-Broke

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Pantytec · Post by **Pantytec** » Thu May 03, 2007 12:07 pm

full time panty technician here.... serving woman in the ages of 18 to early 40's.

what can i say?

sidownes · Post by **sidownes** » Thu May 03, 2007 12:09 pm

direct debit mostly

beatpoet · Post by **beatpoet** » Thu May 03, 2007 1:17 pm

jesso wrote:I dress as Elvis Presly and stand on busy street corners in Dublin so that lots of people can come and find me as part of their corporate treasure hunt day.
Also have a wedding band for the bread and butter...
www.thepanoramics.com
You wont believe it unless you see it.

I saw a guy dressed as elvis while I waited for a bus on westmoreland st last week.

Was that you ?

corygilbert · Post by **corygilbert** » Thu May 03, 2007 1:30 pm

I work for animal services for johns hopkins university.
We take care of all the animals used in research here.
rats, mice, dogs, cats, monkeys, pigs everything.
And before you ask, most of the research is behavioral, meaning no mutant cats or painful or scary procedures, mostly, mapping brain function by studying behavior under different parameters.
But I just clean up poop.
It's actually a great job, pays well, and if I hustle I can usually manage 2 days a week working in my office in live, after my work is done.

beats me · Post by **beats me** » Thu May 03, 2007 3:50 pm

I have a history of low level jobs with huge impressive companies like GE, Cisco Systems, and Fisher Scientific. But wedged in between those I managed a liquid latex body paint company. I'm not talking about car or house paint. I'm talking about paint you put on the human body and it dries and turns to rubber. The high points were going to all the adult and lingerie conventions. It was also fun dealing with customers on the phone who thought our work environment was like the Playboy mansion with half naked supermodels roaming the halls. The reality was we were in a ghetto type warehouse ruining all our clothes with paint pigment.

joeyfivecents · Post by **joeyfivecents** » Thu May 03, 2007 4:05 pm

I am a sales rep for Inner City Broadcasting Corporation. We have 6 radio stations in my area(Columbia,SC). They also used to own the Apollo Theater and Showtime at the Apollo. Also own big stations in New York, San Francisco, and other places. We like to take on Clear Channel and kick their asses (they are evil).

forge · Post by **forge** » Thu May 03, 2007 4:07 pm

stallos wrote:
brightonalex wrote:I am an elevator tester. It has its good times and not so good times.

hmmm a lot of ups and downs you could say