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how do you pay the bills?
Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 11:15 pm
by Johnisfaster
I know there have got to be some great altered ego's on this forum.
I myself.... I have some pretty funny jobs. I'm a janitor AND a garlic salesman

(which comes with a giant hat that looks like a garlic clove! bonus!)
the janitor job is for the steady paycheck, and now I'm getting into my uncles business where I follow home and garden shows around and sell garlic seasoning and mustards and crap. totally funny I know but it's good money.
jobs I used to have: drain cleaner, cable man, CARNIE (not even joking), coffee barista. I even tried selling kirby vaccuums for one day, and I was a telemarketer for literally 15 minutes.
god I'm lame

Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 11:18 pm
by djadonis206
I was a rave promoter for a loooooooooong time and dj
I don't make money now - I just exist in some funny space between school and home, oh and my computer...
Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 11:28 pm
by jb61264
Well...I'm happy to report that I am once again able to actually pay the bills with my job.
I'm now a project manager with a startup biopharmaceutical within the University of Nebraska. They initially hired me to help manage client projects and then soon found out that I'm good with IT/IS stuff too and have now asked me to become the IT/IS manager and build a department to support the entire facility...so more pay! YES! it's about time things started going my way

Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 11:30 pm
by Johnisfaster
jb61264 wrote:Well...I'm happy to report that I am once again able to actually pay the bills with my job.
I'm now a project manager with a startup biopharmaceutical within the University of Nebraska. They initially hired me to help manage client projects and then soon found out that I'm good with IT/IS stuff too and have now asked me to become the IT/IS manager and build a department to support the entire facility...so more pay! YES! it's about time things started going my way

awesome... did I mention I used to be a carnie?
Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 11:35 pm
by sparklepuff
I'm a sales rep for a young womens clothing line. East and West coasts are my territory, and I work with the national sales manager so I help with that. Lots of travel. Flexible hours. Paychex.
Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 11:38 pm
by Johnisfaster
aw man.... somebody has got to have some crappier jobs than me. I don't want to hear this "I've got a job with a really cool title" crap.
just playin.
Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 12:35 am
by suburbanbather
Johnisfaster wrote:aw man.... somebody has got to have some crappier jobs than me. I don't want to hear this "I've got a job with a really cool title" crap.
just playin.
Don't feel bad John, I'm also a janitor.

Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 12:55 am
by ethios4
I get paid to monitor political and drug-related forum threads by the CIA.
Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 1:03 am
by Angstrom
I once had a job on a night shift making plastic containers (shampoo / hair gel / etc) with some seriously blood thirsty robots. Everyone else on the line was an illegal immigrant and no-one could speak English.
but the worst was odd jobbing in a commercial kitchen , that was bad.
now I get paid to monitor these guys who are told they actually work for the CIA watching political and drug-related threads ... but in fact they tied to a chair , wired up to a huge computer simulation which is calculating the tastiest kind of hot dog.
it pays the rent.
Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 1:15 am
by longjohns
I manage a metal sculpture studio, but for many years before that I was a furniture maker.
Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 1:21 am
by Tone Deft
I've done a lot of food jobs, baked bread, waited tables at 'family restaurants', half a dozen catering gigs of different flavors (prep to serving to garbage runs <ahh the smell of stale beer while drinking the last bits of wine bags on a hot summer day at the dump!!>), little league 'snack shack' dude flipping burgers, night security clerk in the college dorms, a few short software gigs, sold Cutco knives, painted houses, folded clothes for a Levi's photoshoot (random gig), made pizzas, worked at sandwich shops, temped in various offices <as the copy/colate bitch>, now I make/wrench on electronics sucking corporate cock.
Best and worst job was waiting tables. Tip your waiter, bitches, they work harder than you'll ever know. The Cutco gig sucked ass, it takes a special kind of asshole to do cold calling sales. Painting also sucked, hard work, half of it is just the shitty prep work, very detail oriented.
Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 1:21 am
by ohiowa
i am a live sound engineer for a few bands when they tour and for a few venues in chicago.
i make fake drug related posts in internet chat rooms about the CIA...or was it MIA?
Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 1:25 am
by nathannn
i work at an office supply store..... but it dont pay the bills
Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 1:31 am
by timothyallan
i've been a software/web developer in a few jobs for the past decade.
soon its music paying hte bills tho!
Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 1:40 am
by COSM
I'm a very part time AV technician at a university, but my main income is my jewelry.Oh, and gigs/.
good presents for girlfriends + sisters

:D:D
