The Energon Pub

News Credits: 1 · by **RhA** » Mon Mar 02, 2015 8:50 am

I'm starting up as a freelance graphic artist (and loving it).

What do you people do for a dayjob?

by **wilcosu35** » Mon Mar 02, 2015 10:06 am

i'm a mechanic, i repair aircraft components.

News Credits: 25 · by **Ironhidensh** » Mon Mar 02, 2015 10:10 am

I work for coca-cola.

News Credits: 1 · by **RhA** » Mon Mar 02, 2015 1:24 pm

wilcosu35 wrote:i'm a mechanic, i repair aircraft components.

Figures, you live near the airport, right?

by **wilcosu35** » Mon Mar 02, 2015 1:36 pm

RhA wrote:
wilcosu35 wrote:i'm a mechanic, i repair aircraft components.

Figures, you live near the airport, right?

indeed i do. in fact, when the wind is right and i'm sitting in the garden, i can look straight up and see them passing over my head at a couple 100 meters

News Credits: 22 · by **Rodimus Prime** » Mon Mar 02, 2015 1:43 pm

I'm a drone at Walmart. I do get 1st crack at all new incoming TF shipments, though...

by **SJ21** » Mon Mar 02, 2015 3:24 pm

I'm a science teacher.

News Credits: 1 · by **RhA** » Mon Mar 02, 2015 6:19 pm

Rodimus Prime wrote:I'm a drone at Walmart. I do get 1st crack at all new incoming TF shipments, though...

I used to work at Staples. All the droning, none of the TF's. I hated it with a passion. My co-workers where great, though.

News Credits: 60 · by **fenrir72** » Mon Mar 02, 2015 6:37 pm

I save people in the A&E. Also trained in Rescue/EMT. Making a difference by saving lives. Some "bubble" I live in eh?

A&E Accidents and Emergency.

News Credits: 37 · by **SlyTF1** » Mon Mar 02, 2015 10:28 pm

I work at a movie theater. I'm also currently writing a series of short stories. If that counts. And if by "short," you mean half the size of a regular novel.

News Credits: 23 · by **Madeus Prime** » Mon Mar 02, 2015 10:36 pm

Currently I'm unemployed, I'm only in high school, but I'm hoping to land a job at my local Wal-Mart or something similar this summer, I already have a friend who was a brief but very good employee that has made it clear that he'd give me a reference.

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Mon Mar 02, 2015 10:55 pm

I work for an engineering firm, short description.

Long description, Admin duties + IT + Legal + Marketing. And some times I end up downstairs selling crap to customers in retail.

News Credits: 16 · by **It Is Him** » Tue Mar 03, 2015 12:04 am

Previous career: Newspaper editor
Current career: My current title doesn't make sense, but I develop reports for clients and reengineer internal company processes. I may get a better title in a few weeks.

News Credits: 16 · by **It Is Him** » Tue Mar 03, 2015 12:05 am

Burn wrote:I work for an engineering firm, short description.

Long description, Admin duties + IT + Legal + Marketing. And some times I end up downstairs selling crap to customers in retail.

Generally companies want to keep IT people AWAY from customers...

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Tue Mar 03, 2015 1:38 am

It Is Him wrote:Generally companies want to keep IT people AWAY from customers...

The IT side of things isn't a big job, mostly because due to lack of money we can't afford to upgrade any of the computers.

And Windows XP is very stable, plus everyone's learnt that I'm just going to tell them to restart their computers before bitching to me. >:oP

News Credits: 22 · by **Rodimus Prime** » Tue Mar 03, 2015 4:57 am

RhA wrote:I used to work at Staples. All the droning, none of the TF's. I hated it with a passion. My co-workers where great, though.

I don't talk to my co-workers much. And management are mostly imbeciles.

Burn wrote:everyone's learnt that I'm just going to tell them to restart their computers before bitching to me.

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Tue Mar 03, 2015 5:28 am

Rodimus Prime wrote:

I once worked with a woman who yelled for my help from the other office because her computer wouldn't turn on for her.

I walked out, switched it on at the wall and walked back to my own office.

This is the same woman who ... when we got her a new (then CRT) monitor, it came with a "5 year warranty" sticker in the corner of the screen. She asked if she could remove it, I told her "No, that'll void the warranty" and walked away and thought nothing of it (surely she wouldn't be that stupid to believe me).

Half the day went by until I heard her lose it, rip the sticker off and put it on top of the monitor.

Whoops ...

News Credits: 6188 · by **Va'al** » Tue Mar 03, 2015 5:45 am

Freelance translator, scare actor, university tutor/sort of lecturer and social media manager, PhD student.

Whew.

News Credits: 22 · by **Rodimus Prime** » Tue Mar 03, 2015 6:25 am

Burn wrote:
Rodimus Prime wrote:

I once worked with a woman who yelled for my help from the other office because her computer wouldn't turn on for her.

I walked out, switched it on at the wall and walked back to my own office.

This is the same woman who ... when we got her a new (then CRT) monitor, it came with a "5 year warranty" sticker in the corner of the screen. She asked if she could remove it, I told her "No, that'll void the warranty" and walked away and thought nothing of it (surely she wouldn't be that stupid to believe me).

Half the day went by until I heard her lose it, rip the sticker off and put it on top of the monitor.

Va'al wrote:Freelance translator, scare actor, university tutor/sort of lecturer and social media manager, PhD student

What about Alpha Bravo-enthusiast? Or is that not yet an occupation?

News Credits: 6188 · by **Va'al** » Tue Mar 03, 2015 7:19 am

Rodimus Prime wrote:
Va'al wrote:Freelance translator, scare actor, university tutor/sort of lecturer and social media manager, PhD student
What about Alpha Bravo-enthusiast? Or is that not yet an occupation?

I don't get paid for it, that's just for the sheer joy of it.

News Credits: 25 · by **Ironhidensh** » Tue Mar 03, 2015 7:21 am

Va'al wrote:Freelance translator, scare actor, university tutor/sort of lecturer and social media manager, PhD student.

Whew.

PhD in what, if you don't mind me asking?

News Credits: 6188 · by **Va'al** » Tue Mar 03, 2015 7:31 am

Ironhidensh wrote:
Va'al wrote:Freelance translator, scare actor, university tutor/sort of lecturer and social media manager, PhD student.

Whew.

PhD in what, if you don't mind me asking?

Literary translation. More specifically, my project looks to create a critical manual for comics translation, focusing on Italian to English, and including sociolinguistics, cognitive stylistics, multimodal analysis, semiotics and various aspects of the brass tack mechanics of comics and translation.