OT: What's your job/career??

[EvilGenius4ABetterTomorro]

I'm a receptionist/warehouse manager at a local blank media and duplication company. It's a mom and pop operation so raises are a little slow but we can drink beer after 4pm! surf the web on a T-1 line and play xbox 360 on the 42" HDTV plasma t.v. Keep the proles sedated and entertained so they don't revolt!
Then 12 hours a week I work as a home electronics cashier at Fred Meyer (Kroger). That money helps put the kid through private school and I get good discounts on home electronics too.
With all the aging baby boomers and heavy Ipod use, I was thinking of getting into or investing in the Hearing Aid industry. Ka ching?

[Richard]

I am the supervisor for a Tier 2 application support team at a major Pharmaceutical Distribution company.

I also do a lot of work at Shrapnel.

[Atrocities]

I spend the day now doing much of nothing at all.

[Xrati]

I'm currently working for a company making DSL modems (WiFi too) and is currently in the process of making the VIOP phone sets. We also make most of the communication hardware for the major phone companies(land lines).

[Raging Deadstar]

This thread is interesting, if you were here a year ago and posted, to look back to see what you thought/were doing last year.

Heh, for me I was pretty accurate. I ended up finishing college much earlier than expected (Like April 05 instead of July 06 ). I'm currently unemployed again and looking for part time work.

But I've been doing Voluntary Work for the last 7 months. Currently I'm working on and off constantly for 4 organisations and it's been great fun! The main problem I have is time. There's so much more I want to take on.

Dam the enthusiasm of youth

[Slynky]

Worked every year of my life (except 1) since I was eight years old. That's newspaper delivery, to fast food, Greek restaurant, textile mill (in the lab testing nylon, etc. for panty hose), and when given my lottery number for the draft to service, joined Army Security Agency (intel) and that got me started in computers. 20 years later, I retired and hired on in an IT position. 5 more years and retire again. THEN I'll be able to work full time on what I like...graphic arts (where I get a few jobs by word of mouth).

I have ONE good bit of advice you should heed:

Not sure what Canada does about offshoring (etc.), but when considering a career, you might give some preference to one that can't be done out of your country.

[Ruatha]

I'm a physician ( that's the english term for doctor I think), now working at the radiology department to become a specialist in radiology, preferentially vascular intervention.

Also spending alot of time in the Swedish armed forces (joint resource for army, navy and air force) as a reserve officer. We're setting up a Role 2 hospital for UN/EU service and I'm working on the radiology part, and am also out in the forest some weeks with the conscripts healing simulated wounds. (It's quite different from when I was a conscript 1989, now there are alot of girl soldiers!! Every soldier has individual protection wests and sleeping bags and all kind of techy things, vehicles instead of skies etc!!)

From the fun part and the good life part I can recommend life as a radiologist in Sweden, don't know how it's like on the american continent.

[ExSentinel]

I am a Contract Administrator and Compliance Officer at a small University north of Houston and am also in the Army Reserves.

[TurinTurambar]

I own and operate a small alarm company in the Los Angeles area. I got into the business on alarm systems and cameras and gates and such, but I'm currently spinning it more toward Home Theater, Distributed Audio, Home Automation and Systems Integration.

High school education and 5 years in the Marine Corps. Got into this stuff when a guy at my church needed an extra set of hands and hired me green. Learned by OJT. Now I gross nearly 100k/yr. and have my own business. Life has its quirks.