What Do You Do?

[Fuse]

FA is a diverse group So what kind of professional/educational background do you come from? What do you do for work - or plan to do for work? If you could have any job in the world, what would it be?

[Subb]

>Graduated from Primary School in 2001
>Finished GCSE's summer 2006
>Finished AS levels summer 2007
>Will finish Senior years Summer 2008
>University 2008 - 2012
>Fully qualified Osteopath - 2012


Or I can just cut the crap and put:

>School
>Rockstar
>Death by drugs


Don't do drugs kids....

Seriously, don't.

[Fuse]

2005 - Graduated with a BS in Computer Information Systems
2005 - Started a position as a Systems Analyst for State Farm Headquarters

I fix broken programs all day and also have a hand in updating and creating new processes/programs. I lead a measurment area where we determine how well each of our agents are doing. I oversee the automated collection of data from over 40 sources in all different forms (IMS or DB2 databases, flat files, spreadsheets, emails) and process it into a usable format for our transform and presentation areas to make them pretty for our execs. I work on host mainframe systems and our system is written in an uncountable amount of COBOL and PL/I programs utilizing JCL, SAS, TSO, and other outdated languages.

I hate my job. Cubicles suck.
If it wasn't for the nice house and wife I'd most likely be a pilot in the military right now - or at least on my way there.

[Anonymous]

13 GCSEs
1 A-Level Comparative International Government & Politics
1 GNVQ Intermediate Business Studies
1 year Media & Communication Studies
IPPM Foundation
CIMA Foundation

Started work two weeks after leaving college as a civil servant in a finance role, pro-active compliance and assessment of payroll returns.  Two years.

Moved into a compliance role with a recruitment firm where I handled "elite payroll tasks", managed various teams; progressed through several roles covering payrolling, billing and management accounting.  Founded three specialist teams and trained up their managers.  Seven years.

Started work for an American software company with HQ in the UK handling contract verification and revenue management for EMEA and APAC regions.  Promoted after three months to revenue manager, went on to coach staff in China and the States.  Role primarily involved invoicing, revenue recognition compliance/SOX and SAB, FASB, GAAP controls.  Oversaw team of two accountants and one salesman.  Two years.

Now working for a consulting firm in the oil and natural gas industry.  Role involves verification of AR function, cash handling and forecasting, revenue recognition and reconciliation, and reporting to the senior partners.  By and large it's my job to make sure the money comes in, goes in the right pot and is properly reported on at the end of the month.  Much of my work involves fixing other people's mistakes and deciphering what they intended to do.  It's largely forensic work due to the speed of turnover in the industry and is very high profile - what I do feeds directly to the shareholders so it has to be correct.

I do not work in a cubicle.

[Avzeke (Khr0n1k)]

Spring 2007 - Graduated High School
Fall 2007 - Entering Freshman at the University of Oklahoma (OU) attempting to get a degree in Computer Science

I'm a student and at the moment am currently unemployed due to some stupid underage  boss that cant do her job right and led to several people to be unemployed, at my grocery store job (heh) and now I have spent my whole summer, every single day of it, doing construction on an addition to my parents house and I am down to the last couple days (hopefully) of working on it! My life is so simplistic to all of the above people.


I do not work in a cubicle, or at all for that fact.

[Tbone]

I got my BFA in Acting in 2006. From there I've had professional acting jobs in Mississippi, Tennessee, and Virginia. In August I'll begin my next job actinig for a national touring company. That will last until May. I hope to have another job lined up by then through doing auditions, but we'll see.

[NoCry]

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[NoCry]

no only joking; 12 gcse's 3 alevels and bachelor of law degree (with french law degree too). Trained and qualified as an attorney in corporate finance and have been qualified 5 years. specialise in putting corporations on the junior stock exchange in london. on a personal level married 15 months to wife chloe, son called harry and live in a nice place we call home. very satisfied with home life, just been headhunted and will let you know how happy I am after 4 months.

tally ho. oh, and broin, you are next!

[Subb]

Headhunted? So I finally sold you on ebay?

**Runs to check ebay account**

[Fuse]

no only joking; 12 gcse's 3 alevels and bachelor of law degree (with french law degree too). Trained and qualified as an attorney in corporate finance and have been qualified 5 years. specialise in putting corporations on the junior stock exchange in london. on a personal level married 15 months to wife chloe, son called harry and live in a nice place we call home. very satisfied with home life, just been headhunted and will let you know how happy I am after 4 months.

tally ho. oh, and broin, you are next!

He could tel us, but then would have to kill us all.

[Manic Velocity]

no only joking; 12 gcse's 3 alevels and bachelor of law degree (with french law degree too). Trained and qualified as an attorney in corporate finance and have been qualified 5 years. specialise in putting corporations on the junior stock exchange in london. on a personal level married 15 months to wife chloe, son called harry and live in a nice place we call home. very satisfied with home life, just been headhunted and will let you know how happy I am after 4 months.

tally ho. oh, and broin, you are next!

He could tel us, but then would have to kill us all.

Methinks this was the original intent behind this thread.  Not necessarily to get us all killed, but to coax Broin into shedding some light on his personal life.  

[Anamodiel]

Graduate from High School in Spring 2008.
I wish to attend Pepperdine University to major in International Business, and then get an Executive MBA at the Graduate College.

Right now, my summer temp job keeps me working 7.75 hours every day of the week, save the weekends. I work in the paper department of a paperless company, basically. I handle all of Foremost Insurance's return mail after it has been sorted for me. Most of the time the mail is returned to us because our lovely travel trailer owners sometimes like to just get up and move - and not tell us where they are living. So, when we try to mail them their declaration pages, premium payment notices, et al, they are no where to be found. I am the one who puts in their policy number into the mainframe that tells the computer that the person's address is invalid, and someone needs to contact them to get an updated address.

Other times, I'll have to update the leinholder's and additional interests' addresses and information. Between buyouts, mergers, and relocation, most leinholders and additional interests don't stay in the same location for too long. To make matters worse, the mainframe is designed poorly. Instead of having a central hub where you could simply update the address of the leinholder/additional interest, I have to manually go in to each and every person's policy and change the leinholder/additional interest individually if one of the leinholder's addresses has changed. Most of the time I'm lucky and get faxed a sheet from a leinholder (IE Washington Mutual), and they give us all of the policies they have through our company, and I'm the one that goes into the database and updates the leinholder's address. I can get about 300 of those done each day. If I don't get faxed a sheet of policies that need updating, however, I have to wait for our old return mail to come in to know which policies need changing. I have a master list of all of the leinholders with their updated addresses on there, so once I get some return mail back, I can update the leinholder's addresses and resend it to the correct address.

However, for 300 dollars a week (after taxes, mind you, it would be 356 if it were tax free), I think I'll get over the mundaneness of my job, especially because I have not even graduated high school yet. $9.50 an hour is very good entry level pay, especially because I can listen to my iPod!

Personally, I live out in a more rural part of the city in a newly built house. Anything that I need or want is between a 15-45 minute drive from me, though, but I get over that easily because our neighborhood is so quiet and peaceful. I maintained a 4.0 average for my Junior year (4.001 after all 4 quarters and exams were averaged, to be specific), and I am entering my Senior year of High School this August.

[Lits]

He's never going to do it. He's too good to slip up like that
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I'm a third year student in acting, working for a BFA. I also dabble into costumes from time to time. I want to go on in the same vein as, working my way as high as I can in the stage, and hopefully living and working in New York or Chicago at some point. I can't really speculate much on that right now, considering I have no idea how or where I'm going to end up.

To make ends meet I do oddjobs here and there. Steady gigs like waiting tables, selling tickets, answering phones.... etc. Once I week I work as a dealer for my old boss's poker game. I sell some of my art out of my home, and I also do a little something on the side I consider "educational consulting" as in I edit and rework term papers for a fee. Not bad work if you can get it in a steady supply. $10 to edit for grammatical and spelling errors. Another $20 if I rework the paper to make it better, and if the paper comes back an A- or higher, a mandatory gratuity of an additional $20. You'd be suprised how much some people will pay to be lazy. Unfortunately the market's extremely risky.
*note I don't WRITE them, I just make them BETTER.

I've done everything from swim lessons to hanggliding lessons to managing a waterpark to dancing around in a giant styrofoam Cherry LimeAid. I just really can't stand routine and the same thing day in and day out. I'm extremely organized, but I can't to do the same thing too long. I wouldn't suvive long behind a desk in a claustrophobic room with no windows wearing a suit and heels everyday.

P.S.... The only way I'd ever be found in a cubicle is if I was found dead.

[Fuse]

P.S.... The only way I'd ever be found in a cubicle is if I was found dead.

I can think of one other situation, but I'll refrain from revealing that until we're on the phone.

[Eroz]

Guys, just give it up Broin will never lose.

Right I work for the county parks system, picking up litter, collecting garbage and cleaning bathrooms, then odd jobs like weed picking, tree delimbing, etc. But thats just a summer job. Normally I work directly for Bill Gates, in charge of his finances.....

Ok the Bill Gates thing isn't real. Really Im a Computer Science Major in college,  Just finished my Sophomore year.

My other plans include taking over the world with left-handed people. The oppression of the right-handers is nigh!!!!! MWAH-HA-HA-HA. (BTW I'm serious, I've had this plan for years, and I've been keeping track of left handed people I know. And those who ask, "What about the amby people?" I consider them traitors for using their right hands, so they well be cast out with the rest. This is what you get for making it impossible to find left handed scissors.)