/diy/ - Do It Yourself

[Anonymous No.456587]

what do my fellow /diy/-ers do for a living?

[Anonymous No.456588]

Ironworker reporting in. Pretty /diy/ related, yeah?

[Anonymous No.456592]

White collar in a small box in a big building.
Web development.

Moved into the big city 2 years ago and let my /diy/ life behind, only to see it one month yearly on my vacations.

[Anonymous No.456597]

I got a new job just today. Developing Firmware/Electronics for embedded GNU/Linux protocol gateways. Boxes that let different types of computer networks talk to each other.

Pay is good and it's a 3 day work week so more time for the creative personal projects. I'm hoping those can eventually be my real job.

I'm a computer engineer.

[Anonymous No.456603]

Working for the 5-0 (police)

Just bought a house so tons of in-progress DIY.

[Anonymous No.456606]

I teach English as a 2nd language. Just for another year though. Then I want to join Americorps (if anyone has experience I'd love to hear it).

In my massive amounts of free time I write content online and get paid for that.

Also garden a lot.

[Anonymous No.456615]

Barnes and Noble Textbooks worker and American Eagle sales clerk. Saving up for a new car.
Also a full time student studying mechanical engineering.

I applied to several internships through experiential learning recently, got an email back for an interview with Philips. I've been ecstatic for the last three days about it.

[Anonymous No.456616]

>>456606

I'm in Americorps. Gotta leave to go soon actually. It's alright. Pay is abysmal and the health coverage outside of needing pills is pretty bad. Not too sure what you wanna do in Americorps though. I mostly teach geometry as an aide in a Newark middle school although Americorps members are asked to do a ton of different things.

[Anonymous No.456628]

doing internal tech support for a fucking huge international company. you've propably never heard of us, but if you ever called customer support of microsoft, amazon or the like chances are good you talked to one of our employees.

[Carpenter Bob No.456629]

>>456587

retired mostly but I was a furniture & cabinet maker for most of my life

[Anonymous No.456630]

Just recently this past year began working on a graphic/web design career seriously for the first time. Did it every so often previously but was mainly a full time caregiver to my disabled father, nam vet, strongest person I've ever know yet agent orange exposure wreaked havoc on his body in his later years, was the one that sparked the DIY bug in me very early on in life. He passed a little while back and I've used my portion of life insurance to buy a modest trailer on some lake front property, currently using all the knowledge I've gained from him to turn it into a future home for my family, I think he'd be proud..... went off on a bit of a tangent but I'm a big ole softy who misses working with their dad I guess haha.

[Anonymous No.456633]

NEET highschool dropout.

[Anonymous No.456637]

I cut out Star Wars related shapes in plyboard on a CNC laser, pop an 8c sweep movement in and sell them to hipsters on Etsy for $25 a pop. It'll do til I graduate.

[GreenGC No.456663]

Carpenter turned Contractor. I do everything from remodel to green energy projects. Love the DIY aspect but am considering college for Finance

[Anonymous No.456671]

Electonics Technician in the Royal Australian Navy.

I maintain and repair everything from telephones to CIWS. I also 'borrow' a lot of electonic components to use for my own nefarious means. Pretty good job for diy-type things.

Pic more or less related, it's a piece of equipment that I maintain at the moment on one of our little boats.

[Anonymous No.456672]

Electronics Technician with the Aussie Navy.

I maintain and repair everything from telephones to weapon systems. All in all it's an alright job for diy things.

Pic related, one of the systems I maintain.

[Anonymous No.456674]

>>456672

Actually there's about 7 things in that picture I maintain.

[Anonymous No.456681]

i work in a copy shop in ohio. not glamorous, but i get plenty of time to work with crafts in my off-days and self-educate via internet. i specialize in fiber goods: Crochet, knitting, and loom-work, and various other little crafty things (gardening, Scrapbooks, gifts-in-jars, baking, home-made cleaning products, zombie apocalypse planning)

[Anonymous No.456686]

>>456587

Nothing. Unemployed unfortunately.

God I'm desperate for something that isn't some pointless retail shit.

[Anonymous No.456689]

>>456686
Audio Engineer.

I'm beginning but I'm finding huge demand for basic instrument and electronic maintenance work. Simple modifications for pre-amps, amp repair. I do production, recording and mixing work too and should be spending the summer doing sound for a film.

I build and modify alot of the equipment I use for productions. To say I'd be nothing without DIY is an understatement.

[Anonymous No.456715]

Fabrication works manager

[Anonymous No.456717]

>>456686
I used to be a graphic designer but I've been raising kids for 4 years now. Soon I suspect I'll be on an assembly line somewhere as my skills have lapsed.

[Anonymous No.456730]

I'm a commercial cabinetmaker...I've been a cabinetmaker, residential and commercial for almost 21 years now.

I feel old...

captcha...was icecam

[Anonymous No.456746]

Telephone company. I'm the guy that keeps posting with rats nests of wire.

"I've seen some shit"

[Anonymous No.456752]

Comm tech for the USMC, stuck in base housing right now so my diy is pretty much making my own booze, my tiny potted veggie garden, and an occasional carpentry project or two that I can keep confined to the little bit of space in my garage. Can't wait to get out and have a real shop again.

[Anonymous No.456758]

Don't work ; Live off my land

[Anonymous No.456773]

manager at a restaurant, and hopefully college soon

[Anonymous No.456777]

I'm a software developer for a large eCommerce company, do a lot of work on our backend systems, but now building shopping apps for some of our major brands, really enjoying that part as I have 100% control and creative freedom.

[Anonymous No.456814]

Motor T in the Marine Corps

[Anonymous No.456836]

Probably the least /diy/ job of anybody on here...

'Communications assistant' for the office that manages the entire government's accounts payable/accounts receivable processing system. I write a lot of minutes, briefing notes, communiques, internal press releases, etc. Pay is terrible, but there are hella opportunities to advance. Plus there are some pretty cool and convoluted financial/business process (oh god so much Visio).

>inb4 change the rounding formulas to take a petty out of every account

[Anonymous No.456957]

I work for home depot. Just over 10 an hour, decent benefits, shit hours.

[Anonymous No.456958]

Government meteorlogist. Get paid to sit on IRC/4chan all day.

[Anonymous No.456959]

Computer programmer / Linux sysadmin / Serial entrepreneur.

[Anonymous No.456972]

Toy designer, majored in Industrial Design

[Anonymous No.456976]

Electrical engineer for a power transmission company.

[Anonymous No.456979]

chronic masterbator

[Anonymous No.456980]

network/web/database/general systems admin for a major automotive manufacturer. Whole system was set up before I got here, so I just do patch work on it. Most of my day is pretty boring, spent researching projects, practicing languages, or browsing 4chan.

[Anonymous No.456987]

Treeplanter

[Anonymous No.456993]

going into college to be an EE. I do audio/video work during the summer

[Anonymous No.457000]

>>456987
For real? That sounds super cool.

I'm currently studying secondary education, gotta get on the dole soon though.

[Anonymous No.457011]

>>456957
Home Depot here as well, in receiving. $9.50/Hour, haven't hit 90 days yet so I'm not sure if I'm going to take benefits. Just wish they'd offer me more money/hours so that I could actually afford to start an education.

Interested in leatherworking and horticulture, though.

[Anonymous No.457012]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asxHUOmSEWc

[Anonymous No.457016]

I work at a fast food place but I just got a Machinist Trainee postion at a small shop in Long beach, feels good, man.

[sellfag !ozUXjsFX5I No.457026]

I sell shit on ebay and shit. Anyone need a 75 hp aircompressor, a brand new turbomolecular vacuum pump, flexible solar panels, glassware, cryo freezer or any of the other shit I have? I beat just about any price out there.

[Anonymous No.457028]

>>457026
ebay link?

[Anonymous No.457031]

>>456637
How do you handle the intellectual property aspect?

[Anonymous No.457032]

Structural Steel fabricator here,
>>456588
sorry for those bolt holes not lining up.

[sellfag !ozUXjsFX5I No.457034]

>>456686
You in Utah?

[Anonymous No.457033]

>>456672
I like the drab semi camo color then a bright red and white warning sign.

[Anonymous No.457037]

>>456758
How do you afford taxes?

[Anonymous No.457036]

>>457000
If you are in the UK get on the dole then ask about becoming a Door supervisor


You can get all the training for free and the badge so you save about 300 quid and get about 7.50 an hour for doing nothing 90% of the time.

I do it and as long as you stick in its a great job.

[Anonymous No.457038]

>>457028
http://stores.ebay.com/Laboratory-Tech
its kinda sparse right now, I got allot of shit thats not listed

[Anonymous No.457045]

Jack of many trades & master of none for a wireless company.
Could be leaving soon to start as an electrician apprentice.

[Capt. Syn No.457046]

>>457031

I was wondering the same thing

[Anonymous No.457052]

>>457045
Tower climbing, done a bit of that. It's quite fun like getting paid to rock climb until people you know die. The views are good but rock climbing views are often better, also when you get to the top you have to hang and aim some dish to with precision less than one degree with someone shouting hot or cold or dbms or shit like that. But still, its fun, just don't die ok.

[Anonymous No.457060]

>>457045

[Anonymous No.457059]

>>457052
We had a guy fall while setting up a rig line at a little over 100ft. He was fortunate enough to grab the rope and slow himself only breaking everything below his waist and compressing a few vertebrae. So far I've yet to test my fall arrest and never plan to.

[Anonymous No.457064]

>>456958
Pilot here. Despite sitting on 4chan, you guys do some miracle work for us up in the air. Keep on fighting the good fight (against IMC conditions).

[Anonymous No.457082]

>>456689

Are you in socal? I imagine it's hard to keep up that sort of gig very many other places. Maybe Nashville or NYC.

[Anonymous No.457087]

>>456674
for some reason that made me laugh

[Anonymous No.457088]

>>457052
leaving to be an electrician. Wuttt

Telco here and I was planning to go to wireless since we're turning to shit. You mean wireless is just as bad?

I'm looking at 38/hour in a couple more months as long as the position holds out

[Anonymous No.457094]

General farm labor. I shovel shit, build pens, till gardens.
This is only until my girlfriend finishes school though, then we'll be moving and I'll open my own business while she gets a job in a hospital setting or someplace similar.

[Anonymous No.457100]

>>457032

Ironworker again here. or in the case of the structure in the pic, the fabricators completely forgot to make the bolt holes for a connection all together.

us ironworkers always having to fix your guys' mistakes in the field, multiple stories up off the ground.

[Anonymous No.457102]

electrical 12V mostly but do custom electronics,mechanical,troubleshooting,automation,etc.

[Anonymous No.457117]

>>456597
>Developing Firmware/Electronics for embedded GNU/Linux protocol gateways
>GNU/Linux

You're doing god's work.

[Anonymous No.457120]

Test and refurbish cable boxes. Watch TV all day and get paid for it.

[Anonymous No.457121]

Shitty PT retail job.

Looking for desk job and FT pay/benefits, but fuck this economy and having no experience in a field that used to be mostly apprenticing but switched to damn masters degree requiring.

[Anonymous No.457236]

MSc in agricultural sciences.

Now I am a PhD-student, which in Denmark is a real job with real salary. So I gues I am diying a reasearh project.

I do some diy because I've just got a new apartement that needed some sanding, painting and floor work. I have also just build a bed frame and am thinking about building my own cabinets. My apartement is so small that I need to diy a lot of things to increase storage space etc.

[Anonymous No.457260]

I take meter readings for a utilities company.

The exercise and being outdoors is actually pretty good. The job hours leave me with plenty of time for DIY activities.

[Anonymous No.457261]

Store maintenance.

[Anonymous No.457262]

>>456686
Dude, there is no such thing as a dead end job. There are plenty of people who have started out in a lowly retail job and have used their gained experience, knowledge and references to get jobs that would otherwise be out of their league.

[Anonymous No.457315]

>>457094
How do you land a job like this?

[Anonymous No.457327]

Poker machine technician. Also, general errand runner for a small company in the city I live in.

[Anonymous No.457329]

>>457064
I am specifically an aviation meteorologist, unfortunately I work an at airfield with no aircraft. So yeah. Pretty much it's fucking nothing.

[Anonymous No.457337]

>>457329
You an AG boy? I'm now sure how kindly we take to weather guessers around here.

Seriously i have no idea. Electronics Technician here.

[Anonymous No.457339]

Marine systems engineer. I design and install audio/video, computer, and electrical systems on boats.

[Anonymous No.457346]

Starting with no experience, trying to land a retail job. Doing bartender training next year, and then I want to look into DJing. Trying to go to college for Computer Engineering.

>>456993
Mind if I ask how you landed that job? Do people just shoot you a call when they need you?

[Anonymous No.457368]

Freelance programmer.
I do the hard stuff no one else likes: No fancy iOS apps, no games, no pretty web-social-whatever, just plain old business and enterprise backend code.
A bit of embedded stuff: AUTOSAR recently, interfaces for some data analysis software for android, lots and lots of databases.

Its not really "cool" or "in", but it pays really good, I dont answer to anyone as long as the software runs and isnt really that boring since there are always a few new details.

Im charging around 85EUR/h currently, and trying for 95EUR next.

[Anonymous No.457373]

>>457368
Do you have a degree? Do you think I could get freelance work without a degree and a good portfolio?

[Anonymous No.457382]

>>457373
without a degree yes.
without a portfolio: no.

People want to be certain that you know your stuff before they fork over up to 130 bucks an hour.
If you dont have one yet, get involved with OSS, do a few projects on your own, then upload them to Sourceforge, Github, Bitbucket...
I would advise you to stay away from popular stuff: Java, HTML/CSS/JS, iOS and Android for Entertainment. If you do what everyone else does you will have to be extremely good to not be replaced by someone cheaper, an even then it might happen.
If however you do the "hard" stuff: C/C++ of Operating systems or embedded, Database tuning, Business Analytics, Erlang, Ada, COBOL... you will have to compete with fewer people.

Also you are more likely to be taken seriously: Most of your clients will assume that if you are well versed in exotic/difficult stuff, you are probably very smart and competent.

A word of warning: Dont do only exotic stuff.
There are only so many people who use outdated COBOL programs and they are getting fewer every year. Also if you go for Ada/Erlang in embedded the situation will be similar: Ada is used in Aerospace/Defense chips and Erlang mostly in Telcom equipment and not that much elsewhere. Although both markets are growing.

It helps if you know math and are comfortable using it, preferably college math, although you might even impress people by knowing what a sine is (You wont believe the sheer level of mathematical illiteracy you find in corporations).

[Anonymous No.457399]

>>457382
wow thank you so much for all that information. Been thinking about work after studying html/css and some C++. Didn't know where to start or how.

[Anonymous No.457412]

>>457399
Thanks.
Glad I could help.
But please keep in mind that the (I presume) American market for freelancer might be different than the German one (where I am).

For example recently on a LinkedIn group some Indian VHDL programmer lamented that he couldnt even find internship positions, let alone real jobs in his area of expertise. Many form the US chimed in. Yet here people are desperately looking for Freelancers with VHDL/Verlilog experience, especially to design FPGAs.

For your situation: I would not stop studying html/css but put the focus on C++.
Get to know the language inside out (no need to know every detail, but be so proficient as to have very few of those "woah, that is possible with C++?" moments).
Get to know the new C++11 Standard, it has introduced a few very novel features.
Familiarize yourself with the Standard Library (I cant stress how important this is, this will save you many hours trying to reinvent the wheel)
Also, related to the last point: get to know a bit of Boost and Tr2, both are somewhat the unoficial testing branch for new C++ standards, they add many nice features to the language.

You might want to move to frameworks and libraries next: Qt is IMHO the first and best choice to start with. With it you can create very nice applications very easily that will run natively on Linux, Windows, Mac, and now even Android systems.

Two non language-specific technologies you should know:

Databases, they are used in almost every nontrivial application, especially on the internet. Get a book about SQL (I recommend the Head First Series by O'Reilly. Expensive but really great)

The second is to break into a certain field and become an expert in it (or at least familiar). I mean this from a business point of view. Your field could be Automotive systems, Plant control systems, Handheld devices, Banking applications, Scientific High Performance computing... whatever you find most interesting and has jobs in it. (Cont. too long.)

[Anonymous No.457417]

>>457412
The reason for the last point: Most problems are very similar in any given field. If one of your clients from the Banking department needs to analyze the stock market prices of a given stock over a period of time and do some stochastic calculus on it to determine the probability of an investment in it paying off, the chances that your next clients will need something similar is very high. Thats because most Banks dont want to throw dices when Investing. (Example slightly modified but quite close to reality)

Also, dont underestimate the overhead of being a freelancer: Taxes, Insurances (not only health but also against screwing up a mission-critical system), pricing, finding clients, negotiating with them... all have nothing to do with programming but are necessary and will eat up a significant portion of your time.

If you have more questions: Im keeping this thread open and have a lot of time right now. :-)

[Anonymous No.457432]

>>457082
Ireland. It's a mixed bag and I'm only starting (21) but I've generaly found being polite, hardworking, resourceful, tireless, well informed, creative and modest seems to help you land work. No one ever really asks me to do the same job twice. Fix my preamps, record my band (And make the singer sound like Ozzy), mix this live show, be a boom mic operator for my movie (wait, actually, our AE bailed - can you do the foley and mixing? How are you with composing filmscore?), fix my guitars I'm going on tour, get a band together for my festival in a month.

In the US scene I know people tend to think that having a very fixed, definite practice is a good call. It's a mixed bag and in Ireland the scene is too small to warrant it - there's a circle of guys doing everything and there's another circle doing nothing. Mastering Engineers and Live Sound guys are probably the exceptions if they can live off that alone.

>>457346
HAHAHAHA

No one who does this job can do that. You're literaly networking constantly. If you're not a social creature who can't earn people's confidence FAST and still keep yourself at the front of their mind, you'll drown.

[Anonymous No.457448]

silk screen printer

[Anonymous No.457516]

>>457337
Air Force Weather civilian at an Army Post with 0 permanently assigned aircraft. My boss likes to tell his boss we give weather support to the all weather army ground mission.

[Anonymous No.457666]

>>457036
That sounds pretty awesome, I'm in Australia though and being a bouncer is a pretty dangerous job given the amount of fuckheads we have. Not quite intimidating enough anyway.

[Anonymous No.457690]

>>456587

Industrial Engineer for an extremely large Transportation and Logistics company.

Only way it relates to anything /diy/ is creating new tools (computer wise, think programming) to leverage existing technology in new ways.

It's less hands on and more conceptual. Lots of planning and optimization.

[Anonymous No.457739]

>>457045
I feel weak.

[Anonymous No.457746]

>>457690
>leverage existing technology in new ways.

[Anonymous No.457770]

Master Model Builder for Merlin Entertainments. Build LEGO Models all day in a warehouse for parks worldwide. Also help machine steel parts and electrical work for the models animation

[Anonymous No.457806]

>>457746

Not sure what that was supposed to mean?

[Anonymous No.457811]

Currently a 3D design student, freelance graphic designer/artist and going onto uni to do product design.
My life is pretty much diy..

[Anonymous No.457827]

I work in Virtual Reality
Together, we can build a better future. And I'm going to be one of the people that delivers that future to you.

[Anonymous No.457832]

Costume design. I'm just a student for now, but I still get lots of commissions.

[Anonymous No.457837]

>>456587
http://pastebin.com/6XrWRYmn

as a student, i get all the food and stuff from my parents, but it's nice to get some spare money.

[Anonymous No.458820]

bump for interest

[Anonymous No.458825]

Summer landscaper, engineering student in fall/spring. Rained out today so I'm sitting on 4chan.

[Anonymous No.458836]

Welder, I mostly work offshore.

[Anonymous No.458965]

Natural Gas Supply. Great job.

[Anonymous No.458968]

I work in a plant nursery. It's actually very nice, I basically just get to water flowers for 8 hours a day. It's minimum wage, but I'm super okay with that. Me and my wife make plenty to survive. I'm going to school for a degree in business, and then I'm going to get an online shop going.

[Anonymous No.458969]

>>456588
I want to become an ironworker apprentice but lack the money to join the union for the jobs. shit sucks im gonna have to save up, hopefully companies still hiring by then.

[Anonymous No.459041]

anestesiology nurse

[Anonymous No.459049]

>>457770

How did you get this? Need to know.

[Anonymous No.459085]

>>458965
more info please, I'm interested in maybe going into this.

[Anonymous No.459110]

Trim carpenter for a small family owned custom home building business.

[Anonymous No.459172]

>>459041
>anestesiology

Scary you can't even spell your own profession title. Hope you never put me to sleep.

[Anonymous No.459191]

I was a pharmacist in Russia, now I am construction \ renovation worker in Canada. Thinking about post diploma education and switching my field from pharmacy to pharmacology, neuropharmacology in particular. Ph.D. should be nice.

[Anonymous No.459195]

>>456615

I assume you work in the Barnes & Noble by the Arena?

[Anonymous No.459210]

>>457832
You there.What got you into this?Can I see some of your work?Are you going to school for costume design?

[Anonymous No.459275]

>>458836
certified?
experience?
howd you get in?

[Anonymous No.459290]

I work in the warehouse of a furniture store. We get to do fun stuff some of the time. Repairs, building, generally analysing when and where issues happen with pieces and providing solutions. Also sometimes fun is space management and creative packing solutions, when we're given the time and info on shipments in/out.

But the meat and bones of it is shipping/receiving. Unloading containers and helping customers and delivery companies... sometimes no-one is happy, and front end tends to forget that we have duties beyond just fixing their problems, but it's a challenge I guess, and everyone's pretty cool to work with.

Generally fun, and pretty /diy/ when we get to do the good and fun stuff, and particularly satisfying when we turn a product that was fucked beyond belief into a sellable piece.

Pic sort of related: we cobbled this together for the store manager on request one evening, they wanted to see if they could make a useful, wheeled clothes rack out of easily sourced material. They were going for an industrial look, apparently they sprayed the bottom panel like graffiti at home, no pics of that though.

[Anonymous No.459304]

i work in a shipyard down in mississippi as a structural welder making boats for the military. Its pretty nice.

[Anonymous No.459315]

Project management intern. It's minimum wage and I've got bills that eat most of it up, so I have no money for DIY projects.

>>456836
>oh god so much Visio
i know that feel, bro

[Anonymous No.459342]

>>457315
girlfriends dad looks at a lot of the gigs on CL and some FB pages, this guy lives right down the road from me so I walk to work every day put in my 8-10 hours and walk home. Though if you want a job like this go into the farmcountry and knock on doors and ask. several farms I've gone to has just asked me to leave my number and every so often I get a call to come chop wood, mow lawns, paint fences, etc. whatever they need done.

[Anonymous No.459345]

>>457094
are u superman

[Anonymous No.459349]

>>456587
I work for an IT firm that targets small and medium businesses that can't justify in house IT staff. I started in support and have moved into implementation. The pay isn't the greatest, but I work from home most of the time and set my own hours. Also, I often "recycle" my customers' old equipment, which is a definite plus.

[Anonymous No.459358]

>>459304
salary?
previous experience?

[Anonymous No.459385]

>>459358
Ive been working there for about a year and a half. I make 24.50$ an hour at around 55 hours a week. It was my first welding job out of welding school. Some recruiters came to my school and talked to my class. They flew me out there for free to do a weld test. I passed so they hired me on. If you can weld you can find a job easy. In my class of 18 students, 17 had a job within a week of us getting finished. Most had jobs lined up a month early.

[Anonymous No.459390]

>>459385
AWS certified school or just somewhere is welding classes?

[Anonymous No.459398]

>>459390
Yes AWS certified. Do not go to any school unless your instructor is a Certified Welding Inspector. To be able to teach you had to be a CWI at my school. Four of the instructors had been CWI's in the industry for over 10 years, some had 20 years.

[Anonymous No.459407]

>>459398
Goddamn it.
The closest place thats fully certified is over an hour away and thats not factoring in traffic in one of the worst-traffic areas in the US.

[Anonymous No.459408]

Apprentice Electrician at a mining company in qld, aus

[Pinzfag. No.459426]

Small engine and other appliance repair.
Working my way up to odd job machine shop.
Also homesteading.

[Anonymous No.459441]

I make these things

[Anonymous No.459459]

>>459441
I remember reading that Google was going to have those things manufactured in North America instead of Asia. I was surprised there were even any electronics manufacturers left in the rest of the world.

[Anonymous No.459484]

50/50 mix of historical consultant, and swordsmith or cutler-at-arms.
(personally I dislike the word swordsmith, as so little of the work actually involves smithing)

[Anonymous No.459575]

Im a student at a local technical college (done friday) but i just heard back from a steel shop. I go in tomorrow for a weld test. The position is for a machinist/welder. I can run manual mills and lathes and program, set up, and run a CNC. I also just got my AWS 3g FCAW cert last week. I did it on 1" plates. I can do SMAW, GTAW, and GMAW as well, but i only got one cert for free. It costs like $300 or some shit.

Anyway, they didn't tell me what the test was going to be specifically so I hope i pass.

[Anonymous No.459576]

>>459459
>I was surprised there were even any electronics manufacturers left in the rest of the world.

It is really just a couple of DIYers in a basement with a homemade CNC machine and a homemade 3D printer.

[Anonymous No.459577]

>>456587
trade: carpenter
profession: self employed home flipper

[Anonymous No.459586]

i work as an assistent in healthcare. Wipe ass and so forth.. I like it though.. not especially the asswiping but its a pretty ok job.

[Anonymous No.459588]

>>459586
also make 30usd an hour before tax without benefits

[Anonymous No.459591]

>>459575
Did you go to school for machining as well or something? How did you learn to do that kind of stuff? I feel like the schools where i live are a scam.

[Anonymous No.459596]

>>459591
Yea i went to school for machining and welding. The machinist program was 18 weeks long 6 hours a day, the welding program was 20 weeks long 8 hours a day. I took my finals and everything already, today we are having a fish fry. My instructor is an avid fisherman and i guess cooks up some excellent trout.

Anyways, if you are going to learn welding just make sure the instructor is a CWI and you cant really go wrong. If you want to learn machining its a lot harder to make sure you get an instructor who knows what he is doing. My instruct was a mechanical engineer who didn't like his job so he went into machining. He has been machining for well over 40 years. He worked with every sort of manual machine you can think of and worked with some of the earliest CNC machines. He told us about the paper tape machines and manualy having to write the code and do all the trig to figure out tangents and so forth. He really knew his stuff and was definitely one of the old timers. There was a student in my machinist course who was in his 60's who had been a machinist for just as long as my instructor and he taught me just as much. He was retired but taking the class just to stay busy and learn how to operate the new CNC tech.

Ive posted on here before about my schooling and such. I only need 4 classes to get a 2 year, so im thinking of just finishing it out.

Anyway here is a picture some of you have seen before. It was my final project in my machinist course.

[Anonymous No.459617]

>>459596
How did you get that handle through the hole? It looks like it's all one piece.

[Anonymous No.459623]

>>459617
Before i made this i made a little trinket as a proof of concept. Basically there is an internal threaded post.

[Anonymous No.459643]

Electrical Engineer - RF / Medical

[Anonymous No.459644]

>>456597
>Pay is good and it's a 3 day work week

I'm jealous, how did you get a 3 day work week?

And do you mean pay is good like comparable to a good 40hr/week salary, or good for a 24hr/week salary?

[Anonymous No.459645]

>>456976
What do you generally find yourself doing in the power transmission field?

It seems like it's something that's been 'solved' for a long time

Upkeep/Reliability engineering?
HVDC transmission?

[Anonymous No.459647]

>>459441
Where can i get these?

full disclosure : I want to hardware/software mod them to be able to remove any closed source google code on it.

I love the hardware and concept but I don't trust a company that much

[Anonymous No.459699]

>>459644
It's an unusual job. Working out of the basement of one of the guy's who founded my city's hackerspace. $35/hr

> Hey are you going to get a table at makerfair this year?
No, I really wanted to but I've been way to busy with my day job.
> You should come work for me. I'll let you work three days a week.
Okey!

[Anonymous No.459752]

>>459699
I need to join my local hackerspace

[Anonymous No.460013]

I am a customer service professional at McDonald's. I relay important customer requests to the service department and handle monetary transactions.

[Anonymous No.460018]

I've been working as a carpenter's helper since I finished college. I'm 23 and make $15 an hour and the work ranges from amazing to shit.

My goal was to join the local ironworkers union but I had no understanding of what that actually entailed. I had a degree and welding experience but that clearly wasn't enough. I got the feeling it was a job I would never land unless one of the guys hiring me owed my dad a favor or something.

Can someone explain the best way to join a union and if it is worth it?

[Anonymous No.460019]

>>460018
get a job where there is a union. You don't just go "join" a union. That is retarded.

>Hey guys i used to tutor people in math, how do i join the teachers union?

See how retarded that sounds? You get a job in a union shop then you join the union.

[Anonymous No.460025]

>>460018
Well what does welding experience entail? Can you do a 3g 1 inch stick or fluxcore test plate? What about an open root tig root stick fill and cap? Can you do a 6g 6010 root 7018 fill?

Most structural weld shops couldn't give two shit if you have a college degree. You could be the smartest man on the planet, but if you can't pass a weld test they wouldnt hire you.

[sage No.460040]

>>457033
you mean battleship grey? I suppose you are an interior decorator?

[BoltOfThunder !!Nn45TbJtwdo No.460602]

>>456587
Starting out my life.
Worked in international business, but it isn't enough as it was my mom's family business. I really need to start to get my act together. I am also a student at a community collage.

I also buy and resell things on Ebay and Amazon.
I am thinking about doing some stuff on Etsy. (I am really good with small crafts, have been doing papercraft and beed works a wile back.)

I also have one idea on the drawing board that I might do a kickstarter for... [although it's a secret, okay ;) ]

[Anonymous No.460617]

>>460602
Links to your stores?

How long have you been selling?

[Anonymous No.460879]

>>456603

[Anonymous No.460889]

>>456587

I import, blend and sell loose leaf tea.
spicetradersteas.com
Try the Pirate Chai, it is my favorite.

Other than that I do wood carving, leather working and blacksmithing to supplement, usually sell at the craft fairs around my area, sometimes etsy through a friend.

[Anonymous No.460903]

>>456672
I am an Electronics Tech for the USNavy, I'm with expeditionary warfare though so I don't get to go on a ship and see the beautiful ports in places like Spain and Italy and get drunk. I go to a base in the 'Stan and sit around doing nothing and fixing the stuff the seals use. I wish I could say it was badass like "HURR DURR SPECWAR I'M IN SOCOM SO I GO ON MISSHUNS WITH TEH SEALS"

I've got 5 more years to go and then I'm going to do civilian stuff.

[Anonymous No.460911]

>>459575
Well I did my weld test yesterday. I got there at 10am and left by 10:25. I didnt really even get to talk to anyone, the guy said i can ask questions at orientation.

The test was a single pass fillet weld on a t-joint then a 3 pass fillet weld on the other side. He gave me a t-joint to practice on to get a feel for the machine. So i did the single pass on one side and a multi pass on the practice joint. When he saw my practice plate he didn't even have me do the other t-joint he said the one was good enough. Then i had a 1g on 3/8" plate with backing bar. This was all using fluxcore. The employee watching me said they would call me in a few days to let me know about the results of the bend test on the plate.

So i guess it went well, its just the people there were really hard to get a read on, and they had me in and out of there so fast i didn't get to talk to anyone. Having a job right out of school in a structural shop would be pretty nice though.

[Anonymous No.461075]

Math PhD 200k starting

[Anonymous No.461152]

currently unemployed and looking for work.

>used to office environment
>go to interviews
>....call but get no calls back.

I really picked a bad field didn't I /diy/? Women run this shit.

[Anonymous No.461170]

>>456587

I work as an engineer aboard large merchant ships. I do everything from generate the electricity to make the fresh water on board to keeping the ship moving. It's pretty interesting and fun.

>>457339
with what company? do you actively sail or is it shoreside? How do you like it?

>>460903
Look up Military Sealift Command, MSC when you're ready to get out. They hire lots of vets.

[Anonymous No.461192]

>>461170
I do actively sail, as a hobby, but the company is shore based.

[Anonymous No.461203]

>>456587
residential carpenter foreman.
new construction is booming in my area, so we're working sunrise to sunset six days a week. sometimes I miss having a life.

[Anonymous No.461211]

Shooting gold into animal brains for science.

[Anonymous No.461212]

Government worker, farmer when I'm not at work which isn't often. I also play the stock market before work for shits and giggles.

[Anonymous No.461232]

>>459345
hardly, just at the right place at the right time.

[Anonymous No.461238]

Anti-fraud investigator for a payment processor. My advice: Dump your bitcoins ASAP.

[BoltOfThunder !!Nn45TbJtwdo No.461360]

>>460617
I have operated my Ebay and Amazon accounts for only a couple months now. I sell Xboxs and other related things. I also sometimes come across other odd items that I end up selling.
Amazon display name: Cool Deals 2013
Ebay display name: cooldealmakers2013

I just made an Etsy account, but it will be a little wile until I will organize it. (Same user name as the one that I use on here.)

Can't say that it's anything special.
That said, I did/do help with my Mom's gallery's international business among other things.

[Anonymous No.461376]

>>456758
Are you the "herpetologist" perchance ?

[Anonymous No.461378]

>>459049
yeah me too. jammy job.

[Anonymous No.461383]

>>461376
>>461378
oh yes, I used to be a professional dog walker/house sitter but currently an artist/ earing designer maker and starting a glass factory from old bottles. http://hermioneangelbeck.tumblr.com/ setting up an etsy account now it's taking forever tho

[Anonymous No.461411]

>>461383
Not to intentionally publicity hoar myself there

[Anonymous No.461433]

I play Linebacker for the Detroit Lions

[Anonymous No.461436]

>>461433
not bad for a day job

[Anonymous No.461471]

>>461433
mah nigga

[Anonymous No.461502]

>>461383

You're joking right?

[Anonymous No.461546]

>>461502
Yeah, reading it back it does sound like a joke. >Dog walking for rich lazy people is a job.
And house sitting's pretty popular in certain parts of europe.

[Anonymous No.461585]

>>461433
prove it

[Anonymous No.461588]

>>461585
I believe him

I posted something above myself that people didn't really catch onto. I get the feeling there are some pretty high-end people in /diy/

[Anonymous No.461618]

fetish porn. no joke.

[boner stabone No.461634]

>>461618
prove it

[Anonymous No.462071]

>>461618
Gord pls go

[Anonymous No.462073]

First-year mechatronics engineering student.

Currently unemployed, even though I was given a job a while back.
Those fuckers have taken three months to put me to work even with me constantly prodding them, so I've just given up all hope at ever having that job.

[Anonymous No.462085]

>>457036
What fucking part of England do you live in where lumps only get £7.50 an hour mate? Brixton reporting in, we get at least £12 just for local pubs at the weekend, anything up to £18-£20 for the big clubs. I wouldn't even get out of bed for £7.50, let alone get stabbed for it.

[Anonymous No.462127]

I left Sixth Form just yesterday, so now I'm free to earn a living properly. I plan on getting a full time job (doesn't matter which - it will only be a year) while I take an evening course in Electro-technical. After the year is up, I'll get a job as an electrician and study the language of the country I want to move to

[Anonymous No.462569]

Quality Control at a large craft brewery.

It's pretty neat.

[Anonymous No.462575]

Law school but I live in a 3rd world country so my background is /diy/ heavy

[Anonymous No.462577]

>work in cosmetic packaging warehouse/full time student
>10:00$ minimum wage

[Anonymous No.462588]

Unbolt shit, lube up the threads so the guys getting paid a ton don't have to spend more time trying to get them free, and bolt them back together just snug.

Pays 21$/hour starting so I'm happy enough.

[IMFag No.462656]

26 years old, I'm a licensed computer technician.

I was the lead tech for a small company for 5 years. I quit my job about a year ago to go into internet marketing (known as IM, hense the namefagging).

I spent about 4 years tinkering with it as a side project/hobby/extra income, decided to go into it full time.

Right now I make about 2k a month and actually work for about 4 hours every other day. If i were to pull 8 hour shifts 9-5 I can probably pull in around 5-6k monthly, but I enjoy the free time.

Technically though, I'm always thinking and keeping my eyes open for opportunity and ideas, so I guess you could say I work 24/7.

[Anonymous No.462680]

NEET two-time college dropout trying to find a decent job to keep me alive while I work out what I want to actually do with my life.

Basically I'm >>456633 from the future.

[Anonymous No.462685]

>>462680
Do you have an attention deficit disorder or something brah? Often the disorder first shows itself during the first
demanding years of college.

As for myself I am a college student who is currently applying for nursing school. I like the DIY board because I'm imaginative as fuck. I literally need notebooks to write down all the shit I come up with.
> inb4 someone asks me what some of my ideas are. I'm keeping them to myself.

[Anonymous No.462699]

>>459647
Get your panties unbunched they just released a rooted system image

I don't know why you people insist google is trying to screw you with closed source bs when they repeatedly do stuff like this. It is getting really old.

[Anonymous No.462721]

Shoe salesman at the mall, though I'm trying to work up the courage to get an entry-level position at IBM through a contact of mine, a local community outreach guy, but I'm afraid I pissed him off by selling him a computer for his job that he doesn't know how to use.

>What is this LibreOffice shit? It's freezing up constantly, probably because it's free. Free shit isn't worth anything, if it was any good, they'd charge money for it. Where's my trusty Microsoft Works?
Granted, the freezing issue might be because it only has 2GB RAM, the hard drive needs replacement, or the weight of the monitor on the minitower is crushing something (a fan? the HDD? I'm not sure because I haven't seen it happen), but honestly, I upgraded you to a 2009-era desktop with a nice large screen from an ancient Celeron/512MB RAM XP box, migrated all your files, set up your email and even got the printer working, work with me a little here.
>I can't get on the internet, there's no icon on the desktop.
Oh come on now.

[IMFag No.462722]

>>462721
i saw an al bundy joke coming, but it never came :(

[Anonymous No.462724]

farming , live in fix caravan on the higher point of small slovak village, too much projects for too little people here

[Anonymous No.462725]

>>462722
I always forget about Al Bundy, probably because I kept confusing him and Ted Bundy for years.

The prospect of working for IBM is terrifying to me, even in a piss-easy entry-level position, because I've fucked up a lot of jobs in my life and don't know if I've got the discipline and ability to actually hold down a real job. I've been living with untreated ADHD and depression for the better part of a decade (I'm 23) and my life is at a point where improving it will take an act of god. I mean, I owned a car for six months that I never drove because I couldn't afford insurance and I'm sitting here six inches from the screen because I can't afford glasses. I'm mortified at the prospect of fucking something like this up, which I'm bound to do.

Shit, I started blogging in there. I just needed to get this off my chest and it's nice to have an anonymous outlet for it, I guess. Maybe I should make a diy self-help thread.

[Anonymous No.462740]

>>456672

I'm applying for Marine Technician and I have already done the YOU session and now I got the medical and the interview next month. Do you have any advice for the interview? Like how much do I need to study?

[Mark No.462753]

Quality Manager and (Defacto) IT Manager at an injection molder.

[Anonymous No.462761]

>>456958
Lmfao for now have fun in a few months

[Anonymous No.462762]

Goldsmith apprentice

[mint person No.462766]

sometimes i just make money

dat feel when ur job is to make money

and for making money, i make money

cash yolo swg swag

hoping for no socialist revolution atm

[Anonymous No.462771]

Janitor

[Anonymous No.462782]

>>458969

ironworker here again

>union

nah, bro. fuck that. I live in AZ which is a right to work state and i work non-union. union ironworkers can expect to do basically 3-4 years of bitch work and the shittiest jobs on the site before becoming a journeyman. as non-union ive already pretty much done every ironworking job on the site which includes:

-putting bolts together (bolt,washer, nut) for up to 7 hours on some days
-sifting material. sorting different bolts, beams, and detail material
-rigging. putting chokers around beams to be flown up and hung
-connecting. what first comes to mind when you think of an ironworker. being up on the steel connecting beams together with splice-plates and bolts


and finally

-detail work. going up on the steel or sometimes a scissor lift and bolting on braces and such.

if you were a union worker, expect to do maybe the first two i listed, as well as housekeeping (picking up garbage) for 3 years. maaaybe having a journeyman teach you something while hes doing it, then tell you to go back to being a bitch again.

only thing i havent done much of is the actual hanging of the steel in a fork lift with a choker or with a crane. im certified, but its probably the most skilled job on the entire site and requires a lot of finesse as to not get someone killing swinging around a multi-thousand pound piece of steel. also no welding for me on site because certification needs and shit. most everything is bolted anyways.

ive only been ironworking for 3 or 4 months now, and like i said ive done pretty much every ironworking job, and have become proficient at it. i make $14/h at about $30/k a year, plus time and a half overtime, and healh/dental insurance after 6 months. not only that but my money isnt going towards politicians i do not support.

tl;dr move to a right to work state.

[Anonymous No.462788]

>>462782
if anyones ausfag;

union sites and or working primarily for union sites (ie you'll share their EBA) is a lot better than non union. over here they do look after you, pay rates are better and if you're out of work they actively seek to get you more work. if you're a nuff nuff its harder but if you're ticketed/certed welder and you've got some good people to speak for you you'll never be out of work

they do look after their own, youve just generally got to be sociable about it and turn out to be a good bloke, and a solid worker. then you'll be right. too much with the entitlement bullshit and being precious about inane shit you'll quickly be ostracised. and that does suck

[Radiofag No.462790]

I work at a boat store / SCUBA shop. We sell inflatable boats such as Zodiac, Artigiana Batteli, Mercury, Avon, Achilles, etc.

Pic related, my dream boat.

[Anonymous No.462810]

I study law and work part time as an assistant in kindergardens and schools. I want to specialize in privacy and media law.

[Anonymous No.462840]

I work as a swimming pool attendant in a small indoor swimming pool over the summer. During winter I study and do substitute fill-ins as an attendant if I'm needed over that time.
Not many hours of work nor super great pay but I manage.

[Anonymous No.462868]

>>462790
>Pic related, my dream boat.
what is the advantages of large semi-inflatable boats like that?
they would seem to be more susceptible to damage, its not like deflating them makes them much easier to transport over land and they still cost large piles of money.
are they still cheaper than a solid-hull boat the same size?

[Anonymous No.462915]

>>462782
You're a tard...union ironworkers make 35 per hour here, free bennies, and a kick ass pension. Fuck your right to work state.

/PA fag here. Not an Ironworker.

[Anonymous No.462916]

>>462915

im not saying theres not perks to being in a union, but they definitely keep people out of the job market, like the guy who i was responding to.

unions kill jobs.

>not an ironworker

then stfu you pussy. you couldnt even carry my bolt bags let alone the rest of my tools i have to carry around on my person at all times, you limp wristed faggot.

[Anonymous No.462917]

>>462916
I'm a union millwright in a steel mill, faggot. I repair and set complex machinery while you hammer bull pins to make shit line up. Get on my levl m8.

[Anonymous No.462918]

>>462868
yea but for that 20 minutes the raft is functional, he looks like a bad-ass SWAT guy or pirate or something.

[Anonymous No.462919]

>>462917

>glorified grease monkey
>not a limp wristed faggot

pick one. unions, especially public sector unions are a drain on society and are everything thats wrong in this country.

did i mention youre a limp wristed faggot/

[Anonymous No.462921]

>>462919
Did I mention that you're an underpaid scab?

>glorified grease monkey
>makes 16 bucks more an hour than you do
>with a real pension

[Anonymous No.462922]

>>462919
>Confirmed for buttmad conservitard
>Yes master, I'll eat the poo. Gladly. Maybe when we get rid of that government I can have some steak too?

[None !bayPqQkDZQ No.462925]

Marines.

Lance Corporal Moreshead, United States Marine Corps, Combat Camera.

[Anonymous No.462926]

>>462921

>underpaid
>previously stated that all i do is hammer bull pins to make shit line up

ironworker is a very dangerous and physically tough, but still a relatively unskilled job. the only real skill is paying attention and not doing anything stupid to get yourself or anyone else killed. for a college dropout, $30k/y 4 months in is a damn good wage.

you sir, along with every other union faggot are overpaid for the type of work you do.

[Anonymous No.462928]

>>462922

>implying im a conservative

how are those dwindling union membership numbers treating you? kekol.

leeches. all of you.

[Anonymous No.462941]

>>462928
>Implying my ancesters were so shit-tier as to have moved to America.

We've been having Union actions here for the last few months, hopefully gonna put that Government back in their place. Enjoy your buttmad, comrade.

[Anonymous No.462946]

>>462928
heh Arizonafag, not conservatard. You're a half hippy, half libertarian, 100% retard. By all means, turn down all attempts to be a functioning member of the United States. We'll blow you seditionist shitbirds to glass in 30 years. Until then, crank that A/C and complain about "BIG ELECTRICITY". Fag.

[Anonymous No.462950]

>>462946

>calls me a retard
>thinks arizona is a sandy desert

get a load of this guy.

[Anonymous No.462965]

>>456587
Nothing.

[Anonymous No.462967]

>>462926
>overpaid for being able to rebuild machinery, from brand new to 70+ years old.
>30k a year, damn good wage
>2009,+4
top lel

[Anonymous No.462993]

>>459643

If you're still around anon, What kinda things do you do on the RF side?

Or do you mean RF as it relates to medical?

I automatically think communications technology.

[Anonymous No.462996]

>>462967

nice job greentexting out of context

>30k a year
>starting wage
>for a college dropout

gosh you glorified grease monkeys sure do have a lot of pent-up frustration.

[Anonymous No.463002]

>>462996
Keep trying to feel better about yourself, anon. You're still a scab.

[Anonymous No.463003]

I'm a electrician that mostly works on new residential and semi industrial jobs. My dad has been an electrical contractor his whole life so I'm kind of lucky to of had the opportunity to score that apprenticeship and learn as much as I can.

[Anonymous No.463012]

Canadian Army, Armoured Corps soldier. Just this year decided to start diy. Kinda rocky start having to buy all my tools though. Mostly woodworking and fixing shit on my own car. Pic is what I drive.

[Anonymous No.463013]

Im a intern at Thomson Reuters workin on database shenanigans. $21/hr and no time for diy-ing. Such is the life.

[Anonymous No.463017]

>>462996
>dropout
lol 2 hard 4 u?

[Anonymous No.463046]

Test Engineer. Right now I do slot machine certification. Not exactly playing video games all day but got pretty damn close.

[Anonymous No.463058]

>>463017

yeah man, memorizing everything spewed by a professor was just way too difficult for my feeble mind to grasp.

[Anonymous No.463097]

Ceramist

[Anonymous No.463100]

>>463046
What's your background in engineering? mechanical, electrical, computer, etc?

[Anonymous No.463123]

Chemist working for a polystyrene plant.

[Anonymous No.463141]

physics major working in a hashbrown plant. fucking job market.

[Anonymous No.463154]

DARPA engineer.

[Anonymous No.463162]

In theory I'm an electrical engineer, but all I seem to do is paperwork and AutoCAD. The pay is good, though. I have plenty of personal side projects to offset the blandness of what earns me the most money.

[Anonymous No.463190]

>>462996
I'm a high school dropout test engineer who makes well over 100k/yr. Stay mad about it, success is measured via the amount of ill will you generate from those around you.

[Radiofag No.463244]

>>462868
Redundant buoyancy. You cannot swamp an inflatable, and some are even made to be self-righting.

The CZ7 has 12 air chambers I believe? If you buy the actually Milpro boat, the Hurricane 733 / 1100, the tubes are filled with foam, thus, any puncture doesn't matter...the air in the tube is for cosmetics.

With an inflatable boat, a NOAA small craft advisory is a challenge.

[Anonymous No.463469]

>>463100
Technically, none. I got into this job with an associates in Avionics Systems Technology from my short stint in the military. That plus I did, from what I understand, very well on their C++ test. I'm self taught with competitions my senior year of high school. I am going back to school for Computer Engineering but I haven't hit any core classes yet.

[Anonymous No.463489]

>there's people on 4chan who might as well have the age of my dad
holy fuck

[Anonymous No.463506]

>>463489
yea, I'm one of them. Avoiding my 20yr reunion this year. I was addicted to the internet at 2400baud on Prodigy.

[Anonymous No.463553]

>>463506
>Bauds

Oh fuck

[Anonymous No.463559]

>>456587

I do not work, my wife works hard to pay for the lifestyle to which I have become accustomed.

[Anonymous No.463562]

I work in AP. In the last year I got to spend 100million at the company I work for. Sounds fun, boring as fuck. I'm trying to switch to the cost and budget dept. to learn some sweet analytical skills. We will see. I have to schmooze with people tomorrow at the office. I hate schmoozing, but I hate AP. So hopefully this will pan out.

>38K a year w/ bennies
>over 40K a year if I get the switch

[Anonymous No.463571]

Apprentice Electrician for a tire manufacturer. Its a four year program but I'm aiming to try and get out in two... Program in general is a joke, and you learn things more or less because you read/take additional classes and because the Journeyman are willing to show you stuff. In terms of structure there is none, you can easily make it through all four years and not learn anything if you tried. Also our hours aren't recognized by the state. The journeyman are either very knowledgable, and willing to show you things if you'll work. Or are complete fuckwits who know as about as much as you did on the day you got hired. Most of them are stuck on PM so they don't keep machines down all day.

Long term goals, become and I&E Tech. But I won't be able to do that here.

[Anonymous No.463588]

Work for a "claims management" company. People have car accidents, they get referred to us by their insurance and as long as the circumstances are ok we give the person a hire car and organise repairs for them, then overcharge the other person's insurance. Even if it's going to go 50/50 we still make profit from the hire car. Part of the reason insurance is as expensive as it is, is because if piece of shit companies like the one I work for.

Hate my job, trying to get something where I can at least work with my hands instead of talking to cunts with unwarranted self-importance on the phone all day. Pays only around £6.50 an hour, plus a bonus for every person we put in a hire car, but that's based on jumping through some hoops and for a couple of months I've had 0 bonus despite getting good sales.

[Anonymous No.464465]

>>461378
>>459049
Applied for the position on their website. Went into an interview with 40 other people. They gave us 20 minutes and a bag of LEGO with a seahorse model and said to copy it. I was only one who finished. Been working there a few years now. My best model so far has been Petronas Towers in Legoland Malaysia.

[Anonymous No.464478]

I work at one of the Toyota manufacturing plants.

[Anonymous No.464497]

>>463489
4chan is 10 years old. Those of us who were of age to browse 4chan when it started and are still here are at least 28 years old

[Anonymous No.464505]

techsupport

[Anonymous No.464524]

4th year energytechnology engineer student. I work now on summer vacation for Finland's 2nd largest brewery owned by Heineken. I drive truck and distribute locally bewerages to stores and into shelves. I have also been assembly worker on wind turbine construction sites, both assembler and later overseer.

[Anonymous No.464529]

>>457417
I'd like to learn how to program; where should I start?
I'm only 18; does this give me adequate time to become fairly proficient before I leave university (ie 4 years from now)?
Also, how long does it take to reach a level where you can sell your services? Did you do a degree in it?

[Anonymous No.464602]

Leaving database work to be a SE Network Engineer. Feels good to finally get the job I went to college for. Do the usual 40yrs/week. I am done doing DB work and doing 60hrs/wk

[Anonymous No.464616]

Part-time retail associate, I also have a seasonal job where I work at a field auction.

I was going to community college but I've been kind of down about what I want to do for a career. I was really interested in music and art but at this point I don't think I have the skill or money to get into a University for that sort of thing.

[Anonymous No.464618]

I digitize (photograph) old manuscripts, rare books, old and rare stuff like that, for archival purposes and online display.

[Anonymous No.464626]

>>464618
This would be a dream job of mine. I loved doing large format and oddball scanning, patching and color correction when I was doing it.

[Anonymous No.464630]

>>464626
It's pretty cool, but I work for a uni and it's becoming bureaucratized into a boring and efficient system, the fun days are almost over. We use some high end repro cameras (Schneider-Kreuznach lenses and P65 digital backs) which are great to use. Looking to get into multispectral stuff to keep it interesting now. So many medieval Latin bibles...so many....

[Anonymous No.464641]

used to be lab technician, now a NEET except doing some courses at a distance so i can get to uni , not a DIY though,

I need a fucking jerb.

[Anonymous No.464687]

>>461170
What school, bro? I went to KP.

[Anonymous No.464698]

>>464630
>Schneider-Kreuznach lenses and P65 digital backs
would you let me lick it if I sucked your dick?

[Anonymous No.464746]

i'm an AMF pinsetter mechanic. also do all facility maintenance for my building

[Anonymous No.464748]

Electronics recycler/refurbisher.
Protip: Unless we ask, we don't give the tiniest fuck what works out of what you give us. 99% of it is going to the recyclers anyways.

[Anonymous No.465105]

Juuuuuuuust graduated with a degree in Nanosystem Engineering. Didn't do enough job searching/connection making in school, so I'm trying to get a job in my field :I

[Anonymous No.465109]

>>456603
>police

Did you not get enough love? Did you parents beat you up? Do you worry about the size of your penis?

[Anonymous No.465111]

>>465109
Pot smoker detected.

[Anonymous No.465113]

>>465109
>dat projection

I bet you're the type of person that says stupid things whenever a trooper pulls you over on the road.

[Anonymous No.465131]

>>465109
Find a gold sticker, cut it into a star, and stick it on your shirt. You win the "edgiest troll at 7:32amPST on /diy/" award.

[Anonymous No.465138]

>>465111
>>465131
>implying police aren't the abusive power hungry motherfuckers they are. Giving police any respect.
>united states. 2013AD
ishyggydiggydoda

google police shooting subway. Shoots a homeless man because he meant to only tase him

police shooting garden hose. A swarm of cops blow away a black guy playing with a water hose at his friends house. BLOWN away. Shotgun x2, many pistol shots.

it doesn't fycking stop. Police are the most corrupt motherfuckers in an incredibly corrupt American system. Not even trying to be edgy. I'm white bread as fuck and luckily haven't had to deal with it because of my privilege. But I know, fuck da police

[Anonymous No.465139]

>>465138
>confirmed for pot smoker who just got pulled over high

[Anonymous No.465141]

>>465138
There are more non-police related murders and "accidents" than there are police-related ones. Not all cops are bad, power hungry, or corrupt. No one gets to hear about all the good things cops do day to day because no one gives a rat's ass because it isn't sensational. Media only covers that bad shit. Just look at cnn.com today and count how many articles don't involve disasters, arrests, murders, or sex and compare the ratios.

Humans are to blame. They are the most corrupt species on Earth and they fucking love seeing others knee-deep in shit.

[Anonymous No.465158]

>>465111
>>465113

lel

[Anonymous No.465166]

>>465158
GB2/b/ with that shit.

[Anonymous No.465194]

>>456628
are you from india?

[Anonymous No.465206]

>>465166

[Anonymous No.465213]

Sales associate here. Leaving life on that terrible 8.00 an hour wage. Probably get less than 15 hrs a week average and not enough money to support myself on my own.

[Anonymous No.465217]

Work in a surplus electronics and industrial goods store.

activesurplus.com

Captcha:
>used nalhtsl

Yeah, I have those Captcha. Just behind you near the capacitors.

[Anonymous No.465322]

>>459191
I suppose you're from Montreal!

[OP No.465349]

>>465322
why would you say that?
montrealer here

[Anonymous No.465350]

>>465349
sorry for the name, it was from a different thread

[kevlar No.465368]

>>456587
i currently have no job, but i worked in dredging for a year, now i'm waiting to get back into the army as a... well, basically plumber. in the mean time i help my sisters out with there business in furniture and ornaments. so far i've made a really nice oak table and some stools

[Anonymous No.465372]

>>457082
yeah its hard to find amplifiers outside of california
they dont even sell audio equipment in the midwest

[sage No.465376]

longshore electrician here. I make most of my diy on breaks at work

[Anonymous No.465379]

>>459041
holy shit i hope anesthesiologists aren't of this level of intelligence

[Anonymous No.465395]

Full Time Student, Electrical Engineering

[Anonymous No.465396]

>>463562
i work in AP as well. it is very difficult to work in an environment that is not atmospheric pressure. AP is the best imo. You really realize how much you take atmospheric pressure for granted when you work in vacuum.

[Anonymous No.465397]

>>464529
>sell your services? Did you do a degree in it?
definately not 18

[Anonymous No.465399]

>>465213
who the fuck touches customers like that?
when i worked retail i wasn't allowed to touch anyone
i would probably get payed more if i did

[speaker-builderfag No.465427]

acoustic researcher, engineer, consultant for architectural projects, product designer, aerodynamic specialist, and bioinformatics engineer. (oddly enough it all ties together)

Hobby is writing software and just being a general maker.

[Anonymous No.465454]

>>465427
dude thats dope, sauce?

[OP No.465520]

>>465454
>Teres360-room7030.jpg
Teres 360
let me google that for you dot com