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TheViscount:
--- Quote from: tania on 26 Feb 2009, 06:42 ---
--- Quote from: TheViscount on 26 Feb 2009, 00:33 ---That actually seems like a really, really, really boring job.
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yeah it was a really boring job and i feel sort of bad for finding it funny, but when we were talking about past jobs and she brought that up i just could not stop laughing for ages at the fact that her only responsibility was to poke boxes with a stick. like, they gave her a poking stick and everything. if you really think about it, it is basically fordism at its most dehumanizing and scary but if you don't think about it and just focus on the mental image it is a pretty funny one.
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The ups and downs of division of labour. But the poking stick is pretty funny.
Caleb:
--- Quote from: jeph on 26 Feb 2009, 02:19 ---pretty sure i have the best job
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Hmm...really? 'cause awhile back Neil Swaab told me that webcomic artists are just a bunch of merchandise salesmen and don't think that too many people would be happy with a job hustling t-shirts. When I imagine Jeph's daily life I envision the dude standing on a busy street corner with a foldout table piled high with T-shirts, a mournful look on his mug. Sometimes a tear rolls down his check because he really wants to draw a cute blond chick with OCD but he can't find the time to pull out his Wacom because he is too busy selling those T-shirts. And I believe that senario because Neil Swaab is a syndicated cartoonist and shit. And NOTHING could go wrong with a syndicated profession...you know unless we have an economic downturn or something...
End sarcasm. (with the whole topatoco deal I don't think my street corner senario makes much sense anymore)
Librarianship has it's it's small ups and downs but I enjoy my job and I figure that overall it's a pretty sweet deal.
I get to order books.
My office is hid behind huge shelves of books. Nobody bugs me.
I get to organize cool events like the video game day this weekend.
And answering people's reference questions is neat because I learn more random things as I help the patrons.
Plus the drunks at this library are really nice. The last guy asked me to call the police on him. Then as he was being led away in the squad car he told the cop that I "wuz a real good guy".
It's the best job I ever had. (I am working right now)
RallyMonkey:
During the summers I have an acting job on a train line. I am an actor on the Wild West shows, and the improv shows. The train is about 200 years old, and really awesome. I get paid, on average, $35 dollars an hour.
For the improv show, all I do is play improv games on a moving train for two hours. For the wild west show, I get paid to dress up as a cowboy, flirt with all of the girls on the train, stage a break out/train robbery, and then die in a shoot out at the end.
I think I might have the best job ever. Though, this upcoming summer, I'm getting paid a lot more to do a children's dinner theater on the same train, but I have to play the part of Harry Potter.
tuna ketchup x:
The job I held from 2005 (when I moved to the city) to early last year was full of awesome. It was data entry, which I didn't mind, because I got a LOT of music listenin' done. And after the first few months there wasn't much to even data enter, so it morphed into a play on the Internet and read and draw comics all day job, which paid $25k and had health insurance. For two years I got paid to sit in a comfy chair and read and take two-hour lunches. Good lord I loved that job. Unfortunately we lost the grant funding, GEE WONDER WHY??
The job I have now is pretty similar, except there is not as much opportunity to slack off, and I don't have health insurance, but we have our own copy machine so when I finish a new comic you know what that means!!
I think the poking stick is funny.
Darkbluerabbit:
I would be so bad at any kind of factory inspection job. I'd do okay for about fifteen minutes before I'd space out thinking about what to cook for dinner or something like that. I admire the focus of anyone who can do it.
I have mainly had the kind of job where people yell at you, but one summer I did get to work as the prep person for a produce department. I got loads of free food. If an apple had a bruise on one side, for example, I could take it back and eat the good half. I cut up melons and veggies all day, and was actually encouraged to sample everything to make sure it was ripe and tasty enough. I got paid to snack. It was great.
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