I'm a computer toucher. I touch computers in ways you people couldn't even imagine.

Factory labor, which I like way more than I thought I would. There's something soothing about being able to quantify the work I do every day, and also I like being able to zone out while operating robots or putting in screws on an assembly line or whatever.

Didn't you know we're all

I am the mythical white working class who works in a union job in manufacturing. Got an associate's degree way back in the day and then started working pretty much right away with minimal debt. I'd recommend that path historically, but given we no longer live in 2005, I can't say whether it would still work.

Club security, right now I work at a cool Chinese place i can ride my bike or walk to. I lucked out finding it honestly, it's a nice place with chill people who rarely start anything and half my job is working on my chinese and politely declining cigarettes

Did janitor stuff for a bunch of years until chronic pain impacted my performance such that I got fired. If things go well I'll be working either a weed shop or thrift store soon.

House "trophy".

My mom doesn't want me getting a job. Or a driver's license. Or uh.... Anything.

Nope she's hellbent on shoving me through the "Ableist Wing of the State".

im on disability i have come to think that being unemployed is just about less bad than being employed for people like me but its still pretty bad

I'm also jobless. Largely due to my disability. It's really hard to keep down a job with schizophrenia. I thought it'd be because people notice our symptoms and fire us, but for me I just can't handle most work environments. I worked at an eye doctor for a little bit, and left after a couple months. There were a lot of reasons (one of the docs claimed HIPAA was just a suggestion) but I also really had a hard time functioning in the environment. After that, I had a cleaning job for a few years, but ultimately I was near having a complete breakdown (there were a few times where breaking down in tears halfway through was common) and I left that job too.

srill cant believe someone on lemmygrad said im jobiumfree adn they say poetry is dead

I studied chemistry in a lab overlooking a river, and i thought "this sucks i want to work in the river". So i studied river engineering instead, worked in river construction, and now i sit in a cube overlooking a river. Womp womp.

I work down in Eglin as a janitor

Computer toucher. The work is boring and soul sucking but the pay is good at least where I'm from and I manage to get a job in a company where they don't expect that much work from you. Part of me hopes The Market releases me from my misery and I'll be forced to get an actually useful job.

Ideally I'd like to use my skills for something useful I like computers and programming but most of the jobs are just nonsense at this point, realistically there don't need to be this many computer programmers most of the stuff the IT sector produces does not actually need to exist at all.

I'm a grocery store butcher

Sous chef. Only ever worked kitchens. I recommend it for a starter job or to anyone having a hard time getting work who needs some money. It's the inly industry im aware of where the boomer method of just going to a place and asking still works. Interviews tend to be pretty minimal, just availability, previous experience, no bullshit maybe a couple questions to get a bit of an idea of your personality and if you dont seem like an immediate red flag they'll give you a trial shift, which is paid, and if you dont totally crash and burn youre in. Generally you get a lot of free food out of it as well. A lot of kitchens will have the dishwasher do some prep work and stuff as well, you can learn a lot of food skills you can use at home by offering to help out cooks and learn techniques from em. Some places are toxic af but you can just like...leave. Any kitchen worth working at treats their dishwashers well. A really good dishwasher who can also have your back for prep or throwing together some salads or dropping an app in the fryer and setting a timer is fucking GOLD. The ones at my work have been my personal hero during desperate hours more times than I can count. Just covering odds and ends that would have added to already crunchy times. Don't stick with it tho, the money never gets good even if you're at the top of the ladder. Which sucks cause aside fro. The money, I do genuinely like cooking for a job and am really really fucking good at it. It can be frustrating and hard moment to moment but proper compensation would lighten that to the point I would enjoy it. It is hard manual labor, but not like...construction hard, if you dont make stsff meals at work and instead raid the equivalent in ingredients to make food at home you can get pretty fit doing it. I've got a good thief class body going from being in my feet and moving my arms around all the time

Maintenance at a old folks retirement home, I don't recommend it but it was the only thing outside a temp agency I could find. Planning on union long term for hvac and gonna use this to springboard off so I have experience and can do bills.

Computer job not further defined, but before that, government desk job not further defined

I used to do art, but it's been a dead end for a while now, so I've had to figure out something else. I've got a study in mind to pursue, but not gonna make it public as of yet.

Btw I don't need or want any sympathy, give me some respect and keep it to yourself. I am not here to fish for pity. I'm just sharing my personal situation.

I work at a grocery store, the housewares and seasonal stuff; stocking shelves, and switching planograms.

tier 1 operator in the reserve army of labor

Manufacturing engineer. Really an overstated technician

I work for a veterinary clinic

English teaching abroad

Well I'm...an author...

I do a couple of odd jobs to get by.

My 9-5 is property management for a few section 8 houses. I have to randomly shut the hot water at least 3 times a day and make up new fees. Once a month I have to call the cops because someone raised their voice over the telephone.

But that's not enough to afford the bare minimum 3000 sqft penthouse in Manhatten so I also collect dividends from my trust fund as well.

Graphic designer, ski instructor, garden center...person

making the beeps go boop

I do structural and systems level engineering for heavy industrial equipment. My work is very involved and difficult, but also very rewarding. I went to a small community college for a year and, and then transfered those credits over to a big public land grant university, which helped a lot financially. Graduated into the great recession, and so I spent a year working as a technician, before getting laid off and working as a roofer for my uncle, before his company went under and tried selling thrift store items on eBay for about a year before landing a "real" engineering job. Then got laid off again a few years later when Covid hit, then worked a company for a few years before the factory got closed down and moved overseas, and now working my current gig.

My point being: even when you have a very clear idea of what you want to do for work (like I did), you're likely to find yourself on a long and windy road.

I'm a residential service plumber. Touchin poop 24/7. Living the life.

I'm unemployed. Im went university and am now trying to become a software developer

Blue-collar IT mercenary

bean delivery man

I'd say it's a living but it really isn't, a lot of worse ways to be underemployed tho

really need to get a real job that actually pays well, preferably either something work from home that barely qualifies as a job or something outside where I can do real work that requires skill but not backbreaking labor

IT. Lifetime computer hobbyist, took some classes for my resume, got recommended by my professor to someone in HR at the local "big company in small town". I moved and they let me work remote. It's not my dream job by any means, but it's hard to complain.

I glue the pointy top onto missiles for raytheon

Graduated hs with 4.0+, went to community college then state college, worked through college at pizza and coffee. Got a history degree, then teaching certificate; taught high school for most of a decade; got a masters in ed along the way. Relocated, transferred my credential, but got a different non-teaching job in public service for a few years, then a different one. Construction related.

If you want to always be employable wherever you live, food service, hair/beauty, and the trades are the way to go. Turns out, I like construction, so if I could do it all over, I'd probably be an electrician

i work at the poop factory. i make poop

Former computer toucher, then Covid happened and I realized I wanted to touch computer as little as possible (and ideally never for money), so I switched over to moving and other general labour type work. Now I work at a very busy food bank as their all-around back-of-house schlepper. It's a little odd to be paid in a 99% volunteer-run operation but it beats bullshit.

currently kinda stuck in the service industry but I think I'd like to be a baker

I draw dots and connect them with line segments. Then I’m supposed to make the line segments bigger or smaller. Sometimes the line segments dont get bigger or smaller and I think I should tell someone, but mostly I just look away…