Jobs

[andrewducker]

Those people who answered "I would continue at my current job"

What is your job? (and if it's not obvious, why would you stick with it?)

Comments

[birdofparadox.livejournal.com]

I'm the webmaster for the State's Department of Archives and History. I'd still web design for fun (though maybe not HERE) because I honestly enjoy what I do.

[drainboy.livejournal.com]

Isn't it webmistress?

Doesn't that sound cooler (and maybe a bit S&M)?

[birdofparadox.livejournal.com]

I prefer Domainatrix, but they won't let me put that on the business cards.

I think my actual job category within the state's very broad job categories is SYSADMINII

[birdofparadox.livejournal.com]

they won't let me change the email address to webmistress, either, because it sounds so sex-ay.

[drainboy.livejournal.com]

What: Being 1337

Why: Because it is 1337

Well, actually, working for Lionhead and writing computer game AI, as you well know, which is brilliant and, even if I owned the company, I'd still be coding and hire someone good at 'management' to do whatever company owning things didn't involve counting money.

[kpollock.livejournal.com]

I once considered that as a nicely subversive company set up. Glad to see that I'm not a lone demented weirdo.

[andrewducker]

I did occasionally wonder about that. People start their own companies and then complain about having to be management,.

Management is a _job_, you hand it off to someone who excels at it and go do something you're good at.

[dapperscavenger.livejournal.com]

Driving trucks is fun. I can splat you. I would probably go to part-time only though

[seidl.livejournal.com]

I went the other way, as I wouldn't stick with my current job for as long if I was rich, but I wouldn't just quit the next day. I'd at least keep working to help transition my projects to other people, and potentially see them through to some level of completion. Of course, I might well want at least a few weeks off right at the start to get setup with my new riches. :)

As for what I do, I'm a computer scientist working for Sun Microsystems. I do research on mostly hardware/software codesign problems. As its research, it can be a lot of fun. And even if I didn't have a formal job, I'd still be doing programing and system admin type things at home for various projects.

[wolflady26.livejournal.com]

Man. The people on your friends' list have cool jobs!

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

I'm a researcher and a writer for a charity. I enjoy doing it, and I'd probably still enjoy doing it. Besides, it would get me out of the house.

[rainstorm.livejournal.com]

you didn't have a part time option so i chose to say i'd quit.

but then, i think i'd be crap at being part time...

[spaj.livejournal.com]

I'm an accountant.

I expect I'll be significantly better at my job than most of the people I've encountered in accounting sofar. Passing up an obvious advantage like that seems silly. If I'm good at something, I should do it.

There's a challenge to Accountancy... a feeling that I'm actually going to do something real. That's something which I've been deprived off throughout the education process, and have gotten a taster for while working as a trainee auditor. And I want more. I don't think money would change that.

Adam

[kpollock.livejournal.com]

I'm very good at what I do (programmer with good database side skills), but I wouldn't do it for fun.

I'm also a good cook, but I wouldn't do that either.

I can sing pretty well, but I bet it would quickly become a chore as a job.

You can be good at something without actually liking it!

[chipuni.livejournal.com]

I'm in bioinformatics. In short, I get to spend time doing biology, computer science, and mathematics at the same time. (Yes, I am a nerd.) AND my work very directly helps people.

heh

[josephgrossberg.livejournal.com]

I'd still keep programming, but maybe as a hobby instead of for so many hours a week. And I'd definitely take on more interesting/rewarding projects.

When you're that wealthy, you can pick and choose what coding you'll do, and what you just don't care about, sans the manager and client breathing down your neck.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

Freelance RPG writer. I'd mildly prefer to also write creative non-fiction along the lines of books by John McPhee or Sue Hubble, but I love what I do. My only signficiant complaint is that the pay is laughably bad.

bibelot.

[cynicalman.livejournal.com]

I'm a music buyer. I can hardly even call it a job. People throw cds at me, and I get to take them home. It's challenging, satisfying when I see something I ordered for the store go flying off the rack (ok, ok, it's an ego-trip), and it exposes me to styles of music that I normally wouldn't think about. Always learning, always changing things. And the free cds are a bonus. Albeit, it's only part of my job - the other part is bookkeeping. But the bookkeeping appeals to my picky side, so it all works out just fine.

Re: bibelot.

[allorin.livejournal.com]

~jealous~

[derumi.livejournal.com]

I work with video games. ^__^ Retail side, mind you. But you already knew that.

[odheirre.livejournal.com]

Computer programmer at an ambulance company. At work, I think, learn, read, write, design, and create. Not in that order, necessarily. And get this: they pay me to do it! Suckers!

[kpollock.livejournal.com]

wow. I never knew so many people that actually enjoy their job.

[andrewducker]

They are unusual jobs, generally, tho.

Research, writing, games-programming. All fairly creative and engaging.