What do you do?
 

So I don't know if this is too personal of a question, I think it would be cool to know, but what does everyone do (work-wise) here?

I do Real Estate Management in NYC

High Tech Salesperson in Silicon Valley driving the identical X

I am a director. Or at least that's what my underwear says....

I'm a financial analyst for a insurance company :D

I am also Dr. Kewls assistant :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Manage a group of support AEs for a large ECAD company

I am Labatt's chauffeur :driver: I will also be your tour guide if you ever find yourself visiting the Phoenix,AZ area :D

RetiredBum; bailed out 5 yrs ago at 53. Used to hump and manage a worldwide sales force that sold printing supply prods for a mfg'er, primarily through dealers & a distribution channel.

I now do very lil' of any consequence, but it's a good life if one doesn't weaken. :thumbup:
BR,md

I work for Verizon as a DTA to employees.

haha.. in other words.. Early Retirement rocks! :thumbup:

Right on :bounce:

I am a business man. I Grow a few potent plants in my backyard and sell to the neighborhood

:bustingup :bustingup :bustingup

I work for Keyser Soze.

I smoke 'em cause Mickey's got 'em! :smokin:

Verbal, after seeing your flick a 1/2 doz times, I sorta came to the conclusion you Were/Are Keyser Soze! :D

Currently called Director of Business Processes & Systems for a large international heavy equipment dealer, supplying mining/construction/forestry/oil&gas/marine/other industries. That role covers IT as well, but I am an IT hobbyist. Came from general management via sales/service/project management/design engineering, all with the same outfit, in reverse order. The best part has been working with 8000 hp medium speed diesels, or 400 ton capacity mining trucks, but it is all fun.

High-School Student

My dad owns companies. :D

I invest in the stockmarket and my dad owns commercial rental property. He's the one that bought my bimmer.

I'm in the same boat as Curious Joel, but I am a 40-year old :)

This sounds better than it is: VP, Certified Financial Planner for BIG financial services Co. you ALL have heard of.

I am a technical and corporate writer, currently doing some contract work for a very large nation-wide bank headquartered in Charlotte, NC (that narrows it down to two). :D

I work mostly in the IT field writing anything from web site content to training material to data dictionaries -- you name it. I go where the money is... :D

Juan

Hahahaha...what a good one to respond to. Current job title: DEADBEAT! :bustingup

For once, I chose love over gold and stock options and left my last employer, so now I'm (temporarily) early retired. Little less than one year ago, I made a tough decision to leave my former employer of 12 years (a major energy co. on the Right Coast) for a pharma. (Some of you RF guys might remember my posts on the E53 Lounge board about the difficulty in making this decision.)

Wow, was this new company ever dysfunctional. What a clueless organization. The good ol' "we succeed in spite of our best offorts" type company. With one or two exceptions, I think all senior management was brain dead or could care less. My boss, the VP of IT, had no functional IT experience whatsoever and was a former consultant with Toilet and Douche. He talked a good VP, but he couldn't lead a charge to the restroom. His idea of making a decision was to invite every breathing body in the organization to the table so everyone could have a hand in crafting the final decision...and you all know what happens when you do that. He was no leader, and managed to have just about everyone in IT chasing their own tails in short order. (Not only that, but he was having an affair with a loud brassy redhead, a.k.a. "The Big Beaver" that followed him there from T&D that he installed as a Director.) It was pathetic to watch and painful to endure.

My second day there, I ended up in the middle of an ugly shouting match between the manager of accounting and my program director. I realized within the first week I had made a terrible, terrible mistake in leaving my former job. :tsk: I also realized that I had just said sayonara to any semblance of life outside my work.

By now, you think I'm dishing on my boss. The thing is, the worst part about him was that away from work, he was as likeable and friendly and fun to be around as anyone I've ever known. I think he has a personality disorder, or rather, disorders, since he clearly exhibits multiple personalities.

So, I resigned, clean and clear, and followed the employee manual to the letter. (My boss later told the Big Beaver that HE fired ME, so I had to confront him on it and remind him about the resignation letter I had given to him and then later to HR because he wouldn't accept it directly from me.) A week after I turned in my notice, my SAP project manager resigned (I saw that one coming), then the SAP project financial manager left a month later (I didn't see THAT one)...then the company shelved the project (no surprise, that).

I still have lunch regularly with the program director (the one who originally courted me to join the organization) and the situation continues to become increasingly bizarre under this VP's tutelage, He just hired three people and gave them all the same title of SAP program manager! All three are trying to do the job, but they haven't been given any direction or goals or work breakdown, so they are all doing the same thing and stepping on each other's toes. He's kinda like George Costanza in a leadership role...extremely neurotic and narcissistic with occasional delusions of grandeur. :rolleyes:

In the meantime, I have all intentions of returning to my former field of work as a program manager/project manager in the IT world, hopefully back with another F200 company like the last two I danced for. We'll see. On the other hand, when I left this last job, I sort of promised myself I would never work in IT or project management again! :dunno: The past couple months at home has been therapeutic, but now I'm just getting bored. One can only clean out the garage, straighten up the house, and wash the cars so many times before you start to hate it. Maybe I'll just start my own car detailing products company and see what happens. Hey, with the internet, anyone can be a star! In the meantime, I'll dust off my MBA and silk rep when the right job presents itself!

Mike

Wow... I do remember your posts in RF regarding your job offer back then... sorry to hear that it did not work out as you had hoped. Best of luck in finding a new job... I'm sure you'll be fine. :thumbup:

Juan

Hey Juan, thanks for the positive vibes! You know, I really felt good after I wrote all that stuff and got it out of my system :p

Mike