ERA - What do you do for a living ?

[Advance.Wars.Sgt.]

Merchandising Specialist at The Restaurant Store (basically Webstaurant), the biggest supplier of restaurant equipment in the US. I'm largely responsible for devising and employing planograms to make products "fit" in a certain section.

Tracking sales data, contacting vendors/buyers on certain things, and maintaining inventory are some of the other responsibilities I have. I really enjoy what I do, and I get the added bonus of learning about companies like Hobart, Beverage Air, and Vulcan that laymen people don't know about. Because of this, I actually recently developed a habit of looking for the equipment in restaurants, grocery stores, hotels, etc. just to see what they're using.

 

[CreepingFear]

I.T.

Do I like my work place? No. I'd rather work from home.

 

[Sovan Jedi]

I'm a freelance pixel artist. I work mostly on indie games as an animator, but this year I've been branching out to pixel art for musicians/bands like Papadosio and The Living Tombstone.

 

[Webbo]

I'm a Web Developer at a Financial Services company.

 

[Mr.kookalamanza]

Photographic Retoucher for a blinds company.
previously Senior Creative Artworker for a lifestyle clothing company.

 

[Winstano]

I'm an IT Infrastructure engineer by day, by night I'm editor-in-chief of a small-ish website/youtube channel covering video games. This last month has been... Erm... Busy :P

 

[NotVeryFriendly]

Data scientist working for a luxury fashion retailer; I've a particular focus on automation, and platform integration/development (the two other on my team focus primarily on insights, and financial forecasting). Previously I worked as a data science consultant in a large consulting company.

My role primarily involves automating reporting for business leadership (customer info, store, department, division, channel, product, etc.); developing automated customer segments for marketing campaigns (phone, social, organic, mail, email), developing methods to personalise the customer experience (e.g. developing the data flows and content for highly targeted dynamic emails, for customer experiences on the website, etc.), and for reporting purposes; managing our customer and marketing platforms (developing additional data integrations, features, and monitoring); and developing campaigns to increase engagement and retention.

Positives: Really significant growth opportunities in my role since it directly supports the leadership team and influences the business direction, the work is interesting with a lot of autonomy, and I can spend most of my time in development work. Interesting to learn about the fashion business and how commerce works. Very well-paid with strong additional benefits. The team is fantastic.

Cons: Incredibly busy. As the team is so small, I focus primarily on development and more complex reporting (while my colleagues are much more heavily focused on reporting and insights), and we support all areas of the business, the workload is very significant with many projects constantly in motion in additional to ongoing tasks. Particularly with COVID where things have changed very dynamically and maximising spend has been essential, it's really gotten extremely busy and sometimes hours can be very long with extremely tight deadlines.

 

[Dervius]

I'm an Incident Response Consultant in infosec.

It's pretty interesting, but it can be exhausting constantly feeling like you're out of your depth because there's so much to learn all the time. DOuble edged sword though, because I just couldn't work a ob like some of my friends where it's literally the same thing day in, day out.

 

[T002 Tyrant]

I'm currently doing odd contracts in eLearning development, but ideally, I'd prefer to be a graphic/motion graphic designer or editor. My "drop everything if I had the money" would be making films because I write.

 

[Angie]

I'm a nurse.
And often I regret all my life decisions.

 

[Stone Cold]

Plumber

 

[Huey]

Physician.

And this thread is great, OP - such an interesting diversity of experiences in here.

I'm a nurse.
And often I regret all my life decisions.

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Sorry to hear that, can I ask why?

 

[Statux]

Thanks, they only let me do 10 years before a fairly major injury resulted in nerve damage and the need for a multi-vertibral fusion. It was bad enough that I was given a retirement instead of a medical discharge. I tried to fight it, but even after three back surgeries I'm never going to be deployable again. My plan was to become either a CSM or be one of the senior NCOs who go officer and bring some common sense to the commissioned side of the Army and do 20 at minimum. I took my responsibility to bring young men and women into different perspectives than they may have been brought up with seriously. I was also an Equal Opportunity Leader. I taught diversity classes and wrote the standard operating procedures for processing trans Soldiers through Fort Leonard Wood medical reception for basic training. I made E7, but anything beyond that wasn't in the cards. So now I'm shifting focus, drinking water, and carrying on.

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Man, i dont know shit about army lingo but you look like a good person and a great leader 💖

 

[Zeusy]

I work in property management, in the receivables department to be exact.
my main job is adjusting move out files, making sure the property charged correctly, and ensuring the resident fulfilled their specific lease terms. Work with all 50 states, lots of laws to abide for certain states, but hey it pays the bills.

 

[Nostremitus]

Man, i dont know shit about army lingo but you look like a good person and a great leader 💖

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Thanks, basically I made it to a level equivalent to being a Senior Operations Manager in the corporate world, but was fast tracking for a Chief Operating Officer position. I was considering switching paths to a different track that leads to executive positions.

 

[RandomExpletive]

Systems Engineer, more correct term would be SCADA Engineer. Not sure I can post a picture, but I get to design a portion of the power control systems for our customers.

It's great, first actual job outta college after 2 internships, the job description was essentially just a list of my major's courses list, so while I still don't feel like I've got a handle on everything it's been wild that I'm doing EXACTLY what I studied in college

 

[Stencil]

Graphic Designer at a tech company. It's alright. Kind of boring. Sometimes I do freelance. I designed Lizzo's logo. I'm bad at maintaining momentum, apparently.

 

[Fubar]

I am in HR for a manufacturing company in Minnesota.

I like my team, for sure. Fun work environment, good people.

Its interacting with anyone outside of HR that makes me not like my job. Vitriol on this website against HR matches what most people think, I guess, which means I'm automatically Satan reincarnated or whatever.

 

[Deleted member 6263]

I am in HR for a manufacturing company in Minnesota.

I like my team, for sure. Fun work environment, good people.

Its interacting with anyone outside of HR that makes me not like my job. Vitriol on this website against HR matches what most people think, I guess, which means I'm automatically Satan reincarnated or whatever.

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oh look we got Satan over here tryna garner some sympathy - typical.