Your work day

[Hypnotoad]

Hello everyone, I've been lurking for some time and finally spent the 30 seconds required to make an account. 
Anyone else's job as hilariously/depressingly meaningless as mine?  I'm a mail clerk at a law firm.  Here's a rundown of my day.

-Show up at 9 A.M. (theoretically... usually between 9:15 and 9:30)
-Do my first mail run, which entails pushing a cart around two floors dropping shit off and picking some up and listening to a bunch of obese secretaries and paralegals say shit like "Doin' OK for a Monday," "Can't beleive it's only Wednsday," "Hang in there it's Friday," etc...
-Sit around till 11 when i do my second mail run...
-Sit around till 12:30 when i go to lunch
-Come back from lunch and do my 1:30 mail run...
-Mail Runs again at 3:00, 4:00, and 5:00 sitting around between each of those
-Leave at 5:30 and sit on the bus with weirdos...
-Often i have minor tasks throughout the day like setting up conference rooms for meetings and moving boxes/furniture, but my boss is as lazy as I am so that shit usually doesn't go on too long...
-I try to look busy between runs but usually just gravitate toward the computer and end up here or on whatever else isn't blocked by this goddam firm....

Now let's hear about your day.

[Jura]

Project coordinator / QA specialist for a web design firm.

I get in around 10. And surf the internet all day long. I try to break our websites and then make sure they get fixed correctly. My task is coordinating with clients and my developers to keep deadlines and what not. I spend many hours a day on Photoshop and it makes me want to die. I take about 5 smoke breaks a day. I also skate at lunch.

My job pretty much rules. Kinda. Alright, Im outta here.

[Hypnotoad]

Oh yeah i forgot... I take between about 5 and 12 smoke breaks a day... Either every hour or every half hour depending on the pattern i establish early on on any given work day

[blazini]

how much do you get paid?

[Hypnotoad]

$11.50+Benefits, I'm probably overpaid actually which is why i continue working here

[biggums mcgee]

I work at a state park, so when I get there I do a quick (10-15 minutes) litterpluck. this is usually my biggest task of the day

the work day as a whole is a joke. everyone sits around, cooks themsevles deep-fried food, and pretty much don't do shit to be active. the lifegaurds there rotate so that their shifts are 30 minutes, and they're breaks are 1 1/2 hours. I myself help people get comfortable with row and pattle boats, but usually I just chill in the kitchen and mack the bitches who have nothing better to do than flirt with me. it's a pretty nice gig, I'm glad I got myself hooked up with it instead of the usual retaurant bullshit. another plus of working there is that we can smoke as much herb as we please, as long as it's at this designated table in the woods. ha

[police_state]

i just recently quit my job in a photo lab to run a skatepark for the city. this new job is fucking sweet.  i werk with this kid whos stoked to do all my work so i skate, paint or watch movies all day....  and theres a soup kitchen next door so i dont have to bring a lunch, hehehe.  the hardest part of my job is writing activity reports, because i dont do shit. lucked out i guess

[hargo]

im  a high school history teacher.

[Bill]

Hello everyone, I've been lurking for some time and finally spent the 30 seconds required to make an account. 
Anyone else's job as hilariously/depressingly meaningless as mine?  I'm a mail clerk at a law firm.  Here's a rundown of my day.

-Show up at 9 A.M. (theoretically... usually between 9:15 and 9:30)
-Do my first mail run, which entails pushing a cart around two floors dropping shit off and picking some up and listening to a bunch of obese secretaries and paralegals say shit like "Doin' OK for a Monday," "Can't beleive it's only Wednsday," "Hang in there it's Friday," etc...
-Sit around till 11 when i do my second mail run...
-Sit around till 12:30 when i go to lunch
-Come back from lunch and do my 1:30 mail run...
-Mail Runs again at 3:00, 4:00, and 5:00 sitting around between each of those
-Leave at 5:30 and sit on the bus with weirdos...
-Often i have minor tasks throughout the day like setting up conference rooms for meetings and moving boxes/furniture, but my boss is as lazy as I am so that shit usually doesn't go on too long...
-I try to look busy between runs but usually just gravitate toward the computer and end up here or on whatever else isn't blocked by this goddam firm....

Now let's hear about your day.

That job doesn't sound so bad to me.  All you do is walk around and put stuff on people's desks.  I'd love to have a job like that.

[stagefright]

unemployed, i wake up at 2 or whenever someone gets home from work and wakes me up, then i do nothing for a long time

[Hypnotoad]

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Hello everyone, I've been lurking for some time and finally spent the 30 seconds required to make an account. 
Anyone else's job as hilariously/depressingly meaningless as mine?  I'm a mail clerk at a law firm.  Here's a rundown of my day.

-Show up at 9 A.M. (theoretically... usually between 9:15 and 9:30)
-Do my first mail run, which entails pushing a cart around two floors dropping shit off and picking some up and listening to a bunch of obese secretaries and paralegals say shit like "Doin' OK for a Monday," "Can't beleive it's only Wednsday," "Hang in there it's Friday," etc...
-Sit around till 11 when i do my second mail run...
-Sit around till 12:30 when i go to lunch
-Come back from lunch and do my 1:30 mail run...
-Mail Runs again at 3:00, 4:00, and 5:00 sitting around between each of those
-Leave at 5:30 and sit on the bus with weirdos...
-Often i have minor tasks throughout the day like setting up conference rooms for meetings and moving boxes/furniture, but my boss is as lazy as I am so that shit usually doesn't go on too long...
-I try to look busy between runs but usually just gravitate toward the computer and end up here or on whatever else isn't blocked by this goddam firm....

Now let's hear about your day.

[close]

That job doesn't sound so bad to me.  All you do is walk around and put stuff on people's desks.  I'd love to have a job like that.

Wasn't saying it was bad, just insanely boring sometimes.. i just wanted to hear what other people do all day

[jrock]

^^yeah, i wouldn't mind that job either.  I've want to get a job dealing with criminal behavior/statistics, and I've been trying to get a job like that at a law office to kind of get my feet wet.

I haven't worked in over a year because of my illness (ulcerative colitis), but my last job was working for a healthcare consultant in San Bruno as a "Patient Case Coordinator" for a patient assistance program.  I would spend my first 5 hours straight taking calls for the program (about 800 a month) where I had to explain the program, help people go through the process of applying, check the status of their orders, track shipements, deal with drs offices, verify insurance benefits, and deal with "adverse events" (side effects to the drug had to be officially reported).  It sounds easy, but it basically amounted to me getting bitched at by idiotic drs offices and poor drug addicts trying to get over on the system.  I also had to tell people they were denied for the program (and that they would have to choose between eating and buying meds every month).  Not too stoked on making old ladies cry.  When I finally got done with the phones, I had to process appplications and incoming mail into the database.  We were in constant backlog, so this usually made my day about 10-12 hours from start to finish.  The first couple years I actually liked my job and co-workers, but then we got bought out by Johnson and Johnson.  My managers were slowly forced out, i suddenly had 5 bosses , 3 of which were in Charlotte NC, all of which did not communicate and had us doing 5 different things at a time, 2 of which would call me in their offices to yell at me and curse me out.  I started getting written up for bullshit infractions until I got fired (they said low productivity, although I had the highest phone numbers.  they never did show me my actual numbers).  My manager then called over to Genentech and got me blacklisted for a similar job there.  I started getting really sick right after I lost my job, and with no insurance it took me moving home 9 months later before I got to see a doctor.  I've been offered several jobs since then (even started training for some), but I always have to quit because I start getting sick...


so, currently my work day consists of watching Law and Order for about 8 hours a day and fucking off on Slap...I'll probably have at least another 6 months of this (my insurance deemed my condition "pre-existing") and I have another 6 months before I "might" be covered again, and able to get treatment.  I'm about to apply for medicaid and disability.  Its been 5 years since I got my degree, and this is probably the last place I would have ever expected to be...

[Mentos]

I work at Vodafone Telecommunications as a part time secretary. In comparison to other kids my age, I pretty much have it made. All I do is lurk Slap at work, set up appointments, write up shit for Human Resources. Average day would be go to work in the morning, write memo. Lunch time- get hassled on by idiots, as all the wanna be "execs" want to show off their 5 dollar Liver and Brie savory pies to the kid who brings in Mi Goreng. Afternoon, become a shoulder to dry on to the idiot marketing girl. Always complaining about how she can't find Mr Right with a 10 inch cock, waterfront house and a Mercedes-Benz. Night bombing the city. So in conclusion, I work with tards and whores but get really good pay.

[www.Crailtap.com]

The Gav's:

Wake up (sweating).
Eat (sweating).
...
Eat (sweating profusely by this point).
shower (probably sweating, although there is no conclusive evidence to back this up.)
sweat for a little bit.
sit.
eat lunch. (while sweating).
listen to phish and eat more. (probably sweating.)
Read The Tap (www.crailtap.com, incase you didn't know. Also sweats)
Dinner(s).
See Ms. The Gav. (sweating)
Sleep.

[Dangerdoom]

I wake up at 8ish, try and eat something
Skate to work for 9.
I work in a stained glass workshop, so I just build windows all day.

But sometimes annoying hippies come in and want me to build them a window, so that means that for the next 2 hours I have to draw fucking hummingbirds and sunflowers...

Done at 5, head home eat, the go skate if I have the energy.

[sweets]

I too am unemployed and find myself at the cross roads, so to speak. I'm probably going to start working at this screen printing shop next week but for the past few months my day consists of:

Skating FDR (weather permitting) in the morning
Doing research and number crunching for a business project I want to get off the ground
Plenty of internet interaction with friends, peers and potential business associates
Try to eat dinner with some family or friends
More work on the potential business project
Go to a friend's house watch skate videos/bullshit until around 10:30/11:00 when the local businesses close and we can go street skate.

Not so bad but my father instilled this old school work ethic with a built in guilt if I don't have an actual job. My chin has stayed up, though, and I've been able to skate like I did when I was younger and more care free. That's been precious.

[tonycoxhox]

get there at either 9, 10, or 11:30 depending on my shift.
start folding shirts and welcoming the customers with a big "IRASHAIMASEE!"
then go up to a few of them and explaine what they will need when they go hiking. i tell them i climb mountains a lot even though i did it once and hated it.
go eat at the food court if its not too busy (i always get meat on rice)
walk around the mall and listen to my ipod.
get back and try to sell people mountain gear or/and do things that needed to be get done for the shop for 5 more hours.
ride my moms bike back to my family's apartment.

im quitting in one month and i cant wait.

[lophatrophazoa]

wake up at about 7, eat and pack my lunch and get to the yard at about 7:45
chat to some of the characters at work, load up the truck with machinery and head out
cut some grass, trim some grass, pick some weeds, trim some hedges
go to the next place and do the same shit
have a break around 11, have a lunch around 1
mabey get tired at around 3 so dick around doing an endo on the riding mower and some 360s, then do some mannys with the walk behind
get back to the yard around 5:45 and unload the shit, then go home

its not to bad of a day and i get paid alright

[grimcity]

I have the best job I've ever had...

I work for a federally funded program at the Louisiana State Board of Regents. My title is webmaster/design coordinator under the program, but the official title doesn't really cover what I do... I designed and manage a network of 30 computers, with combined hard wired and encrypted wireless connections. I manage a local NAS, as well as a Win-based server (I'm trying to go through the process of getting everything converted to Free BSD/Php/MySql, but there are a lot of bureaucratic steps into that changeover.

When I'm not doing that, I create multimedia for the program... photos, video, websites, printed media (magazines, shirts, billboards, etc), interactive CD's, displays and kiosks, and some pretty large scale database management.

Outside of that, I do a lot of work for other programs at Regents... usually the visually creative stuff like websites, print and displays/interactive kiosks.

Beyond that, I do the same for the Governor's policy department... as with the previous governor, I get called during emergencies when the governor needs media for policies she's trying to sell to the legislature or anything else she might need. I keep non perishable food in my office, because when the Governor calls, it means you're not leaving the office until the work is complete, which could be anywhere from 24 to 48 hours of development time with no sleep.

Slightly tied to that, I'm an ESF-2 for the Governor's Office of Homeland Security... a communications operator. Basically, if there's another Katrina or similarly devastating event, I'm one of a few people that receives phone calls from regional authorities or military/law enforcement heads that process requests for supplies/manpower, and ensure that those requests are sent to and received by specialists that handle those needs.

I work from home a lot depending on what I'm working on, and I spend a lot of days half in and half out of the office, though I wind up working 70+ hours a week, I'm a fucking geek so I love it.

In my off-time, I run my local shop's website, I do freelance web dev and print graphics, I write for a kid's skate site, create regular anti mega-corporate sites, and every once in a while I get a check with change on it for a geek-tutorial book I wrote a chapter in a few years ago. I've been trying to write a foul-mouthed Photoshop tutorial book for a while, but I'm not sure if any of the usual tech-book publishers will pick it up, so I'll probably just give it away when I'm done.

I still skate regularly... but my days are pretty intense while Im awake. I sleep between 3-5 hours a night during the weekdays, but I crash hard on weekends and knock out for 10-12 hours.

[urujuay]

i work as part of a local exotic foods, spice and produce business.  we import different foods and spices from around the world and make our own spice blends.  we have also been suckered into the produce market recently and now have a lot more work to do for not that much more money.  we are pretty close to signing with a large company where we will distribute only our spice blends throughout the us and not have to worry about produce bullshit. 3 guys own the company and i'm basically right under them, coordinating orders and running the ones around town.  we cover jacksonville, fernandina beach and st. augustine.  i end up doing the least work of any of the employees and getting paid the most since i've been there the longest.  we only have 5 employees who are all pretty like minded individuals. i drive a van or refrigerated truck around delivering things to independently owned restaurants, hotels, and even the federal reserve bank (shudder).  i am able to listen to my own choice of music all day while doing so, which is probably the best part of my job.  as far as jobs go, i couldn't ask for a better one.  people benefit from my work and i'm basically my own boss.  chefs are assholes for the most part, though.

[cold budweisers]

how do you guys get such rad jobs?

[Ronald Wilson Reagan]

Unemployed now. My day consists of Sitting around taking bong hits and watching stupid shit on tv, and occasionally taking my roommate's dog to the park until my roommates get home. Then I nag them about going skateboarding, to which they reply "Sorry man, I'm wiped out from work." Then we watch more tv.

My "seasonal" job of substitute teaching generally goes like this:
Get to school about 3 minutes before class starts.
Write my name on the whiteboard (apparently blackboards are on the outs)
Look at what the teacher wrote for me to do, which is usually passing out a worksheet and making sure the kids do it.
I pass out the worksheet.
Go play on the internet until a kid acts up.
Send that kid to the office, then the rest of the kids generally shut the fuck up.
Repeat about 5 times a day.
My day is from about 8-3:30, and I get two hours or more of breaks a day.

[stagefright]

how many workable schooldays did you work this year thetois

[Ronald Wilson Reagan]

Around 100-120.

[sebastian toombs]

i had the best job for 13 years, working at gm place in vancouver.  but i got fired (or rather, was forced to quit) back in april so for the first time in a really long time i dont have a regular, manual labour / logistics type job.

im also about to get cut from the enormous scholarship i won a few years back.  i really havent had to worry about $ for the last three years, with or without the job.

so im going to have to do a lot more work as a Teaching Assistant at my school, and im also applying for jobs as a marker at other schools, like OCAD here in toronto.  i also need to start putting some course proposals together, so that i can start teaching my own university courses instead of helping someone else run theirs.

[defiantnate]

I work 8am-4pm making granola bars and trail mix... stuff like that. It's actually a pretty dope job. We make some stuff for Trader Joe's.

[fuckingvegan]

Wake up at 5 am
Let the dogs out
make a cup of loose leaf black tea and some kind of breakfast food (as of late whole grain bread, avocado and nutritional yeast).
Check out Slap, Gnar, Myspace and random other places and email
At 6 am or so I catch a light rail to work, get there at 6:55 and then do a pick up of any mail left over from the day before, make coffee and clean up after the lazy people at work
7:30 log in faxes and get shit ready for the 8 o clock guy
8-4 or 5 or 6 do what ever needs to be done sometimes copy jobs, log faxes, set up conference rooms etc, try and manage people and avoid the person I report to as much as I can, read my emails, sneak online and generally try and do as little as I can.
Depending on what time I leave go home, skate my mini ramp (weather permitting), eat a wonderful meal that my wife has prepared, play with the girls watch Jeopardy and maybe watch skate videos or skate around the neighborhood or go to the skatepark. Go to bed around 9 or 10 and do it again.

Plotting to overthrow the government always takes up large parts of my day mental wise.

[JoshEwUhh]

I'm a mechanic for a Toyota dealership.
My day would start around 6am.
Get up and make a bagel, go to work, stop at ON THE RUN for a coffee, then start working aroun 7:30.
Lunch around 12. Work some more until 5:30 then go home.
The jobs good, I love working on cars, the coworkers are awesome. We have cookouts in the shop atleast once a week. The pay is great, I started at $14 an hour, but after pasing my ASE tests, I now make $17 an hour straight commision.
Work about 50hours a week.
Right now though, i'm at homeon workers comp b/c a douchebag at work broke my wrist.
Oh well... summer vacation

Oh, and I do tons of sidework shadtree mechanics for friends, along with custom audio/visual work.

[dodgersgirl]

Wake up at 6-7 to feed the baby, then attempt to convince him to go back to sleep for another hour. Let the dog out, feed her. Spend the morning chasing baby around the house and cleaning up messes along the way. Go to school. Come home and take care of baby. All day is spent changing diapers, cleaning up other people's messes, and entertaining an active little guy. Wait until he falls asleep to do homework. Sounds like cake, but it's exhausting and the pay is TERRIBLE!

I actually miss going to work and making $$

[urujuay]

oh, god, i hate hearing that kind of shit.  how about enjoying your new child instead of thinking about how you wish you were making money?  you won't miss work when you're back.  it's fucked that we live in a society where the best thing that can happen to someone in their life is now overshadowed by the pursuit of money and "happiness".  not your fault, but something to think about.