What Do You Do For a Living? 2nd edition

[arvetus]

I.T. here..

I am specialized in Radiology and Cardiology PACS systems. I work on supporting these systems in 3 hospitals plus a couple outpatient clinics currently. Will likely begin supporting 5 more hospitals in the greater Houston area in the near future as we try to move things around.

 

[sablebrush52]

Now I break things to improve them. Any guesses on what I do?

I got it! I got it!
Crash test dummy!

 

[prairiedruid]

"Now I break things to improve them. Any guesses on what I do?"

Mechanical Engineer?

 

[wayneteipen]

I currently have four jobs. My main job is as a hospital supervisor (house supervisor) overseeing the operations of a hospital. My second gig is as a vascular access specialist performing ultrasound guided venipuncture and teaching other healthcare workers to do the same. My third job is as a contracted educator for a major medical supply company. My fourth and favorite job is as a part-time pipemaker (you know, in my spare time.)

 

[workman]

"Now I break things to improve them. Any guesses on what I do?"

Security systems something.

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

Funeral & transports

 

[chilllucky]

Woodworker. I make furniture.

 

[peckinpahhombre]

Funeral & transports

I thought that industry was dead.
I still play piano in a brothel.

 

[sablebrush52]

I thought that industry was dead.

I thought that people were dying to get in.

 

[brian64]

I've had some shitty jobs in the past, but none of them paid this well:

San Francisco "Poop Patrollers" Make $185,000
We wish we could say this was a satire piece, but a new story in the San Francisco Chronicle reveals just how lucrative collecting shit actually is.

It's but the latest in a string of shocking revelations to hit headlines throughout the summer exposing how deep San Francisco's crisis of vast amounts of vagrant-generated feces covering its public streets actually runs (no pun intended).
The SF Chronicle casually notes in parenthesis, "By the way, the poop patrolers earn $71,760 a year, which swells to $184,678 with mandated benefits."
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-22/san-francisco-poop-patrollers-make-185000

 

[jpmcwjr]

As you said, it's a shitty job. I do poop pickup for two pooches and somehow it seems all right, but human excrement is a whole nother level of crappiness.

 

[brian64]

human excrement is a whole nother level of crappiness.

For certain...but it seems to me that the human excrement who left the human excrement should be cleaning it up for free.

 

[weezell]

peck,

I still play piano in a brothel.

Which means still practicing law I see... :rofl:

 

[weezell]

^ pandering noise to prostitutes... (kidding)

 

[peckinpahhombre]

A few years back my wife bought two Golden Retrievers. Then she hired some guy to come pick up the poop. The guy shows up in a truck with huge "Doctor Poolittle" decals emblazened on each door. He recognized my wife and they chatted for a bit. I was watching this from the window in my home office, and after he left, I asked her how they knew each other. She told me that she went to high school with the guy and he was the class valedictorian. I laughed so hard I just about choked. Got to give the guy credit though - anything to make a buck.

 

[drwatson]

Poll cleaner at the local strip club.

 

[highwaycobbery]

Retired marine, now I scrap metal for a hobby. Why not. You would be surprised at the money people throw away, and a hobby should be something you can make money from anyway. And pipe smoking goes well with it, people already look at me crazy when I’m smoking, might as well do it while digging through their trash :crazy:

 

[aldecaker]

"I do poop pickup for two pooches and somehow it seems all right, but human excrement is a whole nother level of crappiness."
At least you get something valuable in return when you have dogs to clean up after.
"...but it seems to me that the human excrement who left the human excrement should be cleaning it up for free."
They should be in Victorian-style workhouses. It's ironic (and moronic) that we live in a society that will give children free vaccinations to prevent disease, and allow full-grown adults to shit in the streets to spread those diseases.

 

[brian64]

and allow full-grown adults to shit in the streets to spread those diseases.

I just find it fascinating that any city being run in the manner that SF is has not yet completely imploded financially.

 

[mso489]

In turn, omitting brief interim jobs, I was a Navy radioman and journalist (in sequence not simultaneously); a veteran's counselor; a public affairs specialist (sounds racy but it was mostly writing and editing); a news director; and a policy analyst (interpreting scientific research mostly for Congressional caucuses). All the while I have written and published fiction, poetry, a few essays and reviews, and the rare humor piece. I am retired but continue with my own writing.