H.N.I.C.

7/8/2010 11:31:24 AM

you deal with almost as many folks who are a handful as you would bartending

and make way less money

7/8/2010 11:31:34 AM

Greenhouse Research tech for GMO field crops and vegetables

7/8/2010 11:32:24 AM

^^^ hockey night in canada? really?

7/8/2010 11:32:43 AM

Web Projects Coordinator

7/8/2010 11:34:24 AM

Quote :

"Just, IMO, beneath someone with a college degree in all but the most dire of circumstances"

you're talking to someone that's been unemployed since an October layoff...I think being a barista at this point falls in the "dire" category

7/8/2010 11:42:34 AM

seems like you'd have to get up way too early for my liking

7/8/2010 11:44:28 AM

Supervisor of both animals and people, where the management tactics tend to overlap.

Also

Quote :

"I am also a part-timefull-time employment opportunity enthusiast"

7/8/2010 11:46:32 AM

to stay outta trouble and get my ass married off

7/8/2010 11:47:16 AM

radio personality

7/8/2010 11:48:09 AM

i buy drugs (legally) for a wholesale drug company...

... in Durham of all places...

7/8/2010 11:49:23 AM

Full-time: auditor

Part-time: high school football official

Everyone hates me

7/8/2010 11:49:38 AM

Being a frequent customer of coffee shops and having worked behind a bar with an espresso machine...I could never be a barista.

Afternoon barista might be tolerable, but never a morning one. You have to get way too early in the morning, and you have to be at your sharpest in the morning because that is when you are the busiest. A barista at a good coffee shop in the morning has to be on their game as much as a bartender at peak hours at a popular bar. And you have to make some ridiculous drinks. A complicated coffee drink is worse than making something like a mojito or an old fashioned behind a bar. The steps with the espresso machine and adding all the syrups/milks/etc are just a pain in the fucking ass.

And I think people are more pushy getting their coffee in the morning than getting their drink at a busy bar...they're usually grumpy because they haven't had their caffeine fix and/or they're sometimes late for work, putting them in an even worse mood.

7/8/2010 11:57:22 AM

travel writer

7/8/2010 1:10:29 PM

o yea and i work bar security

7/8/2010 1:19:13 PM

somebody wanna get me a job?

7/8/2010 1:23:50 PM

project manager for a large fortune 500 multi-national company specializing in energy located in charlotte

7/8/2010 1:24:03 PM

i work at a record store during the day and dj multiple nights a week

7/8/2010 1:24:37 PM

Marketing and Communications Coordinator

Hoping to get into JUST graphic design within the next month or so if these interviews go well.

7/8/2010 1:29:44 PM

Just call me Doctor Mom.

7/8/2010 1:48:32 PM

I work for a Korean tractor manufacturer.

7/8/2010 1:50:43 PM

You must work for Daedong USA. Kioti.

7/8/2010 1:52:22 PM

Well-well look. I already told you: I deal with the god damn customers so the engineers don't have to. I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?

7/8/2010 1:53:06 PM

i, too, am a sales engineer

and get laughed at by real engineers

[Edited on July 8, 2010 at 1:56 PM. Reason : ,]

7/8/2010 1:56:47 PM

molecular biologist in AG R&D

7/8/2010 3:51:25 PM

Systems Analyst 3.

7/8/2010 3:57:17 PM

I race cars, play tennis, and fondle women, BUT! I have weekends off, and I am my own boss

[Edited on July 8, 2010 at 4:10 PM. Reason : true]

7/8/2010 4:10:23 PM

part-time grad student and full-time assistant salon director

7/8/2010 4:28:37 PM

Part Time Student

Full Time Customer Support Representative
(a GM to be more specific...but its for a game no one plays..so that's hardly worth mentioning)

7/8/2010 5:04:28 PM

Quote :

"radio personality"

That sounds cool - where you work?

7/8/2010 5:23:13 PM

Program manager for a PR firm in DC.

7/8/2010 5:50:12 PM

CFO (Chief Fuck-Off)

Today myself and 5 coworkers had an hour long rubber band battle. Hiding in cubicles, using rolling chairs as shields, etc. I hit one dude in the face 7 times.

7/8/2010 5:53:05 PM

3D animator

7/8/2010 7:54:58 PM

Shipping and Warehouse Manager at a small company in Durham that remanufactures Mercedes electronic parts. We also build diagnostic equipment. Good times, very informal, good people.

7/8/2010 8:10:25 PM

grad student

7/9/2010 5:37:31 PM

mechanical systems engineer.

but they don't let me touch anything in the plant...

7/9/2010 5:46:17 PM

Admin at a pediatrics office.

7/9/2010 5:53:23 PM

i see the word " engineer " being thrown out there loosely


hey guys.. im a COD player engineer. i engineer that shit out of those buttons.

[Edited on July 9, 2010 at 6:02 PM. Reason : x]

7/9/2010 6:01:57 PM

^ Don't blame the posters in this thread. Blame the companies. Hell, I wish they would take "engineer" out of my job title so people would stop assuming I know how to do shit that I don't know how to do


In the professional world, "engineer" basically means scientific worker. There's also a push in a lot of companies to take the specialization out of job descriptions.

7/9/2010 6:41:31 PM

not supprisingly, this is one of the few of topics in which BubbleBobble will never post

7/9/2010 8:01:42 PM

Professional choad.

7/9/2010 8:03:36 PM

Quote :

"i see the word " engineer " being thrown out there loosely"

my business card actually says project engineer as the title. for what its worth, in reality my job duties entail:

-project management (HNIC for $250k-$3million capital equipment fabrication and installation, includes site visits, scheduling, setting billable milestones/making sure milestones are met/invoiced and monies collected, witnessing new equipment commissions, all around general go to guy for the duration of the project both internally as well as with the customer)
-design engineer (steel fabrications, spec'ing ventilation, motors, gear drives, mechanical components, etc)
-detailer (cad monkey)
-checker
-internal ISO auditer
-technical advisor to research and development

[Edited on July 9, 2010 at 11:18 PM. Reason : .]

7/9/2010 11:18:30 PM

student!!

7/9/2010 11:20:00 PM

commercial loan specialist

7/9/2010 11:25:02 PM

eye ma luff mush een

7/9/2010 11:31:11 PM

corporate goon working for "the man"

7/9/2010 11:38:21 PM

MEDEVAC Pilot

7/10/2010 12:11:04 AM

Manager for a group of 13 engineers

7/10/2010 1:25:28 AM

7/10/2010 1:37:18 AM

Systems Engineer & Program Manager

7/10/2010 9:47:45 AM