What do you do for work?

[Alu]

I figured that most of the people who have real jobs with salaries and whatnot are over the age of 21...everyone else probably has either a part-time or very low level position somewhere while still going to school.

As for me, I'm going to be starting as an Assistant Project Manager at a company called EnerNOC come June 1st, which is only about a week after I graduate. This is a company that focuses in Energy Management in both efficiency and demand response, I'll be on the demand response side.

So what do you guys do?

[Whale Biologist]

Right now...nothing. I hate this recession.

Actually, I'm currently a college student, and starting May 22nd, I'll be working for Disneyland.

[Heretic Monkey]

I graduated from NCSU in december, have been the assistant manager for a theater for about 1.5 years now. It's doing a nice job of paying the rent, but i've just been too lazy/pessimistic when it comes to finding a real job, job-type-job.

[PyroFox]

I got out of the Air Force August 2nd of last year, and haven't had a ****ing job since because of this godforsaken recession. Trying to get on with a private security organization, but they keep pushing my training date back.

Seriously considering going back into the military. Very seriously.

[The JoZ]

I will officially be a college grad as of Saturday, so...

I actually applied for a "real" job with the University, but until then, eh.

I've had quite a few laborious jobs in my day (all 23 years of them) so...I wouldn't mind actually having a little (and I stress the word little) time off to do nothing while the wife brings home the bacon.

I have no problem being a kept man :cool:

[Fool's Requiem]

Been in the Coast Guard for nearly 7 years. The job blows, but it pays well and I don't have to worry about this dumb recession.

[Vulpes]

I am a Dietary Aide. I feed old residents and wash pots and pans. Planning on going to school for something in the computer field, though.

[MetalheadSiege]

I'm a Disc Jockey at a country radio station in Southeast Missouri. I actually work for a group that owns 8 stations in the same building, and I fill in on multiple formats, but the country station is my "bread and butter," so to speak.

[Alu]

I'm a Disc Jockey at a country radio station in Southeast Missouri. I actually work for a group that owns 8 stations in the same building, and I fill in on multiple formats, but the country station is my "bread and butter," so to speak.
How'd you end up getting into that? Did you get a degree in communications or something similar or just work your way up at the station to getting some airtime?

[Andre the Giant]

I have a fairly boring job, I work for a public accounting firm. Boring to most but I enjoy it for the most part. I'm working towards my CA, which is the equivalent to the CPA in the US.

[TD, Jr.]

I work at the local coffee shop right now, and working on getting my web design degree so I can get the hell out of this small town.

[VashTheStampede]

I'm in charge of the electronics department at a Target store. Been moving up pretty well, eventually I'm hoping to run a store.

[Tokugawa]

I'm the Senior Operations Accountant for a company that runs all of the community health clinics, and urgent care clinics in central TX. Before we moved to Texas, I had a similar position with Cardinal Health in New Mexico, before that I did a two year stint in public accounting, and before that I worked as a derivatives analyst for the International Finance department with Gap Inc.

[Mike!]

Pencil pusher at a large law firm. I do all the grunt work. Mail pick-up/sorting/delivery. Inter-office mail delivery. Copy jobs. Filing work. Outer-office deliveries. I go to the court house and file papers. And! My favorite part of the job! I get to serve law suits! :D

[Andre the Giant]

I'm the Senior Operations Accountant for a company that runs all of the community health clinics, and urgent care clinics in central TX. Before we moved to Texas, I had a similar position with Cardinal Health in New Mexico, before that I did a two year stint in public accounting, and before that I worked as a derivatives analyst for the International Finance department with Gap Inc.

Uck, you said the d-word :(

[JoetheShow]

I'm doing nothing right now. I'll graduate next may with a double major in Marketing and Supply Chain Management. I was going to leave Marketing because everyone is full of sh*t and its a field that's getting cut right now whereas everything I've heard suggests SCMN is a growing field and its pretty interesting to me.

I'm looking forward to these two weeks off and I'm hoping I get this campus OIT job getting paid min. wage to sit in a computer lab 20 hours a week as well as squeeze in a gig where I load trucks for UPS that pays $9/hr for 16-20 hours a week (early morning) and PAYS YOU FOR PASSING CLASSES.

[The_Mess]

Biology student (undergrad damn it), for far too long thanks to 5 years of on/off illness and insomnia. Otherwise I generally do odd-jobs through student job search, mainly paint prep and painting which all and all doesn't pay to bad over the summer and offers casual hours depending on the boss.

Though no idea what I'm going to do post the aimed for Masters in Biology.

[Heretic Monkey]

Though no idea what I'm going to do post the aimed for Masters in Biology.
Join the club. I've got a degree in Mathematics, and have no idea how i'm going to apply it in a career. In this economy, any job is a good job.

BTW: Why did Fool's Requiem get banned?

[The_Mess]

Hey, depending on what branch it is, maths is pretty useful compared to my mongrel degree of molecular bio, ecology and odd arts papers :P

Case in point a friend of mine has her post-grad degree in conservation and hasn't been able to find a job with it for the last 2 years.

And FR posted a link to a youtube video of Terminator 3 footage in the Movie forum... Brilliant move on his part, should be back soonish though.

[Klowny]

Tempo keeper on a slave trireme.

[narcoticcoin]

i work at gsi it is a company that builds different parts for grain elevators. i run the turrets. not the best job in the world but the pay is ok

[Cocytus]

Currently, I fix fiber optic telecommunications services that too many stupid people are using.

In about 2-3 weeks, I get to fix car dealership data transfer issues.

[Alu]

Currently, I fix fiber optic telecommunications services that too many stupid people are using.

In about 2-3 weeks, I get to fix car dealership data transfer issues.
Good old data quality issues...we get those where I work too...

[Crazy Jamie]

I get to serve law suits! :D
That must be fun.

I think it's fairly common knowledge that I am a lawyer. A barrister, specifically. I currently work in-house at a major national law firm based in Manchester.

[NeoTyrant224]

idk if this forum is still up but here goes.

I have a BD in Photography, but it's just for side jobs at the moment.
What really pays the bills currently, is my job at waffle house.
Kinda funny, only been there for a month, and I'm already certified, and I just started trainning a manager. Guess I'm doing something right.

[Typhon]

I'm a wet coat technician for Sabic Innovative Plastics...

I apply weather resistant coating to polycarbonate windows for the auto industry...


And yeah... my degree has nothing to do with my current job...

[the dmg]

I manage/own my own restaurant.

[TD, Jr.]

That's pretty cool. What type of food do you serve?

[shortkut]

edible

[TD, Jr.]

I would hope so.

[Alu]

I manage/own my own restaurant.
That's awesome, where are you and how busy do you guys get?

[Olga]

Nothing now, but as soon as I find an apartment in London I'm hoping to get a spot at the BBC somehow. If it all goes well I might make it to somewhere in television! :cool:
If not that then probably graphic design. Working so much on projects is killing me mentally, physically and financially, but having a degree will hopefully net me something in the field.

[One Of Light]

I'm currently a peon for my local Radio Shack while I finish my CIS degree, of course I'm picking up odd jobs doing computer repairs and maintenance in my area, so it's not bad...
lol I also install car stereos on occasion.

[Alu]

Nothing now, but as soon as I find an apartment in London I'm hoping to get a spot at the BBC somehow. If it all goes well I might make it to somewhere in television! :cool:
If not that then probably graphic design. Working so much on projects is killing me mentally, physically and financially, but having a degree will hopefully net me something in the field.
Nice, I had no idea you were going for that field...or maybe I did, but just didn't remember.

[Olga]

I did journalism at an international newspaper for a year, and it kicked ass. I'm not bad at graphic design but holy sh*t it's difficult. You never let go, projects consume you entirely even when you're not working on them. I wouldn't wish it on an enemy despite the occasional rewards it can bring.

[Klowny]

I manage/own my own restaurant.In what GW forums have you been posting for the last seven years? I don't believe I've ever seen you before now.

[Alu]

I did journalism at an international newspaper for a year, and it kicked ass. I'm not bad at graphic design but holy sh*t it's difficult. You never let go, projects consume you entirely even when you're not working on them. I wouldn't wish it on an enemy despite the occasional rewards it can bring.
Well that sounds wonderful and terrible at the same time.

At least you're gonna be in a big city, that's always fun. I'll get Boston soon enough.

[Tokugawa]

idk if this forum is still up but here goes.

I have a BD in Photography, but it's just for side jobs at the moment.
What really pays the bills currently, is my job at waffle house.
Kinda funny, only been there for a month, and I'm already certified, and I just started trainning a manager. Guess I'm doing something right.

One of my all time favorite places to go sober up at two in the morning.

[The JoZ]

In what GW forums have you been posting for the last seven years? I don't believe I've ever seen you before now.

Used to be a regular in the E-feds and wrestling forum circa 2001-2003 or so. Disappeared for a while. Didn't know he even remembered this site.

What really pays the bills currently, is my job at waffle house.
Kinda funny, only been there for a month, and I'm already certified, and I just started trainning a manager. Guess I'm doing something right.

You get...certified...to work at Waffle House? :hmm:

[the dmg]

That's pretty cool. What type of food do you serve?

Well, we are mostly known for our steaks and burgers, but we serve a variety of different styles of food. I'm in the process of doing a lot of changes and overhauling everything to make it better.

That's awesome, where are you and how busy do you guys get?

What? I can't hear you. You have to speak up. :D

In what GW forums have you been posting for the last seven years? I don't believe I've ever seen you before now.

Originally, like Joz said, I was a regular in the E-Feds, wrestling forum, as well as the N64 wrestling game forums, Console Wars, and other ones here and there.

Used to be a regular in the E-feds and wrestling forum circa 2001-2003 or so. Disappeared for a while. Didn't know he even remembered this site.

I came back in '05 for a two year stint in HCW. My laptop crapped out when PWW was on the rise (just before you returned), and have been lurking to join once a steady E-Fed came back. I was going to join PWW last year, but it was pretty up and down at the time, so yeah. How could I forget about this site?

[NeoTyrant224]

Yeah I know, it's retarded, they "require" us to be certified before we can get our bonuses. Pretty much the certification means that we are "knowlegable" of our work surrounding, and can manthe grill by ourselves. Just last night I cooked for 10 hours by myself. That and at The Waffle House, A Grill Op, is more or less a manager. when the unit manager, isn't there, we pretty much run ****.

I'm currently going for my advanced grill op training.

It goes like this.

Grill op: cook $1200 dollars by yourself on one shift.
Advanced: be able to get 20 orders out within 20 mins.
Master: Have at least 6 prefered customers, cook at least $600 by yourself a day for one month, be knowledgable of taking orders and out cook your manager. ( the store has to be opened a year)

[Dr. Ed]

..wow, and I was thinking there'd be at least someone else in some sort of gaming-related industry...

I'm a Gamestop grunt myself, while I'm slowly working my way towards my degree, which as of now has changed for the fourth time in just as many years. ^_^;;

[Vulpes]

I was thinking about going to school for making video games. Making level designs, characters, and other stuff like that would be fun to me. Instead, I chose Network Administration since I am more knowledgeable in that field.

[Scott]

I work for Royal Mail as a data entry keyer... basically I turn up, listen to music, and type addresses for a few hours. It's dull as hell, but the pay is brilliant... I work 16 hours a week, and get £600-odd. I have a friend who works at the hospital full-time, and only earns about £300 more.

I'm also meant to do web design and other computery things on the side, but I never get around to that bit, heh.

[The JoZ]

I work for Royal Mail as a data entry keyer... basically I turn up, listen to music, and type addresses for a few hours. It's dull as hell, but the pay is brilliant... I work 16 hours a week, and get £600-odd. I have a friend who works at the hospital full-time, and only earns about £300 more.

I'm also meant to do web design and other computery things on the side, but I never get around to that bit, heh.

600 odd...what? A week? A month?

[the dmg]

600 odd...what? A week? A month?

I'm pretty sure he means per week.

[Crazy Jamie]

I'm pretty sure he means per week.
£600 a week (even gross, which I assume he means) for 16 hours work with Royal Mail sounds too outrageous to be true.

[Ihsahn]

I finished my degree on Thursday. Now seeking work. Any offers?

[Scott]

£600 a week (even gross, which I assume he means) for 16 hours work with Royal Mail sounds too outrageous to be true.Jesus, I wish. It's £600 a month. I got my payslip through today, I'll be getting £646 this month.

Though I have got a productivity bonus and some employee "share" thing going on as well.

[Crazy Jamie]

So £646 net a month for 64 hour's work. That's a very decent rate per hour, actually (£10 net, which would be about £12.50 gross). Countered by the dull nature of the work and (I imagine) limited career prospects, but it's still money, and that cannot be sniffed at.

[Scott]

Well, according to my payslip, I did 69.34 hours, and earned £551.20 base pay.

Then £58.90 bonus, then two lots of £47.28 as a "Colleague Share Dividend". After £58.15 tax/NI, I'm left with the £646.51.

I think it works out at about £7.95 an hour, but it's all pro-rate. If I was a full-time employee, my bonus would be huge.

And, well, it is fairly limited, but you can choose to be developed as a coach, then eventually a manager. I've just requested to be put on coach development, so hopefully I'll get somewhere with it.

[The JoZ]

See I had to ask because my wife told me how she, and her father, earned one paycheck a month. That was it.

That is ludicrous to me, because the standard in the US is every two weeks. And hell, for me, it was not unusual to get paid weekly.

She in fact gets paid weekly as it is, and she earns roughly $230 or so a week. It's not a ton of money but it will pay our bills as they stand right now just fine.

I mean, when I got paid biweekly, I hated it, it's so long to go without money. So I cannot fathom how you people get paid once a month and do not go out of your minds.

[Alu]

See I had to ask because my wife told me how she, and her father, earned one paycheck a month. That was it.

That is ludicrous to me, because the standard in the US is every two weeks. And hell, for me, it was not unusual to get paid weekly.

She in fact gets paid weekly as it is, and she earns roughly $230 or so a week. It's not a ton of money but it will pay our bills as they stand right now just fine.

I mean, when I got paid biweekly, I hated it, it's so long to go without money. So I cannot fathom how you people get paid once a month and do not go out of your minds.
Yeah, once a month is terrible...I get paid bi-weekly, go USA standard, but pretty soon those checks will be for $1730 or so each.

[Holly]

What do I do..?

Currently curse the economy and look for a job between caring for my mother and my brother.

[The JoZ]

Yeah, once a month is terrible...I get paid bi-weekly, go USA standard, but pretty soon those checks will be for $1730 or so each.

See I'm all for being paid less if it means getting paid a lot more.

By Scott's example, that's only about a grand a month. That's not enough money for me to only want to see one paycheck every 4 weeks or so.

If I was going to earn like $2500, or $3000 or so a month and only see one paycheck a month...that'd be a lot more manageable, but I'd still go out of my mind waiting that long.

$1730 every two weeks? Good Lord, what is your job, and how do I get one?

[Alu]

See I'm all for being paid less if it means getting paid a lot more.

By Scott's example, that's only about a grand a month. That's not enough money for me to only want to see one paycheck every 4 weeks or so.

If I was going to earn like $2500, or $3000 or so a month and only see one paycheck a month...that'd be a lot more manageable, but I'd still go out of my mind waiting that long.

$1730 every two weeks? Good Lord, what is your job, and how do I get one?
Assistant Project Manager at EnerNOC.


www.enernoc.com

Starting salary of $45,000 a year, with about 8-10% in bonuses every year.

[Cocytus]

Assistant Project Manager at EnerNOC.


www.enernoc.com

Starting salary of $45,000 a year, with about 8-10% in bonuses every year....I'll take it. Beats the grunt work I've been doing at the place I'm at now.

[Alu]

...I'll take it. Beats the grunt work I've been doing at the place I'm at now.
There are currently about 15 openings in the company, mostly in Boston or California, but I saw some Idaho and other stuff in there too.

http://www.enernoc.com/about/join-our-team.php

[shortkut]

There are currently about 15 openings in the company, mostly in Boston or California, but I saw some Idaho and other stuff in there too.

http://www.enernoc.com/about/join-our-team.php
how would you describe the work you do there? as a bio major my full-time job currently consists of job hunting. i noticed there are offices in nyc so depending on the type of work i might extend my application there too

[JoetheShow]

any logistics openings?

[Alu]

how would you describe the work you do there? as a bio major my full-time job currently consists of job hunting. i noticed there are offices in nyc so depending on the type of work i might extend my application there too
Well some of the stuff on there is decently self explanatory, IT is generally the same for every major corporation, same with Administration and Regulatory Affairs.

Business Development is the sales department, they're the ones that go out and pitch what we do to get us customers, they generally work out of home and don't usually need to come to the office, I'll talk about what they're pitching in a bit.

Marketing is pretty self explanatory, they come up with the ways to get our technology out there and whatnot.

Engineering is the group that designs a lot of the things we use to get better efficiency and the like.

And Operations, the heart of the company, and where I work:

Broken into many subgroups...Network Ops, Customer Ops (me), Materials, MBCx, and a few other things.

Customer Ops get the sites that are signed up as customers, and get them ready for deployment. This is the Demand Response side of the company, our goal is to prevent blackouts and brownouts with the ever increasing energy needs. When there's going to be a lot of pull on the grid for a day, potentially over what its capable of supporting, we get a call and tell our customers to shut their **** down (they sign up for a certain amount). In order to make sure they shut enough down, or they're telling the truth about what they shut down, we need to monitor their usage...sending equipment to monitor meters, mains and generators. In customer ops, we're the ones who talk to the people at the site, find out the equipment they have so we can send the right stuff, and set up the contractors and site techs to install everything. Once its all in working order, it goes to network ops...

Network Ops are the people who monitor the usage of sites, and what goes on when we need them to shut things down. They keep track of baselines, and make sure that all equipment is still working over time. They perform tests every so often to make sure everything we have done is in working order, and they're the ones who send out the mass email/phone call/page saying to shut stuff down. They're the ones who follow how much energy is being used, and the ones who keep in touch with the ISOs and whatnot to get updates on it. They're basically the ones who work with all the data.

Materials: We order equipment through them, they search out newer and more efficient things we can use, recommend what we do use, and take care of packaging and shipping of everything so its done in a routine and regular fashion. They work with more than just the Demand response side, they also work with the MBCx side.

MBCx work on straight out energy reduction and efficiency. They install different equipment at their sites (which have different BDMs than the DR side) and get the customers general reduction of usage and costs on a regular basis. I'm not too clear on all the methods, but they're kind of a combination of customer ops and network ops, but only for MBCx instead of Demand Response.




Any further questions? (as for openings, the second link I posted, the "Join our Team" one has all the current openings listed, it never lists internships though...which are paid, but they're all full for the summer right now)

Edit: and yes, we have offices and employees in: Boston (headquarters), NYC, Baltimore, Tennessee, Florida, Texas, San Francisco and Ontario...I believe there may be another...we're also working on expansion for the middle parts of the country, as we currently have sites all over Illinois through the East Coast, and parts of New Mexico as well.

[The JoZ]

Damn you for your company not having any operations in Virginia!

You should tell them to expand to Virginia.

Specifically, southeastern Virginia :link:

[Alu]

Damn you for your company not having any operations in Virginia!

You should tell them to expand to Virginia.

Specifically, southeastern Virginia :link:
Ha, well I'm pretty sure that eventually we're going to be all over the US. I mean, there's no other company that does specifically the business sector for this kind of thing. The only other one near our size is Comverge, and they're more of a residential sector company.

[The JoZ]

Ha, well I'm pretty sure that eventually we're going to be all over the US. I mean, there's no other company that does specifically the business sector for this kind of thing. The only other one near our size is Comverge, and they're more of a residential sector company.

That's swell, really, but unless they can expand and give me a job tomorrow, fat lot of good it will probably do me :P

[Alu]

That's swell, really, but unless they can expand and give me a job tomorrow, fat lot of good it will probably do me :P
I'll work on it :P

A lot of the analysts are confused as to why are stocks are hovering at about 20...apparently a lot of them believe we should be up at around 40 or so (people from outside the company looking in (21.68 right now),...but I'm glad I get stock options now, rather than at higher prices)