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[Lackadaisy]

I don't have any passion, so I'll probably end up working some menial position for menial pay.

 

 

Woo fuck yeah life!

[Hyperlisk]

Hey, I just coasted through life, going wherever the wind took me. Now I have a fantastic job.

[kspr]

you can be a traffic light

[Donkeymog]

All too often I find myself having to explain this:

 

[kspr]

i got an email address today that will open a door for me to do shipping for Rob Ford's company in the US. they're called Deco Labels and Tags.

[Tau]

Top Gear, coolest job in the world IMO. Hey look at that I'm still in the cool kids club ;D

[Shoulder Devil]

Mine's giving me a new position that pays $9.75 an hour, and has me play a game of cat-and-mouse with our many, many thieves. Something I pretty much already do in addition to my other obligations now, for far less money. Only now it's going to be my primary purpose.

This should be fun.

[kspr]

Ooh! i'm a retired serial shoplifter. got any good stories? i saw a guy once get caught stealing the plastic bud lites because they don't clink together in your sleeve.

[Shoulder Devil]

Well, other than the fact they have a tendency to resort to racial slurs when they get caught (sometimes multiple, conflicting slurs), not really. Most of them are stupid.
 

Like the dumbass that stole a bunch of batteries, then tried to sell them back to us as a return less than a week later. Saying his grandma said she bought them at Wal-Mart, but he thought she bought them here. And none of them were the right kind.

We just laughed and told him to get out of the store on his own, or with the police helping him find the door.

[kspr]

did he try to return AA's in a AAA box or something? or did he have weird batteries like B cell?

[Shoulder Devil]

No no, he said none of the ones she "bought" were the right kind.

So, between the AAs, AAAs, Cs, and Ds, plus a few 9 volts (and there being about a hundred of these batteries in total, if not more), somehow the "right" battery wasn't in there.

 

So, y'know. Not only was he lying, but he was implying his grandmother was dumber than a sack of hammers.

[kspr]

please tell me they were a juggalo of some kind. ive known a few people who were, and their lines of thought didn't go much further than "i'll just get away with it"
 
on an unrelated note, everybody should go out and buy Good Belly juice, POM Wonderful juice, and Ehrmann's Bavarian Yogurt (anywhere but C&S wholesale for the love of god) 

edit: had to unload two trucks of plastic pellets with minimal help, which means 42 sets of double stacked pallets, and ~1,800lbs. each, in 20*weather, and only had 2 beers (you know, for the carbs) goodbye back, goodbye knee, nice knowing you.

[Shoulder Devil]

Nah, he wasn't.

On a related note, neither was the guy who flashed a gun at me and threatened to kill me tonight. Over a couple candy bars. On Christmas Eve.

 

In hindsight, we should've just offered him a Snickers. "Here, eat this. You're not yourself when you're hungry."

[kspr]

damn you need to get on some krav maga

[Anthony Totinos]

I used to work at Apple Retail for about a year. Coworkers were cool and pay was OK for retail, but customers are stupid idiots and should need to stop setting nudes of their  350lb gf as their background.

 

I've tutored on and off for the past 5 years or so. It's cool, but not steady.

 

Done research at my university for the last year. Not really a job, but get money for it.

[panda]

Of the many jobs I have, the coolest is working for the county election office. Prepping for election day is fun, making sure we have enough supplies and they are properly distributed. Day of I usually check voters into the pollbook and verify their ID. Sometimes they put me on setting up the electronic machine for each voter.

On a primary election (especially the Presidential) when we're busy dawn to dusk, I like to pretend I'm processing people as though they were on an assembly line. Gives me a little power high.

[Monkeydog]

I don't know if I posted exactly what I do.

 

I work at a market research company and program surveys for companys like Facebook, LinkedIn, Shutterfly, Disney, Gap etc... and a lot of other companies you've never heard of that work with other companies (Like Rolaids or Nintendo or Microsoft) to make surveys. It's a pretty cool job. We have a system (which Hyperlisk helps develop now) that does a lot for us, so I'm just in charge of creating structure with XML and adding logic with Python. Occasionally extra pretty stuff with HTML/CSS/Javascript. Basically that's it. I occasionally need to do shell/Linuxy stuff like bash scripts and cron jobs but that's rare, I mainly just use certain commands.

 

Down time I'm supposed to be learning/bettering myself/take on a project but I'm at a loss right now so most of my time is spent bored here and doing data checks on my current projects. Also playing Ping Pong with Hyperlisk (which we also do at home where he bought a ping pong table).

[Donkeymog]

Do you prefer creating structure or adding logic?

 

Also, do you ever use JSON? Or are there advantages to XML over that?

 

Ping Pong is sick. I would play at least once a week the whole time I was at uni.

[Monkeydog]

Logic. XML is boring. Python/Javascript are more fun. I prefer the making things pretty part.

 

I don't really use JSON in anything I do, some of the applications our surveys use do use JSON though (which I was just talking to Hyperlisk about). JSON is meant to be more lightweight and for data transportation, as Hyperlisk said. I think XML is way more readable considering I've spent a lot of my life looking at HTML. Although I guess if you've spent a lot of time looking at Javascript JSON is easily readable. 

 

Although, personally, my job isn't to make an interpreter for the JSON or XML so on a purely what would I rather read...I'd rather read and work with XML. Although JSON makes a lot of sense when you're using it with a lot of Javascript. So it matters I guess. I assume it would work pretty well with PHP too. 

[Homura]

I don't have a job yet, but soon, I'd love to get a job in acting/voice acting. It's always something I've loved the idea of, and now that I can begin joining acting classes, I'll be doing all I can.