What is your Current Job?
 

I'm just curious. What do you guys do for a living?


1. What type of job do you do?
2. How much do you get paid?
3. What is your highest level of education?
4. If your education is associated with your job, do you actually use what you've learned?
5. Do you enjoy what you do?
6. How long have you been doing what you do?

I'm a recent graduate in Kinesiology and Health Science. I want to become a Chiropractor, but if not that, I would have no idea on what to do...

The only Chiropractor schools i know of are in Toronto and Oregon

If you went to SFU, you prolly know my ex. Shes a bitch.


Anyways im a Server administrator. No schooling after HS besides the odd certification and i make 65k

^how long have you been doing server admin for?

1 year now...

1. Customer Service Representative
2. $10/hr
3. High School Graduation and 1st year college
4. No
5. Not really
6. Almost a year now

...

if you do a search theres been many threads with a similar if not exact topic.

And we have an employment forum too

no post 2nd, no experiences, just some certificates, and 65K?

I think it's typical for IT. Frequently though the positions are contract and do not include benefits.

1. What type of job do you do? food services
2. How much do you get paid? 11.50
3. What is your highest level of education? college diploma
4. If your education is associated with your job, do you actually use what you've learned? yes
5. Do you enjoy what you do? yes
6. How long have you been doing what you do? 4 years

1. Property Management Assistant
2. $11.00 LOL
3. SFU grad
4. Sort of, some accounting and law but mostly time management, prioritizing, and communication skills. I guess its skills that I learned indirectly from attending school.
5. I'm on revscene how can I not enjoy my job.
6. 7 months

1. What type of job do you do? douchebag
2. How much do you get paid? non-profit
3. What is your highest level of education? self-paced on RS
4. If your education is associated with your job, do you actually use what you've learned? yes, i learned how to punch others ball or break the windows if im not happy, the biggest learning experience on RS is always people pointing out grammar mistake and corrects it. Better than a teacher in school
5. Do you enjoy what you do? yup, people always telling me im a douchebag, i guess i achieved my goal
6. How long have you been doing what you do? since 2 months ago

1. What type of job do you do? Server
2. How much do you get paid? $8.40/hr + tips (usually ends up to be ~$25/hr)
3. What is your highest level of education? Currently in University... just finished 2nd year
4. If your education is associated with your job, do you actually use what you've learned? Nope
5. Do you enjoy what you do? Yes
6. How long have you been doing what you do? Close to a year

1. CSR
2. $23 and change /hr
3. HS
4. n/a
5. Yes
6. 3 months

wow most servers get around 20/h?? i did not know they were that ballin

ya it's a pretty sweet job to have while in school :D. i mean obviously some nights are slow and people are cheap and some nights are busy and people are generous, so it depends... but i keep track of what i make and it usually is around the $24/25/hr range

1. cook at cactus
2. ~14
3.highschool diploma...but i'm gona try to get my bcrpa then hit up vcc for culinary arts.
4. does cafeteria in high school count? haha
5. hells yeah!
6. 1 year and counting

My goal is to become a regional chef. if that doesn't happen then i can always go with personal training since i love both jobs.

yeah some servers make a shit load of money. i guess it always depends which restaurant you work at. when i was at hotel vancouver, servers made atleast ~200 a night depending how busy it gets. also, they're hourly isn't that low either..

hm well that's how much i make hourly hahaha, i don't think i'd make that up

i work at Moxie's, so obviously the more expensive restaurant you work at the higher your tips will be, i'm hoping to go somewhere with a higher price level soon

1. Data Network Engineer
2. more than you can afford pal
3. HS, some College
4. I use my experience more
5. To a degree, i have freedoms and enough power
6. Since Dec 08

FFT

1. What type of job do you do? GIS Tech, (aka glorified data entry)
2. How much do you get paid? 42k a year + full benefits
3. What is your highest level of education? B.SC + bcit diploma
4. If your education is associated with your job, do you actually use what you've learned? kinda, but not really
5. Do you enjoy what you do? HELL YEA, work your ass off for 4 months, slack off for 8
6. How long have you been doing what you do? 9 months

JOB #1

1. Business Manager Fundco XYZ
2. Salary works out to $48.70 based on a 37.5 hour work week but I'm pretty much on call 24/7 Bonus can be large or small (for example this year it's $0) A good year I've seen people do $50k a month extra.
3. Undergraduate Degree, CFP expired, CFA
4. None whatsoever although that's not to say it's easy. Requires a really fast learning curve that's always changing
5. No, I hate it. In fact, because of this I'm going back to school and applying to surgery at UBC med
6. The exact job now about 3 years but the industry for about 7 years.

JOB #2

1. Day trader
2. Enough
3. Same as above
4. In fact education made it harder for me to trade in the beginning
5.Stressful as hell, especially now with a larger account. Try enjoying your weekend when on Friday morning you lost more than some people make in a year. No security at all. You can make a million today, and tomorrow be broke.
6. 4 years with the last 2 being profitable.

shit, where do you work?