What do you do for a living?

[scarmullet]

I am a porn star.

[Deadpool]

I am a porn star.

is that you red power ranger?

[Dr.Agon]

i work on fire resistant paints and varnishes.

[scarmullet]

I am a porn star.

is that you red power ranger?

No, I am the pink ranger..teehee

[Forte]

Government Agent for the US Department of Defense, position classified

Do aliens exist?

Not my area of expertise. I'm more into investigation of money, not extraterrestrial life. But perhaps I've said too much...

[palmer6strings]

I'm a powerplant operator for a town I don't even live in for a company that I don't even get my utilities from ha ha. I make sure that people have a constant flow of electricity and I also get to control the water pressure for there houses. I also take some really dumb phonecalls.

As people like to say, I sit around and do nothing all day. Which is kind of true. I play a lot of videogames, watch movies, and fix stuff while at work a lot.

But I'm not paid for what I do, I'm paid for what I know how to do.

All in all I make good money.

[wiggy]

Forte IS an alien. I've got pics to prove it


I guess most of you sorta know what I do. Degree in Industrial Design with a minor in Graphic Design and Ceramics. I own a little design firm of one, Wiggy Design, LLC. I have some of my own products that I sell and am always working on new ideas. 

I worked outside the house for a few years after graduation, and then the job market got really shitty plus my health was sorta giving me troubles, so I just started working from home on m own stuff instead. It ain't easy, I'll tell you that much.  It also sucks taking on 100% of the risk when making some sort of investment in the company. But I enjoy it

[scarmullet]

To elaborate on what I said before on being an entrepreneur. I am a small time video game reseller. I pick games up cheap and sell them for profit. I know what I do gets alot of hate around here, but I am slowly building up a proper business where I have a brick and mortar store and an accompanying website and I get bought out by gamestop.....shit.

I was thinking once I get my store going and I have some dough, start up a development studio, and since I don't know how to program, do what ENIX did back in the 80s and hold a competition to find programmers.

[wiggy]

Scarm (I always read your name as 'scarm-you-let' for some reason), you won't ever catch me hating. I don't get why that bothers folks so much. I mean we ALL buy 2nd hand in brick and mortar shops as well as online on amazon, eBay, etc.  It's no different.  And while I'm sure that there are folks here that haven't, I'm willing to bet that about 90% of us have purchased something at a killer price with the sole intention of selling it at a *GASP* profit.  There's really nothing wrong with that at all.  In fact, it's one of the great things about the free world

[SirCorn]

I certainly don't hate on flipping games for a little coin. Found a copy of .hack//Quarantine sitting in a plastic tub that my friend's stepdad's repo business got a hold of. Didn't mind putting that on eBay.

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I am a music teacher. I work at a studio/LLC in town giving music lessons and am working with a homeschool band program. I also gig 2-3 times a week and am in a band that I have no idea how long will last, haha. It's fun though. Can't say I'm making a killing, but I am living 'the dream' so to speak.

[Brandon]

I am a Sales Associate in the Electronics department at my local *cough couch cough*- Mart.

You have my sympathy. With few exceptions, the people who work in that section are not too helpful. I don't know how many times I've asked them to go check for something in the back, and they won't because the computer says its out of stock.

Oh, the computer is almost Always right when it says an item is out of stock.  What it is usually wrong about is when it says we have an item In Stock.  I always have to check to make sure on that.

[shenske]

I'm an Assistant Manager Store Manager at GameStore***

I LOVE MY JOB  

[madrocsz]

I suppose there are two types of resellers, one that many are ok with and those that deserve to die in a fire.

Good Reseller - Goes out looking for deals, mostly older stuff to buy cheap and flip for money, most times to fund their own collection or help pay bills, it's not their fault they know what to look for and take advantage of this. They went out of their way to do it, their reward

Bad Reseller - Those that find loopholes in pricing systems, find something on sale, or even the new popular thing to buy up preorders and sell them for 3x as much. Those that go to a store and buy up every copy of something they have and resell for more. This happens more with new products than used. The loophole is fine, but leave nothing for those who want in on the deal, maybe for their collection etc. See "El Hoardo" on cheapassgamer for example Not everyone has expendable income like that to even compete.

Now sure, you could argue they are both the same thing but in reality its two different types of product they look for. Good reseller may find something for cheap but sells it for going price, bad reseller gets something so no one else can and inflates the price. However at the end of it all, its the way the world works

[Moviefan2k4]

Oh, the computer is almost Always right when it says an item is out of stock.  What it is usually wrong about is when it says we have an item In Stock.  I always have to check to make sure on that.

Well, there's been several times when customer service reps have actually checked the back for me, and found what I wanted, even though the computer says otherwise. The problem I've most had is getting them to see for themselves in the first place.

[tbonesteak4dinner]

I suppose there are two types of resellers, one that many are ok with and those that deserve to die in a fire.

Good Reseller - Goes out looking for deals, mostly older stuff to buy cheap and flip for money, most times to fund their own collection or help pay bills, it's not their fault they know what to look for and take advantage of this. They went out of their way to do it, their reward

Bad Reseller - Those that find loopholes in pricing systems, find something on sale, or even the new popular thing to buy up preorders and sell them for 3x as much. Those that go to a store and buy up every copy of something they have and resell for more. This happens more with new products than used. The loophole is fine, but leave nothing for those who want in on the deal, maybe for their collection etc. See "El Hoardo" on cheapassgamer for example Not everyone has expendable income like that to even compete.

Now sure, you could argue they are both the same thing but in reality its two different types of product they look for. Good reseller may find something for cheap but sells it for going price, bad reseller gets something so no one else can and inflates the price. However at the end of it all, its the way the world works

Your bad reseller sounds like a smart cookie to me. We're not talking about food and necessities here, we're talking about games and entertainment. Now, if this "bad reseller" went to all the regional super markets and bought out all of the food for weeks and sold it in a small stand in the parking lot at 3x the price then I'd say he was an asshole and depriving people of a necessity. But since we're talking about a guy who's buying a reselling video games, I really have to blame the people who are actually supporting him and buying the stuff. They're the ones to blame. If there wasn't demand for this sort of thing, then no one would even be interested in buying all those systems and games to sell like that.

I don't have the money to do this, and nor do I look at collecting that way. Personally, I hand pick everything I buy and only resell the extras I get from large lots, but I really can't blame that guy for being able to make some money in an environment where absolutely nobody gets hurt by it. The people who buy from him obviously have the serious money needed to do so, and everyone else just has to wait a little longer, or just pre-order the game from a more fair source like Amazon or Gamestop. I really don't see a problem here...