Who here doesn't have a job?

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Originally Posted by ThePatriarch

If you can get any IT Experience, albeit even if it is home networking.

A+ certitications. And ANY Cisco experience (Working towards a CCNA is +++++ when I look at hiring someone)

Every company (almost) needs an IT person on staff just as an insurance policy. Honestly, its mostly fixing printers, doing preventive maintenence on all employee consoles, basic PC/MAC troubleshooting, etc. Alot of Port Switching/Patching, etc.

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I am currently trying to get something in 1st line support just to get the exp for now, and if friends or family have problems I fix thier PCs, my degree included CCNA and server 2008 work, but I havent been able to get that because when your a student/unemployed £100 is alot of money, I know it will help alot but I just can't afford it. I could probably get CCNA and MCP but I need the money first, hate these cycles.

I think that it will become eaiser when the economy recovers, but I can't wait that long lol.

I'm a Secret Agent Cowboy Astronaut Millionaire.

Also, on the weekends, I work part time as a Shark Wrangler. It's a tough job, but someone's gotta do it.

In reality, I'm a self employed carpenter. I also do tree work when I don't have any big jobs lined up.

None of us do, they aren't out til the 9th.

I'm glad this thread turned out the way it did, hopefully doesn't get closed before certain other threads do.

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Originally Posted by Relic

OP asked who doesn't have a job and the majority of responses are from people talking about what they do for a living.... Reading comprehension fail.

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Don't beat yourself up over the comprehension fail. You were only reading the title question and not the part where the OP volunteers his own employment status.

I really like this thread, and its nice we have such a diverse community, and not aload of 12 year olds asking how to do their maths homework.

Please don't lock this its a nice thread.

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I have a job, and can't play XIV at it.. However, I have had plenty of jobs before where I can bring a laptop w/ my game loaded on it and login and hang out crafting/chatting all day while working from my desk (guess that's the biggest difference between being a Programmer and a Sys-Admin)...

I am a stay at home mommy (thanks to my wonderful husband <3)but believe me time to sit and play is laughable :P
I would -love- to make money writing songs! how do you get the foot in the door? Been writing them since I was seven and im always making up silly ones about my kids.

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I have a job, and can't play XIV at it.. However, I have had plenty of jobs before where I can bring a laptop w/ my game loaded on it and login and hang out crafting/chatting all day while working from my desk (guess that's the biggest difference between being a Programmer and a Sys-Admin)...

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Programmers= Code all day.
Sys-Admin=Chill out all day until there is something to change, fix or improve.

im a male stripper, looking forward to get dancer job in XIV :D

Since I've posted, I'll put me own chips in.

My job is...

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No it's not, spy!

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But I didn't even...

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(ಠ益ಠ) *looking at you*

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But I'm not affiliated with...

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(ಠ益ಠ) *also looking at you*

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You're so fluffy!!!

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(ﾉ `Д´)ﾉ ~┻━┻ *crash* I've had it! Please let me change my avatar!

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You want to change it? ლ\(`Д`) - かっかてこい！

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ლ\(ಠ益ಠ)\ლ) Fight me you beast from H!

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And that's what I do. All day. Everyday, except on leap years.

I may also:
I work with individuals with disabilities on the software-side of the spectrum. Commuting between clients, peruse forums on my phone, then get to not-the-workplace-location, and where I may slip in a couple hours of staring at my inventory and craft recipes, then do nothing.

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Originally Posted by Signy

Programmers= Code all day.
Sys-Admin=Chill out all day until there is something to change, fix or improve.

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Why do you think I want a job in networking :D

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Originally Posted by elreed

im a male stripper, looking forward to get dancer job in XIV :D

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*tips you one of Gath's gils*

Start with the reindeer costume.

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Why do you think I want a job in networking :D

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lol, i think a few times of going to that area. But well for now i didn't have the pleasure.

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Originally Posted by Kyri

I would -love- to make money writing songs! how do you get the foot in the door? Been writing them since I was seven and im always making up silly ones about my kids.

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i suppose there are a few ways to go about it. By a general rule i remind myself that there are the 'Red Hot Chili Peppers/U2 etc bands', and then there are the 100,000 other bands in the world you've never heard of that manage to feed themselves. Every night of the week in every city in the world there are bars all over town paying someone to play music, but most of us have never heard of any of them.

here's an example of one that's from my town.
they've obviously made it to the next step just this last year and are beyond where our band is at,
but chances are you've never heard of them, even if you're into the genre.
http://www.borealismetal.com

At least that's the way i'm approaching it. Dedicated networking and band members can be enough to scrape by over time, like i said, 13k a year is what i live on. Obviously, if i wanted kids, or to buy a house, or lease a car, or get the big digital cable package or go on a boat cruise forget it. I rent in the less expensive locations available, i ride a simple $1,000 moterbike, drink water instead of pops and juices, don't bother much with TV, and have no savings to speak of, but i don't have any debt really either, so the $5,000 i have that i COULD have on my credit cards are a kind of emergency buffer. So i'm left at the end of the day with mostly all the time in the week to be a dedicated band member and artist. But i couldn't have those other frills.

I guess the hope is that as a band, we succeed more than we fail in the future, but that's where my list is useful. Who says i don't one day have kids or something. I don't know... so i do my research ahead of time to know (at least as best as one can...) exactly how i go about getting a job like taxi driver, tech support worker, electrician etc should things change.

For a solo artist though, i have done some of that but it's not my main focus. The best bet i think is to invest properly in quality synthesising/recording software for your computer. That doesn't have to be ridiculously expensive depending on what you want to do. I started with Reason, but i've found Native Instruments to be an amazing piece as well. Some people will get a keyboard and plug it into their computer so you can play with your hands what you want to write instead of doing so on the screen etc. Some people buy the whole set drums/guitar/bass and record each one live. There's all kinds of things you could do.

That's as far as i've gone personally on that side, but the next step would be to take your finished tracks and sell them online with iTunes or some other program of choice. Then of course finding people to buy your tracks depends on the quality of the tracks/website design/time you are willing to put into networking (eg: clicking send friend request button on social networking site).

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Originally Posted by NefarioCall

i suppose there are a few ways to go about it. By a general rule i remind myself that there are the 'Red Hot Chili Peppers/U2 etc bands', and then there are the 100,000 other bands in the world you've never heard of that manage to feed themselves. Every night of the week in every city in the world there are bars all over town paying someone to play music, but most of us have never heard of any of them.

here's an example of one that's from my town.
they've obviously made it to the next step just this last year and are beyond where our band is at,
but chances are you've never heard of them, even if you're into the genre.
http://www.borealismetal.com

At least that's the way i'm approaching it. Dedicated networking and band members can be enough to scrape by over time, like i said, 13k a year is what i live on. Obviously, if i wanted kids, or to buy a house, or lease a car, or get the big digital cable package or go on a boat cruise forget it. I rent in the less expensive locations available, i ride a simple $1,000 moterbike, drink water instead of pops and juices, don't bother much with TV, and have no savings to speak of, but i don't have any debt really either, so the $5,000 i have that i COULD have on my credit cards are a kind of emergency buffer. So i'm left at the end of the day with mostly all the time in the week to be a dedicated band member and artist. But i couldn't have those other frills.

I guess the hope is that as a band, we succeed more than we fail in the future, but that's where my list is useful. Who says i don't one day have kids or something. I don't know... so i do my research ahead of time to know (at least as best as one can...) exactly how i go about getting a job like taxi driver, tech support worker, electrician etc should things change.

For a solo artist though, i have done some of that but it's not my main focus. The best bet i think is to invest properly in quality synthesising/recording software for your computer. That doesn't have to be ridiculously expensive depending on what you want to do. I started with Reason, but i've found Native Instruments to be an amazing piece as well. Some people will get a keyboard and plug it into their computer so you can play with your hands what you want to write instead of doing so on the screen etc. Some people buy the whole set drums/guitar/bass and record each one live. There's all kinds of things you could do.

That's as far as i've gone personally on that side, but the next step would be to take your finished tracks and sell them online with iTunes or some other program of choice. Then of course finding people to buy your tracks depends on the quality of the tracks/website design/time you are willing to put into networking (eg: clicking send friend request button on social networking site).

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I would strongly suggest REAPER for a good DAW. It's what I use. It's on par with $500 DAWs like Logic, which my brother prefers, but at a fraction of the cost ($60 for personal and about $225 for professional use) and comes with a unlimited free trial. Takes about 40 seconds to download and start using.

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I would strongly suggest REAPER for a good DAW. It's what I use. It's on par with $500 DAWs like Logic, which my brother prefers, but at a fraction of the cost ($60 for personal and about $225 for professional use) and comes with a unlimited free trial. Takes about 40 seconds to download and start using.

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Thanks for the heads up on REAPER.

Oooh I like where this conversation has gone and is going!

This thread is fun! ^_^

I remember months ago when I saw a frog sitting on a rock in the middle of one of the streams outside Gridania.. I have a picture of it somewhere. ^_^
Thank you for posting a pic of that owl! I hadn't seen it yet!
And the butterflies that flutter past your face while crafting in Gridania are always nice...
It's the little things that make me smile.

I quit my job 3 years ago (worked in production control of a major market news station.. STRESS!).
Now I teach yoga.. usually for free. So I guess technically I am unemployed. :p
(my students like to stuff cash in my backpack at the end of class, though lol /blush)

Full-time IT student, but over the summer I work as an Info Sys. tech 8 hours/day 5-6 days a week. That said, I usually play in spurts. I'll have a period of weeks where I'll neglect my classes and play all day (usually right after a patch, for obvious reasons), and then I'll start playing much less and I usually will only login for linkshell events a few times a week.

Working at wal-mart part-time, but looking to become a full-time student of Chuck Norris. currently a mauy Thai mma cage fighteR bOxer bLack beLt wwe wrestler for nascar on the side.

I was made redundant just before Christmas @_@ So I am a job seeker, but my fiance works (and plays FFXIV with me).
I have a little freelancer work atm for come card art commissions ^_^ so I get $50/pic for that so yay!
My DA is http://gaias-nique.deviantart.com/gallery/

Yay!

I had a job. I forgot what its like to work, been unemployed for 3 years. I spend most of my time playing FFXIV. that is when im not changing diapers, feeding the kids, making sure my 2 y/o isnt using our 5 month old as a punching bag, dishes are done, laundry is folded, disciplining the 14 y/o, and playing piano to keep myself sane.

I never thought in a million years I would be a stay at home father. apparently i do pretty good at it. but I would definitely admit I would rather work. but aint no one else going to raise our kids and ill be damned if I let TV raise the kids.

And yes I agree that the final fantasy culture breeds a different type of MMOer. most seem pretty responsible. most are older because the game style i think is more for an older target audience. not to mention all of us that were 10 when it was first released on nintendo are now 30. but final fantasy itself has a really upscale player base because the games over the years have attracted a much more upscale player due to its difficulty and music (the piano collections are what has kept me a FF follower)

PS I plan on attempting to open my own business. everyone loves coffee shops and there is not one in this city.... wish me luck.

PSS I am a FF whore. and I think most of you are as well =P (after all we are all paying for the "promise" of a complete game)

Ironically, the thread almost made me late for work..

I work full-time at a veterinary clinic while studying to become a veterinary nurse. I'll be done in october, and hopefully I'll still have a job when 2.0 arrives.

I like this thread myself its refreshing to see the personal side of all the "toons" running around killing and fighting and crafting out there in the world.

I myself am unemployed but its by choice; 4 years ago my gram got sick and been taking care of her since then. I miss working and some days feel like a prisoner in the house (cant leave she is paralyzed and a amputee) so I get to play FF a lot when not caring for her (when she is sleeping).

Use to be a process server so in these hard times money was actually good (serve legal documents like divorce orders, TRO's, eviction, and foreclosure notices)

work full time building registration websites for usually CME seminars I spend 90% of my day trolling these forums.

I'm working full time as a calculator/key account manager at my company...

I haven't played the game for half a year cause of this, now I've been back for around 1 1/2 weeks and I play whenever I can/want to, but definetely not as much as I did when I had my old part time job, which gave me a lot of time to play.

Back then I've been among the first 30 ranked players on my server on FFXIVPro etc...now after half a year not playing I'm still at late 200s...which is kinda sad...not playing half a year and this is how many people got "ahead" of me? Another indicator that most people are either working or don't wanna play the game, cause there should have been a lot more players getting ahead of me in half a year of time xD

I'm planning world domination but I certainly can't give up on my mindless entertainment.

I'm also working on some flash games because I need the monies to buy crysta and pay for drugs.

I'm justin Beiber.

Working full time freight forwarding business also time to time doing graphic designing, photography, website development, data entry, concert/stage setup, audio management... + got 2 kids and wife

Still doesn't make enough money... /sigh something is wrong with this world... or at least my world...

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Working full time freight forwarding business also time to time doing graphic designing, photography, website development, data entry, concert/stage setup, audio management... + got 2 kids and wife

Still doesn't make enough money... /sigh something is wrong with this world... or at least my world...

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Ahhhh the people who overcharge me the most :P

<-------pineapple importer lol

Currently do data entry for an electric company for a year now. Before that, with the same company, I was out reading electric meters at buildings and homes for about 6 years. It was nice driving all over the place and walking all over neighborhoods. Meet some nice people. Although I had one odd moment walking into a backyard to read a meter, I announced myself, then met the owner who was nude sun bathing. It was weirder when he tried having a conversation with me. Golden tan and all. o_O

Took the office job because the company was getting ready to use automated meters, so there'd be no use for meter readers soon.

*Serdapi tags thread "Fiosha being creepy"*

Fine... I'll show you creepy, my little internet beau. You'll see why Jadi likes my blogs.

Hidden box begin.

Down visiting a friend in good ol' KCMO, having just come back from Afghanistan in February. Friend goes to faith-based event on Sunday evening, I naturally go with him. Jon Shirley is a wonderful speaker. Afterwards, hanging out with some of the guys and my friend gets asked by a certain guy (you) what he's using for his cable provider. Friend tells him he doesn't really have anything and that guy hooks him up with a family and friends' discount, says he works there.

I ask him, what he does, says he gotz some mad video editing skillz at said telecommunications company and occasionally helps out with videos for the Sunday folks. I'm like, "Oh that's pretty nice!" I honestly don't know how the topic of games comes up, but the video editor mentions he played Final Fantasy online. He corrected my grammar a few times, but I thought nothing of it... at first. I asked him his server and character name, he mentioned something like Spec Trox (I didn't know the spelling yet).

At the airport while waiting for my flight, I did a lodestone search for Spec Trox, but I didn't know how to spell it then so nothing came up. Thought nothing of it. Next week, I'm posting on the server for role-playing topic and notice someone picking on the grammar. I see the name. And then it hits me, oh my gawd, it's that video producer guy from the cable company. Awkward sauce. But he helps out with faith-based events, so maybe he's secretly a good guy? But alas, could not be persuaded, I had to block him.

Then I noticed people who were blocked and quoted were still trying to respond to me. I learned that blocked people can still see my posts and now I can't see there's (easily).

I tried to call you by name in the Non RP'ers thread to make you stop. Then Bahamut censored my post for violating TOS.

Anyhew... DUDE! Next time I'm in KCMO, let's grab a bite to eat at the Big City Hot Dogs and talk about how awkward this is. And maybe you can explain how Charlie Chat works.

/creepy

There. The tag is now true.

May be a topic of interest to the wave of folks that'll be hanging around during patch download / maintenance.

I work full time for a up and coming loose leaf tea company here in the uk (potential puns). I pretty much do what ever is needed really, data input, setting up systems, contacting suppliers, managing stock, packing tea, supporting other staff members, looking after the website, web customers and orders, you get the gist. I really like it though as no two days are the same and I've got a great boss (rightly dubbed Mega Boss). Would love to do something with computers though so I'm currently looking into part time college courses.

I've just started using the forums as well because of this thread. Having lurked for a while it was really nice to see such a friendly welcoming thread on the forum so hello all!

Graphic Artist at a sign shop.

I make signs.