What do you do... really...

[Big Troubled Bear]

Spend most of my day making stickers and fitting it to vehicles, in between I stuff around on the internet

[Gator]

In a nutshell (leaving out all the negative stuff), I help my clients become better communicators.

[CairnsDuc]

I run a photo lab which means:

Maintain machine (1/2 hour job stretched to 2 hours, once a week)
Surf web for hours at a time (Can't print Photo's all the time)
Being next to the main entrance, I gawk at the good looking Woman passing through.
Stare Outside and watch the world go by. (Or stare at my Bike which is by the Entrance)
Wander around the Store like a lost child and annoy the other staff.

And print the odd photo from time to time. 

[the_Journeyman]

I teach 6th graders how to type properly & how to use word processing software.  Then I teach 7th & 8th graders basic computers skills related to word processing, spreadsheets, databases & multimedia software.  I also answer my phone at 4:30AM when bus drivers call & drive for a source of easy extra money ~

JM

[ducpainter]

I send free shit to ducpainter.

and he's really good at it too. 

[TiNi]

i'm an art director at a design studio,
lately i've been doing that, and managing production and creative.

i spend most of the day on a computer...
doing research, comps, presentations, mechanicals, fixing the designer's digital files, retouching...

the rest of the day is in meetings, or the phone with vendors

i have more goof-off time in the summer 

[Big Troubled Bear]

fixing the designer's digital files, retouching...

Why does that sound so familiar

[♣ McKraut ♣]

i'm in your bankruptcy court, ruining your life!   

[ducati_tim]

I spend 4-8 hours a day in meetings with marketing, sales and business operations people. The rest of my day is spent trying to figure out how to build systems that support their conflicting needs.

[Le Pirate]

i'm in your bankruptcy court, ruining your life!   

[NuTTs]

2 Weeks of:

0700 wake up
0730 ride to work
0800 open the office and start ploughing through  all that went kaput overnight and prepare site visits for engineers
0900 the gang shows up, get their jobs assigned, there's that 30min pause for everyone to get their butts in gear
0930 team breakfast
1000 off to visit customers
1400 lunch time
1500 back to work
1700 go home

6 Weeks of the same but starting work at 0900 and finishing at 1800

There are lots of out of hours customer visits etc apart from this.. it's a great job. It's normally very quiet from July - September, rest of the year is hell.

We're a team of 5 field service engineers
working for Bloomberg in Madrid and we cover the whole of the Iberian peninsula except Portugal (there's another team there).. so we're quite busy. Anything from teaching a user how to use a biometric
sensor, replacing equipment (kbds, double screens, pcs, routers), installing and configuring (sometimes) network kit, supporting our news bureau and tv sets at the stock exhange, organizing and setting up conferences, managing stock logistics and maintain our node site. Lots of stuff to do!

[ducati_tim]

2 Weeks of:

0700 wake up
0730 ride to work
0800 open the office and start ploughing through  all that went kaput overnight and prepare site visits for engineers
0900 the gang shows up, get their jobs assigned, there's that 30min pause for everyone to get their butts in gear
0930 team breakfast
1000 off to visit customers
1400 lunch time
1500 back to work
1700 go home

6 Weeks of the same but starting work at 0900 and finishing at 1800

There are lots of out of hours customer visits etc apart from this.. it's a great job. It's normally very quiet from July - September, rest of the year is hell.

We're a team of 5 field service engineers
working for Bloomberg in Madrid and we cover the whole of the Iberian peninsula except Portugal (there's another team there).. so we're quite busy. Anything from teaching a user how to use a biometric
sensor, replacing equipment (kbds, double screens, pcs, routers), installing and configuring (sometimes) network kit, supporting our news bureau and tv sets at the stock exhange, organizing and setting up conferences, managing stock logistics and maintain our node site. Lots of stuff to do!

What happened to siesta? What good is it living in Madrid without siesta? 

[cmorgan47]

i used to code.

now i:

write technical documents
review technical documents
assign technical documents to coders
review code written from technical documents
prepare for meetings
attend meetings
write and distribute minutes from the meetings


come in about 15 minutes late and use the side door so that lumburg doesn't notice, then i zone out for about an hour.... after lunch i zone out for about another hour.....

in any given week, i get about 15 minutes of real work done.

[Desmo Demon]

I surf motorcycle forums on the Internet and take online classes at the University of Phoenix.....

What I'm really supposed to be doing is calibrating various analyzers and providing emissions data for R&D testing of gas turbine combustors that are used in turbines that create electricity for municipalities.

[Porsche Monkey]

I am one of two master certified Porsche techs in San Antonio. I am supposed to fix and maintain Porsches. I get to do a little of that but I also bail out the service writer when he gets in a jam, help the parts department look up parts, consult with customers in person or by phone, help the other techs or fix their problems, and lately I've been training an apprentice. Every once in a while I will actually get to work on a car uninterupted.