What do you do... really...

[Snake]

I intern for an engineering firm around Pittsburgh that designs bulk materials handling equipment.  Most of the work I do involves rotary car dumpers (train pulls up, it grabs a car or two, rotates them 180 degrees to dump contents, then an arm comes down and moves the train forward so it can dump some more cars).  People that already have these things usually want to know if their equipment is capable of handling either longer trains or heavier cars.  So I sit in a cube running this simulation program that is about as exciting as watching paint dry, fill excel spreadsheets with numbers and graphs (which usually freeze since I am nearly FILLING them), then write a report.  Not very exciting work..... I miss working in the body shop at the local chevy dealer. 

Luckily, tomorrow is my last day here since I will be returning to school for one more year.  So this weekend it's a trip to the lake with some friends for my 21st birthday.....hopefully I make it back alive

[Pakhan]

I'm the guy that manages everything concerning a landlord's property portfolio.

[DaniD]

My job stinks becuase I have so little work to do that I can't find ways to occupy my time...I take some online classes so that helps but in general I'm B-O-R-E-D.  If anyone needs an employee and actually has work to do, let me know!!!!!!

[Mother]

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[lucazuma]

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

...now THAT was funny

[lucazuma]

...get to the office in the AM...start with a round of calls...(i call some jbubles, some ash, some erikkshhorde and what not)

then i start receving calls form folks that want me to design a nice home for them in one of the most expensive and complicated places in the country, for a lot more than what they were expecting to spend  ...

visit planners, city attorneys...some clients...a few job sites...

ops! what time is it? oh, ok then...

....but really i coordinate the works of a few dozen really talented professionals in order to make someones dream come true....sometimes its great, sometimes not-so-much

[♣ McKraut ♣]

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.

well, at least it's not an "important" job that you're slacking at, where people are depending on you and stuff.

[DCXCV]

uninterupted.

What does this mean?

I draw lame cookie-cutter houses (floor plans, elevations, electrical and plumbing) and try to make them slightly less lame
Assign work to the engineers and bug them constantly till I get it back
Then I draw up the revisions sales decided were necessary 3 days after the final construction docs were completed and send it all back to the engineer again
Submit drawings to the local municipalities
Explain to city inspectors that the info they just asked for is already on the plan and that since they aren't engineers on the project they don't get to dictate beam sizes, etc.
Deal with any issues that come up in construction because the trade didn't follow the plan or, on rare occassion, because the plan was missing a detail.
Explain to our sales staff how to read plans.
Explain to our site superintendents how to read details.
Work to resolve problems or get new models approved on unrealistic deadlines. (don't bother to explain this to management as they don't get it/don't care)

[♣ McKraut ♣]

What does this mean?

I draw lame cookie-cutter houses (floor plans, elevations, electrical and plumbing) and try to make them slightly less lame

so, you're the guy responsible for all these freaking "human farms" in all the dallas suburbs....can't tell one house from another.  madness.  but they all go apeshit for these places...i don't understand it.

give me a cool little house in a decent neighborhood...built in the 60's or something, with some updates and a little renovation.  character and uniqueness = cool

[ZLTFUL]

Usually about 4:05 am I am awakened by a driver calling to ask if I am the one doing tech support on the new handhelds they use. When I deermine that it isn't a network connectivity issue, I tell them to call the IT manager then I go back to sleep.
Head in to the office at about 7:30am and browse the intrawebs for acouple of hours.
I then sit in on meetings where I get to tell the owners that this great new thing they want to do won't work with our current system or if their idea will work then why it is going o cost so much to implement.
Off to lunch with some of my office coworkers.
Back in to the office, I spend the next hour or two browsing the web and ordering tech equipment of various purposes.
I then complain about the demands made by our temporary receptionist on my time since 99% of all of her stupid assed questions have nothing to do with IT let alone LAN/WAN/T-COM in any way whatsoever.
Then around 5ish I stop by the hospitality room where the owners are schmoozing some local politician where i have my choice of tap or bottled beers in virtually any format imaginable.

[acalles]

I get to work some time between 730 and 8 am

wait for customers to bring in there cars..

pull in car and pretend to work for 15 minuets, then when customers have left, I eat a burrito and drink some coffee.

then, if the work is interesting ($$$) enough, I get motivated to get shit done.

this morning I pulled a cyl head off a jetta, needs guides, valves, cam chain, ect..all due to lack of regular oil changes for 180k miles.

next up, this STINKY hippie's car, smells of rotted pizza and petruly oil.

most of the work though, is in figuring out WTF they're saying is wrong with there car, then trying to explain to them what failed, and why then can't wait in the waiting area while I replace the clutch on their allroad..

[DCXCV]

so, you're the guy responsible for all these freaking "human farms" in all the dallas suburbs....can't tell one house from another.  madness.  but they all go apeshit for these places...i don't understand it.

give me a cool little house in a decent neighborhood...built in the 60's or something, with some updates and a little renovation.  character and uniqueness = cool

I wouldn't say I'm responsible for it - consumers are.  But I'm a cog in the system, sure.  I went to school for architecture - F.L. Wright, Alvar Aalto and, to a lesser degree, Renzo Piano are my biggest infulences.  My job just pays my bills for the moment and it's interesting.

[tonyj311]

I monitor daily trading activity run exciting reports, and read people's emails. Yes, I have the power. I can read other people's emails. note to all of you out there- dont talk about anything  you dont want others to know about on your work email. People read that stuff..

[lucazuma]

Yes, I have the power.

..please elaborate...

[teddy037.2]

I mill around, wishing I could be anywhere but the day job at the day job, and sling booze at the night job.