Poll: How do You Bring Home The Bacon?

[Yuno Gasai]

I take calls from people in urgent need of medical assistance.

(Or at least, that's the theory. Not all calls require urgent medical assistance, but such is life.)

It's challenging, and quite stressful, but in a strange way... I like it.

 

[Talaris]

Well I usually wrap the bacon in a bag and put it in the car boo- oh I see.

I'm an IT engineer for a little eCommerce gifting company called notonthehighstreet.com. Basically managing everything computer related. Probably not my dream job (but then I don't know what is), but I love the company I work for and the pay in Ks is larger than my age, so that's not bad either.

 

[Lucem712]

I'm a professional body show-off

....

Ok, I'm a lifeguard. But the two are one and the same in the proper context!

Although, I don't start until May, so where's MY UNEMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS!?

Now we need a 'Bay Watch'-esque video of you running at the pool/beach/lake you work at.

 

[PsychicTaco115]

Now we need a 'Bay Watch'-esque video of you running at the pool/beach/lake you work at.

With my luck, I'd probably slip and break both my legs... and then drown in the pool

Doesn't mean I won't try, though!

 

[Lucem712]

Now we need a 'Bay Watch'-esque video of you running at the pool/beach/lake you work at.

With my luck, I'd probably slip and break both my legs... and then drown in the pool

Doesn't mean I won't try, though!

The pool requires a blood sacrifice and your meddling by saving these people has brought on your reckoning D:

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

Currently, I'm just above being a hobo, but with less income.

You too, huh? I'm currently paying for the privilege of completing an internship. Ah, teaching. The only profession I know of which not only requires an un-paid internship as the final step before completing the degree, but actually requires /you/ to pay for the privilege of filling a full time teaching position for three months.

Really rewarding work, though. Can't wait to finish the internship and actually start making money for doing this.

 

[The Hero Killer]

I mistakenly went to college and got a BA in Criminal Justice. Now I work in security, trying to save up money to head back to school for a IT degree.

 

[PsychicTaco115]

The pool requires a blood sacrifice and your meddling by saving these people has brought on your reckoning D:

I knew the risks when I signed up...

NEVER ADMIT DEFEAT TO A PAGAN POOL GOD!

 

[Tiger King]

I work in engineering, my roles include welding and fabricating, machining, composite laminating etc.
I've worked in areas such as aviation,marine and green energy.
currently the company I work for is focused on tidal energy.
so yeah I'm literally single handedly saving the planet from global warming
(some of us in the uk want it to get warmer!!)

but usually if I want bacon I go to the shops and buy it.

 

[Commissar Sae]

I'm a student who is currently working full time as a teacher. However since this is officially field experience and part of my education towards getting that degree in education I am in fact paying to work full time as a high school teacher. I keep telling myself one more month and I can actually get a job but right now it kinda sucks. Thankfully I have a bit of a bursary helping me pay rent and buy food but the income is really tight.

Catcha: You the man!

Well thank you captcha, moral support is much appreciated.

 

[Commissar Sae]

Currently, I'm just above being a hobo, but with less income.

You too, huh? I'm currently paying for the privilege of completing an internship. Ah, teaching. The only profession I know of which not only requires an un-paid internship as the final step before completing the degree, but actually requires /you/ to pay for the privilege of filling a full time teaching position for three months.

Really rewarding work, though. Can't wait to finish the internship and actually start making money for doing this.

Count yourself lucky, here the internship actually lasts 6 months...

 

[Diddy_Mao]

My 9 -5 daily grind is a mixture of data verification and entry for mail order medical devices. I also do a lot of regression testing on the software developed for internal use by the company.
(NDA's forbid me from being more specific sorry.)


I also do a lot of freelance cartooning and commission work at local conventions once or twice a year.
The rest of my freelance income is from designing tattoos.

Lastly, on very rare occasions I'll take commissions to assemble and paint Wargaming minis.
But that's such a time sink and requires too much interaction with the client to be worth my time.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

Currently, I'm just above being a hobo, but with less income.

You too, huh? I'm currently paying for the privilege of completing an internship. Ah, teaching. The only profession I know of which not only requires an un-paid internship as the final step before completing the degree, but actually requires /you/ to pay for the privilege of filling a full time teaching position for three months.

Really rewarding work, though. Can't wait to finish the internship and actually start making money for doing this.

Count yourself lucky, here the internship actually lasts 6 months...

Do you have year round schools there, though? The internship lasts for four months here, three of which you're supposed to be teaching full time (the first and last two weeks are supposed to be spent easing you in and then back out of the position, with your cooperating instructor being the regular teacher.) It's basically a whole semester minus the last couple weeks, which is because the colleges are on a 16 week semester, while the high schools are on 18 week semesters. Thing is, if you do it in the Spring, Summer vacation starts up right afterwards, which means there's three months of no school and no work for teachers. If you start in the fall, the Spring semester starts up a little under a month later, at which point you'll probably still have to wait until the following Fall to start work, barring a teacher being removed or getting too sick to work half way through the year and you getting lucky enough to take their position.

Point being, it's still a good 6+ months from starting the internship to starting work, America just puts most of their time off from school in one big block.

 

[Lucem712]

The pool requires a blood sacrifice and your meddling by saving these people has brought on your reckoning D:

I knew the risks when I signed up...

NEVER ADMIT DEFEAT TO A PAGAN POOL GOD!

You can take my water wings, but you can never take my scuba equipment!

 

[Commissar Sae]

Currently, I'm just above being a hobo, but with less income.

You too, huh? I'm currently paying for the privilege of completing an internship. Ah, teaching. The only profession I know of which not only requires an un-paid internship as the final step before completing the degree, but actually requires /you/ to pay for the privilege of filling a full time teaching position for three months.

Really rewarding work, though. Can't wait to finish the internship and actually start making money for doing this.

Count yourself lucky, here the internship actually lasts 6 months...

Do you have year round schools there, though? The internship lasts for four months here, three of which you're supposed to be teaching full time (the first and last two weeks are supposed to be spent easing you in and then back out of the position, with your cooperating instructor being the regular teacher.) It's basically a whole semester minus the last couple weeks, which is because the colleges are on a 16 week semester, while the high schools are on 18 week semesters. Thing is, if you do it in the Spring, Summer vacation starts up right afterwards, which means there's three months of no school and no work for teachers. If you start in the fall, the Spring semester starts up a little under a month later, at which point you'll probably still have to wait until the following Fall to start work, barring a teacher being removed or getting too sick to work half way through the year and you getting lucky enough to take their position.

Point being, it's still a good 6+ months from starting the internship to starting work, America just puts most of their time off from school in one big block.

To be qualified as a teacher here in Quebec, Canada I need to do a 4 years degree. I already have a degree in History so I'm cramming the program into 2 years. But it means that my first and second semesters I had two three week internships (the first one mostly observing.) This year though I've had one 17 week internship and I am now on the fourth week of a seven week internship. Upside is I will have certification by the fall and be able to actually teach. But it will still be a solid 3 summer months before I can get a real job in the field.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

Currently, I'm just above being a hobo, but with less income.

You too, huh? I'm currently paying for the privilege of completing an internship. Ah, teaching. The only profession I know of which not only requires an un-paid internship as the final step before completing the degree, but actually requires /you/ to pay for the privilege of filling a full time teaching position for three months.

Really rewarding work, though. Can't wait to finish the internship and actually start making money for doing this.

Count yourself lucky, here the internship actually lasts 6 months...

Do you have year round schools there, though? The internship lasts for four months here, three of which you're supposed to be teaching full time (the first and last two weeks are supposed to be spent easing you in and then back out of the position, with your cooperating instructor being the regular teacher.) It's basically a whole semester minus the last couple weeks, which is because the colleges are on a 16 week semester, while the high schools are on 18 week semesters. Thing is, if you do it in the Spring, Summer vacation starts up right afterwards, which means there's three months of no school and no work for teachers. If you start in the fall, the Spring semester starts up a little under a month later, at which point you'll probably still have to wait until the following Fall to start work, barring a teacher being removed or getting too sick to work half way through the year and you getting lucky enough to take their position.

Point being, it's still a good 6+ months from starting the internship to starting work, America just puts most of their time off from school in one big block.

To be qualified as a teacher here in Quebec, Canada I need to do a 4 years degree. I already have a degree in History so I'm cramming the program into 2 years. But it means that my first and second semesters I had two three week internships (the first one mostly observing.) This year though I've had one 17 week internship and I am now on the fourth week of a seven week internship. Upside is I will have certification by the fall and be able to actually teach. But it will still be a solid 3 summer months before I can get a real job in the field.

Oh, so it's six months total then? That's not too different from how it is in the US. It's different in every state (although you do need at least a four year degree everywhere), but here in Florida, it works out to a certain number of hours of observation in your first three years, a certain number of one off classes taught by you in the Fall of your Senior year, and then the entirety of the Spring semester is an internship. Or at least that's how it works for an education degree -- there are alternate certification options for people with an existing degree.

Funny coincidence, by the way, my degree is in secondary social science ed, and I intend to use it to teach History. I even minored in History, and I'm teaching US history in my internship. I'd like to do either high school history or middle school Geography, but I'd be happy in pretty much any social science position aside from economics. I really hate economics.

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

I'm a Fleet Performance Management Consultant.

And yes, that job is exactly as exciting as it sounds.

 

[Commissar Sae]

Oh, so it's six months total then? That's not too different from how it is in the US. It's different in every state (although you do need at least a four year degree everywhere), but here in Florida, it works out to a certain number of hours of observation in your first three years, a certain number of one off classes taught by you in the Fall of your Senior year, and then the entirety of the Spring semester is an internship. Or at least that's how it works for an education degree -- there are alternate certification options for people with an existing degree.

Funny coincidence, by the way, my degree is in secondary social science ed, and I intend to use it to teach History. I even minored in History, and I'm teaching US history in my internship. I'd like to do either high school history or middle school Geography, but I'd be happy in pretty much any social science position aside from economics. I really hate economics.

Yeah same with me, I actually would prefer a junior level history class because their curriculum is so much more interesting here. The Grade 10 curriculum I am teaching right now is pretty godawful. They also have me teaching a senior philosophy class that I really am not qualified for but hey, whatever.

Edit: Oh, but because I'm doing it sped up It pretty much means that I have been working in schools since September, had a month off for summer but that is all.

Mind you education is pretty different here than the states, since we only have 5 years of high school, no middle school and a CEGEP system which is kind of a bridge between high school and University.

 

[RaeveSpam]

I'm a full time student, but I live in Denmark where the education is free and the government pays you for educating yourself so you can focus on your education. So I bring the bacon home, in vast quantities, by studying

 

[00slash00]

well i should be building sets for theatre, but instead i sold out and build sets for corporate conferences and parties. my college self would kick my ass if she could see me now. but i make in about a day and a half working here, than i did in a whole week in theatre. plus, being a vegetarian means i save a ton of money on bacon