What do you do?

[loc978]

I intimidate people by being obviously armed and very alert. Used to kill people (and drive big trucks, replace disposable modular components on aircraft, clean out basements, scrub rocks, yell at other people who also did all of those previous things for a living...). That's a step up, right?

I mean, I'm good at building stuff, but not so as an automated manufacturing site would notice. I'm good at fixing stuff, but one doesn't need to be to replace disposable modular components... and that doesn't pay worth a shit.

That cracked article reminded me of a line from a Pierce Brosnan Bond film, for some reason... "You're a dinosaur, James."

Also, I took a very different lesson from Glengarry Glen Ross than that author did... sales is one fucked up bloated business that really needs to calm the fuck down. I blame cocaine and theoretical money. If all of society was really like that, I'd say fuck society and live off the land. Thankfully, not all of it is... just the worst parts of it. The ones that need to die. Now excuse me while I go back to milling another disposable smoothbore barrel for a Glock... [sub]I kid, I kid...[/sub]

 

[Happiness Assassin]

Absolutely nothing. I am serious. Due to some recent health problems I had to drop out of school and move back in with my parents, leaving me all the time in the world to do nothing.

And I fucking hate it.

I used to think that doing nothing all day would be amazing, until I realized that I have nothing to do all day. I am getting agitated and restless and I just need to do something. I am actually looking for a job just to do something.

 

[Pebkio]

I don't. Sure I'm going to college, but it's not for my real talent. There is no contribution for what I do best. For what I do best is destabilization. I don't destroy or kill, I can just see the perfect way to ruin anyone's "good thing"... or "bad thing". If it's stable, I can make it unstable, and I can even gain an inkling of how long it would take me.

And I try to avoid that because I'd make nothing but enemies. I'm sure if I got to practice my talent, I'd probably get good at destabilizing entire organizations. But I don't, partly because I choose not to... but mainly because there's not a lot of call for destabilizing work as a living.

 

[norashepard]

In concrete terms, I do absolutely nothing! (I don't have a job, and I write stories in many forms, but don't really move to publish or anything.)

But in the more philosophical sense, I guess I help people. I got really in with the homeless in my city and I've set up something of a homeless underground with safehouses everywhere, detox locations for when they need it, and help systems, so they can work together to improve basically everything. I'm kind of drifting from that, but they know what they're doing now, so they don't really need my help anymore.

 

[excalipoor]

^^ What even is this? What's the point of these spambots that spew complete gibberish? I mean... Why?!

*EDIT* Geez, I'm so slow. Not referring to norashepard of course.

 

[Master_of_Oldskool]

I make people laugh, or, failing that, I annoy the shit out of them in the attempt.

I really do think that's the best thing I can do with my existence.

 

[norashepard]

^^ What even is this? What's the point of these spambots that spew complete gibberish? I mean... Why?!

*EDIT* Geez, I'm so slow. Not referring to norashepard of course.

Well I'm offended anyway! Except not at all. But I share your sentiment, I keep seeing these bots all over and they're just so pointless. I don't even understand what they are accomplishing other than helping people reach a slightly larger comment count on their threads, which is a good thing.

 

[Kennetic]

I am a combat medic in the U.S. Army. I am attached to an infantry platoon and went to Iraq in 2011. My battalion was the last unit to leave Iraq and we literally shut the gates behind us when we rolled into Kuwait. My contract expires in a couple years and plan to go for game warden in my home state.

 

[Little Woodsman]

"I dance and drink and sing,
'til some blind hand shall brush my wing."
Literature cookies to those who get that one.

More real answer, I'm fantastic at massage therapy, but I couldn't make any money at it, so
I'm slogging away at my "day job", working as part of a group beating a 'home-brew' table-top RPG
in to publishable form, and designing a board game on my own.
I'm also good at making people laugh in the moment, a skill I have developed and polished over the
years in hopes of making many people's days less crappy.

 

[excalipoor]

"I dance and drink and sing,
'til some blind hand shall brush my wing."

Oh! Oh! A mosquito? No, a moth? Geez, I don't know. A fly?

 

[JagermanXcell]

I draw and make cartoons, I get small pay for that while I work as a bus boy on the side, and am actually being considered to get officially hired by Disney to write/come up with new ideas once I turn 18 and create one series in particular very soon (outside of Disney... its not exactly "family friendly"). And I'm still in high-school.

In other words I'm an entertainer. Making people happy, yeah. I can live with that.

 

[Arakasi]

I purchase consumer goods and services, thus contributing to keeping the economy ticking over and helping fund the UK government coffers. Aside from summer work I am a student and therefore a future human resource for our capitalistic system. I await your grateful quotes.

Thanks for wording my current status so elegantly.

I am an Arts student majoring in philosophy and psychology.

 

[HannesPascal]

I study chemical engineering and I'm quite good at it. I train judo and I can beat anyone that's roughly my size and who doesn't compete on national level. I contribute to society by not making and releasing deadly neurotoxin into said society.

 

[Eleuthera]

As it says in my profile: "I draw buildings", draftsman, architect-light, building planner, designer, whatever you want to call it.

So my contribution/detraction to society is in the monstrosities I design that actually get built...

 

[Matilda Ward]

I am a Language student studying Japanese and Italian. Other than that I spend my spare time trying to find a job in a low socio-economic environment, I live in a town that was foolish enough to focus on tourism and farming, farming has now died out and the town lacks any prospecting tourist. But I digress, I am good at making people laugh not that you could tell from my morbid tone, this sounds foolish but I am guess I am good at emotional stuff like sensing people's moods and realising when a situation is going bad.

Yep that's about it.

 

[Saulkar]

I stock shelves, lift 50KG boxes, clean, trim, prep fruits and vegetables, and pull multitonne pallets at the local Superstore Produce department and Model and Animate commercials for a local animation company while building up my portfolio so that I may get a job in a larger animation studio.

 

[Sonicron]

I'm still in university, though I'm less than a year away from graduating now.
My current contribution to society, if you can call it that, is the writing of video game reviews for a small e-zine. It's my small way of giving back to the gaming community by providing entertaining and informative articles untainted by industry manipulation.
Once my studies are complete I shall move on to educating generations of future whatevers. I'm going to be a teacher, which is (in my eyes) a big service to society, and I'm looking forward to it.

 

[e033x]

As a student, I leech money from the state, to support me studying music few people care about. When I'm done, I'll be leeching money from the state to work with music few people care about. Probably also educate the next generation of people leeching money from the state to work with music few people care about.

Apparently, I am a leech on society.

 

[Pink Gregory]

I mow lawns and move things from one place to another. That is what a gardening job is.

Then I'm usually too tired of the world to do anything else. I don't really like to talk about musick or anything else that I do like that, because I find most musicians to be insufferable.

 

[Angie7F]

i translate and can do aromatherapy.
I think aromatherapy, facials and body massages will be my fall back job.