What do you do for a living?

[Big Mon]

...line cook

This was supposed to be a temporary job but I've been there for two years now. Maybe typing this will give me more of a boost to get out of there.

Hey it's cool,bro-I,too,am a line cook. It's not prestigious by any means,but it's work,y'know? Success,to me,is simply smiling more than you frown. Take this post as with a grain of salt,I smoke a lot of pot,therefore,I underachieve

[jrmy]

...line cook

This was supposed to be a temporary job but I've been there for two years now. Maybe typing this will give me more of a boost to get out of there.

Hey it's cool,bro-I,too,am a line cook. It's not prestigious by any means,but it's work,y'know? Success,to me,is simply smiling more than you frown. Take this post as with a grain of salt,I smoke a lot of pot,therefore,I underachieve

As I recall, Wayne Coyne was a line cook all the way up until the Flaming Lips took off, so between him and Bloo, you're in exceptionally fine company!

[Big Mon]

^^^^^ Oh yeah,I'm also in Blue Ghost Factory-uh...AM Blue Ghost Factory,so yeah-I'z in a band

[masked elwood]

musician/artist/tech/guitar repair/mods/builds.
...and a dad to 2 young punk rockers....which is me fave job and the hardest by far.

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You sir, were one of the specific people that inspired this topic. Just looking at all your gear...

Oh really?? ...OK...to be a little less vague:

indy type musician that makes no money in the long run, but has managed to pull the wool over the eyes (and ears) a couple of times and made cash playing my music and touring.
so.....
i make the lions share of my money just teching for guitarists/studios. i have a few rock star clients that i regularly do things for...i suppose i have them under some spell as they'll listen to me and even pay me for it....i used to build guitars from the ground up but it's a hassle and if i do a guitar now it's a more of mod thing as i dig fender designs and really more into the arty finish more than anything else. so i get pick up necks and bodies from (mostly) USA custom and do everything else mesef.
here's a couple of me guitars:

half scale just for fun....sounds like a blizzard of nails...which i like.

my Baby Spice baritone refin

multi media refin on a 59 reissue....
i also do really stoopit things like setting a custom shop 57 plain top on an electric stove to see if the designs would look kool:



the best thing (for me) about my refins is that i charge $500 plus all expenses (pick ups, electronics, hardware)....i take my time...there will be no deadline, it's done when i feel it's done, and the person who's actually owns the guitar gets no say so in the finish at all. none. electronics, yes, of coarse....but not on the finish. it'll be one of a kind and if you don't like it then its too bad. 100% satisfaction so far.
unfortunately i only do 1 or maybe 2 a year.....i really put tons and tons of time and 500 is actually really cheap considering all the time i do put into it.
i am doing an incredible gibson flying V for the same guy i did the ^ les paul ^ for. it's been 11 months so far like i said it can take me some time.
i usually don't talk about things like this much as i just like to cruise this site for the fuzz of it... and i smoke enuff weed to be a very passive guy....
however.......we're all friends here, i think i've been on this site for fukking years...my board's on like page 5.

this post is so fukking long as i'm stuck in seattle airport til 11PM (been here since 1:30.....a long story...even longer than this one) ......missed a flight to austria....not a lot going there. i fuct up bad. oh well....here i am with a fuzzhugger pipe amp and a gretsch, i could make some money pounding out some classic punk tunes.

elwd

[Gearmond]

as of last summer; I drove around to different properties owned by the natural history museums and collected data on stream health, cut down the second largest magnolia tree in the world (and got ice cream), cleared areas of invasive phragmites with giant weedwhackers, and sprayed a whole variety of unsavory plants.

[leastwise]

I'm totally using this job title as a lie/ pickup line if i get a chance to in the next few years.

THIS

Approval granted.

[devnulljp]

Currently a sous chef for an on-campus dining hall feeding approx 1300 students a day.

That's a lot of Pot Noodle...

[RossCanyonsofstatic]

receiving manager at a barnes and noble. it a job..but the upside is I can listen to whatever music I want all day long.

[tuffteef]

receiving manager at a barnes and noble. it a job..but the upside is I can listen to whatever music I want all day long.

behemoth records?

[unownunown]

i'm a student. graduating hs next year, then on to many more years of being a student.

i exist in a continual state of broke.

[Toonster]

For a living I am a postman and I still am a student

[magiclawnchair]

i am a machinist that makes surgical tools.

[culturejam]

I'm a technical writer for a software developer. I've been doing that for about a year and a half. I spent the 10 years before that working in publishing as various types of editor. Last gig was as managing editor of a medical journal; one before that was as editor (the editor, not an editor...big difference) of a small newspaper.

I ain't rich, but I ain't broke, neither.

And they all laughed when I got an English degree.

[Bassus Sanguinis]

I'm a library attendant at the University library. Work is a needed tool you use to accomplish other things in life. Nowadays music is more a way of life than a source of income, though I still get a buck or two off the royalties.

My old band actually even made it this year to the Finnish Top ten, and then onwards to number one with lyrics of mine which scored some more butter on the bread for a moment there. Even though it was a brief moment we actually were all WTF pretty big time.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI7hZ1keaxE[/youtube]
Yeah, that kind of lovely love song to hit #1 charts for weeks. Go figure. Perhaps it just was a brief moment of no competition. Or people considered a nationwide converting to diabolism.

For a father of three, a day job is a relief, actually, since I used to burn the candle form both ends working seven days a week not only as a musician of MY bands, but for the musical endeavours of the other people, too, and then there were the times of no money and the music related odd jobs... In the end, I finally took a day job and stick to my most loved bands that actually mean something to me. And ATM, I'm on a leave or on a black sabbatical from even those, too, not to stall the cruise for guys and, well, just to have more time home, honestly, while the kids still are little.

[whalesong]

I used to watch fruit flies mating then dissect their brains.
I took a decade out and ran computers for EvilCorp fillign the world with bile.
I moved on to squishing up slime moulds and mapping their genome.
Then I sequenced fish -- this time someone else did all the squishing and I juts sat in my Dr. Evil control tower doing the non-stinky stuff on computer.

Now I read about other people doing all those things for more money than I ever got actually doing any of it myself.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGcnJeqEVEk[/youtube]

Kinda saddish?...is your music as dark as...?dont flip,just asking