What do you do for $$$?

[excane]

Suck cock for buffalo nickles.

wait

THAT'S the secret....

[MaxMaps]

I also have a degree in History. I had a really tough time getting through college, I was dealing with an increasing amount of depression and my weight had ballooned. My health was also poor at that time so it was a very rough period of my life.

I have been working my first job for going on 12 years now. I help run a food delivery service with my family, its a lot of work and really stressful at times. Been burnt out on this place many times.

Starting my new life with my wife we have a lot of plans for what is next for us. She has wanted me to quit several times to seek out new work but I get paid a decent wage for what I do here. Looking for work else where is really impossible for me because I have skills only related to this company. Its almost that I have zero job experience and having a degree scares away those low paying jobs if I had to in the future apply for them.

I know that feel. You have to keep your hopes high.

[Jwar]

Suck cock for buffalo nickles.

wait

THAT'S the secret....

Speaking from experience here?

ahaha

[tim]

I'm in school for computer science and I bartend at a local restaurant on the weekends. I'll be done with school in a year and then it's time to look or a big-kid job, probably in software or web development. I'm hoping that I don't get stuck writing Java applets for some non-development company's intranet, but that's probably what's going to happen.

[sonidero]

Oh all you youngins with hopes and dreams really brings a tear to my eye...

[OddKnowledge]

I have a degree in psychology, but what i do has pretty much nothing to do with that. I do admin / facilities for 1 location of a giant company. Basically, i help keep the office working so people can do their work.

[karmablock]

A lot of you are in the same boat as me and I don't really feel as depressed about everything reading everything.
You guys are awesome!

[osbornkt]

I have a degrees in music business and flute performance, and toured with an established band for my first two years out of school. While doing that, I got really depressed and sick in the full-time band situation and had to resign a couple months ago.
Now I'm unemployed and living at home with my folks...desperately trying to get a job and move out again, but nobody's biting. In the meantime I'm doing small scale repairs to people's broken gear and playing wedding gigs for a bit of cash. Yikes.

[bigchiefbc]

Law school is what I always wanted to do, but for undergrad, I went to an engineering school, majored in CS. Realized my senior year that I fucking hate programming, so I went into IT/desktop support. I hated it, but it paid for me to live on my own and go to law school at night. Finished law school and passed the bar in '06, which was basically the first year when the legal profession crashed and burned, and it was impossible to get a job as an attorney for new graduates. So I got a job at an ISP doing network support, worked my way up through the ranks until I was one of the top engineers in the company. Now I've totally just said fuck it and dove headlong into Network Engineering, getting all of my certifications and shit.

Every now and then I check back into the legal profession, and it's gotten even worse. It's basically impossible to get an entry-level associate attorney job unless you have 2-3 years experience, which is really funny, because then you're not entry level anymore. So there literally is NO SUCH THING as entry level in law right now, and I feel bad for all of the law students graduating law school now. They're going to be bartending and waiting tables for a long fucking time. So I have this JD and I'm a member of the Massachusetts bar, but I might never use it other than drawing up wills for my family and giving them unofficial legal advice. And I don't really give a shit, as long as I can pay the bills and put food on the table, and support my family.

[GardenoftheDead]

Data entry.

I'm a political science major.

[adapt]

i'm about to finish up a degree in math

[karmablock]

@bigchiefbc People who graduated between 06-08 really got screwed by the economy. I have a couple of friends that have degrees in Social Work, Anthropology, and Public Relations. None of them have found a jobs with their degree, two of them went to massage school and the other is at a call center. And that's good to know about the law field because family and friends have been suggesting law school.

If I go back to school it'll be in engineering. I'm leaning towards Electrical right now.

[01010111]

Poli Sci and Economics double major for undergraduate, and going to grad-school in the fall to start working on a phd in economics.

The whole time I've got to school I've worked as a handyman in a tiny town on a water system; runs the gamut from reading meters to installing miles of powerline :ugh: I make really good money doing it, but it's only for a few months every summer.

[dubkitty]

i usually (for the last 20 years) have done electronic document production, basically professional level desktop publishing, i got laid off in September 2010 and have been living on luck, unemployment compensation, the kindness of family, and my now-liquidated retirement account since then.

[theshoegazer]

My degree is in anthropology (archaeology focus). I run the office for a company that makes window screens and do occasional screen work myself. Go figure.