Very well, where do I begin?
My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery.
My mother was a 15-year-old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet.
My father would womanize; he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes, he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possesses and the insane lament…
My childhood was typical: summers in Rangoon… luge lessons… In the spring, we’d make meat helmets… When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds — pretty standard, really.
At the age of 12, I received my first scribe. At the age of 14, a Zoroastrian named Wilma ritualistically shaved my testicles — there really is nothing like a shorn scrotum — it’s quite breathtaking… I suggest you try it.
@anon50325502 Well you can always run your business on Quickbooks and Excel. Or maybe you know a whiz kid who can whip you up a home-brew solution with a little elbow grease and some C++.
But yes, this software is very expensive to implement and very expensive to maintain. I spent 5 years on one of the most complex SAP implementations ever done for one of the largest corporations in the world. Our division’s operating budget was ~$10,000,000.00 per month, just for the software implementation project. The company as a whole was spending in the high NINE figures each year for a span of nearly a decade to bring its entire global business up on this solution.
I was a Naval Architect but am leaving that profession because I realize I need something more challenging and hate sitting at a desk. I don’t even know if what Im leaving it for [grad school] is the right choice.
Really, I want to own rental property, study math in my free time, write a few books, and teach kids.
I’m a college athlete, played my first two years of football (linebacker) at the University of South Florida, finishing at UAB (Alabama-Birmingham). If any of you get the chance, i’d really appreciate it if you check my blog
I’m a firefighter, career and volunteer. I had a lot of jobs before this, and a degree in photography and filmmaking, but I don’t give a shit about that anymore.
I am a petroleum engineer and geologist. I own a small 5 rig oil drilling company, which I am fortunate to keep busy at current prices, but I purchased rigs that are specifically for horizontal plays, so it worked out and they are running pretty much 24/7.
I used to own a larger company that was originally started by my step-father, but we sold it and I started the new company when my non-compete ran out.
Also a rancher, but that’s pretty much a break-even occupation, although we’ve been getting really good rain, so we should have a good year, God willing. I mainly do it because I am quietly able to reacquire parts of the Mescalero reservation that were carved up and sold over 100 years. I have in mind returning them to the tribe (or maybe my kids, depends on how selfish I am).
I am the senior attorney in a small law firm that has a general practice. I sue people. It’s fun.
For excitement–not fun–I represent persons charged with murder in death penalty cases. There’s no feeling on earth like having a death qualified jury return with a life verdict.
I currently work in roofing as an estimator and contract manager for our company’s new construction division. I’ve been doing that for about 13 years. The job suits me down to the ground. I can run things the way I like with little to no interference from anyone else.
Prior to that I started a business with my ex husband training competitive soccer players. I understand he’s done quite well with it.
Before that I worked for over 10 years in advertising as a media planner in a direct marketing company. The money there is good but it’s a job that adds no value to anything so I got out because, while I was very good at it, I hated it.
My degree is in political science and history.
I see a few other people with eclectic work backgrounds and it makes me wonder why, when I was a kid, I ever worried about what I’d do when I grew up.
I’m a CPA at a mid-size public accounting firm in NY. My audit clients are mainly in the manufacturing and distribution field, and include several large beer distributors for whom I get to travel all over the northeast. I also prepare tax returns for the same clients, as well as some hedge funds and several high-wealth individuals.
Former managing partner at a giant law firm, but my time in the box is up (Thank G-d!) and now just a partner, so I no longer have to deal with bullshit and egos and who-slept-with-whom.
If I described my day, you would die of boredom. Basically negotiating on behalf of giant hedge funds to invest in things or on behalf of the “talent” that is getting invested in.
Also on the board of directors of two smallish cap public companies that I used to be the lawyer for, which turned out to be a fricking awesome way to get extra money stocked up for retirement.
Part time landlord because I am chronically unable to part with any property I buy.
Founder/managing partner of a trading firm, trader, sat on the Board of a publicly traded company…currently managing the physical assets of private equity group. Like the poster above me, incapable of selling any real estate I buy so in between meetings I can be found trying to line up a plumber to swap out the garbage disposal at one of my rental properties.On weekends, I’m typically trying to change said garbage disposal myself because I’m too cheap to pay anyone $125 an hour.
