The subject says it. what job do you have or want to have.
I want to be a electrical enigineer, or maybe just a handyman.
I want a work with computers, or music.
Or a job where i don't do anything and get paid.
But I'll probably end up operating heavy machinery.
I want (and will since I have the marks) to be a Video Game Programmer, or perhaps a Software Engineer.
I've wanted to design games since I was five.
EDIT: Being a professional skateboarder or archer wouldn't look too bad at this point as well.
I want to be a high tech weapons developer for the army, or a game designer
Same as Dart. I've always wanted to be a story-board artist for a game. Currently I've been moving subjects and I am taking network admin classes. You'd be suprised how much you get paid to do those kinds of jobs, even if they are small schooling jobs.
Quote from: Dart on Wed 19/05/2004 21:25:09
I want (and will since I have the marks) to be a Video Game Programmer, or perhaps a Software Engineer.
I've wanted to design games since I was five.
Same here.
I've played games all my life, and I probably never will stop playing them.
And I'ev been making games for a couple a years now.
I'm a grocery clerk now.
But I want to become a film director or producer.. or do something in the film/video industry.
I want to become a well-paid game-tester or a gamedesigner
Right now I'm a part time waitress, because I'm a full time student.
But I really wanna be a game designer. I know it's hard and I know it's a hard industry to get in to, and often times frustrating. I know being a Game Designer isn't all flowers and candy. But I don't care.
Failing that, animation or programming. It's all good.
right now i'm visiting a school where i gain quite wide knowledge about programming/project management/run-your-own-business-stuff
although i'm very talented in programming (always this glorification...) i'm not really interested in the sort of stuff we program now and then we'll have this ugly 9 hour programming-examination on saturday...wah...i really hate it. totally.
let me be producer and everything would be cool. calming yourself down while everything around you goes wrong while there is a bunch of work, which needs to be done in a very very short time period. i think that's cool. or just author (books). or both.
hmmm...or let's go the easiest way: let me be millionare. i think that's the job i like most.
I want to be a fire truck when I grow up....
I'd like to get into computer programming, hopefully something to do with entertainment, such as video game design. That's the whole reason I sought out AGS in the first place, to get a taste for what it's like doing that sort of thing.
I'm going to work hard for that dream, and hopefully one day, I'll start my own company. I can just see it now...
"SullySoft. We'll finish our games someday." :P
Films. Writing them.
To be more specific: kids films.
For a while...
I have no specific idea.
Rough ideas:
Film cinematography/directing/story/a little acting?
Advertising (TV adverts, good ones).
Dunno, really. I have a feeling I won't go the normal way...
currently network tech, and baseball umpire
want: to study politics and goverment, have job in state department/ us senete
i'd like to get paid for being on irc OR the webmaster of some porn site (hey, atleast i'm honest)...
but really, i would like to be an ideas person, you know, coming up with ideas for companies that need them, be it for advertising campaigns or games or whatever they need ideas for.
i was considering going to university to do a games design and programming course, but i can't afford to and i need a minimum of three C grade GCSEs which i probably have, but i can't for the life of me remember it was that long ago...
but right now, in reality, i'm looking for factory work because i find working hard for my money very rewarding, i would love to work in a big warehouse just lifting big heavy things around all day...
erm, yeh...
I want to sit atop a mountain in silent meditation while passers-by stop and ask me for my words of wisdom, and to which I tell them that the lives we lead are actually figments of our imagination, that all reality is merely perception, human existence is based upon cruelty to a higher force (be it a God or a president) and that our purpose is to break free of the physical constraints of the world in order to achieve a higher state of mind where our souls shall live in peace and harmony.
Either that or a bus driver.
I'm employed as an Engraver for a local Trophy and Awards store here in Western New York.
It's a great but stressful job because of the constant workload, but i don't think i'd want to do anything else. Well maybe i would, but the money's great.
I am a programmer and technical writer.Ã, And thus it is.Ã, Amen.
Quote from: DGMacphee on Thu 20/05/2004 00:44:51
Either that or a bus driver.
It's all the school kids isn't it. You dirty dirty man...
I want to be James Bond when I grow up.
Actually I'd really like to be a character artist for computer games and stuff.
Acutally, I was thinking more along the line of a Brisbane City Council bus driver.
You're the dirty bastard thinking about kids.
Some schools don't have their own buses, thus they catch Council Buses.
Actually, about the kids thing, when I used to catch the bus, this chick I knew was 'touched' up by the bus driver. Which is a sad story. Thank God he got fired, but hate god that he wasn't arrested.
I'd like to have a bus. I'd spraypaint it with colorful artwork, and I'd be so honkin big, nothing short of a semi would be able to stop me. Having a bus would ROCK!
I wanna be something...um...oh yeah, something along the line of programming...or graphics! Arty stuff, I'm not that good at the moment, but I'm sure over the years and till I get to that "Find-a-job" age, I will have improved...And I'm thankful that I found AGS young...now at least I've got something behind my back.
If the boss guy asks me what experience I have, I can tell him I've been programming since I was 13...well sort of...
I'm all grown up and still don't know what I want to do but I don't really care at the moment either.
At the moment I'm a Meter Reader for Sydney Water, which means I walk all day searching through peoples gardens for water meters and punch the numbers into a handheld computer.
At the moment I'm working around the Northern Beaches area of sydney which has awesome views of beaches, and houses that are so far beyond imagining the value that it breaks my mind how people can afford them. That's about as close as I'll get to being in this area.
The good thing is I work 2 months on 1 month off in which my month off starts on the 30th May.
so I'm going up to Cairns which is about 2500KM north of my place, to visit my sister and meet my new nephew, and I got cheap tickets to fly there, $96 return which is fucking cheap plus I get free accommodation.
I want to be on a permanent holiday, that's my ideal job (not sitting at home on unemployment but roaming the globe, with endless salary [without having to really work])
I guess I need to win the lottery (I've never bought a ticket but I'm still hoping)
I am quite happy about that aspect because I ve felt what a professional I wannabe feels, which is compeating in cyclism... About my life, it seems somebody is directing it to manage a Hotels Chain, but I'm not so sure ( ;D) Maybe I'll go for a more relaxed life of receprionist or managing my little own 20-30 rooms hotel...
I will probably become a teacher one day, although I want to be an artist, a writer or work with film...
Game designing has never been more than a very vague hobby for me
I animate(AND get paid for it! :o) and I hand out newspapers for extra cash(Hey, I got school to think of). I hope to work with something whitin comics, animation or anything graphical.
I read all the posts and I was just amazed that the majority of people were all "I wanna be"s and not "I am"s. Come on, where are the adults? :P I wanna hear about what jobs people actually have.
As for me, I'm a university student for the next few months, but that's beside the point.
well Kinoko...
Technically I'm a comic book artist as in I went to college for and got a degree in comic bookery. I've drawn and sold my own comics and been featured in a monthly magazine for a few months...
But according to the rest of the world they'd more than likely say I'm a page at a local library...
Whatever job I get it will HAVE to be creative.Ã, I stink at all other things.Ã, I'd love to become a filmmaker and do lots of stunningly deep, touching and inspirational movies that leave people speechless and all teary eyed.Ã, That'd be cool.
Or do something in music or computers.Ã, I don't really know what I want to do right now.
This one's for Kinoko.
I'm unemployed at the moment but I want to be a rockstar. I did apply for an art school kind of thing but didn't get in which kind of surprises me but hopefully I'll get better. Then again, it might not be the thing I want to do for the rest of my life.
By day, I'm a cashier/server at a local Greek fast food place.
But by night (and on weekends) I'm in rehersals for the local Renaisance Faire, where I'm a town crier. My job there is to run around and scream at people that since it's "twelve of the clock" they should go see Zoltan the Adequate's magic show. This is delightfully close to what I want to do with my life, which is Shakespearean acting.
That or be an editor for a fantasy publisher. I like editing
i'd like to be in a rockband. Or be a singer. Or a 3dartist.
But at the moment i'm not really doing much, which is kinda sucky.
Quote from: Kinoko on Thu 20/05/2004 11:56:56
I read all the posts and I was just amazed that the majority of people were all "I wanna be"s and not "I am"s. Come on, where are the adults? :P I wanna hear about what jobs people actually have.
As for me, I'm a university student for the next few months, but that's beside the point.
Well, I already mentioned what I am (software developer and technical writer). However, I do still have other ambitions. I WOULD like to become an ancient religious historan of either Christianity or Hinduism. I'd like to go to graduate school someday and get a Ph.D. That's what I wanna do sometime later in life, maybe after I retire in about 40 years. I realize it might not ever happen, but it's something to consider.
I'm a Deputy County Clerk in Muskogee, USA. Just for the summer, and I'll go back to school to be an Electrical Engineer. With the way school is going I'm deeply considering following up on my 3d skills instead.
This follows my repertoire of:
BBQ Chef
Fire safety inspector at a toilet paper factory (and napkins, paper towels)
Desk clerk at an OSU residence hall
Quote from: MrColossal on Thu 20/05/2004 19:29:01
Technically I'm a comic book artist as in I went to college for and got a degree in comic bookery. I've drawn and sold my own comics and been featured in a monthly magazine for a few months...
Groovy, what're some of your comics called? Got a link to any online versions or anything?
A rock star is a great profession ^_^ Go The Darkness style!
Personally, I'm hoping to become an english teacher in Japan, then a Japanese teacher in Australia while I get my translation/interpretation degree and then... something!
http://sylpher.com/kafka
and i've done a bunch of guest comics for Achtung Franz... which is what i'm internationaly know for, my guest strips have been known the cure cancer which is good cause Achtung Franz usually causes cancer...
That's just because your artistic skill is inferior to ghor, admit it.
Yeah... I mean, look at this one:
http://www.sylpher.com/kafka/images/comics/genie3.gif
The guy doesn't even have hair! Or a mouth! What in God's name were you thinking?!?!
Now look at Ghorm's first AF strip:
http://www.agagames.com/ghormak/franz/strips/2003-05-15.gif
Notice how they have mouthes and eyebrows (which constitutes as hair).
Your license to draw comics should be taken away, Eric!
And obviously Ghor's characters are drawn much much better in proportion and more defined in shape (look at the size of the eyes and teh man's left hand in eric's comic... they're horrible and unrealistic!).
Now back to topic:
I'm currently an editor in a local textbook publisher, writting maths and computer textbooks for kids. (Bah! I hate maths, though I hate computers more!)
And I'm a journalism student who works at a self-storage facility.
As for what I want to be, maybe a writer of some kind.
I drive a forklift and do wearhousing work. My job title is "Material Handler" Which is alot more complex then I ever thought it would be. My duties inculde: Shipping and receiving fishised products and raw materials all over the country and to Canada, Gathering together and orgianizing all the raw materials for the production areas (Assembly, QA, printshop, testing ect ect) and keeping the wearhouse organized and running smooth.
Tomorrow, for exsample, all the big shipments will be going out, so I'll spend about half my night loading Tractor-trailer trucks and making sure they have all the paper work they'll need.
It's not bad work at all, and if I worked for a bigger, better company, I'd make decent money, but sice I work for a samll time operation, with a greedy thug for an owner, I make just enough to live.
As for what I want to do with my life... I'm not sure. I always thought I wanted to go into film.. to direct movies. But the more I think very hard about it, the more I think that my movies would end up alot like my music: not something most people would be interested in. I really dont think inside the box creativly, and if your particular vision as an artist doesn't have market value, then no one will pay you for it. I've alway been go at, and really enjoyed working with my hands, I spent a long time as a carpenter. So I've actually been considering going off to trade school to become a boat builder. even if I dont become riiich at it, at leat I could live on the sea... something else I've always longed for.
C.
Technically, I'm a professional musician. In reality, I'm in a band which is putting all of it's earnings back into itself, and am therefore broke.
As for what I want to be.. I want to be a few pounds lighter than I actually am. Rockstar status would pay for the liposuction and cocaine abuse.
Here's hoping..
Major Leauge Baseball!!!!111!1!11!
2003 MPV, 2002 All-Star Team, 2004 Defensive Player of the Year!!!!!Ã, Can't touch this!
Also, I want to be a jazz guitarist, or in a punk rock band.Ã, Wait, no-Ã, I will form my own style of music.Ã, Check for updates :)
(I am also currently a professional musician.Ã, Yesterday, this kid gave a 50 cents for playing outside my school as I was waiting for my ride.)
if I fail at thatÃ, which I won't I will try my luck as a restaurant critic.
Mmmm, when do you get paid to eat, then yell about it?Ã, :) :) :)
I work at a shelter for victims of domestic violence, handling everything from volunteers and community service workers, to answering the crisis hotline, to counselling residents, to putting together classes on domestic violence and general life skills.
But if I could do anything, absolutely anything, I'd go back to school, get a degree in teaching English as a second language, then move back to Budapest and teach. It was an incredible amount of fun when I did it as a total amateur, about eight years back, even though it was inredibly difficult.
When I was 18 I wanted to write. Then, over time I realized that I can't write. Once I moved to Ohio someone turned me onto the whole student loan thing, which I knew nothing about. Since then I have "wanted" to be a dozen things. I got so far in debt that I freaked out, left college and went to truck driving school (thus going further in debt). Now I have a class A CDL and do nothing with it. I'm a cook at a little cafe and work about 20 hours a week. I return to college at the end of June. My intention is to just go to school until I get a degree, accidentally. Not think about what I'm going for and just go to school. I've found that is what I am the most happy doing. So, I'm a professional student I suppose.
I think I would either like to teach or do something in computers (maybe both). I don't really want to sit in front of a computer all day though....
c.leks: You PISS me off. :P
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if your particular vision as an artist doesn't have market value, then no one will pay you for it
Where!? Where can I pay for it!? HUH!? Put a site up and leave it up. I've been trying to listen to your music for two years now and I've only heard ONE song. Seriously. I should put up some of my really old stuff. It's total crap noise. When I had it up on MP3.com I used to get fan mail. FAN MAIL! People will buy it if you believe in it. I am currently promoting an album for Rocco Di Pietro, go to http://www.dipietroeditions.com and listen to some of the music. It is REALLY does not have "market value" as you put it. It's still good music though, it's just good music to a few select people. The key thing is, those few select people buy it and love it. The album got two great reviews in Fanfare magazine.
Did I mention lately that I've been thinking of being a publicist... ;)
later,
-junc
Junc:
I'm not saying that my music will never be heard or apreciated. I actually have fans in my area, people I've never met! A feew weeks ago I met a guy at a bar and struck up a conversation, gradulay the talk turned to music and I asked: so what music are you into?" he pointed at me and said "your's man" I had never met the guy! I was in total awe. I'll never stop making music or hoping people listen, but at 28 I cant afford to bet the farm on it and I'll never morph my self into Kayne West or Paul Okenfold to support my self. I'd rather work in a wearhouse and make my music underground.
And there is a home for my music: http://www.looptheorist.com It's still under construction, but the foundation has been poured :)
C.
ps: thanks for the pep talk man, I tend to need that from time to time. Check your PM's
Did someone mention Achtung Franz (http://www.agagames.com/ghormak/franz/archive.php?date=2003-09-20)?
I'm a CS student, but I don't know whatÃ, job I want to have when I grow up.
I would like to work in media, like editing videos and that kind of stuff. Apparently I didn't get in to the school I wanted and now I'm not sure what I'm going to do... I'm gonna spend the summer without a job, then try to get a job at autumn, work about four months. Then I have to go to frickin' army that messes all the plans, I could have started my studies next autumn but because of army I have to delay my studies...
I work in software development, but it's all rather tedious. I still don't know what I really want to do with my life; though I hear that there's quite a shortage of truck drivers at the moment so wages are high, so I might give it a go.
Quoteshortage of truck drivers at the moment so wages are high
Be careful with that Chris. That's what I did. Only problem is there are only jobs for those that want to be out for 3 plus weeks at a time. I don't know if you have a girlfriend or not, but it really destroys a relationship.
At least that's the way it is in America. Local trucking jobs tend to be mainly heavy labor, lumber, roofing supplies (I did that for a month, uck). I don't know, how long would it take to drive from one side of England to the other? Perhaps Truck drivers cover the entire EU. That would be cool and suck at the same time...hmmm...maybe I should move to Europe and be a truck driver! ;D
later,
-junc
Hehe, luckily you can drive from one end of the UK to the other in a day. A mate of mine is a trucker and the most time he spends away from home is one night at a time :)
I work in a small theatre (acting not operating) mostly in the office which involves getting paid to sit around waiting for the phone to ring, eating biscuits and gossiping (constructively). I'm also an accompanist and occasional musical director but don't get paid - I really should join the union! Ideally, I'd like to work as a session or touring musician - only support though - I don't want fame. It's all about the music....(man). Oh, and I'm also a trainee AGS lurker and Shbazjinkens' professional stalker.
Well, I work at the El Pueblo Museum and Archaeological Dig Site. I'm a volunteer, so I don't get paid, but it's great experience. Sometime next fall I'll be taking classes to become a nationally certified interpreter (aka a reenactor). Right now I'm technically still in training, but I can call myself a docent because I've done gallery tours and living history (where we dress up in authentic costumes and explain to school children about the lives of the pioneer people). I'm also a student at the local college, and I'm (eventually) going to go to school for anthropology with an emphasis in archaeology. Right now I'm working on my associates of general studies (Yes, I'm majoring in AGS).
Wow... like Indiana Jones...
EXACTLY like Indiana Jones...
I think I just became a lesbian...
Quote from: MusEd on Fri 21/05/2004 20:52:43Oh, and I'm also a trainee AGS lurker and Shbazjinkens' professional stalker.
I have a stalker.. and you're female??
You're nearly 10 years older than me and in England, so I guess that's why you've eluded my notice for so long.
I'm currently a Music Tech student so I guess my jobs would be drinking, sleeping and playing pool in the Student Union.
My dream job would be to get signed to Warp Records and make enough cash from silly bleepy music to not have to do any work and still be able pay the morgage and insure a Lotus Elise.
More realistically, i'll probably end up designing music software/plugins, or working on audio/sound effects/music production for video games. Either way, it won't be too bad.
I didn't even tell you guys about my trip to the southwest of the US that featured studying several ruins in the area and crossing a very dangerous suspension bridge (with 3+ foot gaps!) over a rushing river. My life is adventurous!
Quote from: shbazjinkens on Fri 21/05/2004 23:42:46
Quote from: MusEd on Fri 21/05/2004 20:52:43Oh, and I'm also a trainee AGS lurker and Shbazjinkens' professional stalker.
I have a stalker.. and you're female??
You're nearly 10 years older than me and in England, so I guess that's why you've eluded my notice for so long.
Yes I am your stalker (in a totally non-threatening, no need to call the authorities kind of way) and yes I am female. At least I am now.
Quote from: MusEd on Sat 22/05/2004 01:29:32Yes I am your stalker (in a totally non-threatening, no need to call the authorities kind of way) and yes I am female. At least I am now.
Pardon me, but might I ask why anyone would want to stalk me?
Pardon me, but might I ask why anyone would want to stalk me?
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Well I can't really write you a glowing report because that would contravene the stalker / stalkee relationship code. But you seem to talk sense, you're funny, and I don't get out much.
I know what your job is MusEd, you're a Psycho. :)
Good luck in your future endeavors.
Excuse me, but I'm the stalker here.
Also, back on topic, I'd love to be a musitian(drummer, hopefully, when I get good, or vocalist) in either a black/death metal or hardcore(or emocore) band. It's the flavour of the month on my "jobs I'd want list".
Frankly, I have no idea what I will end up being. I change my mind nearly every month, and I'm very close to graduating. A year ago I was so sure...
QuoteI'd love to be a musitian
You don't get to have a job you can't spell.
Also, I want to be ....... a lumberjack!
(sorry, couldn't help meself.)
Well, I'M working at a printing shop (as in printing press). I'm on the "copy prep" side of things, I get to play with photoshop a LOT.
I wanna be a musitian too, though, lol (I'd not be in heavy metal, though, more like Barbershop or something, :) la La LA LAAAA LA La la)
Quote from: PhoneBooth on Sat 22/05/2004 02:34:36
QuoteI'd love to be a musitian
You don't get to have a job you can't spell.
Oh fuck you.
1. English is not my first language.
2. Some people who can't write at all can make music.
3. You weren't funny if you tried to be. Die please.
umm... calm down?
I failed anger management :D
They give this girl a gun you know.
My job isn't the most exciting (meter reader as mentioned previously) but it keeps me fit and I work in a different area everyday, no chance of getting stuck infront of a computer.
And sometimes the areas can be unbelievable, I googled some photos from the area I'm currently working in. The views are amazing, but I hardly have time to really enjoy them, but areas like this can just make you feel happy by just looking around.
(http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/Pittwater.jpg)
(http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/pittwater2.jpg)
It's hard to tell from these images but it's a very hilly area and some of the water meters are half way up cliffs, so I get to do a bit of rock climbing and bush bashing, brings me back to my childhood, it can be quite dangerous at times and I've worked 12 of the last 13 days, but I get a month off in about a weeks time wooo hoooo
The first picture is a great big land-arrow, and it seems to be pointing at me.
The 2nd picture is from the back of the 1st picture looking the other way, the little island is in both pictures if you can make it out.
Just a bit of Trivia, If anyone has seen the aussie soap 'Home & Away' the beach they mainly use is the one with the big arrow headland in the first picture.
Job? What's that?
I'm working part time in animation studio and draw whatever comes around- animations, comics, illustrations (sometimes even those boooring technical ones, ew), flash games...
When i will grow up (not in another 25 years) i'll probably be a heart surgeon or rocket scientist, making billions of dollars and having a mansion filled with Playboy bunnies (Haffner will be my personal gardener and pool cleaner).
In about 5 weeks I finish my course and will be a horticulturalist - or as one of my teachers insists - horticulturist. I hope to work in conservation so I can help the presevation of this fine establishment planet.
I have been :
A baker,
A graphic designer (assistant),
Retail sales assistant(kaymart),
a kitchen hand,
a farm hand,
Arborist,
a groundskeeper,
a blueberry farmer,
some dude in a petrol station,
and a customer service guy in a printers.
oh and I also used to work on one of thise mobile farms that goes around to shopping centers - I picked up calf splater - Porbably the best job I ever had.
- I want to be a Comic book writer and illustrator , but for now I must just settle with saving the planet . . or private Ryan - which ever comes first.
I would like to start my own buisness. A record store and game shop in one. It would be small business cornershop type, but seeing as we would part exchange games and cd's i think it would do well.
But seriously im taking a buisness studies AS course, which will give me the A level, and i am also taking ICT AS. I wolud like to do somthing with computers/buisness.
Im not to sure at the moment, but ill keep on these courses.
GOD DAMN IT! I DID LIKE alot of post and it did not post them. Alot of people want jobs and have like had them and stuff... dude! My pc sucks TITTYS ... OH might be fun! ha!