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pedsi
26-07-2007, 08:10 PM
I dont know if this has been asked before......what does everyone here do for a living?
I'll get the ball rolling......
I drive a taxi which I really enjoy as I can work my own hours to a certain extent and offers me a lot of flexibility in my working life.
It allso allows me plenty of reading time and keeps me abreast of public opinion on the mainstream news stories although this can become rather tedious as you can imagine.
Over to you guys..
reptilianshapeshifter
26-07-2007, 08:15 PM
computer programmer. work for a real small company and it's quite good.
davelove
26-07-2007, 08:22 PM
hypnotist/hypnotherapist/ hypno-analyst.
love every minute of it!!
oceanwave
26-07-2007, 08:41 PM
"I drive a taxi"
would one get a discount for saying "DIF"?
dondaz
26-07-2007, 08:57 PM
Film-maker, grips/camera truck driver, graphic/web designer, multi-media, fencer, laborer.
Right now I am in the process of going self-employed, so if any of you guys want a website, commercial, music vid or documentary made, give us a pm:rolleyes:
Some of my older films, more to come soon: http://video.google.co.uk/videosearch?q=darren+pollard
Hope to have my website back up and running soon: www.babybluesproductions.co.uk (http://www.babybluesproductions.co.uk)
chattanova
26-07-2007, 09:13 PM
I'm a painter (construction)
eternal_spirit
26-07-2007, 09:18 PM
Nothing.
Same as the above.
hagbard_celine
26-07-2007, 09:35 PM
I I drive a taxi which I really enjoy as I can work my own hours to a certain extent and offers me a lot of flexibility in my working life.
It allso allows me plenty of reading time and keeps me abreast of public opinion on the mainstream news stories..
Like Jerry Fletcher! :cool:
I'm a hospital porter... and I'm very proud of it!
chris
26-07-2007, 09:35 PM
I drive a taxi
Ownage, me too...
Although I don't have it so easy as you...I got into it for the exact same reasons as you but little did I know that my area is about 500% overplated...I dunno what the Hackney Carridage officers are on, they were encouraging me into becoming one without saying how overrun it is...
Not only that but the major taxi firm gets new taxi drivers and sells them a taxi straight off and while they are trying to make the repayments on it, they will fuck them up big time by making it impossible to leave (unless you want to be making repayments on a taxi that is doing nothing)...I swear the hackney carriage officer and the local taxi firm are in a racket...I'm just thanksful I was warned about it before I was suckered into buying one.
It's a real shame because I would have liked it but I am in the process of getting another job...Hopefully I will be able to work semi part-time and still live in my flat.
ramesees
26-07-2007, 09:35 PM
computer programmer
Has its good days and bad days, could always be better though
emerald
26-07-2007, 09:40 PM
Makin layout for some local magazines. Financially (and not only, but especially), it sucks with 1000 mouths.
danielg
26-07-2007, 09:40 PM
I get paid off the government to chill, read books, and get free rent and council tax. Thank the Roman Empire for social security.
Going to start doing joinery again... (Dondaz, I'm looking to get a business website done soon, just a few pages...will pm you in the next few days about it). :)
I get paid off the government to chill, read books, and get free rent and council tax. Thank the Roman Empire for social security.
Going to start doing joinery again... (Dondaz, I'm looking to get a business website done soon, just a few pages...will pm you in the next few days about it). :)
Looks like you, me and Eternal are the only sensible ones on here :D
pedsi
26-07-2007, 09:55 PM
Ownage, me too...
Although I don't have it so easy as you...I got into it for the exact same reasons as you but little did I know that my area is about 500% overplated...I dunno what the Hackney Carridage officers are on, they were encouraging me into becoming one without saying how overrun it is...
Not only that but the major taxi firm gets new taxi drivers and sells them a taxi straight off and while they are trying to make the repayments on it, they will fuck them up big time by making it impossible to leave (unless you want to be making repayments on a taxi that is doing nothing)...I swear the hackney carriage officer and the local taxi firm are in a racket...I'm just thanksful I was warned about it before I was suckered into buying one.
It's a real shame because I would have liked it but I am in the process of getting another job...Hopefully I will be able to work semi part-time and still live in my flat.
Aye sounds like a bit of a sting right enough Chris...My areas not too bad although we've had a fight with the council for the last 2 yrs,they've been pushing for a 100% wheelchair accessable fleet.....They backed down to 23%eventually after a struggle which involved the trade association,age concern groups and a signed pettition from the public.......typical council eh!
I work for DHS
I am helping with the process of building a list of
undesirable peopl... ooops.. those terrorists.
Passenger Name Record Agreement Signed with European Union
July 26, 2007 - Secretary Michael Chertoff made the following statement: "I am pleased to have signed an important agreement with the European Union today that will allow the Department of Homeland Security to continue using Passenger Name Record (PNR) data as an essential screening tool for detecting potentially dangerous transatlantic travelers."
I have added some of you people to the above mentioned list, and now you are eligible for our DHS frequent flier program on specially equipped aircraft.
Code name of this program is 'Gitmo Express' and our specially equipped airplanes fly only one-way to a foreign country of our choice, due to logistical reasons.
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please note: some in flight "entertainment" will be provided as soon as we leave the U.S. airspace.
For best effect -- You will be encouraged to participate in it fully.
Thank you for flying Gitmo Express.
We are hopping that this will be the experience of your lifetime.
danielg
26-07-2007, 10:03 PM
Looks like you, me and Eternal are the only sensible ones on here
Don't knock the others, they're paying our wages lol.
chris
26-07-2007, 10:04 PM
Aye sounds like a bit of a sting right enough Chris...My areas not too bad although we've had a fight with the council for the last 2 yrs,they've been pushing for a 100% wheelchair accessable fleet.....They backed down to 23%eventually after a struggle which involved the trade association,age concern groups and a signed pettition from the public.......typical council eh!
lol yeah, we HAVE a 100% wheelchair fleet...All new cabs MUST have wheelchair access! Insanity anyone?
People can't afford the shitty cars we are driving right now because it's so watered down, I don't know how they are going to manage to replace their cars which are going to be £8,000+ of what they need to be...How can they sleep at night?
Honestly the people up there must be some kind of Satanic front or something...They seem SOOOOO nice but they can't stop fucking you. It's insane, I can imagine observing the way it goes down over here is a fine lesson on what the future will be like for everyone...I'm just glad I can get out before I landed myself in extreme debt.
The other taxi drivers are in denial, they literally work 18 hours a day but they show off the average amount of cash they do have. My area is just so insane, I can't even express it.
eternal_spirit
26-07-2007, 10:15 PM
QUOTE: king ....I work for DHS
I am helping with the process of building a list of
undesirable peopl... ooops.. those terrorists. please note: some in flight "entertainment" will be provided as soon as we leave the U.S. airspace.
.......................................
LOL
Pheeeeeweeee Glad I'm in the UK.
I think I'm labeled as unemployable. But I'd be willing to shovel shit if the wages were good enough.
hagbard_celine
26-07-2007, 10:16 PM
Don't knock the others, they're paying our wages lol.
I don't have any avertion to people on the dole. I never rant on about "scroungers" like most people do. As far as I'm concerned nobody should be obliged to work in a society where getting a job almost always means exploitation, demoralization, humiliation and unfullfillment. As Bill Hicks says: "Do you really want to go and spend all day doing a job you hate, which doesn't enrich you creatively and spiritually... or would you rather lie in till midday and then get up and learn the sitar?"
I'm lucky; I have a job that I enjoy and gives me satisfaction. If I ever quit the Hospital Portering Service then I'd have to find another job that gave me equal enjoyment and satisfaction. I would either do that or nothing and would accept nothing less.
ripe4change
26-07-2007, 10:21 PM
I do cost estimating of printed pharmaceutical packaging in Philadelphia. There's a lot of money to be made in packaging and distributing drugs.
hagbard_celine
26-07-2007, 10:23 PM
lol yeah, we HAVE a 100% wheelchair fleet...All new cabs MUST have wheelchair access! Insanity anyone?
People can't afford the shitty cars we are driving right now because it's so watered down, I don't know how they are going to manage to replace their cars which are going to be £8,000+ of what they need to be...How can they sleep at night?
Honestly the people up there must be some kind of Satanic front or something...They seem SOOOOO nice but they can't stop fucking you. It's insane, I can imagine observing the way it goes down over here is a fine lesson on what the future will be like for everyone...I'm just glad I can get out before I landed myself in extreme debt.
The other taxi drivers are in denial, they literally work 18 hours a day but they show off the average amount of cash they do have. My area is just so insane, I can't even express it.
Being a cabbie gives you an eccellent opportunity to talk to people, like Jerry Fletcher does at the beginning of Conspiracy Theory. (BTW, Mel Gibson is very open to the ideas of conspiracy and this sequence was not scripted; he was ad-libbing)
"I tell you, man! This is a conspiracy! They ARE the UN troops!!"
eternal_spirit
26-07-2007, 10:30 PM
I don't have any avertion to people on the dole. I never rant on about "scroungers" like most people do. As far as I'm concerned nobody should be obliged to work in a society where getting a job almost always means exploitation, demoralization, humiliation and unfullfillment. As Bill Hicks says: "Do you really want to go and spend all day doing a job you hate, which doesn't enrich you creatively and spiritually... or would you rather lie in till midday and then get up and learn the sitar?"
I'm lucky; I have a job that I enjoy and gives me satisfaction. If I ever quit the Hospital Portering Service then I'd have to find another job that gave me equal enjoyment and satisfaction. I would either do that or nothing and would accept nothing less.
.............................
You're a good un hagbard.
It's how well you can play the system, if you're on benefits, not all benefit payments are the same some are much higher than others... Some people can get by okay this way, others struggle and have to find some kind of work eventually to keep a roof over head etc.......... even if it's a low paid mind numbing, soul destroying, head wrecking job of which I've had many in my time and it's looking like the past is going to repeat itself in the near future.
It's true what you quoted Bill Hicks saying though. That's the good part.
Anway this thread isn't about the unemployed carry on good people.
pedsi
26-07-2007, 10:36 PM
like Jerry Fletcher does at the beginning of Conspiracy Theory.
Ah so thats who Jerry Fletcher is.:)
pedsi
26-07-2007, 10:37 PM
I do cost estimating of printed pharmaceutical packaging in Philadelphia. There's a lot of money to be made in packaging and distributing drugs.
Sure is just ask Bill Clinton
bicycle
26-07-2007, 11:01 PM
I took early retirement when I left school, I still havent forgiven me mum and dad for sending me school although I still love them.
So depending on what mood I am in when I wake up in the morning determines what I do.
I live life spontanousely through inaction.
I am a human being not a human doing.
I took early retirement when I left school
:D
mentalogirl
26-07-2007, 11:57 PM
Filmmaker/scriptwriter.
Also part-time musician.
:)
cruise4
27-07-2007, 12:13 AM
I build computers and install them for people that ask me to. Enables me to recycle my own computers and keep up to date with decent spec kit for free.
One of the few things I've come across where everyone gets a good deal as the kit gets knocked down the line of customers I have.
People on the dole means less money for the NWO and more pain for taxpayers who may eventually wake up to the stupid system they support.
white hat
27-07-2007, 01:01 AM
Technical draughtsman. Its art for people like me who cant draw paint sculpt or take a good photograph :p
People on job seekers allowance are government artists they draw the dole :) If you are happy not working you would be a fool to work;)
hagbard_celine
27-07-2007, 09:30 AM
Technical draughtsman. Its art for people like me who cant draw paint sculpt or take a good photograph :p
People on job seekers allowance are government artists they draw the dole :) If you are happy not working you would be a fool to work;)
I know writers and artists who are on the dole. They use the time they would normally dedicate to a "job" writing and painting. Society despises these people, calling them "lazy scroungers". You see conventional society is conditioned to only consider material production useful and worthwhile. Art and literature are seen a a kind of sideshow; fun, but not essential.
I take the opposite view. Material production is a necessary foundation for the really important things in life: Art, literature, spiritual and philosophical thought. Supporting people who do that and freeing their time to do as much of it as possible is the best thing my tax money can be spent on!
hagbard_celine
27-07-2007, 09:31 AM
In a way I'm on the dole too.
Yes! I'm employed by the NHS. I work for the government and all my wages come out of your taxes! ;):D
friendsinthesky
27-07-2007, 12:33 PM
I do many things, BUT I'm unemployed and as from today, I'm "officially" unemployed..wooohoo...tomorrow I'm off on a weeks holiday..woohoo.
I do many things, BUT I'm unemployed and as from today, I'm "officially" unemployed..wooohoo...tomorrow I'm off on a weeks holiday..woohoo.
Unemployed? That's wonderful news I'm proud of you.
Where are you going on holiday?? I'm getting into the holiday spirit myself as tonight I'm setting off for a fabulous weekend away, wooo hooo :p
Make sure you behave yourself on holiday and don't get up to any naughties :D
friendsinthesky
27-07-2007, 01:02 PM
Unemployed? That's wonderful news I'm proud of you.
Where are you going on holiday?? I'm getting into the holiday spirit myself as tonight I'm setting off for a fabulous weekend away, wooo hooo :p
Make sure you behave yourself on holiday and don't get up to any naughties :D
I've been unemployed for yr's, I just do alittle here and there for "black money".
As for holidays, we're going to the south of [Victoria, Australia] where they've had recent floods. My-self, partner dog'N'camera/fire wood/ will have a good time.:D
I've been unemployed for yr's, I just do alittle here and there for "black money".
As for holidays, we're going to the south of [Victoria, Australia] where they've had recent floods. My-self, partner dog'N'camera/fire wood/ will have a good time.:D
When it comes to money the black variety is the best of all.
Have a nice time :)
white hat
27-07-2007, 01:45 PM
I know writers and artists who are on the dole. They use the time they would normally dedicate to a "job" writing and painting. Society despises these people, calling them "lazy scroungers". You see conventional society is conditioned to only consider material production useful and worthwhile. Art and literature are seen a a kind of sideshow; fun, but not essential.
I take the opposite view. Material production is a necessary foundation for the really important things in life: Art, literature, spiritual and philosophical thought. Supporting people who do that and freeing their time to do as much of it as possible is the best thing my tax money can be spent on!
I'm all for benefits but if you are going to be long term unemployed through choice you should pay your own way thats only fair.
I work for a company that is in charge of an Aboriginal Trust Fund. The mining companies pay for the use of their land and our company (with the authority of the Aboriginal Board Members) distribute the money to the Martidja Banyjima People. It sucks that the land has to be mined but there's no escaping it and at least the Aboriginal people are being paid and are part of the negotiation process. According to my boss they don't make the mining companies lives easy!
dondaz
27-07-2007, 02:32 PM
I don't have any avertion to people on the dole. I never rant on about "scroungers" like most people do. As far as I'm concerned nobody should be obliged to work in a society where getting a job almost always means exploitation, demoralization, humiliation and unfullfillment.
People on the dole means less money for the NWO and more pain for taxpayers who may eventually wake up to the stupid system they support.
If you are happy not working you would be a fool to work
I know writers and artists who are on the dole. They use the time they would normally dedicate to a "job" writing and painting. Society despises these people, calling them "lazy scroungers". You see conventional society is conditioned to only consider material production useful and worthwhile. Art and literature are seen a a kind of sideshow; fun, but not essential.
I agree with you all. People shouldn't have to give their entire lives up in order to earn money.
Slavery, just say no!
hagbard_celine
28-07-2007, 10:54 AM
I'm all for benefits but if you are going to be long term unemployed through choice you should pay your own way thats only fair.
It depends how you define "unemployed". I don't consider an artist, writer, spiritual researcher or any other person involved in and kind of human creativity, while living off state benefits, unemployed.
I'm being paid by you, the taxpayer, to transport sick people in hospital. An artist is being paid by you, the taxpayer, to enrich the human soul. What's the difference?
ngawaka19
28-07-2007, 03:44 PM
I dont know if this has been asked before......what does everyone here do for a living?
I'll get the ball rolling......
I drive a taxi which I really enjoy as I can work my own hours to a certain extent and offers me a lot of flexibility in my working life.
It also allows me plenty of reading time and keeps me abreast of public opinion on the mainstream news stories although this can become rather tedious as you can imagine.
Over to you guys..
I'm all for 40% work and 60% play. And if that means that work is sitting down all day, eating sleeping and daydreaming then even better. Money's not the beginning and end of us, actually i take that back, money and all that orbits it could be the end of us.
I've done many things in my life time (sound like I'm a hundred), from contract fencing, scrub cutting, cleaning toilets which is a job, I believe, of collecting virtue, fish filleting, growing grapes in a winery- bloody good job that. But I tell ya, nothing beats doing what ever the fuck you want. I've always tried to be working in a job that interests me, working with something I'm passionate about. Never wanted to do the hard yards like my mum and dad. Nah. I was a bum and a flake, bloody enjoyed those years, some of the most intelligent, funny, generous people I met were other bums like me, unemployed, or sort of employed but tryna get fired, flunked mid year ex students,who would hook up at the local cf, to use our last 3.50 for an espresso, and sit in the sun, chat, laugh and chill. Nothing better for your health than no stress. In between being a bum, I work in the entertainment industry. However I understand that this is not my life's work, my life's work is yet to reveal itself to me. I'm suspicious that its to do with parentless children and or reckless youth or challenged youth. What ever the work I like to have big gaps where I do nothing, cept jam, create, rage, laugh, and have a damn good time.
chur church
ngawaka19
ngawaka19
28-07-2007, 03:49 PM
Look I just wana get the "chur church" thing sorted. If I did go to church it would be a rastafarian one or a friendly alien alter. ok. LOL just to get that straight. obviously a typo. i think its time for me to go to bed.
chur
sleep well all
love and light
ka kite apopo
cruise4
28-07-2007, 08:11 PM
"Never wanted to do the hard yards like my mum and dad."
Funny thing is, at the end of a life of graft, they had nothing either! Crazy.
on the road
29-07-2007, 04:46 PM
my trade is in the petro/chem oil industry but i needed a rest so for now i drive a taxi but i dont really like it because people are always talking behind me back :D
the main thing ive noticed on the taxis is how thick people really are and how they are well and truely stuck in their bubble.the general population dont really care that we are dropping bombs on kids heads as long as they are boxed off.
notaslave
29-07-2007, 05:06 PM
Hang-out for a while with retired people and learn how worthwhile paid employment is. They still get screwed over for having diligently put money aside for their old age. Also having worked as a welfare rights officer for a while I learned I could work everyday until I reach retirement age and not qualify for a full pension, due to the fact that I wouldn't have paid enough "stamp" (National insurance) LOL so like I am going to work to make some other sucker rich, use up all my best years to be fucked in my old age. No thanks.
I prefer to work for free.... and for my community.
auron
29-07-2007, 07:03 PM
I sit watching the wheels go round and round.
It's fun.
I saw behind the fabric of reality the other day after taking a huge dose of salvia divinorum.
http://www.lifeshore.com/smiley/data/media/2/3D_emoticon_40.gif
I realized then that all debates, arguments, and anything we take seriously is all meaningless.
http://www.visualbliss.co.uk/gallery/artwork/images/magic%20mushroom%20picture.jpg
eternal_spirit
29-07-2007, 07:22 PM
:confused::confused: .................
auron
29-07-2007, 07:23 PM
That's right Edit! :D