47 year old who has spent most of my adult life with periods of living meagerly off of Total Punk, or doing this while working dead end jobs that allow me to travel. Now in a situation where I have a three year old and looking for something more stable and secure to live off of while turning this back into a hobby. Surveying my options now. What does everyone do for a living?

Work in a record store, do some design n art on the side. I'm lucky - I live in the cheapest of the big cultural British cities (Newcastle) so money goes a bit further here. And I live in pretty much the cheapest bit of the city.

I do tech admin/vendor management for a university. Kind of fell into the role a year ago. Before that, I was doing similar work at an educational testing company.

edit: 42 here, no college degree, started working when I was 18 lol.

Yeah I just played in/drove bands/signed on until my first daughter came along. Then I studied (whilst working) and now I'm a primary school teacher. Good $$$, good holiday, and proper handy now she's at school and needs help with homework. Satisfying work too, kids are great!

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    Teacher. I taught 4th grade and sixth grade elementary school in Illinois for 10 years. 5 years as a 7th grade science teacher in Delaware. now I am an elementary special education teacher in Indiana. however, looking to get back into middle school science in the next couple of years because that was were the fun (and money?) was.

    I work in a public library. It's a pretty good gig. I supplement that with art jobs when I can

    Addiction counselor, will likely go back to grad school for an MSW this summer. I used to be an English professor, but it's hard to show up for class (much less make tenure) when you're strung out on meth and opioids. Ended up homeless and hopeless until I got help and eventually reinvented myself as a professional solver of the very problem that damn near killed me. One of my major insights from all of this is that it's never too late to blaze a new path in life. I really didn't know how resilient and resourceful I could be until I had no choice but to be resilient and resourceful.

      Played in bands and fucked around with shitty jobs that allowed me to do so for years. Got into homebrewing because I liked drinking beer and cooking, and was broke, so it was a no brainer hobby. Transitioned hobby into a job eight years ago when I moved out of Vancouver and am lucky enough to get some sort of fulfillment out of my profession. It’s still a job and I can’t stand most of the people in the general orbit of the profession.

      As you know Richie I do logistics for a label, lucky to have that job, not an easy thing to come by, but also seems like you would be well suited to put yourself out there for the same and in the right place geographically. Unless you are trying to do something different and break things up, god knows you got the skills.

        11th hour stubble yeah something like that would be a dream, but as you mentioned hard to come by. Don’t mind cutting wood in the short term but don’t really want to be breathing in sawdust for too long (I wear a mask but still). Not opposed to branching out just want to find something that is at least somewhat fulfilling.

            Worked all kinds of jobs, but am back to social work now. I'm a case manager working in eviction prevention and rehousing programs. It's kind of grim work these days, but I was previously an inventory manager at a wine and spirits shop which felt like sort of inconsequential work and was bumming me out (not giving enough back or something like that). As I get closer to 40, I worry that I'm not really a "career" person which is a shame cuz I'd like to be able to provide a bit more stability in mine and my wife's life. Wish we could be our own bosses doing something, but I doubt we're on track for any kind of small business loan in the foreseeable future.

            I worked at Forced Exposure for 8 years doing a little bit of everything over my time (warehouse to sales). I won't divulge my thoughts on how the sausage is made! After that I felt like I had no quantifiable skills besides shipping and receiving. Now I work at a museum doing fulfillment for their web store which was a totally lateral move but has great benefits. I've never been an ambitious person but pushing 40 starting to wish I was.

            I used to work at a bunch of local record stores and music venues. I infamously managed Ace Of Cups in Columbus, Ohio from its inception in 2011 all the way to the Covid lockdown. I now sell pre-owned and Certified pre-owned cars at a Honda dealership.

              Red Menace I'm in the market for something relatively inexpensive that can haul band gear and gets ok gas mileage

                  I work in a university library, receiving requests for new resources and materials. I lucked out right before the pandemic and got out of a shitty hospital job. I don't have a library science degree, but I worked in the library through undergrad and had the basic know-how plus familiarity with the catalog software. I'm pretty satisfied with the work I do, even if I'm probably underachieving. The only work I could really do with my degree is teaching, and I've had enough of that side of academia.

                  I work in a field rapidly being taken over by AI but hoping to squeeze a few more years out of it before I die retire er what's the difference...Pension? I am hoping our Alien Overlords give us UBI along with UBIK...

                  Ben Lyon hi Ben! hit me up on socialized mediation if you want. I think we are friends on everything.

                    Red Menace Hey! Whats up man? Good to see you here. I'd buy a car off ya anytime!