JOBS

Josh Boulton

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!

Clif

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.

Ben Lyon

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

BloodstainsAcrossMantovani

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.

Randall

BloodstainsAcrossMantovani amazing. Thanks for sharing!

Nathan Loud

BloodstainsAcrossMantovani

Nice to see you here, good sir! 🫡

When is the memoir coming out?

Mystery_Ship

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.

11th hour stubble

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.

Randall

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.

Kevin E

Randall You may have a vague recollection I work for a major General Contractor construction company. You have to have pretty good qualifications to do what I do, but if you've been working in a mill shop or whatever, you could work your way into project management for that. Releasing records is essentially project management- coordinating between bands, pressing plants, printers, distributors, post office, customers, getting paid, paying everyone else, etc. In my mind that would translate.

terminalsunset

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.

nonsenseorgan

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.

Red Menace

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.

Ben Lyon

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

Randall

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

Red Menace

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

ExpKind

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.

Sukebe_GG

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...

Red Menace

Randall haha! thanks 🙂

sixbigboys

I have one of those email jobs: Digital Project Manager, eService…for a travel insurance company. It’s embarrassing to the point that I literally had to tell my therapist about it today. It allows me to pay the bills, though, and buy records, and pursue less embarrassing things in my off time. But @Randall if you ever want/need help with your resume, holler at your boy—I took professional writing/technical communication classes in college and literally had to take classes on resume writing. I even turned it into an odd job to get by during the 2008/9 recession, so I’ve got tons of experience.

Nathan Loud

I love talking about jobs. Not sure why. Maybe it's because everyone has their miseries.

I currently work as a writer for a municipal government. Part technical writing, part UX writing, part longform "reporting." It's easily the best real job I've ever had. The culmination of much work, much suffering.

The best fake jobs I've ever had are tour driver, art critic, boat captain. I really did work those jobs but they weren't sustainable.

The current job comes after many years of freelancing as a writer or working deep in the salt mines of document factories, getting micromanaged by buffoons. I also had a stint working in Kafkaesque warehouses for racist idiots. This radicalized my views of labor.

Hoping to stay in the current job as long as possible because I love writing and technology and being annoying with the questions. It also helps that I believe in the work. Money and meaning and mobility. That's how I evaluate potential jobs. This one checks all those boxes.

Have been recommending that friends check out city/county/state jobs. I had never really considered it before the current situation.

Gonna bring my LinkedIn QR code to the Corporate Retreat.

Randall

Nathan Loud I can see you in a captain’s hat

elimaxxx

I used to do website shit (SEO, content writing) but got laid off and have been the stay-at-home parent while my wife works full time (she's a technical writer). I'll probably start looking for jobs next year, which I'm kind of dreading.