What Do You Do For Your Job / Living • Page 16

Trying to find work that I can do from home... While I love writing, I need to find some steady income instead of sponging off my parents =/

 

Good luck!

 

Recently promoted to group accountant. I am finding my feet, but really enjoying it.

 

Basically have a CTO position for our startup. Not officially on the board of directors but with the equity i'm getting and the work i've put in it'll be happening soon. Learning A LOT. And managing people is perhaps one of the most challenging things i've had to do. thought it wouldn't be that bad but damn.

 

I'm a project engineer for a general contractor in so cal. It's a minimum 10 hour day, demanding, and stressful, but my coworkers and I all have a blast together. I also always attend shows to decompress, and to just enjoy myself.

 

I'm a business consultant for an ECM software company. I develop workflow applications for companies/ organizations who have a lot of paper processes and make them streamlined through our software suite. I get to travel depending where my projects are. It's pretty fun but building the applications can be boring which is why I spend a lot of time on chorus...

 

This is so spot on. There is that point in your career when you go from being managed...to managing. Most of the time with no training! I always remember one of the guys training me said the hardest part of the job was managing people. I did use the book and podcasts "The Effective Manager" which actually worked a treat, but it is a bit of a ballache to start with but did reep the rewards of it.

 

might have to check it out haha. we're living and learning. have tried multiple strategies and we think we have one that works. I always wanted to be buddy buddy with my employees but that was a mistake - doesn't work. We're hardening up on literally everything. Half of of our employees work remotely which makes it even harder. but we use JIRA to log work, so basically i've told them if you said you can put in 20 hours a week and there isn't 20 hours logged, you're axed. it's the equivalent of a no-show to work.

 

Part of me would love to manage or at least be a big supervisor. I would have policies that weed out the weak links.

 

ya we've written up some extremely strict policies in the last few weeks. tech business is too brutal and fast moving to not have them in place and we've had too many issues with employees in the past. we have zero tolerance for ineptitude or saying "idk how to do this". figure it out. use your resources. no one's gonna hold your hand. literally had Berkeley CS majors messaging me to solve their (very minor) problems. we have enough applicants that if that happens in the future we just fire and hire.

 

My policies would be extremely strict too. It all basically comes from things I've seen people get away with in past jobs that lead to brining the team down.

 

exactly. and one toxic employee spreads like a disease to the others. Steve Jobs did a lot of not cool shit, but as far as all the crap he got for being a hard ass, i totally understand it now.

 

Weeding out weak links is the easy part. Its the weak managers who don't address it which makes the problems 100x worse!

 

Which is a reason why I would like to manage people. I won't be the manager and sits around and let lazy people get away with being lazy. If I had someone come to me with an issue I'll tell them put it in writing and document each time it happens and give it to me so I can address the issue.

 

I'm working as a local government management intern. I love it but man does it feel too much like House of Cards sometimes.

 

I'm a real estate appraiser. I'll tell you how much your house is worth. I'm still just a trainee but I work from home so I wear my PJs all day and start/stop whenever I want. Sometimes I drink beer. It's pretty nice.

 

Sounds pretty dope. How'd you get into that?

 

I work at a third party IT help desk. We basically do IT work for various accounts. Isn't too bad.

 

I have a friend up here who owns his own appraisal business and he kept dropping hints about how he could always use more people because there was so much work to be done. After a few years, I finally decided to have lunch with him and hear him out. The work honestly didn't sound too compelling, but the perks of working from home interested me, so I signed on.

Unfortunately getting into it isn't easy. I paid $1200 to take like 150 hrs of online courses to get my trainee license. After that, I have to remain a trainee for 2 years past the day my license was issued (Feb of last year) and then I'll be fully licensed after an exam in Feb of next year. It's a steep entry cost considering the classes and the requirements, but it's been worth it so far. I work as much as I want to and there's always work. I live in Seattle and the housing market is just absurd up here so there's no lack of business. There's been maybe 2 slow months in the few years I've been doing this but it always picks right back up.

 

I remember when I made this thread. When I had a job. I got laid off last weekend, lol. RIP. Sucks pretty hard because I absolutely loved what I did. It was soooo much fun. Oh well, I've been wanting to move to Washington my entire life and I'm going to take this opportunity to make it happen. The cost of living from here to there is crazy though, so I unfortunately can't just up and move and hope to find a job once I get out there. Even minimum wage is $15 in Seattle, as opposed to here which people make $7.25. Pretty insane. So if anyone knows any open (Linux) System Administrator jobs in Seattle looking to be filled, let me know haha

 

Good luck man. I really admire the way you sound like you're handling it. I wish I had your rationality and optimism

 

I'm a Bioinformatician. I have a background in biology, computer science and data science. I work on analyzing and curating data from genomic experiments, as well as maintaining, modifying and creating analysis pipelines. I love it.

 

im so tired of having to go to work, is it time to be a trophy wife yet ?

 

Does anyone do any side hustles to earn extra money?

 

Yes, I make pizza at night.