What do you do for a living?

[The Unavoidable]

I work at a McDonalds. It's alright, but doesn't pay that much. I'm working about half time, so a bit more than 20 hours a week. On the plus side, it gives alot of free time, but then again I'm not exactly raking in the cash either. I've asked for more hours, but the economy and everything is so sucky now so they simply can't. I'm strongly thinking of getting another job, but then again, nobody is hiring now either.

 

[Torniojaws]

Well, I'm in school at the moment (Kemi-Tornio University of Applied Sciences; Bachelor of Engineering, Technology - Software Engineering), with 12 months of courses left before the Thesis stuff begins

 

[16S]

marketing director in a huge global corporation...and its sucking the life out of me.....

 

[Saculus]

Push a mouse around for Amazon.com dealing as an intermediary between the Customer Service reps abroad and the local distribution centers. I just found out my 10% discount is valid on Dean, Krank, and Line6 products we distribute out of PA.

Thanks to this site and all you crazy bastards my recordings have improved and gained me some demo work as well as the confidence to self produce my bands first full length.

 

[WestCoastCrush]

I do that as well, although the prices in Finland are such that almost everyone orders on-line (or straight from the importer, if you're a studio).

Really? You gotta get some good deals on Genelec, though, right?

 

[Torniojaws]

Really? You gotta get some good deals on Genelec, though, right?

If anything, we're getting screwed with Genelecs:

7070A = 2159 EUR / 2990 USD
7050A = 777 EUR / 1076 USD
A pair of 8040APM = 1598 EUR / 2214 USD
A pair of 8030APM = 970 EUR / 1344 USD

 

[pifos_2]

Full Time Automation Engineer.

Until September 2009 !! When I will enter the ArtEZ, Enschede NL. To start Audio Engineering studies really oriented towards composition and music.

 

[DivisionByZero]

Software engineer for automotive electronics.
It's a great job and it's good money, but probably not the kind of work I had in mind for myself when I was a hard Death Metal kiddie

Interesting to see that most guys here don't make a living with music.

 

[Skinny Viking]

QA Manager / Technician for a magnetics company ... we're basically a distributor with some light manu capabilities, some plastic injection molders etc ... and basically provide magnetic products for just about anything you can imagine ... clients range from Lockheed to Ibanez

 

[JBroll]

Neodymium guitar pickup magnets, maybe?

Jeff

 

[Torniojaws]

Interesting to see that most guys here don't make a living with music.

There is no money in music, at least in heavier :Smokin: It's a hobby for me, both recording/mixing and writing my own.

 

[Skinny Viking]

Neodymium guitar pickup magnets, maybe?

Jeff

Hahaha ... nah, only pickup magnets we work with are just the standard alnico or ceramic although I did get a guy in here once who was trying to design his own brand of pickups using a type of flex (rubber mixed with neo). He was trying to emulate the sound of some old boutique pickup from the 50s or something ... it didn't work

usually the only compression bonded neo stuff we work with is used for multi-pole precision switch motors.

Its too bad really, our standard doesn't require us having any design responsibilities, otherwise I wouldn't mind playing around with some different materials to see what I could come up with

 

[Damian B]

full time student, and i have a part time job fixing computers on campus.

 

[HandsOfDespair]

I'm a fulltime student, I wash dishes (3/4 of my income) and compose videogame music(1/4).

 

[almumin23]

Full time student studying medicine, hope to be a surgeon someday... also work part time at a retail store to get by*

 

[Fredrik-Ablaze]

PLC programmer, building automations designer, session guitarist

 

[pifos_2]

PLC programmer, building automations designer

I do that too. Fucking lame. It was exciting the first year though.

Not mentionning the writing of the quality documentation stuff. Bah, got to make you sick.

 

[digitaldeath]

IT Security Administrator for a global insurance company. I'm based in our Ireland offices.

 

[Proggm]

Recording studio owner/engineer here.

 

[brandy]

Recording studio owner/engineer here.

Here too!

Since about 6 years exclusively - before I earned some extra money as a bike messenger. Hehe, in the late 90is I was 50hours a week on the bike... Now 80h/week in front of the computers.