Awhile ago you had a thread on what Msties find funny. Along that same line, I’d like to know what Msties do for a living. Are we computer-hacking photophobiacs who live in our parents’ basement, or are we other societal cornerstones like firefighters, police officers, professors, or clergy? What do we DO?
Interesting! Okay, don’t give out more info than you are comfortable with. And you don’t need to say WHERE you do it or give specific company names or anything.
Me: I’m an editor at a newspaper. Yes, they still exist. You?
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I’m a literature professor in high school by day and college by night…
I’m the General Manager for a movie theatre.
I’m a writer and associate creative director at a direct-marketing agency.
When I became a MSTie, I was a lobbyist at the California state legislature.
@190: heh heh … :mrgreen:
I’m a ne’er-do-well.
I had shredded wheat for breakfast.
Gamera is my friend.
BTW, Albuquerqueturkey #39, my husband also works for that same federal lab, and agrees about wanting “extraordinary improvement in the ‘government’ part of the job.” Just thought you might want to know!
I’m a classical composer.
I’m a professor of music and have degrees in ethnomusicology. I also work as a drummer.
Police Detective
I’m a mechanic on the boeing 787, yes its going nowhere fast.
Psychology student on indefinite medical leave. Did volunteer work at a crisis hotline for 13 years and currently volunteer at a no-kill cat shelter as a cat socializer.
Here’s some words of wisdom for the teenager who thinks life sucks:
“When I was younger I was angry because I thought the world was a terrible place. Now I’m older and I know the world’s a terrible place, but it doesn’t bother me any more because you bastards deserve it.”
I currently work as a replenishment supervisor for a big department store. My job is to get the stuff off of the truck and put it on the floor for people to buy. Also seriously underappreciated writer.
I’m an administrative assistant at a university. Before this, I used to work on the editorial desk at a wire service (lots of pressure), and MST was a major sanity-saver for me back then.
RE: #203: While I do agree with Cornjob’s prognosis on the world, don’t worry. Everyone has to come to terms with it at their own pace, and I think for most, it’s not too traumatic. I will say that MST3k has for me (and a whole lot of other posters here) always been there when the world gets to be just too damn much, whatever my age is. I’m a heck of a lot different now than I was 15 years ago when I discovered the show, but I can’t tell you how much it helps sometimes. When life gives you lemons, some poor saps make lemonade; I usually throw them in the rotten lemon barrel and throw in one of my old MST TV tapes. Hey, if 3 episodes and a good nap don’t work, I go out for a giant pepperoni and pesto pizza. I’m usually done after that.
I’m best utilized as some kind of desk jockey involving data entry, logistics, & customer service.
I have had many jobs, mainly because I get fired alot.
It’s never been for doing poor work though. My mouth or my bullheadedness usually gets me in trouble eventually. I have always tried to live life & play by my own rules, and though it’s hurt me quite often, I cant say I regret anything. But I do have high standards as far as always putting in an honest day’s work. I just don’t take continual **** from people and refuse to be bullied.
I’m currently the chemical inventory clerk for a very well known worldwide company.
Before that I was a production, shipping & inventory clerk at a factory that made milk jugs.
Before that I was mailroom & shipping clerk for a glass block/insulation manufacturer.
Those jobs encompass the past 11 years.
I usually work in the main offices of these places, though I have worked hard labor out on the factory floors of several places earlier in my life. I prefer to sit at a desk with a computer if I can help it, and I’m completely self taught as far as computers go.
I usually start out as a temp and get hired on by the company. Thats why I relate so well to Mike Nelson’s portrayal of a temp in mst3k.
No.
My first job was in a mail room for the FAA. I pushed Rolling Chairs on the Atlantic City Boardwalk one summer in the 80s. I worked for years as a electrician for the family business. Then I did electrical work for several years in central Jersey including in Piscataway, which #45 mentioned. The last few years I have been employed as Mr Mom fulltime. When I’m not stuck in that unfulfilling task I leave my wife and 3 yr old son and joyfully proceed to my deeply enriching part-time employment in a supermarket deli.
You go first, I’m bitter.
I’m a therapist trying to help children and teenagers.
Lots of educators, lots of musicians – neat!
BAs in polisci and journalism. But, I’m a do-everything IT grunt at a junior college.
Cornjob@#202: Do you come across many cats with misdirected-play-aggression? Y’know, where no matter how nice they’re acting or how you treat them, they’ll spontaneously lay into your arm with all 4 sets of claws and try to bite off and eat part of your hand, without hissing or any other warning, just for the fun of it? I raised one like that for 13 years, and wondered how common that is. It’s not something I can describe to many people, since they’d think I was condoning animal abuse, but she just refused to be interacted with in a totally nonviolent way. There’s no connection with a pet more special than one you know had a 50/50 shot of being simply disposed of by the age of 2 had anyone else adopted it.
Errr, that was a grim sentiment…well…she looked just like the kitten in Pod People when I brought her home, and that was part of why #303 made me a MSTie. So that’s a connection to the show.
And getting back to the thread:
I worked at a K-mart right after college.
It sucked.
I put a coworker in the hospital on my first day.
2 weeks later, I quit THEM!
They gave my paycheck to someone else with the same first name.
And he successfully cashed it.
So they had to give me the cash straight out of the vault before corporate found out.
Mere months later, K-mart filed for bankruptcy.
That’s right, that was my doing.
I wish my curse didn’t also affect employers that I liked.
Recent college graduate with a degree in pharmaceutical chemistry, currently a disgruntled temp food microbiologist looking for something in my field. Have gotten back into watching MST3K after about 6 years absence (once the reruns went off Sci-Fi/SyFy, I didn’t really have a way to find it at the time), and now an episode at night is part of what gets me through the day.
Faulknerian idiot (wo)man-child. I aspire to that basement. :shock:
I’m a musician and freelance audio engineer. I currently play experimental music, but have been in some punk and metal bands over the years.
I also work security at a record store (part time).
Some may call me a “film buff”.
Certified Archivist – currently developing a library/archive for a local historical society
I’m an archaeologist.
Anthropology, but I may teach theology some day, I’ve got a degree for it. I imagine it’s less work.
I’m a Rural mail carrier in northern Mi…and no…I don’t know if you got a check today.
I too wasted my parents money by earning an English Degree. For the past 16 years I’ve been in technology sales…….
Cash processing and data analysis in various industries over the years. And I now live 10 minutes away from BBI’s former home because of this show.
i’m an elderly woman who doesn’t enjoy sex..wait..wrong site. i work for a local energy conglomerate and yes if my town is ever attacked by giant flying lobsters or large bald guys in sarongs, i get to flip the switch so’s they can heat up the death ray
Crazy thread. I’m also a newspaper editor–a small weekly newspaper in northwestern Illinois.
TheBolem @ 221: MY cat has that! The worst is when I’m awakened out of a sound sleep by a whap in the face for no reason… but he’s mellowed out a bit as he got older. Helps to keep a spray bottle of water handy when I go to bed… :mrgreen:
Well, I work in mortgages and dabble in the world of theater. My Dad who is also a big fan is now retired, but when MST was on the air he worked in Government doing big boy important stuff.
I am a Lutheran Pastor in a small town in Wisconsin. Favorite religion oriented riff: “Oh, so you’re a Calvinist” from The Cavedwellers.
Add me to the list of broadcasters (who’d-a thunk there were so many of us?). I’m a news anchor at a public radio station.
I’m a professor of Russian lit at a small New England college, and a semi-pro (emphasis on “semi-“) musician/songwriter.
I’m a physics professor. Glad to see I’m not the only professor who is a MSTie!
i work security for a couple of places. the riffs on this job are pretty much well deserved. i dont think bad about others who do this kind of work, someone has too. but secretly i prayed for death…until Joe Estavez dropped in and told me he’d take me to a better place if i kissed him. so i dont pray for death as much…i don’t get to touch the starter’s pistol, i’ve only displayed my night time eyebrows twice and i still wear the Jerry Orbach hairstyle.
Forensic Scientist with the Arkansas State Crime Lab.
I’m also the Youth Minister at my church.
Re: #191 … sauron- I’m also a lifelong DC Fanboy.
i’m a psychology professor – to 57, i frequently mention MST movies/bits in class and usually a few students indicate they are familiar with it (although maybe they’re just being nice to an old guy who is going to be grading them)
Weekdays, I teach elementary school. Weekends, I host a Big Band radio show.
Once upon a time, a computer graphics magazine writer/editor, today, freelance writer and graphic designer. Tomorrow…who knows?
When I discovered MST3K in 1992 – professional musician
Currently I run a print shop in a hospital. For some reason, I actually enjoy this job more.
I’m a puppeteer, and this year I’ve been hired by a local company to tour the Chicago suburbs with a one person marionette version of “Beauty and the Beast.” Along with that show, I’m also building marionettes for my own birthday party show.
In order to make enough money to get by, I work in the evenings at a security firm, working as a dispatcher.
I’m a paralegal & librarian at an Oakland law firm. I look at mst3kinfo.com at lunchtime every day to remind myself that one needn’t conform to a straight eight hours of “serious” work each day.
I’m the News/Sports Director at a radio station.
I’m an Aerospace Engineer for the US Army
I’m a retail worker…stay in college kids…
@ Beautiful Mind, 200: No way! I’m so impressed there’s another interpreter on here! What kind of interpreting do you specialize in???
@ Creepy Girl, 202: I used to work in a movie theater during high school and college, as an assistant manager for part of that time. At that time I had the privilege of working in one of the few movie theaters that showed the MST movie! That was a great job–hope you have as many memorable moments there as I did!