What do you guys do for a living?

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So guys, tell me what you guys do for a living and do you enjoy what you guys do also?

I am a geological consultant for oil and gas drilling companies, and as much as anyone can enjoy work, I do, I do not enjoy the fact that I am gone away from family most of the time, but with my job, I dont have to deal with alot of people so that part is good, for the most part I just answer to myself, and send my work in via email once during my shift, and it is interesting work.

I used to work as a nuclear reactor operator for several years, then worked at a University astrophysics research project. They were okay, but I found that social interactions were still just too difficult to manage. Now I take care of adults with developmental disorders, I make far less money, but I have far fewer problems with interacting with them than I do with NT individuals. And I also have more time, even while working, to enjoy reading and work on my writing projects.

I don't have a job because I keep losing to older unemployed people at supermarkets etc. but I make miniscule amounts of money from music.

I am a student though.

My real job is pizza delivery, I like it, then my parents forced on me a little shop which I'm trying to escape, it ruined my life. Lately I'm also trying buying and selling some games on ebay.

I am a Linguistics and Literary History student in university. I do small research and focus mainly on the 1400-1800 period and grammatical history. I'll be taking on a second bachelor in Theology next academic year, to further enhance my knowledge of the similarities and intertextuality between literature and Judaism and Christianity.

Wow, that really sounds boring reading that back.

That is hardly boring , I am also a student in my first term I am pursuing a degree in ethnobotany.

I'm a technical illustrator - I work with 3D models & create technical documents showing how things are assembled. It's interesting work, especially creating the models on the computer. I work for a company that makes displays for trade shows, so I also need to understand structural engineering concepts. I get to use some great graphic software (IronCAD, Illustrator, Photoshop) & there are plenty of challenges to keep things interesting.

Oddly enough, I have a degree in music education - but only did a bit of teaching. After a number of years applying my music performance skills in the Army, I entered the civilian world & eventually decided to take a course at a technical school to gain the certification necessary to begin my present career.

I enjoyed my time in college - but if I had it to do over again, I would have taken a liberal arts degree (for all the good my specialized degree has gotten me.) That would have allowed me to take plenty of music courses, but also freed up time for more math & science (in place of the education courses - which turned out to be mostly useless to me.)

Well, I went on to a 2 year college for my AA in General arts, then to a 4 yr for a BS in Electrical Engineering (dropped out after 70+ hours due to personal and financial reasons), then went back to the 2 yr for a AS in Biotechnology (of which i have not yet found a position). As far as employment, Ive worked for a state historical site, pizza buffet restaurant, large scale retailer, and now as a utility worker at a college's dining center/convenience store. I honestly have no idea what id want to do in the long run since my interests seem to limit the extent of my focus on certain topics. I do however enjoy math (but its not something i obsess over . . . bout the only thing i do obsess over is being able to play my games ).

I take tax payer money and invest them for my own benefit. I'm 100% in charge of my own time and life and I'm not directly "poor" either.

I'm a Licensed Electrician. I work on new construction mostly. It's no the funnest job ever but, it has it's moments. It's always nice to be driving around town and to look up at a building and know that you had a small part in building it. When there is work the pay is good.

I'm learning how to program at the moment so I can start creating and selling iPhone apps.

Sales, believe it or not. Though I'm technical pre-sales, so focus more on the technology itself rather then the building of relationships. so seems to suit me well.

I'm a lab technician at a university. While I like my job and my boss as I get on with him, I am deeply unhappy at the moment. This is for two main reasons:

1. I may be about to lose it due the recession caused by idiots who don't know how to manage their money i.e. cannot add or subtract, so I'd like to say a big thank you to those responsible for the economic downturn, I have already lost one fantastic and utterly perfect job as a result and now I could be made to lose this one too.
2. I work largely by myself and, while this is sometimes a good thing, I have actually suffered terribly social wise. I am often busy and so don't get much of an opportunity to say hello to my other employees. They all go for lunch together or go for drinks after work, something of which I am never included in. Whenever I have seen anyone, I am nice, open and make the effort (but not too much as I know this could appear a bit full-on), but that still doesn't seem to work when it comes to people wanting to socialise with me. It's almost as though people talk to me to amuse me rather than because they like me, or perhaps they do like to talk to me but just aren't that bothered enough to want me to socialise with them. I haven't felt this socially excluded since I was at school. It's making me really depressed. I have been in this post for nearly six months now and, in all that time, excluding staff functions, I have only been to lunch with someone once and that was this Wednesday just gone with one of the students who I have recently become friends with and have been for an after work drink twice with my boss. This is why I refer to my last job as being 'fantastic and utterly perfect' as I had the correct balance of me time and social time and my former colleagues always included me in things the vast majority of the time, unlike my current post.

I do consumer loan debt collections for a highly ranked bank.

Interesting that statistics say at least 80% of people with AS and autism have never had a real job, when at least 90% on here seem to have normal jobs.

The joy of self diagnosing I guess.