What does everyone do for a living?

[joeactor]

What's a GED?

It's a test that gives you the equivalent of a High School Degree (if you pass, that is).

I don't know if it's in the whole of the US, but it's in a number of states here...

[Davin]

I am going to get my GED soon and then work on getting my certificate in gunsmithing. After that I'm going to take a few business courses and hopefully get a small business loan to open up my own shop.

What's a GED?

General Education Development. Pretty much a way to test if a person has a highschool level education... high school is before university.

[Tank]

Thanks for the details about the GED 

[xXxWashburnxXx]

Yeah, I've more or less self educated myself since I was 6 and should have graduated a while ago. In my specific area they don't believe in skipping grades though, so I dropped out and am now working on my GED, which will allow me to do anything a high school diploma would except go to a 4 year university. Which I can do if I take two courses of a foreign language, at least that's what the person I talked to in the office staff said before I dropped out, only in a much more negative tone.

[Tank]

Yeah, I've more or less self educated myself since I was 6 and should have graduated a while ago. In my specific area they don't believe in skipping grades though, so I dropped out and am now working on my GED, which will allow me to do anything a high school diploma would except go to a 4 year university. Which I can do if I take two courses of a foreign language, at least that's what the person I talked to in the office staff said before I dropped out, only in a much more negative tone.

If you're going to go into business then drive, energy , determination and hard work will win out over a piece of paper every time. Business is not an academic activity at the grass-roots level. It's about profit, profit and profit!

[xXxWashburnxXx]

Yeah, I've more or less self educated myself since I was 6 and should have graduated a while ago. In my specific area they don't believe in skipping grades though, so I dropped out and am now working on my GED, which will allow me to do anything a high school diploma would except go to a 4 year university. Which I can do if I take two courses of a foreign language, at least that's what the person I talked to in the office staff said before I dropped out, only in a much more negative tone.

If you're going to go into business then drive, energy , determination and hard work will win out over a piece of paper every time. Business is not an academic activity at the grass-roots level. It's about profit, profit and profit!

But i know nothing about the inner workings of business, how american taxes work and things like this. That's what i need to learn. I just want the gunsmithing certificate (and possibly certificates of expertise from companies) for the look of professionalism, thus attracting customers and increasing profit.

[Tank]

Yeah, I've more or less self educated myself since I was 6 and should have graduated a while ago. In my specific area they don't believe in skipping grades though, so I dropped out and am now working on my GED, which will allow me to do anything a high school diploma would except go to a 4 year university. Which I can do if I take two courses of a foreign language, at least that's what the person I talked to in the office staff said before I dropped out, only in a much more negative tone.

If you're going to go into business then drive, energy , determination and hard work will win out over a piece of paper every time. Business is not an academic activity at the grass-roots level. It's about profit, profit and profit!

But i know nothing about the inner workings of business, how american taxes work and things like this. That's what i need to learn. I just want the gunsmithing certificate (and possibly certificates of expertise from companies) for the look of professionalism, thus attracting customers and increasing profit.

Spot on lad, you're doing it right. Can I call you lad? I'm 52 after all but I wouldn't want to break any cultural taboos 

[Traveler]

But i know nothing about the inner workings of business, how american taxes work and things like this. That's what i need to learn. I just want the gunsmithing certificate (and possibly certificates of expertise from companies) for the look of professionalism, thus attracting customers and increasing profit.

And you wouldn't learn any of this in high school. School is sort of interesting, but it doesn't generally teach you much in the specifics of making a living. At least that's been my experience.

[xXxWashburnxXx]

Spot on lad, you're doing it right. Can I call you lad? I'm 52 after all but I wouldn't want to break any cultural taboos 

It's fine.

[Firebird]

Simplest explanation for my job is IT. Mostly as a systems administrator in the past, but I now do a bit of programming as well.

[Asmodean]

but I now do a bit of programming as well.

What sort? End-user level? Core level..? Microcontroller..?

[Firebird]

but I now do a bit of programming as well.

What sort? End-user level? Core level..? Microcontroller..?

Automation of system administration tasks. I write scripts that will automatically run a multistep task like shutting down the switchport of a particular server without having to know which switch or switchport it's on. I've also written plugins for a monitoring system called Nagios to monitor servers and switches for issues and performance over time.

[Ihateyoumike]

I work for initech, a software company which updates software for the y2k rollover. What do i actually do there, you might be asking youself. Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side door - that way Lumbergh (my boss) can't see me, heh heh - and, uh, after that I just sorta space out for about an hour. Yeah, I just stare at my desk; but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch, too. I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.

I am also not a pussy.

[En_Route]

I practise in the field of commercial law, having recently departed the groves of academe. Though I don't know if today they still merit being described as groves. Deserts might be more apposite.

[Anne D.]

It's so interesting to hear about what everybody does for a living. I'm a writer/editor for a state government agency.