[Ginger]

Sooo I just got curious and I'm wondering what professions you guys are in, or are in but would like to be in something else!

Topics:

Your current job
Your dream job
How much money you make versus How much you would like to be making (You don't have to give specific details on how much money you make, just include how much of a raise you would like or something or other)
If you feel your paycheck is fair for what you do

Also, I am wondering if anyone here is a professional body-piercer and if they could explain to me what it's like, about how much money I would expect to be making (per month), and what I need to get started. You could PM me or reply here. Thanks!

[Yokuutsu]

Most piercers in this area also do tattoos.

You should do both. Around here they charge 30-35 dollars per piercing normally. No idea how much you'd make per month.

I'm in college to get a degree in business management. That's my job and I have to pay them to have it. It sucks LOL

[NikkoGallarado]

Ooooo I like the two jobs I happen to be in right now.

My dream job is to own my own anime store travel from con to con and well run my own con.

My two jobs I do now is~~

I work in a bakery and I Bartend.

[ShaylaSakura]

I can't find a fricken job and I need one desperately. lol

[Echo-chan713]

Current Job: Unemployed but looking

Dream Job: any retail wholesales job like macy's, toys r us, sex stores (don't ask why), costume stores, gas station stores, etc.

As well as a really good freelance artist making lots at cons by crocheting tiny kawaii thing like plushies as well as making prints, I'm not sure if my art can make something

[Quiet Man Cometh]

Looking for a job at the moment. Have one I'm going to apply for now. I've done retail, food, movie theater stuff, and research and data entry for a survey firm. Not exactly stimulating work.

For a dream job I think I'd like to be a travel writer, though I'm not sure since I haven't done it yet and can't say how much I like it. ;). I do like to travel though, and I like to write and keep journals.

[Funky Monkey Vibration]

I'm currently working as a waiter.
Not very formal though, I just clean tables and such in a café.
To be honest, I have no idea what I want to do in the future... :\
I don't earn very much either... About $16-17 per hour.

[Jurinjo]

Dude...16-17 dollars is a lot! ...how many hours do you get a week?
I work retail. I get almost $10 less than you. And every night I run around the store trying to meet my "deadlines" so to speak. A waiter...do they earn good tips where you are?

I hear such good things about tips that I'm considering getting a job at a Ruby Tuesdays or something xD

ps I'll post regarding the main questionairre later xD;

[Lioshika]

Let's see.
Currently I'm a cashier at Staples. I don't know what my dream job is yet. I know I want to work with history. So maybe in a museum? I just know somewhere more cubicle like.
Right now (just got a 15 cent raise) I make $7.65 an hour, 10-20 hours a week. I would like to be at about $60k-$80k for a yearly salary.
I definitely know that my pay is NOT fair for what crap I get dished out between customers, coworkers, and a manager who is targeting me. I get customers yelling at me because of company policy or coworkers who tell them false information. The manager is self explanatory.

[littl3chocobo]

retail from hell but i get to go to the bakery so it may improve

fuuu~<3 anything art, drawing, painting, building, oh my^^ i think being a site artist for an avatar community, or being a tattooist<3 though i am afraid of blood and noone likes pixelists in avi comunities so both my jobs are out hahahaha~

not buch, and i would not know, if i could find a way to live i'd do it for free, being a 'starving artist' would be ok as long as i was not a homeless one

[V. Lisette]

ミ I currently work at AMC Theaters, getting trained to work Concession and Usher. With potential to work Box Office and Guest Services.

My dream job is to be a parent. >>; */shot*

[Ashurato]

Current Job: I work for Japan Airlines as a purchasing agent.

Dream Job: If my job paid a bit more and was slightly less stressful, I wouldn't want to be anywhere else.

I don't want to release my salary information, but I do think I should be paid more. But in the current economy, one can't really complain too much as just having a job is already a blessing.

[Ginger]

I am curious if anyone here is a go go dancer. I have read somewhere that they make around $34,000 a year, about the same salary as a high school teacher in Idaho.

[Fey]

O.o
I know a lot of go-go dancers(my brother and his friends all work at bars/clubs) and they don't make that much that I'm aware of...at least not in this state....

Current Job: retail monkie; I help guests as well as do the deposits, which means I handle all the money that goes to the bank.

Dream Job: no idea, I used to really want to work with Big Cats, but now I'm not sure...I'd love to be a costume designer/seamstress, but as that's what I love doing I know better than to try to do it for a job since I'll end up hating it.....

[CupcakeDolly]

Ginger, are you in Idaho too? o.o

All the piercing places I've seen around here are run in conjunction with tattoos... except for Claire's, but at some point you just have to grow up and go to a big-girl shop. =P I don't know if you have to be a tattoo artist to do piercings as well, but you'd probably be looking at better money if you did both.

I work in a grocery store bakery at the moment, and it's alright. I have nothing to complain about, except that it's part-time and probably won't sustain me through my life. My dream job would be something where I could sit down and draw - any kind of drawing, I don't really care. I'd probably have to move out of state to find something like that, though.

[Funky Monkey Vibration]

Originally Posted by Jurinjo

Dude...16-17 dollars is a lot! ...how many hours do you get a week?
I work retail. I get almost $10 less than you. And every night I run around the store trying to meet my "deadlines" so to speak. A waiter...do they earn good tips where you are?

I hear such good things about tips that I'm considering getting a job at a Ruby Tuesdays or something xD

ps I'll post regarding the main questionairre later xD;

It's not too much in Norway. xD
Our economy is like... BOOM! I don't know how to explain it.
Usually I work from around 10am till 4pm. So 6 hours 5 days a week.
I sometime work on Saturdays too, if they ask me.
Wow... I think that maybe a 10 year old would have gotten $6-7 per hour... That's an insanely small amount. o:

I don't really get tips. xD