😅 Depends on how you view it, I have quite a high paying job with lots of responsibilities. I make almost as much as my husband who is a helicopter pilot and does rescue missions above sea.
However, I'm not specialized in anything particular. I just know something about a lot of things to run a company (finance, office, HR, labour laws in several countries, operations, sales & margin calculations, contracts & privacy, security, fleet and TCO), and know where to gain the correct info when I don't know enough about it, which makes me the ideal manager.
Pish posh! " Positions of authority"...haha! As if such denotes what?... Social standards far surpassing SW? Bartender/student. Post grad Developmental psychology. Wouldn't trade my nightly tips for all the authority on earth.
@Punxi No, wasn't trying to judge or anything, or say that what you do defines or improves you as a person.
But most of the posts on here I wouldn't associate with 'professional people', but clearly that's not correct 🤣
It's interesting to view it another way now. Rather than 'oh, you weirdoes all have interesting jobs'! It's now 'hmmm, maybe that straightlaced professional person I know is actually very silly or strange' 🙃
@helsbels If it's takes me a thousand years to get a PHd...it still won't change "who" I am. I...you...he...she...is not what they/we do for a living. Just how we earn a buck.
@Punxi see my comment above!! Best job I had was when I was a kid, worked in the bush running a chainsaw!! I loved it! Your job doesn't define you, it's just something you trade your time for, for money!
I am a financial analyst for a large Canadian grocery store chain. I make the sales and margin budget for a whole banner, forecast and project year end EBIT , do ad hoc analysis, and create and distribute reports. I get paid fairly well and have pretty good benefits. I've been at this company for 18 years.
@JimboSaturn 😍 I admire financial professionals so much! I've been thrown into finance management without having a degree for it, it's been a struggle trying to figure everything out, so I know how difficult it is even if it might just seem like "numbers and figures"
I am a Lead System Engineer, I like it a lot, but it is still a job. Has it good times and bad times. I have been in support and engineering now for 37 years.
@dsrice I know 'engineering' is a technically difficult and important job but no idea what it entails day to day. Is it always about planning and building things? Houses, bridges, etc?
@helsbels Yes, for me, it is keeping the site up and doing releases and updates and making sure we are not being attacked by hackers, I am in the security side of engineering.
I'm an actuarist. I have developed software to model financial risk and I advise pension funds and individuals. I like to think of myself as the Delphic oracle, but mostly I think people regard me as an irritating necessity 😩
The only people who see me as an authority figure are my nieces, and I think they only pretend in order to be nice to me 🤣
I'm actually fortunate enough that I don't have to work! When I was younger my parents took me to some kind of special intelligence test, and apparently I aced it. I basically get free money! It pays to be a genius!
I am certainly not trying to "impress" anybody. But I did have to work towards a specific career for a long time. I have a PhD in Mathematics, and I am a professor.
I operate two houses of hospitality, one is a college bar, so loud and boozy. on must keep firm control in such a place and have the very most trustworthy worker the other is a Jazz club, less business but way more taste and to me fun. again the work force is key SO I am an Engineer of good times and a Doctor of Delights
That may be me...Im a renowned singer, an A list celebrity. I gotta toot my horn in some way in life right? I make a dang pretty penny entertaining thousands!
🤔..............When I had my best job, I worked as a IT Telecommunications Analyst for the 3rd largest bank in the world...............Now I'm just a company gofer..........Oh well..........retiring soon...............
Phytopathologist sounds special but its just looking at dirt and leaves real close and writing a lot of instructions on how to be less shitty at farming. I havent been one in 2 years though. Switched to national facilities management because it payed more and requierd less travel.
@calicuz yeah but im sure there are good ones as well that take their work seriously. I see way too many construction workers and repair men not wearing the necessary equipment.
One day when I was going home from school a bus which i was waiting for had a tire that needed to be swapped out. Some repairmen did it quickly but when they started to screw the tires on with a insanely loud machine the person doing it looked like he was on pain and the person next to him just stood there looking to go deaf. When he stopped screwing I asked him why he didn't wear ear protection, and he chuckled and said "it would take too long..." I like to think that he started wearing protection after that day.
