What do you do for a living

[rdearman]

I'm a medical technologist--I look for germs in patient specimens, including the-virus-that-must-not-be-named.

Syphilis ??

[smallwhite]

Accountant here. Tricked into a supervisor position a few years ago. Still trying to figure out how to get back to the roots (numbers!). For the time being, mainly reading and answering 150-200 unproductive mails daily.

I feel your pain! I'm a senior audit manager in a large accounting firm and I alternate between answering unproductive emails and taking unproductive calls, as opposed to actually doing any accounting

I send those emails in the capacity of The Client.

[Xenops]

I'm a medical technologist--I look for germs in patient specimens, including the-virus-that-must-not-be-named.

Syphilis ??

That's a bacteria, dude.

[rdearman]

I'm a medical technologist--I look for germs in patient specimens, including the-virus-that-must-not-be-named.

Syphilis ??

That's a bacteria, dude.

Only viruses I know affect computers.

[Sumisu]

Marriage/family/domestic duties

[tarvos]

I get money from the government for being semi-sick and semi-unemployed while also doing a few things but it's a long story and you don't want to know the red tape involved kthxbye

Basically I'm partially disabled

[jandzban]

I work remotely on a computer. I would not like to do other work.

[IronMike]

Retired and working on my (back-of-the-book) indexer certification.

And husband and dad, which is both harder and way more rewarding.

[Jinx]

Head of translation QA for two teams at a multinational LSP (language service provider). I review and edit translations from various languages into English, produced by several teams of fantastic translators in various locations around the globe (I'm only responsible for two locations, though: the UK and the US). I'm also theoretically supposed to be the "mother hen" to all these translators, providing feedback on the quality of their work and encouraging/admonishing them where necessary, but I'm spoiled because they're all so darn good at their jobs that I rarely have any critique to offer.

I also struggle (mostly in vain) to try to generally improve translation quality assurance workflow at my company. It's a Sisyphean effort.

I can't really complain, though. Most of the time I manage to avoid doing too much supervisor-y/administrative stuff, and instead just submerge myself in translations. So I get to read various foreign languages every day. Still, this isn't quite as fun as it sounds, because I have no time to savor the experience; I'm pretty much always speed-reading with one eye while the other eye watches the clock.

[FrenchHero]

I’m a lawyer and a single dad. I went back to school to get an engineering degree.