Guess my job
 

As suggested in the "What makes you happy today" thread. Posts quoted for usefulness:

So, here it goes.

I get up sometime between 6:30 and 7:30am, though strictly speaking I could sleep in until around 8am. I send a couple of texts, check my work email account and have a shower, get dressed and have breakfast at the cafe across the road (unless they are out of paper coffee cups, which they sometimes are, because I like to take my coffee back to my apartment with me).

I check my emails once every couple of hours or so, while reading the papers, a book or surfing aimlessly online. Sometimes I do exercises in my flat, or have a nap to help pass the time. I may have to answer a couple of phone calls or reply to my emails, but that is about it.

Sometime late in the evening, I make a couple of phone calls, carry out some checks, fill in some paperwork and go to bed.

Assuming nothing goes horribly wrong, that is pretty much every day for me.

Does it matter if you are male or female?

Building superintendant

Nope, not at all. There were female applicants for the post in question.

You're an importer-exporter.

No, but closer than insurance broker.

If only. Then I could have a sweet gig "mixing up" export licences.

Do you ever meet people face to face? If you also occasionally meet people face to face, you are some sort of staffing agency job filler.

Baby sitter for the comatose

And YOU want to be my latex salesman?!?

Tard Farmer

Software troubleshooter for a company designing custom systems ...

Government or private sector?

Rent boy

system administrator

You're the one who changes the things on railroad tracks that make the train curve off onto another track.

Or a train engineer, or caboose guy?

Caboose sounds like something to do with booty...?
I'm sure a caboose guy is not a job description in Britain.
At least not one that is paid.

You don't see a caboose much anymore;technology has made them obsolete.

You might know them as brake vans (according to wiki).

When I was a kid we always waved to the train driver and the caboose guy. The drivers will, most often, still wave back.

I'd love to convert an old caboose into a guest room or something.

He's a hit man for the mob.


sooooooooo obvious.

or he sells vicodin online.

Tiger and I read a book today that ended in the family having their holiday (vacation) in a double decker bus. He was SO taken with the idea that I suggested to Mum he might want to watch Summer Holiday with (dad's favourite) Sir Cliff Richard.

It was my childhood dream to tour Europe in a converted double decker bus. As per the above film.

She's just a devil woman, with evil on her mind. Beware the devil woman, she's gonna GETCHA!

Well after all, Carrie doesn't live here any more
And from what I remember, she had the room on the second floor.
There's a reasonable chanche she was abducted and killed.

But what can you do, eh?

We camped one site over from a converted red double decker bus when my family was camping across Europe. I think it was outside Rome. Anyway, it seemed so incredibly cool! It was a decent sized group, like maybe ten or fifteen people, but they had so much room! I wanted to ditch my family and jump on that bus.

My friend's father did that way back in the 60s or 70s, in the Poconos. Had the caboose moved there and set on a length of track. My friend's brother lives there now.

There was not much privacy.

I picture one behind my house (my new log home) set back into the woods a bit, where guests could stay if they wanted. My nieces would love it.

I'm dreamy today.

A guess for Cotillion... if you have to "run some checks" in the evening, I'm thinking system backups. Some form of sysadmin/IT support like UT said.


Edit: an earlier post made by Cotillion before the job-guessing game started:

Oh yeah. Definitely a computer guy.

Tester for a waterbed manufacturer?

Box Car Children!!!!

My favorite!

Kids' favorites always seem to involve absent parents or dead parents. Especially popular when the parents come back at the end and praise the kids for being so independent and resourceful.

I must have had a Boxcar Children book or two, because I remember them, vaguely.

Remember when the Bobbsey Twins got their Own Little Railroad? I was fascinated. This might be the reason for my love of trains now.

Anyway, yeah, I still want to guess Cotillion's job! I'm just passing the time, waiting on some yays or nays on the previous guesses.

:)

Cotillion, do you occasionally have to travel to distant cities and kill people?

There is one for sale down the road from me IM shall I inquire for you? ;)

Cotillion, do you masturbate while on the clock?

Oh I wish. I have no money and no land. I'll let you know after I win the lottery tonight. :)

Cotillion, do you like Gladiator movies?

This is the case with almost all classic children's literature. At least one parent is absent.

One of the marked exceptions is the Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder. But the family lived a pioneer lifestyle, so it was still a time of great upheaval.

I hadn't thought of that. Pippi Longstocking also comes to mind:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pippi_Longstocking

I know!!!!! Cotillion is Pippi Longstocking!!!!!!!

What a great username that would have been. Rats!

I vote inter tube spam merchant.

Could your job be described as "slangin"?

My favourite of the kids without parents around type books as a kid, was Homecoming. Followed by Dicey's Song Even now I get a lump in my throat at the second title, though Homecoming was the best of the two.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homecoming_(novel)

Was published when I was 11, and I think I read it when I was 12.

Heh. I hadn;t realised there were more in the series. I fell off after Dicey's Song.

One of my favorites as an adolescent was The Talisman. And yep, kid's mom is dying of cancer so he has to go out into this crazy fantasy world and save her by himself.

Then again, I also loved a lot of Dean Koontz, and his were never about kids.

Three of my favorite books when I was nine were, Watership Down, The Blue Knight, and Mouthful of Flesh - which I found in the road one day.

My favorite was a Wrinkle in Time. Read it in 4th grade and it freaked me out so much I had to read it again.

You loved Watership Down at none years old?!
Wow. I couldn't get into it until I was an adult.

Hard to play "What's my line?" with a mute.

His boss found this thread and now he has a ton of work to do.

A bunch of system administration

Sumbitches need some administerin' up in heah.

You know this clinches it. System Admins are lazy sumbitches who don't return to a thread even if it's about them.

He's on the corner.

Slangin'.

... still waiting.

Guess my job
 

bulletin board poster baiter, semi-pro division?

More likely he got whacked.

I told you he was a mob guy.

Geez.

Maybe he was struck by lightning?
(Oh, no, wait, that's postillion ...:facepalm: )

He never was real, was he?

Shhh. Don't tell the kids!

snort