I dont mean whats your job title, or what you do for a living, but what do you actually spend your working day doing?

Meetings?
On the phone?
Filing?
writing reports?

What do you do?

Im a trainee building surveyor, but I spend most of my time doing architectural drawing, filing, sending faxes, and filling in complex spreadsheets! Ocassionally I get to go out and survey, or take the minutes of a meeting, bu thats about it.

What about you guys???

I watch a lot of monitors and do a lot with numbers and write reports and answer a lot of phone calls and tell people what to do.

I watch Carrie.

Cloudbuster said:

Does it pay well?

CarrieMpls said:

Sounds like fun! confusing, but fun...at least the telling people what to do part!

Is it maths stuff with numbers or more data input?

susannah said:

A bit of both. I have really nice software I work with that does most of it for me. Basically I watch and analyze trends throughout the day, every day, report what happened and report what I think is gonna happen. lol.

CarrieMpls said:

cool! ok now Im intrigued. Trends of what?

Sorry for being so curious!

CarrieMpls said:

In some ways.

Cloudbuster said:

This is getting creepy!

susannah said:

oh lord.
I do workforce management for a help desk. We forecast, staff, schedule and do real-time management of the contacts. It's really not that fascinating, I assure you. lol. So we forecast how many contacts we think we'll get, we hire and create schedules for those numbers, then as each day, week, month goes on we look at if we're getting as many or fewer contacts than we expected and make adjustments based on that.

Cloudbuster said:

oh.

CarrieMpls said:

CarrieMpls said:

Ok Im satisfied! Thats what I meant; you cant get much from a job title or a basic description, Im just bored and wondered what exactly everyone else was doing!

Me, im filing

You know whats great?

When you realise its almost midday, which means its almost lunchtime, which means its almost afternoon, which means youve successfully skived away the morning!! WOO HOO!

This is the fastest day Ive ever had in here!

I play with dirt, type reports, make phonecalls, post on prince.org and myspace all day long.

jerseykrs said:

Im interested in the play with dirt part

Now what does that actually involve??

susannah said:

The last time I fully explained what I do, I was begged to shut the fuck up by the likes of Imago and that "clique"

jerseykrs said:

Oh ignore them, theyre not here now! Come on, dish the dirt

play with myself ALL DAY LONG.

susannah said:

hahaha...."dish the dirt".....


http://en.wikipedia.org/w...ngineering

jerseykrs said:

See now to me thats interesting! Ive had to do some of that too So all I saw was the heading

PS I just added you to myspace

when I do have a bit of work on I communicate with my clients via email, they send me a brief and do a bit of research if necessary and do some designs, email the client visuals, then it's a bit of toing and froing until it all looks right and then I prepare the artwork to send to print. I never even meet most of my clients! little do they know I am sitting and doing their corporate stationery whilst in my pyjamas eating pizza for breakfast with kids shrieking and racing around the house like lunatics.

Basically, as of yesterday, my job is over. I will now pack my office this week and then be done

ZombieKitten said:

probably the less they know the better! Sounds cool though

bluesbaby said:

Oh no! Thata not good. What are you going to do now?

susannah said:

look for another position. the ministry is a long process in finding a new church....

bluesbaby said:

Well good luck in finding one bluesbaby I wish you all the best. In the meantime, enjoy the break?

susannah said:

I have to find something in the midst, actually..but I am glad I am gone from there, its just rough today waking up and realizing the hell is over

bluesbaby said:

Well whatever "hell" is over, as long as its over you have that to be grateful for!

Argue with people, mostly.