I'm a fulltime cameraman for the local network around here, called RTV13. 'Here' is in Tilburg, which is in the Netherlands, which is in Yurp. Zomg, internationality, right!?
So yeah, if there's news around here, I film it. \o/
I'm planning on starting an English study though, to eventually become an English teacher.
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What's your real job?
I have a rich benefactor who pays me to sit at home and make comics all day.
Seriously. :-D
We're both hoping it'll eventually turn into something I can at least make $10,000 a year or so from, but my wife makes enough money that she can comfortably support us probably indefinitely, so over about the past two years I've created MWWT (nine months of writing, outlining, research, etc.), interviewed and hired artists (about three more months), and gotten about 31 pages illustrated plus promotional materials (nine more months). That's all been full-time, and currently I'm primarily involved in promoting the project and getting a 13-page sample penciled/inked/colored so we have something to send off to Image and whoever else as a pitch for a regular paper-and-ink bimonthly.
BEFORE I went mad and decided to try to break into the low-paying and insanely competitive comics field, I was an IT specialist making $32/hr. to monitor a 66-workstation network at a public school. I have yet to make a single penny on MWWT, but I am foolishly optimistic. ^.^
I have a rich benefactor who pays me to sit at home and make comics all day.
Seriously. :-D
We're both hoping it'll eventually turn into something I can at least make $10,000 a year or so from, but my wife makes enough money that she can comfortably support us probably indefinitely
Dude… you're the luckiest guy on the planet no doubt.
Co-running a small injection moulding company. I handle most of the red tape, payments, I answer phones, pick up and process orders, prepare them for shipping… I also specialize in CAD (SolidEdge) and, more recently, the software part of CAM. Also, it's me who has to figure out all those manuals for our machines - which are in German, most of the time.
The cool thing about the job is, if any of my art projects get famous, we can start making small figures or other toys out of them all by ourselves :) When I was a little kid, I would make designs of Transformer-like toys, hoping we'd make them someday. Didn't happen lol! But one of the projects I started from scratch when I first joined the company is already out :)
Been job hunting for many months. No job yet… A Masters degree is completely worthless, as it turns out. :-/Depends on what it's in, mine got me to England :) Now I get 40 days paid vacation a year (not including holidays)
That one depressed me because of what Skool wrote about working in instructional design. Man I studied that as part of my post grad work a few years ago! All the papers and studies I had to read about that stuff, ugh. A friend who owned an instructional design company even offered me a job in it. What would life have been like if I took her up on it? I'll never know…Hey man, my job is great :) We get to do some awesome stuff. Things started out slow but now we have our fingers in all kinds of pies…
Hey, how do you get the first page to come up when someone clicks your comic?
If I understand what you're asking, just go to your first page and note the URL, then link people to that URL directly instead of just your directory. The directory will auto-load your index page (if you have one) or your most recent page (I think) if you don't, but nothing's stopping you from direct-linking if you want people to always see the first (or any other) page first.
I started doing it because A. the current page may very well have spoilers that ruin the story and B. my story's constantly building on itself, so it's almost impossible for a reader to start in the middle and make sense of anything.
Hey man, my job is great :) We get to do some awesome stuff. Things started out slow but now we have our fingers in all kinds of pies…That gives you warm, tasty fingers… :)
Ahhahaaha. I found all that learning theory interesting, but also intimidating…
Damn! You're all on to me! Oz, how many of my movies have you seen?I have all the later ones on DVD and a poster of you in Car Wash Babes (3D wet T-shirt edition). You're my hero 8D
*deep breath*
Job #1: I work the graveyard shift four nights a week (6pm until 6am) at an Oil Platform/Ship Support company, manning the office, running the yard, running the crane, and doing late-night runs out to ships on boats I am woefully unqualified to drive (but do ANYWAY because I'm the only one here).
Job #2: I work days (9-5, M-F)at an ad agency doing production art and idea development. It's boring, my department head takes credit for my work, and almost everyone I work with is a pretentious asshole…but it's a "foot in the door" type job, so I deal with it. Also, I wear an Optimus Prime helmet so they leave me alone.
Job #3: I apprentice at a tattoo parlor on the nights I'm off from the graveyard shift. I figured, "I'm always DRAWING the tattoo designs for people…why not take the next step and put them ON, too?" The people there are cool and are pretty patient with me. PLUS, I get to practice on raw turkeys…which is way funnier than it sounds. I'm getting there.
Why am I working all these jobs, you may ask?
Job #4: Student. I'm back in school finishing up my Graphic Design degree (since I don't use my teaching degree) so I can move up in the world.
I'd call my comics a job too, but that's saying they're something I HAVE to do. I do comics because I love them.
That first job sounds incredibly, amazingly cool.
Stinky envy is leaking from all my pores.
The office stuff is boring as hell…but, yeah. I really dig getting to go out to sea. I've got a few, "This seriously almost killed me" stories. For example, the wireline unit I was in (read: tiny basket of death suspended between two ships by a wire-rope) got knocked loose in a storm, and I had to shimmy along the line to the closer of the two ships while getting tossed around by the line. The inside of my arms and legs were black and blue for weeks after that, even with protective gear on.
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