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In this thread we talk work and trade.

What is it you do for a living? do you enjoy your job or are you looking to move on?

Or are you still in education?

I test video games for a living. It's as fun as it sounds though it's taken a few hardships in order for it to be as fun as it sounds. It wasn't a job I expected I'd ever qualify to do, but following my teacher's advice of working for what I love to do has helped me come a long way.

Really looking forward to sharing my first triple-A game with y'all.

That's cool.

Are you allowed to discuss what games you've worked on, or do you have to keep quiet about that sort of thing.

I work for the Man now, so I can't talk about what I do now; although I do rather like my job.

I could probably talk about my time in motor insurance call centre since I don't work there anymore and I've forgotten all of the names of the people involved in the stories, so it's not like I'd be doxing anyone.

So did people call in to make claims for insurance? Did they have to explain what happened? Any specific incidents or people that stick in your memory?

Still a college student, but I've dreamed since I was 12 to become a writer and filmmaker. So now I'm trying to get my Major in Media.

As for current jobs? Technically I help my dad around with his small business and also the part-time food delivery job he took when the pandemic happened.

I also am thinking of getting into making art on the internet and getting back into making youtube videos, but for the former I want to improve my actual art skills and get a tablet first and for the latter I'm trying to find a good alternative to patreon so I can speak freely in my videos (since a lot of the stuff I want to talk about will probably get me demonetized anyways) and patreon itself is too strict for me.

I'm a tech artist at a game company that specializes primarily in mobile games, but also has some games on steam. My job is effectively being a bridge between artists and programmers while also delving into making vfx for the game in Unity3D. Traditionally I come from 3D Art and visualization. I can share something I've done not long ago that isn't related to my current job, but I will not share my actual portfolio as I do not want to doxx myself too easily.

Has anyone's work actually been directly effected by the pandemic? I am classed as a "key worker" so things for me having changed. I spent three months unemployed last year during the beginning of Covid which was a pain. A lot of jobs dried up with employers shedding staff.

I'm just a part time wagie working retail (take what you can get), though if and when i can get things sorted out, I'd like to go to college for engineering classes.

I am a civil engineer employed by State's Environmental Department. I really enjoy it, some people don't like cubicle jobs but I feel much more fulfillment than working in a warehouse like I used to.

Maybe I'll move into the private sector some day but I need to get my professional engineers license first.

Oh yeah, my job was to take the call from the customer at the scene of the accident or just slightly afterwards and records everything down that happened.

My company specialised in insurance for over fifties, so the vast majority of the accidents were just carpark bumps.

We did the occasional silly ones, like a customer who swerved off the road to miss a sheep and sent us a photo of guilty sheep to use as evidence.

I also learned some interesting things, like BMWs that were made after 2018 are frighteningly susceptible to permanent engine damage due to their low air intakes sucking water straight out of the road and into the pistons.

Oh, and if any of you own a car that is older than 8 years old, it's an automatic write-off; regardless of the damage or make. It's bullshit, but that's the consequences of all the garages screwing us over on costs to repairs.

During the winter months, we'd get at least one or two of those a week on average.

There was some fatalities I had to deal with as well, sadly, but I really don't want to talk about depressing stuff like that unless people want to hear it.