What's your non-art job?

[jetpack42]

Was just wondering what those of you who aren't making money with your art make your money doing?

I just started a job as a mover...

[Joeslucher]

I think this thread already exists somewhere else.

I've been driving a blind piano tuner, making 9 bucks an hour, free gas and free lunch. I'll be starting an internship in three weeks at either a big evil design firm or this studio that does toy package illustration.

[mtw]

Before choosing to become an artist, I was into computers. That's why I'm do computer support at my u.

[mtw]

Originally posted by jetpack42
I just started a job as a mover...
That's sounds more up my alley, because I like lifting heavy things. Do you only have to move packages, or do you also need to help pack and unpack small things?

[sorvan]

I work as a fulltime programmer at a small multimedia/it company
http://www.trimm.nl
Mostly java, flash, php that kind of stuff... and hopefully... MORE ART IN THE FUTURE WHEEEEE

[Skank]

i work at a mortgage company....

blah

but it pays the bills
fav job: construction, tho in my case it was demolition!! nothing like completely detroying a kitchen and rebuilding it in one day...

[Blackhawk]

I've been a bartender for a year, but I'm already sick of it. I just want to do art :D

[bRyaN]

Department of Education in New York City...

Responsiblities include distributing Metrocards, to every school and child eligible for one....

Been doing it for the past 2 years, hate it with such a passion...you have no idea...

[fukifino]

Computer programmer here. Currently doing business applications in python and a few other technologies. Did Java for a while too and a lot of web development.

I only ever wanted to be in computers so I could make video games...that didn't happen. Time to try doing something I love. :)

[Osmus]

i work at Wal*Mart : (
i'm also a full time student at WCSU. ( western connecticut state university )

[jetpack42]

Originally posted by mtw

That's sounds more up my alley, because I like lifting heavy things. Do you only have to move packages, or do you also need to help pack and unpack small things?

well, i'm only 2 days in so far, and the only thing I've had to pack was 1 woredrobe box (clothes), and that took about..5 minutes, max. We drive to the place, load boxes onto the truck, load furniture on the truck, go to the new place, unload the furniture, unload the boxes, and then done. The people have bought lunch both times (nice perk) and i guess since its becoming summer the work is really starting to pick up. I see you are in Washington, I'm working in Kent, near Renton...if you want more info PM me.

[DragonGX]

I'm a 911 Dispatcher.

[mtw]

Originally posted by DragonGX
I'm a 911 Dispatcher.
Have you gotten any scary calls? I suppose most would be...

[H.Evans]

snowboard instructor, printshop monitor (work/study), cook,

[maldrin]

i manage tech support for a vis-sim company. not super glam or anything but as close to computer graphics as i could get.

managing sucks, but it buys decent art supplies.

[RONIN]

Started 2 months ago as head of sales and marketing for an IT company. My creative outlet lately has been designing the data sheets, folder, website and sales material for the company.

[hito]

I file loose leaf collection in a law school library.

[RomanKL]

Journalist. An author at a computer games magazine.

[Redder]

Originally posted by RomanKL
Journalist. An author at a computer games magazine.

What's the magazine called if you don't mind me asking?

[RomanKL]

Originally posted by Redder


What's the magazine called if you don't mind me asking?

This is "Game World Navigator".

The site is: www.gamenavigator.ru But it is in russian and if you like to read I would recommend to use some on-line translater like that: http://www.online-translator.com/default.asp?lang=en

[gasmask]

drug store

[K-10]

Carpenter by day, student by...other days

[metaphysiks]

havent made the money for art yet but while i am a student i am working as a security guard in a freshman dormitory. sounds lame but i meet cool people, listen to great music, and get paid hourly to sit on my ass and draw. wait, so does that mean i do get paid for art?
meta

[cartoonfox]

i dont have a job. i'm just a poor student.

i pick up pennies from the street for coffee

[Alex Outbreak]

I'm pretty much in same boat Cartoonfox is in. Its a comfortable boat. Except, i'm still a senior in highschool, thus I live with the folks. I might be getting a job at Home Depot, though.

[DragonGX]

Originally posted by mtw

Have you gotten any scary calls? I suppose most would be...


A few... We get more funny calls than scary ones.. But sometimes, you get really bad ones..

[Donut Mahoney]

Considering I'm 16...and three quarters, I have a pretty normal(and extremely boring) job at Jewel as a cashier.

[Steve T. Laws]

Photo Restoration Artist.

Those old beat up pictures, I work to make them look like new again.

[Redder]

Ex-medic.

[Nadim]

Architect :(

[Damage]

Hey guys new to the forums.

I'm an erotic cakes airbrush artist.

Good times

[Bammer]

I want Damage's gig.

Though I like my summer job programming flash sites.

[Ottar]

Former dining hall excess food stuffs removal extrodinarre going through a transitional phase. Soon to be a painter [but not the kind I would want to be.]

A full time student till the end of the week, as well.

[Damage]

Yeah the perks of the gig is that i get to see a lot of naked babe and there's time when guys or gals bring in the pics of thier babes to put on the cake for erotic portraits. That's fun.

You do have to be pretty comfertable wit your sexuality though becuse u do have to paint the unit lot's of times. Boy do i mean lot's of times we have a way bigger female cliaentel than men.

Good times :)

[WildSpruceMoose]

I am a baker. I make buns, breads and pastries. Up at 5, home at 12, sleep till 3 and then its homework time. Rinse repeat for sunday and then school the rest of the week.

[TopSecret]

Im a mechnical engineering student... I would have liked to study industrial design or something like that but I haven't been drawing for like 4 years and I just picked it up again a few months ago... so im basically starting from scratch :(

[jook]

Safeway Deli clerk while I get through school... meh, the bills get payed so it is ok I guess...

[Frankster]

I sell pre-need and at-need grave plots, crypts, monuments and caskets for a local cemetery.
Good reference material. :)

[nil]

Im a Radio Test Technician. I test radios. Make sure they work. Complain to the designers/engineers when they dont. Pretty boring but the pays OK and its only a 12 month contract so im free again in April 2005.

[Yina]

im a digital media design student plus a waitress. waitressing isn't a fun job

[RefrigeratorCo]

I draw+paint people's characters for mmorpgs after I'm done with my tech support job.

Funny how many of us are in the tech field. Both are lonely professions.

By the end of this summer I should be a landlord.

Pretty much all my money goes to pay for my education at RSAD... :eek:

[ChrisPasseno]

Commercial Printing Sales-.

[Ian Mack]

I work in a bar, it's a shitty shitty job that I hate passionately and if it didn't have my friends working there, a couple hotties working there, I'd be out so fast!

[bwkeough]

I work in the billing department of a truck leasing company.
I went to art school so I could become an accountant....hey, wait, that's not how it's supposed to work!

anh. there's a light at the end of the tunnel, or so I've been told :)

[bizarre]

redder, you mean "ex-medic" or "ex-medic"

as in you're a medic who only works on widows and fresh kills?

[gallon]

I work as a teacher, in a pretty low-social neighborhood, and try to survive the attitude...and not getting to pissed off on those crazy kids, who know nothing about life except how to steal a motorcykle, run it 'til it breaks, bust the gastank, and set the whole thing on fire....

It's fun, and the best part, I get away from there at the end of the day :)

[Redder]

Originally posted by bizarre
redder, you mean "ex-medic" or "ex-medic"


Sorry I should have been more clear. I mean "ex-medic" not "ex-medic" as in "ex-medic" or "ex-medic".



"Ex-medic" as in was once a medic.

[Presence]

Full time integrated media student who waiters at a hotel and sells imported home ware on the weekends.

It works.