I currently own and manage a cafe at the same time I do paintings ^^
Before I went full time my last job was as a night janitor for a cleaning company that cleaned up a bunch of random local businesses. Among them were some sort of call center (where we would I would steal one piece of candy per desk since so many people kept bags of candies at their cubicle drawers), a yoga studio, an auto shop (where they hid porn under baseball magazines in the bathroom), and a buncha other places.
That was also the time I started venturing into art for money just doing really straight forward portrait commissions sometimes in oil paints if I got really lucky.
Right now and for the past few years I’ve just been doing art and comics full time but I was recently given an opportunity to start offering workshops on a regular basis. Waitin for covid to be over though so who knows how long that’ll happen.
That’s awesome, man! Being an EMT sounds like a lot of hard work. So does Boy Scouts. I remember being a Boy Scout when I was younger.
For me: a looooong time I was out of work. I used to be a call center agent, who helped elderly people get to and from their doctors appointments by scheduling pick up times with transportation companies. I did that for three years, and then the company was sold, and everyone started getting laid off. I left before I got axed. Now I’ve been able to find work at Little Giant Ladders’ factory, where I assemble the ladder pieces. It’s not bad work! But the fiberglass can get ya, and that doesn’t feel the best.
Other than work, I’m married and have a kid. He’s a good little dude. The other day I was trying to work on my comic, and he stole my seat to my drawing desk. I wasn’t able to do much that day. But that’s all good! While I wish I had more time to work on my creative endeavors, I’m glad to have my kid and wife in my life, and I wouldn’t change them for anything.
Other than that, I tend to get sucked into the world of YouTube and playing video games. I really like playing games like Animal Crossing, Smash Bros, The Legend of Zelda, Minecraft, Red Dead 2 Online, and FinalFantasy XIV.
Currently, I'm a full time college student studying Sequential Art at the Savannah College of Art and Design, working part-time at a library, doing tutoring on the side, and picking up comic and illustration commissions where I can, on top of drawing my comic that updates twice a week and working on a pitch packet to submit to an editor at Scholastic I've been working with.
I also run the Sequential Art Club and volunteer to help out with basically every school event I can. I like to stay busy!
Finance management for an IT consulting company...
I love figures, logic, developing and supporting projects, and finance has many amazing levers and tools for that (from financing to analytical... even taxation can be very useful)...
The team collects, processes and analyzes all information in numerical form, it’s very powerful. Sadly enough, most of the time, finance potential is used poorly, for very trivial and selfish purposes... and trust me, COVID created many opportunities for higher management to reallocate budgets (in their pocket that is)... last year was really really shocking on this, more than usual, and as always, auditors are useless...
I’m generally up very early (stress), so I draw comics about efficiency’s paradox called Effy... to expel some of the daily nonsense from my system... it’s cathartic!
That is awesome, sounds like you are busy busy. Thank you for your service in the health care field. How has BSA been effected by COVID?
@mrtoontastic that is awesome, how many more years you got? Also not being excited is a mark of being truly dedicated to your craft. To do something when it isn't fun/thrilling anymore happens to everyone and just keep going. you got this. 
@GesuGesu What is the most exciting part of it? @LCT_m_a_d beat me to the punchline on subject. lol
@Tanako Is there any super cool aspects of the job?
@Eiranyx Awesome!!! Love cafes, they helped me through some of my worst times in writing. especially since I discovered hazelnut shots.
@orbitkatart WHAT? That is while to think they let you go. I figured they would just have you telework. What game engine you using? I just started working with unity and am trying to learn it now.
@MARNSOA What is a soft scientist? Like soft skills (EI) studies?
As for me, I was a training manager for several different organizations, also was responsible for managing several commercial level training programs (Getting people degrees, certifications, etc). I just got picked up and moved across the US for a Computer Based Training Development job for aircraft mechanics. So I will be learning Unity, Adobe Premiere, aftereffects, 3DsMax, AR/VR, and a host of other creative based programs. So I'm super excited for this job. But write now i'm doing self learning cause I have little knowledge in these software's. lol
Writing and Artwork is my day and night job.(1990s onward).
In my free time I hit the Gym and/or beat up my drum-kit.
I used to be a classroom music teacher, and the music coordinator for a specialist music program in a big public high school. I actually started at that school the year it opened, and built up that program from nothing to over 200 students, with four major ensemble groups. All that within three years!
It was a great job, but it was exhausting - I'm not great at behaviour management with large classes, and I'm terrible at paperwork. As it turns out, coordinating a whole music program by yourself involves a stupid amount of paperwork.
I handed that program off to another fantastic music teacher who's doing an amazing job building it to greater and greater heights. I work two days a week now for a government-run organisation called the Instrumental Music School Services; we're basically an army of instrumental teachers, each of whom visits a number of different public high schools each week, teaching the instrument they specialise in.
I teach voice for IMSS at three different high schools between two days, one of which is the high school I was the music coordinator at! It's a much better job for me. Small groups, (aside from the choirs,) much less paperwork, and just a more fun job in general. I mean, I get paid to sing with little groups of students all day! At the same rate as a classroom teacher! It's a dang good deal.
The other three working days a week, I make my comic. My intention there is hopefully to transition to paid graphic novel illustration work for book publishers. (Or traditional comic publishers, but I prefer the idea of working with book publishers.)
Well, we were already teleworking before the pandemic. Quite a lot of people got let go and it's because the company was severely effected financially by the pandemic.
I've been using Unreal, I think their blueprint system is pretty nice so you don't have to do everything in visual studio. I also use Blender to make my own 3D assets!
Your job sound really cool! I have a physics bachelors and have yet to manage to get into anything even remotely related to physics lol. Luckily there are so many resources online for you to learn all these programs!
It hasn't been easy, that's for sure. Not being able to camp has done a lot to hurt our momentum, and advance
meant has been slow, but I'm doing what I can to keep the kids safe, despite the arguments it's gotten me into with parents. A lot of the troop doesn't have the medical perspective, so there's been a lot of bickering especially with the politics of the virus at play. On the plus side I'm hoping with vaccines there'll be a light at the end of the tunnel, but we'll have to see how things play out.
Currently, I am a kindergarten teacher, and a graduate student (on what is, hopefully, my last semester 
). I love teaching the little ones. They say the wildest things! 
It has definitely not been easy to teach 5 year-olds remotely, but we all do what we have to do, right? I was also a CPR instructor, but recently stopped doing that.
Yes. i'm pretty much my own boss. I train and teach people ( Store Managers, Assistant managers and cashiers) how to sell my company's product. i set my own schedule as well. lol some days i work from home.
I am a produce clerk at my local grocery store. I'm part time because its less stressful when I have my comic on the side. I try to have time for work, art and gaming all in the same day. I'm planning on finding an apartment to share with some friends sometime this year so i can move out of my parent's house. The store clerk thing of course is temporary until i find work in my major.
@HippieGhost - Wow! Front line worker. Lots of respect coming my way for doing that type of job in a very stressful time. I'm glad you have writing during your personal time.
I'm the web designer for a retail chain. I wish I didn't have to use "the". The website is too big for one person.
During my personal time, I work on my comic series and my greeting card illustration, as I sell them in a few businesses. I also have an art exhibition coming up downtown, so I'm also preparing for that.