What's your job ? What do you do?

[Andy Black]

Freelance AdWords coach and consultant. I work from home 4 days a week, and most evenings for a couple of hours. I love where I am at, and love what I do. I would like to help more people so am trying to capture and leverage my knowledge better so that it can scale. It's a work in progress, and you can see what I am doing and how I am doing it here in thefastlaneforum....

 

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[Phantom309]

I work on military fighter jets as a civilian. I specialize in the ejection seats.

 

[Durete]

For those of you who are still stuck in the slowlane, I'm a little curious about your occupation...What do you do if you don't mind sharing?

I'm an entertainer on a cruise ship,
Basicly working 10 months a year, 7 days a week(Yup weekends dont exist) and average of 10-12 hours a day.


Atm writing my first product, which is great quality, but kinda stuck on the very basics...
Where do I set up my online business,
Do I need to register the business
How does it work with taxes (I'm a person that isn't registered in any country.)
What name should I pick for the business (The name I wanted isn't registered, but the domain.com is taken)
Do i make my own website/webstore, or do I hire someone to do that,
Which bank do I use for the business

Etc.etc.etc.

 

[nskitts]

Respiratory Therapy manager in a struggling hospital system. As of last year, also a restaurant owner. The latter is my stepping stone to the fastlane. I don't see it as my end goal but rather a step to something bigger.

 

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[NerdAtCoolTable]

26. Work for a grocery chain distribution warehouse. No kids , no wife. Make 50k a year but still depressed about my life.

Learning how to program at the moment. One day I will be working from home for myself.

 

[Vigilante]

I actually had some a$$ hat ask me for my resume a month ago. I just laughed. I haven't had a resume in 10 years. Do people still even have resumes?

 

[Iwokeup]

I actually had some a$$ hat ask me for my resume a month ago. I just laughed. I haven't had a resume in 10 years. Do people still even have resumes?

What? Trying to imagine the situation that would have prompted this....

 

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[Iwokeup]

ER physician. If you're dying, I'm your man.

 

[Vigilante]

A low level employee who worked for a company I was in some discussions with. His job title was "director of sales" but his company is suffering from a lack of sales. It's amazing what happens sometimes when you turn the lights on, cockroaches scatter. People tend to get nervous when somebody more experienced than them walks into the room, and their bullshit that masquerades as expertise is threatened.

 

[Vigilante]

ER physician. If you're dying, I'm your man.

By the way, I consider this to be an extremely noble calling and I hope you find your fast lane but don't give up on helping people.

 

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[mikekob]

Paramedic. Been on the streets for way too long so I'm starting a software business to make EMS and emergency medicine better.

 

[Iwokeup]

By the way, I consider this to be an extremely noble calling and I hope you find your fast lane but don't give up on helping people.

Sigh. Yeah man, I hear you. I probably won't give up on this, not totally.

I'm actually inspired by the story of an ED physician that I ran across at one of my away rotations in medical school. This guy was coming on shift and you would have thought that a rock star was descending on the place by all of the buzz emanating from the nurses, residents, and other attendings.

Turns out that the guy had developed some sort of multi-million/billion dollar medical device and was reported to be richer than Croesus. I asked him why he still worked in the ER (part time, of course) and he replied, "Nothing, and I mean nothing beats saving a life and knowing that you were the one to do it."

 

[Iwokeup]

Paramedic. Been on the streets for way too long so I'm starting a software business to make EMS and emergency medicine better.

And I find what you do to be incredibly important. Wish I had EMS guys like you where I work....

 

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[jon.a]

Paramedic. Been on the streets for way too long so I'm starting a software business to make EMS and emergency medicine better.

Sigh. Yeah man, I hear you. I probably won't give up on this, not totally.

I'm actually inspired by the story of an ED physician that I ran across at one of my away rotations in medical school. This guy was coming on shift and you would have thought that a rock star was descending on the place by all of the buzz emanating from the nurses, residents, and other attendings.

Turns out that the guy had developed some sort of multi-million/billion dollar medical device and was reported to be richer than Croesus. I asked him why he still worked in the ER (part time, of course) and he replied, "Nothing, and I mean nothing beats saving a life and knowing that you were the one to do it."

My family and I thank you both. I have the stent to prove it

 

[Iwokeup]

My family and I thank you both. I have the stent to prove it

Ahhh, man. That was your cardiologist, not us. So VERY glad that you're alive and kicking.

 

[jon.a]

Ahhh, man. That was your cardiologist, not us. So VERY glad that you're alive and kicking.

And who got me to my cardiologist?

 

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[throttleforward]

@mikekob 's software may very well have/will play a huge role in just this sort of patient. He's working on some very exciting stuff!

 

[throttleforward]

Back in the day I patrolled the mean streets of Richmond as an EMT. I decided to put up some reminders in my cube at the day job that I occasionally did interesting, dynamic and (once in a while) important work.

It's also a reminder to all that pass that yes, the Yankees do suck.

 

[Iwokeup]

And who got me to my cardiologist?

Ok fine.....

 

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[mikekob]

Were just a piece to the puzzle. Being a medic is probably the most fun job ever. Just the driving alone is worth it.

 

[joeswift]

 

[Basilius]

Superb thread! Thanks to the OP for creating it.

I'm employed as application administrator in IT company. Our team is responsible that customer's call center works as designed (from the application side, of course). It used to be fun and challenging when I was actually a part of a development - creating routing strategies for voice, emails, faxes etc. was challenging, exhausting but highly interesting at the same time. Then I moved to another company where there's a different team to make any developments and we just maintain its running pieces. Although it's not fun anymore, it freed up my time, so that I can work on myself most of the time.

 

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[carlolacson]

Right after college I worked in a call center as an agent, quit for 1 month then became a real estate consultant for 2 months decided to quit again,became a fastfood crew then quit for two months. I'm now a tech editor writing articles in a advertising company so far this job gives me more time to work in my fastlane business.

 

[DawnW]

I'm a project manager.

 

[JDRose]

Full time student/part time gym employee

graduate in May with a spinning compass direction.

yay me.

 

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[Mr3Thirty5]

Employed as a payroll and accounting associate. Gained a lot of experience in the last 4 years being in this field, but definitely not my cup of tea. Until I figure out what my fastelane business will be, I'm educating myself with books and researching anything that catches my interest.

 

[Pete799p]

I work in a restaurant, I'm the guy who makes pizzas (lol...). I never went to college because I couldn't afford it so when I've tried hiring in other places they either required a college diploma or work experience of at least 2 years in the domain for which I applied. I worked in call centers, advertising, and on EA's game testing. Turned to internet marketing because you don't need a stupid diploma to make it, no one cares about your race,gender,how you look,etc. None of these superficial factors. I'm pretty sure that the internet is the only place where the ammount of work is equal to the ammount of revenue. Plus, I don't like to be ordered around by incompetent,obvious fools who don't know a thing about life and social relations with other people.

Another area you might want to look into is sales. Its another profession that usually only cares if you can do the job, ie closing. If you are good you can potentially make a lot of money and might be a great fit if you are really good at social relations with other people.

 

[Joanne Wong]

Currently working in a network security company as Sales Secretary. 9-5 job where I have no control over my time.

 

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[CrispySmurf]

I currently work for a healthcare company. Specifically, I have done marketing, accounting, and consulting for assisted living facilities. I am currently looking into some involvement with web based companies, but have a lot to learn before investing

 

[Solrac]

Full time student that get's bored with school all the time. Part time worker for the school.