What does everyone do for a living?

All of you smart guys on this forum, so amazing!

I am hoping to figure out what I want to do when I grow up but for now I am a railroader.

I have been doing this for twenty years and have had multiple titles over the years. My current job title is yardmaster, which they are trying to phase out the title and make it yard coordinator or something. Gotta make it PC!

I sit in an office and direct and coordinate traffic and make sure the right cars go to the right places with the right people.

My job isn’t bad, my hours are terrible and it is a lifestyle but I have never had a 9-5 so I don’t even know what I am missing.
 
giovanni said:
That’s awesome man! For the longest time I wanted to work in the gaming industry but then I heard all kinds of horror stories about crazy hours and deadlines… how is it?
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It's like a lot of jobs, there's cool parts and parts that are not so great. I think the "sleep under your desk" thing is an exaggeration, but there are some places that are more inclined to crunch culture. I try to avoid those situations tho.
dawson said:
@G.G. -You did that??
That guy scared the shit out'ta me!!

Your team did a great job- I thoroughly enjoyed Remnant II, even if the secrets are WAY too secret..
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I just made the model, the animators made him insane. :giggle: I feel like that staff really should have been a guitar.
 
Bricksnbeatles said:
That’s awesome! My English teachers were some of my favorite teachers I ever had. I had one English teacher who I’d chat about gear and 70s fusion artists with a lot. As a kid I absolutely LOATHED writing, but after I started to get more into writing lyrics I took a creative writing class elective in my senior year of HS, and that teacher taught me how to love writing— ever since then, even when it comes to lengthy upper-division research assignments, I always get compliments on how much less dull my writing is to grade than the average student.

Idk if you get to hear it from your students much, but you’re definitely changing their lives. They might not realize it until a few years have passed and they’re out of school, so they may not have the chance to tell you if they haven’t kept in touch, but you’re definitely making a massive lasting impact on a few of them. You’re doing important work. Thanks, to you and all of the other English teachers out there who are teaching kids to love the written word. ❤️
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I had a couple of amazing English teachers at high school. One was a real character - Mr Thomas, and he called himself Mr T - "T stands for tough!". He was a skinny little chain smoker who could kill with a glance. He was hilarious and very passionate about his job. He converted many otherwise bored students into kids who looked forward to his classes.

I didn't realise that I had been good at English Lit until years later, when I had a job at a university where an old classmate worked. She recognised me when I turned up for a meeting and told everyone that we had been rivals in English Lit. This was news to me! I said "Rivals? Really?" She said that I always got top mark and she always got second top - I had no idea because I never cared about that stuff. But apparently it had bugged the crap out of her for over twenty years. So you can imagine how she must have felt to discover that I never gave a stuff! The things people worry about...
 
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