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I do freelance motion graphics for TV.

To get to this stage though I spent a good few years being paid fuck all and treated like a little bitch.

and it'd be great if i could do it. i don't know why i don't really. maybe i'm too lazy, maybe i'm already having enough fun out of these things (that's A LOT of fun)
if you have a job offer for me that involves being in a band, doing a club night or writing and you'll give me £16k pa then send it this way though ;)

but I do really enjoy it. I get to do lots of cool stuff. Plus they pay me over the odds for my level and experience so I can't afford to leave

I'm basically able to spend most of the day fucking around on the internet, while still doing my job reasonably competently - and the work itself is quite fun and fulfilling.
The pay's not bad either. I am such a jammy cunt.

It's not what I dreamt of being when I was a little girl, but you know...

My current job is actually a stepping stone to where I want to be long long term so it's all a path. I'm just happy I am on the RIGHT path because I spent too many years working in corporates getting paid really well do to jobs that were soul destroying surrounded by people I could never 'be myself' with. I've got a brilliant compromise now.. and am on the road to setting up on my own one of these days in the not too distant future... (fingers crossed and a bit of planning in place)..

I never had much ambition beyond working somewhere I could listen to the radio and not have to wear office clothes anyway.

It's incredibly boring, sometimes there is nothing to do. I'm looking for new employment and having some luck, so it's not all bad.

Took over my life. Not worth it.

Get as much money for as few hours as possible and enjoy the rest. This is what I have learned.

if you enjoy what you do you're motivated to get to the top of your area of work and then you're pay will get better :)

Working part time at a cinema is quite fun (but terribly paid), and it just about funds being able to write part time.

I don't want to stay here forever though. It's more or a tactical step into a new career direction or summat like that.

It's quite poorly paid but I'm happier here than in the really quite well paid job i was in before, which i wasn't particularly interested in.

but the pay is pretty poor (and academia is in general pretty crap pay)

but the pay is good and to be honest it's a piece of piss. Plus, getting time off is rarely a problem - which is why I'm off today.

The only real irritation is that they're only giving us short-term contracts (of three months, usually) in case the BBC's iPlayer project goes tits up, so I can't make plans too far in advance.

guess... Right now im in north england 30k, listen to music, any clothes i want to wear i wear, people are friendly, little stress.

I looked into doing what i wanted to do for a living and it had to be done in London on 12k pa working 7 days a week with 2+ years making tea. I did it for a while in austalia but the level wasnt the same nor the prospects.

Soo I'm earning money and spending it on trying to come at my dream job from a different angle.

will it work out, who knows but ive seen alot of the world cos i had £ to do it and learned alot more doing it all alone.

The missing part contacts :(

for a bank, money is average, job is terrible. i spend the day surrounded by idiots and speaking to idiot customers. however, after four years of poverty at uni i'm happy for anything i can get money wse.

I sit and watch videos of football and Amy Winehouse all day

I just like it...most days.

it's just the repetitiveness and standing about and rude customers that brings me down, but I do work with some lovely people.

wear shorts and flip flops to work in the summer, listen to my ipod most of the day, work flexi hours and no weekends. Get paid reasonably well for Cardiff. Could be loads worse. My attitude is definately work to live not live to work...

....boooo.

They did buy me an iPod Shuffle and a £35 HMV voucher, though. Not bad for a temp., eh?

but as it turns out, university life mostly seems to consist of sitting around doing fuck all all day, so I might as well get one and do something productive with my time.

Because I don't have one.

And I won't, because I have no qualifications and no basic work skills.

That said, I don't think there'd be anything I liked even if I did have qualifications or basic work skills.

I'm a software analys/tester. I didn't mean to become one but for a few years my life was a druggy haze and I just kinda went with the flow leading me to this career path.

It pays ok but the work is boring and because its high level IT most of the people who work in this industry are boring cunts who live for their job.

I did have a great job once, I was a sound engineer for a pretty good Studio. I loved the work but the pay was awful and it was usually 12-18 hour shifts. It also made me realise that everyone who gets a small bit of sucess in the music industry instantly becomes a prick.

I'd like to maybe go back to it one day but I'd wanna finish my degree first and be a producer rather than a sound engineer.

I wouldn't say I love it. The good thing is that there is no pressure or stress involved in my job, so I completely forget it when I'm not working. It just earns me the money that I use in my non-working life.

When I was unemployed I was so bored and had no money to do anything, it's much better having a job thats not exactly exciting, than having no job at all.

Also I get to post on DiS, I don't when I'm realy busy but Friday's are usually a bit slow after lunch.

this is my last DiS'ing day.

My visit has been brief, but fun

Being a student an' all, but I do love my job here at uni...

I've had a few jobs over the years and this has to be my favourite.

Work in one of the hall bars, with an absolute legend of a boss - we're permitted to drink on the job, particularly on high days and holidays when all the staff working get in on the party action.

When my boyfriend arrived at the bar the first night back after Christmas, he was presented with a shot - that I was told to choose for him - completely free of charge.

It's actually one of my favourite places to be, specially given that as the years progressed I've got chummy with most of the regulars :)

*Is excited about working Sunday...*

I'm lucky that I managed to get a job not only in the profession I love (psychiatric nursing) but also in the specialism I love (elderly care).

But I get paid quite well to be fair so I stick with it.

In theory I'm doing it 'til I earn money out of music or writing and can give it up...

Beause I'm at college as well, I'm only in three or four shifts a week. Which are really flexable, so if I want a day off to go to something I can almost always get it pretty easily. It's easy work and the people there are a good laugh. The only bad thing about it is the rubbish pay really.

I'm not working there for my career or anything, it's just to earn money while I'm a student.