Where does your workin' self stand on the DU 'Your Profession is Teh EEEvill' ladder?

[Oeditpus Rex]

By my estimation, if you're a politician, police officer, journalist or telemarketer, you'd best not let anyone here know it lest they shove you into a locker and run your underwear up the flagpole.



Any others? Yours, maybe? :evilgrin:

[triguy46]

1. I'm way up there in the "those who must be scorned" zone:

Middle aged, bald, MBA, administrator, state employed, and I own 3 cars, two tractors, two lawnmowers, a weedwhacker, chipper shredder, DR Trimmer, generator, two guns, six figure income, no debt, and don't watch American Idol.

[TZ]

2. I am teh top evil!

I'm an evul nazi scientist working for a biotech/big pharma on experimental new drugs with animals and people! I is hiding teh cure for cancer in ma basement to keep you all sick so I'z can make teh profit!!!
TOP THAT!!:woohoo:

Just in case...:sarcasm:

[Chan790]

3. I work for evil megalithic coffee corporation...

who exploits 3rd world farmers and US dairy farmers, and has the audacity to charge $4.50 for a coffee beverage.

[TommyO]

112. I'll take an iced, Venti Americano, add a shot, sugar-free vanilla

heavy on the ice, with room. Please!

[bicentennial_baby]

4. I plan on being an Economist, so...

Yeah, I'm shunned.

[NMDemDist2]

5. I am a saint in the heirarchy

I work for the National Parks Service

and yes, I wear the uniform

:rofl:

[Chan790]

13. That's a dream job of mine...

no idea how one gets it. So that poses the question...how does one get hired by the park service? Particularly if one has degrees in things as useless as political theory and fundraising (actually development, but most people have no idea what that is.)?

Edits: I can't type.

[NMDemDist2]

14. watch USAjobs.com

be very anal about the paperwork, submit often and volunteer at a Park to get to know someone.

once you're in, you can go anywhere...

[leftyclimber]

74. Hey! I do research for you guys sometimes!

I do social science research for the Park Service, and sometimes the Forest Service, depending on who's throwing research dollars my program's way at the time.

I'm a grad student, though, so my current uniform is dirtbag climber with occasional tidiness when it matters. I don't think there's a college professor uniform for after I've graduated, but I could be wrong. ;) Although one of my profs wore his old NPS uniform to a Halloween party a couple of years ago (with a Junior Ranger badge, since he'd turned his real one in) and gave a hilarious interpretive talk as part of his schtick. What can I say? We're dorks.

I was down at one of the nearby parks talking to the superintendent yesterday. I told him I felt really weird being at his park (where I recreate pretty regularly) and not looking like a total dirtbag. It felt somehow ... wrong. :rofl:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. I am teh evil.

I used to practice law; now I work for an airline. How much eviller can anybody get?

Oh yeah; I've also worked for a newspaper and a railroad and an insurance company and a state government. All evil.

[unpossibles]

110. I used to work for Satan (AOL)..... nt

[Tikki]

7. Aerospace....

Nuclear facility worker, border guard, christian bookstore,
country & western music, nursing home, slaughterhouse...


among others


Tikki

p.s. i didn't work all these,but I know
nice people who have.

[dolo amber]

8. Meh. I'm just a computer dork

'Course, I'm the BOSS of the computer dorks, so that might make me tha Man or something... :shrug:

[Kutjara]

48. Not so fast.

Are you a computer dork who uses the products of the evil Microsoft empire, thereby enabling the slaughter of innocents and the subjugation of the world?

Or are you a Linux-using freedom-loving revolutionary who is helping to spread peace, love, and harmony with every keystroke?

Or are you instead an Apple user (making you a shameless poseur, but relatively harmless)?

[supernova]

9. Corporate America

My beat is IT.

It's a big firm too that outsources to India.

I'm in ur internets tubes writin' ur documentation.

[mcctatas]

10. Student...

but since I've been at it for freaking ever, i consider myself a professional;)

After this summer, hopefully working in govt' or non-profit.....

[yellowdogintexas]

11. last 3 jobs were in Call Centers. Two for medical insurance, one for mortage

loan company.

Pretty evil.

Hoping to go back to Health Insurance just not on the phones again. Tired of being yelled at.

[TZ]

15. umm yeah...

I kind of did that to health insurance rep not to long ago....

[ghostsofgiants]

20. I work in a call center doing internet tech support.

x(

[DarkTirade]

12. I'm just a student now, although I'm 'bout to start looking for a summer job.

My last job was a manual labor job where there was a union. The one before that was a small local pizza place.

[Fox Mulder]

16. I'll be working at a Wal-Mart.

You can't get any more evil than that.

On top of that, I hate myself for it.

[TZ]

18. Dude,

You gotta do what you gotta do to support yourself. I saw how the job you really want is too far away....:hug:

[Fox Mulder]

19. Yeah, that's what I keep telling myself...

but I still hate myself for it.

It got down to either Wal-Mart or McDonalds. :cry:

[old mark]

107. That is no real choice...

Walmart, all the way.

If you work at McD's, they kind of expect you to eat there.
Don't put yourself down for having to work, or, the way things are now, being lucky enough to have a job.


mark

[Dogtown]

82. No shame there

You've infiltrated the enemy.

Now, slip some pirated copies of "Caligula"(unrated) into the "Left Behind" DVD covers...

[evlbstrd]

103. You're only half evil.

My brother is employed by Microsoft and is "stationed" at WalMart.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

17. I work in post foreclosure. I'm the DEVIL.

:evilgrin:

[Critters2]

21. Christian clergy. I'm fairly safe here, but when I wander into R/T

they break out the torches and pitch forks.

[SoxFan]

78. Something that baffles me...

Why do so many militant atheists hang out in R/T? I'm an imperfect Catholic who has been active in my church over the years as a lector and eucharistic minister, so I've been given the tar and feather treatment a few times.

[Random_Australian]

104. Grar! Look at me, I'm militant!

Just saying. :shrug:

[SOteric]

22. I work for the Borg.

[TZ]

23. ah.

Then DS1 is your drone?:P

[SOteric]

26. Nah.

He's my tank-driving cabana boy.

[GOPisEvil]

24. I work for an eeeeeeeeeee-vil insurance company.

Granted I generally fight FOR our policyholders against other eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-vil corporations and insurance companies, but still. I'm part of the insurance machine.

[Lady President]

25. Lawyer for an Insurance Company

I can't even see the ground from my rung on the evil ladder.

[Left Is Write]

61. Oooh. You have a double whammy of Teh Evil!

[ElboRuum]

96. You're looking the wrong way... That rung's above you.

[Ptah]

27. I think the reaction to my profession has been neutral to non-existent.

I fabricate large scientific instrument.

[midnight armadillo]

30. Hey join the club!

Although I work on smaller, bench-scale optical instruments. For DoD R&D. <sigh>

And on the side I've worked for a foreign exchange software company.

[Ptah]

31. So you are in the prototype dept?

:hi:

[midnight armadillo]

34. That's all we do

SBIR -> prototype -> repeat

It can be fun, it can be a drag, I'm ok with it so far. Many days though it doesn't seem like my PhD in physics is terribly useful though.

[Ptah]

39. SBIR ?

I'm just a shop rat, with no degree, making stuff out of metal.

[midnight armadillo]

50. SBIR

"Small Business Innovative Research"

Without you "shop rats" science would never get done :-) Any chance you worked on the LHC projects like ATLAS?

[Ptah]

59. My work has been on large optical telescopes. 3.5 to 8 meter size.

[Bill McBlueState]

84. then my reaction is not "neutral to non-existent"!

I'm the sort of person who might use a 3.5 to 8 meter optical telescope from time to time, so I appreciate your profession immensely! You guys have a tremendous amount of patience dealing with us astronomer types who fly in for a couple nights and act like we know it all.

:toast:

[Ptah]

90. I salute your profession, as well.

I can make many things,
but I have trouble deciding what to make.

You astronomers come up with some fun stuff to build.

:toast:

[Random_Australian]

105. Damn you! When will science learn not to meddle

with the four basic food groups? :grr:



;)

[flvegan]

28. Title insurance industry.

Everyone hates us.

[kentauros]

29. How does employment in the oil patch fare on that scale?

:P

I just recently got a raise landing me in the high seventies (I still can't believe they're paying me that much!) and all I have to do is make maps for natural gas pipeline routes. I may have a BA (in graphic arts) but I do drafting. I wouldn't mind seeing my writing and composition skills take off once I can get past a love for fanfic ;)

Still drafting is fun and so is ESRI ArcMap :)


Say, if any of youse guise make it to pResident one day, could you sign into law something with the stipulation that all engineers must come in to work at midnight so that when those "afternoon" crises roll around, us designers are just making it to work and will have all day to put out the fires the engineers delegate to us? :P

[Oeditpus Rex]

32. You have the job I wanted when I was 10

Maybe not for pipelines, but I seriously wanted to be a cartographer. Wrote to the H.M. Goushá Co. when I was 11, got back a really nice, two-page letter from a vice president.

[kentauros]

36. Well, that's pretty cool

:)

You'd probably love this place, too: The Key Map Store
I know I do :D

Actually, like so many drafters and designers out there, I didn't start off wanting or knowing I would end up in mapping. I had loved electrical and mechanical and tried getting jobs in that. Actually, I did get to do some technical illustration for a couple of contractors to NASA-JSC. One illustration I worked on was for the "waste-disposal system" for the Space Shuttle, years before it was built. I'll let you figure out what that particular piece of equipment was :P

[FloridaJudy]

33. I'm a nurse

I only get to be teh Evil in Ken Kesey novels and in the eyes of five year olds.

[lizziegrace]

87. *snort* (to quote my Lelapin)

"in the eyes of five year olds"

:)

[Reverend_Smitty]

35. I work in sports...

and everyone knows that they are a vast waste of time and we should all be out protesting instead of playing them...oh and I think in some dark corners of GD you will discover that sports are the reason why American schools suck...we keep buying them damn kids footballs instead of books :P

[Oeditpus Rex]

42. I think you hold a very honorable position in the sporting world

:hide:

[Reverend_Smitty]

43. lol...mascots, everyone knows that they're the *real* heroes

You couldn't PAY me to get in one of those costumes in Mid July! :)

[Oeditpus Rex]

47. I met Ted Giannoulas out of his Chicken suit once

He was a bit of an asshole. It was right after a game, though, so maybe he was just all pecked out.



Speaking of assholes, I thought sure you were gonna provide me with a new one. :)

[Reverend_Smitty]

54. lol...

I don't know 90+ degree days plus kids hanging on you all the time, I got it easy compared to them. I sit in the dugout and eat seeds all game

[SallyMander]

37. I am OK i think

since i'm a conservation biologist... :D

But probably if i dared to visit the Freeps i'd be burned at the stake!

[kentauros]

41. Hay, I've probably worked with your kind and not known it

:P

Actually, I have worked and still work with a scientist that I think has that kind of a background as we have one project that involves offshore pipelines and offloading connections. Lots to do with protected areas, historical shipwrecks, wetlands, water tables and porosity, though the latter is the expertise of the hydrologist. Still, although it looks interesting, when I have to read through that stuff to make sure we're still in the clear for our route, it kind of puts me to sleep :boring: ;)

I did propose to the president of the company the idea of grass-pave and gravel-pave blocks and surfacing to lower the cost and size of retention ponds. He liked the idea but didn't think the client would, so no go.

[SallyMander]

46. I work with salamanders, so i know a lot of wetlands people

Some of whom have taken jobs similar to what you describe - doing wetland surveys in areas where pipelines are going in. They do a lot of delineation and hydrology type stuff. I don't really know too much about that, since i just run around looking for manders. :D

What are the retention ponds usually made of? Seems like they could be a good opportunity for wetland remediation...?

[kentauros]

52. I have yet to see what ours will be made of,

but I have read that sometimes impermiable liners are used. However, I seem to recall that they usually use some kind of clay that is permiable over a longer amount of time than the local soils, but not impervious. The stuff I had read about having to do with grass-pavers was taking the same materials and stacking them so that you end up with a retention pond you can drive over and not know it's even there :)

[SallyMander]

53. Huh! That is neat and crazy!

This sort of random factoid is why i love DU! Grass-pavers... :D

:hi:

[Fox Mulder]

62. I wanted to be one of those at one time.

[WCGreen]

38. Self Employed...

Take only the clients I want to and leave if I feel something isn't kosher...

[Xipe Totec]

40. Dunno. Where do confuser programmers fit?

And their squaws? (Software Quality Assurance Engineers)

[RainDog]

44. I'm an angel

cause my profession is considered one of the most liberal and consisten defenders of free speech.

[Kutjara]

49. Pornographer? n/t

[mopinko]

45. i think i am ok here- artist, troublemaker.

inscrutable work that no one will buy until i am dead. sell more buttons, but tend to give too many of them away.
semiretired from momdom.
dh makes it all go with the fruits of super geekitude. works in the financial markets, but don't touch the money. just the computers. reaching the level where the money starts to cause some envy. i try to direct it to worthwhile endeavors.

[Kali]

51. oh I am up there

cattle rancher - even graze a little bit of *gasp* PUBLIC land

[Left Is Write]

55. I've read much scorn and disdain and downright hostility aimed at those who work in...

insurance. Particularly health insurance. Therefore, I can conclude that Mr. LIW is Teh Evil.

I manage a health club daycare - we babysit for the members of children while the members work out. I'm in charge of staffing and all related staffing issues, operating within tight budget constraints, and the general operations of the daycare (keeping up adequate supplies, devising a program of craft projects, inspecting and maintaining safe toys and games, and pretty much anything else that comes under the umbrella of operating the daycare and nursery). I don't know if that's evil or not. Possibly.

[Oeditpus Rex]

58. You're right; I forgot about the insurance industry

How can you stay married to such a monster? :D

[LaraMN]

113. Totally evil- you're enabling the breeders.

:rofl:

I wish our gym had a day care!

[Godhumor]

56. Financial Associate for a major bank

What do I win?

[ElboRuum]

97. For 2nd Place???

A lifetime supply of Rice-A-Roni...
Sorry, but "lawyer for insurance" up above is in 1st.

[XemaSab]

57. Oh, I'm somewhere near that echelon

Teh dreaded environmental consultant. :scared:

[jakefrep]

60. I'm a CPA...

...I'm pretty sure that makes me some sort of corporatist scum - despite the fact that I've done three stints as treasurer on a Congressional campaign.

[Initech]

63. I'm a courier.

[reyd reid reed]

64. I'm in agate

:hi:

[petronius]

65. I'm a geopolitical analyst for the Vice President of the United States

That's pretty benign, right?

[mcctatas]

66. Who are you kidding?

that's just a fancy way of saying you procure the blood of newborn infants from all corners of the earth in order taht the Dark Lord Dick's skin may be kept supple and spankable;)

[petronius]

115. That's a lie, and I demand an apology!

I have nothing to do with procuring the infant blood - my job is simply to massage an un-named liquid into Ol' Deadeye's lumpy flesh. I hsve no knowledge of or responsibility for the source of the liquid...

[puerco-bellies]

67. I was a commodity's trader.

I favored Crude, Unleaded Gasoline, Natural Gas, Gold, Silver, and treasuries.
I wasn't the devil, but I was qualified to cut mall opening ribbons for him.

[opiate69]

68. The oil industry is a HUGE chunk of my company's customer base..

we manufacture accessories for wire rope & chain for rigging, drilling, lifting, etc.

[krispos42]

69. I think I'm on the good side of the scale

I have this odd, archaic, living-history-style job where I actually go to a building every day and use machinery and skills to make physical precision customer goods from raw stainless steel.

Isn't that crazy old-fashioned? :crazy:

[cemaphonic]

70. My wife is in hospital management...

Is it still evil if she hates the insurance companies too?

I had a summer internship working at NATO headquarters, so I suppose I did my part to promote American military hegemony.

[Adsos Letter]

71. Retired construction...

...C-33..."Painting and Decorating" to be precise...

[jmowreader]

72. I am the KING of Teh Evil

I work for a Defense Contractor!

[KatyMan]

73. IT, and work

for a defense contractor, that used to own Dyncorp. I've worked for ExxonMobil, CheveronTexaco, Shell, Lockheed Martin, British Aerospace...my older sister once asked me if I ever considered the moral implications of the companies I've worked for :P

[RebelOne]

75. I'm a copy editor for hunting and fishing magazines.

So, the animal rights people, vegans and vegetarians would probably see me as evil. But I am a vegetarian and animal rights advocate. It's only a job even though I hate reading the graphic deer-hunting stories. I'll be retiring in a couple of years, so I can leave all this behind.

[mainegreen]

76. I'm an evil servant of the man dutifully impaling innocent victims heads on the pike by the gate.

I actually enjoy my job too.

[SoxFan]

77. Between "suicide bomber" and "Imperial Clone Trooper"

I'm a lawyer AND a politician.

[Haole Girl]

79. Airline worker...

I think, next to the oil & gas companies, the airlines are hated pretty severely. Maybe I just get most complaints because it's my job, but sometimes I think people really do not have enough appreciation for how difficult it is to keep an airline flying-- especially with today's rising fuel costs. :-( Believe it or not, there are some flights that go out with 100% capacity (not a single empty seat) that still barely break even.

[Shell Beau]

80. I am probably on up there since I am in the oil business and high

gas prices are actually good for the business (not me, but the oil business). However, at least what I do means we are trying to find oil here in our own country. And my brother is a cop! :scared: I will get flamed to hell and back!



;)

[Fran Kubelik]

81. I left a job working for The Man and now work for myself.

That's about as specific as I want to get. But no more corporate America for me. :)

[DS1]

83. collections caller

[Throd]

85. I pollute the landscape by designing and engineering massive pylon signs.

I figure that if somebody is determined to put a 130' double pole behemoth next to the highway, I can at least make it look as nice as possible.

[redqueen]

86. Dunno really... but I work for a major outsourcing firm.

:hide:

[dropkickpa]

88. Right at the top, I experiment on animals

Lots of hate for me and mine round here!

[TZ]

91. not quite at the top

You work for academia..I am an animal experimenter for PROFIT....

[dropkickpa]

114. But I personally kill animals!

let's face it, We're both teh evul!

[Call Me Wesley]

89. Unemployed mime.

Yes, it was my choice, so let me have it.

In fact, I was never asked to work as a mime, so I'm an unemployed one (logically) and have another job, where I'm my own boss, who I hate.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

92. My work is in real estate.

Granted, it's not real work, just part-time, since I'm a student, but I'm pretty sure we're Satan, screwin' ya.

:rofl:

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

93. I'm a lawyer, so that comes with the territory

I did quit my job today, though - do I get any props for that?

[TZ]

94. You quit?

Wow...good luck..Do you have something lined up?

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

95. No, I don't

I was due to go back next Monday after my medical leave ended. I didn't miss the job at all while I was off, and the thought of returning made me want to just heave myself out the window. I haven't decided yet what I'll do. Mr. DTBK is actively looking for a job out of state, so we might have to move at short notice when he finds something. He may be heading to Boston, which I'm not that thrilled about, and he said I could go to California if he does that (it'd be just for a while).

[grannylib]

98. OSHA compliance/Safety Coordinator.

Just trying to keep the working men and women of Minnesota safe and healthy :-)

[CreekDog]

99. pretty non-evil

though if i were at the top of my profession, i would be considered evil.

[Lil Missy]

100. I worked as a bill collector for 2 months last year. I had to quit.

I could not STAND telling people that bills from deceased people were THEIR responsibility to pay. Unless there is an Estate established, there is absolutely no duty or requirement for spouses or other family members to pay the debts of someone deceased.

I felt like a crook, and my conscience couldn't handle it. So I quit.

[BlueIris]

101. Here's to your conscience. nt

[evlbstrd]

102. Advertising.

Lots of direct mail.

[av8rdave]

106. I'm probaby way up there

My management hates me, my ex wife hates me, most travel writers hate me...Almost makes me forget I got into this job for the glamour :sarcasm:

[Rosie1223]

108. Corn Producer

My husband and I are singlehandedly responsible for ethanol-induced food shortages and fuel prices spiraling out of control. Oh, and there's the HFCS obesity epidemic, too. It's a wonder we sleep at night.

Take that, you insurance industry lawyer. :)

[unpossibles]

109. I am a photo editor for college textbooks

so I am only evil by freeper standards.

[TommyO]

111. I work for a telecom

:hide:

[taught_me_patience]

116. I work for a major movie studio

definately evil.