What is your job ?
 

This site doesn't have a search function so I don't know if this has been asked about millions times already ..... if yes sorry :P

so the question is simple ... what do you do for a living ?

+ some added questions (I don't work for the FBI don't worry :wink: )

do you like your daily work ? is your job fitting with what you studied at school or university? what kind of job you would have love to have if you could use a time machine or a make a wish machine ....

I'm a system administrator in a travel company called ' Destnation of the world' its basically what i studied for... but i got lot more to do now, like i'm doing all the In Bound hotel reservation for Kuwait hotel and also out bound for some travel agencey all around the world, so these things taking more time then my real work which is IT related... Do i like my work?. Not at all at a moment, i'm trying sqeez out as soon as possible but i still not got my work visa and its real hard to get any other job without transferable visa, but i'm still hopeful that something else will come along which has better timing ( i have shift work from 9-1 and 4.30-9), better work related to what i studied and ofcourse better pay ;). But i got some good points too, all my collegue are nice and i can download or use internet what ever i want for... so not all bad ...

I work as secretary / translator. I studied to be an interpreter / translator so I'd basically love to work as a translator, freelance translator especially. But I'm finding it a very closed circle where it's difficult to enter :( Still I can't complain. My current times are 9-2, Fridays off, so it's good - it leaves me spare time to get my final papers and all that finished.

I work as a teacher. I have always done and I love it. I teach kids from age 11 till 16 or something lik ethat. I teach almost every subject except maths and science and arts.

thank you all for your answers :cool: ....I am myself having a translator interpreter job .. but I never really pracyiced it for money coz i was busy with my other job (mom ) and couldn't think of letting the mom job to somone else to do my former job ... translati!ng is very cool job but like you said keeper ... it's a very small world and it's quite tough ....

if I had a time machine I would try to work as photograph which was my number one passion back in the 70's ....

Lucky you! :) What languages do you do then? I guess Japanese and English, of course. Anything else?

no it was japanese only you know this can keep you busy all your life time LOL because not so many ppl on the market specks japanese (even today but it was back then such a rare thing to speck japanese that I was treated like an allien )

How did you ever learn Japanese. It seems to me it`s such a difficult language to learn for europeans?
and then I just talk about speaking it..not ever thinking about writing or reading...
You really have my respect for that

Inge thank you oh la la I am blushing .; well I always had this THING for japan . it was a real passion for me so when i began to learn the language it was like a revelation ... it was MY WAY .. It was like I was born to do that .... japanese language is not very easy (the structure is complicated but the pronounciation is easy) I have heard very often that the language structure in japanese was very similar to finnish .. I am not sure it is any true ...
I speak japanese for 25 years now and for me there are words that are always japanese in my mind I speak japanese naturally (which is not true in english for me ) after many year of non practice I am having more difficulties to read or write it now (I need time compare to 20 years ago) but about hearing listening or talking i can stay in japan for the rest of my life and never feel any frustration

I used to want to learn Japanese but I thought it would take ages to learn it poorly so I went for something else - at least with the same letters. But I like to think I'll do something about Japanese in the future. Maybe I'll never learn it (*really* learn it) but I think it must be fun and would gladly do it for the sake of it.