Wow… Everybody has such interesting work.
All I do is stock shelves at Walmart. 
Can you tell me what kind of seeds you carry please ?? And the cost of the seeds. Thanks.
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@dunker honestly I miss stocking shelves. I’m such a clean freak- facing cans and goods was may favorite part when I managed a grocer.
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I don’t typically have seeds for sale, and can only sell to mmj patients. Last time I sold seeds it was around $5 each.
I usually make too many clones, and end up killing them. I can give you some of those in Maine if you want them, and you are 21+.
If you only want seeds I probably can’t help.
I’m in a reporting analyst role in the travel industry. I too love the smell of gasoline, lol.
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I love the smell of gasoline in the morning. Smells like…napalm.
Wait, wut?
I work at a major gun manufacture in receiving, I literally open boxes of guns and make sure there are no bullets. then receive it into our system.
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@snarkypants so literally all you do is analyze numbers? I’m very nosy lol What does your day look like?
@Matthew_Perreault - honestly how do you make money doing that? That job seems like it would get boring pretty quick, and how does a job like that even come to be? Sorry, but I love learning about the world- I’m a very curious cat lol
Most people find my work extremely boring, so I tend not to be detailed. But, since you’re asking…
I work in a small group (12 ppl) who supports an Organization of over 1,500 people worldwide who essentially are the front line to all of our hotel partners globally. This Org also partners with other Orgs within our company as necessary, so I can be supporting even more folks at any given time.
I access Teradata and Hadoop primarily, sometimes SQL servers, for adhoc querying when investigating issues or helping someone else who would be analyzing data.
But my main job is to build and publish data sources and reports in Tableau (data visualization tool) for others to use to run their business lines day to day. We use a web interface for our reports which people can access 24/7 to view all manner of metrics for all manner of business lines all over the globe. How many calls did we get? How many cases were worked? How many cases were worked/handled within the SLA timeframe? What was the handle time? Is there a certain case type that is affecting our handle time negatively, and if so does that show perhaps that a new process recently implemented is impacting us negatively? How many times did our partners (hoteliers) say that we fixed their issue? How many times were we successful at reaching out within 24 hrs and getting their issue resolved immediately after receiving their survey response? What were the reasons that didn’t happen? Etc.
I field questions from Leads, Supervisors, Managers etc., who can’t figure out something in a report - missing information, erroneous or seemingly erroneous data, sometimes it’s just about teaching them how to interpret what’s there.
Part of this job entails some project management type work having to coordinate the efforts of several teams over long periods: I’ve been working a very long project which began last December to revamp our customer survey reporting from the ground up. We released a new version in production in March and we keep adding more surveys, more functionality to the reporting, including a first ever recovery piece, as time goes by. We currently have new surveys slated monthly until Aug of 2018. This entails a lot of meetings, gaining stakeholder buy-in, coordinating efforts among teams, etc. But, I also had to research the data components, make sure they came through the various areas to our data warehouse in a manner that Tableau can handle and/or have our data warehouse convert it so that Tableau can handle it, then write the SQL, create the Tableau Data Source, then finally the report (which is very visual, with trend lines and bar chart distributions, etc.)… This project alone keeps me very busy and honestly with all the moving pieces is not at all boring.
Once a month I create 10+ page PowerPoint deck for our VP highlighting the main metrics in monthly trend form for him to disseminate as however he does. This requires a lot of attention to detail as you might imagine, and that’s something I do well and don’t necessarily find boring.
Today I’m hosting my 3rd and perhaps final meeting with my peers to impart more information from the Tableau Conference I attended in Vegas in Oct. As a data nerd, the conference was a lot of fun -A LOT OF FUN!, the features they are introducing soon are very cool, and my team so far has really enjoyed what I have to share.
Overall, I’m not bored. There’s something cool about dealing with folks within a given business line and helping them with data relative to their workings in some manner and making their overall efforts a success.
Hopefully not too overly verbose, lol, but if so please accept my apologies. =)
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@snarkypants No you did a great job describing what you do. How does one even get into that line of work? Now that you have described it, it seems overwhelmingly stressful, but you must be great at it to love it. 
Are you in direct competition with Salesforce? That’s the program we run in the company I work for.
@ALaLoca No, as a travel company Salesforce (SF) isn’t a competitor. In fact, that’s one of our main tools for all our casework. And since we survey based on SF cases, we are now using Clicktools platform integrated into SF to survey partners on our work. We extract the data from SF Objects into our instance of Teradata, and then that’s where I come in and really take the data to a level everyone can use utilizing Tableau.
And… yes. There are days I"m stressed. LOL. As far as getting into this, it’s just a reporting analyst job. Kinda just fell into it actually.
What about you? What do you do (and in case I’ve missed it already in thread, please forgive me.)
@snarkypants yeah you missed it completely lol I am the original poster to this thread. Check the first post.
@ALaLoca LOL that’s awesome. I couple years ago I took all the classes for a real estate license but never took the state exam. =\ I want out of mine too, but just don’t know where or what.
What kind of app, if I may ask?
T@snarkypants I really can’t disclose, all I have done for it has been a hand design. I’m looking for someone who wants to be partner or be hired to design it.
That’s another reason why I started this post. I wish in high school there was a program where you could just join, shadow, and learn what jobs are out there.
When I was in school all I knew was Doctor, Nurse, or Lawyer.
I know praxis is something I wish I would have done. Praxis is where you pay to get a job and they teach you basically all roles in business and then they pay you once you’re trained. So they basically they back your tutuion.
I will say the app is very libertarian lol
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I’m always surprised about the number of people who hate their jobs, like they feel trapped when they have great power owing to the way our economy works in the US to change it. A good 4 out of the 5 people I meet, or more. It’s not like people here are stuck as serfs growing vegetables on the family farm in B.F.E.
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@Jay what you say is really true. Every time I quite my job - I’m like that was easy. I just hate quiting lol
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Most people seem to spend most of their lives paralyzed by fear of change.
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I work in property management doing light maintenance and cleaning. I also have a cleaning business part time. Cleaning up after people leads to learning interesting habits of people. If you work in an office chances are your janitor knows far more about you than you know. I don’t hate my job, nor do I love it. It allows me to be flexible with my kids schedule which is important to me. Unfortunately I don’t get much sleep because of it.
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You got that right. The trick is to learn to embrace change. Change is opportunity.
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