What does /out/ do for a living?

I own a plumbing supply store as well as supply plumbing services for new build homes. 31 employees and can take time off whenever I feel like it.
Taxes are a bitch.

Apprentice mason, fur trapper and commercial fisherman.

>>961762
cool.

once again unemployed geophysicist. worked in mining, oil and gas, and environmental. Think twice about a career in natural resources friends. It's a roller coaster ride although when it's good it's very good.

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I'm a sound engineer and acoustician, but right now I'm an audiologist-in-training.

My pay varies by several tens of thousands of dollars a year depening, but right nao I'm a student with little work income so like probably gon' be $30k this year or some such shiz.

>>961784
I was doing freelance design work before nursing. Getting paid consistently was difficult

Welfare

>>961788
Yeah freelancing is a double edged sword at best. I wanted to get on staff at an acoustic consulting firm but because of many factors it was very difficult and competitive so now I'm just becoming a ear-ologist for dem dollas and stable career. Similar to what you did in fact.

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>Professional bushcrafter and MRA
>Amateur LARPer, reenactor, troubadour, and thespian
>Life
>The kindness of strangers

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Studying pedagogy to get a Bachelor in Social Education,
i get around 120usd in gibsmedat from the government a month

laborer at sawmill
13 an hour 55 hour weeks

>>961823
That sounds like fun. How's your hearing? Is it constant work?

>>961826
Hearing is ok you have to wear earplugs. And you get a break every every 90 minutes because of how demanding it is. I barely make enough to survive and see college kids my same age with nice cars and expensive clothes. Must be nice

>>961827
That's only half of college kids.The other half are struggling to pay back the 40 grand they took in loans.

>Draftsman
>BS Architectural Studies
>40-42k

Solid 40 hours a week, 50+ on "deadline weeks" but it's comfy work. Get to spend time outdoors on job sites and work with chill people.

Sometimes miss my old auto service job though.

>>961772
Is it that bad

t. starting degree in geology soon

>tree surgeon.
>formally trained as a photographer with a BA hons in Documentary Photography. Worked in fashion for a bit but f that. Got a million and one tickets for tree work.

I work seasonally:

>Jan-Feb
Taxidermy
>Mar-Apr
Ranch hand
>May-Jun
Rockweed harvest
>July-Sep
Blueberry harvest
>Oct-Dec
Wreath shop

I am starting a full-time taxidermy business this summer though.

>Military Pilot
> B.S. Aerospace Engineering
>70K
But I do have a Gillion dollars in student Loans to pay off.

>>961871
You must be from Maine.

>>961874
Right on the border with Maine in New Brunswick

>>961875
I'm from Maine, but I'm stationed elsewhere now. I miss it every day.

>>961876
Yeah, it doesn't really get any better than Maine. I was in the USCG (dual citizen) and was stationed in Eastport, ME (then a satellite unit under Jonesport) for all 4 years.
I would hate to leave the Northern New England/Canadian Maritimes region.

>marketing director/sales for contact furnishings company
>Salary plus commission
>High school degree
>Started as writer
>35-50k depending on commish

>>961854
>>961806
>>961788
I used to work as a commercial /p/hotographer and retoucher. I struggled as a freelancer before getting a pretty sweet in house gig at a little studio near Seattle. Then we lost our bread & butter contract with Nike and the owners decided to retire early. I didn't want to go back to freelancing or try and hustle my way into a bigger studio so now:

>seasonal /out/ bum (mostly guide work, tourism, hospitality)
>Art school drop out
>$15-$20k a year

I'm sure that doesn't sound like a lot, but when you factor in that my employers usually provide room and board for a nominal fee and my regular expenses (car insurance, health insurance, private mailbox, etc,) barely cracks $2k a year it's not a bad way to live. I've got more personal time and a proportionally more disposable income than I did before and I'm a hell of a lot less stressed.

I'm kicking it in Ecuador for a month before going to Alaska for my next summer gig. I'm going to drive UNIMOGs for a tour company in Skagway. $13/hr, OT (Alaska has great OT laws), housing and a $2/hr bonus if I stay all season.

BSc, can collecting, panhandling, and servicing lonely women. The last one is a bit degrading

Environmental technologist, diploma and a buttload of certifications

>welder
>B.Sc. in information >science and trade degree
>like 35k

>>961894
I was doing really well in photography, plenty of work, either assisting or shooting. Just didn't enjoy the fashion world. I accidentally progressed in it, so my network was totally fashion oriented, plus it just killed it for me. Had no desire to try and move into a different side of the industry.
Climbing trees is far more satisfying. Not as well paid by a long shot, but I like the work I do and the people I work with.

>>961972
I was mostly doing off model catalog stuff, which isn't hard but it's a deadline grinder.

The other problem I had was that Seattle is over saturated with creative professionals, so even low paying assistant jobs are super competitive.

So after factoring in the cost of moving to a less crowded market plus the ongoing struggle of keeping my gear from getting too obsolete I just decided to switch gears entirely.

I've been thinking about picking up the odd freelance gig here and there or selling my own stuff as prints, but I don't think it'll be my full-time job ever again and I'm OK with that.

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Seasonal Bio tech with the Feds.
Bachelors in Wildlife Management
Pay varies with how many jobs I manage to snag per year, last year I made ~$26k I think.

Pay sucks but I get to live in some amazing places. Right now I'm living on a mountain in the high desert of Oregon.

Professional NEET

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Cellar Hand at a Winery

40k a year

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Parents own a window and door installation company. Plan to take it over when they decide to retire.
Make about 20-30k

Paramedic
92k a year

days on 4 days off

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>>962022
pfft, yeah sure buddy.

>military
>$25/hour
>minimal leave allotted and I get holidays off when stateside

>>962025
Umm what?

I edit one thing I work 2 days and am off 4 days. I'm an advance care paramedic in ontario feel free to look it up.

im a cad designer at large utility company. maps and shit.

>property landlord in UK
>earned nothing personally in last ten years, it's all gone back into the business, other than paying for food etc
>only day i have off is Christmas day

I have accepted that I will never be rich, but my heir will be, and I'm happy with that.

Eurofag chef, on average I work less than 150h per month and on the year I'm 35k+ which is not bad for the hours I do.

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>>961758

Programmer, tech support. Not making 6 figures but the freedom to work from anywhere is great.

>>962059
That's a noble goal. I always think about how sick it would have been if my ancestors invested and saved better. I'm trying to do that so my great great grandkids can be rich AF.

>Archeological Tech with the NPS
>MA in Arch(a)eology
>33k

Was lucky enough to nab a 2 year temp before the administration change. Got to spend all of last summer traveling around to Midwest region parks for various projects. Shit money for a Masters degree, but I've known since undergrad that I wont get rich in this field.

>>961850
Yes. Industrial paramedics, on the other hand, are always in demand.

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>>961823
do you guise get free gravy though?

>>961784

I'm a freelance sounddesigner and engineer. And have been for the last 10 years or so.. Thinking about make the exact same switch into audiology... How is it working for you?

M.A. in Anthropology and a J.D. Make most of my dough consulting for either the feds or oil exploration contractors. I try to make at least 60 a year after taxes, because wife and son. I prefer to play /out/ with my family. I could make more, but I live by a "just enough" philosophy that makes life bearable.

>>961830
My Dad was a draftsman before CAD was a thing. He didn't keep up with the tech, so he became an "entrepreneur". I learned to write with his 2mm lead holders and technical pens. I still have a fetish-like thing for them. I do fieldwork with a frigging $80 Rotring.

>>962175
Even while I fully acknowledge how CAD helps the industry pretty much everywhere I wish it wasn't a thing. I love the fuck out of manual technical drawing and I wish I could make a living out of it.

>>962177
Personally I love Victorian scientific and medical illustration. I went to art school with a chick who would've been perfect at it.

park ranger in texas

>>962181
Should have let her vivisect you. I collect old prints of vertibrate zoological diagrams. Wish I could draw for for shit.

>>962187
Do you ever tell people you're a Texas Ranger?

assistant colorist in la. pretty big stuff comes through, which is fun

>programmer
>BA economics
>75k

>>962193
L.A. or LA?

>>962218
L.A. has more people than the entire state of LA .

studied to teach music, recently graduated so no relevant job yet (my final grades just posted today, degree should be conferred soon)

I work as a mosquito control applicator during the summer months, making probably $25-35K a season

>>961854
how did you get into tree work

>>962181
At being an artist or a model?

>>962192

Walker, Texas ᴾᵃʳᵏ Ranger

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Automotive manufacturing, 70k in 2016.
Was making a bit more in years past
but employer has clamped down on overtime.
25 years ago I did landscaping while studying comp-sci.
Factory job was supposed to be just off-season.
I record the sounds of Nature as a hobby.

Chemist, working in an assay lab at a mine. No degree yet, I'm on track to have my BS in chemistry next year paid for by the company. Made 85k last year will be more this year.

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Electrical engineering
Contract radio engineering/tech
About 6fig. Some years more, some years less.
Plenty of vacation to go play (over a decade with the company).

>>961758

I'm a 01 electrician, make 97k after taxes. I'm only 29 yrs old, have zero debt.

Work at a Call centre for the police. I just reports for people on property crimes, general enquiries stuff and other random shit.
60k before tax.
Also have a BA Arts but doing postgrad stuff on criminology looking to get into the coppers in Tasmania

Bush Regenerator
That is the extent of my /out/ness atm but it does well enough

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>>962395
>Bush Regenerator

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I'm also a nurse OP the 12 hour shifts are good because I get lots of days off to go outdoors

Scotland
Icu nurse
Bsc
£30k

Winter walker, cycle and wild camping are my favourite /out/ things.

>>962239
3 months course at a college. Don't where you are, but here in the UK there is a pretty detailed ticket system. The course taught me basic stuff about trees; their biology, illnesses and so on. It also covered various practical things like chainsaw maintenance and the legal wingdings that surround the industry here. But the main outcome of it all was that I left with the 5 basic tickets you need to get hired as a climber. You can do longer more comprehensive courses, but to be honest I think they are a waste of time. No matter how many qualifications you have when you first start you will be dragging sticks to the chipper and learning all the important bits on the job. It took me just under a year to be climbing regularly. Have been at it for three years now and while I am not a lead climber I can do most jobs.

>>962136
w-what

Working on the US-Canada border. I'm spending another summer working between Lake of the Woods and Lake Superior. It's nice to get paid to canoe around the Boundary Waters. I've only ever been there when working so I don't feel like I'm fully enjoying it. Last year I earned about 20k working mid-May to late September.

>>962738
>Working on the US-Canada border.

Build that wall

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>>961758
As a Minnesotan, this pleases me to no end.

>Software Engineer
>BA Degree
>70k

I'm new to /out/, sitting at a computer all day every day is really starting to get to me. I've got an itch to smelt iron and start fires with sticks.

>>962758

I don't want to portage all that cement

>>962059
You sound like a bro, or "top lad" as they say over there. Too bad yout heirs will be living under the caliphate :/

>>961758
>Service company
>College dropout
>150,000/yr

>>962948
>USA
Bro, dude
>Canada
Buddy, pal, b'y
>UK, Australia, New Zealand
Mate, cunt

IT Security
$100k a year
3 weeks worth of vacation

decent

>Correctional Corporal (prison guard)

40hr/wk salary is about 34k but I made 55k last year with over time.

It's all right.

>>963096
I imagine most COs are psychopaths, not saying you are? Not a crimefag, but it just seems like the kind of position that would be irresistable to a sadist.

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>student
>geological engineering
>$0

>>961830

Same here actually

>Drafter/EWP specialist
>50k a year
>no outside time allowed
>3 weeks vacation

Thinking of becoming an arborist instead. I fucking loath my office job.

>>961758
>jobless and living in my parents attic
>culinary arts meme degree
>$200 an month from random shit

>>963100
There is psychological screening you dumb cunt.

>>963100
>I imagine most COs are psychopaths
Go back to your safe space you idiot! Dumbest thing I've read this morning.

>>961772
Need to set up those academic connections so you can do research and teach while you're not on the job. You dun goofed, though you must be smart to have the degree. You've already don't graduate school, correct? If so, you really fugged up by not keeping connections there. I have a place at a community college and two universities (or at least recommendations for other ones) if I end up without a job. Gotta plan ahead, my friend.

I'm a sysadmin with a degree in computer science from a really good uni but I'm quitting everything to go permanently /out/.

>>961758
>Web dev & marketer
>Justice Admin
>$60k

Shulda studied harder.

>>961809
I could not have asked for a better reply on 4chan. You made my day.

>>962901
>smelt iron and start fires with sticks
You gotta start the fire before you can go smelting things.

>>963149
>really fugged up by not keeping connection
Hey, that's what I did. Now I'm 35, have $17k student loan debt, and drive pizzas for a meager living (15-25k annually); not enough to advance in life, just making it day by day. At least camping season is almost here. Hopefully one of my brothers-in-law will take care of their dad for a week or two so the missus and I can hit the Hoosier National Forest.

>>963166
Dang. If worse comes to worse the best thing to do is take a job, any kind of job, that builds up your skill pool, even if the job is "bellow" you. I don't know what your major was, but I doubt pizza was involved.

>>961758
>bsn
>55k
kek. where do you work? my wife's a .6 and she pulled in 105k last year.

I'm an indie game dev

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>Art Director/Co-owner for small marketing agency
>BSA degree
>35k

Company was a start-up when I signed on, started out at 45k but it's gone down substantially due to a lawsuit for the old co-owner fucking over clients without us knowing, I took half the hit so we can keep our subcontractors paid. Lost a lot of clientele because of that but we're on our way back. Ocassional 60+ hour weeks but that's not too bad, most of the time I get to post on Canadian Surf Enthusiast image boards.

>>962027
92K Canadian is like $22k American.

>>961758
Work in warehouse.
Studying to become a military nurse.
Have engineering degree but since there is no such thing as part time engineering jobs I'm throwing boxes to pay for school.

>>963685
>military nurse
>having to pay for it
??

>>963687
Not every cadet gets a scholarship with their contract, and I'm doing the direct commission route anyways.

>>963691
i assume you did your research, but why not enlist, serve your 4 years as a field medic, then when you get out have the government pay for civilian nursing school?

>>963710
I actually already enlisted and used the money to study engineering. I still have some leftover to pay for most of nursing school but sometimes I usually say my current job pays for school atm.

Ecologist that specialises in GIS work. Straight outta uni on about $30,000 (not much here in Australia) a year, but I only work three days a week. I genuinely enjoy my job and I've got four days each week to do /out/ shit

>>963681
Nice try...

>>962409
How physically fit are you? How much of your day is independent work?

>>961758

>Library Clerk
>Conservation and Land management Degree
>$35/hr

Looking at moving interstate to work as a park ranger

Unemployed atm, but I was a commercial fisherman up in canada for a few years. Working on getting a degree in Natural resources management in the next year or so

>>964017
Oh yeah:

>commercial fisherman
>20k a year
>got my grade 10

Work for 3 months of the year and then EI in the off-season

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Av tech in the luxury smart home business in a ski town

>>963681
3 Amercan 4 Canadian

>>961758
B.S. Geology
4 years grad school for geophysics, quit didn't graduate
Unemployed, donate plasma for $

2bh I like my life, tons of free time and no stress from stupid jerbs

>>961826
If you've ever been to a sawmill I can't imagine you would think it's fun.

>>961758
>translator
>currently in university
>depends on the job, got 3000$ for my last book. It was 700 pages, though.

I moved over to fantasy and find myself using my knowledge of nature/weapons quite a bit.

>>961880
What was your rate in the uscg?

>>962957
How did you get into this field? Degree and work experience needed? Is it soul sucking work?

>>963153
How will you make money anon?

>student
>bs working on ms

last year I made about 12k pre taxes being a TA and misc on-campus jobs

hopefully I'll graduate and find a real job as an electrical engineer. all I want is to play with circuits but the only companies at job fairs are software companies

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>>961758
Cyber Researcher
BS
90k

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>>962405
Where is that?

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>>961758
>Military (navy, do construction)
>High school only but hoping to do college someday
>about $22,484 not including bennies
Im pretty happy with what I do, get to spend a lot of time /out/ either in the field or on job sites.
When im out my dream would be to work in a government job doing more /out/ stuff like Forest service, NPS, Fish&Game, etc. but I dont have a plan yet.