Those who collect and purchase toys/other miscellaneous collectibles

>>6355014
Collect and purchase toys/other miscellaneous collectibles on a weekly basis.

Insurance adjuster. Sucks, but pays alright.

>>6355014
I buy shit every 3 months, but I only collect sideshow statues and Hot Toys.

I work in a Deli and I'm a full time student.
>>6355028
My Dad did that for 25 years. He also hated it.

>>6355014
Just a normal job. Outside of my toy hobby, I'm fairly frugal though. To put it in a better context, buying a candle is sometimes considered a big purchase for me.

I make $12 an hour at a deli and go to school

Admin with a few side jobs. More like monthly.

Bartender that deals comics on the side.

Its all about perspective. Toys are a relatively cheap hobby compared the latest iPhones and electronics normies blow their cash on regularly.

>>6355015
Scalper leave.

Draw porn.

But I've been a more pragmatic spender lately, so I don't buy toys often, I just have a massive hoard of figures I bought over the last 15+ years.

>>6355014
a retail slave at walmart in the electronics department. pays alright.

Registered Nurse. Dual income household and no kids. Ain't bad.

Marketing for a Video Game company. Junior manager level.

It pays preetty well and it's a pretty sweet work too. Hard as fuck but sweet.

Started when I couldn't afford that many and had to be very picky. After I noticed that I had 50k+ saved up it downed to me I didn't need to save 3k every month so I decided to be less frugal about it. 8 months being a capitalist, will stop next year or so as I want to travel abroad around europe/asia for a year.

I build/design LEGO models for Legoland and travel the world to install them.

>>6355191
I also lie about my career, work at a deli for $12 an hour, and go to school.

Genius here. Pays better than you think. Though I am looking for an out though.

Operations director for a company that builds, manages and maintains video game lounges on american military installations.

Student.

Database administrator. Pay is not so great. Most IT jobs where there are Indians involved are basically janitorial work. They have to pay an army of them to redo crap over and over and over which makes budgets for anything else very tight. If the economy ever picks up I'll be gone so fast they're empty bobble heads will spin.

>>6355014
I make $10.50 an hour (plus bonus) at TRU. No bills, and live at home while in college.

I rebuild surgical endoscopes. Comfy job, pretty good pay

Work in a group home for people with disabilities.

I'm a writer and my husband is a programmer/app dev. We don't have any kids.

I collect mostly Pokemon stuff and other plushies, figmas and revoltechs here and there. He's heavy into any electronics and buys himself whatever new gadget he wants to play around with. We both just shrug at each other's hobbies as long as the bills are getting paid.

Mech. Draftsman in the Deep South. Currently contract-to-hire for a European-based company's North American branch. Making $16/hr atm and if hired full-time it'll be $17/hr plus benefits. Spent the previous 10yrs working full-time at Walmart as a floor-cleaner/janitor on the night shift while slowly going through school part-time in the mornings and on my days off.

I work at a major supermarket chain.

>>6355121
>Draw porn.
How do I get into/paid for this?

>>6355124
>pays alright.

no wai

I stock produce for a major supermarket chain. $23/hr isn't bad for what I do, I think.

>>6355837
That's incredible for a grocery store job. California?

>>6355859
Yeah, but sadly I'm already at the end of my payscale. I'll have been there for nine years in a few days.

>>6355681
>they're empty bobble
really stirs the curry

>>6355714
>I make $10.50 an hour (plus bonus) at TRU
>bonus
>TRU
Bullshit.

>>6355934
How is it bullshit? You get bonuses for signing people up for the TRU credit card.

>>6355810
Contrary to what you might've been told, a lot of big retail chains do pay their employees pretty decently.

Student and have two part-time jobs as a cashier at a known pharmacy and a fast food joint. The pay is crap on both ($7.25/hr) but for now I just have to deal with it. I'm looking for another job and maybe see a light at the end of the tunnel. I buy two or three toys by season.

>>6355949
Do you live with your parents?

I'm 25 and I work two part-time jobs at $10.00 an hour. I've stopped buying as much stuff as I used to. Typically now I only buy a figure if it's of a character I don't already have, or it's a really high quality piece. Also trying to save money to go back to school, which shouldn't take me too long as I already have a BA.

>>6355952
I lived alone at a point, but moved back with my mom because she got really sick and I agreed to help her with the house and take care of the younger siblings.

I'm a male escort and online cam show model. I buy toys to cheer myself up instead of doing coke so I've lasted a bit longer than most. Toys help fill the void, you know?

>>6355837
Thats would probably be $7.25 here.

Work at a chain pet store, draw weird shit for furries on the side (too wimpy/self-conscious to break into drawing porn even though that's where a lot of the $$$ is).

I don't buy toys monthly or anything, more like every few months if I find something I want.

work at ups loading trucks don't really buy every week but if there something i really want i usually have enough saved over to get it

>>6355763
Learn to draw
Make tumblr
Make patreon
Make sure to pander to what's currently popular so you get attention

>>6355514
>lie
Sure thing, bud.

>>6355837
>>6355879
>>6355859
Currently working at a grocery store as well, the pay is pretty decent if you stay there long enough, but it's killing my soul, I need a new job

>>6355191
If you're not lying anon, how did you get this job? Seems like a dream. Do you have any cool stories?

>>6355916
An Indian programmed my phone's autocorrect.

>>6356364
I was told about the job through people I knew and I had to do a build assessment and then a standard interview. There was about 40 people and only three of us were chosen, luckily for me my personality meshed well with my soon to be future manager and from there it was smooth sailing. My favorite story is that I lived in Dubai last year and I got to see what the direct effect of middle eastern heat and sand blasting winds do to LEGO.

>>6356642
That's awesome. Deserty conditions must be some of the worst for lego though.

>>6356649
Yeah, that's why the first indoor miniland is in Dubai.

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Warehouse inventory specialist. So whatever I order, I get it through my dock. feels good man.

>>6356109
I also have that job. I was alright with it at one point, but a series of things have led me to dust off the resume and apply elsewhere.

As for thread topic: I don't buy every week. Though even if I could I don't think there'd be something I like enough to buy on that frequent of a basis.

I work retail. I'm not REALLY getting by as is, so toy purchases are becoming more and more rare for me. I am trying to get a better job currently.

Civil engineer making $80,000/year. I can pretty much afford anything I want but I try to limit my monthly purchases to a handful so my apartment isn't flooded with plastics.

>>6355114
If you buy cheap crap once a month, yes, l usually spend an iphone worth of toys every one to three months, depending on what comes out.

>>6355014
I'm a part time english teacher in japan, l make around 200000 yen a month working 27 hours a week.

>>6355014
I work in kids Playroom. I am Initiator.

I litteraly get paid for having fun.

EMT, soon to be paramedic. I make $15/hr, will be closer to $20/hr when I'm done with school. Single and debt free so I have a lot of disposable income. Typically only make a big purchase once a month around $100-200 from import preorders, but buy smaller stuff week to week depending on what's tickling my fancy.

>>6356884
You do what, exactly? I'm not sure I understand your job title.

Proposal Writer
55k with beni

Buy toys about every other week, but that's because I'm new to the hobby and trying the play catch up.

>>6355014
I run a company that sells industrial machinery and scientific instruments, but before that I was working at chemical plant for years.

Honestly while I could be buying new iphone worth of toys every few months in the end I still end relatively frugal compared to my other peers. It's all about priorities.

>>6355934
$1-2 per sign up
>Bonus

>>6356988
>You do what, exactly? I'm not sure I understand your job title.
Overpaid babysitter for overly-privileged children.

Lab technician at a dairy products manufacturer.

>>6355014
I am a musician, podcaster, maker, part-time retailer, and I spend my days raising my three-year-old. I make basically no money. My wife has a job making around 50K, but also has 100K+ in school loan debt. These days I mostly only buy stuff I find at the thrift, or on deep discount. Most weeks I have to decide if I want to buy my kid a plushie, or if I want to eat lunch.

>>6355948
really? how much is decently per month?

>>6356988
Cheese Pizza groomer

>>6355014
>what is it that you do for a living?
Loss Prevention at a retail distribution center.

>>6355014
School janitor

Not a glamorous job but it has good benefits and it pays good enough to comfortably enjoy my hobbies

I don't buy every week, but I'm a copywriter.

ITT: nearly everyone is a lower class fuck up

Just a shitty factory job. Not having a wife/gf helps though.

I used to do IT, then I got laid off.Now I'm in sales CAREFULLY buying stuff as to not overkill our budget

>>6359188
what does your boyfriend think of your hobby?

And how you like sales compared to IT? I'm on IT myself (support, admin) and I realized that I don't really like computers too late in life.

>>6359212

I'm in IT as well (tech overlord for school district), and I'm in the same boat. Ready to do something other than IT, but have absolutely no idea what that might be.

>>6359212
>>6359229
Don't like computers or don't like working with incompetents? Believe me, it makes all the difference.

>>6355014
Well I work as a IT management level consultant. Makes me around 5000 € a month before taxes. I also made few hundret grands from trading bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies that works as my backup fund.

>>6359229
>Work in IT
>Show company that we can save thousands of man hours and dollars by switching to a simple dropbox system vs what the company is using.
>Get blown off
>"You need to contribute more to the company Anon, you need to be working to streamline our systems!"

Nope.

>>6355014
Exterminator
15/hr
Ass-ton of overtime
The job is extremely easy, I live with my parents and I collect video games in addition to toys.

I work retail in a mall. On my breaks I sometimes walk over to our one toy/hobby store, which is a bit overpriced and has a pretty tiny selection. This is a trap, I usually end up spending my wages here. Then I come home and spend more on toys online. I really don't make enough to justify doing this shit.

>>6359321
>Live with my parents
>Have a steady income

It's honestly pretty great. I can bank a lot of money.

>>6359321
>>6359336
Honestly, I wish I could live with my parents...so much of my paycheck goes into rent. But it's not to be, cause I moved away and I have no desire to go back currently (few job prospects back home).

>>6356065
>Toys help fill the void, you know?
Is... is this a double entendre?

Software engineering

>>6359283
That's exactly what I mean. They don't know what to do but somehow they expect you to do something without knowing anything they don't.

>>6359381
I just hate that when I come to them with something that would be a big improvement they just blow it off like I don't know what I'm talking about, while still demanding I do something to improve things.

It's like asking me to run a race with a fifty pound rock strapped to my back.

>>6359386
That sounds so frustrating. I'm glad that my boss tends to roll with it whenever I come to them with suggestions for improvement.

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>>6355028
Insurance broker reporting in

>>6355124
I worked at walmart for about 3 weeks once upon a time, on the CAPS crew, or whatever it was called. Contemplated blowing my brains out on a daily basis, so I finally quit.

Got a job at Hastings, company went out of business.

FUq

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>>6355191

I make $16 bucks an hour doing what basically amounts to running the lost and found cargo department for a large shipping company.

I'm in this awkward place where living with my parents I get to save up a ton of money, but if I move out I'll be eating ramen because my area is expensive. I'm looking for either a transfer to another area or a promotion, but Its hard because a lot of the positions above mine suck absolute ass and the managers get treated like shit.

Market/social researcher - Sharing a tiny flat with the gf cuts down on living costs and keeps you from buying frivolously.

I work for Siemens, and I am a trainer. I make about 144k a year, and I am able to travel the globe every couple of months. I 'm going to china soon in July, and I usually get my son something from crystal city in Shanghai. I collect Transformers and Micronauts. That's really all.

>>6356867
How do I score an English teaching job in japan? Are their agencies? Do I need to speak glorious nippon language by folding my tongue over 1000 times?

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I'm a Bio Professor at a small college.
I teach A&P and Microbiology. Sometimes I bring toys to lab.

>>6359541

What kind of education and stuff did you need to get that job. I have a BS in biology and ended up working in trucking, I'm thinking I'd rather teach if it was college.

>>6359535
>How do I score an English teaching job in japan?
>Are their agencies?

I've got some bad news for you.

>>6355014

I manage a small data center for a large telecom company, possibly the largest. Out of each paycheck (bi weekly) I budget $225 "fun money" into a separate account, though that does include my gas (~$50).

>>6359448
>I'm in this awkward place where living with my parents I get to save up a ton of money, but if I move out I'll be eating ramen because my area is expensive
Same.

A small one bedroom apartment where I live is $1600 a month.

Could be worse, but that's like, a bedroom, a cramped bathroom, a super small kitchen, a sitting area/living room that is maybe the size of the bedroom, and that's it.

I'm a housewife. I've been cutting down a lot on what I buy lately, though.

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>>6359560
You can likely teach labs as an adjunct. Search the openings in your local colleges.

>>6359275
>made few hundret grands
I don't want to be that guy, but how do you get into this? I'm guessing it's like the stock market (speaking as someone who doesn't use it...). I have absolutely nothing I could spend cryptoc. on (I guess I could cash it back out?), but I think it would be fun to mess around with and try to learn investment/market strategies with.

>>6359535
There are two main things you need: being native and having a bachelor degree.

If you're not native (like me) it will be much harder to find a place and get a visa, and you can only teach in language schools, not in elementary/junior high/high schools.

If you don't have a bachelor degree you may make one with photoshop and try your luck, a lot of people do it, but l have no direct experience with that.

If you're both native and have a degree, it's impossible you won't find a teaching job in japan, especially if you're not picky about the location.
But l can't be more specific because as l said, I'm not native so l had to take a different route.

Anyway, be prepared to the high chance of being treated like shit.
I have the luck to have an american boss, which means l don't have to live all those crappy rules that fill japanese society.

>>6359535
Sorry forgot to mention, most english teachers don't speak any japanese.
Being able to may open more doors, but it's mostly not required.

>>6359891
You buy bitcoins at whatever local exchange you want. Then you make an account at crypto exchange like kraken, bittrex or yobit and start trading. Then you change them back to bitcoins which you sellat local exchange.

Cryptos are poor training for stock exchange though as prices are driven by totally sifferent factors.

I'm a sysadmin. Make $65K a year so I can afford my bills and my hobbies. It works I guess.

>>6359644
Are you a MILF? Please say yes.

>>6355014
I'm a neet, I use my allowance to buy jap figurines.

>>6365207
Lucky you. I'm a NEET and my Mom has control of my finances.

>>6355014
Work at a warehouse while going to school.

>>6359541
dude, put them inside one of those fake vaginas lol

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>>6355014
I'm a full time apprentice Electrician.
I've always collected LEGO, but ever since I started working about a year ago I've also bled into collecting transformers, figurines, nendos (soon, got 2 on preorder) and other faggotry of the like.

>Somebody stop me.

>>6356110

How do you handle perks for a patreon based on digital content? What would help make people feel it's worth it to them?

>>6355962
>Also trying to save money to go back to school, which shouldn't take me too long as I already have a BA.
You didn't learn the first time goy?

Learn a trade, a specific skill or specialization. Aircraft interior, running a tool crib for a defense contractor, basic soldering, shit - even get with Geico - pass the drug tests, show up every day and you will be making 35K with benefits in 2 years with promotions.

College is a meme at this point, it's not worth the money/time/hassle and hasn't been since 2003

>>6366352
but what if your strict yid grandparents will call a hit on you for not getting a degree?

>>6355014
Administrative-accounting in a hardware store.

Around 1100€ clean monthly. 36, single and living with my parents so...don't have many expenses.

>>6355014
Waiter/freelance design/programming

>>6355014
Full time student on the GI Bill, work at my dads company during the summer. Did do fine-scale model painting comissions for a while, til the studio i worked at moved.

>>6355124
Pays alright? what? How the fuck?

>>6356131
I worked in 2 grocery stores in my life. They both sucked asshole to the extreme.

my military service wasn't as soul killing as those fucking stores.

>>6356864
>80,000 a year
>apartment
California?

>>6357308
Maybe you shouldn't have had a kid then.

I work as a data analyst for a multi-million dollar household company. kind of thinking of getting certified in project management because my 45k isn't cutting it. Boyfriend is in full time school/an intern makes about 30k/year. I buy whatever I want/typically 2 vacations a year plus some small roadtrips, and toys as necessary/have about 15k savings I'm sitting on, could be more but I love to travel...

I'm unemployed, my sugardaddy buys me toys.

I work at an independently owned Cafe
But I split rent with two other people

I don't buy toys weekly... in fact, I mainly limit myself to statues and my secret collection of Barbies.

But, I make $75,000 base with a 15-25% annual bonus based on company performance as the Lead Media Planner, Advertising, for an internationally known brand.

Where I live has great cost of living and I bought my house at the bottom of the housing market, and have a paid off car, so my monthly living costs are rock bottom.

Loss prevention at a distribution center for a national retail store.

I also get money from my post 9/11 GI bill every month that im in school.

>>6366687
this guy knows where it's at

>>6365734
It's too late anon, the Lego train is bad enough (but well worth it), but once you go nendo you won't be able to stop

it does kinda help that they're more expensive now I guess

>>6365737
different anon, but try these:
-invitations to private drawstreams
-free sketches for certain tiers
-see throwaway sketches that won't be posted elsewhere
-see updates before other people on your main site(s)
-if they give a lot of money you could let them commission you on something you wouldn't normally draw, or at least suggest something you don't normally

that's what I've seen on successful ones anyway

>>6366435
freelance design *and* programming? That's quite useful, esp with how many hats employers want you to wear these days.

>>6366624
Northern California and it's quite nice. The rent isn't so bad and so is the cost of living. I've been single for a while so the apartment accommodates me quite nicely.

Collect autismbux.

So I spend all day shitposting on the net and playing videogames.

I sell lighters.

Doctor, its pretty good.

>>6355810
>>6366617

They pay about $10 per hour for low-grade lackeys; it equates to $1600 per month, which is more than enough in certain parts of the country with low living costs.

Example: If your rent is $600 per month and you spend an additional $400 on other living costs you will have $600 of pocket money each month, or $7200 per annum.

My girlfriend and I saved ~$40,000 in about 1.5 years at a wage of about $13 each. Just be smart and frugal, eat out only once per two weeks, pack your own lunch, learn to cook and look after yourself properly. Don't be like your baby-boomer parents.

Unemployed.

I was laid off at the start of the year from a job as a product specialist for a capital equipment company. Not on great money (£28k + £9-10k bonus + benefits) but not terrible for where I live.

Finished off my Engineering degree whilst working (more accurately finished it last month, but they paid for it) and am now still looking for employment. You'd have thought that I wouldn't have many problems picking up a grad job especially with a 1st class degree, and project management and design experience from my last job, but apparently companies don't want 31 year old graduates.

So the toy buying has stopped for now as I have a family to support (though I was super tempted to blow a chunk of my severace on a 1/12 scale Rx-78-2 that turned up on eBay earlier this year.

>>6356867
Consider those same fags also blow an iphone worth of cash on drinking themselves into a stupor on weekends or buying drugs.

Any /toy/fag who feels bad about spending money on their hobby should realize normalfags will always be one step ahead of you on finding stupid ways to waste their money on a scale you can't even begin to comprehend.

Based on the responses there is no one here that is a poorfag and barely able to keep up with rent and food while buying toys.

Maybe thats why companies keep price raising because they know poorfags already dont buy their shit

>>6366687
Any suggestions on how to get a sugardaddy, anon?

>>6368027
To be fair maybe it's also because of few factors too like the rise of production and licensing costs too, then there's inflation in general.
Even non-poorfag would stop buying if the price is too much compared to what they'll get. I find myself has cutting a lot of impulse buy because of that.

>>6360404
>l don't have to live all those crappy rules that fill japanese society.
Can you elaborate on how this would affect what they expect of a teacher? like what crappy rules exactly do other teachers have to deal with

>>6367683
>You'd have thought that I wouldn't have many problems picking up a grad job especially with a 1st class degree, and project management and design experience from my last job, but apparently companies don't want 31 year old graduates.
Companies will hire 30 Pajeets at 20X the cost to avoid hiring 1 western person with a clue.

>>6368027
To be fair, only people who aren't poorfags will want to talk and boast about how amazing their jobs are even though this is an anonymous message board.

I haven't posted yet, because this thread is mostly just to boast about how amazing your job is and it's pretty conceited.
Since your post made me post, i might as well join in and say that I'm paid about 40k a year to post on 4chan. I help run a few webstores.

Most toylines I buy aren't into overcharging suckers and raising their prices outlandishly.

>>6355014
work at a call center for a health insurance. I get atleast 1 figure a week.

>>6355014
IT Security Analyst a job less glamorous than it sounds.

I regularly collect Hot Wheels with whatever singles I have left in my wallet each week. Aside from that I buy Nendos, Figmas, and FAGs every month or so.