MrRiot
If people keep quitting those jobs I'll NEVER get my Grimlock exo-suit!

Dude, tell me about it! I'm still waiting for my Wing Zero. It's been ages!

Rutger

MrRiot
If people keep quitting those jobs I'll NEVER get my Grimlock exo-suit!

Dude, tell me about it! I'm still waiting for my Wing Zero. It's been ages!

Is it so much to ask, people?! Make our dreams of owning destructive robot suits a REALITY!

It's a company that makes… What? It looks like they like to think about making mechs :)
Heh, reminds me of those groups that get together to do a full mod of the latest multiplayer FPS: Big ideas, but… 6 months later there's only 1 guy working on it and he's just made a logo.

I hope they DO make something though! I've seen that walking logging tractor by a Finnish subsidiary of John Deere Tractors: it's pretty amazing and it actually works.

Walking vehicles could work, but they're best where there are no roads (since other vehicles can move more efficiently in that case). Even in the country, tracked vehicles are probably still more efficient. But there are lots of places that even tracks can't go.

As for combat though, the height would be a problem: that picks you out as an easy target, especially with only two legs.
A lower multi legged thing would be good though, much better than normal tracked tanks because legs can be made more robust and heavier armoured: tracks are a tank's Achilles' heel. Plus, legs would allow movement over tougher terrain, be configured to provide better stability and elevation for the main gun, and depending on the number they would even provide some redundancy in case of loss.
Hahaha, Masumne Shirrow has some good design ideas :)

Hmm, Mecha is more fun to talk about than jobs :P

MrRiot
Dude, you're in San Pedro? That's where I live.
If you're stalking me, bring beer.
Also, why would you quit building mechs? If people keep quitting those jobs I'll NEVER get my Grimlock exo-suit!

Well I work in Pedro. I live in Wilmington. God I hate Wilmington.

Anywho wow, looks like I started something. I rule.

But yeah the reasons i quit are as follows:

1: At the time they had a foot. Made of triangles. And a chest… made of thin metal sticks. And that's it.

2: I got no where near the lack-of-mech until the last day I was there. Before then what was I doing? Making a concrete sidewalk outside. With one other person. In 120* heat. All day. Everyday. And we lived on base so we could not eat until we were done.

3: As an intern there you don't get paid perse. Nay, you get stock. Worthless meaningless stock. And you pay them to live there.

And there are so many many stories I could tell you that would make you both laugh and cry about that place that it's obscene. Trust me guys, root for the John Deere-mobile because there will be no mech coming from them anytime soon but they will however be coming out with a brand new shiny, concrete sidewalk.

Oh that's right… this thread's about jobs isn't it… Umm I build things.

ozoneocean
Walking vehicles could work, but they're best where there are no roads (since other vehicles can move more efficiently in that case). Even in the country, tracked vehicles are probably still more efficient. But there are lots of places that even tracks can't go.

A lower multi legged thing would be good though, much better than normal tracked tanks because legs can be made more robust and heavier armoured: tracks are a tank's Achilles' heel. Plus, legs would allow movement over tougher terrain, be configured to provide better stability and elevation for the main gun, and depending on the number they would even provide some redundancy in case of loss.
Hahaha, Masumne Shirrow has some good design ideas :)

Hmm, Mecha is more fun to talk about than jobs :P

The Snamuh in my comic have removed their legs and replaced them with various forms of transport, tracks, wheels, rocket…

I love your idea of many legs, I got this great image of Mr Hunter from page 5 with legs moving like a giant spider over rough terrain.

And, yeah this is fun… might start a new thread on it…

I'm having mental images of thos arachnitrons from Doom happyly scurrying about a battlefield…

Well im not old enough to have a proper job but i do have a part time job as a newspaper boy

Ya, I've been a student, and then last week I got a job at this like legal office, being the desk jockey sort of thing. Ya, hopefully I'm good enough at typing or else I'm sunk.

Is desk jockey like disc jockey, but instead of discs you spin desks around and scratch them?

I work HERE, so I'm literally a professional geek :p

You can earn money by being a geek? Where do I sign up?

Rutger
You can earn money by being a geek? Where do I sign up?

Your locally owned computer store. (I don't recommend working for any of the big national chain stores. I have before. It sucked.) At a local place it can be a lot of fun though. I work with some of my best friends, in fact they got me the job. Just don't expect to make much.

I think a lot of our jobs seem similar…

I work for the USDA, in a branch called APHIS, which is Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services. Too many acronyms in the government…

I'm a computer clerk, so I do the menial (Move my monitor) to the complicated (I'm locked out of my e-mail account!). The pay is good, considering I'm just a college sophomore, but it's pretty boring, and I can't draw there.

Fuzzy Modem

Rutger
You can earn money by being a geek? Where do I sign up?

Your locally owned computer store. (I don't recommend working for any of the big national chain stores. I have before. It sucked.) At a local place it can be a lot of fun though. I work with some of my best friends, in fact they got me the job. Just don't expect to make much.

I've tried that once, but they didn't need any new people. I'm happy with the job I got now though, lucky to have it too. I'm one of about 5 or 6 persons who actually found a job that they studied for, out of a class of like 30 people.

'They' say that if you would not do the job you have if you had more money than you needed, you shouldn't be doing it.

Personally I love my ‘main’ job of teaching kids how to draw… the satisfaction of seeing childrens' self-esteem go way up when they realise how easy it is to draw cartoons is immense.

Lately though it has been hard to get into schools with my courses for some reason. I have been ‘steered’ into other lines of work.
So I can't wait to see what happens next.

A lot of you guys and gals seem to like your jobs… would you still do them if money wasn't an issue?

Or would you devote your time to your comics?

Are your comics a ‘fun’ thing or do you hope to make money from them?

If money wasn't an issue I'd do my job as a hobby. Well, kind of. I wouldn't be cameraman for the local news, but I'd make movies for a hobby.

I'd spend way more time with my comic though, definately.

If it came down to either doing comics, or working, I'm pretty sure comics would win for me.

Full time high school student, part time library page…. If you ever get to be a library page, DON'T DO IT. It's just about the most mind-numbingest job in the world. It's out to destroy you.

At least I don't have to pay for overdue books, which is, of course, giving me no motivation to return them.

okamimako
Full time high school student, part time library page…. If you ever get to be a library page, DON'T DO IT. It's just about the most mind-numbingest job in the world. It's out to destroy you.

At least I don't have to pay for overdue books, which is, of course, giving me no motivation to return them.

Library page? Right now, I'm totally pictureing you as a page from one of the books you got there…

So long as its not a page from a trashy romance novel…

But in reality I go around and shelve books and listen to librarians bitch about costumers bitching at them.

And eat lots of cookies.

I work in a wine shop, a warehouse and at a jacket potato stand , I earn enough to get by and still get so much free time :) also discounted booze and free food

okamimako
So long as its not a page from a trashy romance novel…

But in reality I go around and shelve books and listen to librarians bitch about costumers bitching at them.

And eat lots of cookies.

Cookies make everything all right.

Especially when the people in the meeting room don't eat them all and leave about two grocery bags full of them in the break room.

okamimako
Especially when the people in the meeting room don't eat them all and leave about two grocery bags full of them in the break room.

Dude! Swipe ‘m and sell ’m! You'll be rich! There's a job for ya, selling stolen cookies. Carefull, they're hot!

Worst pun I ever made…

First off, they'd be all gone now, second off, they're all gone because they've been out for three days. There were a lot of cookies. Not to mention the cake.

okamimako
First off, they'd be all gone now, second off, they're all gone because they've been out for three days. There were a lot of cookies. Not to mention the cake.

DON'T MENTION THE CAKE!

I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it.

When I'm not reading webcomics, I work as a reference librarian.

There's a lot of librarians around these parts…

So I've noticed…

BTW, Get your ass on AIM, I'm bored…

notlikelytocare
So I've noticed…

BTW, Get your ass on AIM, I'm bored…

Nothing goes by you, eh?

lolk