I'm the community manager for RPG Maker Web, so I do the social media and blog for RPG Maker, as well as a bunch of other tangential stuff. I also run the IGMC, which is super fun, though a ton of work.
My other main job is being the social media director for our team, which means I oversee and communicate between the people who do things like the GDF blog and social media, the Degigames blog and social media, etc.
I also make sure communication between our different teams goes smoothly, so I work a lot with Lunarea to make sure our social media teams and art teams know what each other are doing, as well as working with our production director to make sure that we are on the same page as well.
Its fun, I like the job a lot. Easily the best job I've ever had. I'm not a huge fan of marketing, but when you are marketing for a product you believe in, its actually fun.
Also, fun tidbit: no one is paid for moderating or participating in the forum. Even the paid Degica employees that are on the forum are doing it as fans, and not as a paid job. We love RPG Maker. Really.
(there are some tasks on the forums we get paid for, but its things like setting up store stuff, tech side stuff, customer support, not moderation and participation)
Oh god there's really a lot to write here. Warning, huge post below~
I dropped school at 18y old and started to work immediately afterwards, changing many jobs in 10 years, mainly because although I pretty much always started them with enthusiasm, after a while I realized that they weren't really what I wanted to do in my life.
At the start I've been an appliance technician for a while, it's my father's job, he's doing this for 30 years so he has a lot of experience and I learned a bit of it while going to work with him. We used to repair washing machines, kitchens, kitchen hoods, heaters, ovens and even smaller things like microwaves, stoves, fans and irons, it wasn't a bad job or anything but was very tiring and stressing due to inconsistent work hours. We also used to travel a lot since we had to visit people's houses to repair their stuff, so I can say that I pretty much met a huge amount of people of different nationalities, beliefs, personalities, mindsets, races and conditions, the whole experience was very instructive. I did this for 3-4 years and got a decent amount of savings, so I wanted to try to do something better and way more ambitious.
I bought a kiosk and I've been the barman and proprietary for 3 years there, had to learn everything about alcohol, coffee, candies (useless things like how much sugar they contain) and how to prepare coffee and every damn cocktail beverage out there. Here's an old picture of it below if someone is curious:
Yes, I had small carousels there. For kids and even for some particular adults that wanted to feel young again! XD
The local itself was small (12 mq) but I had the permission to use the big plaza around it too, using the tables, chair and outdoor umbrellas. I used to sell pretty much everything there, from alcoholic beverages to candies, from ice creams to potato chips, from lollipops to bubble gums and of course sodas and coffee too. It was a good job and I liked to chat with my guests there, a lot of them even used to reveal me things regarding their private life, their most inner secrets, it was creepy and awkward most of the time but I liked that they found me trustworthy. We also used to organize parties with karaoke in the plaza, both my father and my cousin liked to sing there, while my father was (and still is) a really good singer, my cousin is the worst singer ever, together they were hilarious though and able to entertain people easily and catch attention. The profit for the first 2 years was very good also thanks to the school and the kids nearby, but my work schedule was killing me slowly, I had to wake up at 7:30am and work non-stop till evening at 8:00pm (so 12.5 hours daily), sometimes skipping lunch as well. My father was busy with his job and couldn't help me all the time so I was mostly alone but my cousin used to keep me company\helping me sometimes and I used to reward her with some of the stuff I was selling there. I decided to drop and sell everything when the bills started to get a bit too overwhelming, I had to pay an extremely high electricity bill every 2 months (due to 4 refrigerators being on 24\7) and a lot of other stuff too so the profit at the end was not good enough to sustain everything and I couldn't save money in the slightest. It was a good experience though, I tried, it didn't work for long but I'm not ashamed to have tried at least. Thanks to this job I also spent more time with my grandfather (he used to come in my kiosk almost everyday) and it was awesome to see him entertaining the guests with his amazing stories (he was a WW2 veteran).
The third job was in a warehouse, didn't last for long because it was temporary, wasn't even exciting in the slightest and bored me to death.
The fourth job was a job that I still do now occasionally and is the computer technician, I used to and still try repair computers, I have basic knowledge about them and can manage to repair them if the damage is not too serious.
Fifth job, attempted to be a painter, got bored immediately.
Sixth and current job, Headwaiter (Senior Head Waiter\Staff) in a small restaurant.
I basically have to adress and guide most of the staff (the other waiters) assigning them duties, train newcomers, take orders, ensure that the guests are entertained and that the service of the restaurant is stable all the time. Appearing polite and well mannered is very important, wearing good clothes is very important, being social and well spoken is very important and if you know more than one language that's a big plus because some guests can be foreigners. It's a good job overall, even here I meet a lot of different people everyday and they're overall pretty nice...even if they're not, I have to play the nice card regardless (that's the only thing I really don't like of this job, the client is always right). The proprietary is a very good person and a friend too, he trusts me enough to assign me such a high responsability and I always do my best to not disappoint him. I work only in the morning for 6+ hours though, in the afternoon\evening I get replaced by another guy. The profit is good enough to make me able to live on my own and have a decent life.
Well that's about it I guess. If you're crazy enough to have read all this novel, then you deserve a cookie~
Oh god there's really a lot to write here. Warning, huge post below~
I dropped school at 18y old and started to work immediately afterwards, changing many jobs in 10 years, mainly because although I pretty much always started them with enthusiasm, after a while I realized that they weren't really what I wanted to do in my life.
At the start I've been an appliance technician for a while, it's my father's job, he's doing this for 30 years so he has a lot of experience and I learned a bit of it while going to work with him. We used to repair washing machines, kitchens, kitchen hoods, heaters, ovens and even smaller things like microwaves, stoves, fans and irons, it wasn't a bad job or anything but was very tiring and stressing due to inconsistent work hours. We also used to travel a lot since we had to visit people's houses to repair their stuff, so I can say that I pretty much met a huge amount of people of different nationalities, beliefs, personalities, mindsets, races and conditions, the whole experience was very instructive. I did this for 3-4 years and got a decent amount of savings, so I wanted to try to do something better and way more ambitious.
I bought a kiosk and I've been the barman and proprietary for 3 years there, had to learn everything about alcohol, coffee, candies (useless things like how much sugar they contain) and how to prepare coffee and every damn cocktail beverage out there. Here's an old picture of it below if someone is curious:
Yes, I had small carousels there. For kids and even for some particular adults that wanted to feel young again! XD
The local itself was small (12 mq) but I had the permission to use the big plaza around it too, using the tables, chair and outdoor umbrellas. I used to sell pretty much everything there, from alcoholic beverages to candies, from ice creams to potato chips, from lollipops to bubble gums and of course sodas and coffee too. It was a good job and I liked to chat with my guests there, a lot of them even used to reveal me things regarding their private life, their most inner secrets, it was creepy and awkward most of the time but I liked that they found me trustworthy. We also used to organize parties with karaoke in the plaza, both my father and my cousin liked to sing there, while my father was (and still is) a really good singer, my cousin is the worst singer ever, together they were hilarious though and able to entertain people easily and catch attention. The profit for the first 2 years was very good also thanks to the school and the kids nearby, but my work schedule was killing me slowly, I had to wake up at 7:30am and work non-stop till evening at 8:00pm (so 12.5 hours daily), sometimes skipping lunch as well. My father was busy with his job and couldn't help me all the time so I was mostly alone but my cousin used to keep me company\helping me sometimes and I used to reward her with some of the stuff I was selling there. I decided to drop and sell everything when the bills started to get a bit too overwhelming, I had to pay an extremely high electricity bill every 2 months (due to 4 refrigerators being on 24\7) and a lot of other stuff too so the profit at the end was not good enough to sustain everything and I couldn't save money in the slightest. It was a good experience though, I tried, it didn't work for long but I'm not ashamed to have tried at least. Thanks to this job I also spent more time with my grandfather (he used to come in my kiosk almost everyday) and it was awesome to see him entertaining the guests with his amazing stories (he was a WW2 veteran).
The third job was in a warehouse, didn't last for long because it was temporary, wasn't even exciting in the slightest and bored me to death.
The fourth job was a job that I still do now occasionally and is the computer technician, I used to and still try repair computers, I have basic knowledge about them and can manage to repair them if the damage is not too serious.
Fifth job, attempted to be a painter, got bored immediately.
Sixth and current job, Headwaiter (Senior Head Waiter\Staff) in a small restaurant.
I basically have to adress and guide most of the staff (the other waiters) assigning them duties, train newcomers, take orders, ensure that the guests are entertained and that the service of the restaurant is stable all the time. Appearing polite and well mannered is very important, wearing good clothes is very important, being social and well spoken is very important and if you know more than one language that's a big plus because some guests can be foreigners. It's a good job overall, even here I meet a lot of different people everyday and they're overall pretty nice...even if they're not, I have to play the nice card regardless (that's the only thing I really don't like of this job, the client is always right). The proprietary is a very good person and a friend too, he trusts me enough to assign me such a high responsability and I always do my best to not disappoint him. I work only in the morning for 6+ hours though, in the afternoon\evening I get replaced by another guy. The profit is good enough to make me able to live on my own and have a decent life.
Well that's about it I guess. If you're crazy enough to have read all this novel, then you deserve a cookie~
Really, how often do we find what we want to do with our lives at our job after high school? I wanted to be an artist since I was young; this bloomed into wanting to be a manga artist during high school. Then I wrote the script for it in a novelized format and fell in love with words, insomuch that for the last 13 years I have been writing daily and wish to be writer instead.
I still consider myself mediocre at writing... but my poetry is admittedly solid.
Everyone else says I'm a good writer... I refuse to believe them, lest I believe it myself and confuse mediocrity for quality.
Indeed. Or "just out of highschool" for those of us who went on studying. Very few people know what they really like doing and what they want out of life at that age...
As a musician, there a thing we say about this: the day you are satisfied with who you are as an artist is the day you stop improving and making progress. Of course, now, you have to balance this out: just feeling mediocre and inadequate without being able to recognise your merit or progress will kill you in the long run.
Indeed. Or "just out of highschool" for those of us who went on studying. Very few people know what they really like doing and what they want out of life at that age...
As a musician, there a thing we say about this: the day you are satisfied with who you are as an artist is the day you stop improving and making progress. Of course, now, you have to balance this out: just feeling mediocre and inadequate without being able to recognise your merit or progress will kill you in the long run.
Indeed; I am quite a perfectionist with flow and word selection and this sometimes lead to a jagged sentence or just a skewed paragraph that doesn't create a smooth dream of imagery. I can spend an hour on a paragraph, or more, until I'm confident in it.
I accept I'm getting good, but I don't like to embrace compliments; I don't want to become overconfident or conceited. I've been down that road a few times (when I started I didn't know what a comma splice was; I reread all my writing and found them in almost every sentence; the same frequency applied to using 'while' and 'as' for showing events happening simultaneously.
I've redefined my writing style at least three times now and finally feel contended with it.
I recently started working as a tutor for art students at my university. Basically, there's a building attached to the library that is a large classroom, and students are able to come in and request my help whenever I'm available. If I'm in the building and nobody needs me, I can just chill out and work on homework. It's a pretty sweet deal.
At the moment I tutor the beginning drawing I and II courses, as well as the 2-dimensional design course, but by next semester I'll also be helping with the 3-dimensional design and beginning animation courses. Normally tutors are only supposed to cover 1-2 courses, but apparently art tutors are hard to come by. o__o;;
The only courses I've tutored before were algebra ones, so I must say I'm enjoying this much more!
I recently started working as a tutor for art students at my university. Basically, there's a building attached to the library that is a large classroom, and students are able to come in and request my help whenever I'm available. If I'm in the building and nobody needs me, I can just chill out and work on homework. It's a pretty sweet deal.
At the moment I tutor the beginning drawing I and II courses, as well as the 2-dimensional design course, but by next semester I'll also be helping with the 3-dimensional design and beginning animation courses. Normally tutors are only supposed to cover 1-2 courses, but apparently art tutors are hard to come by. o__o;;
The only courses I've tutored before were algebra ones, so I must say I'm enjoying this much more!
I work as a freelancer through websites that facilitate it. Mainly as a proofreader and ghostwriter. I prefer doing the former.
I had entertained thoughts of hawking my artwork for character commissions, but there is apparently no market for childish scribbles beyond myself or freeware. I really need to brush up on it.
I work as a freelancer through websites that facilitate it. Mainly as a proofreader and ghostwriter. I prefer doing the former.
I had entertained thoughts of hawking my artwork for character commissions, but there is apparently no market for childish scribbles beyond myself or freeware. I really need to brush up on it.
I'm the community manager for RPG Maker Web, so I do the social media and blog for RPG Maker, as well as a bunch of other tangential stuff. I also run the IGMC, which is super fun, though a ton of work.
My other main job is being the social media director for our team, which means I oversee and communicate between the people who do things like the GDF blog and social media, the Degigames blog and social media, etc.
I also make sure communication between our different teams goes smoothly, so I work a lot with Lunarea to make sure our social media teams and art teams know what each other are doing, as well as working with our production director to make sure that we are on the same page as well.
Its fun, I like the job a lot. Easily the best job I've ever had. I'm not a huge fan of marketing, but when you are marketing for a product you believe in, its actually fun.
Also, fun tidbit: no one is paid for moderating or participating in the forum. Even the paid Degica employees that are on the forum are doing it as fans, and not as a paid job. We love RPG Maker. Really.
(there are some tasks on the forums we get paid for, but its things like setting up store stuff, tech side stuff, customer support, not moderation and participation)
I have two jobs at the moment. In the mornings I work at DSW Inc. in the stock room, and in the evenings I work at a weigtloss clinic as a marketing director.
I work as a PC technician, have the opportunity to fix and build pc's for a living. Once you get to know more about how PC's work it is funny how people (Gamers especially) think they know about PC's more than you and they take the expensive route in getting their PC's sorted but hey I am not complaining if people have money to burn I say let them. While fixing PC's it is also interesting to see what they have on, now don't get me wrong I don't go digging into personal work documents or confidential stuff, if I do come across some I forget them pretty quickly but it is nice to see what games they have, videos music etc, sometimes I notice that they are also a fellow RPGmaker also. Then there are those that have porn on their PC's so many disgusting porn that range from old men on men, bestiality and all that. A PC can sometimes tell you who the owner is truly like and it makes you see them on a different light which has it's good and bad moments.
Most recently I was a cashier and produce clerk at a neighborhood grocery. I ordered/received produce, unloaded trucks (up to 60lb containers), prepared packaged foods, and of course kept the department tidy, stocked, and organized.
While I was in university I was a technician in a genetic engineering lab. I did a lot of the hands-on-work like extracting DNA, preparing and preforming the polymerase chain reactions, and all the tools and machines that came with that territory. I also did a lot of data entry and technical writing. Basically all the stuff that the head researcher didn't want to do. Well, it was fun and cool in theory. But in practice it's all pretty boring. Really boring. Lab research requires mostly waiting. So, I'd rather like to shift my career to using my feet, my hands, and my people skills more. So, probably back to school with me. The time (and money) isn't quite right yet though.
A lot of people work from home, too. Bookkeeping, medical transcription, customer service... I don't know where you live, but it might be worth checking with your area's social services. Many will even pay for whatever job training you might require. You strike as someone who's intelligent and creative, and you want to do something.
It's all mentally related, especially when it comes to being around others. Could have panic attacks or trigers from PTSD. Or for Bipolar II, days where I can't even get out of bed, and would call in sick. o.o
Just beat the last of us 2 last night and starting jedi: fallen order right now, both use unreal engine & when I say i knew 80% of jedi's buttons right away because they were the same buttons as TLOU2 its ridiculous, even the same narrow hallway crawl and barely-made-it jump they do. Unreal Engine is just big budget RPG Maker the way they make games nearly identical at its core lol.
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