What do you get paid for? - SoberRecovery : Alcoholism Drug Addiction Help and Information

Jazzman · 07-25-2006, 12:35 PM

When I was a young buck to about earliy 30s, I use to say I get paid for what I do. From mid 30s to early 40s I said I get paid for what I know. Now I feel like I get paid for what I tolerate.

What to do you get paid for?
And for anyone ahead of me... what's next?

minnie · 07-25-2006, 01:10 PM

Nice thinking, Jazz.

I used to get paid for who I knew. I now get paid for what I do. As I get to know my job better, I have had payrises based on what I know. I shall be leaving when I get to the "tolerate" stage, if not before.

What's next? Perhaps passing on what I have learnt? So another what I know, I guess. Or, what I have experienced anyway.

nevergivingup · 07-26-2006, 09:44 AM

I get paid (literally) to tell people what I know. How bizarre!!!!

**Phinneas** · 07-26-2006, 10:03 AM

Interesting discussion!

I get paid to think. How cool is that?!?

I used to get paid for what I could do. Then, after a M.S. degree that taught me how to think rather than just giving me *knowledge* and a number of years gaining the necessary experience, I became more valuable for the way I think - strategy, managing large-scale, complex projects and such.

My dream job? I want to work for a think tank. I want to spend my days brainstorming and researching new business ideas and making them happen.

It doesn't get much cooler than that, IMO.

**BigSis** · 07-29-2006, 01:33 PM

I get paid for what I know... they get paid to tolerate me.

GhostInTheRuins · 07-29-2006, 01:36 PM

It seems that lately that I get paid to exist. Work's a little slow right now, but I'm not complaining.

Jazzman · 07-29-2006, 01:44 PM

This is neat... more input!

cwohio · 07-29-2006, 01:57 PM

too funny karm!!

cwohio · 07-29-2006, 01:59 PM

i get paid for.......being a codie!! LOL i take care of other's peoples "stuff" - administrative things, but actually my codie tendencies come in handy. guess i can't get all recovered or i won't do my job right huh?

liveweyerd · 07-29-2006, 05:11 PM

Jazz, I love your original post!

I have to think about how to answer for myself....

I get paid for what I do, but I couldn't do what I do if I didn't know what I know, so I also get paid for what I know, but if I don't do, then my know can take my briefcase packing.
live

pedagogue · 07-29-2006, 05:32 PM

I use to get paid for what I could get others to do. (Project Management)
Then I got paid for what I could do for others (Consulting)
Now I get paid for helping others. (Therapist)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Phinneas

I want to spend my days brainstorming and researching new business ideas and making them happen.

I'd like to do a version of this. Eventually I want to get back into consulting, but in more of an Industrial / Organizational role. A best of both worlds....at least until I am comfortable again, then I'll go back to what I could do for others.

-p

**DesertEyes** · 07-29-2006, 06:27 PM

As a photographer I get paid to make other people look good.

When I worked for the city I got paid so my supervisors would look like they had something to do (supervise me). So I guess I was still making others look good. I don't think that was progress.

When I worked for the state I got paid to wait for my supervisors to find something for me to do, and I kept really busy so I looked like I didn't need anything to do, so I guess I got paid to make me look good. I think this is progress.

I think I want to work for the feds and be a politician, that way I can just sit back and get paid to let others make me look good. That would definetly be progress.

Mike

kali ma · 07-29-2006, 07:30 PM

I get paid to read and post on SR!!

It pays to have your own office!

daveagle · 07-29-2006, 07:54 PM

i get paid for nothing as i am currently unemployed so i have to exist on what passes for benefits these days and support two children as well

dave

2dayzmuse · 07-29-2006, 08:43 PM

I get paid (not nearly enough mind you) for what I do. I think for others who really didn't think at all. For if they had, they would not be where they are now. If that were the case, I would be without a job. However, although crime does not pay, it pays me and there will always be those who do not think.

In other words:

I work in the College Educational department in a Maximum security prison. I am the registrar and do the class scheduling for those earning their GED or taking a Vocational class.

liveweyerd · 07-29-2006, 08:49 PM

I am still kind of laughing (sorry Jazz) about the tolerate thing.
I don't "tolerate" well.
You want to explain?

Mongo · 07-29-2006, 09:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by karmabella

babysitting.... i'm a legal assistant with a child for an attorney who likes to burp his sentences.....

That is TOO funny Karma

Still chuckling

Mongo

Smyle · 07-29-2006, 09:24 PM

I get paid to play and entertain mine and 3 other kids all day....to run the house and make sure all is well within the family.... I am a stay at home mom but also babysit part time....I used to get paid to dispense prescriptions and also feed my addiction , but had to let go of that career so i could live to see my kids grow up.
I love being home with them but will be glad (kinda) when they get back in school. I say that now but will be crying when they aren't here....silly woman I am

Jazzman · 07-30-2006, 06:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by liveweyerd

I don't "tolerate" well.
You want to explain?

I've been in telecom for 16 years, computer jock prior 3 years, electronics tech prior 3 years, student prior 2 years,(learning to be an Elec. tech). Day time meat cutter and night time musician prior 4 years,(the other guys in the band were always trying to talk me into getting another job that wasn't so dangerous for my fingers

)

So for years I use to get paid for what I did, (except when I was a musician, no money there hence the day job LOL!!). During my telecom years I progressed into management, changed companies twice and some positions here and there and got paid for what I knew, (how to build and operate big a$$ networks). Same thing basically that I do now but since 2004 I'm back w/ the same mega company I happily escaped from back in 1998. Now I'm surrounded by idiots, (again) and a mega company bureaucracy that I have to tolerate.

Ever read Dilbert? That's my life. I use to read Dilbert and laugh, then I would read Dilbert and think... hey wait a minute! This is my life? Why am I laughing? LOL!!!

I was just curious what other folks got paid for, that's all.

denny57 · 07-30-2006, 06:57 PM

By the time I do get paid, I can't even remember what it's for. Sometimes I think it's for being the last one standing. I love what I do - I must because I do plenty of it without ever seeing a dime.

I remember those days of tolerating and I pray I won't have to go back.

Blake · 07-31-2006, 02:30 AM

Currently I am getting paid to recieve verbal abuse without killing any of my customers (Insurance agent in louisiana)

Soon I'll be getting paid to learn how to create edible goodness (pastry shop)

Jwife22 · 07-31-2006, 08:38 AM

I get paid to depress some, make some happy and to help others start getting paid..........hmmmm....

In Other Words:

I am a paralegal who works for two attorneys, one of whom specializes in estate planning, probate work (depress people), business law and incorporations (helping others get paid by starting new businesses) and real estate (making people happy, they always are when they just purchased a new home)

felicity · 08-03-2006, 12:47 AM

I get paid for making people like me.

I'm a professional schmoozer, in addition to a waitress. The professional schmoozer part plays into my long-term career goals, which will remain a mystery as I'm an extremely paranoid person.

Hey, it's kept me out of trouble so far.

equus · 08-03-2006, 01:28 AM

Well.....

My interview panel was a group of kids - they wanted to pay me to listen and act, they paid me for tenacity and heart.

HOWEVER it isn't them that pick up the bill! Those who PAY me I believe wanted to pay me to look like we listened and there has been some dispute ever since!

My post has been in continuous review hotly for the last 8 months and quietly for the last 4 years. My (very slim) hope is that they will pay me to help THEM listen and understand why that matters.

All in all I'd just like to be of some help.

PhoenixRising · 08-22-2006, 11:29 AM

I get paid to get shot at. And the pay sucks to boot!

07-25-2006, 12:35 PM	#1 (permalink)
Jazzman Occasional poor taste poster Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Back of the class, Northern VA Posts: 1,515	What do you get paid for? When I was a young buck to about earliy 30s, I use to say I get paid for what I do. From mid 30s to early 40s I said I get paid for what I know. Now I feel like I get paid for what I tolerate. What to do you get paid for? And for anyone ahead of me... what's next?

07-26-2006, 09:44 AM	#3 (permalink)
nevergivingup President Join Date: May 2006 Location: on our next big adventure! Posts: 1,247	I get paid (literally) to tell people what I know. How bizarre!!!! __________________

07-26-2006, 10:03 AM	#4 (permalink)
Phinneas Forum Leader Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: fumbling towards ecstasy Posts: 2,596	Interesting discussion! I get paid to think. How cool is that?!? I used to get paid for what I could do. Then, after a M.S. degree that taught me how to think rather than just giving me knowledge and a number of years gaining the necessary experience, I became more valuable for the way I think - strategy, managing large-scale, complex projects and such. My dream job? I want to work for a think tank. I want to spend my days brainstorming and researching new business ideas and making them happen. It doesn't get much cooler than that, IMO. __________________ “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” ~Marianne Williamson

07-29-2006, 01:33 PM	#5 (permalink)
BigSis On a tear Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Volcano Country! Posts: 3,164	I get paid for what I know... they get paid to tolerate me. __________________ No matter how spoiled the past may be, our future is spotless.... BigSis

07-29-2006, 01:57 PM	#8 (permalink)
cwohio Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Litterbox City Posts: 6,141	too funny karm!! __________________ *Learn to write your hurts in sand. Learn to carve your blessings in stone! - Unknown*

07-25-2006, 01:10 PM	#2 (permalink)
minnie Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: England Posts: 3,417	Nice thinking, Jazz. I used to get paid for who I knew. I now get paid for what I do. As I get to know my job better, I have had payrises based on what I know. I shall be leaving when I get to the "tolerate" stage, if not before. What's next? Perhaps passing on what I have learnt? So another what I know, I guess. Or, what I have experienced anyway.

07-29-2006, 01:36 PM	#6 (permalink)
GhostInTheRuins Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Location, Location Posts: 31	It seems that lately that I get paid to exist. Work's a little slow right now, but I'm not complaining.

07-29-2006, 01:44 PM	#7 (permalink)
Jazzman Occasional poor taste poster Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Back of the class, Northern VA Posts: 1,515	This is neat... more input!

07-29-2006, 01:59 PM	#9 (permalink)
cwohio Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Litterbox City Posts: 6,141	i get paid for.......being a codie!! LOL i take care of other's peoples "stuff" - administrative things, but actually my codie tendencies come in handy. guess i can't get all recovered or i won't do my job right huh? __________________ *Learn to write your hurts in sand. Learn to carve your blessings in stone! - Unknown*

07-29-2006, 05:11 PM	#10 (permalink)
liveweyerd Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: central Florida Posts: 7,210 Blog Entries: 5	Jazz, I love your original post! I have to think about how to answer for myself.... I get paid for what I do, but I couldn't do what I do if I didn't know what I know, so I also get paid for what I know, but if I don't do, then my know can take my briefcase packing. live __________________ Each small candle lights a corner of the dark....Roger Waters

07-29-2006, 06:27 PM	#12 (permalink)
DesertEyes Starting over Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Skin city Posts: 2,123	As a photographer I get paid to make other people look good. When I worked for the city I got paid so my supervisors would look like they had something to do (supervise me). So I guess I was still making others look good. I don't think that was progress. When I worked for the state I got paid to wait for my supervisors to find something for me to do, and I kept really busy so I looked like I didn't need anything to do, so I guess I got paid to make me look good. I think this is progress. I think I want to work for the feds and be a politician, that way I can just sit back and get paid to let others make me look good. That would definetly be progress. Mike __________________ Sunsets are not endings. If I have enough faith, they are beginnings.

07-29-2006, 07:30 PM	#13 (permalink)
kali ma Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Connecticut Posts: 137	I get paid to read and post on SR!! It pays to have your own office! __________________ Katie AKA Kali Ma (Goddess of Change) “When you get into a tight place and...it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and the time that the tide will turn.” -Harriet Beecher Stowe

07-29-2006, 07:54 PM	#14 (permalink)
daveagle Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: bristol Posts: 15	i get paid for nothing as i am currently unemployed so i have to exist on what passes for benefits these days and support two children as well dave

07-29-2006, 08:43 PM	#15 (permalink)
2dayzmuse Paused Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Washington Posts: 5,083	I get paid (not nearly enough mind you) for what I do. I think for others who really didn't think at all. For if they had, they would not be where they are now. If that were the case, I would be without a job. However, although crime does not pay, it pays me and there will always be those who do not think. In other words: I work in the College Educational department in a Maximum security prison. I am the registrar and do the class scheduling for those earning their GED or taking a Vocational class.

07-29-2006, 08:49 PM	#16 (permalink)
liveweyerd Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: central Florida Posts: 7,210 Blog Entries: 5	I am still kind of laughing (sorry Jazz) about the tolerate thing. I don't "tolerate" well. You want to explain? __________________ Each small candle lights a corner of the dark....Roger Waters

07-29-2006, 09:24 PM	#18 (permalink)
Smyle Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Newfie-Land, Mo Posts: 1,623	I get paid to play and entertain mine and 3 other kids all day....to run the house and make sure all is well within the family.... I am a stay at home mom but also babysit part time....I used to get paid to dispense prescriptions and also feed my addiction , but had to let go of that career so i could live to see my kids grow up. I love being home with them but will be glad (kinda) when they get back in school. I say that now but will be crying when they aren't here....silly woman I am

07-30-2006, 06:57 PM	#20 (permalink)
denny57 Free at last Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Los Angeles, CA Posts: 4,810	By the time I do get paid, I can't even remember what it's for. Sometimes I think it's for being the last one standing. I love what I do - I must because I do plenty of it without ever seeing a dime. I remember those days of tolerating and I pray I won't have to go back. __________________ We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. Albert Einstein

07-31-2006, 02:30 AM	#21 (permalink)
Blake I'm an addict. Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Hyde Park, NY Posts: 1,201	Currently I am getting paid to recieve verbal abuse without killing any of my customers (Insurance agent in louisiana) Soon I'll be getting paid to learn how to create edible goodness (pastry shop) __________________ Warning: I'm a sick person so take any advice I may be spewing with a grain of salt, but it's what has worked for me, so far.

07-31-2006, 08:38 AM	#22 (permalink)
Jwife22 Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: SC Posts: 1,036	I get paid to depress some, make some happy and to help others start getting paid..........hmmmm.... In Other Words: I am a paralegal who works for two attorneys, one of whom specializes in estate planning, probate work (depress people), business law and incorporations (helping others get paid by starting new businesses) and real estate (making people happy, they always are when they just purchased a new home)

08-03-2006, 12:47 AM	#23 (permalink)
felicity is grateful Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: in my house Posts: 44	I get paid for making people like me. I'm a professional schmoozer, in addition to a waitress. The professional schmoozer part plays into my long-term career goals, which will remain a mystery as I'm an extremely paranoid person. Hey, it's kept me out of trouble so far.

08-03-2006, 01:28 AM	#24 (permalink)
equus Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: uk Posts: 3,056	Well..... My interview panel was a group of kids - they wanted to pay me to listen and act, they paid me for tenacity and heart. HOWEVER it isn't them that pick up the bill! Those who PAY me I believe wanted to pay me to look like we listened and there has been some dispute ever since! My post has been in continuous review hotly for the last 8 months and quietly for the last 4 years. My (very slim) hope is that they will pay me to help THEM listen and understand why that matters. All in all I'd just like to be of some help.

08-22-2006, 11:29 AM	#25 (permalink)
PhoenixRising Here I Go Again Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Jacksonville, NC Posts: 2	I get paid to get shot at. And the pay sucks to boot! __________________ "Even a 1,000 mile journey starts with a single step" -Lao Tzu

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