What do you do for a living?

If you're still a student (like me), then the question becomes "what do you think you're going to do for a living?"

Translator.

Right now I'm doing absolutely nothing. Getting a job is really hard, and every interview I've gotten lately has been a scam.

After I've finished university, something in the Games Industry, along the lines of environmental/character design

I already translate

I do some spanish to dutch/english, it's.. semi/ 3/4 serious, documents but also on the spot with people.

On saturdays im a gardener.

I'm still a student tho and have no idea what i'm gonna do.

online business with my soon-to-be fiance. (not porn)

Embedded systems software engineer.

I work as a R&D Programmer at YEI Technology.

The current product I'm working on the 3-Space Sensor, it's a miniature IMU/AHRS system. Basically it's a device that can get an orientation of what the sensor is attached to.

Here some the in-house demos I've made to show what they can do.

Full body motion capture and VR immersion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSTge5IDxF4

Headtracking
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUmHRW0q3aQ

Unique game controller (I am not a public speaker)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbSO-H5HRlc

I'm really not sure what I want to do yet, but I am sure I want to do something that helps people

Well, as someone 20 years into "adulthood", here's a quick resume (you obviously know what i do now, game company producer and forum hammer) in order:

1. Symantec phone analyst for Norton AV
2. Motherboard design for OEM customers at Intel Corp
3. BIOS design for laptops at HP and then for DEC Alpha Machines for Win NT compat
4. Microsoft Small Business Server and Back Office test engineer (automation, installer scripts, etc)
5. Test Engineer/Back-end Engineer for Asheron's Call, and many first gen Xbox titles (automation, server management tools, etc)
6. Designer/scripter for Zoo Tycoon 2, Mythica (cancelled MMO), Vanguard
7. Producer on Sup Com franchise (not lead), Demigod, BioShock 2, various PvZ and Bejeweled franchise games, and now here of course.

For a short stint between BioShock 2 and PopCap, I also was working to help build a publishing team for a company making a full featured SDK for 3D cameras (kinect like technology).

That's the highlights (and most of the years). Doesn't count the normal crap jobs like fast food and such when I was in secondary.

When I was in school for comp sci, I assumed I'd be doing systems engineering for.. whatever. Hadn't really thought very far ahead yet as to what, exactly, despite being an avid gamer since the Amiga 1000 (that I still own .

"adulthood" in quotes because, while I may be getting older, I still actively fight growing up.

I'm currently a freelance Game Developer, so I make... stuff...

I'm a graduated Software Engineer however, I specialized in games by myself. I did Minor in Game Technology though, but I learned more in 1 week experimenting with my own stuff (eg. the Medal of Honor project, as well as making a Deferred Renderer) than those 6 months.

Deli Front Counter at a Natural Foods Marketplace. I do anything from serving salads, full entrees, slicing meat and cheese, juicing veggies and wheatgrass, smoothies, coffees, serving pizza, making cold and grilled sandwiches, and serving hot wok.

It can get crazy busy, but it's really fun. Especially seeing how happy people are when they leave with the smoothie or sandwich I made for them. :3

Ok Garat, you're now responsible for Bioshock 2 crashing on my laptop all the time >:3

Web and graphic design.

Personally, I'd blame your laptop. :mrgreen:

As someone coming to the end of his college education I still have no idea what I want to do and it scares me :shock:

Seriously? Don't sweat it. Find something to do "for now", and you'll eventually find what you really want to be doing.. it was 5 or 6 years in before I made the move to game development and realized that I actually liked making them more than even playing them.

That, and I couldn't figure out a way to get someone to pay me to cook food and drink wine all day (Like, not in a restaurant.. just because I want to.

Starting tomorrow as an intern at a local library.

By day, work in a home department store in the back, handling freight.

By night, jack of trades between video games, digital arts with the drawings, tutoring between math and programming, some violin fiddling. Was at college at one point until my father got laid off along with other things in the background.

Oh, Fun Fact: I found out the other day that I can sing. I was trying to forget my chorus days. It almost worked until there was a good friend I know, and she loves singing. I gave it a shot one day with a song, and she was in fangirl mode.

"Oh yeah, heh heh, so I forgot to tell you that I was a Tenor back in the school days!"
"THAT DETAIL IS VERY IMPORTANT TO ME! HOW COULD YOU POSSIBLY FORGET THAT YOU CAN SING?"
"Because I don't really see myself as a singer at all. Everyone online just knows me as the guy with the creepy ahegao picture on Steam."

Social Media Management. About to graduate college, and I'm pretty sure I'm about to be offered a Media Planning position at a very large ad agency.

Corporate/Event/Wedding Catering after getting a diploma in Culinary Management. Cooking is awesome.

I always told myself after I had some savings, I'd take a cooking class. I enjoy it but don't know very much.