I have always wondered about all you groovy people, what is it that you do all day?
Whenever reading through all the mish mash of threads in this delightful forum, I always hear the random, often dirty comment followed by the obligatory "bored at work @__@" commentary to justify their silliness.
So I have to ask what is this work that you speak of and how can it be so boring that you are able to click, click, click away at the AO forums without any remorse for your lack of productivity?
There seems to be a fair number of rl engineers hanging around these here parts? What exactly does an engineers do all day? I have envisioned a mad scientist tinkering away to built his ultimate creation: either a time machine or a talking vacuum that slices and dices your cucumbers
Or do you guys crunch numbers to sort through yards of ticker tape to find the exact coord of something somewhere. Then when you finally find the precise numbers you enter it into your magical HAL 9000 holographic computer thingamajig, causing it to spew and ream of ticker tape, requiring even more calculations/
Or do you work on some top secret, hush, hush blacks ops project, and you spend your days and nights creating the tiggest ol bitty bomb to end all of existence if given the go ahead to push the big red button
Now moving onto all those NT computer wizards. What exactly do you do? Do type away on your computers to create the super mega code, uncrackable by even the HAL 9000 computers that those engie's have? Or are you programming a wicked virus to steal all the worlds money, making you wealthier than Bill Gates?
Or are you too frazzled on coffee to even know what you are doing?
How about those military men and women? Do you spend your days perfecting your iron physique? Can you Rawr! and flex your mighty biceps and crush wee mortals like me? Do you practice your markmanship, allowing you to shoot a tiny target mile away blindfolded? Or are you stationed on a deserted island in the South Pacific, allowing you frolic on the beaches and sip pina coladas. Or perhaps, you are working with those crazy engies on a project to end all of existence.
Or how about the non-descript office job? Do you sit in your cubicle attempting to avoid any form of work? Do you have your own pointy-haired boss who spews out non-sensical jargon?
"Bob, i need to have a proactive dialogue with you in an attempt to decentralize our NE assets to allow a fundamental paradigm shift in our core business practices"
Do you get to cook the books, adding a few zeros here and there to the profit and revenue balances?
Do you have a corner office with a crazy secretary, who'll sabotage your every effort to make it to a meeting on time?
Or are all my job descriptions purely an idealized view of work from a silly child?
I think work is about 40% actual work, 50% socializing, and 10% smoke breaks 
