What do I do for a living . . . NOTHING . . . I'm retired. What have I done for a living . . . bunches of stuff, if you count all the little jobs we tend to have while we're in school. But I guess my working career actually had three major components . . .
Okay . . . I have a degree in advanced mathematics (Actuarial Science, aka Professional Risk Management, or as I like to call it -- trying to sound smart while making guesses ).
I taught remedial Mathematics and remedial English in our Canadian Community College system for a number of years --
Just in case you didn't know, the Canadian University system has a grade 13 entrance requirement. Many students who were in only the four year programmes at the secondary school level were left high and dry without the ability to further their education if they had made a wrong choice back at the grade nine level. The community colleges came into being to allow for Grade 12 entrance to post-secondary education, but we then discovered that many of the students did not have the requisite math and grammar skills to be able to handle the post-secondary level work.
I spent the last twenty year of my career working for a major international manufacturing concern as their Canadian Pension and Benefits Manager (sort of related to my educational background). Although I retired about six years ago now, I seem to manage to do a lot of free-lance work for them still. Sometimes, it can be difficult to retire.
In between those two, I worked for five or six years as (believe it or not) a travel agent and tour director. That was a lot of fun. Definitely different, and I got to do lots of travelling, but it really did not engage my mind completely. Helped to keep me thin, though . . . guess I should never have given it up. Everything else I've done has been mostly sedentary.
Speaking of sedentary . . . I had lots of great activity today . . . a couple of hours of shovelling out the garage; followed by another couple of hours of 'mall-crawling' . . . then blew all that good calorie burning by eating a 100 gram, 86% cocoa, Cote D'Or chocolate bar . . . all 600 calories of it. . . . but it was delicious at the time. Definitely salad for dinner tonight.
Have a great evening, chickies . . . see you soon . . .