What is your occupation?
 

There is such a diverse group of people around here, that I've been wondering . . . what do you all do for a living? (If you are a SAHM, but used to work, I'd be interested to hear what you used to do.)

Also, have you changed careers during your lifetime?

I'll answer first . . . I'm a graduate student in computer science. I'm in a PhD program but I think I'm going to leave with a master's after next year. No career change for me . . . yet! My dream is to eventually have some sort of small business that would be a dog biscuit bakery or something dog-related. :) Maybe in my retirement!

I have a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and History. I currently work for the United States Dept. of Agriculture as a Farm Loan Officer.

I've been living away from home, but I've recently moved back and I am returning to school to finish getting my Master of Arts degree in English. Maybe History after that :)

I have a BS in research statistics, gettting my PhD in Health Policy and Research (for Substance Abuse Policy)....

working as an analyst for Department of Health and Human Services in the District of Confusion here in washington

so like 4myself i am a government rat heheh

hey, good questions

i have a BA in Communications and a BA in Economics (graduated from college in '03). I am a public relations executive specializing in high technology such as smart cards, biometrics, banking tech, logical and physical security, and some other stuff...

Hello fellow rat! :wave:

Does your boss know you're surfing the web @ work? :nono:

Nice to see ya here :lol: :dizzy: ;)

What I do.
 

I am an ABOC optician ( American board of optics certified). I also have an assoc. degree in graphic design.

I'm a sahm and I have done home daycare in the past but not much beyond that. My dh is military, a lot of the time I am in a single parent role but fortunately I have never "had" to work.

I couldn't really handle or afford college, unfortunately. I've been in library work for years. I started out as a shelving page, moved up to circulation for a few years, and this past January, I transferred to the technical services department where I work in Acquisitions. In effect, instead of checking out the books, I buy them.

Nothing glamorous or high paying, but I'm comfortable there, and I get by. I get along very well with my co-workers, and my boss is the most accomadating person I've ever met. I see myself here for a long time.

I'm a glorified babysitter ;)
(a teacher)
In all seriousness I'm a high school biology teacher and I am thrilled to be out of the lab and hitting the beach for some relaxation time as we've just started summer break :)

4myself: ...come on i mean i am a bureaucrat, i need my two 15 min coffee breaks, hour lunch break and 8 hour only work day....i am the model of perfect inefficiency and uselessness...

I am an undergraduate studying Print Journalism and political science and I am currently an office assistant (ie, coffee and copies) at this really cool office thats associated with the university. I had been working retail to pay rent, but this job kind of fell in my lap. It is so much less stressful, and while the money isn`t great, I have a Lot of downtime [to browse the forums. :lol: ]

I'm making the transistion from student to full time worker! OUCH!

I've just completed a degree in Industrial Design Engineering and will be a Design Engineer for a charity called demand (dot org dot uk) who design bespoke products for disabled people. SCARY! I'm sure I will love it though!

yume;

Ya, me too!!!

I'm a dental assistant :) I was mostly trained on the job a few years ago. I took most of the pre reqs for dental hygiene and plan on going back to school sometime to be a dental hygienist.

Right now, I'm working front desk at a dental office, where I'm occasionally I assist the Dr chairside.

~Liz

:D Greetings fellow earthlings

Education? SOTP U. That would be Seat of the Pants U. Skipped college and got married at 18. (that one's long gone!) (and that was a real education in itself.)
Profession? I'm a 27-year proud member of the deathcare profession, currently managing a cemetery, and am executive director for a deathcare educational/professional association.
Witty advice? "Men: Can't live with em, don't need em anyway." :devil:
Hobbies? Acquiring still more clothes on Ebay.
Weight loss saga? Yoyo for most of adult life. Joined WW January 2000. SLOWLY lost 85 pounds over 1 year 9 months. Also, slowly got rid of husband over two years. (this was husband number two). Have maintained weight loss AND husband loss. Helps not to have to cook for a family!

Now, let's hear more about you!:smug:

I have a PHD from the School of Hard Knocks. I'm an IT and Business Project Manager for a NYC Hospital System... OOPS make that WAS... I resigned in anticipation of moving outta Joisey and leaving the commuter insanity for hopefully greener pastures in North Carolina. :cool:

I work full time at as a state of Wisconsin employee on the Probation, Parole, and Pardon Board...I used to work for the Sate's Crime Lab in Madison WI. I also have 4 children (which is another full time, but enjoyable job!) I love what I do and am in the minority in my field as a woman, but I can handle anything! :lol:

Professional Boredom Experiencer? Is there such a position?

It's like this, I was an Admin. Asst. but just got my network certification and was moving into the IT field, in which I have some experience but didn't have the certs til now. Then we moved to help with my hubby's parents and by the time we made it through that battle, I was 4 months pregnant and no one's looking to hire pregnant women who will be leaving the job in another 4 months or so. LOL

So I go to Curves, tan, go to lunch, take walks around the neighborhood, clean clean clean, shop, catch shows I never had opportunity to view before (like Jerry Springer which my hubby can't see why I watch that - ummm, to see how the other half lives? LOL), and go to lots and lots of doctor appointments. I try to stay gone as much as possible, but there's just so much "make-work" a body can do. God I'm so totally bored.

Professional Web Developer

Lowly student lol.

I'm currently in my third year of a BA with majors in Political Science and History. Once this finishes i'm headed off into a graduate diploma of secondary education and will be a highschool teacher. (I live in Australia, highschool here is years 7 to 12)

Livi

Originally Posted by techwife:
I loved hairdressing and worked at Penney's the entire ten years

I was so glad to see I wasn't the only stylist out there to work for Penney's that was here at 3FC. I got my cosmo license last September, went to work for Penney's in October and left in December. They didn't want to educate anybody on anything, they just left it up to you to figure things out on your own and the ones we were supposed to go to for help made you feel like an @$$ if you even considered asking a question. At least the one I was at made me feel like that. But as far as everything else I've ever done:

Junior year of high school, I worked at the Garden Ridge store for 6 months. I started there before the store walls were even put up, when there was just a trailer on the lot. Now it's just huge. The drive to Hulen everyday burned me out really fast. Spring semester, I worked at our Chicken Express for about 2 weeks with my best friend just as a fill-in for a girl that was out. Thank God because I have a hellacious chicken cravings around 'that time of the month'. *LOL*

Senior year (August 1998-May 1999), I worked at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram newspaper as a volunteer with their Class Acts magazine. My senior year was the last year it was in print:( I got to do tons of cool stuff though, the biggest being interviewing Third Eye Blind on their Bonfire Tour in October 1998.

I dropped out of college (I was majoring in journalism) in December 1999 due to my grandmother's illness and nobody back here being able to take care of her. She's doing alright now:) May 2000, I went to work at the old towers of Tandy Corporation, now RadioShack Corporation (headquarters of RadioShack), in their insurance department. Crazy is all I can say. We handled the insurance for each and every employee and their families of every RadioShack in the world. The job I was hired for, I completed in one year and 24 days.

I then went to work for Ascent in 2002, an insurance company. Loved it because it was $10 an hour, stayed 5 months, then the company relocated and I couldn't make the move:(

After that, I worked for my grandmother's real estate company for the next year til she retired. Then I went to cosmetology school September 2003, graduated 9 long, grueling months later, got my license at the state board exam September 2004, went to work at Penney's October 2004, left December 2004. I now just do hair and stuff for my family and friends.

Students are never lowly! I sure wish I had the money to be one again! :)

I have a BA inpsychology and am currently a counselor at a youth shelter. I'm hoping to go to graduate school to become a school counselor.

I work at a small town newspaper (well two weeklies and a weekly shopper). Before that I was the editor/reporter of my hometown newspaper. (I also worked there in High School and part of college. My dad was press foreman and circulation manager for 30 years.)

I have a BA in Communications with an emphasis on Radio/TV (such a long title) and a minor in Journalism. While going to college I worked at Wal-Mart and started working at a TV station. Was offered a full-time job with the TV station producing the morning show and quit Wal-Mart. Stayed with the morning show for a bit before they expanded their evening newscasts. Transferred to producing the 6 and 10. What I really loved doing was directing. A job opened up in that department and I directed the morning shows and filled in for the 6 and 10 on vacations.

When I was in elementary, junior high and my senior year I had paper routes. They came in handy to help pay for skiing trips and a trip to disney world one year.

Hello all - I saw the post and thought that I would join in.

I am a script typist for an advertising agency in Detroit. I work with the 'creative' people who write scripts for television commercials. :)

I love my job - and it's lots of fun. :)

Hi there! I'm a operations/detail/logistics person for a morning TV show. I love what I do but the schedule wreaks havoc on the body.

I'm a stay at home mom right now. I'm starting nursing school this year though. I'm really interested in prenatal, L&D, or the NICU. Time will tell where I end up.

I have been a sahm for the last 7 years, before that I was a human resources assistant.

Originally Posted by Idealperson:
I work full time at as a state of Wisconsin employee on the Probation, Parole, and Pardon Board...I used to work for the Sate's Crime Lab in Madison WI. I also have 4 children (which is another full time, but enjoyable job!) I love what I do and am in the minority in my field as a woman, but I can handle anything! :lol:

I'm from Wisconsin (practically lived there my whole life) and just moved to the Twin Cities about 4 years ago. My dream job is working as a forensic pathologist or something related. I love forensics!! I initially got interested in this after reading my first Patricia Cornwell novel (I've read them all!) Go figure! :D

Currently, I'm an RN that works for a small ENT group. One doctor, 2 nurse practitioners, and a few reception staff. They are great people, and the doctor I work for is the most wonderful, understanding, intelligent human I've ever worked for. I'm very happy where I'm at. I intend to work for this man until he retires! :lol:

We've got such a diverse group of people here. This thread was a great idea! :)

thought i should join! ha ha

i finished my Bachelors of engineering this year at the University of leeds in chemical engineering and in 2 weeks time i start "probably the best job in the world". i know thiswill be lost on anyone outside the UK but i start work for Carlsberg (in the brewery) in 2 weeks time

Professional baby catcher, provider of paps, pelvics, and birth control, and very loud advocate for women and babies.

I am a certified Birth Doula. I do some childbirth education with my clients, but the most important thing i do is to help them while they are in labor by providing different comfort measures, etc. The best job EVER! (besides raising my own 4 kids, of course!)

Server/student

Activity Director in a nursing home for the past ten years.

That's only 12 hours a week now, though, since my daughter was born. She's two, and I now stay at home the rest of the week with her.

I sell GMC/Isuzu truck parts! Been doing it for 20 years last April. And, I still love going to work everyday!!!

Special Education Teacher; I teach high school students with mild disabilities. I went back to college to finish my degree 15 years ago, after college I worked for a mental health facility running a group home for mentally ill adults, I began teaching 8 years ago.....I guess I am a "late bloomer"...I started my career at 35yrs of age.
Lynne

Personal Assistant to the CEO of a First Aid Company, but I would really like to say that I'm a writer with a 'day job'

I got my BA in English with a minor in Women & Gender Studies (College of NJ) in 2000 and last May I graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in Creative writing with an emphasis in Feminist Thought and Postmodern Theory (Penn State). While getting my Masters I taught undergrade writing, Lit, and Women's studies. I also wrote a book of experimental/feminist poetry that needs some serious help. Lately, I can't stop thinking about writing prose though (novel or memoir). However, I'm not writing much at the moment... so I can't claim that 'Writer' title!

BTW, so many diverse and interesting careers here!

i have a ba in english with a focus on british literature, sub-specialization irish lit, and a minor in native american studies. i'm currently in resource development (which means i beg the government for money) at a refugee resettlement agency. i worked in coffee shops all through college (and still volunteer during the weekend. i'm a junky!) so of course my highest aspiration is to own my own coffee shop/bookstore.

DOULACHIK and MIDWIFE: I've given birth twice and didn't scream once!! :encore: I don't know if that's good or not, but I thought it was good to focus the bodily functions on the groin at that time. My question to you, though, is...althougth I'm very grateful for people coaching future moms on how to effectively give birth, the two times in my life I've ever been purely petrified is when I brought an infant home with no instructions!! OMG!! I was all proud with how professionally I gave birth and then got home and looked at my baby and thought, "AAAHHHHH!!! There's a BABY in the house...and I'M the MOMMY!! What do I do NOW?!?!?" So, I'm just wondering when they are going to start giving baby 101 instructions? :lol: After all, childbirth only lasts a few hours (if you're lucky!!), but baby raising lasts forever! :lol: What a cool job you guys have!! I'd love to be a midwife...

Kris