What do you do?

[crystal autumnwind]

There seems to be such a diverse group of people here. I was just curious what do you all do for a living? And if you are a student, what do you plan on doing when you finish? Also, how many SAHM/D's are here?

Do you like what you do? If you could switch careers, what would yo do?

I did a search and didn't find anything, so I apologize if this has been done before.

[Radocs]

Tech Support for an internet company.

[Sylvan]

Payroll for a department in a huge casino. I make sure that the people who get paid 2 and 3 times what I make get paid properly.

It's ok, but no dream job. Lots of sitting at my desk trying to look busy so the boss won't find me something to do. At least I get my three weeks' vacation a year....

I would *LOVE* to do archaeological digs, but alas... No schooling, no time for schooling... *pout*

[SylverStar]

I work front desk at a Hotel and am also a Theatre student. I'm possibly switching to Film though.

[Mau]

I'm a slave for 3 tiny angry midgets with bad tempers who like to throw things at me and make HUGE messes for me to clean up. I work 24/7 with no financial reimbursement, and I am serving them for the next 18-20. :D

[stevie]

I work for County Government. I'm a computer tech. I keep their network up and running.

[*Rain*]

I'm currently in the military but before that I worked with kids.

Mau - that's no way to view motherhood :D I bet they're :halohead: :halohead: :halohead: really.

[FaerieGothMommy]

I'm a full time parent too, to a little angel :lol:

I'm getting a website up and running right now, for my tarot reading, not quiet finished yet.

[FeatherGoblinglimmer]

i'm a full time mum as well.:)

[RubyRose]

I'm a student ... Surveying and Cartography (map production) and am working part time as a telemarketer

[crystal autumnwind]

I figured I better answer my own question! :lol:

I'm a little of everything. Right this second, I am mostly a stay-at-home mom to my 2 year old son. But I work as a night-time bookkeeper at a grocery store on the weekends. It's okay. I enjoy the work, but not the customers! I can't really complain...it's only two nights a week!

I'm in between classes at school right now. Being a military family, we move alot (3 times in the last 5 years!), so I usually get a couple of classes here, a couple there. I start again this January. I am working on my Bachelor's in Social Work with either a double major or a minor in anthropology.

My dream would be an anthropologist/archaeologist. I would love to travel to different countries and study different cultures. Particularly ones that haven't been exposed to much outside influence. But, alas, that dream isn't very compatible to my family-life, so I'm settling on my second dream...working for the Dept of Child Welfare (or whatever it's called in whatever state I happen to be in at the time! :hehehehe: )

[13thChylde]

I'm the assistant for the Research department of a pharmaceutical company that does AIDS research.

I'd like to have an import business that allowed me to travel all over the world and would be beneficial to artisans and make a comfy living.

[Crystal_Raye]

Well I'm only in 9th grade right now but I'm starting to look at a career in either anthropology, paleontology, archeology, or midwifery. Alot of ologies, I know.

[blblue78]

I am a legal secretary at a securities and antitrust class action firm. Also I am a part-time student.

[licorice whip]

i am a junior in high school right now, but when im in college i plan to study photography and history mainly. i would like to own a vintage/antique stuff store.

[Lunacie]

For the last two-three years I have been a full-time gramma to my two grandchildren. This includes cooking and cleaning and doing laundry for them and my daughter. Doesn't pay anything, but I'm sure glad I get to have this time with them.

[Dextra]

I'm a full time mom, getting ready to head back to school in January, where I'm a communications major, leaning heavily towards radio broadcasting. I also work part time at my school's radio station doing reporting on various stories, then doing a full newscast on Friday afternoons. My little girls, who demand most of my time, will be 4 years old next week.

[jennymac]

I'm a student, working part time in small option homes taking care of people with mental illnesses who can't take care of themselves. I am also a cadet officer where I do admin work and training.

Hopefully someday I'll have my social work degree but I'd really like to be a nurse also.

[Xentor]

My main income stems from information systems development, currently specified on web applications.

Apart from that, I'm a part time university student, doing bachelor in information technology.

[door]

I am a part time 5th grade teacher (Math and Science) and my school's librarian and computer teacher.

I enjoy most of my job; I would like to be a full time public children's librarian and/or children's writer.

[CelestiaSynth]

I am currently a theater usher and a associate/clerk at a speciality store.
I'll be trying to go to college some time next year.

[Drisel]

I am a full time mommy of two girls ages 9 and 3. I am a board member of a local school age daycare and volunteer as the treasurer. This includes doing payroll, remitances, and all that fun stuff. I am also a recent graduate Licensed Practical Nurse. I havn't started working as a nurse yet but am currently looking. :)

[Flar's Freyja]

Social worker. I currently freelance supervising visits for custody and divorce cases. I'm trying to start a home-based business to supplement the income, which is unsteady, and I'm also writing. Would like to be a published author someday.

[Casanite]

I'm a student....gots me no jobs, seeing i can't find one that i will like to work at, so in my spare time i snowboard, but i should find a job....if anywhere will accept me....

[Mau]

Mau - that's no way to view motherhood :D I bet they're :halohead: :halohead: :halohead: really.

LOL..yeah, they are great..was just in one of them 'i've been up for 24 hours and the kids are on a mission to make me rip me hair out' moods...LOL

But, I guess I should mention that when I get them all off to school, I'm going back to school for nursing to be an RN..work a year or so within pediatrics, then go back to school to take a bridge course to be a certified PNP (pediatric nurse practitioner) :D

[Koehnae]

I am a Line Tech at Kraft Pizza Company. Basically, this means that I supervise other people who are making the crusts for DiGiorno and DeLissio pizzas. I also work as a dough mixer.

I actually love my job. It gives me the chance to show off my talents at supervising and training. The company also has awesome potential for advancement. I work with a very diverse and wonderful group of people. When I first started, I never planned on staying, but I have now been there for 3 years and plan on being there for a long, long time. I'm even starting school so I can join the Supervisory or Human Resources staff when I grow up. LOL

And, hey... I LOVE PIZZA!

[amathera]

I work at a video store. Not much money, but I get to see the new releases before they go out on the shelf.

[Kalika]

I currently work in a office that does hazard recovery (insurance repairs) for mortgage companies.

In the fall of 2004 I will be going back to school to get my BS is Biology and then on to become a pediatrician. :) Yay. (Looking at 10 yrs of school!!)

Interesting thread!

Blessings,

Kalika

[PeleRising]

Mostly I am a SAMH. But.... two days a week I watch a cousins baby so she can go back to work, and i get my baby fix at the same time lol, and 2 nights a week i work for a company that cleans offices. I also have my own soap business that I am trying to get off the ground. :)

[SnowyMoon]

I am a full-time medical transcriptionist, a mother of an 11-1/2-year-old daughter, and part time figure skater. Yep, i can do double jumps and layback spins as well as type up a medical note for ya. ;).

[nomadicdragon]

I'm a licensed insurance adjuster.. i investigate and settle workers' compensation claims.. its pretty cool..

[blueiris]

i'm a student at a high school...in ninth grade -not exactly fun but supposedly i will need geometry in the future (i doubt it).
i like to write stories so i'm thinking about becoming an author and i'm interested in being psychiatrist but i have to think about it.

[IrishRiotGrrrl]

I'm a college student, a mommy to a 2 year old, a wife to another 2 year old (lol, nah a 27 year old) and a small business owner. I'm going to school studying psychology and sociology, I help my husband run his business and take care of the baby during the day untill I go to night class. I'm almost done with school! I have 6 more classes and I have my first degree! I'm so excited! Hmmm, thats about it in a nutshell.

[Desert_Yaqui]

I work part time for a CPA doing data entry. Even though it could be an otherwise boring job I really dig it! The amount of flexibility I have is great. Because I am one of those "nose to the grindstone" types and do not require supervision, the arrangemet I have with my boss is that I can LITERALLY make my own schedule so long as the work gets done. Being an Aquarian, this suits me quite well. No one looking over my shoulder-no one there to "crack the whip" and I don't have to show up for work at the SAME time everyday (except maybe during personal or quarterly tax seasons)... Nowadays, I go when I wake up! Oh, and the pay is pretty good, too...

I also have a home based business (for about six years now) doing graphic design, but most folks in Phoenix go to the local copy shops or just create their own business cards and stuff at home anymore. Business is really slow! But I do have a newsletter that I do four times a year and sometimes do freelance work for a printer when his inhouse art dept. gets really busy. I also create jewelry and have been trying to put together a workshop that teaches folks how to make homemade tamales, and other various cooking techniques, like making flour tortillas and stuff. I really haven't done much with that idea yet, but it's on the table again... Thank you, CEA!

I guess that's about it.

[OBsIDiaN3]

I'm an Administrative Assistant (aka: slave) for an architectual firm. Actually, it's a really cool job because my office manager is really nice and pretty much let's me do whatever. It's just the architect/owner that's really grumpy and anal.lol

[Pesha]

Well I am a nurse with a BS dgree in clinical psychology. Right now due to my knee surgery I am not working.

BB
DS.

[Kalika]

I work part time for a CPA doing data entry. Even though it could be an otherwise boring job I really dig it! The amount of flexibility I have is great. Because I am one of those "nose to the grindstone" types and do not require supervision, the arrangemet I have with my boss is that I can LITERALLY make my own schedule so long as the work gets done. Being an Aquarian, this suits me quite well. No one looking over my shoulder-no one there to "crack the whip" and I don't have to show up for work at the SAME time everyday (except maybe during personal or quarterly tax seasons)... Nowadays, I go when I wake up! Oh, and the pay is pretty good, too...

I also have a home based business (for about six years now) doing graphic design, but most folks in Phoenix go to the local copy shops or just create their own business cards and stuff at home anymore. Business is really slow! But I do have a newsletter that I do four times a year and sometimes do freelance work for a printer when his inhouse art dept. gets really busy. I also create jewelry and have been trying to put together a workshop that teaches folks how to make homemade tamales, and other various cooking techniques, like making flour tortillas and stuff. I really haven't done much with that idea yet, but it's on the table again... Thank you, CEA!

I guess that's about it.

Ooh, Ooh, somebody else in phoenix!!! *waves* HI! :lol:

[beachdrifta]

i work for a video game store called gamestop :D i'm an assistant manager. i'm still trying to decide what i want to do when i go back to school (its a draw-be a chef or do graphic arts). i also play a lot of guitar and sing and make these things called cartoon dolls (see my signature).

[Old Witch]

I used to stay at home and care for my elderly father, but since his death, I'm lonely and bored........I need a job, but I also have a heart issue......so whether or not someone would hire me, I just don't know........Also, I don't have a clue what I could do nowdays...........

[green_magik]

Wow what an interesting group of people.

I actually work three jobs. My 8-4 job I am an office manager for an Oil and Gas company. Yes we are some of those evil people that drill the wells to heat your home and put gas in your tanks. My 4-whenever job I am the office manager at a used car part (junkyard) shop. I would have never thought that those businessess made that much money. And my third job I work out of my home keeping books for another man that sells prospects to the big oil and gas giants so they can drill the wells to heat our homes and put gas in our tanks.

What I plan on doing in my spare time is go to school for aromatherapy and natural healing. I also plan on becoming a Master Gardener. :farmerjoe

[Greywood]

I'm a full time bladesmith, and also work on the side at that den of iniquity called WalMart (boo hiss) since I don't make enough for health care coverage. The WitchyWench and I have also started homesteading, so we'll be growing 80% of our own grub in a year or two and selling the extras in our own lil roadside stand. In addition, she makes quilts and I make salsa's and hot sauces. Hopefully those will take off as well.

[Jeleia]

I'm currently a student taking Multimedia.

I love it.

I plan to do a lot of travelling after I'm done school.

I also work part time as a cashier. Put I'm quitting soon!! :)

[boerbabe]

Hmm... I'm my parent's pet bum. hehe

Ok, I'm a full time student studying computer graphics, and wondering what the heck some of my required classes have to do with art, let alone graphics!

In theory I'll graduate next Fall, but we'll see. I'm also occassionaly looking for work, and do a little beadwork in my spare time, but mostly collect them so I can completely cover my desk in miniscule beads by the year 2005. I'm halfway there already.

I posess a talent for ceaseless rambling, and for running on at the mouth when i shouldn't, and for dabbling in everything, and mastering nothing. Working in modified chain mail now, beaded flowers are next....

As I said in my introductory post, I also live ona goat farm, raising goats for food production. Think that about sums it up....

[FlyingBear]

Working as a retail wage slave for almost five years and counting down the days until maternity leave. Anyone who treats customer service people like **** should have to work that job for at least two years. There's a line between helping the customer and becoming their whipping boy and people cross it constantly.

:rant:

So annoying when someone decides to take a stand against everything that is stale and dead in their lives by becoming an outraged pain in the ass that flies at your face because you couldn't give them X item on sale. Gods forbid if you can't break company policy " just this once". :rolleyes: Relax Peaches! Go out and do something meaningful with your life instead of obessing over an overpriced, tacky little scrap of nothing that you MUST have just so you can brag to your equally shallow friends about this great score you landed. And while you're at it, not only do you look fat in *that* dress, but the one you wore in was equally hideous. You may have had an hourglass figure, but honey your time is UP!

There are times when I just wanna waddle over to one of them, plant my big furry butt on their chest and just bang their head into the ground with both paws. Would be SOOOOOO satisfying!! :lol:

:floating:

~FB

[Loreley]

I'm a translator. Fun job :) I love words.

[boerbabe]

I worked retail for a while,a nd while some things were fun, I saw so many misconceptions that couldn't be budged!

Did you know women are stupid and can't possibly know anything about cars?
Did you know it's ok to threaten to throw a 35 pound alternator at a girl's head?
Did you know that an ignition switch and a key cylinder are one and the same? (this makes it ok to throw heavy objects at one's head)
And don't forget to pick up a quart of blinker fluid, grab your muffler bearings,a nd check your Johnson's rods too!

Of ocourse telling them they were more then welcome to wait for that man over there to help them was always amusing... especialy when he came over to ask me for the answer! hehe

Hang in there Bear!

[LadyOak]

Until this last May I worked in Steel Manufacturing. Making those nifty metal parts that hold your houses together.

Hey Boerbabe, I prefer a Cleveland over a Windsor myself...

[MoonChild78]

I am a student and I work for BlockBuster Viedo. When I get out of school, I plan to go into Family Counsoling and Law (Sorry for any mispellings, but I am going on hour 36 here.... eck!!)

[TerraMadre]

I'm a waitress/server at Perkins Family Restaurant and Bakery! I work grave shift, which is really peaceful and blissful on Sunday and Monday nights... a welcome reprieve from Fridays and Saturdays when all the drunk college kids come and puke all over our floors.... mmmm.... appetizing! I actually love it, but I don't intend to make a career out of it. I've just now started thinking about going back to school for a Liberal Arts degree... I don't have a clue what I would do with it. I always wanted to be a teacher, but here in the US, the government is making that very difficult.... we'll just have to see where life takes me!

[Semele]

Registered Nurse - Pediatrics

[mol]

Software Engineer, Geek!

[Memnoch McKiln]

I'm a Student, A Waiter, and A Professional Wrestler

[boerbabe]

lol @ LadyOak I actualy started out going to school to become ASE certified in a few areas... found out a few months ago I got really close to done before I for bored and moved onto something else. *shrugs*

[Ben Trismegistus]

I've spent the last ten years (including college and grad school) pursuing a career as an opera singer. In the last few months, I've realized that the performing career is just not going to happen - and even if it did, I've decided that I don't want to be in a career that will take me away from my family six months out of the year.

So, I'm currently a little lost. Having been nothing but a musician my entire life (starting with piano lessons at age 3), I've never really thought about "back-up" careers. I'm exploring a number of options, and I'm trying my hand at television (not as a performer, but as a writer). We'll see what happens.

In the meantime, I'm paying the bills by working as a legal secretary.

[DayDreamer]

I am a legal secretary for a large law firm, concentrating on employee benefits real estate.

I'm also a wife, a mom, a homemaker, a chauffeur, a chambermaid, a laundry-maid, a cook, a financial planner, and various other things.

[Calzaer]

I'm an Elementary Education major, and an as-yet-unpublished writer. The closest I've been to publication is running my book ideas as D&D campaigns. Then I go back and write how the campaign went (with some dramatic liscence) in novel format.

I've found that while playing is great fun, it doesn't usually make for particularly coherent books. The one I'm closest to finishing has been so completely rewritten that only the names of the characters are the same. I decided that leaving a part in just because "that's the way it happened" is not a good excuse. Of course, that story was also crippled in that I had to re-write the last two-thirds entirely to avoid copyrighted material; the one I'm currently working on takes place entirely in my own copyright, so it might actually have a plot and a direction coming up soon. ;)

Never again will I try to write without first making an outline. Sheesh.

[IvyCeltress]

I'm an editor and usability analyst for web-based training for Defense. I've also worked for the American Association of Museums in Accreditation and Fulbright Program administering academic exchanges between the US and Africa and East Europe.

[~Violet_Dragon28~]

I'm an LPN working in a nursing home with mostly all Alzheimer patients. I love my job...but every night when I come home from work I wonder what it is that keeps me sane!! :floating:

[DayDreamer]

Who said you're sane??? LOL, just teasing ya ;)


I'm an LPN working in a nursing home with mostly all Alzheimer patients. I love my job...but every night when I come home from work I wonder what it is that keeps me sane!! :floating:

[lightfairy]

a chef in training or jr chef whichever sounds better

[Lady Jade]

I am a degreed Paralegal, but workng as a Customer Service Rep for a national company at their R & D division.

[WitchJezebel]

Right now I'm an office slave at a law firm working for an attorney with a Napoleon complex.

I am a degree'd chef and worked in the industry for several years; unfortunately once the student loan kicked in, I couldn't survive on the pay. I'm still looking for my food 'niche', being a line cook sucks eggs and the pay is even worse. I'd love to own my own bakery or maybe a B&B... *goes off to buy a lottery ticket*

[~ Monk ~]

I'm a terminator...of contracts.:) I'm currently a contractor at SBC.

I have a degree in graphic design, but it's useless and has been for some time. Frankly, I'm not even interested in the field anymore. I'm planning, if I can get some financial aid this time around, to go back to school next fall for something I should have pursued from the beginning.

[Equinox]

Hi-

I'm a research scientist (Ph. D.) at a semiconductor company.

-Equinox

[Autumn Clair]

I use to work security then decided to have a family. I'm a SAHM for the last 8 years but will soon be going back to my security work. While at home I've been studying up so I didn't fall out of the fold. You've got to have an edge in my line of work........