Your Occupations

[007]

I know this is a touchy subject for some (including myself) so you can be vague if you'd like to. I was curious what kind of working classes and types of work people did on the forum, and i figured I'd start off, somewhat vaguely.

I help fix problems.

(Edited by 007)

Machinery and radios and such, electronical equipment.

[last_dance_rodeo]

so you're an assasin now?

[007]

An assasin, no, too much Dalton movies gone wrong in my court I think, I fix mechanical things like electronics, and when they don't work, I ship them to the yards to be destroyed. Parts and such, dude, you read into a bit of wit too much. SMile, it's good humour.

[artistindisguise]

my occupation is... bleghk. high school student.

[last_dance_rodeo]

i work with the mentally disabled and love it

[007]

Really, so you volunteer at, what, hospitals? How long have you been doing that.

Technically, my daytime official business is economics, but it sucks and I've been trying to find a way of getting out of it for a while, I work on machinery a lot at night and I find and repair things for people, it teaches me a trade if this whole economical activity thing should fall through.

[last_dance_rodeo]

it's not volunteer it's my career but i volunteer a lot to do overtime

[ROBARE]

last_dance_rodeo I tip my hat to you,I have over 6000 hours of volunteer at the childrens center,not my real job!!!

[Webbed]

I'm a finance exec. My bio is on http://www.macusight.com/about_macusight/management_team.php

It's fun to work at a pharmaceutical. It's rewarding, especially if the clinical trials make a difference for people.

[Little Bird]

I was in IT Support for nearly 7 years and gave it up last year to move into commercial merchandise planning for a retailer here in Ireland. I specifically work in the clothing department in Head Office. I manage all the sales and stocks reports, manage all the markdowns, forecasts, control with suppliers of delivery. All very boring but I've actually learned a great deal from it and certainly don't regret the move.

I do miss the IT side. Getting the hands dirty and tracing cables, building machines, lugging equipment around and being like a mechanic for computer equipment. It had many pluses but too many cons and I needed a change.

I'll most likely be doing a completely different job when I come back from maternity leave so watch this space.

[never.alone]

im with artistindisguise...just surviving high school, i wont get a job until i graduate. i'm excited though!

[Eibhlin]

I am a professional child chaser, feeder of horses, gardener and an occasional artist

[007]

Let me rephrase, I work for a stock broker, whom I shall not name for their privacy. I started there on internship when I was 19 and loved the market and the economy so much I put in over 100 letters requesting permanent stationing here in the local office in Charleston, SC.

I served one year in the Navy under a corps training op program learning the skills of salvage. I almost didn't get in because of a visiual impairment, but with my MOS, they let me in under certain conditions. I went all around but mainly home was in Norfolk, VA Naval Base. Spent a while there.

DOn't feel bad aobut being in high shcool, we all went htere, bmost of us came out alive. WHen I was your age I ws in the military, I had twelve dollars in my pocket and a bus pass to Norfolk. Be happy you are where you are, and live it up while you can.
I recently acquired a workshop space with a bunch of tools and machines, and with the help of an older guy, he's teaching me some basic machinery and how to work and reapir certain tools. SO I'm an economist by day, machinist by night. SOme of this stuff is so cool, I've got sewing machines from teh 1940's and typewriters, a plehtora of antiques that aren't quite perfectly working but I can fix them all, and i get to keep all of it in the ned. SO i"m happy, although I'd also be happy not to get my fingers chopped off, some of this stuff is dangerous. SO I've got a guy teaching me some things. You can't call it an occupation, more of a hobby that could turn into one.

[Webbed]

Keira,

After you have your baby, your primary responsibility is to patiently (and boy do they test your patience) hold the baby except for when you change the diaper or get ready to make milk. Your other responsibility is to get sleep whenever the baby does (as you hold the baby in your arms, probably, because not long after you put the baby down, the baby cries...). And your final responsibility is to sing Jewel songs to the baby until Jewel releases a lullaby CD.

It's otherwise not too different from the jobs that you've had: you check the diaper, wet wipes and clothing inventory and forecast how long they will last and arrange timely delivery of those supplies. You manage the product placement location so that you can get to them quickly enough to minimize the time to changing the baby diapers before the baby pees on the changing table.

Then there's the getting your hands dirty thing, but I won't get into that. You'll be building swaddles (the burrito making using baby blankets), tracing the whereabouts of pacifiers that disappear, lugging around enough gear to fill a car trunk and be a mechanic as you take care of the occasional leaks.

The good news is that after a few months, the baby will start smiling, will start to sleep through the night (but DO NOT sleep in the same room as the baby), and your days will start to look less hazy/blurry and you'll once again have a social life (sort of). But everything else remains the same, except that this time, they learn to manipulate you with their crying and tantrums.

The first three months are tough, but eventually, you'll love it all. We look back at the scrap books for the last 9 months and we see how our baby has changed from month to month. And time flies!

So enjoy being pregnant, enjoy being a new mom, and if you start to leave incomprehensible posts, we understand.... provided that you forgive me for posting my own set of illogical posts.

Best wishes for you and your baby!

- Shu

[Webbed]

I agree with 007: 20 years from now, you'll look back at high school and college and think about how good you had it. As a working adult, there's no such thing as summer, winter and spring break, and everyday is like taking a test.

My only comment is that I suggest that you make good friends now and continue to build friendships, because in the real world, it's all about who you know (or who know you).

[kelane6]

Well when not doing the mom thing for my gang of 4 monsters, I sometimes call myself a nurse. Or an under appreciated slave in either case.

[Veilingmeat]

uuugh kids!!!! :aufsmaul_2: gotta love em tho lol
Anyway....as prolly may already know...i work in a public waste site ie.*dump* as we like not to call them, as we really are classed as recycle workers, as it is in a way a recycle site, coz the general public just cant be arsed with it all the lazy turds, baaaaaah i HATE them....anyway in a small town called Stowmarket!
I like the job, it pays well which matters most, and your outside allday rain, wind or shine :dry: i'v even developed a six pack from this job...so it keep's oneself fit! :bop:
...ohh and did i mention that i hate the general public? :pissed:
The regulars are top notch ppl the vast array of 'good' ppl out there are far few and far between...but being fair...there are 'actually' good folks out there
So thats my job...a total b*stard, public enemy No1...trying to save the planet with recyclable waste, and from obnoxious scumbags :tongue: in your local day to day waste site
Have a nice day nudge nudge, wink wink!!!

[007]

I'd have never guessed their was another one of us in the economics field, webbed and I do almost the exact same thing, although not totally the exact same thing. Well, here's to Ricardian Theory of Inverse Equivalence! (Only webbed and I know about that one! It's a b@stard learning that one!)

And i didn't picture Kelane as a nurse, or LDR as a mental health worker. It's really reassuring and nice ot know that people on the forum are workign for the better good and common decency of people.

Mark, this includes you, you help keep things goin smoothly and you do a service most people tkae for granted, I commend you and your fellow six pack. I got mine from eating chkcen breast for almost five months (I'm so godd@mn tired of chicken breast and tinned sardines!) and running 4K dialy and my morning routine of crunches. I can do a thousand now. Glad you got yours less painfully, Marco. My method firggin sucked! if i never eat chiicken or fish again, I'd be happy, but htat's not oging ot happen, once you've got them, you've got to keep them!

[last_dance_rodeo]

OMG you guys I have the best job ever, it pays crap but this is what makes it all worth while today I was doing a 3-10 shift and I never get those shifts so I pretty much had to take the guys out to go shopping for stuff and to go out to eat and all that so I took out 3 guys, one at a time though, then i get back to the house and there's this one guy who has down syndrome and i'm just high fiving him and talking to him and he says I love you. Omg you guys it made it all worth while then I went to his room with him and he got his little pound puppy and he said a prayer and he wanted me there with him so we both prayed and then I tucked him into bed and it was just a great night. I love my job

[Little Bird]

Keira,

After you have your baby, your primary responsibility is to patiently (and boy do they test your patience) hold the baby except for when you change the diaper or get ready to make milk. Your other responsibility is to get sleep whenever the baby does (as you hold the baby in your arms, probably, because not long after you put the baby down, the baby cries...). And your final responsibility is to sing Jewel songs to the baby until Jewel releases a lullaby CD.

It's otherwise not too different from the jobs that you've had: you check the diaper, wet wipes and clothing inventory and forecast how long they will last and arrange timely delivery of those supplies. You manage the product placement location so that you can get to them quickly enough to minimize the time to changing the baby diapers before the baby pees on the changing table.

Then there's the getting your hands dirty thing, but I won't get into that. You'll be building swaddles (the burrito making using baby blankets), tracing the whereabouts of pacifiers that disappear, lugging around enough gear to fill a car trunk and be a mechanic as you take care of the occasional leaks.

The good news is that after a few months, the baby will start smiling, will start to sleep through the night (but DO NOT sleep in the same room as the baby), and your days will start to look less hazy/blurry and you'll once again have a social life (sort of). But everything else remains the same, except that this time, they learn to manipulate you with their crying and tantrums.

The first three months are tough, but eventually, you'll love it all. We look back at the scrap books for the last 9 months and we see how our baby has changed from month to month. And time flies!

So enjoy being pregnant, enjoy being a new mom, and if you start to leave incomprehensible posts, we understand.... provided that you forgive me for posting my own set of illogical posts.

Best wishes for you and your baby!

- Shu

I've been a nanny in the past and know quite a bit about kids. Though it's always different with your own. Thanks for the tips. I agree with not sleeping in the same room. We will be decorating the babies room soon. Can’t wait.

As for when I return to work after almost 7 ½ months of maternity leave, the department I work with now will have moved to the UK so my current employer will offer me a new job. That’s what I meant by doing something different when I return to work. I’m so glad that we have a good maternity leave system here that I’ll be able to take so much time off work. We’re entitled to 26 weeks leave and receive state benefit for those 26 weeks. Plus I’m adding a few more weeks of my own holiday entitlement as well as the allowed public days added on to that so it’ll be nearly 7 ½ months off to just be with my baby.

I know it will be hard to return to work but I have always maintained that I’d like to have both a family and a career if I can balance it well enough. I love to work too much so it would be hard to give it up completely. Besides, we couldn’t afford for me not to anyway.

I am looking forward to seeing what I will be doing when I come back. It really could be 1 of a number of different things as I’ve gained a tonne of experience in various different areas of the business here so I’m lucky to have such a choice available to me.

[bluediamond]

I work in IT, my exact title is Principal IT Technician.
It sounds posh but 'principal' meaning 'old' for sure :)

I don't really get my hands dirty either now as most of support is remote and internet based.

My 'other' job is website design which i have been doing in my spare time for over ten years now and i have a portfolio of around 40 sites, some of which you can see: http://www.bluediamonddesign.co.uk

Im in the process of updating my own at the moment so its nothing special.......yet :)

Oh and of course co, Admin for JKF the best Jewel Kilcher Forum in the world...........and thats official now.

lalalala
dave.

[kelane6]

"And i didn't picture Kelane as a nurse"

I'm almost afraid of what he has me pictured as....did I come across that badly? I got to say some of the biggest freaks I've ever seen are in the medical field, guess it takes all kinds.

[Veilingmeat]

especially those ones that dabble with the dead! pathologist's & physician's etc, very intelligant folks tho...but i'v heard strange things about them lot!? guess you have to be 'not all there' to do a grim job like that?
ooh and doctors with beards!

[007]

Hey, first off, why the hell does every one of you turn everything around? You're all so touchy and cynical! I swear it's not even fun being here anymore.

In all actuality, I pictured you as a school teacher, Kelane. That wasn't some driected evil remark or meaning anything badly towards you. Why do you all turn thigns arond and twist and contort what I say? It's so old.

I know many nurses and they must know a plethora of knowledge, you know this Kelane, being one. I repsect you for being in the medical field, if anything. I don't disresepct you for choosing that, because I'd be an ignorant uncoothed moron if I did. THey practically memorize the PDR. I know a lot about your profession.

I'm done with htis thread, I shan't post here again.

[007]

Final word, why don't you people read the entire paragraph and post next time before making coments and jumping to conclusions!

I swear I'm right, I just log on nowadays to see what people write about me and furthermore argue with them. This is not what the forum is about, but I'm done next time this happens. Last straw.

[kelane6]

Hey, first off, why the hell does every one of you turn everything around? You're all so touchy and cynical! I swear it's not even fun being here anymore.

In all actuality, I pictured you as a school teacher, Kelane. That wasn't some driected evil remark or meaning anything badly towards you. Why do you all turn thigns arond and twist and contort what I say? It's so old.

I know many nurses and they must know a plethora of knowledge, you know this Kelane, being one. I repsect you for being in the medical field, if anything. I don't disresepct you for choosing that, because I'd be an ignorant uncoothed moron if I did. THey practically memorize the PDR. I know a lot about your profession.

I'm done with htis thread, I shan't post here again.


I'm just kidding!!! I tend to be sarcastic and dark in my humor sorry to offend. I know you didn't mean anything by it. Really, no hard feeling?

[never.alone]

hahahha..this forum makes me laugh

[louloublu]

I'm a manager for the worlds largest independent mobile phone retailer, dontcha know. It's good fun but ridiculously hard work. I won't be doing it for very long because the hours are just too long. Last monday I hade to do an audit (which we do once a month) and I worked from 7am to 9pm. I know a lot of people have tougher jobs but I really felt sorry for myself that day (bring on the violins, I know). :)

[Little Bird]

hahahha..this forum makes me laugh
Me too! LOL...and I run it!

Chill people...chill!

[DreamsLast]

Clinical laboratory scientist in a molecular biology lab. Yes, I'm a science nerd! ;-) But I absolutely LOVE my job!!!

[Little Bird]

That's a cool job Christine. I have always had a keen interest in science and more especially, medicine and biology. I would love just 1 day in your job to see what you do in the lab. I'd love it for sure.

[DreamsLast]

Yeah, I'd show you around! Most people have no idea what we do in a clinical (i.e. hospital) laboratory. People would be very surprised! The only part people can relate to is when they have their blood drawn....then it's shipped off to some "magical place" to get results back from. The thing is though, lab scientists do not draw blood. The people who draw blood usually only took a short course in how to do it. They aren't even certified in most states. My job actually performing the tests requires at least a B.S. degree plus a 1 year intensive medical internship in a hospital laboratory. I also must past a rigorous certification exam by the ASCP (American Society of Clinical Pathologists). I also must maintain a state license and obtain a certain number of continuing education hours every year.

For some general info, check out this link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_technologist

http://www.felinebb.info/Images/17_15097.jpg

http://www.mayo.edu/mshs/images/laboratory_sciences_1.jpg

http://www.tallahasseeprimarycare.com/images/page_clinical_laboratory.jpg

http://www2.lorainccc.edu/LCCC/Academic/Allied_Health_Nursing/Programs/ClinicalLabScience.v1.jpg

http://www.rsbs.anu.edu.au/Products&Services/MolecularBiologyFacility/Images/centrif.jpg

[Little Bird]

Well it's similar here. The lab techs don't draw blood or collect samples. They just process them. Currently, there's a lab in the hospital near where I work with a whole bunch of my samples that I'm waiting to hear back on. Driving me nuts waiting but I suspect everything is fine. Routine tests during pregnancy but also a couple extra because I may have an infection plus suspect for gestational diabetes.

I'm fascinated by the whole thing. I really am. I remember biology glasses, setting the agar and putting different samples on it to see what weird and wonderful things grew as a result. Then looking at it under the microscope. And then looking at all sorts of stuff on slides etc. Trivial in comparison to what you do but it's the closest I've gotten. I really loved all that stuff.

[Webbed]

I know all about clinical labs. I watch CSI.


OK, I couldn't resist.

[last_dance_rodeo]

hehehe I want to swab petri dishes