What do you do for a living? Anyone work w/animals for a job???

[Carolina Chicken Man]

For many years I worked as a Project Manager in commercial construction, office buildings, retail, etc.

A few years ago I went back to school at night and got my Masters in Business Administration. I now work for a Real Estate Investment Trust that owns, operates, and redevelops apartmtent complexes. I work in a specialized group that applies for Low Income Housing Tax Credits, and use them to aquire and redevelop affordable housing, primarily for the elderly.

My wife is the animal person. She has a B.S. in Animal Science from NC State University.
She currently as a toxicoligist for a company that does animal trials (rats only). She primarily works on breeding studies because her concentration was in reproductive physiology. She worked at the univerity dairy as a student, then as an assistant manager for a 1000 sow commercial farrowing operation. She then worked at the artificial insemination lab. Because of her experience, she is not a big fan of commercial farming. She worked for a couple years at the Swine Education Unit at NC State in charge of the nursery. She loves baby pigs. Her father has 50 cows, calves, and steers and some pigs and she helps him out with processing his pigs, and she makes the steeers into steers. When they only had a few cows, she artificially inseminated them, but that became too much work when the herd got larger.

Believe it or not, I'm the one who wanted chickens.

 

[wynedot55]

im a retired dairymen an crop farmer.just have comm cows an reg beefmasters.have raised cattle all my life.

 

[cluckychick]

I am a real estate appraiser (just passed my state test in November). My family also owns a business where I also work. I do computer work,pay bills, some CAD work and phone stuff. I call myself an office manager/store fixture consultant. My DH works in the automotive industry and is UAW

 

[yellowdragon]

AussieSharon
Ihave not heard that one ( domesitic goddess)
I like it though.. That's what I am... I take care of my 2 kids.. My 5 year old daughter has type 1 diabetes so it's kinda a full time job... checking blood sugar 5 x's , 3 or 4 shots aday, 3 meals and 2 snacks on time.. geting use to it though, been doing it for 2 years now... and my 3 yr old son is just an outdoor boy which means I have my hands full ( I know some people have more kids, but I couldn't do it

). I also sell eggs ( I have 47 chickens ). I just started making wooden stars and other outdoor things.

 

[OHChick]

i design computer applications for one of the largest Information Technology consulting firms in the world. my current assignment is at a gas utility in ohio.

on the side i run an alpaca farm and help out at my neighbor's farm as well. i hope one day to make the alpacas my full time job, i like them way better than i like most people!

and of course my precious chickies!!!

 

[cantley2003]

I'm a stay at home mom to an 8 year old daughter, which frees my days up since she is at school. So in my time I volunteer as a guardian ad litem and the PTA. My husband who finances my life is an avionics tech. It's neat to see what everyone else does when chickens aren't running their lives.

Amy

 

[ChickPeas]

I'm a forensic autopsy technician for the Medical Examiner. We cover 7 counties in NC. It can be a pretty nasty job at times, but I can't imagine doing anything else-except living on a farm taking care of animals all day!

Before doing autopsies, I was a vet tech for about 10 years on and off.

 

[lorieMN]

I am a dog groomer,trainer,I work from home and I love it..

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

Right now I work for a goat dairy. I milk about 40 goats, its pretty easy.
Last year I worked at a jersey dairy milking 140 cows 3 times a day. Whoever said jerseys are the calm breed hasnt ever met the jerseys I milked. The kick the milkers off, they will kick your hand if they feel like it, they poop and pee on you, they are hyper, the bulls are acrobats when they jump over a 6' fence, the first time freshners are crazy. One of the first time fresheners kicked a co-worker in the ribs and knocked him out.
Dairy jobs pay great, the cow dairy paid $40 per shift which wasnt really worth it, I got so beat up and bruised from them, the auger almost got me, it sucked. The goat daity pays $20 per shift or $50 per whole day but they milk alot of the time so it isnt a full time job.
Today I am going to an interveiw at the grocery store and I am really nervous. With the dairy jobs it was kinda a given that I would get them because I am pretty much a pro at it and was also one of 2 people that applied at both dairies. The job at the grocery is to be an overnight stocker which seems easy enough. I called every other day if not every day, I went to the job fair they had, and I was one of the first to turn in an application when theystarted taking them. When I called yesterday the guy said that my name sounded familiar and then said "you are the one that turned in an early application and came to the job fair and that calls me all the time" but he said it in an impressed way.
I am excited but nervous because I have to compete with a handful of others.

 

[Physics Mom]

Wow, there are so many different careers represented here! I teach physics labs at our small local college, and I work from home as an emissions market analyst. (One is emotionally rewarding, the other one pays the bills). My husband works for the local water company.