What do you do for a living?

[redhen]

Right now i'm a therapeutic foster parent. I work with high-risk teens.
I was a CNA for many years before that...
Worked in various restaurants before that...

Also went to school a few years ago for medical billing and coding... Graduated with good grades but hated it.. so i'm still paying a student loan for a job that i wont ever do..*sigh*

 

[bjmstahl]

For 27 years I was a stay at home mom. Six years ago my last child graduated from high school and I got a job as a secretary at a university in the microbiology department.

 

[3goodeggs]

Red hen, I got a degree in something I loved and was really good at, married a man I love, spent the last 26 years never doing that $$$ degree. But, growing plants and hanging around plant people is good too. I am allergic to what we grow now, and I am not a happy chick, but...I feed the weeds to the chickens and pretend I am a farmer!

perspective is everything.

 

[stilldeb]

Former stay home mom (who invented that term anyway, you are never home!), now medical transcriptionist working from home for local hospital - girls are married and both expecting my grandbabies(!), and son is on his own and will probably be married soon, too.

Love that I can work from home, but would really just like to cook and take care of my chickens/dogs, etc. Wait, that didn't come out right...I don't want to cook my chickens. But I do love to cook and collect cookbooks (have about 600).

Been married 36 yrs - hubby has his own business.

Also have taught American Sign Language and signed music, played piano for various choirs/events/graduations/weddings, etc., made costumes for everything from Larry the Cucumber (Vegetales) to gingerbread men and lions, done a little catering for school events, some cake decorating...

...but aren't chickens fun!?

deb g

 

[arabianequine]

A lot of great jobs out there thank you for sharing.

Work has been so terribly slow and I am feeling the pain when I work in facilities as a CNA. I was having some trouble with my arms/tennis elbow is what I was told it was and since things slowed down and I am not doing CNA work all that much that has stopped. I also had pain in my foot can't remember what it was called started with a p two words. I have pain in my hips and low back too. I notice it doing work around here. I just feel weak and crippled after one shift I can barely walk....getting up out of bed. Both my arms and my one foot were very painful. So anyways I am alive and all that hurts nowadays is my hips and low back like my kidneys it feels like.

I have been thinking of either going to college for lpn or medical coding. I have 3 business degrees and never have actually worked with them been 10 years since I got them. I love business/office work. I apply for entry jobs all the time and hear nothing back.

 

[Cindiloohoo]

Currently...I own my own businesses as a natural products supplier and am in sales and marketting as well.

I am also the following on a regular basis:
babysitter
counselor
hunter
gatherer
financial consultant
maid
errand girl
chicken rancher
nutritionist
and master chef

I am the glue that holds this house together.

I get paid....sometimes cash, sometimes with appreciation

 

[rnoyster]

I am a self employed plumbing contractor. My motto is If I don't come, you can't GO!!!! LOL!!

 

[Kassaundra]

I am a paramedic, have been in ems for 10 years and love it, the last 4 as a paramedic.

Have worked as

An insurance agent
Shoe sales (every girly girls dream job, first pick of all the shoes)
Baker (now gluten allergic!!!)
Food demonstrator
Rural electric meter reader

 

[bunnibird55]

For the past 11 years I have been administrative assisstant to the engineer for our county drainage department. I love every second of it since I get to draw maps on the computer and talk to different people every day! I don't always like the part of figuring out drainage assessments for people - I feel terrible when it seems like too much money for people on fixed incomes.
Before that I owned a pet shop for two years. For 20 years I was a dog groomer. I loved the animals I owned in the pet shop, but I hated having to sell them to just anyone - I was way too picky - not a good way to make a profit! Dog grooming was fun but very tiring.
Before that I was an editor for six years for our local daily newspaper. I loved it but the hours and stress were unbelievable!
I dream of being able to retire in 12 years and talk to my chickens all day and raise more flowers!

 

[redhen]

I'd LOVE to be a groomer..no schools around me though..