Just for fun, what is, or was, your career?

slynch

Teacher, Retired, Back to Work
I was a high school computer science teacher for 30 years and retired. Stayed out of work through the summer and decided I would be bored. Am now working at a small law office as Office/District Court assistant to the attorney. It is much different than teaching but I am enjoying it -- have been hear almost 3 years. One day I am going to retire for good.

mrs gadget

Teacher - unemployed :>(
I am a teacher although unemployed at the moment. I got my credential last year when quite a few teachers lost their jobs due to budget cuts in California. Currently I substitute teach 3 to 4 times per week. Not a big money maker but better than nothing...

I actually have a job interview next week for a permanent teaching position. Keep your fingers crossed for me!!

linpsu

Teacher
I taught third grade before having my 2 kids. Stayed home for a few years, then started teaching Pre-K at my daughter's preschool. Thought it would be temporary, but I stayed for 27 years! I love it because it's part=time, and the schedule worked out well when my kids were young and I had all of their activities to attend to. I became the director 7 years ago, but last year I gave up the teaching part of the job b/c of my chemo treatments, so now I am just the director, working every day, only in the mornings. Most of the time, I really love my job.
Linda

creampuff91344

linpsu said:

Teacher
I taught third grade before having my 2 kids. Stayed home for a few years, then started teaching Pre-K at my daughter's preschool. Thought it would be temporary, but I stayed for 27 years! I love it because it's part=time, and the schedule worked out well when my kids were young and I had all of their activities to attend to. I became the director 7 years ago, but last year I gave up the teaching part of the job b/c of my chemo treatments, so now I am just the director, working every day, only in the mornings. Most of the time, I really love my job.
Linda

Career
For this kind of question to come up is rather humorous, as I was thinking the same thing a few days ago. My background is in HR (graduate of UCLA), and I spent several years owrking in the field of benefits, insurance, payroll, hiring, counseling, etc. In 1988 a group of friends and I bought a small bank in East Houston, and we became bankers. This flourished very quickly, and within 18 years we had grown so big that we sold to a major bank in the Southern Texas area. At age 53 I retired to live in the mountains of New Mexico. Now, remember this....I was home 24/7 with my hubby, who can't sit still, always had a project or two going, and is a "tinkerer". After getting my new home like I wanted it, redoing all of the rooms at least twice, I decided I couldn't stay at home any longer, so I went to dealer school and learned how to deal black jack. Went to work for the local Native American Casino in Ruidoso area, and loved every minute of it. Sounds funny going from a banker to a gambling facility, but I guess that is where I should have been all along. After diagnosis with bc I had to stop working, and haven't worked since 2008. Maybe it is time I get up and do something with my life....maybe bungie jumping instructor. That is something I have never done. Thanks for this thread....you may have put a bee in my bonnet. Hugs, Judy

Gabe N Abby Mom

I'm currently on leave from
I'm currently on leave from a national bank, worked as a branch manger for them. I have been in banking for 5 years, and went through two mergers. I am convinced that stress was a big contributor to my cancer. Not sure what I'll be doing for them when I go back to work.

Prior to banking I worked in retail management for many years with Casual Corner and then Macy's. Somewhere in there I was home for seven years with my kids, while working retail part time.

Then if you go back to the stone age, I worked for Time Life, I managed some of their telemarketing offices. Yes, we were the people who called you at home and sold you that series of Home Repair books. And I waited tables through school.

mjjones453

Gabe N Abby Mom said:

I'm currently on leave from
I'm currently on leave from a national bank, worked as a branch manger for them. I have been in banking for 5 years, and went through two mergers. I am convinced that stress was a big contributor to my cancer. Not sure what I'll be doing for them when I go back to work.

Prior to banking I worked in retail management for many years with Casual Corner and then Macy's. Somewhere in there I was home for seven years with my kids, while working retail part time.

Then if you go back to the stone age, I worked for Time Life, I managed some of their telemarketing offices. Yes, we were the people who called you at home and sold you that series of Home Repair books. And I waited tables through school.

career
I worked as a Cosmetologist for 16 years, until I had major back issues. I took a year off to heal, but during that summer of being off, I had 2 carpel Tunnel Surgeries, and my Gall bladder removed. I then found work part-time for a local School District as the Supply clerk, went full time a year latter. I am still the supply clerk, but I also do the copying for 4 schools. Along with that, I am the girl friday. I love my job, hope to be there until I retire, in about 15 years.

sbmly53

No career, just work
For almost 3 years I have been working in a prime care clinic, mainly registering patients. Before that I worked in a vet clinic ( a dairy practice ). There were 2 or 3 vets, me and a part-time person, so I always refer to my time there as 'queen'. Oh how I loved that job! But the vets retired and we couldn't find anyone to come in to the area - large animal vets are very hard to find, especially for dairy cows.

I have worked in an insurance claims office, was a buyer in a grocery chain, a bank teller - worst job - and tended bar, in my much younger, perkier days, of course! I also worked in a physchiatric hospital - my very first job out of high school.

Great post! Thanks!

Sue

disneyfan2008

Receptionist for alternate high school 11 yrs prior bus dispatcher! For school

disneyfan2008

Gabe N Abby Mom said:

I'm currently on leave from
I'm currently on leave from a national bank, worked as a branch manger for them. I have been in banking for 5 years, and went through two mergers. I am convinced that stress was a big contributor to my cancer. Not sure what I'll be doing for them when I go back to work.

Prior to banking I worked in retail management for many years with Casual Corner and then Macy's. Somewhere in there I was home for seven years with my kids, while working retail part time.

Then if you go back to the stone age, I worked for Time Life, I managed some of their telemarketing offices. Yes, we were the people who called you at home and sold you that series of Home Repair books. And I waited tables through school.

I worked in banks many yrs
I worked in banks many yrs prior to having my kids!I baby sat full time for over 8 yrs

pinkflutterby

disneyfan2008 said:

Receptionist for alternate high school 11 yrs prior bus dispatcher! For school

Family Law Paralegel for the
Family Law Paralegel for the last 23+ years but since DX'd I've been on disability Miss working!!!

lizzie17

carkris said:

I am a pediatric cardiac
I am a pediatric cardiac surgery nurse. currently I am doing some research as am still recovering from treatment. I am hoping to do both.

hoops for hearts
just made me think that my school raised almost $10,000 yesterday for children with heart problems for the American Heart Association.

lizzie17

teacher
This is my 31st year of teaching. I love it, and I will retire when I stop loving it!!
Hopefully, my health will hold up.

Prior to that I was a lifeguard, and worked at an Eckerd drug store during college.

Double Whammy

pinkflutterby said:

Family Law Paralegel for the
Family Law Paralegel for the last 23+ years but since DX'd I've been on disability Miss working!!!

My working life has been a series of Forrest Gump events. When I got a divorce way back in 1971, my father said "get yourself down to that University and get a job - you need hospitalization"! How right he was. I worked at UC Davis from 1971 until I retired in 1998 at age 50. I started as a secretary in the School of Medicine and progressed to retire from a mid management position in the Office of Medical Education. That job and retirement package provides both me and my husband health insurance for life. My father would be pleased.

After what I call my first retirement, the rest of the Forrest Gump scenarios really took off. I decided to go back to school and enrolled in a program in fashion design and construction. Then I stumbled into interior design. I did not complete either program, but I took the classes that interested me the most. That's where I learned that interior designers pay people well to sew custom soft furnishings for their clients' homes (window treatments, bedding, cushions, pillows, slipcovers, light upholstery, etc.). So I said "I can do that!" and I've been doing that out of my home since 2000.

In 2004, I was in Home Depot and I ran into my former boss from UCDavis. In the course of conversation, asked me to come work for him on an academic journal that he was editor for. I was hired as managing editor for that journal from 2004-2008, when I retired for the second time.

I now take jobs if I feel like it. I currently have 6 Roman shades on my table. Roman shades are my favorite window covering. Being old has its advantages.

Suzanne

1acme

enforcement
Customs Officer (Border Patrol) currently on leave of absence (aka sick leave).

Our insurance does have only two option, you are 100% healthy and perform your duty or you stay home on leave of absence. Nothing between.

BlownAway60

I am retired now but I
I am retired now but I worked 37 years for the government as a Civil Service Employee. My last job was 13 years as the Quality Assurance Manager for Finance.

Donna

chenheart

Licensed cosmetologist ( I
Licensed cosmetologist ( I apprenticed in Germany and worked there as well), was a waitress ( yes, back in the day we weren't called servers!) at my Grandfather's steak/lobster restaurant in NY. The BEST thing I ever did was volunteering in grades K-3 for ten years~mostly teaching reading, but doing whatever the teacher needed. For the majority of those years I worked in the 2nd grade with the same teacher~ we became great friends! I am also a labor and birth coach ( Bradley method) and my gift to firsttime young parents is to teach them the childbirth classes in exchange for me being there for the delivery! I think I got to witness/assist in 12 births that way! AWESOME!
I was also a foster mom!

Where has the time gone?????

Hugs,
Chen♥

QuiltingMama123

Teacher
Great question!! I was a jr. high/high school English teacher for MANY years and loved it. I took a 5 year break when we adopted our youngest (she was born with a hole in her heart and needed some extra TLC), worked another 3 years and had to stop due to Meniere's Disease (chronic inner-ear condition that is made worse by stress and movement). The year after that I was diagnosed with bc. Not bad timing... Now I quilt, sew, knit, and crochet to my heart's content! I miss my students, but I love the time with my family!

mariam_11_09

Software Engineer. I

Software Engineer. I studied mathematics and chemistry and couldn't figure out what to do afterwards because I ended up hating chemistry. Anyway software seemed a good place to be, supported my creative obsessions and now my daughter as well.

luettacook

Physician

I'm in residency program and looking for locum job as I want to explore all aspects of medical career. One of my senior friends recommended me this website that offers job opportunities to freshly graduated physicians. I'm very much excited for the new stage of my career where I can see more modes of management and experience a much broader group of the medical field.

meschellejensen

First Grade Teacher

I have been teaching for eighteen years.  I took off eight years to be a stay at home mom (mother of two grown sons.)  I cannot imagine doing anything else!