What do you do?

[Kona Lovers]

DW and I are both school teachers.

 

[RDB]

Retired Videographer/Electronics Technician.

Details may be found in my RESUME under tripwest of my signature, below.

 

[MelBay]

Try not to go to sleep before you finish reading this. I work for an employee benefits consulting & actuarial firm. My title is "Knowledge Coordinator". I manage the intellectual capital generated by our consultants and catalog it so our consultants can (hopefully) find it and benefit from someone else's invention of the wheel. I'm sort of an online electronic librarian, but it's a little more complicated than that. The best part is I get to work from home. We have offices all over the country (world, actually) and since I work with everyone everywhere, it doesn't much matter where I physically sit.

I've been with this company since 1984. I was a paralegal until six years ago, when I was lucky enough to land this gig. I hope to make it another 18 months so I can at least consider my early retirement options.

Great thread!

 

[luvsvacation22]

I invented the internet.

:hysterical: Too funny! Thanks for the laugh!

 

[Pens_Fan]

Well, I had a little help from Al Gore.

I thought that you were Al Gore.

I work as a systems engineer for a large defence contractor.

Specifically, I work on military radar systems.

 

[Don]

Wow, There's a lot of people here with some really high tone jobs. I was strictly blue collar.
At 19 1/2 I started an electrician apprenticeship at the naval shipyard in Portsmouth, VA. After graduating and working a year on the ships, I got a "position promotion". I left the ships and started working in the "Amplifier Repair" shop. Here we repaired shipboard IC equipment like: intercoms, telephone systems, tank level systems, and air quality systems for submarines to name a few.
In 1982, I got a real promotion and went to work in the shipyard's public work department where I worked on and with a computerized environmental control system. We wrote control programs for the computer and programmed chips to allow for stand alone capabilities in each building to control the heating and AC. We installed and repaired all of the equipment for this system including making hardware repairs to the mainframe.
Later, a computerized electrical and steam distribution control system was added in the shipyard. And still later a computerized steam monitoring system was added to our responsibilities at Naval Base, Norfolk.
I retired in 1999 and moved to FL in 2000.

 

[pianodinosaur]

Wow, There's a lot of people here with some really high tone jobs. I was strictly blue collar.
At 19 1/2 I started an electrician apprenticeship at the naval shipyard in Portsmouth, VA. After graduating and working a year on the ships, I got a "position promotion". I left the ships and started working in the "Amplifier Repair" shop. Here we repaired shipboard IC equipment like: intercoms, telephone systems, tank level systems, and air quality systems for submarines to name a few.
In 1982, I got a real promotion and went to work in the shipyard's public work department where I worked on and with a computerized environmental control system. We wrote control programs for the computer and programmed chips to allow for stand alone capabilities in each building to control the heating and AC. We installed and repaired all of the equipment for this system including making hardware repairs to the mainframe.
Later, a computerized electrical and steam distribution control system was added in the shipyard. And still later a computerized steam monitoring system was added to our responsibilities at Naval Base, Norfolk.
I retired in 1999 and moved to FL in 2000.

I have worked moving crates in factory, cleaning bathrooms in a department store, and washing dishes in a cafeteria. That is how I got through college. Upon graduating college, the USAF put me through medical school.

 

[heathpack]

I have worked moving crates in factory, cleaning bathrooms in a department store, and washing dishes in a cafeteria. That is how I got through college. Upon graduating college, the USAF put me through medical school.

Haha. Yes, I left out my more glamorous jobs. My first job in veterinary medicine was cleaning kennels, but worse yet the CATTERY! It was a very big deal at the practice to work your way up to the point where you would be allowed to give a dog a pill. Also worked as a farm hand, cleaning horse and goat stalls, milking goats, and feeding goats, calves, cattle, sheep and horses. And no matter how fluffy hay looks, bales are actually seriously heavy. It is also a little known fact that goats are smart and funny, while sheep are dumb and stinky.

In high school, I worked as the dining room girl in a nursing home, slinging 6 varieties of pudding on any given day. That was a great character-building type of job- the type that teaches you to be very kind and patient.

One summer during college I worked for a defense contractor troubleshooting why one specific part of a radar system did not work (yet all parts had passed inspection at every step of production). The answer turned out to be simple, interesting and frustrating all at the same time.

What a great thread this has turned out to be.

H

 

[Rose Pink]

I thought that you were Al Gore.

DH will be very surprised when he finds out.:hysterical:

 

[susieq]

My first full-time job was at John Hancock where I moved around from death claims ....

My first job after High School was also in the Death Benefits Division at John Hancock. Real interesting work!! ~ NOT!! I left there when DH & I were married...........

I served almost 2 years in Germany.........
Jim Ricks

Then we moved to Germany, Nelligan to be exact (outside Stuttgart), compliments of Uncle Sam. Our oldest Daughter was born over there. When the kids were all in Jr. High, I went back to work part time in the bookstore at Dean (local college) and put myself through school part time there. I have a degree in Computer Science (for all the good it does me!) I've worked as a Dispatcher/Biller/Office Manager and Chief Scapegoat for a local trucking company for the past 16 years.

The best part of my job is that I get to tell the guys where to go and how to get there all day long!!:whoopie:

 

[geekette]

Try not to go to sleep before you finish reading this. I work for an employee benefits consulting & actuarial firm. My title is "Knowledge Coordinator". I manage the intellectual capital generated by our consultants and catalog it so our consultants can (hopefully) find it and benefit from someone else's invention of the wheel. I'm sort of an online electronic librarian, but it's a little more complicated than that. The best part is I get to work from home. We have offices all over the country (world, actually) and since I work with everyone everywhere, it doesn't much matter where I physically sit.

I've been with this company since 1984. I was a paralegal until six years ago, when I was lucky enough to land this gig. I hope to make it another 18 months so I can at least consider my early retirement options.

Great thread!

It sounds fascinating, actually, and I really love your title!

 

[pjrose]

Job history....

Prior to Professing and Computing, I worked as a college cafeteria dishwasher, campus security dispatcher, "girl friday," and auto mechanic (more specifically, I did front ends - and I heard "hey baby, wanna line up my front end?" more than a few times ). It was after that last one that I decided to apply to grad school.

I guess like a lot of TUGgers I paid my dues on some less desirable jobs!

 

[geekette]

yeah, I've had my share of jobs but only one career.

Baby sitting and lifeguarding from the time I was old enuf, atheletic facility supervisor, Rax, head chef at canoe outfitter camp, dorm cafeteria, kitchen staff for nice restaurant, retail, 2nd shift fuel coordinator for trucking company, radio ad sales, resume writer, ...

Glad I finally found my groove.

 

[vacationhopeful]

Don't know which of the jobs I have had, that I had the most fun at.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

I run a telephone handset sanitizing business. I go into people's homes and offices and wipe down the mouthpieces and earpieces with disinfectant wipes. With the growth of cell phones, I think I need a new business plan. Maybe I'll go on tour.

 

[JudyH]

Who needs handset sanitizers? Things that don't kill you make you stronger.

I am a child psychologist. I have a home office, and I share an office with two pediatricians. I see children and teenagers for all kinds of issues. I have been working with children since 1969. All of my degrees after my BA in English got paid by the agencies where I worked. Sometimes the clients drive me crazy, sometimes it is very rewarding. This past year, I had 5 teens that I saw off and on their whole lives graduate high school and go on to college. These were kids with major LD, deceased parents, and in lousy schools. I am so proud of them

If I went to law school, it would be to become a special education lawyer and advocate.

 

[hvacrsteve]

When I was 12 I was cutting grass, digging ditches and had 3 paper routes in my spare time!
Then by 14 I was helping my auto mechanic neighbor repair cars and the body man down the street repair dents.
I also learned how to engrave placards!
I alos loaded loaded watermelon trucks in the summer along with plowing fields on the farm.
I fished in my spare time.
I worked at three different restuarants to put myself through school. I did every job in a restuarant there was.

I paid my dues and have had no loans or any help from my family.
I paid for it all myself.
I recieved one scholarship but that was it.
I never had time to spend any money and basically got to eat at all my jobs for free.
I had a plan and worked my plan.

 

[laurac260]

My husband has a small carpet cleaning business in receivership; and I'm drawing a salary from a deferred bonus from two years ago. We've got fifteen thousand left on the house at eight percent.

 

[sfwilshire]

Most of my last 23 years have been in low level management type jobs with a technical side. Operations, but working closely with the Engineering groups to test software and systems, plan enhancements and develop implementation plans. Lots of internal customer support. Prior to that, I taught electronics briefly for a community college and worked 12 years in radio.

DH is a farmer, musician, Mr Mom.

Sheila

 

[Hawaiibarb]

Another RN

School: Johns Hopkins for basic nursing, Hunter College (in New York City) for my BS, then University of Colorado for my MS, then went back there to their Nurse practitioner program.

I've taught, had several management positions in nursing, both in acute and long term care. But now I am an Advanced PRactice Registered Nurse, and as such, I am the Clinical Nurse Specialist in Geriatrics and a Geriatric Nurse Practitioner for a large hospital in Honolulu.

 

[RDB]

Not that it matters much, but I have been wondering if anyone bothered to read the RESUME (post #102)?

 

[DeniseM]

Not that it matters much, but I have been wondering if anyone bothered to read the RESUME (post #102)?

Yes, it's, uhhhh, very, uhhh, long....

 

[sfwilshire]

I spent 35 years in the motion picture business as a property master

My dream job. Either that or I want the guy's job who buys all the stuff for Cracker Barrel stores. Or the fellows' on the tv show about picking antiques.

Sheila

 

[Don]

Haha. Yes, I left out my more glamorous jobs. My first job in veterinary medicine was cleaning kennels, but worse yet the CATTERY! It was a very big deal at the practice to work your way up to the point where you would be allowed to give a dog a pill. Also worked as a farm hand, cleaning horse and goat stalls, milking goats, and feeding goats, calves, cattle, sheep and horses. And no matter how fluffy hay looks, bales are actually seriously heavy. It is also a little known fact that goats are smart and funny, while sheep are dumb and stinky.

In high school, I worked as the dining room girl in a nursing home, slinging 6 varieties of pudding on any given day. That was a great character-building type of job- the type that teaches you to be very kind and patient.

One summer during college I worked for a defense contractor troubleshooting why one specific part of a radar system did not work (yet all parts had passed inspection at every step of production). The answer turned out to be simple, interesting and frustrating all at the same time.

What a great thread this has turned out to be.

H

I, too, left out my teen age jobs. At 16 I worked for a summer as a movie theater usher. The next summer I started working as a stock boy at a local pharmacy, that lasted a year. In Dec. I worked for three days at a new KFC cooking chicken. Three days was all I could take. A couple of months later, I was selling shoes at Thom McAn (which was next door to the KFC).
Overlapping this, I had an apprenticeship making orthopedic appliances; leg braces, back braces, etc. When I got the job in the shipyard, I stopped in to give my notice to quit and I was told not to come back except to pick up my pay check, so I guess I was technically fired.

 

[LUVourMarriotts]

My teen jobs were mostly fun. When I was 16 I worked at a nursery (plants not kids) and was a grunt. I did everything like unloading trucks, sales, watering, cleaning, loading customer cars, wrapping christmas trees, loading christmas trees onto cars (I learned quickly to put the top backwards because my first one flew off the car about 100 feet down the road ). Then at 17, I worked at a horse racing track on the maintenance crew. We swept up all the losing tickets between races, waxed the floors on off days, fixed broken seats, cleaned the disgusting jockeys locker room, etc. I worked in a restaurant as a dishwasher and occasional cooks helper. I delivered pizza for Pizza Hut during my college summers. Made some pretty good money doing that.