The Occupation Thread
 

I know most everyone has it in their profile, but I saw the legal professionals thread and thought we should all post what we do for a living. I checked and didn't think there had been one recently. Also if you are in school, tell what your major is or what you want to be when you grow up. :cool: :cool:

Anyway-I'm a dental Assistant. I have been at the same dental office for about 9 years. I started when I was about 19 and have been loving it ever since. I'll save you all from the disgusting nature of my job-but...it IS my favorite part :o When I was a kid I always thought I'd be a Veterinarian, but the teeth thing stuck. Guess I have plan B if saliva starts to bother me :)

I was...
 

a QC/NDT (Quality Control/Non-Destructive Tech.) Technician until illness & stress put me on the shelf...Now I am a house-husband!

Recently I saw an ad for Halliburton Corp. needing QC/NDT techs., Some jobs require oversea travel to the Middle East...Uh, no thanks, I prefer to stay in USA, And preferably alive!

I am the local host for the NPR program All Things Considered. I do some daily reporting/stories on the side, but my main job is doing newscasts at the top and bottom of the hour, then filling in various breaks with weater, PSAs and underwriters.

I used to do more reporting, but ditched that when I moved to Colorado - so far I have to say I don't miss it much.

I enjoy my job a great deal and get paid to talk which is good. BUT I'm constantly worried about the future of radio, the future of NPR and all that jazz. There is a lot going on and it's somewhat scary - but I figure if it comes down to it I'll get a teaching certificate and be the journalism teacher in a middle or high school somewhere :p

Editor here.

[yawn.....]

^^^ I wish I was an editor.

My main work consists of dodging creditors. On the side I'm an admin and am in school, almost done, getting my paralegal degree. Doing hard law homework and stuff. :laugh:

Well... I have been a production operator at a pharmaceutical company for quite a while... and I loved it, but I can't work the hours anymore, so I do desk work for production. I just handle all of their paperwork, and keep 'em out of a bind. I'm getting ready to start school, but I really don't know what for. I'm getting my pre req's out of the way first. I really want to go for nursing, but work will pay for me to go and major in chemistry. Plus, I can't see taking a year off work to do my clinicals for nursing... so it's looking more and more like chemistry. HHHMMMMM??? What to do?

Right now I am working as a barista in a coffee house- I received my degree in Psychology in 2004 and am starting graduate school in 3 weeks :eek:. I'm getting my masters degree in Clinical Social Work and hope to be a therapist when it's all said and done. My main area of interest is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and working with adult survivors of incest and/or child abuse.

Why PTSD? I'm just curious. Did the subject spark your curiosity? I was diagnosed with that once.... Very interesting Jannie.

I really don't know where my attraction comes from. I was not molested or abused as a child (as far as I know)- I have just always had a really strong sense of empathy for people who are struggling with PTSD. It doesn't surprise me that you were diagnosed, Maria. :xoxo:

I'm also really interested in working with psychiatric disorders- schizophrenia, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Bi-Polar, etc.

I think that's neat. Not that people have to live with those disorders, but that's what you want to do in life is to help them. When I went through all my "stuff" my therapy was worth every penny. They help you move right along...

i drink. i mean... i teach. tomorrow is the first day for students and i'm almost drunk. i mean... ready. :wavey:

Omigod - if you are a chem major, I will have to bow to you. I'll send you donuts or something - because that would be really hard. Are you good at that stuff?!
Seriously - if you've been out of school for this long and go major in Chem, and do well, I will call you a genius. I love math and science girls. Go kick some ass, Maria! :laugh:

I'm an Administrative Assistant
 

& have been at my current job since 1992. It has it good & bad days like most jobs. Monday is definitely never a good day, so needless to say, today was a very bad day. :lol: And of course Friday is the best day. :thumbsup:

Lee :)

paralegal, that's me

(n.) - the real power of attorney

Im an part time assistant manager at a music store 2 days a week, and I study communication 5 days a week at college :)

:lol: :lol:
Niiiiiice. Inside paralegal joke, right? :D

What is it with law and singing? Strand? It's cause law takes the big brain, right? Lol.

I work at a major record company, in the boring part. I coordinate our coop advertising with a couple of the major chains and all of our small Midwestern accounts. It's depressing to help funnel millions of dollars for utterly pointless reasons, but I love my job and I love the environment- my coworkers are great, it's terribly casual, and free CDs.

I am a Sound Producer for multimedia, and have been working mostly for an educational software company for the last 7 years. I cast, direct, record, and edit voice overs, and sometimes I do the voice over work. The content is incredibly boring, and therefore so is the editing.
Sometime, I get to do foley sound and mixing for little animations we have in the games. I have the most fun with that. When I worked in the office full time, I was also in charge of the music for the products, but I am part-time now. Recently I have been recording interviews and speeches for the company, to be turned into informational Cds and podcasts.
Deanna, I always wanted to work in radio (lifelong radio junkie—especially public radio—from a family of radio junkies) even though I have a friend who works in public radio, and she thinks my envy is unwarranted.

david, i'd love to be an editor, so i don't find that boring at all.

well, i WAS a full-time student, till i got kicked out. now i work in a restaurant. ugh.

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: I know the feeling.

Well, I work in Social Services but Im a Paralegal as well. Ive got 3 degrees, one in Political Science, one in Administration of Justice and one in Fashion Merchandising :eek: I'd like to go for my Master's Degree in Social Work but thats a year or two away...my area of concern will be child molest/abuse also domestic violence.

i have run my own childcare service open 60 hrs a week for the past 7 yrs~ i always like to say babies are my business & business is good:nod: ~ i live by a HUGE airforce base & 95% of my babies come from there, alot of childcare's won't take newborn's so i specialize in that, i have ean early childhood development degree & i have had kids here being cared for by me from birth till they go off to school or their parents get deployed~ which can be heartbreaking when they move on, but i found that if you love kids it is a great business, the little ones show their thankfulness by loving you & trusting you & hey how can i go wrong, people are gonna keep having babies~

i have had 2 sad things in my daycare tho, i took care of this sweet little boy named mason, who died of lukeimia (*sp) when he was 3~ & i also watched a little girl named emma who at 10 months her father shook her, her shook her & then brought her to my house & the after effects, seizures & stuff started happening at my home, omg, talk about horrible~ her father admitted what he did & was serving time last i heard:mad: ~ what an idiot~

We'll see. I'm a little nervous about it. I was pretty good at it in high school. I know this will be totally different. Firstly, I could get an Associates in Biotechnology, but that only opens me up to a lab position as a lab tech. If I kept on going with a bacchelors in Chemistry, then I could be a scientist in the labs. They make a considerable amount of money. In all honesty, I'm not doing it for the money, I just want some more stability in my job and position.

Assistant editorial writer for a mid-sized daily newspaper.

Registered nurse. I worked for 5 years with profoundly developmentally disabled patients, then 4 year in psych - with teenage girls. :shocked:

For the last 3 years, I've been working for NY state at a college health center. I love my job. It doesn't pay as well as a hospital would, but I hate hospitals. :p

That is awesome! I didn't know that.

I'm a supervisor at a healthcare billing office. I get to tell people what to do and be the big bad auditor for about a dozen people.

Also awesome. I love nurses with every fiber of my being. I learned during my partner's illness that they are the ones who truly provide the care, not to mention emotional support to patient and loved ones.

I'm a teacher. I taught fourth grade all subjects for eight years, and I have taught science lab for second through eighth grades for the past two years. We started school on Thursday last week, and we had students starting last Friday. It seems like we start back earlier and earlier. We are now just a week and a half off of year around schooling, but of course, our central office isn't talking about this! :mad:

I work at a nursing home right now. I hope to be a teacher some day. :)

Unwarranted!?! I LOVE working in public radio - if something bad happens and it's no more - I will, under no circumstances, work in commercial radio..I've become a snob. And I worked in commercial radio for a bit and hated it with every fiber of my being.

Where does your friend in public radio work - it's a small world public radio! But some stations are better than others in terms of the people and practices, I've just been very very lucky to work at three top-notch (ok 2 top-notch, 1 just mid-notch) public radio stations.

:D Yep - I've been working in public radio for about 5 years now - started as a student reporter in college and then Interned at NPR in DC - then started at member stations. I LOVE it - and once 3pm hits here time flies - I do 4 hours of ATC then I local host Fresh Air as well - 'tis a ton of fun!

You, sir, are a very wise man. :cool: That's why I became a nurse. No offense to doctors (hi Brad!) because without them & their knowledge I couldn't do my job. BUT - too many of them forget that without nurses, they couldn't do their jobs either. And too many focus on treating the ailment instead of treating the patient. The bond I've formed with patients is amazing.

my aunt is a nurse and she says the same thing. it's a very rewarding job, even if it's terribly sad sometimes too. I can remember going to lunch with several of her elderly patients (she's a home-health nursing supervisor) that she had formed close bonds with...they were always so grateful and nice and welcoming.

My job is kind of hard to describe, but basically I advocate on AIDS funding and legislative issues and I organize people to be their own advocates. I'm starting to broaden, though, and advocate on health programs like Medicaid that help people beyond those living with HIV/AIDS.

It isn't, really. It's just that I've been doing it for so long. I think I'd like to retire!

I love 'em too...
 

since my 'better other half" Deb is a nurse (Med search-She also works in the ICU/ER/OB), my older sister Lesa is a nurse and one of the very few people I call friend (Kelli) is also a nurse.

Sadly Oklahoma, As is the rest of the US, is in the middle of the worse nursing shortage on record.

To change the topic a tad, I was watching TV when I noticed that a few of my fellow NDT tech's are the ones responsible for noticing the corrosion in the BP pipeline in Alaska. They discovered the corrision & cracks by using ultrasonics & radiographic scans of the pipeline...Good work guys.

She works in SF, for noth of the NPR stations, but is freelance. I should have said that she thinks my envy of the radio work is unwarranted, not specifically public radio. I think the low pay has her disillusioned. She and I were working in bars and restaurants 10 years ago, and I think she has forgotten what a grind that was!
Radio is magic. Turning the dial, or searching for an internet station is like wandering through the stacks of the library. I have been hooked ever since my first crystal radio set, in third grade.
"There's somethin' about your voice - coming out of the night, out of the light, out of the sky, out of the ground - over airwaves comes your voice, on a little Atwater Kent Radio."
------Sam Phillips

I am an Imaging Service Associate at my local hospital in the radiology department. I hope to be a teacher one day as well.

I am a Senior Real Estate Note buyer ~ this month is my 8 year anniversary ;)