What do you guys do for a living?

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  • foodintent
    foodintent Posts: 12 Member
    I work in a test kitchen for a major food company. It's a pretty cool job that a lot of people don't know about (the Food Science field).
  • MelisRunning
    MelisRunning Posts: 819 Member
    I am a homemaker. I cook and clean and then clean and cook. When I am not doing that, I am a runner. My life is full and happy!
  • Jennloella
    Jennloella Posts: 2,286 Member
    makeup artist. love it. Have an animal science degree I haven't used in 12 years and a business degree I will probably never use because I have no intention of ever going into management, I just want to do makeup. On brides, on drag queens, on zombies I love it all.
  • SunKissed1989
    SunKissed1989 Posts: 1,314 Member
    I'm a part time sales associate at a department store called British Home Stores (BHS)

    I'm also studying for a postgraduate diploma in Speech & Language Therapy which will be my career one day though :smile:
  • joanne70
    joanne70 Posts: 68 Member
    Accounts manager for a well known furniture company in England :wink:
  • Eeyores
    Eeyores Posts: 19 Member
    I am an STNA for home health care. Very rewarding but not much money... Next month I start a class for administrative medical office.. But i will work evenings while going to school.... hopefully that will be less time to get the munchies.. : )
  • Speech Language Pathologist (almost).

    I am in my last stretch of my Master's degree. I work full time as a licensed Speech Pathology Assistant and do grad school at the same time. :) It's a lot of work but I absolutely LOVE my field! So that helps.
  • I'm a part time sales associate at a department store called British Home Stores (BHS)

    I'm also studying for a postgraduate diploma in Speech & Language Therapy which will be my career one day though :smile:

    I'm in speech too! Just posted about it lol I love running into other speechies. :)
  • marcia724
    marcia724 Posts: 180 Member
    I'm an artist! Acrylic and crafty fun. I work out of my home. <3
  • ARHiker
    ARHiker Posts: 5 Member
    I am an emergency room nurse.
  • DMW914
    DMW914 Posts: 368 Member
    I'm the Administrative Assistant for the Crisis Intervention Services/Addictions & Mental Health within a Hospital. I like my job but the pay is crappy. I used to be a stylist at a salon but I don't like standing that long anymore.
  • Restybaby2012
    Restybaby2012 Posts: 568 Member
    Investigator....Fraud and Abuse....

    14 years of looking forward to going to work every day.
  • MandaJean83
    MandaJean83 Posts: 675 Member
    I'm a registered nurse working in oncology! Super rewarding job, but very stressful at times!
  • RunnerInVT
    RunnerInVT Posts: 226 Member
    I have a background in Teaching...nursing...have been a bartender...waitress...dental assistant ...gas station attendent ...nutrition assistant ...cashier ..worked in a bakery ....housekeeping....bookkeeper at college ....library para educator....licensed cosmetologist and I owned a salon and worked in a female prison cutting hair for years....I attended 4 different colleges during my life so far. You dont have to pick one and think that's it. My 20 year old daughter is a licensed cosmetologist and just enrolled in nursing school.
  • Charmed285
    Charmed285 Posts: 189 Member
    I would like to know the same thing and add it would be awesome if someone also mentioned what career feild pays well so it's possble to support one self (rent, bills, everything) and stilll be able to have cash left over to pay off college debt.
  • Bakkasan
    Bakkasan Posts: 1,027 Member
    Im a datacenter administrator at a large utility and work from home. 15 years of slaving and now I have the best job in the world. On the couch in my underpants gettin *kitten* done LIKE A BOSS!
  • Jenny_Taylia
    Jenny_Taylia Posts: 540 Member
    Im a chauffeur, a teacher, a cook, a nurse, a maid, a hooker.....aw hell....Im a mom.
  • alaska11
    alaska11 Posts: 151
    I'm a bookkeeper and I love it. Wish I'd finished college and gotten my accounting degree. I just started my own home business. Slow start but looking forward to where it takes me.

    Good luck whatever you decide!
  • Ocarina
    Ocarina Posts: 1,550 Member
    I currently help a manager at a major university in the IT dpt with scheduling employees and accounting stuffs.

    It's very very fun! And super laid back.

    I'm also going to school to do Accounting... CPA eventually and hopefully land a job in a big corp as upper management! :bigsmile:
  • notmac
    notmac Posts: 89
    I am a Registered Nurse, for the past 24 years, in Women's Health. Have done Labor and Delivery, currently working in a NICU (neonatal intensive care unit). I love it, would not want to do anything else, except maybe retire, and just hang out with the family. Oh yeah, I am also a full time mother and wife, love that too, and would not trade it in, even to retire.
  • luvsbks
    luvsbks Posts: 51
    I work in a medical records dept for the state of ct
  • I am a makeup artist. I do makeup to weddings and parties. I also am a special effects makeup artist and do makeup for haunted houses this time of the year.
    I LOVE my job! Even when the some of the brides are crazy, I still love my job:) Special effects makeup is what I love most but I make more doing makeup for weddings and parties.
  • barbaramitchell101
    barbaramitchell101 Posts: 360 Member
    I am a 3rd Party Billing Specialist working at a TRIBAL mental health and substance abuse outpatient clinic in AZ...I have been in this position for almost 15 years...started at a decent rate, and have progressed to near the top of the scale, but usually you have to start at the bottom rate...I am responsible for billing for about 30 clinicians or staff members, and usually can't keep up, everyone is constantly bringing me more to do........so there is a lot of pressure all the time...but I love it, because I KNOW I'm important and have job security...I would't give it up for the world....I got my start 22 years ago billing for oxygen in the home, hospital bed rentals, etc...then went to mental health billing (non Tribal)...actually, I am self taught...I just was given the opportunity to try and made it happen...and still at it.....
  • kimothy38
    kimothy38 Posts: 840 Member
    I'm a nurse in the NICU. Wonderful job, but so mentally exhausting. Protecting babies and trying to be as honest as possible to parents without freaking them out is trying. I cannot imagine doing anything else.
    You deserve a huge pat on the back. Having been the parent of a very sick baby in NICU I can understand where you're coming from. You guys are amazing. I bought a thank you for the nurses when we got discharged.
  • gddrdld
    gddrdld Posts: 464 Member
    I have been a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist for the past 18 years and a Certified Diabetes Educator for the past 7 yrs...I am very passionate about what I do. I love inspiring my patients to improve their health through lifestyle changes. I work in a 2 hospital system, practising inpatient clinical nutrition with acutely ill patients and also run an outpatient medical nutr therapy and diabetes self-management program.

    I would only recommend this field to someone who is both passionate about nutrition and health and willing to go to school for a long time and continue to practise lifelong learning (ie: continuing education) and not make a whole lot of money. RD's are underpaid and the work can be stressful; especially in acute care.
  • babycakes1970
    babycakes1970 Posts: 111 Member
    I work with developementally challenged adults in a sheltered workshop setting. I would like to go to college next fall (at age almost 43 by then). I am seriously considering majoring in Occupational Therapy Assisting. I like my job. I do not have to work nights, weekends or major holidays but the pay is not good.

    I also have a severely autistic teenager and an eighteen year old with Aspergers Syndrome (High functioning Autism). So I am looking at eight or more years of college since I will have to go part time at least at first.
  • tdismydog
    tdismydog Posts: 42 Member
    jr high social studies teacher varsity football coach and basketball coach
  • I am a Zumba Instructor and a Advocare distributor. I just thank God I'm able to do something. ;0)
  • Small business owner (8 year-entrepreneur) of a hospitality staffing company (Diamond Hospitality Services, Inc., Conyers, GA)
    Half-time graduate student at Florida International University
    Future hotel owner
  • icjason
    icjason Posts: 27 Member
    I'm a psychotherapist who works primarily with people with no insurance, and usually substance abuse in tandem with mental illness.

    I've also been an IT manager / systems analyst / systems integration architect,
    A systems security consultant,
    A librarian,
    and a musician

    Ain't nothing wrong with having multiple careers -- life's an adventure!