What do you do for a living?

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  • MirandaJayne
    MirandaJayne Posts: 600 Member
    I do computer networking for the Air Force....Has its ups and downs, either Im busy or not, and Im usually on here which tells you that Im not...

    LOL the air force - it has it's ups and downs hehehe

    I too have my diploma in Child and Youth Work, and I have 3 jobs, one part time at a group home for teens, one part time supervising parents court ordered access to their children (they don't have custody of their kids and one full time as a case coordinator for Big Brothers Big Sisters.
  • Chantelle160
    Chantelle160 Posts: 127
    I'm an Admin. Assistant so I sit pretty much all day at a computer. I don't find it to hard, I don't even want to eat the snacks they bring in for birthdays. I just tell myself it's all willpower. How bad do I want it and then I'm fine. lol. That donut isn't giving you anything good. Sometimes it's slow so I get bored so I just drink tea and that seems to help.
  • SageGoddess320
    SageGoddess320 Posts: 2,589 Member
    I work in the office at a car dealership (payroll/accounting). I pack my lunch and snacks just about every day. My co-workers are always bringing in cookies, cakes and other assorted junk and getting angry with me for not stuffing my face right along with them. They order pizza or pick up fast food for their lunch on a daily basis and always complain that they need to lose weight :grumble:
  • imagymrat
    imagymrat Posts: 862 Member
    I deliver mail for Canada Post, I have a walking route, takes me nearly 6 hours to complete, great exercise! I'm done by 1p.m and then I teach step, power flex, step n flex, zumba, sculpt, cardio groove, core 1000 and spin at our local health club, 5 evenings a week and saturday mornings.
  • StephanieJ82
    StephanieJ82 Posts: 233
    I sit all day at a desk entering orders. That part I hate. I wish I could walk around or something. But I actually find it easier to stick with my diet at work. I have my shake before work. Then on my first 15 min I eat an apple. At lunch I Have usually a big salad. then on my next 15 I have a yogurt with bran buds. So the week is very organized and easy to follow. It's the weekends that kill me.
    Also tomorrow is our staff meeting and the company usually orders pizza or Chinese. So instead I am going to pick up a California roll...
  • themethod
    themethod Posts: 257
    I work at a very small boutique dealership that does the high-end stuff, so I'm often out of the office delivering cars or picking up cars, meeting with clients, etc. And even though we don't keep food on site normally, every time I stop at a gas station the snack aisle calls to me. I'm one of the few females who does my exact job in my very health conscious city (even though it's a rather large industry) so there's a lot of pressure to look a certain way, especially since almost all of our clients are male. My problem the last few months has been being too hard on myself as my boss and co-workers think that having the cute skinny girl in the office is a lot better for business than having the nice, sweet "thick" girl. Who wants to buy a $150,000 car from the place with the chubster when they can go down the street to the place that hires tan, blonde bikini models as their receptionists?

    Also, I'm currently looking for a new job in a different industry. LOL :laugh:
  • doughd2
    doughd2 Posts: 86 Member
    I'm an engineer at a consulting firm.. when I'm in the office, there's always some kind of bagels, cookies, leftover sandwhiches and salads, chips, and everything else that people leave on the counter. When I'm working on construction sites.. some of the guys I've worked with like pizza. It's tough say no thanks when you've got 10 guys chowing down on a stack of 8 pizzas and wings. :laugh:
  • RJursik
    RJursik Posts: 13
    I research insurance claims for a medical office. It's a very small office - I'm only one of six who work here - and there is a fridge and a microwave. Fortunately, most everyone else leaves for lunch so the fridge in usually filled with assorted staples like half & half or condiments, nothing that could really threaten a diet. I keep some of my own foods on hand so I don't pay any attention to what other people bring.
  • toots99
    toots99 Posts: 3,794 Member
    I'm a waitress at a gourmet pizza restaurant. It's so hard to resist temptation! Especially since when an order gets messed up, it's free pizza time for employees! I bring my own food for dinner though, and eat during my shift. And I've gotten in the habit of saying "No thanks" when co-workers want to share a pizza...they also get the hint now and hardly ask me.
  • lvfunandfit
    lvfunandfit Posts: 654 Member
    I'm a middle school computer teacher. I walk around the classroom non stop and sit at a computer for part of the day. I'm good about bringing my own lunch and snacks. I avoid the vending machine and treats that people bring in (almost daily) to the teacher's lounge.
  • jw17695
    jw17695 Posts: 438 Member
    I'm a preschool teacher. I'm on the move all the time. We aren't like most other day cares. My students transition classrooms every half an hour. I NEVER sit. The food situation is awful though. No outside food so I have to eat the food the kids do. I'm sorry but
    I cannot survive on smiley fries and mystery meat. :(
  • MissingMinnesota
    MissingMinnesota Posts: 7,486 Member
    I am a mortgage underwriter so I am also sitting at my computer about 10 hours a day. Every little holiday we will get a "care package" from one of the loan officers that is full of candy and cupcakes and it always gets placed by my cube since I have an empty cube behind me. I know that is going to be ending soon at least since we are realining and won't be servicing that office any more. The thing that annoys me at my office is that people think the fridges in the break room are their own personal one and will fill up one of the drawers with their yogurt or bring in whole bottles of dressing so people like me that only bring the food they are going to eat that day have a hard time finding a place to put my food. One time I saw a whole 12 pack of coke in there.
  • spomaney
    spomaney Posts: 28 Member
    I'm a recruiter/admissions counselor for a university. There really isn't a normal day for me. I can spend a day at my desk, on the road, or at a school...I guess when you think about it, I'm sitting down most of the day lol.
    I get attacked on the food front on both sides. During our heavy traveling season the schools that we visit usually provide food (which can range from catered, to home-ed dishes). We all tend to gain weight during tjose months. In the office we're always doing some kind of potluck or eating at the university club (calorie central).
    I've been really good the past few months by bringin my own low-cal lunch and a 100 cal snack during my office days, and either arriving a little late or leaving early from my school visits (just in time to "accidentally" miss the buffet line lol).
  • JJ8277
    JJ8277 Posts: 1
    Im a Nightclub manager. Calorie filled beverages always available with a club full of men that want to buy them for me.
  • Dburroughs
    Dburroughs Posts: 17
    I'm a Trainee Public Health Engineer and i work for a consulting Engineering Company in Suffolk. The guys in the Office are always buying treats, cakes, pizzas etc every other day. So i have a mean job of trying ever so hard not to binge on these bad foods!! beleive me its hard work, but some how i manage to do it. Every morning i prepare my lunch, either mackerel salads, tuna sandwhiches, chicken breasts and baked potatoes, soup when the weather is bad. I have a protein shake every morning with my breakfast if i have oats, on the other hand some days i eat 3 scrambeled eggs oon toast and therefore enough protein in that meal, then i will have my protein shake for my midmorning snack instead. i bring another protein shake (not mixed) with me to work so i can drink it for my mid afternoon snack, or straight after my lunch time gym session if i have time at work to do so.These shakes prevent me from binging on the snacks the other guys bring into the office. My draw at work is fall on mixed fruit and nut, apples and bananas so if i do get the urge of some snack i snack on these. Plenty of water is taken on board, i find this fills me up some ways, and of course it help with diggestion and flushes my system out through out the day. I keep coffe and tea to a minimum, but its hard when my colleagues are making tea every half an hour!!! lol
  • ericac
    ericac Posts: 2,679
    Certified and Texas registered Dental Assistant at a Veterans Administration hospital......Giving back to our vets and LOVE my job!!
  • dmags
    dmags Posts: 303
    I am a teacher. I find it is easier to stay on track at school, simply because I am on such a strict schedule. I eat lunch the same time every day, and I have my snacks when the bell rings. (not every bell!) When I am home, I don't have a bell or intercom to tell me when do stuff, so it is definately harder.
  • catherine1979
    catherine1979 Posts: 704 Member
    I work for the transplant program at my local hospital. My job title is tissue banking specialist. I screen donors, recover donor tissues and organs, and do other things like determine suitability for transplant. I love it, most of the people in my office are very health conscious, so it's really motivating me to do better.
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