What does everyone do?

Hi,

I am 29 yrs old, and been married for 6 yrs. I am a mom to 3 boys. My step son is 10, and my boys are 5 and 2. They keep me busy.

I am a part time Nanny for a great family. I went to school for teaching, but never found work. I actually think I get paid better doing what I am doing now, and I love my job. I love getting up in the morning and going to work. So that's a bonus, not many people can say that.

I'm from pittsburgh, pa, I have lived here all my life. I want to move south someday, but not until my boys are older, my whole family is from around here and they are my/our support system.

Hi there! I'm 32 and a Stay at Home Mom of 2. Dylan is 3.5 and Emily just turned 2 in December. I live way out in the country in Ontario Canada.
I was a Adminstrative assistant for 5 years then a Greenhouse worker when I discovered that sitting at a desk was not for me! I love flowers so working at the Greenhouse was fun. My current job is really all I've ever wanted to do so I'm right where I want to be

I don't post much but have been on the site for a while now and had good luck with it.

Nice to meet you too.

It is very fortunate. Prior to studying Metaphysics I worked in corporate security for the oldest retail company in Canada in logistics. I studied Loss Prevention, post secondary and worked in the industry for more than 10 years. I was laid off in 2009 and orginally planned on applying to our Police Services. I trained for the test and one day decided it wasn't for me at which time I made the incredible leap to metaphysics. Quite the change however, so very worth it.

It's great to have the freedom of choice.

I am a 47 y/o mom of 6. I was a full time mom for 12 years till my youngest started school and I had to go to work or go insane :laugh: I have the good fortune to be married to a fantastic guy. I am a home care provider to a 60 y/o stroke patient that I care for 8 1/2 hours a day 5 days a week. I love to ride my motorcycle,read,cook and work out.

It is great to meet you all.

I am a 47 married woman who works for a High School here in Ohio and I am the school registrar. I've worked there 27 years so sit on my rear most of the day. I have two young girls 10 and 8.

I have slowly put on weight over the past 10 years and at my all time high. I had foot surgery last year so was off any exercise for a while. Then I started doing Zumba in July of 2010, but was not tracking my food intake so I was unsuccessful at any weight loss. In October of 2010 I was dx with Colon cancer and had a colon resection in November and have been battling an intestine infection since then. I have started back to my Zumba classes and then I get the infection back and everything comes to a screaching halt. I own horses which is my passion and I so want to get back to riding and having energy to do the things I love.

Sheryl

Heya,

I'm 23 years old, probably the only single gal in this thread. lol I'm studying Dentistry in Louisville, Kentucky, it's my second semester. I noticed you are going to do dentistry in London! That's awesome! Before moving to America some 11 years ago, we used to live in Ireland so we frequented London often.

Hobbies: music, travel, writing, reading, electronics ...I'm your every day nerd. Hah!

Welcome to MFP!

Ours normal course is 4 years. Some universities offer 3 year accelerated courses and they keep threatening us to make it five years but thus far, US dental schools are all four years. That's pretty amazing that you get to complete it in 3!

I love it so far. First two years are predominantly science-heavy and a lot of book work. I completed dental hygiene beforehand, however, so I have a good idea of how it is in a dental office and how to deal with patients. It's very tough, I won't lie, but I'm told repeatedly that it will be rewarding. lol

What about you? How are you finding it?

I am a 41 y/o mother of 3 boys. 22, 20 & 12. 1 college graduate, 1 pretty close and 1 that swears the dog ate his homework yesterday although we don't even have a dog! My 20 year old son joined the local gym with me and he is my accountability-buddy. When I am not motivated he makes sure that I go. While being supportive he has gained great results as well and I am really proud of his ability to motivate me and also benefit himself. They are amazing kids and my biggest and best achievement.

I adore my husband and he is my best friend and super supportive as well. He has totally changed his eating habits to be supportive and has been great sport learning about wheat berries, TVP and of other things that I'm sure he really could care less.

I gained weight when my husband and I both lost our high paying corporate jobs a couple of years ago and the financial stress was just so overwhelming I crawled in my bed, turned out the lights and wanted to just vanish. We have not been able to replace those types of jobs in our market and have had to make many changes and sacrifice’s like all families have. Most importantly we're still together and still love each other. Once I started to let go of the anger, the past and the financial trappings we were held in things started to get better.

I am now an Unemployment Auditor in the state with the highest unemployment in the whole nation at 14.5%. The job can be so depressing because there are no jobs for people but I try to bring a positive, calming influence and make certain that I can get them other available resources. I'm glad that I have been where they are because I otherwise couldn't be as empathetic as I am.

Life has been really hard the last 3-4 years but one of things that has given me some control back is taking care of the physical and emotional me.

I'm still doing my biomedical science degree at the moment which is soooo dull but its a good course to do if you're wanting to do medicine/dentistry as the course get reduced by about 1/2 years because you already have a grounding in medical knowledge...so you go straight into the clinical stuff rather than having to do the book work again.

I have exams in like 4 weeks so i'm studying at the moment.
So to do dentistry in american do you have to have another degree first? ie you had dental hygiene

Ah I see. I think people can do that here as well but I'm really not sure because I never looked into it. I just know that my last dentist completed his course in 3 years so he must've done something prior to getting into dental school. And I also know that a colleague of mine took some dental courses during her Masters program and she doesn't have to take some of our classes, but she'll graduate the same as the rest of us so it's really not getting shortened.

And yes, before getting into dental school here, you need to have a bachelors degree in something and to have done the dental school pre-reqs. Education is a business in USA, unfortunately, but at the same time, all knowledge is worth having so I'm really not complaining too much about the extra four years I had to spend. lol Normally, people do bachelors in bio science before getting into medical or dental school here, I did dental hygiene so that, in case I didn't get into dental school, I would have a back up plan.

P.S: I'm going to add ya now. lol

Lol thank you!

yeah although its not a requirement here to do a degree before dental school its becoming more and more popular as the places for dental school and medical school are ridiculously competitive now .(about 40 applicants for every place at uni) so atleast the grad programs are exclusively for the graduates and you dont have compete with the school leavers as they can only apply for the 5 year courses. Part of me wishes i had applied straight out of school, but i hadnt made up my mind so i suppose i cant begrudge spending three years doing biomed as I didnt know what i wanted to do in the first place!

Unfortunately University is becoming more and more like a bussiness here with our new government. At first university was free and paid for by the state, then it was £1500 per year (cheap) now im paying £3300 per year and next year its going up to £9000 a year, i dont know how students will be able to afford it. its crazy. Especially when we have some really pointless degrees, if the gov't got rid of those they would have more money and wouldnt have to increase the fees. Seems obvious to me...who needs a degree in surfing anyway? lol seriously...there is a british uni that offers a degree in surfing!

A degree in surfing?!?! What?! That's hilarious!! We have degrees in landscaping here, I didn't know one needed to go to school for four years to learn how to landscape. What's next? A degree in kite flying?

And you're absolutely right about the prices being insane. You speak about 9000 Pounds Sterling which may be $18000 or less. Per anum, I have to pay $61,000 for school here which doesn't include cost of living or books. And this is one of the government funded, state schools. Another university that I interviewed at was asking for $80,000. Can you imagine? The debt upon the average student is about the price of a 4-bedroom house in a pretty nice neighborhood close to a big city + a new toyota or something; that's just simply ridiculous, don't you think?

And competition is rather insane here as well, especially for dental school. When I applied through the online application site, it showed 54 dental schools in all of USA...we have 50 states total. The state of Utah has no dental school period. For my class, there were 120 seats available and 3,500 applicants. The competition is mind-boggling.

Good for you!!! I love the fact that you are treating yourself and still being middful. You gave one of the hardest jobs in the world. Thank you for being a teacher.