What does everyone do for a living?

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I work in a bookstore here which is a very fun job and I love it most days
(Ugh christmas is coming up and everyone who works retail or has worked retail knows what that means :|)
 

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Time for a little thread necromancy!

*resurrects thread*

I help admin one of the most boring Forums in the free world. I also help our clients talk to each other, but the Forum is where I spend most of my time. We run vBulletin 3.6.2....with none of the fun stuff turned on. I can't even add custom smileys, or anything cool like that.

Now I want a drink! LOL

Dave
 

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I'm a land use planner for my county, working in the planning department. I review subdivision and land development plans, do site inspections, and attend numerous (and boring!) meetings. Most of the time, I do enjoy my job.
 

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I've been pretty much unemployed since September 2007. Thank god for odd jobs because I don't get
from unemployment!

I'm in the process of learning how to pour drinks and becoming a mobile bartender.
 

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I am now a paraprofessional, working with 22 five year olds everyday in a kindergarten class and I LOVE it!
 

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Such a great question!! We all come from different walks of life, from different parts of the world, and we come together because of our love of cats!! I just think that's neat!!. I am a server at a very popular restaurant in downtown Indianapolis. There is NEVER a dull moment at this little soap opera job of mine. VERY busy. VERY stressful. I must like it though, I've been there 13 years. The money is good. I've waited on alot of celebrities. I recently went on part time so I could spend more time with Bella.So if anybody ends up in Indy let me know. The food is really good and you're all welcomed
 

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How'd I miss this for so long?

I am a Family Court mediator - I try to help never-married and divorced couples with custody and parenting time issues. I also coordinate a few of the programs at our court. Never boring, often stressful (I hate it when people are so angry with each other they forget their kids!)
 

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Well, aside from being a law student (temporarily withdrawn for health reasons though, but I start again Fall). I guess you could technically say that I'm the head of a small corporation that specializes in domain name, marketing, and web presence as well as owns a few hundred or so high profile domain names. To date though, I've spent more on the domain names than I've made, so that kind of negates the "for a living" part of the question because I'm in the red and thinking of converting it to a sole proprietorship and give up the legal protection afforded by it being incorporated to save a little money annually. Obviously, while in school, I put the whole thing on hold.

I'm also in the process of trying to prototype a nifty little device that I invented a few years ago to put holiday lights on palm trees in a manner than looks more polished, makes them easier to put up and down, and eliminates the problems with wrapping tall palm trees and overloading the built in fuses. The device is also able to be left out all year long making relighting the trees every holiday season fast, easy, and wonderful looking. Furthermore, it can be used to put lights just about anywhere more easily than ever before saving a huge amount of time every year after you first put it up. I came up with it initially as a solution to how I was going to deal with the power issue mentioned before. I made the first one out of modified supplies I bought at Home Depot. The light display that year was 30,000 or so lights, so it was on the news. I immediately had tons of people noticing that my lit palm trees looked different than everybody else's, and in a good way. I was asked a lot how it worked. Then last year with 50,000 (or maybe it was more, I don't remember) lights, we had even more visitors and were on the news again, this time with over double the number of palm trees lit like this because I had perfected the device over the year. Now, I'm trying to get it on a CAD machine so I can find somebody to make seamless 100 ft rolls of it out of a very durable polymer called Nylon-6 (the same polymer used these days in things like firearms, aerospace products, guitar strings, and a lot of military applications. I don't know why it hasn't caught on in other industries, or if it has, I just haven't seen it. I've been consulting the patent division of a large NYC law firm to see if I can patent it, but so far they're saying I need to produce a prototype first so I can be able to claim prior art. My fear of course, is if I give the design to somebody to produce, I'm concerned they might just copy it and sell their own since I won't have a patent yet (I probably shouldn't tell them that). Anyways, that's all I can really go into other than to say it's very unique and works with all types of light strings, LED, large bulb, mini bulb, etc. I hope that this doesn't end up being as much of a dud as the first venture I mentioned.
 

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I work for Xerox Global Services, handling service/supplies for a major account, Eli Lilly. I have been there going on 5 years now and have been working towards a promotion as an Asset Coordinator, which basically means I would be managing the database of the assets themselves for major account. I SHOULD find out within the next week if I got the promotion or not.
 

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I work for Wal-Mart in human resources.My title is Training Coordinator...basically I am assistant to the personnel manager.I oversee the training and orientation for all new associates,make sure that all associates and management stay on top of their training,assist with insurance enrollment,scheduling for the store,the personnel files are my domain...I maintain them as they are supposed to be.I love my job,my store and management team are amazing,my personnel manager is absolutely awesome,and I have been at the same store for almost 24 years.
 

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Bellaandme, which restaurant do you work at? My husband and I usually go to Palomino's twice a year or so. We live in Ft. Wayne, but have family in Indy. We're probably going to head back down there in March to eat somewhere nice.

I work as an emergency dispatcher- answering 911 and business line phones, dispatching Fire, Police, and EMS, among other things. I love my job! I also volunteer as a chaplain at a local hospital, which is what my degree is in.
 

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Originally Posted by esrgirl

Bellaandme, which restaurant do you work at?
Yes please share, My DH is from Lafayette Indiana, and we go out to visit his family once a year or so. Also, when we fly out we always spend some time in Indianapolis. He too was in the resturant business in fact he went to Purdue for it so we are always looking for good places to eat.

I am a music teacher, freelance musician and graduate student.
 

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I'm currently classed as a full-time student. I'm just about to enter my third year of my Bachelor of Hospitality Management. I'm currently a senior staff member at a NZ owned & operated fancy burger chain. I just got my first pay rise $0.50c and I'm excited.


On completion of my degree depending on my financial situation I may undergo further study or I may look for a position at a local hotel.
 

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I work for the state health department as an environmental specialist. I write public health assessments and consultations for Superfund sites in the state (toxic waste sites). We make recommendations to a branch of the CDC, then they will forward it to the EPA and they can do what they want with our recommendations, but we can't force them to clean up sites. We also conduct investigations if there are lots of concerns/health problems in one area. I've only been here 2 months but I think I have a pretty cool job because I get to help people. Think Erin Brokovich


Before this I worked at Home Depot for a year because of the bad economy, but I am extremely thankful to be out of there finally. I hated retail!
 

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Right now I'm just a student.

I worked at a bowling alley in high school and managed to get to work in the back on the machines. I started out just catching minor calls like when a ball was stuck and couldn't get back up.

I was then sent to Ohio for training to become certified on the machines. I got certified to do heavy rebuilding work on the machines. Most of them were installed 40 or so years ago so they require constant maintenance to keep running well nowadays, I'm also 1 of about 30 people worldwide who have a level II certification on Kegel oil machines. I went to Florida to get that certification.

However that's not what I want to do for a living. I'm currently trying to keep my grades up enough to get into vet school. I was misguided and apathetic in high school and graduated with about a C average. Mind you this is my 1st semester back to school so I've got a long ways to go still but I'm currently on stride for a 4.0
It's the greatest feeling ever to finally be achieving what I always thought I could but never worked hard enough for in high school!
 

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I'm a full time student working on my bachelor's in biology.

I also work part time as a vet tech at a feline only practice. I've been working there right at a year now.

The plan is to start applying to vet school in another 2 or 3 years. Hopefully I'll get in before I actually complete undergrad, but that is highly, highly, HIGHLY unlikely (in the history of my university I think maybe...5 have gotten in before getting their bachelor's). So for now, and for a very very long time to come, my life is studying,
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