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The TVClubHouse: General Discussions ARCHIVES: 2005 Sep. ~ Nov.: Free Expressions...: How Many Years Have You Worked At Your Current Job?: Archive through June 13, 2005 users admin

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Mags
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06-26-2001

Friday, June 10, 2005 - 9:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mags a private message Print Post    
15 + 1.5 yrs as a temp

Egbok
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07-13-2000

Friday, June 10, 2005 - 9:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Egbok a private message Print Post    
8 years

Karen
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09-07-2004

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Ha, lookit all you go getters, 10+ years. Even 2, three, four years sounds great. July 1st will be five months for me. LOL.

Citruscitygal
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08-07-2003

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32 years of owning my own business - and no retirement in sight. I feel old!!!

Egbok
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07-13-2000

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CCGal, this is you------>

Pamy
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01-02-2002

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I'd like to hear where ya all have worked and what kind of business you own

I work for County Assessor

Nancy
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08-01-2000

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Pamy i'm a systems integrator(programmer) in an insurance company--mainly doing cobol and cics(yeh how archaic but it pays LOL)..prior to that i worked 16 years for gorton's seafood(the gorton's fisherman people) also in the computer programming area..unlike a lot of people i've only had 3 full-time jobs in my life..one for 4 years one for 16 and now this one :-)

Max
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08-12-2000

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I was an Internal Communications Manager for an Internet security company in my last "real" job and spent some 20+ years in the high-tech industry.

Now, I do freelance transcription and editing, deal blackjack at casino parties, and sell novelties at car shows and sometimes on eBay. Talk about a career change! LOL

In the past, I have had worked front desk in hotels/motels, done loan documentation for a bank, worked in a title company, and worked for a caterer. I still have other things I'd like to try, so who knows what will be next. :-)

Urgrace
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08-19-2000

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Right now I'm my own disabled son's foster care provider. I never knew a person could be paid to do everything I already do as a mother, but of course I also manage his paperwork and that is no small task. I recommend anyone who has a disabled or mentally challenged child to look into foster care, so that you can work at home and be with your children.

At present I am also a small business owner of a gourmet coffee and ice cream shop that has yet to open! I'll post a picture later.

Max you sound like me. Although I've had several long term jobs, I've still done numerous others and mostly loved them all.

Mocha
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08-12-2001

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Right now I'm a Program Analyst for the Usability and Software Support Team at Social Security Admin HQ.

Ddr
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08-19-2001

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I'm the tourist director for my parish (county to anyone outside of Louisiana). I've been in this job for 3 1/2 years.

Prior to that I was the Executive Director for a non profit festival organization. Started my career in the media department for the school system, quit to become a full time mother when I had my son.



Pamy
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01-02-2002

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WOW interesting jobs! I love hearing about them!

Citruscitygal
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08-07-2003

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I own a Bookkeeping Service. I offer clients different levels of service, depending on their needs, from Payroll (and all related Payroll Tax Returns & W-2's), Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Invoicing, Bank Reconciliation, Sales Tax Returns, 1099's etc. through General Ledger and Financial Statements. I work from a home office as much as possible, primarily using QuickBooks. There are no employees, so it keeps me pretty busy.

Yankee_in_ca
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08-01-2000

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I am an entertainment publicist with my own firm. I specialize in consumer media relations.

Herckleperckle
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11-20-2003

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Public School Teacher in DE--6 years (1 yr in Dover as math teacher; 5 in Smyrna as Eng teacher and Dept Chair)

Had 2 children!

Teacher (grammar and basic math) at a federally funded Word Processing School for adults for 2 yrs.

Substitute Teacher in public schools for 3-4 years

Receptionist and Documentation Specialist for Computer Consulting Firm for 2 years

Blue Cross Blue Shield of DE--12 years. The last 10 1/2 years was spent in the Corp. Comm. Dept as the Mktg Writer, Corp Contribution Contact and Sr. Writer.

I took early retirement at age 55 in Dec., 2002, so I could join my dh, who had landed a job here in CT.

Sold home in DE. Moved to CT in 4/03.

Currently: I do part-time freelance writing through Elance. Elance is an online site for freelance writers, programmers, website builders, translators, etc.--and the people who want their expertise. I was invited to join a special pool of people who write the reading passages and followup questions for the companies' achievement tests. I like it, when I win the right (a bidding process) to tackle a job.

Karuuna
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08-31-2000

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My primary business can be found at www.bkeepsakes.com. We make posters about the day you were born, personalized with your own birth stats and name meaning; and including all kinds of cool stuff about what was going on that day and year.

I also have a smaller business, www.lovelandcreations.com, featuring name wish poems and personalized photo cards; and soon to introduce personalized growth charts and name meaning prints.

And when I'm not doing that, I'm a children's therapist, working with abused and at-risk children in an Equine Facilitated Mental Health program.

Whew. Now I'm tired! :-)

It's fun to read about what you all do when you're not hanging out here. Or, if you're like me, maybe what you're supposed to be doing when you are hanging out here!

Beachcomber
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08-26-2003

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I have owned my business for 8 years and we offer compliance and internal auditing services to banks, thrifts, and credit unions. Excessive government regulations have been very very good to me

I started out working for banks in the early 80s and everywhere I have ever worked got bought out by a bigger bank, so I decided to be my own boss and love every minute of it. CCGal, love that Quickbooks!!

Ginger1218
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08-31-2001

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I work full time 3 days 12 1/2 hours a day, for a law firm for the past 9 years. I work on computers and administrative. I have worked for lawyers for over 30 years <shudder>
I work one day a week at my sister's office - which is wholesale kosher meat market doing bookkeeping

Ginger1218
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08-31-2001

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Buuuutttt, in my past, I have done stand up comedy, acting in off broadway shows, I founded, produced, directed and acted with an improvisational troupe, and assorted other entertainment things lol

Nickovtyme
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07-29-2004

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I went to Technical school when I graduated from High School; received an Associates Degree in Electronics Technology...at the time I graduated the market was flooded with ET's...so I joined the Navy. I was in the Navy for a couple of years doing basically whatever they wanted of me.

When I got out of the Navy, I worked at several different jobs. From Satellite dish manufacturer to Printer's apprentice.

My current job that I have been at for 7 years is more in my ET background. The technical title of my job is: Life Safety System Inspector

I travel around the state inspecting Fire Alarm and Sprinkler systems making sure they work properly and meet the local codes.

Babyruth
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07-19-2001

Sunday, June 12, 2005 - 8:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Babyruth a private message Print Post    
Interesting thread!

I've been in nursing 15 years. Current area is in liver (pre and post transplant) and gastro medicine specialty (hospital), have also worked in cardiology and internal medicine (hospital). Have also worked with home care, mental health, and have worked with caregivers of the developmentally disabled with medical needs.

Before I went back to school for nursing, I worked a wide variety of jobs in horticulture and animal care.

My very first real job was at McDonald's, of course, at the stunning wage of 2.25 an hour. :-)


Tabbyking
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03-11-2002

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wow, guys!
my first job was as a motel maid where i once had to spray the manager in the eyes with toilet bowl cleaner when he tried to accost me in a motel bathroom i was cleaning! i was paid $1.60 an hour.
i then worked as a medical assistant in OB/gyn, followed by several years in nyc and san francisco in oral surgery, a few years in boston as a pediatric dental assistant, another as office manager for a multi-specialty dental practice which handled all the carpenter and hotel workers unions--also in boston.
back to california where i continued to work in medical dental fields until morning sickness tied me pretty much full-time to the porcelain throne LOL. when the kids were little, i taught pre-school in the mornings and went to emt school at night. when i got my emt, i worked preschool 5 mornings and the hospital e.r. for 6 nights. somewhere in there i had to find a solid year to serve on a county grand jury.
once i got on the grand jury and the city i work in demanded the judge take me off the jury and he said, "the city of --- ----- does not pick my jury, she's on!" i lost both my teaching and emt jobs because the city council is also the hospital board and the preschool was through the city recreation program.
i didn't work for 8 years until ds went off to college and pretty much broke us for the rest of our natural lives!
now i work at a golf course, which has it's bad days and 'worser' days LOL. i do, however, really like some of the people i work with, so that makes it tolerable.
i have written two manuscripts, neither of which was made into a movie, although i did have an agent for a while. i guess murderous husbands are so common these days, my story was nothing new, albeit true.
i do still re-read my satirical manuscript about being on the grand jury just to giggle now and then.
i also do a lot of volunteer work and i think i get about 4 hours sleep a night. tomorrow i plan to sleep in until 6:15 or so!!

Wargod
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07-16-2001

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I started working in a retirement home in high school part time. It was a great job for a student, worked a couple hours a night, and 6-8 hours on Saturdays and Sundays. Got out of college and stayed. I was making decent money, they worked around everything else I had going on, and I already had a couple years put in. The job sucked (and I did everything for waiting tables to office work) but I enjoyed the elderly folks and they were part of why I stayed so long.

These days I'm taxi driver, cook, maid, nurse, therapist, gardner, laundry service, teacher, arts and crafts coordinator, baby sitter to the neices and nephews, personal shopper, volunteer, cheer leader, and bank, lol. And I'm loving every minute of it.

Cathie
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08-16-2000

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My present job is my longest ever--15 years and a few months. I am the director of ophthalmology services at a children's hospital. I love the work, my co-workers and the facility. It is the best job I have ever had, a far cry from the pet shop I worked at during high school. I have friends who think a pedi hospital would be a sad place to work, but I find it the opposite. It is so great to work with amazing kids who have such enormous strength and hope. Being able to help them in their journey is awesome.

In addition to working with kids whose vision problems are treatable I also work with about 120 local blind children through our special activities, day camp, sporting events, etc. In the past year we have helped blind kids learn to canoe, ride horses, do a ropes course, climbing wall, and even archery and rifle range. The last two are accomplished with verbal cues at the targets, and it's fantastic to see the looks on the kids faces when they are able to do things that their sighted friends and sibs can.

My other jobs after college were for state, county and United Way agencies, and the facilities and office morale were always on the low side. My current boss makes up for all the bad ones I had along the way--I will cry a bucketload if I ever lose him!



Kaili
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08-31-2000

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i've been at UPS since Sept. 1999, so closing in on 6 years there. Which, by the way, is over half of my working life! Weird. I'm 27 so I've been working only 11 years.

High School jobs:

I worked at two different garden centers and a golf course after working at a local fast food place for, um, one half of a shift. it was called "The Farm" and it was a frozen custard place which I might have been okay with doing, but the burgers and stuff- that didn't work for me. I hated it so much I left at my first break.

College (Arizona):

I worked at a gas station deli for a few months. This was not really all that different from the fast food place except I didn't cook. I took orders at the counter and I'd make shakes and stuff. I quit when some *multiple expletives* jerk kept complaining about the amount of malt in his malt or the thickness or something- it just went on and on and he was not happy with anything. I hated the job anyway, I hated the sneering, dirty truckers hitting on me, and didn't need to have a job so I pretty much responded with the kind of stuff that most people think and want to say but don't say. :-) I'm really not cut out for the service/food industry.

After that a new movie theater opened up and I worked there for about a year and a half until I moved to Wisconsin.

College (Wisconsin):

I first workd at a shoe store. They gave a 40% discount and that was the only thing I liked about it. What an incredibly boring job is all I can say. And everyone else that worked there pretty much was in high school and they had a little clique at work and they were really not my type of people anyway. So I quit after about 6 months and 10 pairs of shoes.

Worked at a Mobil gas station for about a year or so after that. That job was actually pretty fun. Laid back- it got boring but I got to read magazines and listen to the radio and do homework. I worked alone when I did evening shifts and that was my favorite. I quit there because UPS paid more and gave insurance and had no weekends or holidays. Good deal. Working until 11 pm on a Saturday was not my idea of a fun weekend.

So I've been at UPS since then. In between, I also worked at the university bookstore for a few months (quit because I started student teaching and coundln't work two jobs and do that).

I've been subbing for one school district for 2 school years and another for 1 school year. I still technically work for them though even though there's no school.

I just applied for two jobs for the summer- one for the county working with kids that are in court custody and the other at the public library.