Archive through February 02, 2002

The ClubHouse: Archives: A poll of our professions/jobs: Archive through February 02, 2002

Donut

Friday, February 01, 2002 - 02:03 pm Click here to edit this post
i have noticed that a lot of us seem to be running rampant in the halls of schools which may say something about who they let influence kids these days:)...and a lot of others seem to have advanced computer skills, so i have been wondering what we all do for work and if we clump to certain areas. I also hope someone with table making skills will take up keeping track of this.
We could list current profession/jobs and then past ones too.Do you want to list also a job we would like to have? Any takers?
me- occupational therapist(currently in a public school)
past tinkerings: film location manager/ film production

Bookworm

Friday, February 01, 2002 - 02:47 pm Click here to edit this post
I have noticed a lot of teachers in here too. I teach Head Start and I am a mommy too. I have worked in a guest home (very small nursing home in a private residence) also.

Past jobs were just entry level stuff while I was in school: Hardee's (fast food), HyVee (grocery).

I love my job and have always wanted to teach young children.

Tess

Friday, February 01, 2002 - 03:13 pm Click here to edit this post
I'm a full time mom. :) I was in customer service with a major communications company for 15 years until 1993. Before that, I worked in the offices of a clothing store in San Francisco.

What I really always wanted to be was a map librarian. That is what I studied for.

Myjohnhenry

Friday, February 01, 2002 - 03:31 pm Click here to edit this post
Part-time Speech/language therapist in the public school system (currently...DD system previously) and full-time Mom extraordinaire.


Hmmmm...past tinkerings...spent one spring and summer working in the kitchen of a nursing home at the end of highschool. During undergrad college years I worked every break at a local savings and loan in a variety of jobs (I was their longest term college worker and the joke was the last break I worked there that after graduation I would start work as a vp for the company...unfortunately it had nothing to do with my major so I never did become a bank exec...LOL)
In Grad school...I worked at....ShowBiz Pizza which became Chuck E Cheese. Woohoo!!! Me and the local teen slackers.

Whoami

Friday, February 01, 2002 - 03:44 pm Click here to edit this post
Right now I'm a nobody. Still looking for a job.

Kstme

Friday, February 01, 2002 - 04:09 pm Click here to edit this post
I am a "bumette". I have made an art of doing as little as possible and making people believe I am not. This takes years of practice, mind you!

In those years before the Ark was built, I did some acting and modeling. Broke a camera along the way and it was off to the VERY small scale runway for me.

Had a great job working for a state medical association in my twenties. I worked in the exec. offices of a bank where I pretended to be needed until someone realized they were paying me a lot of money NOT to push the "panic button". I put some moments in fluffing around a liquor distributorship. I worked for a computer software company that started about the same time as Mr. Gates started his business. They were down the street from us. They took off and my old business didn't fair as well. Would you believe I still don't know gig from a gag? My ultimate job though and the one I had the most fun doing was a stint as an assistant manager in a place similar to a stop and rob.

All this goes to prove you can have an almost full college education (quit with one quarter to go) and still be an absolute dingdong!

It's been 10 years since I've had to do anything but cook a couple meals a week and decide which jeans I'll wear each day!

Kstme

Friday, February 01, 2002 - 04:11 pm Click here to edit this post
Whoami...NO BODY is a NOBODY!

Car54

Friday, February 01, 2002 - 08:08 pm Click here to edit this post
I was a costume designer for childrens theatre, dinner theatre, and professional theatre for 15 years, then became a buyer for a chain of independent bookstores, then became their inventory manager, then merchandise mgr for a large college bookstore, then buyer again, now manage the point-of-sale and computer systems for a chain of 12 retail card and gift stores.

Schoolmarm

Friday, February 01, 2002 - 08:50 pm Click here to edit this post
Well....I'm still teaching, but UP a notch. I'm a college prof who teaches the teachers how to teach. I used to teach elementary music in the public schools. I'm still a piano teacher and church organist/choir director (However, I'm taking a break from that right now...not a decent organ in town and I need the weekends to finish my dissertation).

In grad school, I had some interesting jobs. I was youth director and choir director at a big church. I gave people tests on Saturday mornings..you know, the SAT, GRE, ACT, PRAXIS, LSAT, you name it, I gave it. Got to be a supervisor there and also gave the university orientation exams in the summer and at the beginning of the semester.

In high school I spent two summers as a cook's assistant in the kitchen at 4-H camp. I can cook for 300 AND clean up afterwards. I think I've already washed my quota of dishes for a lifetime. Now I hire someone to do that for me!

Seems like we have quite a few in the acting/theatre professions as well!

Christina

Friday, February 01, 2002 - 09:24 pm Click here to edit this post
I am a counsellor for the developmentally challenged. I have worked in the hospital for 20 years now. I still LOVE my job. I work with 15 clients on a dailybasis. They are mostly total care clients. Nice to be happy after 20 years.

Jbean

Friday, February 01, 2002 - 10:18 pm Click here to edit this post
i am a human resources assistant/receptionist/anything else they want me to be that day!

there have recently been some overhead cutbacks, and it seems i have been the lucky one to inherit tasks that others who have left left behind. i am currently looking for a new job in HR, though. as i think this is all a bunch of BS. the problem is jobs are scarce as it is, but i am at my wit's end about to pull my hair out!

Weinermr

Friday, February 01, 2002 - 10:47 pm Click here to edit this post
From age 16 through 21 I worked in a famous Southern CA store and tourist spot called the Pottery Shack, which sold dinnerware, glassware, silver, artware, jewelry, had a glassblower, and oh yes, lots of pottery too. Here's a link. Pottery Shack.
I started there the summer before senior year in high school working in the parking lot on weekends, and worked my way into the store wrapping at the cash registers, packing customer orders, preparing items for shipping, unloading truck deliveries, hauling, carrying, cleaning the store in the evenings, and just generally having a good time. I was often assigned in the glassware department, and that became my specialty. After I started college, I would come back and work there full time during vacations and all summer. Midway through my senior year of college I took a sabbatical (never went back), and went to work at the Pottery Shack full time. I became the head of the glassware department, and was eventually promoted to store "operations manager".

They opened a second store in another city (which has long since closed), and at age 22 I went to work there as assistant manager. After working there for about six months, I had a falling out with the manager, and left (I say he fired me, he would say I quit, but that's another story for another time).

After about three or four weeks of unemployment during which I turned 23, I went to work for Jack-In-The-Box for about 2 weeks. I left Jack-In-The-Box to become a part-time stereo store salesman. After doing that for about 5 months or so, I left and took a job as a bank teller trainee.

So mid-way through my 23rd year I was working in a bank with no idea what I wanted to be, or what I wanted to do with my life. After the first week, I was "promoted" to the Trust Company, where I began preparing court accountings for probate estates. I learned, I asked questions, I absorbed knowledge, and at age 24 after they fired a Trust Officer, they promoted me to his position and called me an "Account Manager". I did everything a Trust Officer did, except I wasn't allowed to sign checks.

A Trust Officer administers peoples trusts and estates, and is primarily responsible to see that the trust or estate is being administered properly, which includes asset management, distributions to beneficiaries, being sure tax returns are being filed and filed timely, and many other related duties. I learned on the job. I worked at this Trust Company from age 24 through age 32 and moved my way up the ladder. During this time I went back to school in the evenings, and got my BS in Business.

Ultimately, I outgrew this smaller company, and in April 1990 I went to work for a larger trust company, still administering trusts and estates, among other related duties. In 1991 we found out the company was for sale, and it eventually was sold to a much larger nationally known bank. My fellow employees and I had to apply for jobs with the new bank, and I was lucky enough to be hired for the job I was already doing! So on January 31, 1992, at age 34, I went to work for the Bank I work for now, administering trusts and estates.

In mid-1995 they decided to open a new division which would be solely responsible for estate administration. They decided they wanted me to work in the new division, but instead of estate administration, they wanted me to prepare estate tax and fiduciary income tax returns. I strongly balked at the change, but they eventually convinced me that this is what they wanted me to be doing. I took the hint, and moved to my new position.

Now age 44, on January 31, 2002, I celebrated 10 years with the bank, and we are beginning my 7th tax season in the estate division, preparing a whole lot of fiduciary income tax returns for the estates and trusts we administer. My duties currently also include the preparation of estate tax returns (which are due all throughout the year), conducting training in various areas of trust and estate administration, taxation, etc., since I am now one of the more senior members (experience not age!), and I supervise the other tax preparers in our group.

And all that leaves out alot of other abilities, personal interests, and talents that I've acquired over the years. I am very good at electrical work. If you have a lamp that needs rewiring, I'll be glad to do it for you. I can also do lots of fixit things around the house, including various electrical and plumbing repairs.

Much more than you wanted to know, I'm sure.

Pcakes2

Friday, February 01, 2002 - 11:28 pm Click here to edit this post
I am not a teacher, but when I was younger, that is what I wanted to be. My family however, thought I should be a lawyer(they know me too well).

But alas, after High School, my quest for money & lifestyle was greater than my quest for knowledge, so I went to work instead of college.

Became a travel agent at 18 (aaah, the good old days), and travelled the world while sipping Dom Perignon! All for free!

Was let go from the agency I worked for, and headed off to the glamourous world of Municipal Bond Trading (this was the 80's, and I had my "navy blue power suit")I worked for the very prestigous, old money, firm who used to have John Houseman do they're advertising...we make money the old fashioned way...we eeaaarn it". For those of you old enough to remember, the firm was originally called Smith Barney Harris Upham & company, Inc. we were told what to wear, when we needed a haricut, who we could date within the industry, etc....but I played along for a while. Made a fortune, but hated to get up for work each day. It was like playing monopoly everyday. My group wouldn't touch a deal under $100 million.

The money wasn't enough, I needed more, and my father had just died. I decided to work for a property management firm. I managed a building in Downtown NYC adjacent to the Stock Exchange. I loved this job!

The 80's were coming to a close, and I decided that I needed another change, so I decided to move to California.

Bounced around here and there, and settled into the Mortgage industry. Interst rates were great, and I was in demand, so I worked for several companies as a contractor either processing or underwriting (approving) loans.

Rates went up, and companies were goig out of business, so I took a 6 month position to do "labor cost analysis" for a Round Table pizza chain (all the pizza you could eat)

After that ended, I wound up at a new computer training company...we taught classes on a new thing called a "Cisco Router". In 1998 after goinh from a 10 employee company, to a huge multinational corporation, the owners decided to sell. The original office closed, and headquarters moved out of state (I did have the option to go with it)

That brings me to the present...since then, I have been a regional sales manager for a computer security company....oh yeah, and I make soap!

Twiggyish

Friday, February 01, 2002 - 11:54 pm Click here to edit this post
I teach computer skills to adults. On this level, we cover almost all the Microsoft products. Since this is a night time job, I have the day to work on web development for small commercial businesses. While my child is in school and in between my various projects, I play around in here. Sometimes, this is my procrastination destination.

Oregonfire

Saturday, February 02, 2002 - 08:59 am Click here to edit this post
I'm a career complainer, a professional wise*ss, and a certified nutcase! A few years back I was in one of those old time penny arcades and put a quarter in a machine that randomly spits out funny fake certificates. It said that I was hereby certified to be a sarcastic wiseacre, and it used the female pronoun to boot. The powers that be played a very funny joke on me that day, and I proudly display the certificate on my fridge at home.

Karuuna

Saturday, February 02, 2002 - 09:15 am Click here to edit this post
Let's see - currently I'm first and foremost a mom! I also own my own business (see my profile); and hire parents to work part-time at home, so they can be at home to raise their little ones. I've been very blessed, and am thrilled to pass that success along to others!

However, in my life I have been many things, including:
cocktail waitress
barn maintenance worker (yeah, you got it - I shoveled ****)
horse groomer
barn manager
internal sales support for a consumer products company (they make Aquafresh toothpaste)
asst manager for a catalog retail store
leg and hair model
riding instructor and horse trainer
administrative asst for a construction company
office manager for a marketing firm
marketing account executive
<employment break to go back to college - BA in Psych with a minor in BioChem. Made it halfway to a Masters in Clinical Neuroscience>
children's counselor for a women's shelter
And now, the aforementioned "captain of industry" (stated with tongue planted firmly in cheek!)

I also do a great deal of volunteer work, currently:
media tech at my church
POP counselor at high school
and helping in my son's classroom

Whew! All that looking back made me tired, I think I'll take a nap now!

Karuuna

Saturday, February 02, 2002 - 09:17 am Click here to edit this post
Whoami - what's that old song? You're nobody till somebody loves you?

Well, guess what? We all you, so you are somebody very special!!!

Gail

Saturday, February 02, 2002 - 09:38 am Click here to edit this post
I am a lan/wan administrator and do alot of computer helpdesk stuff - basically, I help people with their computers. :)

Whoami

Saturday, February 02, 2002 - 09:46 am Click here to edit this post
Awww. Thank you Karuuna (and Kstme, for earlier comment). Hopefully I'll find something soon, and can add a real post here.

Grooch

Saturday, February 02, 2002 - 10:02 am Click here to edit this post
Kstme, how much does being a brunette pay? It sounds like what I'm looking for.

Kstme

Saturday, February 02, 2002 - 11:37 am Click here to edit this post
Grooch..."bumette" NOT "brunette" I am on the floor laughing! OMG! Too funny!

Actually, a "bumette" gets ALL the family money!! And I even get a housekeeper once a week! A "true" "bumette" really has to appear wise in financial and all home situations to scam this lifestyle! (you realize if my DH ever smartens up, I'm in BIG trouble!)

I REALLY like this thread. It's interesting to hear of others careers.

I forgot about my 5 day stint as the very first "woman" bread truck driver. The company went on strike and I ran...

Kstme

Saturday, February 02, 2002 - 11:39 am Click here to edit this post
Whoami...we ALL pulling for you!

Car54

Saturday, February 02, 2002 - 11:41 am Click here to edit this post
Grooch, if you figure out how to get paid for being brunette, let me know. I could use an extra paycheck! :)
Kstme, you need to write a book about your work history!:)

Kstme

Saturday, February 02, 2002 - 12:11 pm Click here to edit this post
Car54...don't get me started...I'll fill in with some of those other "fun" jobs I've taken! Temps have NOTHING on me...

Did I tell you the one about the doughnut shop? The high school lunch room? The company that made paint mixers that looked like Kitchen Aids, except they were almost as tall as I? The optometrist I almost put into bankruptcy? An engineering company that liked to drink? Pretending I actually knew about how work a "cutting" horse?

At the puter company I would pretend I couldn't recognize Gates' voice just to tick him off! I'm so bad, you bet! I was the receptionist/human resource person all rolled into one!

All in all, I really do appear to be a FLAKE, don't I?

Car54

Saturday, February 02, 2002 - 12:16 pm Click here to edit this post
Nope, pretty darn smart if you ask me! Which one of us is working 60 hrs a week and which of us gets to stay home AND has a housekeeper? picLOL