A poll of our professions/jobs

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Jenhavins

Tuesday, February 05, 2002 - 12:37 pm Click here to edit this post
I sent you email Whoami! Good luck!

Car54

Tuesday, February 05, 2002 - 02:37 pm Click here to edit this post
Jen, your job sounds so interesting.... I was a buyer for different kinds of retail, and the wheeling and dealing and finding the right sources was the most fun!!!!

Jenhavins

Tuesday, February 05, 2002 - 02:59 pm Click here to edit this post
It is...I have a great boss who lets me run my own desk. It is a very rewarding job!

Danzdol

Thursday, February 07, 2002 - 04:50 pm Click here to edit this post
This is a great thread, I love when I am gone for a while and then come back to find great ones like this one:

Here is my bit of job history-I never noticed that all my jobs were either dance/fitness or design related-Every single one!

Aerobics Instructor(Adults and Kids)
Dance Choreographer- For Individuals, teams (Elementary, Junior High, High School and College)and children
Assistant interior designer
Junior Interior Designer
Senior Interior Designer
Backup dancer for a couple of singing groups
Promotional dancer and spokesmodel for Budweiser
Hip-Hop and Jazz instructor for kids ages 4-18
NFL Professional Cheerleader

I now have :

Opened an Interior Design firm
Opened a Production company for kids dance camps as well as halftime and corporate event productions
Still coach a collegiate dance team


and............

GOD willing, I will have my first job as a mommy this June 1st!!!!!!!!!!!!!(At least that is my due date)

Moondance

Thursday, February 07, 2002 - 04:53 pm Click here to edit this post
Danz... which team... I was a cheerleader for the Cincinnati Bengals :)

We have a similiar resume... I have taught aerobics and dance too:)

Danzdol

Thursday, February 07, 2002 - 05:13 pm Click here to edit this post
I saw that-I just don't do the acting bit. I have always wondered if I could but I won't start now!

I didn't know the Bengals had cheerleaders.I cheered for the Dolphins 97-2000.

Urgrace

Thursday, February 07, 2002 - 08:14 pm Click here to edit this post
Wishing you all the best in the mommy department, Danzdol.

Babyruth

Friday, March 22, 2002 - 08:26 pm Click here to edit this post
bump for the newbies!

Ketchuplover

Friday, March 22, 2002 - 09:33 pm Click here to edit this post
I'm a peone in a factory :)

Teatime

Saturday, March 23, 2002 - 06:06 am Click here to edit this post
I've been a peone (pee-on?) in a factory. The good part about factory work is the entertaining co-workers, and you can leave the work at the workplace, usually no stress to take home. Factory work has had me shrink-wrapping and crating small parts for shipment to military bases; manufacturing trunks and boxes; and slicing up the foam sheets that protect the chocolates in a box of candy.

I was a honey extractor for a bee keeper. I don't eat honey anymore. But I love bees.

Ran a 6 unit motel in a tiny tourist trap in West Texas. Rented rooms, ordered soap, kept the books, cleaned the toilets.

Nanny and waitress.

Residential housekeeper. This is my favorite job and the one I will return to when I get done playing at home with our youngest child. I volunteer at church and school now and know that I have it good!

Christina

Saturday, March 23, 2002 - 06:40 am Click here to edit this post
I work for the ontario government. I am a counsellor. We are on strike right now. It is very hard. I am an essential service worker at the moment. Very stressful. It isnt business as usual in the hospital. They just want us to do essential work!! Being a hard worker I find this difficult. What is important to me may not be important to the others. I work with people and I cant for the life of me work the way the strikers want me too. Some may call me a scab, I call myself a person with morals. Any views? I need some support.

Aussiedeb

Saturday, March 23, 2002 - 08:19 am Click here to edit this post
Christina, even though I am union member here in Ohio, I dont see myself as one who would go on strike.

Im wouldnt call you a scab either, as you said a person with morals. Stick with it. I noticed you work in a hospital, thats great. :)

Glad to see you are working, at least you are still getting paid too, which is always a bonus.

You have my support here at least. :)

Juju2bigdog

Saturday, March 23, 2002 - 08:48 am Click here to edit this post
Christina, if people don't comment much on your situation, it will not be because they don't support you. It will be because they don't understand. The majority of posters on the board live in the U.S., where strikes are rather rare, so we have no frame of reference for what you are talking about. Most of us don't have the "opportunity" to go on strike.

Grooch

Saturday, March 23, 2002 - 09:16 am Click here to edit this post
Christina, I don't see you as a scab. First of all, you are fullfilling your postion's responsibilites. You didn't go and replace a striker on the street for less money. That is a scab.

Second, you are dealing with human lives. That is a huge difference compared to if you left some other type of job. These people need care no matter what. And none of this is their fault.

I was almost greatly affected many years ago when Clinton (or the Congress) shut down the federal govt because they were fighting over the budget. It was a stupid pissing contest by powerful, rich people that affected many small people. I still get annoyed thinking about it, and if a little bit of luck hadn't helped me out, I would to this day still be soooo pissed off.

I have been on both sides of the strike issue. The worker compared to management. Neither side is 100% right and both sides try to take advantage of the other. I always felt that if there were better labor laws on the books, unions wouln't be needed.

Good luck to you. I hope it ends quickly.

Christina

Saturday, March 23, 2002 - 11:08 am Click here to edit this post
About 45000 public service workers are on strike in Ontario. Affected are psychiatric hospitals,prisons, birth,marriage and drivers licence and court workers, labs. Been for 10 days now. Ofcourse we are a public service so we are deemed an essential service. We are supposed to create havoc (I guess) so far the only things happening are the guys in jail are getting a little bothered. Not to be rude but, not to many people are upset that the guys in prison arent getting the extras. The others affected are people like my clients. Whom are developmentally handicapped. I have 15 total care clients. They are the ones without a voice. I am ashamed at some of my coworkers. They are changed persons, so are many other people since the stike started. I should have gone to the class STRIKE101, cuz its all so baffling to me. Even though one would say I was lucky to be in (we get 60% of our wages) rest goes to union. I wish that I didnt have to be part of it. Actually (dont tell anyone)haha I was very satisfied with the contract the govt had offered. The only way out of being part of it is going to my Dr. I dont feel that I have a choice in what I want to do. They tell you what to do. OR ELSE!! I've worked here for 21 years. Anyways thought I would let you know what is going on here. Great place to vent and get some responses, feel like I am getting to know you guys. :)

Christina

Saturday, March 23, 2002 - 11:10 am Click here to edit this post
Hey, I didnt know that was how to make a :), gosh it was so easy. always envied you artists! watch out :) :) ha haha

Wargod

Saturday, March 23, 2002 - 11:31 am Click here to edit this post
Christina, I think its great you are working and not striking. For the most part the work in hospitals is essential and when the staff stikes everyone is hurt by it. My mother worked in a county run hospital as a nurse for years. I know that during that time her biggest fears were what she would do if there was a strike. Continue caring for her patients or supporting her union.

Christina

Saturday, March 23, 2002 - 12:57 pm Click here to edit this post
Actually you dont have a choice to be in or out. Cuz its an essential service, around say 500 names (in my hospital anyway ) in a hat,then drew the amount of people to stay in and work, the rest must walk the picket line (hrs scheduled for you) 5 days a week. I on the other hand work my reg shift(nites), but I am supposed to do these silly things to my boss. example.taking clients dirty laundry to the other room all of a sudden isnt my job, bathing clients on reg. basis,is a big no no, shaving reg, extra nourishments. and god forbid if you were to make a special client a birthday cake!! ughhhh. There must be a better way. I understand they must voice there concerns(unions) but I dont think the people I work with are even thinking about jobs. Or they would gladly do theres. By the way. I live in a community where I am the one that is considered to be making a decent living. So many of my friends and family do not have a union. When I see them go to there jobs every day and not get nearly as much as I do, and sometimes I feel the less you make the harder you work...well I dont know maybe I just feel selfish. Trying to make these people believe we deserve more. Am I still making sense?? haha

Urgrace

Saturday, March 23, 2002 - 01:18 pm Click here to edit this post
Christina, here's a big for you. The world needs more people like you in it to take care of special needs clients. I can tell you have a special talent and a big . Funny how you can find out just what a person is like in this kind of situation. Hold your head up and meet your community eye to eye. You have my respect.

Christina

Saturday, March 23, 2002 - 01:45 pm Click here to edit this post
thanks, thats the kinda gal I am :)

Grooch

Saturday, March 23, 2002 - 01:57 pm Click here to edit this post
Christina do the "/" as a "\" then it will work.

The hospital and your patients are very lucky to have you.

Ketchuplover

Saturday, March 23, 2002 - 08:19 pm Click here to edit this post
Entertaining co-workers???????

Labmouse

Saturday, March 23, 2002 - 08:23 pm Click here to edit this post
Christina, you sound like an exceptional person. Folks like you, restore my faith in humanity, and that is not an easy task.

Best of luck and everything else to you.

Christina

Sunday, March 24, 2002 - 03:30 pm Click here to edit this post
what do you mean ketchuplover?

Teatime

Sunday, March 24, 2002 - 05:32 pm Click here to edit this post
Christina: I don't totally understand your situation, but please know that I support you and don't consider you a scab. You are just following your heart, doing what is right, and that's what we should all strive for. Keep taking the high road, and try to keep the bigger picture in mind. I hope this week goes smoother for you.

Ketchup: "entertaining co-workers" - sure, how else to get through a shift sometimes. I have sprayed pop through my nose onto parts more than once!

Christina

Monday, March 25, 2002 - 04:01 am Click here to edit this post
Go to google and type in OPSEU. We are the Ontario Publis Service Employees Union. You will get the particulars there. As far as entertaining co workers, we have had lots of fun over the years. You would think I would be the next one moving in. It is a psychiatric hospital. haha Some long days been spent there!!

Webkitty

Monday, March 25, 2002 - 02:44 pm Click here to edit this post
Well, to make a VERY long story VERY short:

I worked at a major computer firm in the NE for 15 years. I worked in purchasing, sales training, etc, etc. It was all boring to me and the drudgery of corporate environment drove me to tears. But I needed to make a living and I did what I had to do, just like a million other people.

Then I re-married and my new husband almost died from an aneurysm in his sub-clavian artery.
The only way his life could be saved was to crack his chest open (open heart surgery)

That did it. We decided to take an early semi-retirement and move to Florida. We found a big, 80 year old Art Deco house that sits near a sleepy bywater. Its laid back and just what the doctor ordered.

Then, shortly after moving here, my Uncle passed away and I inherited his vast antique collection.

I've been a part time antique dealer ever since.

I still miss my Uncle and I "talk" to him alot, when I'm having a problem with some research I scold him for not keeping better records, and I ask him if he's happy with what I kept and how it looks in my house.
I know that may sound crazy but we were close!

I've been plagued with some major health problems for someone so young (well, not THAT young, but young compared to alot of people down here! ) but I'm happy to be alive and I'm grateful everyday for my son and husband and my cats!

Nightcrawler

Monday, March 25, 2002 - 03:21 pm Click here to edit this post
I work in a group home with the mentally handicapped. There are 7 people that live in the home. My shift is 6am to 2pm. When we get there we help everyone get up and eat breakfast and get off to work. We also go to work with them and at 2pm help them get back home. Then the next shift helps them with their outings and supper... All in all our goal is to get them out in their own apartments. We have 8 that live on their own or with a little help. I've worked there 14 years. Before that I worked in a factory for a summer. I didn't like that at all.
nightcrawler

Sabbatia

Monday, March 25, 2002 - 09:31 pm Click here to edit this post
I'm a CPA for a large car dealership. I'd love to make it more exciting than that, but that's pretty much the long and short of it.