What's Your Occupation?

Thought it would be neat to see just what exactly everyone here does for a living. I'll start first!

I am a Braze Operator at a local factory that makes, prototypes, produces, seals and ships fuel lines for cars. We do GM to Ford to Isuzu to Chrysler products. I'm responsible for adding copper compound paste to the fuel lines then sending them through a furnace heated at over 2000 degrees to seal them.

What do you do?

I'm an Instructor basically.

I teach clerical skills, soft skills (work behaviors) and job seeking skills.

I sell insurance...it sounds boring, but its alright

I'm a second-year grad student working on my PhD! Right now, I'm a teaching assistant/research assistant, and I study the effect of dopamine on C. elegans mating behavior. To put that simply, I watch little worms mate and see if anything goes wrong.

My occupation....stay at home wife/mom! It has been great~I love being home and not having to worry about taking my daughter to day care...I would totally hate that! Allthough, sometimes I do wish I had a better paying job.

I install and repair medical imaging systems. X-ray, CT, MRI, etc. I also breed bengal cats, which keeps me "occupied", but my real job allows me to continue doing it.

I don't have a job yet, but Monday I'm going in to talk to the lady that works at our local pet shop since she told me she was needing help. I'd be an awesome job!

I am a stay at home mommy to my three kids. I also homeschool them. So I guess I am a teacher which is not always an easy job when you have three kids in three different grades (8th, 4th, and Pre-K).

I'm a customer service rep and work in a call center. Off my feet, no heavy lifting and I don't get my hands dirty

This is a neat thread.

I'm finishing (fingers crossed) my MA in International Studies this August, and will graduate in December - but hopefully I will start my PhD in September.

My MA thesis is: Just War Doctrine and Humanitarian Intervention

I'm a pol phil kinda girl.

I still do some admin work for the University in one of the research departments (soft eng - totally unrelated to what I do academically). They are really cool to work for, but I'm relieved to finally have enough time to work on my thesis properly.

I currently work at a small graphic design/document scanning company. Soon-to-be a biology/animal sciences major, though.

I am a Preschool teacher and LOVE it!

Pediatric Registered Nurse

Massage Therapist at a hair salon and day spa. I am about to have to take a second job doing something else, because as nice as it is, my current job pays almost nothing.

I drive a delivery truck for a machine shop which makes aircraft parts.

I'm an aging care manager (social worker).

I'm a full time stay at home mother, though for the last seven years previously (as in up until November of last year). I was mainly a Non-invasive cardiology technician as a civilian, and also a pediatric echocardiographic technician in training as a civilian (both didn't last long).

As a military member I was three things:

1. Respiratory Therapist
2. Pulmonary Function Technologist
3. Cardiology technician

They called the career field Cardiopulmonary Laboratory Technician.

I am currently a stay-at-home mommy! But, once they go to school, I'm back in school.

I have degrees in Human Physiology and Anthropology and mainly study archaeological human remains, specifically paleopathology. I plan to go back to get my graduate degrees once the girls are older.

Originally Posted by Satai

This is a neat thread.

I'm finishing (fingers crossed) my MA in International Studies this August, and will graduate in December - but hopefully I will start my PhD in September.

My MA thesis is: Just War Doctrine and Humanitarian Intervention

I'm a pol phil kinda girl.

I still do some admin work for the University in one of the research departments (soft eng - totally unrelated to what I do academically). They are really cool to work for, but I'm relieved to finally have enough time to work on my thesis properly.

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Ooh... nice thesis! It would be interesting to read.

I have a bachelor's in comparitive religious studies and philosophy, and I am in my fifth (of six years) of pharmacy school. Hubby is wonderful, and he works 1.5 jobs so I can focus on school. He got a bachelor's in journalism and another one in biology, he's a science writer and he helps puts the local newspaper online, but he's about to lose that job (an internship he's kept for six years!) and go work at Kinkos.

I am thinking about ditching pharmacy and going into an accelerated nursing program near me because I think I'd be a lot happier and fulfilled in the long run. If I did that, I would want to find a way to be a veterinary nurse (not just a technician, some of the big vets around here employ BSNs too). The only problem is that they don't like it when your transfer credits and undergrad degree are from another university, so my GPA will have to be really high to get in... I am taking a summer class and talking to some of the faculty and admissions counselors to see if I should stay with it or go ahead and finish pharmacy school... decisions, decisions.

I have pharmacy technician skills, both retail, hospital, and long term care thanks to some student jobs I had in the past. I worked in a cafeteria in high school, and at a coffee cart my first year of college.