What do you guys do for a living?

[hissy]

I write, do scrimshaw, make custom knives, and am partners with Anne on Meowhoo.com and also work with her on TCS. I do feral rescue and work with The Cat Welfare Society of Israel doing PR here in the states along with two other people.

My husband is a knifemaker and woodworker.

 

[tarav]

Thanks, I have only been doing it for about a yr, that includes 6 months of schooling. It is harder than I ever thought it would be, but I absolutely love it!

 

[lau77]

Im almost 26 and im a massage therapist i love my job

 

[nunny]

guys, thanks for sharing! I feel like Im really getting to know everyone...

Hissy, whats a "scrimshaw"?

And Shell - Good luck with your new career in Wal Mart! (one of my favorites places to spend money when I visit in the USA...

)

 

[kumbulu]

nunny, here's a quote from Mary Anne (hissy) about scrimshaw:

Scrimshaw evolved from the whaling days when the ships were out for such a long period of time and the sailors got bored. Someone took a whale's tooth and scratched a design on it, then put ink over the design, wiped it off, and there was the first scrimmed piece. You basically take your material and with a small tool called a scrimmer (looks like a pencil except the tip is a needle, or these days, a carbide point) You draw your design on the material. Then you take ink and apply the ink over the design, take a cloth and wipe it off and the ink goes down and stays in the grooves of the scratches.

I got into it, when a client asked Mike if he knew anyone who could scrim the handle of his knife. The knife was bone, and the man wanted a grizzly bear. Mike told him I could do it! It took a few attempts on other material, but I have always liked to draw and so I did a small head of a grizzly and got paid for it. So I was on my way.

Hope that helps!

 

[frisky feline]

I am working for social security adm as a development claims clerical.

 

[kimward34]

Originally posted by Princess Purr
I'm 24! I just start working as a respection/anything else for a realstate company

I also own my own business. (little online store I make bracelets, beads, figures and that kinda stuff! ) I think my hardest job is being a wife

Out of curiosity, what is a respection?

 

[hissy]

Kim I think she meant a receptionist-

 

[princess purr]

sorry i ment receptionist

I was typing fast because i should be working and not playing online

 

[okeefecl]

I am a research scientist at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, studying the outcomes of bone marrow transplants.

 

[lhezzza]

I'm a production manager for a publishing company.

We publish childrens educational and teaching tools

Basically..... I get to read children's books all day
(and play "reserch" on the internet!)

 

[spooky]

I am a receptionist at the World headquarters of a global moving/relocation company.

Hubby works as a computer tech for IBM.

 

[katl8e]

I'm in training, to be a customer service rep, for Chrysler Financial Corp. After a while, I may be able to move up to team Leader, collections agent or Subject Matter Expert.

In the past, I've been a cocktail waitress, bartender, medical assistant and phlebotomist, among other things.

 

[kumbulu]

OK Cindy, I admit it, I had to look up Phlebotomist!

But now that I know, I won't spoil it for the others!

 

[spooky]

I looked up phlebotomist...very interesting, but not something I would ever do!

 

[julieb]

I used to be a chemist, but now I have my own business as a personal chef. I do grocery shopping and cooking for people in their homes. I go to each client's home (I have 11 clients) every week or two and fill up their fridge and freezer with meals for the week(s). Sometimes I do parties and holidays for my clients, but I don't do outside catering except for friends, as a little hobby.

I love my job, especially having lots of free time. I only work about 20-25 hours a week, but I still make enough to live on. My hubby makes up the difference with his pay, but I do all the housework, so it evens out. I liked working in the lab, too, but in science, there are a lot of egos thrashing into each other, and a lot of people in management who aren't trained for it, so I wasn't sad to lose that part of my life. Everything is so much simpler now, and my boss is a great lady!

 

[kumbulu]

and my boss is a great lady!

LOL Julie. Your job sounds great. Do you get clients who are very picky about what they will and won't eat?

 

[julieb]

Some are picky... I have about a dozen kids in my chef "family" and of course they have the usual kid aversions to mushrooms and olives and things like that. I have one guy who goes a bit wacko if there is a visible onion in his food - I have to grind them up into a mush in the food processor. Most are no problem at all, though.

 

[deb25]

I am the Lead Teacher in a Title I elementary school. Here in the U.S. that means that my school receives federal funding because the poverty level of our student population is high. About 90% of our kids receive free or reduced-price breakfast and lunch at school (based on family income). I am in a supervisory role of sorts.

 

[bren.1]

I'm a middle school teacher. That means I could quite possible be totally nuts. Especially at this time of the year, when the students are helping me further down the road to crazyland.

I teach Spanish and English as a Second Language (ESL), in an urban school, also Title 1. Like Deb, a large number of the students in my school qualify for free or reduced price breakfast and lunch.

As an ESL teacher, I get to work with children from all over the world. Most of our immigrants come from the Caribbean area, primarily Cuba and Puerto Rico, but we have a few Haitians, Africans (Togo and Ethiopia) and Latin Americans. It's interesting, and most of the immigrant students are better behaved than the ones who are born here.