JMT said:You must be very handy with an Allen Wrench.
Well I have used one a few times
In sweden they are called an IKEA-key
What job do you have and do you like it?
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Well I have used one a few times
In sweden they are called an IKEA-key
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It's so wonderful to see such a wide variety of people having a common interest! Keep the responses going! 
I am a nurse and work in the NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit).
I thought I would be an accountant but those little boxes drove me nuts. I bounced around in college and fell in love with the medical field after taking an EMT class as an elective.
I was very fortunate to be hired into the NICU right out of school and fell in love with it immediately. I work 12 hour nights by choice and my schedule is flexable as to which days I work. At times the work can be heart wrenching but most of the time it is very rewarding.
Jean
LOL and of course I make soap in my off hours.
I thought I would be an accountant but those little boxes drove me nuts. I bounced around in college and fell in love with the medical field after taking an EMT class as an elective.
I was very fortunate to be hired into the NICU right out of school and fell in love with it immediately. I work 12 hour nights by choice and my schedule is flexable as to which days I work. At times the work can be heart wrenching but most of the time it is very rewarding.
Jean
LOL and of course I make soap in my off hours.
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Hi ladyintheroom (name?),
Something tells me you will get some questions from the soaplovers around here to get more information on the kind of soaps + scents that you make and whether or not you sell them. Just to let you know, that's all.
Something tells me you will get some questions from the soaplovers around here to get more information on the kind of soaps + scents that you make and whether or not you sell them. Just to let you know, that's all.
letterk said:
John, it wasn't alway fun like this. I have paid my dues. I have been with the same employer for 16 years through good times and bad. I have learned every job in the dealership so wherever I am needed I can fill in. For years I was the first one at work and the last one to leave. Now I relax and earn a nice income. It took me years to get to this position.
tonyespo said:
Just put in a good word for me when you retire.
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Tony,
I think those who paid their dues with an employer deserve some calmer times and a job which suits them perfectly. I can honestly say that I'm glad you are in that position!
I think those who paid their dues with an employer deserve some calmer times and a job which suits them perfectly. I can honestly say that I'm glad you are in that position!
I work for the US Patent Office examining patent applications. Thats right I spend all day reading papers. Not a bad job but it does sometimes make my current sig. all the more applicable. You do it for awhile and you feel like you have no mind left. It has been sucked dry by the number of papers you have looked at.
My degree is in Agriculture Development with a minor in Education. I taught for a year at a high school just outside of Beaumont and ran afoul of small town politics.
Now I'm training to be a seating specialist and provider of rehab equipment and custom wheelchairs/seating systems for special needs kids. I've been there for about 15 months and am enjoying it quite a lot.
Now I'm training to be a seating specialist and provider of rehab equipment and custom wheelchairs/seating systems for special needs kids. I've been there for about 15 months and am enjoying it quite a lot.
Well I design the watchamacallit that goes in the doohicky..yeah that doohicky!!!
But in my spare time I train law enforcement agencies to collect crime statistics. I work for the Texas Department of Public Safety and also I am a license peace officer. I worked as a police officer for 5 years which gave an insider's point of view into how police agencies work. I am responsible for 24 counties and over 225 agencies in North Texas. I travel 85% of the time. Right now I am on special assignment in South Texas. These statistics are the stats that news agencies, local and national, provide to the general public. We in turn provide these stats to the FBI who compile stats from across the nation. These stats are open records so they can be easily access by the public.
Rafael
But in my spare time I train law enforcement agencies to collect crime statistics. I work for the Texas Department of Public Safety and also I am a license peace officer. I worked as a police officer for 5 years which gave an insider's point of view into how police agencies work. I am responsible for 24 counties and over 225 agencies in North Texas. I travel 85% of the time. Right now I am on special assignment in South Texas. These statistics are the stats that news agencies, local and national, provide to the general public. We in turn provide these stats to the FBI who compile stats from across the nation. These stats are open records so they can be easily access by the public.
Rafael
ladyintheroom said:I am a nurse and work in the NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit).
I thought I would be an accountant but those little boxes drove me nuts. I bounced around in college and fell in love with the medical field after taking an EMT class as an elective.
I was very fortunate to be hired into the NICU right out of school and fell in love with it immediately. I work 12 hour nights by choice and my schedule is flexable as to which days I work. At times the work can be heart wrenching but most of the time it is very rewarding.
Jean
LOL and of course I make soap in my off hours.
Jean,
I would like to thank you and all nurses for your dedication and hard-work. My daughter spent 2 months in the NICU after a traumatic birth. If it wasn't for nurses taking excellent care of her, she may not even be here today.
THANK YOU!!
Creslin said:
Seth,
Where are you located?
My daughter is a special needs kid, and it would be nice to know someone in the equipment field, to ask questions and recommendations, as she grows older.
I would also like to thank you for doing your job! Thank you!
I'm a very junior associate at a very large law firm. I actually really like most of the people I work with, but don't care for my job. It has a way of being either exhausting, or mindnumbingly boring. On the one hand I am racking my brains trying to find the argument that the partner I'm working for just knows is out there, or flying around trying to get some filing out, where everything is being done at the last minute (everything is always done at the last minute everywhere). On the other hand, I'm digging reviewing hundreds of thousands of pages of mostly irrelevant documents.
On the whole, though, it actually is a pretty decent job, at a pretty decent firm. The hours are bad, but not nearly as bad as they are for a lot of other people I know in the field. And the pay is very good. Although NYC has a way of sucking it up like nowhere else I've lived.
On the whole, though, it actually is a pretty decent job, at a pretty decent firm. The hours are bad, but not nearly as bad as they are for a lot of other people I know in the field. And the pay is very good. Although NYC has a way of sucking it up like nowhere else I've lived.
i'm a porn star in short films....my career has had its ups and downs...but overall it's been good to me despite of the shortcomings....
actually for 27 years i have been in the automobile business, like tonyespo....i worked at one dealership for 16 years until i decided to move back to my hometown, where i became the internet manager and have enjoyed my work and family for the past 9 years.
maybe i could move to the carolinas and take over tony's job when he retires this year...
actually for 27 years i have been in the automobile business, like tonyespo....i worked at one dealership for 16 years until i decided to move back to my hometown, where i became the internet manager and have enjoyed my work and family for the past 9 years.
maybe i could move to the carolinas and take over tony's job when he retires this year...
TraderJoe said:
1 yr? Even the sections of the office with the shortest pendancy don't look at new applications for approximately 1 yr. The actual examination/response process between the examiner and attorney can easily take a year and easily more more. My specific area is currently looking at applications that were filed in 2003. As for pushing it through quicker, the application would have to be in my field and I can only look at applications that my supervisor has assigned to me and they normally assign only 15-20 applications to an examiner at a time.
I am a supervisor on a variable annuity sales desk. In short, I coach my employees (internal wholesalers) to in-turn help financial advisors solve their client's retirement needs. You got to love layers! Anyway it decent pay, a fun and dynamic environment. I work with a great management group and they give me 4 weeks vacation each year. I can't complain! 
mark the shoeshine boy said:
That's funny Mark after I retire from my car job, I was thinking about becoming a Porn Star. I'm willing to practice everyday to be on top of my job assignment.
I am in the middle of retirement! I have sold the first business that I founded in '89, see www.clarkwire.com selling and designing specialty audio video and camera cables for the broadcasting industry. The second business is up for sale and I might have a buyer... I hope, making outdoor light displays for Christmas and other holidays, see www.holidaylightingdisplays.com
Once retired I hope to continue to live in my home, renting out the vacation rental, making soap and traveling in my RV. I want to make soap and learn more about everything, from perfumes to Francais. I am an avid book reader and love the internet and am actually learning French on my computer as I would love to visit the French Alps someday. Developers are after my land tho, so I am not sure where home is going to be down the road....
I have loved everything I have ever done, but it got frustrating for me when I had people trying to steal the paperwork to start their own businesses and embezzeling from me. I have decided to never have a business with employees again.. if I can't do it on my own, it's time to pass it on to someone else.. the thing is, I am happy as can be making soap, traveling, learning and renting the vacation apartment to fabulously interesting people from all over the world.
I am also a member of the patriot guard. see www.patriotguard.org We make sure that the loved ones who are coming home from Iraq in a flag draped casket are brought home with the respect and honor that they deserve and buried with honor. This is as important to the families as it is to us..
Sue (Mama Bear)
Once retired I hope to continue to live in my home, renting out the vacation rental, making soap and traveling in my RV. I want to make soap and learn more about everything, from perfumes to Francais. I am an avid book reader and love the internet and am actually learning French on my computer as I would love to visit the French Alps someday. Developers are after my land tho, so I am not sure where home is going to be down the road....
I have loved everything I have ever done, but it got frustrating for me when I had people trying to steal the paperwork to start their own businesses and embezzeling from me. I have decided to never have a business with employees again.. if I can't do it on my own, it's time to pass it on to someone else.. the thing is, I am happy as can be making soap, traveling, learning and renting the vacation apartment to fabulously interesting people from all over the world.
I am also a member of the patriot guard. see www.patriotguard.org We make sure that the loved ones who are coming home from Iraq in a flag draped casket are brought home with the respect and honor that they deserve and buried with honor. This is as important to the families as it is to us..
Sue (Mama Bear)
