Oracle Database Administrator who used to be a UNIX Systems adimistrator who used to be an Intergraph Computer Graphic Application Developer who used to be a Technical Illustrator that began as a Graphic Artist. I support DoD (Air Force) logistics systems in an enterprise wide environment.
Allen Fieldhouse, home of the 2008 NCAA men's Basketball Champions! Go Jayhawks!
Hail, Hail!!!
Wow...BTW you have one of the most important and admirable jobs on the planet.
Agreed...my fiance is a HS Social Studies Teacher and I admire her so damn much...she is one of the hardest working and most compasionate person I know.
Plus she is putting food on the table while my lame ass is still in school!
*Edit* Stay at home dad/mom is also an extremely admirable job...without my dad (he stayed at home while my mom worked) I would be nothing.
I'm trying to drink away the part of the day I cannot sleep away...
I was studying geography and history, wrote my papers but then gave up six months before my final exams (no, I don't regret my decision). I was working as a lawyer's secretary then, and now I'm a stay at home mom.
The responses this gets will probably be all over the place! (if everyone participates.)
I haven't had a 'real' job in almost 12 years. I'm a stay-at-home mom right now and my husband is a Soybean Trader at the Chicago Board of Trade. When I earned a paycheck, I managed a pager store. Some people won't know what that is!
I'm going back to school next year (or I might try to wing the state test) for certification to be a School Aide (Paraprofessional). I love helping out, might as well get paid for it.
I can identify with you. I wasn't in a paid position for 12 years, while I was a stay at home mum, raising my 3 kids. Now that they're old enough to be home without me, I have found myself some work. I work as a Disability Support Worker for an organisation called Yooralla. It specialises in accommodating people with disabilities (such as cerebral palsy, downs syndrome, rhett's syndrome, autism, intellectual disabilities and some with mental illnesses like bi-polarism etc). Many of the clients I look after are wheel-chair bound, some are ambulant. All need special assistance in some way or another but we encourage them to lead as independent lives as possible. We're simply there to assist them doing things they can't do for themselves, such as dressing, showering, meal assistance and any other type of personal care that they may require. They get taken out by parents/siblings etc but Yooralla provides special cru's (community residential units) where they reside full time. They have the freedom to live their own lives, some are in paid positions and most go to day centres where they are encouraged to participate in art work, crafts, cooking sessions, relaxation sessions, swimming sessions/hydrotherapy etc. We also get to take them out on occasional "one-on-one's" like out to dinner, movies, shopping excursions, concerts etc. For people who aren't fully independent Yooralla enables them to lead pretty reasonable sorts of lives considering they are disabled one way or another. I talk to quite a few of my clients about their interests and yesterday I came across one who likes PJ. Who knows if when PJ next come to Australia I may get to take him to one of their concerts, I'd really enjoy doing that!
Before I had my family I used to work in offices doing general office work and admin but as office jobs are so unfamily friendly I needed to change careers. I'm very glad that I did because I work for Yooralla as a shift worker and get to pick and choose what shifts I want so I'm always available to do special things with my children whenever I need to there for them.
"Call me Ishmael. Some years ago- never mind how long precisely- having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world." Herman Melville : Moby Dick
Regional Manager for Fuddruckers of NM, CO, and soon Utah.
Not really my dream job, but it pays the bills and then some.
No college, dropped out my freshman year of high school.
I think it interesting to see all the people that did go to college and are not doing what they went to school for.
Currently a high school science teacher- best job in the world. Studying my masters in astronomy next year, but will keep teaching at the same time.
Before this I spent 6 years doing crocodile feeding shows as a ranger in an Australian wildlife park- ideal warm-up for school kids.
Awesome!!! I spent a few months in Australia (Melbourne) and I had the chance to see a croc feeding show (maybe you, I don't know), but it was awesome...and yeah, Australia is my favorite country...gonna visit again real soon...maybe I wont come back this time...it's always nice to dream!
I'm trying to drink away the part of the day I cannot sleep away...
Awesome!!! I spent a few months in Australia (Melbourne) and I had the chance to see a croc feeding show (maybe you, I don't know), but it was awesome...and yeah, Australia is my favorite country...gonna visit again real soon...maybe I wont come back this time...it's always nice to dream!
That's cool- I want to do the opposite... move to the US for the climbing. But I just can't leave the bunch of students I currently teach until I have seen them through high school.
Unless you were up in North Queensland it wouldn't have been me doing the croc feeding. Good luck getting to Oz though!
That's cool- I want to do the opposite... move to the US for the climbing. But I just can't leave the bunch of students I currently teach until I have seen them through high school.
Unless you were up in North Queensland it wouldn't have been me doing the croc feeding. Good luck getting to Oz though!
Saving as we speak...hopefully I will honeymoon there!!
I'm trying to drink away the part of the day I cannot sleep away...
I own three businesses 1. Letting or Real Estate agent (whichever side of the pond you're on) 2. A Landlord with a portfolio of over 60 rental properties and 3. A newly opened Unisex Hair Dressing Salon. All keep me on my toes but its real fun doing your own thing except Tax and VAT returns which I am currently doing.
"First of all, there’s the palpable camaraderie and good feeling you get from the entire band as they smile and nod at each other, and huddle together in various formations throughout the show --- They look like they really like each other. They look stoked!"
i'm a geologist...
I work in a consultancy firm, managing development projects funded by european commission
2006: Antwerp, Paris
2007: Copenhagen, Werchter
2009: Rotterdam, London
2010: MSG, Arras, Werchter
2012: Amsterdam, Prague, Berlin
2014: Amsterdam, Stockholm
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Hail, Hail!!!
And you find time to do the PJ survivor series!
Wow...BTW you have one of the most important and admirable jobs on the planet.
Agreed...my fiance is a HS Social Studies Teacher and I admire her so damn much...she is one of the hardest working and most compasionate person I know.
Plus she is putting food on the table while my lame ass is still in school!
*Edit* Stay at home dad/mom is also an extremely admirable job...without my dad (he stayed at home while my mom worked) I would be nothing.
Interesting!! I work in clinical oncology research...phase 1 and 2 mostly.
It's a fun 15-minute diversion during my prep period every day.
Teaching, or running the Survivor threads?
Haha, just kidding, thanks! I couldn't imagine myself doing anything else, anywhere else.
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” - Albert Camus
Well...you could be in Northern California where the rest of us cool people are (insert happy face).
I couldn't help taking that shot.
Keep up the great work (both Survivor and Teaching)!
I can identify with you. I wasn't in a paid position for 12 years, while I was a stay at home mum, raising my 3 kids. Now that they're old enough to be home without me, I have found myself some work. I work as a Disability Support Worker for an organisation called Yooralla. It specialises in accommodating people with disabilities (such as cerebral palsy, downs syndrome, rhett's syndrome, autism, intellectual disabilities and some with mental illnesses like bi-polarism etc). Many of the clients I look after are wheel-chair bound, some are ambulant. All need special assistance in some way or another but we encourage them to lead as independent lives as possible. We're simply there to assist them doing things they can't do for themselves, such as dressing, showering, meal assistance and any other type of personal care that they may require. They get taken out by parents/siblings etc but Yooralla provides special cru's (community residential units) where they reside full time. They have the freedom to live their own lives, some are in paid positions and most go to day centres where they are encouraged to participate in art work, crafts, cooking sessions, relaxation sessions, swimming sessions/hydrotherapy etc. We also get to take them out on occasional "one-on-one's" like out to dinner, movies, shopping excursions, concerts etc. For people who aren't fully independent Yooralla enables them to lead pretty reasonable sorts of lives considering they are disabled one way or another. I talk to quite a few of my clients about their interests and yesterday I came across one who likes PJ. Who knows if when PJ next come to Australia I may get to take him to one of their concerts, I'd really enjoy doing that!
Before I had my family I used to work in offices doing general office work and admin but as office jobs are so unfamily friendly I needed to change careers. I'm very glad that I did because I work for Yooralla as a shift worker and get to pick and choose what shifts I want so I'm always available to do special things with my children whenever I need to there for them.
(whatever that means
"Call me Ishmael. Some years ago- never mind how long precisely- having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world." Herman Melville : Moby Dick
equals the loneliness you get
Basically make navigational charts that ships and other mariners use to navigate
http://www.myspace.com/ozbeachbum
7/11/06 - Sydney 1
18/11/06 - Sydney 3
19/11/06 - Newcastle Baby!
Well I'm a FedEx Courier....you Under Paid Slave.
let the feud begin...I personally use Doug over at IPS
Can you teach everyone not to say 'like' every second word. Oh and 'do you know what I mean'
Not really my dream job, but it pays the bills and then some.
No college, dropped out my freshman year of high school.
I think it interesting to see all the people that did go to college and are not doing what they went to school for.
Why?
Before this I spent 6 years doing crocodile feeding shows as a ranger in an Australian wildlife park- ideal warm-up for school kids.
Awesome!!! I spent a few months in Australia (Melbourne) and I had the chance to see a croc feeding show (maybe you, I don't know), but it was awesome...and yeah, Australia is my favorite country...gonna visit again real soon...maybe I wont come back this time...it's always nice to dream!
23/09/2006 Berlin, 30/09/2006 Athens, 18/07/2007 London
02/07/2009 Honolulu (EV Solo), 22/11/2009, Sydney, 29/11/2009 Christchurch
That's cool- I want to do the opposite... move to the US for the climbing. But I just can't leave the bunch of students I currently teach until I have seen them through high school.
Unless you were up in North Queensland it wouldn't have been me doing the croc feeding. Good luck getting to Oz though!
Saving as we speak...hopefully I will honeymoon there!!
When I've finished I'll start teacher training to be a special educational needs primary teacher
Wembley 18/06/07
If there was a reason, it was you.
O2 Arena 18/09/09
Currently on maternaty leave though. I will go back to school in February.
My dream job would be as a sound designer/programmer in the gaming industry.
Actually no I'm not, my occupation is thus:
I own three businesses 1. Letting or Real Estate agent (whichever side of the pond you're on) 2. A Landlord with a portfolio of over 60 rental properties and 3. A newly opened Unisex Hair Dressing Salon. All keep me on my toes but its real fun doing your own thing except Tax and VAT returns which I am currently doing.
I work in a consultancy firm, managing development projects funded by european commission
2007: Copenhagen, Werchter
2009: Rotterdam, London
2010: MSG, Arras, Werchter
2012: Amsterdam, Prague, Berlin
2014: Amsterdam, Stockholm