Occupation of Pearl Jam Fans

covered in bliss wrote:

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.

I load trucks for a distribution center.

UPSDan wrote:

i am a center manager at UPS

Well I'm a FedEx Courier....you Under Paid Slave.

SoapMakesUTaller wrote:

Well I'm a FedEx Courier....you Under Paid Slave.

let the feud begin...I personally use Doug over at IPS

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.

In the UK i'm a civil Engineer while back home in New Zealand i'm a Licensed Cadastral Surveyor

ClimberInOz wrote:

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 am doing a M.Sc. in computer science/sound engineering.

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.

i'm a geologist...
I work in a consultancy firm, managing development projects funded by european commission