DUers, what do you do for a living?

[11 Bravo]

I've been a public school teacher for the past 31 years.

[ulysses]

1. a toast to you.

I'm in my first year teaching in a public school. :toast:

[11 Bravo]

3. Goodonya!

Welcome to one of the most rewarding (emotionally) and least rewarding (financially) jobs on the planet.

[ulysses]

10. well, you have my thanks

Helluva long time to do this job. Kudos!

[tuvor]

29. Best of luck to you!

I taught public school for a year before realizing it wasn't for me.

[meganmonkey]

2. Work for a nonprofit hunger relief org.

I've been there for about a year and a half. I plan to stick around - it's my dream job.

[achtung_circus]

4. For the last 11 years

I have been an enforcement officer for SPCA. Prior to that construction management and cowboy.

[politicaholic]

5. I'm a writer.

I write comedy, television commercials and do some radio work.

[Lauri16]

6. Customer Service Clerk

I love it, although some days it *can* get a little unnerving.

[specedteacher]

7. Special Ed Teacher Here

I'm a 4th generation teacher and have been at it since 1998.

[11 Bravo]

23. My hat's off to you.

I changed my major from Special Ed to Elementary Ed after a student teaching experience with some profoundly impaired children. I found myself heading back to the dorm after school, and just sitting on my bed with my head in my hands. It takes a special kind of individual.

[El Fuego]

8. Patent law

[clydefrand]

9. I was an elementary teacher after 3 years of high school.

Taught for 32 years. Retired in '96. So now, I'm a snowbird in Florida. Just got a bike last Friday and love it. Can't ride one back home...too hilly and I'm too out of shape for that.

[n2mark]

12. I'm retired but....

I was a Director of a Child Development Center before retiring.

I also was a damn good Director.

[xmas74]

11. 9-1-1 dispatcher

[Melynn]

13. Computer Operator

on the night shift. It gives me time to post on DU.

[SOteric]

14. I am

a pro-bono stripper who performs at hospices across the country. I specialize in giving lap dances to the terminally ill. I don't care if it's a woman or a man. I do whatever I can to make a patient's last days on this earth pleasurable. I am currently organizing a Lapdance-a-thon to raise funds for Children with Learning Disorders and/or Bad Acne here in the Pacific Northwest. CwLDa/oBA is an organization I founded three years ago in response to the staggering number of children with learning disorders and/or bad acne I encountered stripping at local hospices.

I guess I just care a lot about people.

[progmom]

19. snarf!

[GOPisEvil]

22. *snerk!*

:D

[Wapsie B]

33. LOL

[ulysses]

35. you tease and you tease...

;-)

[GOPisEvil]

15. Mid-level state government drone.

Edit - I'd LOVE to find another line of work. :-)

[11 Bravo]

37. Don't leave, we need subversives in government.

Especially in Texas. (If you see Governor Goodhair, please tell him I said to kiss my ass.)

[GOPisEvil]

39. I like working for the state, but I dislike my current position.

My boss' boss' boss is a direct Goodhair appointee. :eyes:

I've got my eye on other state jobs, and non-state jobs for that matter.

[11 Bravo]

44. Good luck.

And of course, any day with a tee time is, by definition, a good day, so screw work.

[GOPisEvil]

57. Thanks! I need all the luck I can get.

I'm going to try to get back to playing on Sunday mornings like I used to.

[name not needed]

16. burnt out high school student

[Fenris]

17. I am a drain on my family.

[Stop_the_War]

18. I'm al-Qaeda spokesman

:evilgrin: :evilgrin:
Just kidding!

[usregimechange]

54. I have some advise if men in black cars start following you.

Run like hell! We may not torture you but we can ship you to another country that can! :-)

[DemoTex]

20. Retired airline captain (MD-80, Boeing 737-300/400)

I am now a full-time writer. For over twenty years during my airline career I was an aviation writer and editor for a couple of semi-respectable world-wide aviation publications.


MD-80 front-office.

[A HERETIC I AM]

36. DemoTex - Ever write for Aviation Week?

I used to subscribe and enjoyed it thoroughly. GREAT mag!

[DemoTex]

48. Nope, but the prior editor-in-chief of AWST is a good friend, David North.

The new guy at AW&ST, Tony Velocci, is an old editorial enemy of mine.

Dave North and I were once at a dog-and-pony show for a new British Aerospace airplane, the Jetstream 41, in Prestwick Scotland. It was fun. There was a lot of grappa one night with the primary test pilots. I stayed sober and gleaned another 500 words or so on a tail-flutter problem. So did Dave. As a weekly, he beat me to the punch.

Anyway, Dave flew fighters from a carrier in the South China Sea in the early days of Vietnam. Marty Shagrue, the court-appointed trustee during the Eastern Airlines bankruptcy, was a squadron-mate of David North in Vietnam. He is dead now. He fucked many, many people.

The relationship goes deeper, but not for DU. David North is still a good friend.

Mac

[Les BOOGIE]

43. you know Toots L?

??????

[progmom]

21. Dictator for life

...of my own private Idaho.

[guitar man]

24. Master Control Engineer

I run a television station, "button pusher". Actually, I don't push many buttons anymore, we have computers that do all the switching now, I just tell the computers what to do then watch as they do it.

I work 2nd shift, so I am here by myself most all the time. Love it.

[katamaran]

60. Television Graphic Artist

Second shift as well....3pm to 11pm...so I get the night time newscasts. ABC affiliate in VA, pretty liberal environment. Love not having the bosses around. Just wish I got paid more to draw pictures ;-)

[guitar man]

62. ha

"get paid more" and "television job" don't go together very well these days :(

[katamaran]

65. Sure as heck not in THIS market....

...they can pay the anchors 100K+ to READ FROM A TV SCREEN and wear makeup, but they can't pay the people who bust their collective @sses every day any night a decent wage. In the middle of contract negotiations right now as a matter of fact. Gonna find out just how "integral to the station" I am ;-)

[guitar man]

67. contract?

what's that? Oh yeah, that's those things the bigwigs get. I wish we would go union here, but it ain't gonna happen. :(

[Stop_the_War]

25. I get paid to promote the gay agenda...BWAHAHAHA!

:evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin:

[MediumBrownDog]

26. Trial lawyer....

Some days, the most unpopular profession on earth, it seems.

[Nikia]

27. Quality Assurance-Food industry

I do all sorts of laboratory tests on our company's products as well as physical and taste testing of it. I also supervise and review the processing of our product to make sure that it is compatible with our qulaity standards, HACCP plan, and government regulations. I analyze results, keep all the pertainent records, and am responsible for everything in my lab. I really would like to make a change as this job is a high stress, no glory job and is no longer interesting to me. I have had this job for almost 4 years and have worked in the industry for almost 5. I have a BA in biology. If anyone has some suggestions as to what else I could do for at least of $25,000/year and good insurance, let me know please.

[sleepyhead]

34. Are you near a university?

When I was at loose ends between getting a terminal master's degree in chemistry and preparing to go to vet school, I worked in research labs at several different medical schools. I learned a lot of new skills, and the work was interesting. This was way back in the early 80s and things may have changed since then, but the pay was good (around 22K/yr back then) and I had health insurance, plenty of vacation time, and a pension plan. You could check out medical, dental, and veterinary schools if there are any in your area.

To answer the original question, I am a veterinarian (for 16 years), with a small animal practice that I have owned with my husband (also a veterinarian) for the last 5 years.

[Cornjob]

28. QA Manager - Steel Plant

Still enjoy it after 35 years!

[keithjx]

30. Environmental attorney

for the state of Montana. But I'm hoping to join a private firm w/in the month....
KJ

[tuvor]

31. Merchandising for some chain stores.

Before that I was a production coordinator for a company that does English adaptation for anime, and before that I was working on my illustrious dotcom career ;) and before that I worked at a print shop...

Jack of all trades, master of none.

[sweetladybug]

40. I work for the Tennessean Newspaper in the Circulation/Sales Dept

But before this job I worked for about 15 years as a Case Manager for senior citizens. I love working with seniors but my husband was seriously injuried 4 yrs old and I stayed home for 2 yrs to care for him, when I started back to work I needed a job that paid more money than social work.

[A HERETIC I AM]

32. Mobile marketing. Tractor Trailer based displays and promotions

currently on a NASCAR related program promoting Nextel phones. In this business since 1988 except 5 years hauling cars. Been driving tractor trailers for almost 20 years On edit to say i am in SoCal right now and will be doing a promo in Fontana on Thursday at Race Fest so any SoCal DUers that like racing --- COME ON BY!!

[Kathy in Cambridge]

38. The Willy Loman of security software

[NNadir]

41. I get abducted by aliens.

It's not the best living but someone has to do it.

[A HERETIC I AM]

42. You sure thats not a hobby? nt

[graywarrior]

45. Getting newbies riled up, evidently

I'm tired of breaking in newbies to my sick sense of humor

[11 Bravo]

47. Hey, it's a dirty job, but someone's gotta do it.

:toast:

[yellowdogintexas]

46. Customer Service Representative, currently taking calls for a

mortgage banking company.

[MnFats]

49. I am part of the monolithic liberal media

in other words, a journalist...

[usregimechange]

50. Social work intern soon to be an MSW. 84 days.

[intheozone]

51. Paralegal, Business/Tax dept of large law firm. nt

[Joe Power]

52. Web Developer/Designer

If you call that a living. ;)

[flamingyouth]

53. I own a china shop.

I want to go back to school to become a licensed massage therapist and yoga teacher, however.

[Guy Fawkes]

55. Student (High school)...

and amature computer repair.

[solinvictus]

56. Former insurance sales consultant...

Now looking for about any damn thing that'll pay rent.

[grace0418]

58. Graphic Designer

I design tacky, low-quality crap stationery items for evil places like Walmart. Can you tell I hate my job?

[no name no slogan]

59. I'm a tech worker for state government

I manage the web site for the largest agency in my state (Dept. of Human Services). I am a dot-com refugee who actually never got rich from the so-called dot-com boom, believe it or not.

[enigmatic]

61. This!

http://www.radioenigma.com

[General Zod]

63. I work for a large bank

My position is what they call a Sr.Retail Loan Processor, but I actually do title research.

[the Princess]

64. I'm a professional pain in the ass

I'm very good at what I do. It's a tough job - but I get weekends off and overtime and 2 weeks paid vacation.

Life is good.

[MrSandman]

66. I would have guessed infantryman...

Psychotherapist here.

[11 Bravo]

72. A Shau Valley '70-'71

Since you recognized the MOS, I'm guessing you might have worn the green suit yourself once upon a time?

[KittyWampus]

68. Innkeeper & Artist

[prairierose]

69. I try to teach....

college freshmen to write papers. I've been doing this for most of 20 years. I took time off here or there when I couldn't stand it any longer. I think I'm going to look for something else. I really don't know how much longer I will have a job after the Education budget cuts. We'll see. I have many very bright students who want to learn but I have many who aren't interested in anything. It gets frustrating at times.

I also write poetry but that sure doesn't pay!

[Aristus]

70. Certified Medical Assistant and phlebotomy technician.

I'm studying to be a Physician's Assistant. I love the medical field. :-)

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

71. Labor law

[SCDem]

73. Public Health

and all that it entails
writing grants, educating adults and physicians, getting people to focus on primary prevention rather than secondary prevention. Being underfunded and overlooked!

[RebelOne]

74. Copy editor for outdoors magazines

published in 48 states.