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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 4, 2018 20:07:10 GMT -5
I know there are some teachers and lawyers here , but I'm always guessing what everyone here does. I'll start it off for those who don't know- I am and have been a mailman with the United States Postal Service for 34 years.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2018 20:26:22 GMT -5
Retired (since 2007), but worked in REI for brief period of time and later on spent 22 years working at Boeing as Computer Specialist -- with emphasis on Server Repair, Programming and Coding, and Computer Diagnostics. Worked on the 737 Line and served on a team that created a plan to speeds up production of that plane by another three a month. I didn't have much of a life from 1980 to 1999 because of work and that the time -- that I've didn't read much comic books.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 4, 2018 20:58:46 GMT -5
I'm a criminal defense attorney. I was in court 6 1/2 hours today.
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Post by brianf on Sept 4, 2018 21:44:07 GMT -5
I'm one of the owners of a night club, I also book live music and DJ on a Seattle radio station.
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Post by Rob Allen on Sept 4, 2018 21:44:34 GMT -5
I do software support for the largest supplier of computers, software, phone systems, websites etc. to the vehicle dealers of the world. My specialty now is our document archiving module.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Sept 4, 2018 22:26:05 GMT -5
I work for a company that manufactures and supplies parts and expendables for mud pumps on oil and gas land drilling rigs.
The mud pump is designed to pump “mud” (a slang for any number of chemicals used depending on circumstances) that pumps the mud down the drill pipe and out through the drill bit to push drilling debris back up the hole and out. The mud and debris is then ran through desilters, desanders, and shakers (like “panning” for gold) to clean the mud of said foreign objects than cycle it back through the mud pump to do it again.
The downside is we are a 24/7 service. And once every 4 week’s intake call for any emergencies that might arise.
A living example to my son’s of get an education and you can do better than Dad.
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Post by Prince Hal on Sept 4, 2018 22:35:53 GMT -5
Retired in 2015. Taught English (all levels, all years) in high school (and some junior high) for 37 years. Wrote a weekly column and features for the local weekly for 25 or so of those years, too. Directed about 40 plays for the high school between 1999 and 2015 as well as running the yearbook for 19.
Still occasionally teaching as a long-term sub, have also taught at the local CC and have been teaching and volunteering at a local theatre/ arts center where I also am doing some directing. (Next summer, Much Ado About Nothing.)
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Post by Cei-U! on Sept 5, 2018 0:31:55 GMT -5
I'm a former Data Administrator for the Washington State Attorney General's Office, where my duties included database design, business process analysis, and meeting management. Prior to that, I was (in no particular order) a COBOL programmer, a methodologies analyst, a documentation specialist, a buyer for a western art gallery, a freelance commercial artist, a disability services advisor to Community Transit in Olympia, and (briefly, as a child) a professional clown. Currently, I'm a writer for TwoMorrows Publishing. Tomorrow...?
Cei-U!
I summon the c.v.!
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Post by Confessor on Sept 5, 2018 2:38:35 GMT -5
I'm a musician, making my living from playing in pubs, clubs and at weddings/birthdays/corporate events etc. I also run a couple of open mic nights.
I've been a pro or semi-pro musician since I left school, but I did also have some crappy day jobs early on, such as working in a specialist mail order record store (this was late 90s, pre-internet commerce), working as a bookbinder, being a telemarketer, and a short spell working as a music journalist.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Sept 5, 2018 3:49:19 GMT -5
I work as a translator, which I have been doing more or less consistently since about 1992 - when I moved from the US to Croatia. Also during that time, I've often worked in the media in some capacity; in the 1990s I often worked as a production assistant (better known as a fixer) for foreign television crews, and from the mid-1990s until the beginning of this year I worked part-time for the national broadcaster's foreign language radio service as a translator, newsreader and reporter.
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Post by The Captain on Sept 5, 2018 5:19:45 GMT -5
I work in the supply chain department for a company that owns and operates electricity generating facilities, supporting three plants for services and non-stock materials procurement and one plant as their inventory manager (with two more to be added at the end of the year). Since I graduated college (the first time) years ago, I have also been a comic book shop manager, a researcher for the mortgage industry, a restaurant manager, two year hiatus to get a second degree, a supply chain consultant/project manager, and I worked in supply chain in the natural gas industry in a number of non-management and management roles for a decade before getting laid off and winding up where I am now. Cei-U! - sorry to hear about the COBOL programming job. I had to take four semesters of COBOL in college to get my MIS degree, and I can't imagine doing it for a living. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Sept 5, 2018 5:53:06 GMT -5
I’m a molecular biologist. I closed the lab ten years ago and now teach full time. I’m also a cartoonist, but to say that I do that for a living would be bragging, as it really doesn’t pay much!!! I also used to teach karate part-time but retired from it after a few injuries to the spine and right arm.
My wife and I also founded a timber company but since we reaaaally don't like to cut trees down we still have to make a penny out of it! Mostly we just enjoy walking on our lot with nobody saying “get off mah lawn”.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2018 6:11:46 GMT -5
My wife and I also founded a timber company but since we reaaaally don't like to cut trees down we still have to make a penny without of it! Mostly we just enjoy walking on our lot with nobody saying “get off mah lawn”. Interesting -- you've founded a timber company and I'm surprised to learned this! |
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Post by Cei-U! on Sept 5, 2018 7:26:46 GMT -5
Cei-U - sorry to hear about the COBOL programming job. I had to take four semesters of COBOL in college to get my MIS degree, and I can't imagine doing it for a living. Four semesters? My total training was eight months of classroom work (resulting in an associate degree) followed by a four-month internship with PACCAR, where I subsequently worked for a hair over four years. I hated that job with a passion but it wasn't COBOL's fault. COBOL did open the door, though, for other opportunities (I loved business process analysis) so I'm grateful for it... but I'll die a happy man if I never have to write (or debug) another line of code.
Cei-U! I summon the JCL!
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Post by brutalis on Sept 5, 2018 7:48:46 GMT -5
For the last 15 years I am the Administrative Assistant in a major hospital here in the north west part of Phoenix for several departments: Medical-Surgical which consists of 4 units each with a primary and secondary diagnosis/treatments (general patient population), Observation Unit (12-24 hour admissions), Renal Dialysis Unit, In-Patient and Out-Patient Wound Care unit. Along with that I am a designated Fortis/billing/Purchasing data entry/scanning information to Accounts Payable and had been Administrative Assistant for 2 1/2 years to the ICU (Intensive Care Unit) unit until it expanded to 2 units and became a part of our Emergency Department. Also Preceptor/instructor/trainer for new hire Administrative Assistants to the hospital.
Before this job I was a Medical Office Manager for Private Practice Physicians (several different groups over the years: Orthopedic Surgeons, OBGYN office and Out Patient Physical Therapy (each one from 4-6 years).
Fresh out of high school went to work in local Grocery Store Chain as maintenance/cleaner of the Meat and butcher department where after 2 years of that I became a Licensed Journeyman Butcher/Meat Cutter for 11 years. Saw the future of this going away as stores began ordering pre-cut/packaged meats and went into the medical field just before the local grocery company I was working for was bought/sold to a Canadian company that drained the stores of revenue to cover their losses before closing the stores in Arizona about a year after I left.
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