What does everybody do for a living?
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Hi Rob Welcome to the club
I am a Certified Hospital Laundry Manager , I operate a shared services facility here in Ft Worth, We process for 5 small hospitals , Ambulance services , Mortican Service,( I hate that one) 5 Surgery Centers, And 3 Emergency Depts of larger hospitals.They are seperate divisions of the hospitals here. And a small 4 Diamond hotel. (only beacuse one of the Dr.s Own it and we could not get out of it) I have been here now almost 30 years and most of the time love my job . A post of most of our plant is on Deluxe thread # 8324 Most people call me "Mac" ( I assure you I have been called alot worse) most I couldn't post here. I got started at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Yes , I was there when President Kennedy was shot and they brought him in to the E. R. . I was working part time in the afternoons after school in the Laundry, I was working that day, My Grandmother was a Supv. in the laundry too. She worked there for 52 years. She started when she was 15.
I am a Certified Hospital Laundry Manager , I operate a shared services facility here in Ft Worth, We process for 5 small hospitals , Ambulance services , Mortican Service,( I hate that one) 5 Surgery Centers, And 3 Emergency Depts of larger hospitals.They are seperate divisions of the hospitals here. And a small 4 Diamond hotel. (only beacuse one of the Dr.s Own it and we could not get out of it) I have been here now almost 30 years and most of the time love my job . A post of most of our plant is on Deluxe thread # 8324 Most people call me "Mac" ( I assure you I have been called alot worse) most I couldn't post here. I got started at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Yes , I was there when President Kennedy was shot and they brought him in to the E. R. . I was working part time in the afternoons after school in the Laundry, I was working that day, My Grandmother was a Supv. in the laundry too. She worked there for 52 years. She started when she was 15.
jasonl
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I'm a computer tech. I fix/build/network computers. It's a fun job but dealing with people that constantly break their computers is not.
58limited
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Veterinarian, small animal.
teachers assistant plus checkout chick and storeperson at IGA (local supermarket), i'm also a student but that costs cash rather than gains it lol
Matt
Matt
Sales Manager for a regional cell phone company (Cricket) that provides unlimited talk time, flat-rated monthly services.
polkanut
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I work for Kolbe & Kolbe Millwork, a manufacturer of middle to high end windows, doors, and other types of specialty millwork. We are the 3rd largest employer in Marathon County.
maytagbear
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I am
a free-lance writer/editor/researcher, but it's not very steady. Interesting, but not steady. Sometimes there are months between writing assignments. Recently, I helped revise an operations manual for a local non-profit. Got my expenses from that.
I have a small partial disability income.
I know the odds are beyond absurd, but I buy one MegaMillions ticket a month. No more than one a month.
Lawrence/Maytagbear
a free-lance writer/editor/researcher, but it's not very steady. Interesting, but not steady. Sometimes there are months between writing assignments. Recently, I helped revise an operations manual for a local non-profit. Got my expenses from that.
I have a small partial disability income.
I know the odds are beyond absurd, but I buy one MegaMillions ticket a month. No more than one a month.
Lawrence/Maytagbear
whirlcool
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Airline Pilot, 757 Captain Northwest Airlines. I started out with North Central Airlines on the Convair 580 and then the DC-9 and via the mergers and buy outs ended up with Northwest. Even though I am near Houston, I commute to MSP where I am technically based.
washertalk
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2 jobs really-
I work for the city as a Municipal Custodial Maintenance Technician. --
I clean streets.
Specifically when something enters it alive but doesn't make it to the other side. (thou' scraper and d'wide shovel shall rule des world) yeppers
and
also for the city,
um, yaa...,
ya' know when someone lives alone
and they get older,
and older,
and older,
and then neighbors don't see the person for a month or so and there is this smell....
well after the city health inspector comes in and makes a "declaration",
then they call me to "tidy up". Under certain circumstances it can be RICHly rewarding(wink, wink), but lord I earn my bobbles. (the clothes pin for the nose and a downing of a few swigs of brandy before entering are the necessities for this job) Sometimes I wonder, Why me? I don't even eat meat. but hey, think where I would be if I didn't have my 'family' connections.
(shhh, actually I am a number cruncher with a pathetic sense of humor, a love of stuff from the 70's and 80's, and someone who is recovering from an illness I had almost all my life and am happier now more than ever to be alive.)
I work for the city as a Municipal Custodial Maintenance Technician. --
I clean streets.
Specifically when something enters it alive but doesn't make it to the other side. (thou' scraper and d'wide shovel shall rule des world) yeppers
and
also for the city,
um, yaa...,
ya' know when someone lives alone
and they get older,
and older,
and older,
and then neighbors don't see the person for a month or so and there is this smell....
well after the city health inspector comes in and makes a "declaration",
then they call me to "tidy up". Under certain circumstances it can be RICHly rewarding(wink, wink), but lord I earn my bobbles. (the clothes pin for the nose and a downing of a few swigs of brandy before entering are the necessities for this job) Sometimes I wonder, Why me? I don't even eat meat. but hey, think where I would be if I didn't have my 'family' connections.
(shhh, actually I am a number cruncher with a pathetic sense of humor, a love of stuff from the 70's and 80's, and someone who is recovering from an illness I had almost all my life and am happier now more than ever to be alive.)
vivalalavatrice
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Designer!
I got my diploma at highscholl in Accounting! So I should have been an accaountant... no!
As I alwasy run after my dreams... I decided that as I always wanted to applicate my creativity and my fantasy (where's creativity in accounting?!?!), although I'm better at writing than drawing, I start studying Industrial Design...
Did I do the right thing? Should I had to start working as an accountant befor deciding to continuing with the University? BU?
Nontheless now after five (hard!) years of studying (Graphic subjects, Technical subjects, Creative subjects, ecc.) I wish to undergraduate in the next summer! Obviously the final work (I call it "tesi") concern Washing Machine and all around them!
Then... I absolutely haven't got any idea if there is some opportunity for me to work anywhere in the world...
GoodBye and good luck to any other one found in the same situation as me!
A better world somewhere exists!
Diomede
I got my diploma at highscholl in Accounting! So I should have been an accaountant... no!
As I alwasy run after my dreams... I decided that as I always wanted to applicate my creativity and my fantasy (where's creativity in accounting?!?!), although I'm better at writing than drawing, I start studying Industrial Design...
Did I do the right thing? Should I had to start working as an accountant befor deciding to continuing with the University? BU?
Nontheless now after five (hard!) years of studying (Graphic subjects, Technical subjects, Creative subjects, ecc.) I wish to undergraduate in the next summer! Obviously the final work (I call it "tesi") concern Washing Machine and all around them!
Then... I absolutely haven't got any idea if there is some opportunity for me to work anywhere in the world...
GoodBye and good luck to any other one found in the same situation as me!
A better world somewhere exists!
Diomede
Truck driver for Patrick Industries,a local manufacturer of aluminum extrusions,and building supplies.
Oh,I also have a used appliance store!8^)
kennyGF
Oh,I also have a used appliance store!8^)
kennyGF
jasonl
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YAY! A trucker!
My dad was a trucker in the 70s and for the longest time I wanted to be one. Then I had the bright idea of being a computer tech. Well, no regrets!
My dad was a trucker in the 70s and for the longest time I wanted to be one. Then I had the bright idea of being a computer tech. Well, no regrets!
After being in the Computer Technolgy field for the past 28 years, starting as a mainframe operator to a consultant for the New York Stock Exchange, I walked out in July of this year, I am now an Artisan Bread baker for Wegman's Supermarket.
laundryboy
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Flight Attendant for jetBlue Airways and Real Estate broker for Century 21 Fine Homes & Estates
powerfin64
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self employed hairdresser of 22yrs.
Rich
Rich
I am the "Director of Consumer Relations" for an internet company that no one has ever heard of. Basically, I am a high paid receptionist. Sort of like Jennifer on "WKRP in Cincinatti" ;-)
whirlcool
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Oh, I forgot to mention that I am also on the Board of Directors of the 1940 Air Terminal Museum in Houston. We are in the process of restoring the original Houston Airline terminal and have a museum of artifacts from the "Golden Age of Aviation".
Most of us airline types usually have a secondary job of some kind.
Most of us airline types usually have a secondary job of some kind.
scott55405
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Whirlcool, now that I've seen your picture I'll have to pay closer attention at the "buh-bye now" portion of the flight, to see if it was you driving! LOL I know I ride on 757s quite a bit. Do you ever do Minneapolis to LA?
I am a word processor/computer/all around clerical person for an asbestos litigation law firm here in LA. Much smaller firm than the one I worked in in Minneapolis, but interesting work and lots of independence, which I thrive upon. I've been doing this type of work for about 20 years now, still like it, and don't really know what else I would do!
I am a word processor/computer/all around clerical person for an asbestos litigation law firm here in LA. Much smaller firm than the one I worked in in Minneapolis, but interesting work and lots of independence, which I thrive upon. I've been doing this type of work for about 20 years now, still like it, and don't really know what else I would do!
whirlcool
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Scott
Yes, I sometimes do work MSP-LAX, but recently I have been working the MSP-SEA,MSP-ANC and MSP-HNL run. Next month I bid on the Florida routes. If you hear a Captain with a slight Texas accent doing the PA's, please do stop by the flight deck on your way out. And thank you for flying Northwest!
Yes, I sometimes do work MSP-LAX, but recently I have been working the MSP-SEA,MSP-ANC and MSP-HNL run. Next month I bid on the Florida routes. If you hear a Captain with a slight Texas accent doing the PA's, please do stop by the flight deck on your way out. And thank you for flying Northwest!
irishwashguy
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Hello.
Believe it or not, i deliver pizza for a major pizza chain. It payes the bills for now. I am moving tward being something exciting when I grow up!! Grad school is coming up. I also have a cleaning business on the side, I do sheets for massage theoropists, I wash tons of sheets all of time.I also do the housekeeping for the Center for Vibrant Health in NE Portland. It keeps me busy.When I grow up, well, I will tell ya in a while when I have the dipolma in my hand.Lets just say that I will still work weekends and love every minute of it thank God
I have always been a people person,.Then again, I have been a person for as long as I can remember.
Believe it or not, i deliver pizza for a major pizza chain. It payes the bills for now. I am moving tward being something exciting when I grow up!! Grad school is coming up. I also have a cleaning business on the side, I do sheets for massage theoropists, I wash tons of sheets all of time.I also do the housekeeping for the Center for Vibrant Health in NE Portland. It keeps me busy.When I grow up, well, I will tell ya in a while when I have the dipolma in my hand.Lets just say that I will still work weekends and love every minute of it thank God
I have always been a people person,.Then again, I have been a person for as long as I can remember.abcomatic
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HI, Counselor and school teacher. This is my last year and will be retired from this at the end of this year. Gary
mistereric
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Lets see.. a DBA (filemaker mostly, a little SQL) and a certified Mac tech.
washerboy
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I wear several hats:
1) Case Manager for developmently challanged children and adults; and for a lighter case load I'm also the office administrator.
2) finance director for a non-profit music acadamy.
3) direct and teach childrens music K-3
4) Lab coordinator for FURR...Feline Urban Recovery and Release..just one Saturday a month.
And in my free time...............what free time...LOL!!
1) Case Manager for developmently challanged children and adults; and for a lighter case load I'm also the office administrator.
2) finance director for a non-profit music acadamy.
3) direct and teach childrens music K-3
4) Lab coordinator for FURR...Feline Urban Recovery and Release..just one Saturday a month.
And in my free time...............what free time...LOL!!
rolltideroll
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Drug Dealer.haha, not really... run my own shop repairing washers and dryer as well re-conditioning them to sell for profit. Pretty good in my area with so many folks on fixed incomes and not being able to afford new stuff and expensive house calls and repairs. I would never charge some of the unfair house call charges that some of these assholes around here do and I laugh everytime that I fix something for someone who has been told that they need a new transmission on a Kenmore when all it ever needed was lid switch. What demons some of these appliance repair stores have working for them.
oldwasherguy
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I am a maintenance man at the charleston airport. Don
Embedded Systems Programmer
I write programs for microprocessors and other small computers designed into larger devices, which gives them their controlling intelligence. (that's what it says on my resume) Actually it's a greatly enjoyable pastime, and gives me a creative outlet. (I can't draw or paint or carve worth a damn)
I write programs for microprocessors and other small computers designed into larger devices, which gives them their controlling intelligence. (that's what it says on my resume) Actually it's a greatly enjoyable pastime, and gives me a creative outlet. (I can't draw or paint or carve worth a damn)
laundromat
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I sell appliances For The Home Depot in Casselberry,Florida and average $1543/hr.according to our electronic annalisis.I have been the top sales associate in the entire United States for the past 18 consecutive months now.Too bad they don't pay us comission.I also restore appliances at home and just finished 2 Whirlpool Colypsos.One was not in any need of service at all.The other needed a new pump,motor replacement.I also got a 2004 Asko washer and matching dryer(W600 washer and D720 electric condensor dryer)that are in mint condition and I am doing my 4th load now.The problem???The dryer door switch pin (which is molded into the door from itself and made of cheap ass plastic)had broken off from the owner slaming the door so many times.The washer plugs into the dryer and the washer spins 1600 rpms!!! it also has a built in heater that will heat the wash water up to 206F !!!!!!!!!!!!! I hear that sweeds are not too fond of seeing "racing stripes" on their undies!!
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