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I work as a decorative painter and faux finisher, I've been an independent contractor for two years but I have roughly 8 yrs experience in the trade.
 
I went to art school for two years and finished up at a liberal arts school with a BA, double major in Art and Writing. My senior thesis project included a body of short stories and a gallery show of artists books.
 
Besides painting I've worked in child care in various capacities, and I also tried my hand at being a corporate slave - accounts payable administrator. Boy was that a blast.

I don't think mine is the answer you are looking for, but seeing as I do have a job, I guess I can answer. It would probably help though if I knew exactly what my title is. I think i'm called a Home Therapist. Isn't that nice and indescript? I work with children with autism. I have an A.A. in Education, and am pursuing a B.S. Ed. After that I am not entirely sure what my plans are. I will have to get Masters in order to teach for more than a few years, but I have no clue where I will be doing that, and what exactly I am going to do. Tomorrow i'll be starting my first semester as a senior, but as it is nearly impossible to graduate from the program on time (the 4 year program is really 4 1/2, or 2 1/2 for people who transferred from a community college, most of the time). So, I have 3 semesters left including my student teaching.
Before my current job I worked in a daycare, before that I worked at petsmart, and before that I worked in my uncle's office putting together tax returns.

I have a B.A. in Linguistics, and am a certified Teacher of English to Speakers of Other Languages.  I teach in an elementary school in Brooklyn.  I work with children from all over the world (China, Mexico, Egypt, Palestine, Israel, Albania, Italy, Malaysia, Guatemala, Venezuela, Ukraine, and Russia, to name a few...) who speak many different languages, and who have all migrated here with their families.  I work with children in grades 3,4, & 5.  I love my job, working with such a diverse population and helping them in a very special way.  I wouldn't trade it for anything.
 
I am starting my masters degree next Tuesday!!!  in Multicultural and International Education.  It is a individualized program that I design myself, will include a few internships (hopefully working with refugee children) and a study abroad in Shanghai, China!  I am very excited about it, but it is going to be tons of work going to school and teaching full time.... I can handle it though!

I am a first grade teacher.
 
My original bachelors degree was in mass communication and after doing advertising sales and PR for about a year, I joined an alternate route masters program for education.  I have had my M.A.T (masters degree in Teaching) for a little over a year and this will be my 4th year teaching.  I did one year in Baltimore City teaching 5th grade which was a horrible experience and then switched to a private school in the city doing 1st grade.  I am finally where I wanted to be all along, 1st grade in Baltimore County.  I will be pursuing my Math Specialist degree next semester (at least that is my plan as of now).

I have my BA in accounting.  I then took some extra classes and sat for the CPA exam and passed all four parts in two sittings.  This was when it was all a written exam still.  I now work as a CPA at a very small firm where basically my boss is my entry plan and I am her exit plan.  We prepare financial statements for our business clients throughout the year and prepare tax returns most of the year as well.  There are only about 3 months were there are no tax returns to be done. 

The only thing is that I keep thinking about my far future and retirement and I am considering going back to school to get my masters so that I can teach accounting classes at a University at some point.  I really enjoy tax season and the tax aspect of my job but I think I would also really enjoy teaching college level students at some point.  I have also thrown around the idea of going to law school and becoming a tax attorney.  Not sure that I really want to do that but it also really interests me.  I should really see if the university would take a CPA as a rofessor, even just for summer school, even though I don't have my masters b/c I have almost all the classes it would take to get a masters (had to have those to even sit for the exam) and passed the exam.   

I have a BA in English Language and Literature with a Philosophy minor and was on a PhD track for English when I finally realized academia was not the life for me.
 
As a teenager, I worked on a highway construction crew (family biz), made tacos for drunken fellow collegiates during those 4 years and then managed a large bridal shop and tuxedo rental business while in grad school.  I fell into process and information management and that's what I do now, specifically in a Risk Management area of a large mortgage company.  I manage a team of 7 who are (all but 1) located in other states!

ORIGINAL: pofi_pasquale
was on a PhD track for English when I finally realized academia was not the life for me.
 

 
I know exactly how that feels!! I decided in January that there was no way I could make myself stay in grad school and bury myself in books any longer, so in May, I moved back to Louisiana, and I'm finishing out my thesis junk here. That evil thing is written, and I'm about to send in my third set of revisions. So with any luck, I'll be done in December. I'm 24, and I just got so sick of school that I didn't care anymore, and I was tired of my marriage revolving around both Brett and I going to school and me writing papers ontop of papers, conferences, etc.. So soon I'll have my MA in history. Before I moved, I was teaching history as a TA at MSU, and now that I'm home, I'm doing nothing and loving it lol. This is the first time in my life that I'm not in a classroom even though I'm technically still enrolled, and this is also the first time in almost 10 years that I don't have a real job. For now, I'm private tutoring, and I'll substitute teach whenever I get called. Otherwise, I'm working on our house and stuff around here and just enjoying being home again.
 
 
 
 

wow, I'll be 24 next month and I'm still working one my undergrad stuff.  Getting two majors at one time is so difficult, mostly just takes a lot of my time, I honestly don't think I have sleeped since school started last week.  Then after this I still have 4 more years of grad school, hope to get into vet school but who knows how that will go...  uhggg.  My boyfriend want to also go to med school so I can forget about real life out of college for the next 5 years.  I really don't know what else to do but go to school, theres not much out there that I like that doesn't involve years of reading, reasearch and listingin to lectures to get there. 
 
Thanks goodness for this forum being alive, otherwise I'de never have contact to the outside world.

I should have finished last year, but grad school really did suck the life out of me, and I'm still completely burnt out on it. All I can say is hang in there if this is what you really want because, unfortunately, there's no easy way out of it. I wish you all the luck in the world!

i spent 5.5 yrs getting my undergrad degree (electrical engineering), and have never worked in that field. i worked at a small wood shop through college and then worked there full time for a year or so after college. then went to work at a road construction company. i worked that for 2 grueling years. quit that and was out of work for a few months which was a blast. i rode my bike(s) almost everyday. it was as close as i will probably ever get to living the life of a pro cyclist. i was riding 5+ hours almost everyday, and at least one of those days was spent on the mtn bike. there is nothing better than trail riding alone on a week day in the winter.[]

but i digress...

also while i was out of work i started taking an autocad class. i found a job in january of the following year working in another state as a cad draftsman at a small architecture firm. i really liked it there for a while. i was there for about 3 yrs. i quit that job and moved back to sc in the fall of 2002. i was looking for another job similar to what i had before, but jobs were hard to find then. i was out of work for several months, which wasnt as fun that time around. i worked several temp jobs (all of which sucked). i had a full time job for a short amount of time that paid a ridiculously small amount of money and required a large amount of unpaid overtime. i finally found the job i am at now in spring of 2004. i now work for a surveying/construction company. i am a project manager and spend most of my day drafting and trying to take care of our clients needs.

I have the hardest job on Earth...and to top it off it's unpaid! I am a full time Mom []
 
In my working life I did mainly retail bookselling.

I have a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies (it's a major that you make on your own.  I was able to clump different types of classes together to make a major that was well rounded and where I was taking classes I was actually interested in).  And I have a certificate in Childrens Literature.

Since, at my school, you need to apply and complete a fifth year program separate from your undergrad, I went back and completed my Elementary Education degree last year.

I don't have a full time job yet but I am substituting and I start my first day at Petsmart in the PetsHotel today!  I'm so excited.  []

In the past I have worked as a caterer, a Kaufmann's sales associate, a camp counselor, and a deli worker (this was my longest job, it was a lot of fun, but a lot of work).

ORIGINAL: smilee1079

I am a first grade teacher.

My original bachelors degree was in mass communication and after doing advertising sales and PR for about a year, I joined an alternate route masters program for education.  I have had my M.A.T (masters degree in Teaching) for a little over a year and this will be my 4th year teaching.  I did one year in Baltimore City teaching 5th grade which was a horrible experience and then switched to a private school in the city doing 1st grade.  I am finally where I wanted to be all along, 1st grade in Baltimore County.  I will be pursuing my Math Specialist degree next semester (at least that is my plan as of now).

What schools did you teach at in Baltimore? I grew up there. I attended Ruxton and Park school.

--Sara

My entire career is in advertising sales.  I went back to school and got my accounting degree and really LOVE tax and payroll accounting, but the degree and a couple bucks will get me a cup of coffee and NOT a job.  So, am pursuing sales yet again.