Jobs!

    • Gold Top Dog

    Jobs!

    I was just wondering what all of you do for a living.

    As for me, I am a full-time student (aha senior in high school) and have two jobs. I work as a medical assistant and a Pediatrics office, and a receptionist/patient screening technician at an Opthamology office.

    I was destined to work in the medical field XD. When I grow up I'm going to be a vet [:)].
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    I currently work as a vet tech, but in September, I will again be a full time student.  I start law school then.  I love the vet tech work, but some days are just terrible and I know that mentally I can't take it for the rest of my life.
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    I'm full time student as well. 
     
    For now I just do odd jobs.   I'm a caretaker at a ranch two times a week.  I also do some caretaking of other peoples animals whever I'm needed.  I do whatever I can whenever I'm needed.
     
    Come Jan. I will be looking for a more perminate job.  I was a vet tech for a while but once I went back to school I did not have a schedule that fit in with the place I worked at so I had no choce but to quit.  I really loved my job as a tech and want to do that agean.  My goal in life is to also become a vet but I have a really long road ahead.
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    At the moment I'm in a stop-gap retail position at a camping store. I'm only just out of uni and until recently have picked up field positions working on wild birds. I'm a very good nest-finder! [:)] I love field work so much, but you can't really make a living off it. I'm trying to get a permanent position as an environmental consultant. Ideally, it will be about 40% field work, involving going out to sites about to be developed and cataloguing what plants and animals live there, then I can help protect any threatened species in the area.

    I did a lot of animal behaviour at uni and really I'd love to stick with academia and research in that area, but for the moment, I don't have enough money. [:'(]
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    We own a specialty construction company. It wasn't what I started out wanting to do, but has turned out pretty well.
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    i work for a construction/land surveying company. i work in the office drawing plats, topo's, etc. for the surveying side of the company.
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    I am a CPA.  I prepare tax returns from Jan-October and do bookkeeping and other related items all year. 
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    Best job of all, tho the pay is lousy! Stay at home Mom! [;)]
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    Well I'll be a fulltime student until May, then I'm hoping to get a job in the behavior department at an animal shelter.  I also have some interest in public policy related to animals, so I'm looking to positions where I can use those skills as well as my behavior training and shelter experiences.  Right now everything is still very much in the air.
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    I'm my cousin's daughter's full-time nanny. She's 3 1/2 and I've been watching her since she was 2 months old, full time since she was 16 months (was two or three days a week before then). Lousy money, but I love the kid to death, so...
    • Gold Top Dog
    Well 2 years ago i was having a really fun job, i was an entertainer in an all inclusive hotel in Cancun, my job was playing with the guests something like beach volleyball, water volleyball, water polo, doing contests next to the pool like beer drinking contest and stuff like that, at night we were the ones doing dancing shows at the hotel theatre and taking the guests to the nighclub, the nightclubs were giving us the entertainers free open bar for bringing the guests over
     
    I was living at home but if you were coming to work from another country they were giving you housing, the hotel was also giving to all the people that worked there, transportation and food (having a restaurant buffett only for the employees) besides a paycheck, i think it was the only job were you were allowed to drink while working, i never passed out at work since i was not that much into alcohol as my co workers were, i saw all my co workers being totally drunk at work at least once (we were taking them to a special area with beds so the guests could not see them like that), it was like being in college without the study part
     
    It was really fun but tired at the same time, you can party for a week while you are on vacations but is different if you have to do it the 365 days of the year, 14 hours a day and just 1 day off a week, i did it for 3 years, i got married to a co worker, came to USA and now i work in sales [;)]
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    Decorative painter aka faux finisher.
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    I am a high priced gigolo.
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    I'm a part-time, non instructional paraprofessional.  In English that means I'm a part time school aide.  Almos half my day is spent making copies (and troubleing shooting a very tempermental copy maichine).  The rest of my day is my favorite- 4 recess periods with grades 1-4 (one grade per period).
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    Ahahah Billy! That is in fact that exact way my husband would answer that question. Smart asses!
     
    I'm both underpaid and underemployed as a full-time research assistant in a university psychology department, doing educational research. I have a Masters in education (secondary social science) and they like to keep me around because they work with classroom teachers, so they like to bounce ideas off me to see if the teachers would go for them. They also find my paltry web design skills handy. I suspect that it looks good on their grant proposals to say that they have a masters-level former classroom teacher on staff.
     
    I have been employed as a classroom teacher, but never for real. I've been a long-term substitute teacher (which was awesome because they were so happy just to have a warm body in the classroom they didn't care what I did--I really hate having people breathing down my neck while I'm trying to work), and of course did my student teaching for my masters. That is actually what I want to do, but I picked the only place in the country to live that doesn't need any more teachers. I'm just counting my blessings that I still get to work in education.