What do you do for a living?

I am very fortunate to be able to work from home, I take care of all office related work, including some accounting( we do have an accountant working for us), and DH goes out in the filed and manages the crews.
We started out in 1999 when DH decided to take his knowledge and start his own business with help of the owner of the company DH used to work for.
I thank God everyday that we have been growing and were able to incorporate in 2004.
DH is out of town quiet a bit and then I get to hold down the fort all by myself, which at times can be stressful.

Database programmer and web designer.

I got started in 1999 when I lost my job as an Animal Control Office for the county.  Which I had taken when my winter seasonal position with the US Fish and Wildlife Service as a Park Ranger ended, which I took after the summer seasonal position with the National Park Service as a Park Ranger ended.  []  Before that it was restaurants while in college.

Started as a clerk, learned how to create databases, took some courses here and there and have continued learning since then.  My major in college was Wildlife Biology.  [8|]

I'm a research assistant in a university psychology department. I currently work soley on one 4-year project (my salary is 100% grant-funded) that is creating an intelligent computor tutor to teach middle-school students the control of variables strategy of experimental design (and just better science skills in general hopefully by extension).

I got started here because I recently got my Masters in teaching in 2005 and then we made the really poor career move (but really excellent life move) of coming back to Pittsburgh, probably the only city in the nation with a massive glut of teachers (DH is a certified English teacher, 6 years experience). I'm not even certified in PA, though I am amply eligable for certification in Maryland I never applied for it because I knew we'd be moving just a few weeks after I graduated. I still would like to get my PA certification, it's a goal for this year, but I had to first go through all kinds of rigamarole because I was arrested in college (10 years ago!) for posession of pot (I'm not ashamed, it was a victimless crime), so I had to write all kinds of essays about How Much I Suck and How I Have Changed and get all kinds of character witnesses to say I'm not a drug fiend. And then when I did all that, I got another letter back from the state that said "even though you have a bachelors with double major from an honors college and a masters degree, you still need to take one more undergrad level math class [my certification is social studies!] before we'll certify you." When that showed up in my mail I just kind of laughed and was like, okeedokee you clearly don't want me to teach in your state, too bad for you because I'm an awesome teacher.

So classroom teaching was not really ever an option once we moved back here, so this is the next best thing. I work with teachers and students in their classrooms on lesson plans that I help develop, I help kids with science fair projects and there's word that I may be at least part-time placed in a position where I get to coordinate science fairs for disadvantaged urban students throughout the year, which would be just so incredible.

Right now i work at the university of kentucky hospital as my main job. I work at macy's in the shoe department about 3 hours a week because my manager really didn't want me to leave.
 
I should be out of college-but i just decided to change my major last year. I'm now in nursing school, and should be done in about a year and half. Then, i'll probably work for a year and decide if i want to go ahead and get my masters or not.

Advertising for an e-publishing company. Basically overseeing campaigns and maximizing their ROI for our clients. Online advertising is pretty young in the grand scheme of business ventures and the industry is changing all the time -- what's effective, how do we measure that, etc. So basically I spend a lot of my day figuring out how to get people to "click" on stuff.

How I got here: Graduated from college and worked in sales and marketing for a large institutional asset manager for two years. Hated it. Took a job working for a cool e-publishing company managing our publishing partnership relationships.

Move to upstate NY for husband's job, and was able to get a different gig working on the ad side of said cool e-publishing company. Now I work from home, travel a little for work, and love it! DH is taking over his family business, so that is always part of the picture too.

Best part: my office mates are Rosco, Lexi and Luna. Doesn't get better than that.

I work for an injury prevention program to prevent unintentional injuries in kids, teens and young adult who make stupid choices by teaching them about the consequences of their actions.  I do education in the schools and community, training of new programs worldwide, grant writing and just overall program managing.

  I got started through my work as a therapist in the hospital working with individuals who have sustained brain injuries, spinal cord injuries and strokes. I decided to switch about 7 years ago from the “treatment side” of these disabilities to the “prevention side”.

My title is Business Analyst and Executive Support.  I work for the VP in the automotive division of a midsize electronics/component manufacturing company in the Chicago suburbs - I've been here just over 2 years.  I am basically responsible for cost tracking and profitability analysis reports, calculating and paying sales rep commissions, managing rebates/co ops/credits to customers, and giving my boss administrative support (he is really low maintenance so there isn't much to do in that area). 
 
I got into this role when my former boss - the HR VP - got fired back in September.  This position opened up at the same time because the Automotive VP's assistant resigned to take a higher paying job closer to home.  It was serendipity.  My boss (HR VP) was a raving bitch and my life was hell working for her - I honestly was at a point where I did not know how to continue to cope with her - and then WHAM - she got canned (burned a lot of bridges with her boss the CEO and the rest of the executives).  I cannot imagine what it would be like working for her while being pregnant.  She is one of those mid-40's gung-ho career women with no family and no kids and so work is her life, and she expects it to be that way for everyone else, too.  Not to mention she tried to have kids by sperm donor in-vitro and that failed, so she was pretty bitter about that.  She gave her subordinates a ton of crap whenever they chose to take time off for family stuff.  My current boss is so great about the pregnancy, time off, doctor appointments - plus I transitioned from hourly to staff so I don't have to get hit for sick days or the few hours here and there for doctor appointments.  I really feel like God took care of me in this whole situation, because there was nothing I could really do on my own and I had to just rely that He was looking out for my best interests.
 
I got into this company after I lost my job in the Financial Services industry.  I enjoyed an 11-year career working for three very large wirehouses - one of them for 8 years.  I very suddenly got canned one day and was given no severance or anything - just ADIOS.   Granted I had some responsibility in why I was let go but it was a horrible experience for me and I still carry some shame about it.  It was one of the worst times of my life (fall of 2004).  In January 05 I took another job for another firm in the industry for a few months and could not stand the guy I was working for.  He was one for the record books and remains the man with the largest ego I have ever encountered.  He used to write letters of complaint to the manager and reference what his IQ score was.  [8|]  So I wound up getting a call from a recruiter one day and followed that path all the way to my current company.  I like it here, the pay is good and the benefits are good - plus I get a pension after being here 5 years, and they offer a lot of flexibility.  I really like the people I work with, everyone is very nice and easygoing. It is not a difficult job. 

I'm a full-time nanny (or maybe daycare provider is more accurate since she comes to my house) for my cousin's 4 year old daughter.
 
I got started because I was almost 15, homeschooled, didn't have a job, and my cousin was pregnant. She said "Hey Chels, you want to watch my kid a couple days a week?" "Uh...sure!" Started out 2 or 3 days a week with pretty good pay, 30 bucks per day, and most of the days were only 5 hours. Then my Mom had the bright idea of moving to California, we talked my cousin into coming along, she got a full-time job, and wham, here I am 4 years later, full-time (7:30-5:30 Mon-Fri), for pretty much the same pay.
 
I don't know how to quit because I love the kid so damn much...sooo now I'm looking for a job to spend pretty much every other waking hour at in order to pay my bills. I'm hoping to get a waitress job, I think I could get the most hours and highest pay from that, but since I have zero experience in anything but babysitting, I'm thinking that's highly unlikely. So my second choice is hostess somewhere that'll make me a waitress in a few months. We shall see...

I'm a pharmacy tech. I've been putting the "harm" in pharmacy for over 7 years. I love my job but I deal with a lot of interesting characters. I often write about them, which I call "Pharmacy Follies" in my My Space blog. For some strange reason, people get a huge kick out of it.

For some time now, I have rented myself out to usually, middle-aged, wealthy women.  Sometimes they want me to clean the garage.  Sometimes they rent me for other things.
 
How did I get started?  Well, one day, I was standing on a corner in Winslow Arizona.  I was such a fine sight to see.  There was this girl, my Lord, in a flat bed Ford who slowed down to take a look at me.  And the rest, as they say, is history.  Someone even wrote a song about it.

Come on baby...don't say maybe....
I'm so glad I found you that day Billy

ORIGINAL: Boo1129
I'm so glad I found you that day Billy

 
I know.  Your garage has never looked better, has it?  []

Never had it so clean before by anyone else[]

You know people ... SOME of us are listening to other music right now, but thanks to you, we can't keep certain songs from creeping in opur head and disrupting our perfect mood music right now (and NO.. I don't mean THAT kind of mood music... [])    

what: assasin for hire.

why: money.