What do you DO for a living?

Do you work outside the home?  If so, what do you do for a living?

If not, what was your last job?

If you are a student, what are you studying?

 

3rd year medical student.

Schedule: theoretically supposed to max out at 80 hours/week at the hospital, plus whatever studying you have to do at home

Salary: negative 5000$/year (yep, I pay for the privilege) and were it not for living in wonderful Socialist Quebec I would be paying 3-10X more

Responsibilities: always just a bit (and sometimes quite a bit) more than I feel competent to handle. This last week in obs/gyn, for instance (very first week of clerkship, and therefore of real clinical responsibilities): diagnosing possible appendicitis; being first assist on 2 c-sections including doing some suturing; pulling a baby out of a woman's vagina (to be fair, the doc had already delivered the shoulders); admitting patients and taking/documenting long medical histories that no one else will read, let alone verify; writing prescriptions (OK, the nurses dictated and I just transcribed); doing speculum exams on live people instead of plastic models, including getting swabs and interpreting them, etc. And a bunch of other stuff. And now I have to study for the USMLE this weekend. And next week. And next weekend.

I frakking love it. It's exactly where I want to be.

I'm an emergency communications specialist.  Just a fancy title for dispatcher.  We dispatch for local police and fire agencies, and answer 911.  Some days I love it and some days I think it's the most underappreciated job in the world.  But I have great co-workers, and normally don't mind the job.  Plus the pay check is a plus. 

im a vet nurse, and im in school to be certified for it (CVT - certified veterinary technician)

I sell greeting cards and angel figurines...yay.

I'm a college student, but I'm undecided on a major...still.

I'm an F-16 crewchief in the USAF. Basically an aircraft mechanic. My hubby is in fuels, and that is how we met. He would bring fuel to my aircraft, and we would chat. (Awww)

But, when I was little I wanted to be either an Opera singer, an architect, or an archaeologist. I couldn't say architect, so I'd say anka-tank.

Office manager for a labor union that crews movies, tv shows, commercials, and music videos.  I have a degree in engineering (B.S.) and interior design (B.A.) and have never used either one.  Have no plans to ever use the engineering degree (by the time I got done with school, I just didn't want anything to do with it ever again).  I may pursue interior design after I retire - more as a hobby than a job, though.  I would love to do it now, but we'd starve.

and now pur molly has a new job, right?

I work for an insurance company and I investigate insurance and broker fraud and do all the HIPAA privacy 'stuff' for the company.

I'm at Stay at Home Mom to 3 kids ages 2, 4 & 6 (plus a cat and dog)...But up until last year I had a great career in Marketing/Public Relations...I worked in radio for about 8 years (contests, promotions, marketing) and most recently worked as the PR Director of the Humane Society in my state for about 7 years.

Now I'm trying to decide what to do for a "real job" when all the kids go to school...in 3 years.

I don't really want to go back to school, but I feel like I may have to if I want to get a part-time job that pays well enough to justify working again.

Ideas anyone?

Original Post by crombiexbabe:

i'm a full time psychology student, and i work full time for the anesthesia department at a hospital.

random combo, i know lol

I was a full time psychology student working full time for an anesthesia department, too!!  I'm working on my Counseling Psychology Ph.D. now - start full time in the fall!

I do all kinds of things relating to international shipments @ fed ex ( part time). Starting next week i will also be a full time psychology student after a two year break from school. I already have my associates in liberal arts. & i work a few days a week @ a fitness center in a gated community for old folks.

business student, graduating in 2010. currently an intern

Original Post by jodiferjuniper:

I'm at Stay at Home Mom to 3 kids ages 2, 4 & 6 (plus a cat and dog)...But up until last year I had a great career in Marketing/Public Relations...I worked in radio for about 8 years (contests, promotions, marketing) and most recently worked as the PR Director of the Humane Society in my state for about 7 years.

Now I'm trying to decide what to do for a "real job" when all the kids go to school...in 3 years.

I don't really want to go back to school, but I feel like I may have to if I want to get a part-time job that pays well enough to justify working again.

Ideas anyone?

 Try getting back into the Humane Society again. If you've already done it, then maybe you could go back to it on a smaller scale?

I work (part-time) as a pastoral care minister at a church.  I'm in charge of hospital and homebound visitations, funeral planning, grief support, and much more.  I love it and am very happy doing what I do.  It's very close to my dream job...

I would like to be a chaplain for a hospital or hospice.  Ideally, one day I will fulfill my dream of opening my own hospice here in Iowa.  I have the idea of opening a hospice in rural Iowa in the middle of a farm so old farmers can overlook the crops while dying.  It might seem odd to some but to me, it's a very peaceful dream.  Some people can't go back home on hospice and I want to design a special hospice that would feel home-y to the farm families.

I work in HR as the Benefits Manager of my company. I love it. In addition to creating and maintaining all of the benefit plans for the employees (health , dental, 401K, Rx, etc...), I get to focus on wellness and try to promote a healthy lifestyle to all of my employees. We have 1500 employees nationwide and it's no easy task, let me tell you! Our medical plans give so many $$$ incentives to lose weight, exercise and quit smoking that it's kind of nuts not to take advantage of them, but I'm sensitive to people who simply don't want to change their lifestyle. The best that I can do is provide the information and let them make their own choice. But I truly believe that I have to practice what I preach, which is why I eat right, never smoke/drink alcohol, and exercise all the time (So what do I do to have fun, right? Don't worry, there are other things. :) How can I ask my employees to live and eat well if I'm not doing it?

I'm glad that I joined CC because I'm hoping to promote it to all of my employees during open enrollment in the fall.

I am a stay at home mom and go to school for court reporting.

I'm a medical technologist who works in a small rural hospital.  So I collect blood, analyze specimens and talk to doctors and nurses.  I'm hopefully going to get a job in a larger hospital soon where I can do more testing and less phlebotomy. 

I'm a receptionist mostly. I also do freelance illustration work when I can get it, but that's a tough field to break into.

Veterinary student here.