OT..... Just Curious

I worked for several years as a Social worker.    Last few years  Ive done Mcdonalds,  child daycare,  seamstress,   inspector for a quality control company.
My first love is my foster care>   We enjoy children, and we seem to have success working with small ones who have been sexually abused.  
Looking for a job now,  have had a couple years off to care for a very damaged child. 

I've done alot of different jobs in my life. Waitress, worked at a Cap & Gown factory(for graduations) worked in a cotton mill making cloth,drove a school bus, delivered news papers. Now I make capsules. I run the machines when they aren't running me. I'm looking forward to retirement. Whew, I'm tired.
Teresa

My part time job is managing a telemarketing room calling for donations for two charities.

Full time - Customer service lead agent.  Only talk to very upset customers.

Well...  I am a social worker with three degrees, but I haven't been involved in that profession (except for some individual counselling out of my house a few years ago) for more than 20 years.  I am now a professor at a local community college where I teach sociology, social problems, etc.
A few years ago, I bought a huge building on Lake Erie and subsequently opened a restaurant with a deck on the water, a B&B and a beach store.  I lived there year round and opened the businesses from May to October.  I was very, very busy with all of my jobs, but I never had much time to think about how tired I was.  I sold the business in 2007 and moved away from the lake to be closer to my "regular" job of teacher.  I've been with the same employer for 18 years, and I'll be happy here until I retire in the next 5-6 years.  At this time, my job is very secure because so many people who have been laid off have returned to school.  However,  I was laid off by the same employer in 1988, so I know how it feels to be without a job.
I'm looking into purchasing rental property, maybe back at the lake, because I guess that I like to keep busy!!  This has been fun.
Margaret 

Millie, thanks for asking this question.  I knew what some of our OFF family did for a living, but often wondered about the rest.

Here's my work history:
Out of high school, I worked for a printing shop collating catalogs and booklets.  That wasn't for me, so I enrolled in business school.  I received a legal secretary degree and went to work for a law firm.  Quit because of a high risk pregnancy.  I was a stay-at-home mommy until our youngest was in third grade then broke back into the work force part time as a clerk typist 2 in the pathology dept of a medical center.  Before I knew it, I was working full time.  Over the last 22 years, I've been promoted several times and am now classified as an administrative coordinator 3 with the same dept.  I type patient reports, answer phones, coordinate the department's weekly conference, do work orders, some purchasing, schedule depositions, and tackle just about anything that comes along.

Debbie

I've enjoyed reading what everyone does.....  here's my story.

I work at the VA Medical Center.  Started in 1984 after being home with two kids for 12 years.  For the last 18 years, I have been the Credentialing Coordinator for the Medical Staff, taking care of 535 physicians, dentists, optometrists, podiatrists, psychologists, and advanced practice nurses.  My office is responsible for verifying all education/training and licensure/certification requirements to assure these providers are qualified to practice medicine.  Our facility is a teaching hospital and subject to Joint Commission on Accreditation audit as well as IG and several other audit programs.  That requires 100 percent compliance at all times.  I always tell people that I live and die by the calendar because something is always expiring or some committee is meeting to review something.  I work with alot of malpractice information and am responsible for reporting negative actions in our facility to the National Practitioner Data Bank.

Probably more than anyone wanted to know but -- I shop, therefore, I work!

Kathi

Millie - I have enjoyed reading everyone's post - now I will tell you about me.

I am in the healthcare field.  Was a paramedic for 22 years for the county and retired last June.  Also I have been an LPN for 24 years and have had various jobs - nursing homes, urgent care, and now ER in a small local hospital.  I hope that this will take me thru till my final retirement.  I generally work nights and therefore, when I work nights, I get nothing done but the essentials around the house and the most important thing - SLEEP !

I am currently going to school for the RN degree.  I am afraid some day they will say no more LPN's in the ER and I don't want to go somewhere else.  I am taking a class or two online for the pre-req's needed.

Thanks for this post.

Shelia

I was working two jobs up to my PE last summer.
Full time dental assistant, part time book keeper for my husband.
Other than bried stint of internal auditor long time ago in retail I have been a DA most of my life and a lot of days I enjoyed it.
I was going to school to get my degree in accounting part time and on line and am now considering returning after my surgery.
As well as keeping tabs on our 3 properties.  We have one on Lake Erie, and two here in town.
Now my full time job is getting better.
Huge change for me.
So now I wait for surgery and one day I hope to retire.
ONE day but not yet.

Millie:

I went to college to get a journalism degree, but when I got out of school everyone wanted to be Woodward and Bernstein and work on a newspaper, so jobs were tough (plus, I was extremely overweight, and it was tough for me to get a job anyway). I started out at a PR firm in downtown Chicago as a secretary because I also typed 90+ words a minute, but they promoted me to an assistant account executive after six months and gave me some writing to do. But I got laid off a month after I bought my first car.

Good news/bad news: I hated the job anyway, but needed to work. Got a job at an association for government employees in publications; was basically a glorified secretary, but because of my journalism degree, they gave me some writing assignments too. But I hated that job, too, so I kept applying for newspaper sports writing jobs, which is what I really wanted to do. Finally, I got one in Carpentersville, Ill., at a pair of three-times a week papers. I worked there for five years, got to be sports editor for two years until we went daily, when they promoted one guy ahead of me (he had seniority anyway). He left, they promoted a guy I hired ahead me, I looked into discrimination lawsuits, but wound up not doing that and ended up after a long search (during another recession) in Anaconda, Mont., at a very small twice-daily newspaper as a sports writer/photographer/feature writer ... you name, I did it.

I loved working there! I loved the place, enjoyed Montana and the West immensely, even though it took me 1,500 miles away from everything and everyone I knew. Worked there 5 years and gained tons of confidence and, even though I was still 300-plus pounds, got another job at a larger daily paper in Aberdeen, S.D., as a sports writer. After seven years as a sports writer, I moved onto the desk as a copy editor (this was after hurting my knee covering auto racing). Then I got jobs as a copy editor in Macon, Ga., and now in Grand Rapids, Mich. I want to finish my career here if the newspaper will survive the poor economy in Michigan. I love it here. I love working on newspapers, being in the middle of everything that is happening. It's all I ever wanted to do. I love to write and design pages and put things together, make other people's stories better, find the holes and errors in them. It's such a challenging job.

There, that was a little more than you probably expected out of a job description, wasn't it?

But it was very interesting.  My ideal job would be working for a major league baseball team, doing almost anything.  I almost had a job with the Rangers a couple of years ago working the manual scoreboard.  That would have been great.  I was runnerup.  That job has been eliminated now anyway, as they just added a new jumbotron on the left field wall.