Ooh, that sounds interesting!

I work managing Public Housing developments.  12 years & counting -- I actually love my job.   My BA is in psychology.

I am a teacher's aide at a small Texas High School.. We only have 160 students 9th thru 12th grade.  I work with special education students and I LOVE MY JOB !!!!!  I am SO blessed to have been hired for this position when I was 50 years old and weighed 320 lbs.   It has been a learning experience for me and my students watching my weight loss.  I hope I have been an inspiration to at least one of them.

 ummmm i should have posted FIRST not last..how does one beat some of these professions..wow you all should be proud of your careers.  I am 48 and still do not have a skill or any idea what i want to be when i grow up.  So i was a single mom way back and realized how hard it was to work away from home so i started doing daycare.....i have done this for years along with a few other jobs.  Currently i just got a job at a new retail store here thats opening this week.  I hope this is my dream job and will be working part time while still doing a bit of daycare a couple days a week temporarily.  My last child is about a month away from her 18th birthday so WLS, quitting daycare and going out and getting a part time job out of the house is my mid life crisis.  My favorite job in all my years so far has been working for 3 years in a residental home providing care for severly  handicapped &/or developmentally delayed adults and children.  

I am a Case Manager determining food assistance/medical benefits.  I'm also a licensed foster parent with a current placement.

I have worked as a labor & delivery nurse for 12 years in a crazy busy city hospital. I love my job. It's hard work and pretty stressful, but I learn something new every day!

That sounds like a great job.  I used to want to be a midwife.  How often do you see woman have natural births these days?

A lot, we have a lot of midwives that practice at our hospital.

Oh, that's great.  When I lived in a big city, I once called different hospitals there and asked what percent of their patients had epidurals during labor.  One hospital told me 98%!  I think most said something like 90%.  When I had my daughter (gosh that was  long time ago!  a little over 20 years ago) I had a natural birth but the hospital really didn't make it easy.  I don't think they were used to women having natural births.  They kept coming at me with various things I didn't want and I had to really argue about some of them, which is not fun when you are in labor.  And when my sister had her first child, she wanted to do a natural birth but when labor lasted a long time and she was in pain, it seemed like none of the nurses knew what to do except to encourage her to accept pain medication.  And then she ended up with a Cesarean.

My sister did give birth with a midwife with her third child and she had a natural birth - but that might have just been because she did not get to the hospital in time to get an epidural before the baby popped out!  She did not own a car at that time and she called me when she started having contractions and I was supposed to pick her up and drive her to the hospital and stay with her during the birth.  Well, she called me and I lived about half an hour away and I left as soon as she called me, but before I got there the contractions got very strong and very close together so she called 911.  The ambulance got her to the hospital just in time and the baby was born just minutes after she got onto the labor and delivery floor.  She told me she was screaming for pain meds in the ambulance, though.  They kept telling her they could not give her anything and she kept yelling "I know you have some kind of drugs in here!  Give them to me!  NOW!"

Great story about your sister's delivery!