OT: What do you do for a living?

[kteague]

Most of my adult work life was spent at 3 jobs. Ten in a hospital as unit clerk, transcriptionist, & pathology tech assistant. Eight as a Client Service Rep for the elderly at a home staffing agency. Last ten in donor services and development department as manager for a donor supported large faith based nonprofit agency serving the underprivileged (City Ministries in Cincinnati, OH).

Wish I could still be there to help, as the current economic situation means donations are down while the need for services has increased. Here's an honorable mention for an organization that showed much compassion in attempting to accomodate my diminishing capacities due to my sleep disorders. I was allowed flexibility in my schedule and given permission to work from home when feasible. When I was no longer able to perform my duties, I was allowed to exit with dignity rather than be terminated for poor performance. I feel blessed to have ended my work career at a place where I loved my job, where my coworkers were also friends, and where I was able to respect the leaders of the organization.

For the last three years I've been working hard (well, actually hardly working) at getting better. I expect this "job" to last lifetime.

Kathy

[ThatMaskedMan]

Sign language interpreter in a middle school, and weekend night auditor for a classy new Hampton Inn. Just trained and licensed for a third job as taxi driver but don't think I'll follow through with that, unless maybe next summer. The first two jobs involve flipping from first shift to third shift every week; sounds like terrible sleep hygiene but I'm really happy with it, and so is my sleep doc, whose last name is Patel which he and I both know is a big name in hotels, so he winks at it and doesn't scold me.

Minor claim to fame is that in my sleep study a year ago, my oxygen desaturation dropped to 48%. No wonder I was falling asleep on both jobs and at every stoplight. Other footnote is 35 years continuous sobriety in AA - will I see any of you in San Antonio next July?

Oh, am age 66 and no retirement in sight - love my jobs too much. All jobs involve some sitting, which is nice for my knees.

[kopoloff]

I am a sewerage system designer

And don't laugh. It may be shit to you but it's my bread and butter.

Or to put it another way - without your shit, I'd go hungry

K

[-SWS]

Clearly an indispensable profession, Mr. Kopoloff. Dung beetles play a similar remarkable role in society.

My hats off to all the unsung dung heroes. Keep up the good work, PLEASE!

Without your amazing black magic society would be.... irregular I guess.

now -SWS, get back to work to pay for my retirement here -------

May I have an extension, professor?

[Mr Capers]

Retired now, but in my former lives I was a house-husband, security guard, ran some 26 or 27 companies, and closed out my management career by consulting. My definition for a good manager was that they brought more joy into the world.

Career counseling suggested that I sharpen pencils for SWS, or salt his pretzels, depending on which career path he selected. Instead, I went awry, fell off the career path and ended up working lots, for little pay, but had some fun.

Upon retirement I thought I deserved to take it easy but my wife suggested that I make sure that we did not outlive our savings. I took a self-taught course in portfolio management. I guess that is my current career, along with being my own on-the-job trained newbie junior apprentice consultant on Complex Sleep Apnea.

Happy Naps,
Mr Capers

[Portageegal]

I'm a retired retail babe who lived all her life in a tourist town on Cape Cod.

[2flamingos]

Planning Director for a midsize city in the DEEP south.

[jules]

now -SWS, get back to work to pay for my retirement here -------

May I have an extension, professor?

Sounds like you want to change the state constitution.

[rested gal]

Trained and showed horses -- American Saddlebreds and Hackney ponies.
Show horses

Overlapping the last half of the horse show years, I also showed dogs. Rottweilers were my breed. I was not into guard dog stuff. Purely show dogs/companions. I handled show dogs -- my own and for other people -- for over thirty years. Yeah, I was one of those crazy people you see on TV, running around a show ring, attached to a dog.
Show dogs

Loved what I did, but forty-plus years of driving to shows almost every weekend was enough driving for a lifetime.

Semi-retired now -- boarding dogs at home.
I just walk through my hall door and am in the 25-run kennel building:
House and Kennel

I still love what I do.
Recently started taking photos of some of the boarders:
Boarders

Any travel I do now is for pure relaxation!
Vacations
Yes, the CPAP goes along on vacations, too. Definitely!

Pencils, pretzels ... any old excuse for being on a beach works for me!!

[jules]

the beach I go to -

[GumbyCT]

I don't see -SWS selling diddly there. He better get busy if you want a new mask eh?

[jrfoster]

Retired Army Chaplain. Currently working as a Hospice Chaplain assisting people in the last months and weeks of their lives.

Jeff

[spacetoast]

Cool photos, RG!

I noticed that most of the riding photos were marked "Unretouched" by the photography studio. What was the significance of that?

[mgess]

I'm an RN in a surgery center. Was in denial about my OSA for a couple of years, but after all the information lately about the increased risk of heart attack, felt I couldn't ignore it anymore. I couldn't afford a sleep study, so I went on Craigslist and got an auto machine and am winging it from there.

[jules]

I don't see -SWS selling diddly there. He better get busy if you want a new mask eh?

He must be the panhandler we get out there every so often who wants money for gas to get back north ------- hmm ----- guess no one has ever given him enough as he keeps coming and coming.