Curiosity is getting the best of me. No one has to share this information but I'm just wondering what everyone does for a career.
Right now, I wipe runny noses and try to keep my 3 year old from writing with crayons on the wall. Then after 4 o'clock in the afternoon and on weekends, I'm a referee of my 9, 5 and 3 year old boys. I'm staying at home right now trying to recover from this OSA.
Otherwise I'm a LPN. I've worked both hospitals med/surg and nursing homes. Prefer hospitals.
Curiousity??
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Sleeping With The Enemy
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curiosity?
Hi Heidi,
Good idea -- I have also wondered -- we have some interesting folks here, don't we?
I work for our family business making precision glass parts. These are small glass tubes (for the most part, although different geometries are possible) from 0.25" diameter on the large side down to micron size. They are used in many technical applications from medical devices (flow restrictors for chemo sets) to hermetic seals (glass that is melted into metal "can" around a wire or group of wires to pass from one atmosphere to another -- like vacuum to air, air to water, different pressures, etc). Our standard unit of measure is a thousandth of an inch. We can hold very tight tolerances -- for a price!
There is much, much more, but I don't want everyone's eyes to glaze over!
Sleep well,
Jane
Good idea -- I have also wondered -- we have some interesting folks here, don't we?
I work for our family business making precision glass parts. These are small glass tubes (for the most part, although different geometries are possible) from 0.25" diameter on the large side down to micron size. They are used in many technical applications from medical devices (flow restrictors for chemo sets) to hermetic seals (glass that is melted into metal "can" around a wire or group of wires to pass from one atmosphere to another -- like vacuum to air, air to water, different pressures, etc). Our standard unit of measure is a thousandth of an inch. We can hold very tight tolerances -- for a price!
There is much, much more, but I don't want everyone's eyes to glaze over!
Sleep well,
Jane
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Bullwinkle
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glassgal,
keep the technical talk coming. my engineering diploma is trying to escape from the closet over the prospect of a technical discussion.
micron size? are you folks extruding this stuff to those tolerances? whatever the method, amazing!
Jeff - I read the late Richard Feinman's physics lecture series for entertainment.
keep the technical talk coming. my engineering diploma is trying to escape from the closet over the prospect of a technical discussion.
micron size? are you folks extruding this stuff to those tolerances? whatever the method, amazing!
Jeff - I read the late Richard Feinman's physics lecture series for entertainment.
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My first husband and I trained and showed American Saddlebred horses professionally. I was a licensed American Horse Shows Association judge.
Showing a 3-gaited horse - long, long time ago
I also began showing and breeding dogs - Rottweilers since 1974. Continued showing dogs as a professional handler for almost 30 years. Judged Futurity and Sweepstakes at the major AKC sanctioned Specialty shows for Rottweilers.
Showing one of my Rotties, "Boss" - in 1989
My kennel Beaverbrook Rottweilers produced over 50 AKC champions, breeding less than one litter a year. Owned two studs that became American Rottweiler Club "Gold Producers".
Retired now from dog breeding and showing. I enjoyed all those years thoroughly, but that was more than enough driving and flying to shows almost every weekend. I'm quite sure I've had undiagnosed OSA all my life based on terrible snoring starting all the way back in my teenage years, and years of sleepy-driving. Have been treating it successfully since Oct. 2003.
Happily staying at home, boarding and grooming dogs. The resident Rotties are a couple of old retirees and a two-year-old male under my desk. Oh, and there's a little orange cat that doesn't weigh as much as his head...curled up next to him.
Life was always good. It's even better now that I can breathe when I sleep!
Showing a 3-gaited horse - long, long time ago
I also began showing and breeding dogs - Rottweilers since 1974. Continued showing dogs as a professional handler for almost 30 years. Judged Futurity and Sweepstakes at the major AKC sanctioned Specialty shows for Rottweilers.
Showing one of my Rotties, "Boss" - in 1989
My kennel Beaverbrook Rottweilers produced over 50 AKC champions, breeding less than one litter a year. Owned two studs that became American Rottweiler Club "Gold Producers".
Retired now from dog breeding and showing. I enjoyed all those years thoroughly, but that was more than enough driving and flying to shows almost every weekend. I'm quite sure I've had undiagnosed OSA all my life based on terrible snoring starting all the way back in my teenage years, and years of sleepy-driving. Have been treating it successfully since Oct. 2003.
Happily staying at home, boarding and grooming dogs. The resident Rotties are a couple of old retirees and a two-year-old male under my desk. Oh, and there's a little orange cat that doesn't weigh as much as his head...curled up next to him.
Life was always good. It's even better now that I can breathe when I sleep!
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littlebaddow
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Two careers so far
Spent 20 years in international banking as a money market trader, working for British and American banks in London, Singapore, Kuwait, Bahrain and Dublin.
Then decided home life should take a higher priority and I no longer wanted to work for an organisation where profit was the only business driver, so took an 18 month break before starting a second career in local government in the UK, working for a County Council. Currently looking after their contact centre.
Spent 20 years in international banking as a money market trader, working for British and American banks in London, Singapore, Kuwait, Bahrain and Dublin.
Then decided home life should take a higher priority and I no longer wanted to work for an organisation where profit was the only business driver, so took an 18 month break before starting a second career in local government in the UK, working for a County Council. Currently looking after their contact centre.
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Professional geek, also known as "code wrangler", or "Programmer/Software Developer/Engineer/whatever".
Basically, I strategically move paterns of magnatism around on magnetic media.
Liam, who really at the end of the day gets paid to do very little.
Basically, I strategically move paterns of magnatism around on magnetic media.
Liam, who really at the end of the day gets paid to do very little.
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.Liam wrote:Basically, I strategically move paterns of magnatism around on magnetic media
Liam, I do the same thing as you, only different. Where your patterns of magnetism look like maps and the like, mine look like the "bones" of a building.
I spent the first 10 years of my working career in the restaurant business opening my first restaurant at age 22. Some time along they way I realized that I liked the start-up more than the operation, so I sold out to a local chain and went back to school and got a degree in architecture. For the last 15 years I've been "detailing" structural and miscellaneous steel for steel fabricators.
Below is a picture of the Milwaukee Art Museum project designed by Architect Santiago Calatrava that I dedicated three years of my life to.
Sincerely,
wading thru the muck of the sleep study/DME/Insurance money pit!
wading thru the muck of the sleep study/DME/Insurance money pit!
I manage the office, accounting and IT systems for a medium size insurance agency. I've been doing this for 18 years now. Prior to this gig, in a former life, I was a mid level exec in the great big corporate world for one of the "Big Three" car rental companies. I like this gig better.
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Wowzers! What an incredibly talented and varied bunch of folks here!!
As for me, I'm an analytical chemist, supporting the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (a repository for transuranic waste disposal---in other words, nuclear garbage) down near Carlsbad, NM. My specialty is auditing the laboratories that test the material for EPA hazardous properties prior to shipment down here for disposal. I travel quite a bit, especially in the spring and fall, performing audits of the labs (hence my need for a small, portable APAP unit).
As for me, I'm an analytical chemist, supporting the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (a repository for transuranic waste disposal---in other words, nuclear garbage) down near Carlsbad, NM. My specialty is auditing the laboratories that test the material for EPA hazardous properties prior to shipment down here for disposal. I travel quite a bit, especially in the spring and fall, performing audits of the labs (hence my need for a small, portable APAP unit).
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