OT: What do you do for a living?

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Re: OT: What do you do for a living?

Post by wearysoul » Sat Aug 29, 2009 1:12 pm

Unemployed for seven years due to OSA (rather than the recession). In my last job, I worked as a department office manager at a state university. And prior to that I was an academic counselor at a state university (what I'm trained for).

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Re: OT: What do you do for a living?

Post by twokatmew » Sat Aug 29, 2009 1:21 pm

No longer working due to a long list of health issues, but ... I worked more than 20 years in the computer industry at a large, state university & medical school. I was an information systems manager, network/security engineer, and before that I worked as a computer trainer/technical writer & editor.

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Re: OT: What do you do for a living?

Post by cpapqueen1 » Sat Aug 29, 2009 2:18 pm

Respiratory Therapist, mom of 4.

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Re: OT: What do you do for a living?

Post by rosiefrosie » Sat Aug 29, 2009 3:04 pm

I am a Register Nurse and own 2 Assisted Living Homes for the elderly with Alzheimers and Dementia.

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Re: OT: What do you do for a living?

Post by LinkC » Sat Aug 29, 2009 5:13 pm

Quality Assurance on Trident-class submarines and the payloads they deliver.

Will retire in less than a year. At that time I won't do a damn thing and won't start til noon...

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Re: OT: What do you do for a living?

Post by witchbreeze » Sat Aug 29, 2009 8:32 pm

Inventory Specialist for a Seafood wholesaler

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Re: OT: What do you do for a living?

Post by -SWS » Sat Aug 29, 2009 9:06 pm

Sell pencils on the beach.

My advice to the younger crowd: pay very close attention to what your career counselor says. Apparently mine thought I was well suited to sell pretzels on the beach. Not pencils. Too late to change careers now...

Anyway, if you like to work crossword puzzles down on the beach... I'll be there.


jdm2857 wrote:I repair small kitchen appliances for intergalactic travelers.
You expect us to believe THAT?

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Re: OT: What do you do for a living?

Post by jnk » Sat Aug 29, 2009 9:25 pm

I believe him.
I decided to take this statement on faith, and I handed him the seven-dimensional screwdriver he was gesturing for with one of his many arms.

"Thank you," he said, mopping his brow. "What I mean, of course, is that you should never, under any circumstances, assume anything."

"I hardly ever do," I told him, . . .

This, I am sorry to say, is the way it is with intergalactic refrigerator repairmen, or so I assume, having only met the one. But he assured me that they were all pretty much the same, and I had no reason to doubt him, what with his having just materialized in the center of my kitchen and asked if this was Strothterix, and if, furthermore, I was a Mr. and Mrs. Zug.

When I had told him that I was not, and that he must therefore have made a wrong turn somewhere, he had shrugged (which, I can tell you, was something to see on a man with several shoulders) and had asked if I had a refrigerator. When I'd pointed to my five-year-old Hotpoint he'd clapped several of his hands together and said, "Ooh! Can I look?"

--http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/b3556 ... ncer/?si=0
Now, the pencil thing, on the other hand . . .
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Re: OT: What do you do for a living?

Post by jules » Sat Aug 29, 2009 9:27 pm

-SWS wrote:Sell pencils on the beach. Anyway, if you like to work crossword puzzles down on the beach... I'll be there.

Beach? you mean that body of water you call a Great Lake has beach?

BTW I do my variety puzzles in INK. Guess you can't sell me anything.

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Re: OT: What do you do for a living?

Post by Wulfman » Sat Aug 29, 2009 9:30 pm

-SWS wrote:Sell pencils on the beach.

My advice to the younger crowd: pay very close attention to what your career counselor says. Apparently mine thought I was well suited to sell pretzels on the beach. Not pencils. Too late to change careers now...

Anyway, if you like to work crossword puzzles down on the beach... I'll be there.


jdm2857 wrote:I repair small kitchen appliances for intergalactic travelers.
You expect us to believe THAT?
Are you wholesaling them to Aunt Weeza? I've been wondering where she's been getting all those pencils.

(For those who don't know who "Aunt Weeza" is, it's a long running story/joke.....and you can do a forum search on her last name if you want to find out.)


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Re: OT: What do you do for a living?

Post by -SWS » Sat Aug 29, 2009 9:30 pm

jules wrote:
-SWS wrote:Sell pencils on the beach. Anyway, if you like to work crossword puzzles down on the beach... I'll be there.

Beach? you mean that body of water you call a Great Lake has beach?

BTW I do my variety puzzles in INK. Guess you can't sell me anything.
I beseech you to reconsider (notice how much "beseech" sounds like the place I work?).

Anyway, if you've ever made a mistake in ink, then you need one of my beach pencils.

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Re: OT: What do you do for a living?

Post by -SWS » Sat Aug 29, 2009 9:32 pm

Wulfman wrote:For those who don't know who "Aunt Weeza" is, it's a long running story/joke.....
And a proud beach-pencil owning aunt she is!

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Re: OT: What do you do for a living?

Post by jules » Sat Aug 29, 2009 9:35 pm

you selling them on Den's waterfront property or on my beach now?

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

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Re: OT: What do you do for a living?

Post by Ganesha » Sat Aug 29, 2009 10:08 pm

Computer Analyst for a major healthcare company (J&J).
I explain business to programmers and programs to business people.
Most recently I've been involved in converting mainframe data to SAP.
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Re: OT: What do you do for a living?

Post by plumtuckered » Sat Aug 29, 2009 10:37 pm

Medical Technologist in a hospital lab.