OT: What does everybody do for a living?

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Re: OT: What does everybody do for a living?

Post by Starlette » Tue Sep 06, 2011 10:25 pm

1988 BS - Human Resources
2001 BA - Theology (Suma Cum Laud) (sp???)
5 years as a legal assistant
last four years as Administrative Assistant in public transportation
Married 23 years

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Post by Alshain » Tue Sep 06, 2011 11:10 pm

Vader wrote:I'm retired....




....from "The Force"



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A0rwG39Jzk
Well, actually I think you died... a long long time ago.... in a galaxy far far away. I didn't think ghosts needed CPAP machines.

Me? I produce equipment for natural gas production.

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Re: OT: What does everybody do for a living?

Post by tmorris » Wed Sep 07, 2011 12:13 am

Medical Social Worker...I work in home health and hospice...only field I have ever been in...so traveling is tough with OSA!

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Re: OT: What does everybody do for a living?

Post by Mr Bill » Wed Sep 07, 2011 12:23 am

I'm a geochemist, working as a chemist in a small environmental lab.
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Re: OT: What does everybody do for a living?

Post by Kody » Wed Sep 07, 2011 12:28 am

Manager for a package Delivery Company. Worked in the Transportation Industry for 23 years.
Raised 2 kids, now raising 2 very active Australian Shepherds.
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Post by ozze_dollar » Wed Sep 07, 2011 12:44 am

I am a retired Financial Controller,mostly chemical manufacturing,Been retired since I was 53(now 65) I decided to take a year off work because of stress and just never went back. Have not ever regretted it. Now I look back perhaps OSA was already a problem for me.

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Post by WldWcnWmn » Wed Sep 07, 2011 4:23 am

Letter Carrier with the United States Postal Service for the last 12 years. U.S. Navy veteran and college student before that.

P.S. I am not "postal" I am oxygen deprived.

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Re: OT: What does everybody do for a living?

Post by soul_power » Wed Sep 07, 2011 4:52 am

Mechanical engineering student. I also have a part time job rating web searches.

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Post by Vader » Wed Sep 07, 2011 6:17 am

Alshain wrote:
Vader wrote:I'm retired....
....from "The Force"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A0rwG39Jzk
Well, actually I think you died...
yes, but now, born again...

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Re: OT: What does everybody do for a living?

Post by DaveLP » Wed Sep 07, 2011 6:53 am

Interesting group of people we have here. There should be "like" buttons one each post.

I was a Xerox Field Engineer for 36 years. I serviced high speed color and monochrome laser printers that produced billing, insurance policies, and electronic books. I spent a couple of nights a week on 24 hour call (not good for someone with SA).

I retired after 36 years and went back to tech school for a year to train for the Cisco CCNA certification (Cisco Network Specialist). I finished the course with a 4.0, graduated with honors, and I'm still boning up to sit for the CCNA exam. At $250 a pop for the Cisco exam, I only want to take it once! I don't have to work anymore, but always wanted to increase my network knowledge. I'm hoping to do some part time network tech work.

I'm also a lead guitar player who was in cover bands for about 25 years on weekends. Now, I play guitar in a Christian contemporary band at church. I still get to play music with classic rock roots, but Christian lyrics, and get to exercise my Pink Floyd and Skynyrd style guitar licks. It's a great gig for an old rocker!

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Re: OT: What does everybody do for a living?

Post by Sheriff Buford » Tue Dec 11, 2012 12:53 pm

Some folks may want to update... Sheriff

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Post by ems » Tue Dec 11, 2012 1:13 pm

Happily retired. The one nice thing about growing older!
If only the folks with sawdust for brains were as sweet and obliging and innocent as The Scarecrow! ~a friend~

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Re: OT: What does everybody do for a living?

Post by chunkyfrog » Tue Dec 11, 2012 1:24 pm

Still not retired, still drawing maps; completely new paradigm; software, format, enterprise SDE,
I'm just amazed I've been able to work it out. This stuff is for YOUNG people!

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Re: OT: What does everybody do for a living?

Post by greatunclebill » Tue Dec 11, 2012 1:45 pm

retired usaf 1990 age 41.
stopped working completely 1999 age 50.
started social security 2011 age 62.
now 63.

most of my work, military and civilian, was in medical/central supply in hospitals. also, parked cars, rebuilt alternators & starters, ran a printing press, was a buyer, and worker in a plastic injection mold company. one of my first jobs was as a deckhand on a great lakes ore carrier. i remember seeing the edmund fitzgerald on the water several years before it sank.

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Re: OT: What does everybody do for a living?

Post by RogerSC » Tue Dec 11, 2012 1:52 pm

Retired for two months now *smile*, computer programmer/software release engineer for 40+ years.

Hope to be able to stay retired, depends on the economy and political situation.
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