What do you all do?

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Ch.28. Ronan and Pete have an affair

I wouldn't mind being a writer, artist, musician or film maker, but who wouldn't want to be one of those things!

Today is more of the same. BUT IN FRENCH.

Oh, temp typist is official title. My secret desire is a SECRET you fule.

Where is your shop, Nathalie? I mean, what town/city? I was in Bruges recently and saw many lace shops but didn't go into any; it would be weird to think that a fellow ILEr and pavelister might have been working at one of them. Not that I would have arrived stalkerishly at the counter if I'd known or anything, I'm just curious...

I have a few interesting facts about Foot and Mouth Disease if anyone wants to know, but more interestingly I can talk about the Common Agricultural Policy which I believe Ronan has also mentioned fleetingly elsewhere. However as I am now even boring MYSELF, only ask if you are both sadist and masochistic and... MENTAL.

xp yuh also in big corporation

get paid not to make things, l8ly

Crappy design/prepress for a livestock industry magazine.

Also ~freelance writing~ lol

I'm a gardener-for-hire, or "landscaper" if I'm feeling insecure. I also work in a nursery.

systems analyst for i.t. finance wing of gigantic company lawfirm. Can't stand it. Trained as a graphic designer, but was looking in vain for a job around the time the economy started to tank. Now, I'm right on the brink of quitting and, I dunno, waiting tables for a living while I jump whole-hog into theater stuff. Because...why not? I'm not getting any younger and I've got the whole back-end of my life to be boring and safe.

Conceive institutional plans and exhibition concepts for museums and historic sites. Like it a lot.

I was a "health care provider" in various capacities (licensed nurse, then in unlicensed/"counselor" capacity when I moved to a state that didn't have Psych Tech licensure) until 2003, more or less - there were several years there when I tried my hand at other things, but nursing is sort of What I Do in my mind - I will always think of myself as a psych nurse & there are things about my old work that I miss so bad I couldn't begin to put it into words. mainly the kids I took care of. being there for kids in crisis, being able to provide any small help: that's a blessing from God right there.

in late 2003 I became a full-time musician. it has made me insane & completely wrecked my health in a whole bunch of ways, but it's also pretty much What I Dreamed of Being (although: the "become a super famous novelist who changes lives & blows mind" precedes the Makes Music For A Living dream, and is still, like, possible, if I work hard) and that's something I feel every day, so I try not to complain about the Now I'm Crazy and My Health Is Permanently Wrecked, though I am kinda whiny sometimes and given to complaining if I don't check myself.

The Sabbath book would indicate that your literary dreams are wholly graspable, J0hn. Reach for that star!

yeah deric man i'm def not thrilled with my job either....pretty much chilling there until i finish more grad school at which point i'll strike out for something better.

I mostly just be rad.

You excel in your field.

moonship journey to baja, do you like your job?

Right now I am a 'peer educator,' meaning I teach students of ~20 students 1/3rd of the week's biology 111 info @ my university. (ie instead of 3 lectures a week, there's the 200 student lecture hall gig 2x a week, and on the third I do the teaching to a smaller group). It is a pretty groovy job.

I am also a student, undergrad, working on it since 2k1 and I *might* graduate a year from now if I am lucky.

You excel in your field.

so does jaymc.

I do nothing. OK not true, I temp BUT someone just contacted me today because she remembered me from a previous job I'd applied for (good sign, I think!) about what could very well be my dream job - Community Health Educator in the Family Planning division of a local medical center. *fingers crossed*

That would be the coolest! I hope you land that gig!

hey that's great!

i am an unemployed not-lawyer btw

A and H - I know!!! It's also near where I live so I have a personal interest in the particular community. I really really want this job and am hoping that since she contacted me (I hadn't even seen the listing!) that I have a good shot. I've already emailed her back and applied online so we'll see. :-)

Another attorney at LOL here

harbl, did you just take the bar?

i h8d my job so i quit now im unemployed and then i go to croatia and then ??????????????????????????

film producer imo

Punctuation school!!!!!!!!!!11!!!
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I'm an 'assistant lecturer' in English for a year at a community college in Hong Kong, aka escaping maturity and responsibility and thoughts of a career for one more year, although I will admit I've been studying for the LSAT

I will admit I've been studying for the LSAT

Turn back now, while there's still time.

Why, do you know someone who took the LSATs, Daniel, Esq.?

:> but I really think I can help Frank, Gwen, Henry, Joan, Victor, Wanda, and Yvette figure out who finished first and second and third

As of a few weeks ago I'm a program analyst at the EPA. I'm in yr govt, analyzin' the programz.

good luck usa

jenny--yes

Why, do you know someone who took the LSATs, Daniel, Esq.?

Sadly, yes.

lol ;_;

I'm the assistant director of student media at FIU, which means I help oversee the student newspaper, radio station, and website; I'm also an adjunct professor of English.

take hart u guyz - whenever u throw a dinner party coming up with alternate seating arrangements should be a breeze

IIRC Hart can only be seated at a table if he is giving a speech

oh, i just got what lamp was saying

it won't be a breeze because i stopped thinking about seating arrangements on september 30, 2005 iirc

Seriously, I'm a name partner with a small law firm in Miami.

And I was kidding above, BTW. Nothing wrong with taking the LSAT or being a lawyer. I've been in one really big firm and now a small firm; there's a good fit for everyone.

I help build pipelines.

I'm a computer programmer for the federal government.

I'm in arts admin.

abbott,

it's a tough job but i like it okay. the hardest thing about it is that adolescents are really cued in to your emotions and reactions, and having to keep up a very professional front can be very exhausting, especially with the demands of the job. i mean, the plus side is that i get to talk and think about things that i find fascinating (really) for a living, the downside is the same one i imagine real-estate agents face: the constant pressure to keep it positive, be upbeat, be happy-peppy, etc. you really gotta be a cheerleader for the teenagers, and for me that's been tough this year because i'm going through a divorce. so i've sucked pretty hard at that aspect of my job, though i hope to be better at it this upcoming year.

there are a lot of threads on ilx about becoming a teacher or being a teacher and i talk at length about it on most of them, but let me know if you have any other questions.

ps - there's a huge maturity gap between college students and teenagers, so i'd try doing what you're doing with teens for a while, maybe as an afterschool tutor or a substitute teacher or whatever before you get any preconceived notions of what it's like.

im another lawyer (for the govt)

gonna lol gonna lol gonna lol for your government

lol for your government that's shit

i'm in my li'l grad school chrysalis right now and by this time next year i will have emerged as a beautiful butterfly of a "moving image archivist"

im a senior systems analyst for a telecommunications company which is not exactly what i wanted to be as a kid but it gets me a lot of $$ and the $$ are the only reason i go to work so bingo.

I got a letter from the government the other day.
I opened and read it.
It said, "LOL."

lol for your government that's shit

― a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful (dyao), Tuesday, August 11, 2009 2:20 AM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark

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