What do you do for a living?
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Where do you spend your days? Do you enjoy what you do? Was it the career you pictured yourself in?
I've said a few times on here that I'm a teacher, more specifically I'm a special education teacher and case manager (2 jobs + 1 me = lots of work!). I love what I do.. Some days I wonder if life would be easier as a WalMart greeter but I know I am making a change in the world (and having summers off is quite a perk!). 
I went to college to teach and spent a few years teaching but then spent years away from the classroom in other fields from environment, health and safety to nurse tech in an ER...
What do you do??
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I teach writing at a couple
I teach writing at a couple of community colleges and love it. I went back to school about 12 years ago and just started teaching about 5 years ago, but never really planned to be a teacher; it's more like a calling. Grading essays is kind of a drag, but as for the rest of it, all I can say is it beats working. My classes are pretty much discussion-based, and we talk about the issues my students write about, rather than boring crap like grammar and punctuation, so there's an improv component that keeps things lively and interesting for the most part.
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I'm a kept man
I'm a kept man
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Latex salesman.
Latex salesman.
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I've done a lot of things.
I've done a lot of things.
1963-68 - snow shoveling, lawn mowing
69 - hospital kitchen, college cafeteria
70-76 - cab driver
77 - cake baker and deliverer
78 - construction, Christmas tree pruner
79 - school bus driver, student worker in atmospheric science
80-82 - student worker in oceanography
83-97 - faculty research assistant in oceanography
98-04 - water chemistry tech for EPA
04-05 - manager, EPA water chem lab
06-present - retired
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Involuntarily retired
Involuntarily retired
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You know I've always wanted
You know I've always wanted to pretend to be an architect.
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Former Teacher, now retired
Former Teacher, now retired hippie trash guitar bum.
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the same job for 31 years
the same job for 31 years this May... not sure how I managed to stave off utter boredom before the internet came along.
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Electronic component
Electronic component distribution for 30 years. It's cool to see new technologies and products develop from engineering to mass production.
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Put werdz gooder.
Put werdz gooder.
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>> You know I've always
>> You know I've always wanted to pretend to be an architect.
If you're gonna do it, do it right (Guggenheim).
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Shower Curtain Rings...sales
Shower Curtain Rings...sales and logistics.
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sell items for the mob
sell items for the mob
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I work in IT for the City of
I work in IT for the City of San Francisco - directly across the street from the former SF Honda - the former home of the Carousel Ballroom / Fillmore West.
Certainly not overjoyed with my job or career - but in SF you need a frikkin' real gig to pay for a real mortgage....
In my spare time I see or play tons of music... (Jambands, bluegrass, blues, swing jazz, honky tonk, folk, reggae and more...)
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I would like to be food
I would like to be food critic.
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It looks like hounder and
Kept man here.
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Timmy, With they invention of
Timmy, with they invention of Yelp we're all food critics.
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Engineer. I really wish I was
Engineer. Being a bookie seems like more fun though.
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For ca$h I deal Firewood, do
For ca$h I deal Firewood, do mobile log-splitting and dabble in Tikis.
Also I raise Hops, but that hasn't made a paycheck yet.
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My best friends dad had to
My best friends dad had to sell his home to saves his dads (Bookie) life back in the late 1980's. Two guys owing $25,000 each disappeared to Florida and my buddy g-dad didn't have any enforcers. Mob said pay or die! So they paid.
Also my buddy girlfriends dad sold "sports scores pagers" back in early 1990's to all bookies (pre internet and cell phones).
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Disco Stu.... come and raise
Disco Stu.... come and raise hops in Oregon, Portland's 109 breweries need you!
In between living overseas and working under the table while there, I started out in a local non-profit in the Portland, OR area doing stuff like economic development research and then moved into a communications / public information role at the ACLU of Washington in Seattle. The glory days, because the pay was so low they gave us 4 weeks vacation, and since Jerry was still alive, I'd use that time to go on west coast tour! I also designed some civil liberties communications efforts that reached out to young people at concerts...no one was doing that back then.... so I got all-access passes to grunge shows like Nirvana, Soundgarden, etc before they started playing festivals. Was on the side of the stage hanging w/ the audio dude while watching Cobain at one memorable show in Seattle.
Then worked for 5 years with the founders of a new nonprofit on Bainbridge Island, WA called IslandWood, and overnight environmental education center for kids and adults...seedfunded by the Paul Brainerd and his wife...he is the guy who coined the term "desktop publishing" and started Aldus, which was bought out by Adobe in the early 90s. For the past 10 years, I've been doing media relations / PR for the sustainability policy programs at a bureau with the City of Portland, Oregon city government.
Feeling fortunate, looking back.
Always happy to network / mentor, too.
good thread, as I always like to learn more *facts* about Zoners. ;)
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I currently grow mmj for a
I currently grow mmj for a living...love it...
the boss was giving us an overview of the company and threw in, "Please refrain from any heavy indicas before work or at lunch time. Remember, a good sativa makes for a good work day." And I thought, fuckin' eh, finally, people who understand what it takes to get through the work day and they're completely cool with it.
18 yrs in lab tech jobs - environmental, oil & chemical, wastewater treatment, ethanol industry...
couldn't take the monotony anymore and switched to something i loved which is horticulture
10 yrs as grower for a native perennial nursery...
needed to move back to help my parents and, serendipitously, a lead grower position for a mmj company opened up...
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Love your post, slimjim. not
Love your post, slimjim. not enough people understand the differences between indica and sativa!
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Love yours, too, FL. Like you
Thanks, FL, yours too. Like you said, it's interesting to read what others do.
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LLOLLO --
LLOLLO --
A good buddy works at OR City drinking water plant. Perhaps your work brings you to that area at times ? Not PDX but "Oregon City".
Anyway you probably attend the same shows. He was just at Bluesky Greengrass in the Crystal the other day. Greensky Bluegrass, whatever.
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Candyman obviously!
Candyman obviously!
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Candyman obviously!
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I'm one of the Bulls at the
I'm one of the Bulls at the Dane County Juvenile Detention Center
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Worked on wall street for 25
Worked on wall street for 25 years margin clerk to operations manager
Then some consulting
Now for almost 4 years mental health / addictions counselor
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>>>You know I've always
>>>You know I've always wanted to pretend to be an architect.
yeah, me too. HAH
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Dispensary owner- cultivator-
Dispensary owner- cultivator- breeder-consultant....loving life.
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Technical Director and
Technical Director and Production Stage Manager for live and special events
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during college in ME, I
during college in ME, I worked in my Dad's warehouse and painted dorm rooms at the University, BS Civil Engineering
during college in CO, I worked in a trucking warehouse, painted houses, and installed lawn irrigation systems, BS Architectural Engineering, MS Architectural Engineering
Following school I worked in the engineering/construction field pretty much my whole life. For the past 25 years I've been an engineering consultant to a certain branch of the Fed Govt., although I did some architectural consulting for the State of ME DOE on the side a few years ago.
always wanted to sell Latex.....
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I'm allergic to Latex, and
I'm allergic to Latex, and "thus", bananas (same protein).
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DISCO! Good to know...
DISCO! Good to know... Oregon City is a cool old town / suburb of Portland just south along the Willamette River. Just drove there a few weekends ago when I went to the Home Orchard Society's annual fruit tree grafting fair. Got some grape scions.
You'll have to post a pic of your friend so I can keep an eye out for him. We missed that show as well as Yonder / Lil Smokies the previous week. I'm trying to find someone who'll meet me in Denver for 2 JRAD shows at the end of the month. My guy is headed to Austin next week for 3 SCI shows.... we're slowly coming out of hibernation.
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I paint rich peoples house. I
I paint rich peoples house. I also play music,
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Male prostitute
Male prostitute
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I make wrinkles and advertise
I make wrinkles and advertise them as creases.
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Part-time seer
Part-time seer
Mostly I work in the garment industry as a diesel fitter. LOVE IT
quality control is my primary function.
I try on ladies under-garments.
If they pass muster I declare "diesel fitter"
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I'm sorry, Chile
I'm sorry, Chile
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Voodoos line of work sounds
Voodoos line of work sounds much more interesting than mine.
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I banter with internet tough
I banter with internet tough guys on a dbmb,
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^the overtime must be pretty
^the overtime must be pretty nice
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It keeps me going in this
It keeps me going in this "new" economy.
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conch player in a rock and
conch player in a rock and shell band
Next gig on David Hassolhoff Cruise....see ya there!!
Aloha
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Taste tester for Summer's Eve
Taste tester for Summer's Eve!
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In situ or from the bottle?
In situ or from the bottle?
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Strictly professional double
Strictly professional double blind tastings in the QC department, unmarked 2 oz. portion cups.
They would not reimburse me for field testing!!!!!!!
Cheap Bastards!!!!!
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I shed light.
I shed light...I am greedy in that I shed little compared to what I absorb.
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I am a residential remodeling
I am a residential remodeling contractor.
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Fisheries Biologist for 37
Fisheries Biologist for 37 years (and counting) with 2 non-profit organizations, doing salmon population monitoring and enhancement, fish habitat rehabilitation, and watershed restoration in the Mattole River basin, a 300-square-mile undammed coastal river in NorCal
now semi-retired
http://www.mattolesalmon.org/
http://www.mattole.org/
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I try to show young people
I try to help young people become happy old people.
And I try to help silly and usually impaired people have fun and stay safe in less than optimum situations.
And I get paid to do that.
Far out.