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What is your Day job?

Posted by seaglassorganic • 7/20/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
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I'm guessing many people here aren't full time bloggers- So how do you pay the bills?

I am a Tropical Plant Technician ( I care for mostly indoor plants at businesses such as offices, shopping centers, etc.

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7/20/08

wigwam2theorem

I'm an engineer.

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7/20/08

thegoodknife

BC is my morning, night, and day job.

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1. 7/20/08
  
  Norski
  
  Sleep optional?
2. 7/20/08
  
  thegoodknife
  
  sleep prohibited!
7/20/08

globalgirl

I'm a director at a privately held educational company.

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7/20/08

ttiger

i've a night job
im working as DJ/MC 4 night a week in a strip club and have a import car business !

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7/20/08

Anniepooh

Well, for now we pay the bills with hubby's WC check and my pay from blogging for hire.

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7/20/08

CrotchetyOldMan

Male stripper

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1. 7/20/08
  
  seaglassorganic
  
  @anniepooh- I hope your hubby's OK!
  
  @crotchety- LOL- Reallly??? You must do well!
2. 7/20/08
  
  Anniepooh
  
  Nope-he's not, but he's getting there. And his health is looking up, too!
3. 7/20/08
  
  CrotchetyOldMan
  
  I'm the hero of the nursing home.
  I strip for jell-o
7/20/08

Donlewis

I make wooden beer steins.

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7/20/08

crpitt

Student training to be a counsellor and carer to the mumborg.

Does that mean you are a cactus expert?

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7/20/08

Lucyvp

Supply teacher (Substitute teacher)

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7/20/08

seaglassorganic

@ crpitt - no, I claim no expertise, I just keep them alive (mostly)!

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1. 7/20/08
  
  crpitt
  
  Cactuses are the only house plants I have managed to keep alive, I have had a couple for 17 years now
  
  (several died though, whoops)
7/20/08

seaglassorganic

@ crpitt So what is your secret? (people constantly ask me this!)

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1. 7/20/08
  
  crpitt
  
  Claire's method of cactus keeping
  
  Very little watering, but at least some they are plants after all. I must confess to soaking them every now and again.
  A good feed twice a year.
  Good position, mine are on the window ledge.
  Repotting every two years.
  voilà!
2. 7/21/08
  
  aningeniousname
  
  You should only water cactus in the winter I think.
7/20/08

aningeniousname

Landscape gardener.

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7/20/08

acousticguitarist

Teaching Web Development usually, I specialise ib Flash and Actionscript.

However, this Semester I'm teaching systems Administration Diploma Analysis sort of stuff. Configuration and optimisation of Web sites, Ewaste, Computer Addiction, InDesign and Image editing.

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7/20/08

Jeunelle

I'm an Optician.

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1. 7/20/08
  
  crpitt
  
  Did you hear the one about the optician who fell into the lens grinder? He made a spectacle of himself.
2. 7/20/08
  
  Norski
  
  crpitt,
  
  Ouch? I suppose someone had to say that.
3. 7/20/08
  
  aningeniousname
  
  That was blindingly bad.
7/20/08

Norski

I'm trying to make a living blogging and producing online content. So, my day job is the same as my night job - and I've got to start getting more sleep.

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1. 7/20/08
  
  crpitt
  
  whoops place
7/20/08

Jeunelle

@crpitt...Yes actually that is one of my bosses favorite sayings and I only heard it
for the hundredth and eleventh time.

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1. 7/20/08
  
  crpitt
  
  sorry
2. 7/20/08
  
  Jeunelle
  
  @crpitt...no big deal, I'm sure I'll be hearing it sometime this week from Mr. Boss.
3. 7/20/08
  
  crpitt
  
  Is this better?
  Optician: You need glasses.
  
  Patient: But I'm wearing glasses.
  
  Optician: Then I need glasses.
4. 7/20/08
  
  aningeniousname
  
  Go to the naughty corner!
5. 7/20/08
  
  Jeunelle
  
  @crpitt...We say that a lot when dispensing eyeglasses to our customers.
6. 7/20/08
  
  aningeniousname
  
  When you ask people if they have ever had their eyes checked has anyone ever said no they have always been this colour.
7. 7/20/08
  
  Jeunelle
  
  @aningeniousname....You all are a riot tonight. Yup I get that too. I am immune to it.
7/20/08

TimMc

I have my own writing and editing company, McWriters. I work from home.

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1. 7/20/08
  
  aningeniousname
  
  You write about hamburgers at Mcwriters?
2. 7/20/08
  
  TimMc
  
  Somebody has to...it's a definite niche market. (No.)
7/20/08

EDBeale

I'm a patient service coordinator in the scheduling department of a well known urology clinic.

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1. 7/20/08
  
  aningeniousname
  
  Mcpee's?
2. 7/20/08
  
  EDBeale
  
  .......Better than McPoo...
7/20/08

cooper

I currently work for The Women's Commission in the county I live in prior to that I worked for a Non Governmental Humanitarian Agency mostly writing position papers on Conflict Resolution but also in Resettlement. I hope to go back that that someday but this is closer to home,less gas and I need some public policy experience. I am also a grad student.

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7/20/08

momscrazylife

I'm a Gerontologist..

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1. 7/20/08
  
  aningeniousname
  
  What's that?
2. 7/20/08
  
  momscrazylife
  
  I have a Masters degree in nursing with a specialty (major) of Gerontology ( the physical/ psychosocial/ medical well being of old people)
3. 7/20/08
  
  aningeniousname
  
  Oh Geron like in geriatric, never heard of Gerontology before.
4. 7/20/08
  
  momscrazylife
  
  Yep, it's its own field. Go figure. A field that is in desperate need of staff, unfortunately.
5. 7/20/08
  
  aningeniousname
  
  I think we just call it geriatrics here, I don't think we use that term.
6. 7/20/08
  
  momscrazylife
  
  Ya, it's called Geriatrics here too, Gerontology is just the study of geriatrics.
7. 7/20/08
  
  aningeniousname
  
  Like watching the Golden girls? Would that be classed as Gerontology?
8. 7/20/08
  
  momscrazylife
  
  The Golden Girls soooo classify...
7/20/08

chatblanc

currently I'm a professional job seeker and amateur slacker. I'm also attempting to get my degree in napping.

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1. 7/20/08
  
  Dukepro25
  
  lol
2. 7/20/08
  
  rmaxwell142
  
  Does it pay well? Sounds like a career I could enjoy!
3. 7/20/08
  
  harleyblues
  
  hehehehehe :):):)
  hb~
7/20/08

Dukepro25

Graphic Designer

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1. 7/20/08
  
  Jeunelle
  
  Whooo sexy....I hope you come with benefits.
  I love a man with benefits. lmao
2. 7/20/08
  
  Dukepro25
  
  lol
  
  *blush
  
  Looking for benefits huh?
  
  I got plenty of "benefits". lol
7/20/08

rmaxwell142

Production worker... ick!

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7/20/08

thefly

To be awesome.

Actually, Im an engineer. I have a bachelors in civil engineering and Im still awesome, haha.

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1. 7/20/08
  
  Jeunelle
  
  @thefly...Cool
7/20/08

Skysnowyowl

Police officer and US Army Reservist. Can homemaker be consider a job too? LOL

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1. 7/20/08
  
  Dukepro25
  
  Absolutely
7/20/08

firerobin

Marketing for the soon-to-be Met Life Home Loans.

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1. 7/20/08
  
  Dukepro25
  
  I love marketing!
7/20/08

seaglassorganic

Thanks everyone- I'm off- gotta work tomorrow!

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7/20/08

Rickety

I am a Software Engineer, which I haven't written about yet on my blog, www.rickety.us.

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7/20/08

harleyblues

I work in Oncology~

hb~

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1. 7/20/08
  
  acousticguitarist
  
  Oncs, are they like Orcs?
  
  Do you fix Orcs?
2. 7/21/08
  
  harleyblues
  
  hhhhhhaaaaaa! AG!
  hb~
7/20/08

lasunrose

My job begins in the late afternoon, so I'm still in search of a day job!

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7/21/08

erica1064

Executive Secretary; and damn good at it.

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1. 7/22/08
  
  Norski
  
  Quite. Good thing executives have someone looking after them.
7/21/08

ThriftShopRomantic

I'm a writer for an online marketing firm.

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1. 7/22/08
  
  Norski
  
  Best of both worlds, in a way: although I found it difficult to do my own writing, when my 'day job' used the same parts of my brain.
  
  Still: good practice - and one gets paid!
2. 7/22/08
  
  ThriftShopRomantic
  
  It is good practice, certainly. I have a lot of VERY fast deadlines. So it's forced me to work to write clearly, quickly.
  
  The downside is sometimes the ol' brain gets very weary, outputting so much content.
7/21/08

latinocool79

blogger

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7/21/08

Aprincess4ever83

Publishing/Student/Coach..all full time haha I'm tired.

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7/21/08

jadedconformist

I am a buyer in the Mortgage Industry. It would be a bit more frightening right now if I didn't work for a financially sound company. We're getting more business from those that went under.

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7/21/08

cheftom

video editing

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7/21/08

calais50

CPA/chartered accountant

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7/21/08

lulubelleb

Media research, specializing in network and syndicated radio.

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7/21/08

GFG

i am a Sales Manager.... in the scientific field

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7/21/08

TheBigRuski

Managing editor for an online consumer shopping site...

write ad copy, create pages...

We also do pay-per-click management

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7/21/08

LGramlich

Librarian/artist

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7/21/08

Sway

I am a full time student. I am currently living on my student loans. Evidently there are no jobs for computer techs or network admins/techs in Michigan. I'm going to move soon but I'm not sure where. Maybe Arizona, not sure though... Someplace where ITs can get jobs.
Word of advice- don't come to Michigan if you are an IT person.

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1. 7/22/08
  
  LGramlich
  
  I went to school for much the same & (as previously mentioned,) I pay the bills by being a librarian/artist. Best of luck...You're going to need it.
7/22/08

XIII

System administrator

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7/22/08

vivienzeru

Graphic Designer

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7/22/08

roentarre

Physician

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7/22/08

leetid

I am a secretary.

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7/22/08

gregdavies888

im a writer. but i dont really think it is a job. guess i just really love what im doing.

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7/22/08

Cannysquirrel

Photographer

check out www.highlandscapes.co.uk

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7/22/08

ChezChani

Poker Supervisor. At night.

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7/22/08

Arashmania

Language professor (English, French, and German), fiction writer on occasion

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7/22/08

Dovasary

I wish/hope that blogging will be a full time job for me at some point >__>

Anyways, I'm a cashier at a landscape company (am actually at work atm) and with the economy and drought down here the way it is (in Georgia) I might be out of a job come winter! woot

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