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[Kaelthir]

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I know there's a huge variety of jobs people work in the community, as well as students and stay at home parents. What do all of you do for a living? And what sort of education do you all have? I know a few people are studying in far off places, like Darrien for example. But I don't hear about what people who already graduated did for school, or if anyone dropped out. School isn't necessary to get a good job after all, it's easy to start working a trade and succeed in life.


I'm currently attending university for fine arts. I started art because I had no idea what else to do, and it's something I'm good at naturally. I'm thinking of taking my bachelor's and getting a teaching certificate, or possibly pick up info tech on the side and get into that field sometime in the future. Where I live, in British Columbia, teaching is a pretty good profession. The pay is good, the benefits are good, and with all of the boomers retiring I'll have a good pick of schools.

For the last 4 or so years I've worked in a Safeway bakery. It can be fairly crazy at times, but I like the work. Sadly the trade is going down hill, it's not something that I could consider as a permanent job. The maximum amount a baker can make is the starting wage for a teacher, to put it in perspective. My position is Baker's Helper, generally not much is expected of helpers but if we want to learn how to actually do things the bakers are happy to teach. I've learned how to work at all of the different positions except mixer (although I know how to scale bread and a few other small parts of that job), and learning how to work with dough and how to decorate cakes is definitely something I can take with me from this job.

[Edda]

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Sweet. You have similar interests to me, it sounds like.

I am a stay at home mom. I've never attempted any further education, I got pregnant at age 19, I think, about a half a year after my wedding. I'm 23 now and have 2 kids, ages 3+2. I sell hats sometimes at www.etsy.com. I like knitting.

When my kids go to kindergarten, I hope to go to school, as well. A part time course of some kind. I'd still like to have enough time to be involved with their school activities and stuff. I have ABSOLUTELY no clue, what I want to do, at all. I have also considered trying to become a teacher of some sort, so that I could have the same vacations as my kids. My husband (he plays Ducard, the Shogun in AoiL) is a cal tech. No, not Cal Hurst. Calibration.

[Dealthagar]

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I am the Network Administrator for a Fortune 200 company and oversee all administration for our North American offices (650+ sites).

I also write books. I have a new one that just came out: My Home Site

I even did a trailer for the book:




I like techy stuff, computers, multimedia and pushing the envelope when it comes to peoples beliefs on faith, religion, racial bias, gender roles and human sexuality. You'd never pick me for a 40 year old straight caucasian guy.
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[Ariana Lenoir]

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At the moment, due to the needs of my children and extended family... I'm a stay-at-home mom. I keep thinking I'll find time to get back to college, but it always seems to get pushed to the side. As soon as stuff calms down, I may go back to work or school while the kids are in school, but right now that time is spent helping family and trying to play catch up with my own household.

Thankfully, Adonias makes enough to keep us afloat and give me the freedom to help take care of the family and the kids.

When I went to college when I was younger, I was going back and forth between Anthropology and Immunology majors.

I've worked several jobs since high school with a fair amount of it in retail management until after my youngest was born. When my youngest was born, I worked from home for 4years or so and then had to even give that up trying to balance that with everything else. I did work at Cal Expo for while since then with the harness horses. That was definitely an experience. *chuckles* I had actually planned awhile back on applying at EA Redwood before the UO team was relocated. *snaps fingers* I would have easily made the commute of an hour and a half for a job I would have loved. Now that I'm older, the money isn't as important to me... its finding a job I can be passionate about.
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[Talon Skyfire]

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This is a good thread. Its nice to learn about the folks behind the pixels.

I am an officer in the U.S. Army. Im currently a Captain and Battalion Adjutant. I oversee the administration, health, and welfare of 1200+ Paratroopers. We're a Paratrooper unit from the 82nd Airborne Division (Crazy guys who jump out of planes with guns). We're wrapping up a 12 month deployment to Iraq and I absolutely can't wait to get home and start roleplaying with you all again.

Thats what I do in a nutshell.
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King of Sanctus
Lord Protector of Malas

[Bryelle Vaughn]

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I too am currently a stay at home mom and college student. I know my guild hears me say BRB all the time due to my three kids. I have a 16, 12 and 3 year old. I didn't attend college when I should have, I was too busy raising a family and thinking I knew it all. I went back this past June. I am a communications major. I love writing, always have. I enjoy poetry, personal essay, novels( multiple types) and just about anything else with the written word. I love RP because it gives me a chance to write from many different angles. UO became a logical choice for an RP forum as I have known Ariana IRL for over 20 years.
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Ariana Lenoir[3:53 pm] She has all the subtlety of a rampaging elephant.

[Merci d'Rue]

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I work thirty hours a week for an art and framing company in OC, near newport beach. I am currently the Financial controller and handle about five other things to due to it being a small company. You name it I probably have had to do it.

I to have three great kids, Rosella/14, Madolyn/12 and Serena/4. If I am not here I am with them or working that is pretty much my life. Even when I am here, I to must run off to stop a 14 year old from taking a toy from a four year old because its fun to hear her cry.. Or my favorite, is suprise haircut time when someone decides they want side bangs and that they surely are proficient with scissors even though I doubt they could cut a perfect round circle with paper. *yes, yes it happens*

So I really have three main jobs, Mom first, Controller second, and of course UO addicted rper..
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[Grignag]

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Work for Genentech as a lowly Research Assistant.

Running PCR on spliced plasmids, isolating target proteins through SDS page and then using bond cleavage for sequencing. You know, boring stuff that we figured out in the Stone Age of molecular biology.
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[Sir Robert]

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I am a lowly peon. I'm that poor guy the Housekeeping Teamleader (also called Slavedriver by me) calls for mopups, moving (empty) beds, exchanging those curtains between beds, exchanging mattresses in case a patient had a specialty wound-care mattress, covering cleaning routes in case someone called off, is on vacation or got fired and various other stuff.
Professionwise I am a specialist in Cleaning Services with a Journeyman degree from the Cleaners Guild of Berlin, Germany. So I actually know the difference between a Linoleum and a PVC floor and why it's bad to clean a Linoleum floor with a cleaning agent meant for PVC flooring, and vice versa.
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Though this be madnes, yet there's method in't

[zeyla]

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Those who know me, know I'm in the nursing field. I made a grinding career change in the early 1990's after having a serious (horseback) riding accident that should have, at least, broken my neck or killed me, at worst. Somehow, I walked away with a multitude of injuries. At that time I was working in the budding computer industry; though it paid like mad it was cut-throat and stressful to the nth degree. About six months after my accident my employer decided to retire so she could pursue making stained glass windows full time, and offered the business to me. After much thought and soul searching, I concluded that there was a reason I was spared cataclysmic injury in my fall, and that more was wanted/expected from me. Call me superstitious, but to this day I'm convinced it was the Saint Christopher medallion I worse that spared me. By that time, I'd had it on my neck for about five solid years. The worse injury I sustained was a bit of brain damage to the vision center of my brain, resulting in the need to wear glasses. The rest of the injuries were the nuisance type--pain on rainy days and that sort of thing.

I went to work for an agency that serves persons from birth through retirement, and have cognitive disabilities and mental illnesses, many of whom also have physical disabilities and health concerns. Started out on the bottom of the totem pole, so to speak, in vocational services. My job was to teach people with profound mental retardation enough skills to move out of our room into the 'big workshop' and seek gainful employment with the rest of the folks in the sheltered workshop. At this point I'd taken a 2/3 paycut. But I was happy, beyond all ability to explain.

Through the years I worked in various departments of our agency, including a few years as a group home manager for people with mental retardation -and- mental illness. Together. Meantime I was taking classes and attending every training I could, and ultimately moved into the nursing aspect of our non-profit agency.

Currently, I'm working in the 3 to 5 year old preschool program with children who are on the lowest functioning end of cognitive and physical disabilities. Many are so medically fragile a simple cold could hospitalize them--or worse. Many people think I'm insane and have no idea how I could 'possibly' do such a thing, that it must be depressing, etc. Those things are true. There are often sad aspects of my job. But the truth is, in my classroom, we turn can't and won't into does. Big deal if there are kids who 'eat' through a tube in their stomach, or have a permanently installed tracheotomy. Some won't live past their teens, due to their personal diagnoses. Turning my back and pretending there isn't a need won't make it go away. If it would, I'd be glad to pull the turning away act.

There is much joy there, despite the crappy pay. In fact I have to supplement my income by taking private duty cases (interestingly, most of which are with the geriatric population). I love those kids, each and every one, and am constantly reminded of what is truly important in life by them. Every June, I come to the graduation ceremony armed with tissues to watch these little angels, in cap and gown, take their little 'diplomas', and move into kindergartens and the world. There's no way to describe the feeling of seeing a child walk up and grab for that diploma, when all the doctors said she'd never, ever, walk without a miracle.

In my non-work persona . . . I'm often busy trying to keep that horse between myself and the ground, and usually succeeding.
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Riding--The art of keeping a horse between yourself and the ground.

[Azunda]

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[Cal Hurst]

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Currently a college student, studying Marketing at UMass Dartmouth and also attempting a minor in Psychology (which is going along much easier than my major, and I'm enjoying it more, go figure). However, if the economy still blows when I get out and I can't seem to find a job, I'm already planning on taking EMT/Paramedic classes, following it up with Firefighter classes. Yes, I want to run into burning buildings.

I've had a number of jobs in the past, but enjoyed one in particular, for all the wrong reasons. 1 Hour Photo.

MY GOD PEOPLE! REMEMBER! WE HAVE TO LOOK AT YOUR PICTURES! If any of you still use the 1 Hour Photo service, for the love of God, please think before you drop off your camera. I have seen far too many manparts in my time there, because people think it's a good idea to take pictures of their lances and drop it off to get developed. But hey, the females do it too. Plenty of boob shots as well. That part was awesome for me, I was like 15. BUT! Aside from that, I've seen autopsies, car crashes, train wrecks, broken bones, and other assorted injuries. However, the following picture will always be burned into my mind.

Imagine this: A grassy area with only trees in a distant background. The sun is setting on the horizon, causing the sky to be a dark red color. Not a cloud in the sky. In the middle of the picture, a cross. On that cross, is a slaughtered goat. AND IT'S ON FIRE. Yeah. Never gonna leave my brain.
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[Samon Triest]

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I am awesome. I dropped out of college after about two years of studying. I was going for business, but it just bored the crap out of me. I was 17 though, a year ahead of the kids in my high school class, so I probably wasn't quite ready for the whole college thing yet.

For the last four and a half years (Including jobs with other companies in the field, I have six years of experience) I have worked for a company called Mosaic. It provides support and in home care for men and women with mental and developmental disabilities. When I quit school and moved from my hometown when I was 19, I signed on in the field just because it was a job that paid decently. Over the years though, I see the value and the wonder that my job brings. To sit there and watch a person who when you started was so behavioral that no one wanted to work with him turn into an amazing person who works hard to overcome their behaviors and problems, knowing full well that you have been a part of that persons everyday life for four years, it feels amazing. The rewards are simply wonderous. The pay is crap, but honestly, it is so worth it when it comes to the end game of it all.
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[Sarian]

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Im a general contractor. I mainly focus on installing doors and windows. My main job with the installing is bending the aluminum extrusion around the windows and such. Jumped into all that straight out of High School and haven't looked back.

Zeyla wrote a short novel for her post..I only managed two lines
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Brianha ‎(10:04 PM):
lol oh no worries with teasing.. it takes ALOT to get me really goin
Brianha12:54 AM
cool... i will hook up with you tomorrow night ... maybe you can help move my chests too

[Darrien Church]

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In American Undergrad. University I completed a dual BA in Philosophy & Classical Languages with a minor in Psychology at SJU New York City. In Europe I received a European BACC. in Philosophy as well as E.U. Education Commission Fluency certification in Italian, English and Latin.

Now I live in Italy as a full-time Grad Student/Researcher in Metaphysical Philosophy & Quantum Physics while my true hobby is Aesthetics, which is the Philosophy of Beauty & Art. Currently working on a thesis on German Aesthetics and Romanticism for the completion of my degree.

Career wise, I currently work part-time as an English-Speaking Undersecretary at the Vatican Museum Administration Offices. Essentially it's my job to make sure that Administration can properly communicate with English clients and callers. For my university, I assist in the citation work of professors working on the European Science Initiative STOQ.