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RE: What do you do for a living? - 5/30/2008 7:32:37 AM
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lexie
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My current job description is SAHM (and I hope that doesn't change!) However, from home I am also a:
- figure skating instructor (during the winter, and not FROM home, but it doesn't affect my SAHM status.)
- freelance writer for a small Christian women's magazine
- secretary for a friend's home based company
- child minder (at the end of the month I should be looking after another baby a couple of days a week.)
I was a figure skating instructor during university, and then for a year after that I managed a clothing store. Then I went back to school, got married and became a SAHM.
My husband is currently a substitute teacher, and works at a book publisher during the summers.
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RE: What do you do for a living? - 5/30/2008 9:06:17 AM
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Do you teach Private Lessons or Group Classes? If both, what percentage of each would you estimate you teach?
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RE: What do you do for a living? - 5/30/2008 9:08:54 AM
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Consecrated2God
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My husband is a full time pastor, so I bum off him.  Lol!
I'm a SAHM, and I've been through most of my married life. I married at the age of 17, so I didn't have much of a job history either. I worked for my dad at his antique store on weekends when I was a teenager, and I did volunteer work as a candystriper. I also started my own ballet school with my sister when I was fifteen and we did that for a couple of years until I got married.
I was a SAHM for the first five years of our marriage until my husband went back to school. I tried in home daycare for a few months, but ended up with a biter. That didn't last long. I had a newborn and was tired of the bite marks on her face.  So then I worked part time at Taco Bell for four years. When we moved after he graduated, I worked full time at Taco Bell until my husband found a job. I haven't had a job since, but I've tried starting a quilting business that didn't work out too well, and I'm thinking of possibly starting a ballet school again in a year.
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RE: What do you do for a living? - 5/30/2008 10:04:48 AM
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SweetLittleErin
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I am an insurance agent. I started working here in 2002 as a part-time secretary while I finished school, but I decided I liked this way more than accounting so my boss paid for all my training and I am a licensed agent and also have additional "bonus" certification of CISR (certified insurance service rep.). I really enjoy my job. My office is family owned, just me, my boss, my boss' mom, and my boss' wife (right now she is a SAHM with their 3 year old but will be back before too long.). They have NO problems with me taking off for family stuff, will fully support me wanting to breastfeed/pump, I couldnt ask for a better work environment. I LOVE it here. I am more or less treated like family...I go to birthday parties, the kids email me and come play at the office to 'see Erin'. Its wonderful.
My hubby owns his own corporation. He does computer/network consulting and service for businesses. Small businesses like accounting offices, real estate offices, churches, etc. As well as the main IT guy for our local hospital and doctors offices. It allows him to work from home some days so that is great when the baby comes too. The downfall, he works alot of times on an "as needed" basis, so his monthly income (though always enough so far) is never guaranteed.
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RE: What do you do for a living? - 5/30/2008 10:49:29 AM
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TheEgyptianPrincess
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Both my hubby and I are in the IT field... I have a Computer Systems Engineering degree and in Australia I was a straight software engineer ....when I moved to the USA my first IT job was Release Management .. I had always wanted to get into the Quality Assurance part of the IT field.. and since hubby was already a QA.. it was always a tease between us - war of the software developers VS Quality Assurance group.. his argument was the QA NEEDS to find all the bugs and the developer just has to code... my argument was without a software developer there would be no software for the QA to even test.... also hubby has his degree in Civil Engineering originally but got into the IT field when there was no civil eng jobs. SO.. it was a challenge.... I told him I could get into the QA field and make it... so I did.. and now I am the Global Quality Assurance Director for a huge financial firm.... and hubby is still working as a QA but he is a consultant so he changes jobs much more frequently than me.
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RE: What do you do for a living? - 5/30/2008 10:59:31 AM
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daughter_of_faith
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I have been a teacher for a year now. My position this fall will be Interrelated Teacher for grades K-2. I'll be educating students with various exceptionalities (the term special ed. is going out the window...so it seems....but it is still used some).
For two years, I worked my way through college by working as a community support worker (CSW) at the local area mental health center. Most of work involved giving attendant care to children with severe emotional disturbances. It ran the gamut of children who had been abused and/or diagnosed with ADHD to bi-polar to autistic to ....the sky is the limit. The position had both challenges and rewards. Where else do you get paid to go swimming and take kids to restaurants? Mostly we just hung out with the kids & helped them develop good relationships (or tried to).
Anyway, it's time to head off for my summer job--full-time stay-at-home wife and mother. Someday I pray I'll be able to do this all of the time, but for now I'll take summers and holidays off. My DH will be going to school to become a Christian counselor after we move. He's worked in manufacturing for the past 2 years & will be foreman of this new crew forming (he had been graveyard foreman until they shut down graveyard).
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RE: What do you do for a living? - 5/30/2008 11:33:16 AM
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AuntieRei
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I work for an asphalt construction company - in the office handling all of the paperwork and such (7 years). My husband is a production laborer for a huge manufacturer. I also work part-time at a swimming pool business as their bookkeeper.
I am working on my accounting degree now, I have 2 more years to go. I would like to get my masters.
I have worked at a grocery store as a cashier, a nursing home as a CNA, a textile plant inspecting t-shirts, a screen printing plant where they screen print the t-shirts, an office supply/print shop, and at a plastics manufacturer as their assistant buyer. When I was a teenager I cleaned swimming pools for extra money through the company I do the books for now. I hope to eventually buy the swimming pool business when the owners decide to retire, they've already asked me about it. But that will be about 8-10 years from now.
I don't have any children. 
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RE: What do you do for a living? - 5/30/2008 3:54:47 PM
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MrsTracy72
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I think I can finally say that I am a SAHM. I do have a direct sales business like lots of others, but that is according to my schedule and I get to choose when I work. I have been waiting to be able to say that for years.
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RE: What do you do for a living? - 5/30/2008 4:35:00 PM
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I work for United States Postal Service (part time only) - so I dont get any of the goodies like paid days off or sick days or benifits I am trying to get on full time but its tough
My future hubby is an Electrician
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RE: What do you do for a living? - 5/30/2008 4:44:37 PM
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Currently I'm a mommy that works full-time at my church. My official title is Receptionist/Database Administrator/Communications Secretary. Yes... that's my OFFICIAL title. You've got to love working in ministry. As database admin, I manage our church membership and guest/visitor information. As communications sect I handle marketing for church outreach events, design fliers and brochures, update the church website and more. It's busy and occasionally quite stressful but I LOVE IT!!!
Past jobs in order from most recent to oldest:
Caretaker for a gentleman that had a stroke
Preschool teachers aide
Burglar alarm monitor (we were the ones that called to make sure everything was okay or called the cops when home alarms went off)
Waitress at Sonny's BBQ (DH and I met waiting tables there)
Web Site Designer/marketing assistant
Librarian's assistant
Work-study in the cafeteria at my college (can't remember my title)
Waitress at a dive called Hobo's Footlong Hot Dogs
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RE: What do you do for a living? - 5/30/2008 4:47:00 PM
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lexie
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ORIGINAL: HisCovenant
Do you teach Private Lessons or Group Classes? If both, what percentage of each would you estimate you teach?
The current place I teach at, I teach all group lessons. I work during the day so I get mostly school groups and pre-school classes (which tend not to do private lessons).
When I was in university, I taught more of the figure skating, so I did have some private lessons, but I still did about 90% group lessons.
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RE: What do you do for a living? - 5/30/2008 6:32:42 PM
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kohls356
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My husband is a CFO for an industrial heating and cooling company. I have been a cashier in high school and a bank teller before having our children. I went back to work 4 1/2 years ago and work overnight in receiving at a retail store.
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RE: What do you do for a living? - 5/31/2008 2:50:43 PM
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4IMPersuaded
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I am a registered nurse in nursing administration (part time) at my local hospital. It is a fun job where I get to talk to a lot of people and really live out my faith daily. I also teach at a local community college in the RN program (also, part time). I love my students, but this experience has lead me to be bold in teaching the Word-- something I wouldn't have considered before.
DH works in the airline industry-- NOT a pilot. He works in regulatory compliance which means that he is the guy that makes sure that the airline is doing everything that the FAA wants them to do. It is the sort of detail-oriented job that would make me want to poke out my eye with a pencil, but he loves it!
My full-time job is as mom to two precious children. A boy aged 6 and a girl aged 4. They keep me busier than both jobs combined!
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RE: What do you do for a living? - 5/31/2008 7:38:34 PM
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peculiar_lady2
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I wish I had been one of your customers!! I've never heard of being too nice to a customer. \
BTW - Sarah - I love your av!!
Thanks!!!! I loved that pic....saw it in an email someone sent me for Memorial Day!!!
yeah I was fired cause I was engaging to the customers, and I said HI to everyone that walked in the door....and it's not like that kept me from doing my job, I mean I was used to very technical past pased jobs (television and theme park)...so I can do a million things at once. They just didn't like that I was "too friendly". (BTW Jenny said a few weeks ago that she was fired for the same thing from a gas station once...lol. Makes me feel better that I am not the only one!!!)
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RE: What do you do for a living? - 5/31/2008 7:48:44 PM
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BrowneyedAL
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Hubby is a Network Administrator.
I'm currently a property manager...and I enjoy it...but it's one of many (quite different) types of jobs that I've done...in the past I've been:
Pre-school teacher
Social Worker for a Teen Parenting program
Financial Planner for a Pain Management Clinic
Child Support Enforcement Worker
Leasing Consultant
Fitness Center Attendant
Travel Agent for a Locum Tenens Service (that's basically a temporary employment service for doctors)
case worker for the local Department of Human Resources
as well as a few jobs in retail
and yes, I am a tad ADD 
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RE: What do you do for a living? - 5/31/2008 7:50:55 PM
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Miss Giggles
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I work tech support and am thinking of going back to school (again) to go into healthcare, if I can go nights and weekends and I am not sure if I can get all the classes in that way.
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RE: What do you do for a living? - 5/31/2008 9:45:19 PM
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PrincessDonna
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I am a SAHM, with no income of my own. I have been...
-daycare provider (TONS over the years, starting at 11, 14 was my first full-time summer job)
-Walmart cashier/customer service/layaway (2 years...and I'd do it again!)
-gas station attendant (HATED both of those jobs)
-radiology secretary (5 years)
-Pizza Hut cook/waitress (2 years)
-farm laborer (from 11)
My husband drives a concrete boom truck. He delivers septic tanks, man holes, and lots of other things made from concrete. He's been there 4.5 years and before that drove tractor trailer for Schneider (the bright orange trucks), delivering huge sheets of glass. He might go back to tractor trailer some day, but probably only if it's local or at least semi-local. No more than one night away.
Brian also works on cars. Over the last year and a half, he's gained quite a few new customers and will soon need to start an official business. That's his dream...but we can't do it until it can support our family, or until I can support our family while he gets his business going.
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RE: What do you do for a living? - 6/10/2008 4:08:03 PM
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DenimDiva
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Hi Harvie- good to see you around again!
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RE: What do you do for a living? - 6/10/2008 5:16:40 PM
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10SNE1?
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I was a SAHM for 22 years. Before that I was a college student and had a couple of little jobs.
Currently I'm the Assistant Director of Kids' Ministry at our church. I have been doing this for a little over a year.
It is really a very cool God-story. Our youngest dd was/is in high school, was the only one of the four kids not in college and I knew it was almost time for me to find something " to do". I had been praying about this for about a year and one day, out of the clear blue, the then Kids' Pastor emailed me and said " Do you want a job?". He and his wife are good friends of my DH and I so it wasn't "out of the blue" for him to email me but we had never talked about me and a job.
I love my job! Kids' Ministry has always been my ministry calling and passion. I have always volunteered with kids and, when my kids were smaller, I considered going back to school to get a degree in Christian Education/Children's Ministry. I just never did and really didn't believe it would ever happen. One of those things I kinda of regretted not just doing at the time. But then God gave me my "dream" long after I had pushed it aside. Looking back, I can easily see how the timing wasn't right then but is now.
I was 45 years old when I started this job so I want to encourage you younger SAHMs....you really can spend 20 plus years at home and then find a great job ( or have one find you ) Not that everyone "should" stay home..just that I know I used to worry about that a lot, that I would wake up on day and find myself a bored empty nester.
My husband is a partner at one of the "Big Four" accounting firms. He is a CPA but doesn't really do traditional accounting work. He is a consultant.
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