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What do you do for a living?
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 12:47 am
by Chris OConnor
What do you do for a living?
I'm curious what everyone does for a living so if you're comfortable please share it with us. I am a Realtor selling residential real estate.
Re: What do you do for a living?
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 9:24 am
by Mr. P
Chris OConnor wrote:What do you do for a living?
I'm curious what everyone does for a living so if you're comfortable please share it with us. I am a Realtor selling residential real estate.
I waste my days making money for my employer. I am a commissioned sales person and my money is not my own. In this economic disaster, I worry about getting fired so that the employer can keep all my future commissions to themselves.
Insurance Sales, btw. Totally not what I should be doing, but it paid the bills for a while.
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 2:56 pm
by ZachSylvanus
Graduate student in Zoology. Although to call it a "living" is perhaps being a bit generous.
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 4:00 pm
by lorifog
What a great idea for a thread! I think it's always nicer to "know" the folks that you share your books with, or a t least a little piece of them. I am a Special Education teacher working for the Early Intervention Department in our county. I work with kiddies birth through 3 years old.
Lori
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 4:12 pm
by Ophelia
I teach English as a foreign language to high school students.
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 4:14 pm
by Interbane
I'm on temporary assignment in Japan. I am a federal punisher. I whack people with a bamboo cane.
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 4:19 pm
by Dissident Heart
For the most part I am Naomi's Dad.
I get paid to be a Transitional Housing Program Manager for homeless veterans.
On the side, I am the official theological tutor for Pope Benedict.
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 4:21 pm
by Ophelia
Is this the sort of thread where we vote for most original occupation in the end?
I didn't stand much of a chance to begin with, but I have a feeling Interbane 's method of earning a living will be hard to...well, I can't say "beat".
Unless the Booktalk forum has recently acquired a lie detector...
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 4:50 pm
by President Camacho
I'm sure everyone knows by now I'm an air traffic control apprentice. I worked ATC for 4 years in the Air Force and am now working for the DoT instead of the DoD.
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 4:51 pm
by realiz
I tried to think of some interesting occupations I could claim as my own, because to admit what I really do, the dullest of dull, is not really how I want to be pictured.
But, I'll come clean. I'm a bookkeeper and in between my debits and credits I think about literature. A bespectacled, middle-aged, modern Bob Cratchit hiding behind my desk, surfing the book sites.