For a living.

[Cobalt]

This is so we can all get to know everyone a little better (and for those who don't like the gaming threads).
What do you (and your SO if not a member) do to make ends meet or shall I say try to make ends meet.




I am the Technology Coordinator at our local school.

[osuche]

I am in sales and marketing....manage a small business unit for a manufacturing firm

And my SO.....is working on his PhD in Computer Science, after 2 degrees in Electrical Engineering. Before that, he was CEO of a start-up.

[Pita]

I do child care in my home and currently have 6 little kids I watch from 8 months to 3 years old :eek:

[maddy]

I do accounting for a publicly traded company.

[mayhem1978]

Ok just incase you guys and gals aint realised yet. I drive buses

[sodaklostsoul]

Well for the time being I sell fuel, beer and smokes at Citgo(Food n Fuel). Being a single mom is tough. One income sucks!!!!

[nikki1979]

im a housewife, but i have jsut started sellin sex toys, my first part is friday !!!!!!!!!!!! YAY keep ur fingers crossed!

and jeeping is an aircraft mechanic, works on the heavys


~nikki

[Catch22]

Nurse/carer. No SO, but know the odd SOB. Do they count?

[BigBear57]

I'm currently a draftsman for a small manufacturing plant.

[Lilith]

I'm a student but used to be the Asst. Director/Director of a church preschool :D


Mr. Lil is a Programmer Analyst working for the state.

[Navarre]

I'm a manufacturing/sales engineer for a steel fabricator.

[kathy1]

phlebotomist/lab assistant/lab gopher

[imaginewithme]

I am basicallly a secretary, processing new business for a financial planner.

Mr. IWM paints airplanes

[scotzoidman]

I am unemployed, trying to make it self-employed...no job security, but then there was none in working for other people, either...so now I try to make some of my artistic abilities pay somehow...

[cowgirltease]

If you ride around on Goodyear tires........ Well then, I help build your tires. :)

[BIBI]

I run a treatment foster program for female teens....... :hair:

[jentheredhead]

i teach middle school age special needs students. my husband recently went back to driving truck after being in sales. i was SO happy when he got out of sales, he's much happier now.

[Sharni]

I'm a cleaner/garbologist

You know....sweep, mop, dust, wash windows etc.....oh the joy! :rolleyes:

[jennaflower]

I work for the state trying to catch up with those who have no desire to support their offspring...

[boilergirl1]

I build (welding and the rest too) Power Plants all over the united states

[jay-t]

I"am a machinist by trade and have started a blacksmiths shop making fancy fences and gates,and anything else i can sell


The other half is over all the inventory for a large school system

[d5254t]

I am a medical assistant and a phlebotomist in the local blood bank here, no SO, I am a single mom .....

[wyndhy]

i don't have a job so to help us make ends meet, i clip coupons, buy the store brands when i can and keep the heat/ac usage to a minimum. :D

[OzKristin]

I'm a full time college student (will be a senior after this semester!) and 20 hours a week I work at the Testing Office at my school doing general office duties. A large part of what I do though is reading/writing/helping handicapped students take their exams, not tell them answers lol but more like tutor them.

[fzzy]

I'm a legal secretary ... and a part-time medical transcriptionist ... and in the odd hours in between I try to motivate myself to do more creative writing.

[dreamgurl]

Full time student, part time being the female AL Bundy..........yes i sell shoes.

[fredchabotnick]

I'm a Quality Assurance Chemist. I test chemicals and fill out paperwork

[Cheyanne]

I am a web developer and school improvement assistant at our local school district. I also am considered the school historian and marketing director.. lol

[Mae]

I am retired from Public Radio after many years as a Membership & Volunteer Manager. I've just become certified as a Master Gardener out here and I'm contemplating making art from cutting up tin cans. :D

[dicksbro]

I'm a retired supervisor from a large company's information technology department. Now, just work part time for mad money. My wife watches young children at a local school after parents drop them off and before classes start ... and then again in the afternoon before the parents pick them up. And, we do a lot of volunteer work.

[LixyChick]

I'm the lead singer in a well known R&R band...(and then I woke up!)

OK...I am a seamstress, and have sewn everything from tuxedos to stage curtains to Saudia Arabian army shirts. I am currently (past 7-8 years or so) making prototype furniture (sofa, settee, chair), mostly for offices...but some are for personal use. I helped design and sew the seating for the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, and just recently made seating for a palace somewhere in India. Get this...there were leather pieces in the collection!!???? Aren't cows "sacred" in India? Yeah...I thought so too! LOL! *shrug*

Mr. Lixy is an explosives engineer. They drill holes, pack um with powder and blow up rock. He finds many crystals, arrowheads, and on occasion they have had to shut down the site because they find dinosaur bones. Pretty interesting stuff, actually.

[kathy1]

I am a medical assistant and a phlebotomist in the local blood bank here, no SO, I am a single mom .....

Hi5 to another professional vampire here at pixies!!!! :cheers:

[Summer]

I am a volunteer(non-paid position) working with 8 kindergarten classes with aprox. 21 kids in each class. Oh yeah you want the money part. I am an eBayer and have been since 1999! I am also into the auction buisness side of things.

Mr. Summer does carpentry things. Since the three hurricanes came through he is always working now. He is also in the auction stuff with me.

And when times get extra tight we sell sell sell. I have even been known to sell the couch right from under us. ;) When my children don't clean their rooms I say "You might want to put things away or take them to my office for me to sell them!" LOL my son quickly grabs the items and puts them away. My daughter says to me to sell it all. Geez my kids!

[WildIrish]

I manage commercial and industrial real estate for third party owners. I've been involved with real estate for 12 years now, but I used to run the office for a company that manufactured and distributed preportioned food for weight loss clinics.

Mrs. WI is in the Educational Transportation field. :D

[bb@po9]

Both myself and Mrs Big Tone are Private Detectives, no the job is not as good as portrayed on the screens of the world.

[Oldfart]

I am a shift-working airfreight clerk.

I get jet-lagged without needing to ride in the buggers.

[BlondeCurlGirl]

My bachelor's degree is in public relations, but...

until I can get my foot farther in the door, I am currently working a seasonal order processor job at a premiere doll company based here in WI.

[IAKaraokeGirl]

I'm a legal secretary/assistant/Girl Friday in a one-attorney operation that my boss opened in September. Before that, we were both employed by the same law firm, me for almost five years and her for almost six. Now, I'm the only one with a guaranteed paycheck, but we both benefitted with a more relaxed atmosphere, albeit with more responsibility.

Kleclere does his computer thing. :) Because we don't live in an overly-populous area, he drives about 45 each way every day to be the number one, long-term temporary employee at a computer help desk for Monsanto, the seed company. We're hoping something permanent comes this way soon.

[Aqua]

I am the IT dept for an international wholesale company. (That is, when I am not adding color to photo's of Lilith... :p )

My SO is an accountant for a major worldwide corporate/franchise operation.

[darogle]

Hi5 to another professional vampire here at pixies!!!! :cheers:

Slap one on me too! :D I still have my medical lab technician certification, though I haven't done that sort of work in a while. I was a pretty good blood-sucker in my day. I mostly did the testing part though. I was the technical supervisor for a microbiology reference lab, specializing in parasitology. Yummy! :rolleyes:

I also used to work on helicopter avionics, been in law enforcement and been a soldier (along with the typical hair-net and name tag jobs). LOL

But since I just moved, I'm still looking for a job. In the meantime, I'm trying to get things fixed up here around the house. :)

[Scarecrow]

Day time custodian/maintenance for the local grade school(ech to 4thgrade). One minute I'll be fixing a pipe and the next minute cleaning up after a sick child :fish:


Oh the fun of it all. :rolleyes:

[jseal]

I am a computer application developer.


My wife is a manager at a medical library.

[thereIam]

I fill the role of senior analyst in the chemistry department of a small clinical laboratory.

I am damned good with a large bore needle! :viking:

[kathy1]

Hi5's darogle and thereiam.....

(thereiam, i save the large bores for those pain in the ass patients LOL)

[Oldfart]

kathy1

I've never thought of you as boring (of any gauge).

[d5254t]

wow a lot of phleb's out there, yeah I kind of love the 16 gauges we use to get a pint from our donors especially when they are rude.....