What is your profession?

[gabosaurus]

We have been profiling kids through their parental status (both parents, one, neither, etc) and through the occupations of the parents or caretakers. It got me thinking about what professions that DP members have.
This is a very simple and straight question: What is your profession? If you are retired or otherwise unable to work, what did you do before that?
If you wish to go further, what did your parents/parent/caretaker do
No bashing, not judgments about which job is better or not. Just plain simple answers.
Might help you get to know and understand your fellow DP denizen a little better. :)

I am a counselor for at risk children. My dad works in public relations. My mom is an elementary school teacher.

[stephanie]

I'm a jill of all trades..:dance:

[Kathianne]

I'm a teacher, with MS degree, (administration). My specialty is social sciences. I have BA degrees in sociology, political science, and history. Minors in journalism and psychology.

My mom had high school diploma and worked as a chief operator for AT&T from 1940-1955. As an accountant for City of Chicago from 1971-1980. My dad was high school grad, he was a salesperson for steel industry, then in management, then a consultant until 1990.

My brother has BS in criminal justice, MS in law enforcement. Deputy Chief of Police, teaches part time at Northwestern University and U of I, (Champaign).

[Trinity]

Currently I am a retail specialist at several locations and work in the environmental services dept. at the hospital. I am also a promoter and photographer for many local bands and night clubs. Previously I was a bartender for many years however I got fed up with dealing with the drunks. That's when I decided to do promotional work instead.

You know now that I think about it, I don't think I have had just one job in the past 3 years.

Dad is retired deputy sheriff and mom does some kind of wiring not sure for what though.

[manu1959]

licensed architect and a minority owner of a 30 mill a year architecture firm

[82Marine89]

Dad.

Then I'm an operations manager for a landscape company.

My dad is retired, has a Ph.d, is a Certified manufacturing engineer. Helped the gov't with the design and implimentation of the bar code. Helped design part of the on board computer system for the B-1 bomber and F-177 fighter. He is still my best friend.

Mom should retire, but doesn't want to stay home with my dad. She has a Masters degree and is the HR manager for Estee Lauder New York.

[Yurt]

attorney. parents both have masters. mom audiology, dad business. grew up very poor until high school, getting an advanced degree was the only way i knew how to get ahead. dad was a mechanic before his masters and told me never to go into the trades, get your degree he said, over and over. mom, after my dad left, was stuck with two kids and had been a stay at home mom for 9 years, went to school, kicked ass, and is now head audiologist at one of, if not, the biggest private hospitals in san diego.

[Said1]

I went to college the first time around, recieved a diploma (diplomas only at colleges in Canada) in Business Admin/Accounting. Had my daughter and stayed home with her for 8 yrs. During that time I worked for a family support program specificallly for aboriginal families. I was basically a babysitter, although it was a integration/reintegration program for young aboriginal mothers/parents, just starting out or getting back into the work force/school. I also worked part-time as a program facilitator for another program, within the same community centre.

Presently I work for a law firm. A lot of the work I do involves research and sifting through boring patent/TM files making sure everything is up-dated and ready for billing. I do other stuff that's even more boring, but I won't bore you with it. I also go to school part-time - Human Geography.

My mother has a MA in psychology and works as an advocate for homeless/poor/disabled/mentally ill and children. She also ran for mayor last year.

My step-father sells, services and intalls hoists through out southern Ontario.

My birth father is a painter/consulant. He often picks things such as ....wallpaper, paint color, tile, color of tubs, toilettes, faucettes etc. Hard to imaging people can't do this on their own. :laugh2:

[Kathianne]

Dad.

Then I'm an operations manager for a landscape company.

My dad is retired, has a Ph.d, is a Certified manufacturing engineer. Helped the gov't with the design and implimentation of the bar code. Helped design part of the on board computer system for the B-1 bomber and F-177 fighter. He is still my best friend.

Mom should retire, but doesn't want to stay home with my dad. She has a Masters degree and is the HR manager for Estee Lauder New York.

I buy all Estee Lauder, can your mom get me 'samples'? :laugh2:

[My Winter Storm]

Macca's chick, here! :)

[Kathianne]

attorney. parents both have masters. mom audiology, dad business. grew up very poor until high school, getting an advanced degree was the only way i knew how to get ahead. dad was a mechanic before his masters and told me never to go into the trades, get your degree he said, over and over. mom, after my dad left, was stuck with two kids and had been a stay at home mom for 9 years, went to school, kicked ass, and is now head audiologist at one of, if not, the biggest private hospitals in san diego.

Wow, I'm imaging how my kids would respond:

My mom was home when we were young, until we were in elementary school, but when my parents decided to split, war broke out. My dad basically abandoned us, while my mom went back to 'school' and the friends/teachers she met there. We were left with her parents. They were strict with us, while not holding my mom to the same standards.

It was sort of cool when she found a black football player to be a 'friend' to my brother and myself, he's a pro now, but it didn't make either of us more macho. He still keeps in contact, at 25 I know that means he was a good person, but he didn't compensate for a dad. Can I blame my Mom for that? I know it's not right, but I sort of do.

I blame my dad, just not so much. He didn't have great parents. They had real problems. Yeah, I know they were in the US longer than my great grandparents, but they weren't 'Christians.' They were discriminated against for being Jews.

I'm not religious, not Jewish, not Christian, certainly not Catholic. It's all pap, aimed at controlling the believers.

(Maybe I'm overly harsh. Truth is I've heard all of the above from any of my kids, though I get along with all of them fine. There dad does too.)

[AFbombloader]

I am an almost twenty year Air Force member. I am scheduled to retire in Feb 09 and I will have to find a "real" job. I guess I am a mechanic, supervisor, personnel specialist, quality assurance inspector, I don't know what else. I have a few classes and I will have a HR degree and a mechanics degree.

My wife is a teacher and finishing her masters degree.

My Mom was a contracts administrator for an aerospace company and my Dad was a design draftsman for an offshore oil drilling firm.

AF:salute:

[Noir]

I'm a professional waster, i mean student...i mean waster, and part time chipy supervisor.

My dad works in a security firm, after 22 years in the army, and my mum is a works in a solicitors and is also atending Uni for a law degree.

[5stringJeff]

I'm a budget/program analyst for the Army.

My father was an airline pilot until the ripe old age of 60.

My mother, after my parents divorced, became a high school English teacher.

[Pale Rider]

I am an almost twenty year Air Force member. I am scheduled to retire in Feb 09 and I will have to find a "real" job. I guess I am a mechanic, supervisor, personnel specialist, quality assurance inspector, I don't know what else. I have a few classes and I will have a HR degree and a mechanics degree.

My wife is a teacher and finishing her masters degree.

My Mom was a contracts administrator for an aerospace company and my Dad was a design draftsman for an offshore oil drilling firm.

AF:salute:

If you take any school after you get out AFb, you'll have to check with the AF and the school, because much of your AF training, as mine was, is worth college credits. Although I didn't receive a signed diploma from a college, I do have the credits equal to a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering.

[retiredman]

Me: retired. twice.... once from the Navy and then from a public utility. I was a surface warfare officer in the navy and a facilities manager in the utility industry. Now I fill in occasionally in the pulpit of my church. BS and MBA.

Dad: attorney, WWII vet, politician. B.A and J.D.
Mom: stay at home mom.
Brother: B.A. insurance executive
Sister: B.A, M.A, PhD. college professor, author

[Pale Rider]

Now I fill in occasionally in the pulpit of my church.

Yeah right.... with your filthy mouth.... FUCK this, FUCK that, FUCK you you FUCK.... :laugh:.... :lmao:

You're no preacher ass wad... you can drop that lie anytime.

[KitchenKitten99]

I currently work PT as a nanny to an autistic boy, and my other PT job is retail at OfficeMax. This will pretty much be the plan until my youngest, who just turned 2, is old enough for preschool. So, next Summer/Fall 09, is when I plan on going back to work FT, since my oldest will be in first grade. I am hoping to work into a management position at OfficeMax, as I like it enough to work there full time. However, my ultimate goal, is after a year or two of FT work, I want to go to culinary school to be a professional chef.

My mom works at a circuit board manufacturing company, and my dad is a foundry laborer.

DH is a traffic control tech, where he delivers/picks up/sets up/takes down road work equipment for various clients.

[retiredman]

Yeah right.... with your filthy mouth.... FUCK this, FUCK that, FUCK you you FUCK.... :laugh:.... :lmao:

You're no preacher ass wad... you can drop that lie anytime.

do you understand that I really don't care at all about your opinion of me? And I have absolutely no intention of "dropping" anything because you tell me to. If you don't give a fuck about what I say, please quit following me around like some obsessed fag. really.:laugh2:

[Pale Rider]

do you understand that I really don't care at all about your opinion of me? And I have absolutely no intention of "dropping" anything because you tell me to. If you don't give a fuck about what I say, please quit following me around like some obsessed fag. really.

Well yes... I do fully understand how uncomfortable it probably is for you to be exposed as the jerked off liar you are.... but then that's not my problem.

Again... you're chickens are coming to roost.

[retiredman]

Well yes... I do fully understand how uncomfortable it probably is for you to be exposed as the jerked off liar you are.... but then that's not my problem.

Again... you're chickens are coming to roost.

I haven't lied about asnything. and nothing you posts makes me feel "uncomfortable" in the least. You're good for a laugh. that's about it.:laugh2:

[Pale Rider]

I haven't lied about asnything. and nothing you posts makes me feel "uncomfortable" in the least. You're good for a laugh. that's about it.

Yeah... you don't like being exposed... but, you lying about preaching isn't something anyone here is buying.

No one with a filthy mouth and vile, caustic, venomous attitude like yours even belongs NEAR a church, let alone inside preaching.

Liar.

[retiredman]

Yeah... you don't like being exposed... but, you lying about preaching isn't something anyone here is buying.

No one with a filthy mouth and vile, caustic, venomous attitude like yours even belongs NEAR a church, let alone inside preaching.

Liar.


like I said...I don't lie about anything. If you chose not to believe me, that's perfectly OK with me. Your opinion is really of zero value to me. honest.

[Pale Rider]

like I said...I don't lie about anything. If you chose not to believe me, that's perfectly OK with me. Your opinion is really of zero value to me. honest.

Everything I say matters to you, and it greatly bothers you that I say it, otherwise you'd just move on and quit responding.

Fact of the matter remains, you're a liar and a charlatan.

[retiredman]

Everything I say matters to you, and it greatly bothers you that I say it, otherwise you'd just move on and quit responding.

Fact of the matter remains, you're a liar and a charlatan.

actually, what you say does not bother me very much at all. I do find it mildly irritating to have a moron calling me a liar, but it is nothing that I do not expect on a site like this. I enjoy pointing out the fallacy of your positions, and I can banter back and forth with you while watching the Red Sox-Twins game and not miss a pitch!

[Pale Rider]

actually, what you say does not bother me very much at all. I do find it mildly irritating to have a moron calling me a liar, but it is nothing that I do not expect on a site like this. I enjoy pointing out the fallacy of your positions, and I can banter back and forth with you while watching the Red Sox-Twins game and not miss a pitch!

As a matter of fact, you hang on the edge of your seat just waiting for my reply. You're ultimately predictable and very shallow. I can read you like a book. You're virtually an adolescent in your actions, including when you throw your tantrums after been caught lying.