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What have you been since you've grown up?
I'm at a very strange point in my life - I've been home with my kids for years now because I had to give up my career to follow my husband to Texas and since I didn't have a visa I couldn't work...so I had some more kids. It's been good in lots of ways. It meant no messing around with childcare and no worries about who would look after the kids if they were sick or if a meeting ran late. Being a stay at home mom was never my plan, I wasn't very good at it but we've all lived to tell the tale...and that's a victory in my book. Well, I don't actually have a book. If I'd used the time I've wasted on the effing internet over the years I could have written the freaking Encyclopedia Britanica...or at least read it.
Now that they're all in school full time (Hallelujah!) it appears that I need to get a full time job. It's just a matter of deciding what I want to be when I grow up. That allows enough time to get everything done around here...after all these years of me being home to do everything no one else knows how to load the effing dishwasher or fold a basket of laundry or pick up the things that are left on the stairs and obviously need to go up because why else would they be sitting on the stairs when it's not an effing shelving unit...
My resume is pretty entertaining. Waitress, Molly Maid, Bartender, Teacher, Writer, Radio Host, Book Runner, Corporate Trainer, Real Estate Agent and....what now?
It seemed easy to pick what we wanted to be when we grew up but true to Gen X style I've had many, many mini-careers. How about you? What have you been and given enough money and time and childcare...what would you be?
(and since it's Friday afternoon I will be posting this and heading for the beer fridge - feel free to do the same)
Now that they're all in school full time (Hallelujah!) it appears that I need to get a full time job. It's just a matter of deciding what I want to be when I grow up. That allows enough time to get everything done around here...after all these years of me being home to do everything no one else knows how to load the effing dishwasher or fold a basket of laundry or pick up the things that are left on the stairs and obviously need to go up because why else would they be sitting on the stairs when it's not an effing shelving unit...
My resume is pretty entertaining. Waitress, Molly Maid, Bartender, Teacher, Writer, Radio Host, Book Runner, Corporate Trainer, Real Estate Agent and....what now?
It seemed easy to pick what we wanted to be when we grew up but true to Gen X style I've had many, many mini-careers. How about you? What have you been and given enough money and time and childcare...what would you be?
(and since it's Friday afternoon I will be posting this and heading for the beer fridge - feel free to do the same)
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Permalink Reply by Annaevilred on -
I have been (and still is) an insurance agent. It was my first real grow-up job and I got stuck. Its a good gig but not everyone understands exactly what I do. Many conversations with my grandparents have gone kind of like this:
G - what do you do again?
A -the same thing I have done for the last 10 years, I'm an insurance agent
G - life insurance?
A - no, insurance for businesses
G - homeowners?
A - no business - I insure businesses, liability, property, the works
G - oh, cars
A - something like that but not really
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Permalink Reply by Kiwi on -
I've been a hotel operations manager, buyer for a food distribution company, convention manager, cold side chef in a fine dining restaurant, a research assistant, and an undergraduate TA. I am currently employed as a meeting planner.
Given enough money, time, and child care I'd have my own event consulting firm.
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Permalink Reply by rommie on -
I'm an engineering tech. Have been one ever since I graduated from college. It pays the bills, so I guess I can't really complain...though I do anyway.
Given a choice, I'd be working with genetics or viruses or cancer research. Or all three. So much for the degree for which I'm still trying to pay but have never used and never will unless my husband gives in and decides to move.
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Permalink Reply by Bigkrygowski on -
i have been a tool for "the man" ever since I have grown up or at least since I completed my entering manhood rite and killed that tiger w/ my bare hands.
Given enough money and time and childcare I would be "the man".
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Permalink Reply by Mamawho on
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I've worked in jewelry as a manager and salesperson. I've done debt collection and repossessed jewelry in a state that has a Make My Day law. I sold performance auto parts and athletic shoes. I did time in a craft store. I waited tables and served banquets. I sold Western wear and tack and shaped hats. Worked in a portrait studio. Worked in recruitment and retention at a university, and also worked with the program that attempts to make uninterested incoming freshmen ready for the fall semester by forcing them to take and pass rapid-fire remedial courses over the summer.
I'm sure I've missed something. I did some of these jobs concurrently. I went to school in there, too. I really don't know what I want to do when I grow up. I've been leaning toward library studies. Dunno.
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Permalink Reply by Mommy Monster on -
OMG! That is my life!! I'm an executive liability broker (D&O, EPL etc.). I get asked all the time about how people can get better car insurance. At parties, I started saying things like "Risk Management Consultant" just so I could avoid saying "insurance".
Annaevilred said:I have been (and still is) an insurance agent. It was my first real grow-up job and I got stuck. Its a good gig but not everyone understands exactly what I do. Many conversations with my grandparents have gone kind of like this:
G - what do you do again?
A -the same thing I have done for the last 10 years, I'm an insurance agent
G - life insurance?
A - no, insurance for businesses
G - homeowners?
A - no business - I insure businesses, liability, property, the works
G - oh, cars
A - something like that but not really
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Permalink Reply by ks on -
I've been various flavors of grad student and teacher (long term substitute, daily substitute, part time physics prof, full time physics prof, etc.) and right now I'm a full time physics instructor at the local state U and also a part time grad student working on a doctorate in science ed. Eventually I want to be an actual prof, teaching physics and physics education, at a small college or university where I get to spend most of my time teaching and only a little researching and publishing. Or something like that.
With unlimited time and money and childcare, I'd still be doing what I do now, but I'd be a hell of a lot less stressed about it.
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Permalink Reply by wookie on -
Oh damn, if I had time and money and childcare, I'd go back and finish my degree and get a masters. It is what would hold me back here if I wanted to teach.
Either that, or I would want to work on training teachers to deal with learning disabilities, especially in kids who are also gifted. And also do research on certain types of visual processing disorders and success in certain levels of mathematics, what can be done to help people who have that kind of disability succeed in those areas, if anything?
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Permalink Reply by Herasmus B. Dragon on
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After college is was:
Grad student/pro musician
Wife
Coffee barista
Mother
Band teacher
Executive assistant
Mother
Part time exec asst
Mother
TSA complaint redress employee
other temp gigs
Passport record services
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Now THIS you must explain.
Mamawho said:in a state that has a Make My Day law.
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Permalink Reply by MamatothaMax on -
I don't think I've had a grown up job or a career even, just a lot of jobs and they were all during college since I went from being art student extraordinaire to being stay at home mom/navy wife. I worked in a Legal/Government/Map Library as a student worker, as student worker/receptionist for the WIU Art Gallery (not as fun or as arty as it sounds), a key holder for a scrubs (nursing etc) store, a care provider for the developmentally disabled in a group home setting, and a concession stand worker/usher in a two theater cinema.
Given the money, time, and 24/7 on call childcare I'd be a doula.
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It's a kind of castle doctrine in which a person will not be charged for killing an intruder. In OK, the joke was to kill 'em on the porch and drag them into the house.
Herasmus B. Dragon said:Now THIS you must explain.
Mamawho said:in a state that has a Make My Day law.
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