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What Do You Do For Work?

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So, we had a thread like this posted in another forum I'm on, and I thought it would be interesting to have one here. It's always interesting to hear what other people do for a living whether you're a student or work with horses full time. Which makes me curious, what do you do for work?

I have my BS in Animal Science, and then promptly started something totally different. My first job out of school was for a research facility in Michigan. Then I married my now husband and was dragged down to Northern Kentucky where I landed a job in Dairy Research. We were attempting to shorten the dry off period of a dairy cow using non antibiotic infusions. That job got extremely slow and was testing my morals FAR too much so I decided I needed a change. And now I'm here. I work for a contract company, and am contracted into a Fortune 500 company in Ohio (north of Cincinnati). I'm their Genomics Researcher, and I LOVE it! I spend my days isolating out RNA and analyzing the amount and quality of my samples. It's totally my type of job. Such is the life of research, we have times where we are go go go! And then we have times where I set stuff up and wait, then do the next step and wait. Which is how I'm able to hang around here and chat :)
 
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I have done everything from drive a truck, to work fast food, doing pipe work, to being a dept manager at a major retailer. Currently I drive a School bus, and in the summer drive a tour bus for a farm. Going back to school to finish my last 2 semesters, I have decided to be a history teacher. One of us had to stay at home with our daughter till she was old enough to go to school as she needed care. So the last few years, I usually work 2-3 part time jobs here and there to help supplement the bills and fun money, and pay for my horse. Once my daughter gets a clean bill of health I'm planning to go be a teacher full time, and probably go back to being dept manager at retailer in Summer, maybe weekends
 
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I used to be a computer engineer, but I quit my job last year and am now teaching riding lessons and apprenticing with a barefoot trimmer. It doesn't pay as well but it's a thousand times more satisfying!
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I'm a geek.....actually, I've been in the IT/computer business now for about 40 years.....worked for several of the fortune 500's but now I'm with a small start up...... and I'm specialized in storage and visualization.......needless to say, I hold a Vmware certification along with several EMC certs as well....so it's basically, infrastructure.

PaintHorseMares.....my first real job, straight out of the army....was as an IBM CE.....Field Engineering Divison.....DS group.....large mainframes....still have my yellow card, my green card, my system 360 handbook and a lot of other dinosaur memorabilia. I think Charlie Biggers was running the company back in those days....
 
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gunslinger, I started with IBM in 1982 doing s/370 systems programming, and yes, the yellow and green cards and the 360 Principles of Operations were the bible. I spent many nights on the computer room floor with my CE buddies. Biggar was the big man in FE, John Opel was CEO. It was an exciting time in the computer business.
 
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I work for a dermatologist and assist with MOHs surgery. I'm also a dog trainer, but only on the side anymore !
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My degree is in Electrical Engineering, but I've never really used it. I work part-time as a tutor for math, science, English, and a little bit of everything. A lot of my work is for ACT test prep. My boss (and former high school English teacher) and I travel to several schools in the state to teach ACT prep classes, and we recently finished a video series to take our class online. If anyone needs to get ready for the ACT, PM me! /shameless plug

I'm blessed to have a DH with a good job that supports the family, so I can stay home with our two kids (9 and 5) and work just enough to keep me sane.

In the next few years I hope to have our land set up for horses. Then I'll tutor some afternoons and teach beginner riding lessons on other days until my horse business gets off the ground.
 
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I work in the satellite distribution department in network television. I work off hours, so I get to sleep in and ride in the morning when the sun is up. I wish the commute wasn't so far and it didn't chain me to a very expensive area, but the schedule works well for a horse owner, so it's all good.
 
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I hear ya on the commute! I drive an hour one way to get to work :/ We live in Northern Kentucky and I commute up to Mason, Ohio every single day. Job is well worth it thankfully.

And I'm mildly jealous of you all that can talk so freely about your work lol I'm not even allowed to say exactly where I have been contracted to work in. Most I can say is a fortune 500 company in Mason, Ohio and let people try and guess for themselves. This is my fourth job I've had that you had to be super tight lipped about what you do, but some days it's pretty tough!
 
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I own my photography business, mostly engagements/family stuff. I also work part time (sometimes they "forget" and think I am full time) as a receptionist/barber at a barbershop, I also keep my own female color clients on top of this for my spare time since we do mens only at the shop. I quite enjoy it =)
 
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My first main job was (way back in the day) working for a supercomputer company (Cray Research), doing various things on the computers (testing and so on), but mostly doing wiring of the mainframe itself. After my health issues forced me out of computer work (mostly lumbar spine injuries), I went back to school and got my degree in Health Information Management (Coding and Abstracting, Utilization Review, and so on), I had also gone to school for diagnostic medical ultrasound, but my health issues prevented me from going anywhere with that. Currently I am on Social Security disability due to multiple health issues, definitely takes some getting used to, but I am doing OK.

Our forum friends have quite a few very interesting careers!
 
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I have to chuckle about all you computer folks reminiscing about the "old days". Reminds me a bit about my first encounter with the world of computers.

Just for reference, my very first job as a teen was carrying the box of vacuum tubes for the TV repair man making house calls. I thought we were really high tech.

At my first duty station, Sarge took me to see the computer room in the military supply warehouse I was assigned to. Huge, air conditioned room (air conditioning for people was still a luxury then). Wall to wall main frames with the reel to reel tapes clicking away at uneven intervals. I thought I was in the liar of an evil James Bond super villain. Scared the crap out of me.
 
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