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I work at home...yes oh so exciting. I cook, I clean, I hold down the fort After we moved here I was looking into a part time job (for the purpose of extra money,and a little more financial breathing room), and the amount of money we would spend on Daycare, pretty well renders getting a job for extra money useless. My boy starts school in about a year and a half, that's when I'll likely be able to get a job.

I work as a manager/receptionist/groomer of a self wash / grooming salon. It's a taxing job, and I am the lowest paid manager with no breaks, no sick time, and no vacation time ever~ I stay there because I'm getting management experience and even though I lack breaks I can pretty much do whatever I want during slow time which includes RPR roaming. lol Basically the shop is set up in two parts we have tubs where customers can come in and wash their own dogs with our supplies, makes it easier for them and they don't have to clean their house or anything afterwards. Then we also do grooming where we do it for the customers.

I love animals (when it's not a full moon or anything else weird going on with the planet because it seems like animals go crazy during that week) I hope to one day open my own shop, so I can be my own boss, and be able to control situations that get out of control instead of relying on someone else to fix issues. Customers can be a pain, some people are scary crazy over their animals, and make my head spin. lol

Funny how I live in Las Vegas and work as a dog groomer. I can't shuffle cards though, and suck at poker, so being a dealer at a casino is just..out of the question. Plus too chunky and short to be a stripper

I'm a cashier in a privately-owned grocery store, made interesting by my random mixing-up of words. I once asked a lady if she would like her items "wrapped in plastic or people?" ...Honestly, I was just thinking of the trees, need to save paper, you know.

Nothing glamorous, but I have excellent medical and dental and I enjoy it. Puts food on the table and pays the bills, even if always only just by a hair.

I am the assistant director of a childcare centre which is part of a school. I am the Educational Leader and run programs for children aged 5 - 13 years old. I get to do cool stuff like play with kids, make cool art projects and generally do uber cool staff like ride go carts, have water fights and try my freakin hardest to make kids STOP collecting lizards and bugs and bringing them into the centre. :x

I am also in my fourth and final year of my degree - studying my Bachelor of Education which will mean I am qualified to teach children from Pre - Prep (4 years) - Grade 10 (about 15). My passion is younger children though so I hope to teach Grade 3. This year I spend most of my time actually teaching. I get to set the assessment, lead the unit of work and write reports, so kinda Uber excited for all that. Only probs is I can't work during that time.. so no monies When time allows, I work as a teachers aide at two schools, and I also help out in the Art Departmnet at my old school and work under my Art Mentor who continues to teach me amazing stuff about Art. My technique has improved dramatically in the short time I have been there.. and I LOVE it.. but time is against me this year so I dont think Ill get there as much.

On top of all that.. I also work on my passion: Creating a website to house the Mystic tavern (an RP site where I and hundreds of other people learnt to RP ) So far, I have met some wonderfully creative and talented people here and things are chugging along nicely. We hope to make a buisness out of it eventually so fingers crossed.

But my hardest job of all is being a wife and NOT killing my husband.

Computer technician / repair specialist. Sometimes I go and sell computers too when my other employees can't.
Other than that- I make art and draw pictures for people.

I'm an archival assistant at my city's public library, and also volunteer as a mentor to queer and questioning youth a couple times a month. I love both jobs! It's just a pity I only get paid for one of them.

I work in the glass factory with the Captain, albeit on the other side of the plant. I'll say though, that I find our work fascinating, and in fact our plant was featured on an episode of 'How It's Made', though years before we got there.
A brief walk through of the creation of a windshield if you care to read:
1. Raw glass is taken off of pallets and placed on a conveyer by a robot. The glass is then scored (hereby referred to as 'cut) by another robot. The sheet of raw glass then moves to where another robot essentially uses a blowtorch to set the cut. A third robot then lifts the flat shape of the windshield out of the center of the sheet of raw glass and sets it upon another conveyor. The a robot then either seams or grinds the edges of the glass, depending upon the customer's requirements.
2. The glass then moves to yet another conveyor with a second piece, where the two are matched up and will stay together for the rest of the process. The two matched pieces travel through a screen printer, where one side of one piece is painted, and then they travel out and are loaded via robot onto a forming lehr, which is essentially a giant pizza oven where the glass travels through, heating to a couple of thousand degrees, melting just enough to sag into the concave shape of a windshield.
3. Yet another robot unloads the glass from the lehr and places it upon a cooling conveyor, which transports the paired, painted, and shaped glass to a climate controlled room where three more robots insert a sheet of vinyl between paired pieces.
4. The glass then travels through an area where the rear view mirror button is applied and it is loaded into an autoclave, a giant pressure cooker that bonds the glass to the vinyl and turns the vinyl clear.
5. Most of the work by now has been automated, but at this point humans hands take near full control and the glass is trimmed of excess vinyl, inspected for defects, and packed into shipping racks, where it goes to the auto manufacturers.
Whew. And that's just the brief version, and just for my particular part of the plant, and just for my particular part's particular products, which are front windshields only.
I have also worked for an McDonald's, a rental car cleaning company, an armored car cash logistics company where I specialized in ATM service, on F/A-18C weapons systems while in the Marine Corps, the Boy Scouts of America, and a house painter, reverse chronological order, and would be happy to talk about any one of those as well.
Oh, and I love the Captain.

U.S. Navy Sailor. Submariner. Electrician's Mate Second Class (Nuclear Trained).

The math was done. 2011: Out to Sea 80% of the year. I can't say where I've been, what we did, or when I was there. I technically can't even tell my wife when I'll be out to sea, beyond vague time frames like "Most of March." My boat goes under the ocean, we get cut off. I don't get phone calls. There is no internet. The best I got for contact is Sailor Mail. An email system that doesn't work in all parts of the world, and ranges in delivery time: From Never to Instant.

Underway, we operate on 18 hour days. 6 hours of watch, 6 hours off going (to do maintenance and other required things), 6 hours in the rack sleeping. Repeat. If they didn't serve specific food on specific days, I would have no real concept of days of the week.

On a plus, I've got great health benefits for myself and my family. A steady paycheck. And a contract out till 2015. Plus I got to see England, Greece, Spain, Scotland, France and Portugal on deployment. And for about a month I wore a raccoon skin Davey Crockett hat around the engine room while on watch. So... silver linings I suppose.

Department of the Navy bro-hoof?

bro-hoof? I'm not hip! Your slang confuses me.

Allow me to explain this thing:

Hi new here, so I hope I'm not intruding on a conversation full of people that might be like.. "Uh you are?" heh.

But here it goes:
Im a full time communications/journailsm student with two jobs. One working in my schools libraby as a work study and the other as a sales asociate for Forever21.

There both really fun. I love the library gig cause of the books. Something about books from the 40s that get my blood flowing! Nothing like an old book smell. Working at a clothing store is pretty cool too, I love fashion and they have a lot of outfits that I'm really into so the discount makes it really fun.

I will admit I hardly have time for myself anymore, but thats the life a college student I guess? Or an adult?? Oi, I hate being one. -.-

Me? Currently unemployed, but I'm at university working my way through a History degree, then going on to a post-graduate degree in Battlefield Archaeology I want to specialise in either the ancient Roman military, or gladiatorial combat. My re-enacting ties into that, and I've done about nine/ten digs and counting.

I wouldn't mind volunteering again at the local nature reserve though. I loved getting work experience there, it was great. I'm not a desk job type person; I get snappy and cranky if I have to be indoors for extended periods of time.

I work for a gaming company called Dragon's Eye Productions. It's an online game that I think a few on here might know about.