What do you do/did do?

[Maret00]

I was just wondering about the types of women that come to this site.

I wanted to know do you work? (And yes being a stay at home mom counts) What kind of work do you do?

Did you do something diffrent before your child was born? Before you were married? Did you stop working when you had your child?

I like knowing things!

[Maret00]

I am a student now and I work part time at a resort as an operator and in the kids club. but there is no work so soon I will be up shit creek with out a paddle. :(

Before I had my son I worked in Group homes or some know them as crissis shelters. I worked in daycares and hotels (I started work when I was 15). I have worked as a respit worker but when I was pregnant I was to sick to do anything but answer phones at the hotel. I went to school after high school but was better working. :) I have often worked two jobs at once. Before I had my son now not so much.

[3girls2luv]

I have been a nurse (LVN) since 1994, I graduated from RN school in Dec. 2007. I work as a CLC and childbirth educator at a hospital and I have been doing this for the past 3yrs. I am also a CPST.

[maksmom]

I am an optician, working 3 days per week. I started in opticianry in 1992, so I have been in the field for awhile.

[KerryS]

Right now I work fulltime at a hospital as a labor & delivery nurse and lactation consultant. Before nursing, I worked at home as an editor/proofreader for a quality research company. Before that (pre-kids) I worked for the county government in Minneapolis, doing accounting for the treasurer's office.

[whitnessforhim]

I work full-time at a community college managing the English as a Second Language and Foreign Language program. This is my one and only full-time job which I got right out of college, been here almost 8yrs now. I had this same job before I was married.

[JudyJudyJudy]

I'm currently a homeschooling SAHM. My degree is in middle grades education, and I've taught math in high school and math, science, language arts, reading, social studies, and art in middle school (art was laughable for me). My current certifications are middle school math, science, language arts, and social studies.

I worked as an installer/trainer in the IT industry for a little while, but it involved traveling, which I couldn't do (or at least, didn't want to do) with a child. I wouldn't be able to do it now for health reasons anyway.

I've done lots of other part-time jobs, temp jobs, etc., in my lifetime as well.

[Babyblue]

I have worked as an emt, phlebtomist and lab tech. I quit those and ended up working as a gardner and getting paid much more. now I stay home with ds and dh is a retail manager.

[bigstuffs3]

I'm an elementary teacher. I taught for 9 years. Then I took five years off to be a sahm, and went back last year when my youngest started pre-k. Now dh, all three girls and I are at the same school every day. I really love my job right now because this is my first week of summer vacation!

[pawprint]

I am a bartender. I was a canine obedience instructor and then an exotic dancer before my kids were born. (I know, it's an odd combo.) I worked very part time as a breatfeeding counselor at WIC before I went back to work nearly full time.

[BoobySnacks]

I am a work at home mom typing medical transcripts. I did this before having kids, but I have also done various jobs from working in a movie theater to cleaning hotel rooms, to being a secretary, but my favorite job ever was being a lunch lady at an elementary school, which I did for 3 years. I would love to start doing that again when Mason is about 3. I am tired of working from home, it is so hard to get through it with constant interruptions. Being a lunch lady, I can go to work at 7:00 and get off at 1:30 and be considered full time with benefits. Can't beat summer and holidays vacatoins too! It is fun too :)

[ColleenF30]

I am a stay at home mom. In high school I certified in Early Childhood education, and worked daycare for 2 yrs. Somehow after that I ended up in a grocery store, and then to a factory job. I have been a stay at home since 2001 and I love it!!!

[HammBugga]

As of now I am a SAHM to two boys, ages 2 and 4. Pre-kids I was a retail manager. Post kids and pre-SAHMing I worked in an office as a customer service rep but I was pretty much the office manager without the title. As of next week I am a FT student working toward becoming a registered nurse.

[JustMoi]

I'm a paralegal. Have been for 15 years. Was a SAHM for a few years, went back to work when the youngest was 18 months. I HATED being a SAHM.

[StillSingingMom]

I've :

Taught karate
Managed a laundromat
Worked on a survey crew
Managed a chiropractic office
Been a massage therapist
Been a software engineer
Sung opera (for money! Wow!)
Been a reservist in the Navy

And various other things...

Now, I'm a homeschooling SAHM and finishing my Music degree, while taking nursing prerequisites. Considering going back in the Reserves.

[HIJKMommy]

I am a certified Ultrasonographer. I have done it for the past 10 years so pre-children and pre-DH. I am also a full-time SAHM. I love both jobs. I have done a few other things but that was when I was in HS. I have worked fast food, retail and much more. I currently have been at this job for almost 4 years and my last one was 6 years. I came here so that I was able to juggle both being a full-time worker and a SAHM.

[Ma_Whit]

I'm a single homeschooling mom to three.

I run a cat rescue.

I just finished my B.A. and start graduate school in the fall. (For my MPA with a focus in nonprofit management.)

I do freelance writing and publicity and research and brainstorming for a variety of places. This totally suits me.

I volunteer at the local kids club, the animal shelter, and the library. I am also the Children's Religious Exploration Director for the local Unitarian Universalist group, and this should become a paid position in the fall.

In the past I have worked as a ski lift operator, assisted living center attendant, pet store kennel manager, childcare worker, grocery store bagger, "sandwich artist", yoga teacher, retail manager, tutor, and more.

I have no desire to choose one career for life.

[Justicedog]

I work at a non-profit legal services provider (poor person's lawyer). I started there after I was married, prior to kids. I work 4 out of 5 days. Originally I went part time when I had my second dc because I had run out of vacation

and sick leave with all of her illnesses and my dh was too important to take off work :rolleyes: even though he had probably a years worth of sick/vacation leave.

I remain 4/5ths now because I spend the day off volunteering in the school or for the PTA. Also, the commute would frustrate me too much and I'm not mentally stable enough to gracefully tolerate my job full time. :)

[Crabbie]

I am a supervisor at a drug store, been doing that for the last 13 years. I have been a bank teller, pizza maker and sandwich artist. I really liked bank work but didn't like that it was referral based and you'd get written up if you didn't make your goals. I live in a smaller area with the same clientèle every day - getting people to open new accts is VERY hard.

[dalurker]

I am a supervisor at a drug store, been doing that for the last 13 years. I have been a bank teller, pizza maker and sandwich artist. I really liked bank work but didn't like that it was referral based and you'd get written up if you didn't make your goals. I live in a smaller area with the same clientèle every day - getting people to open new accts is VERY hard.

Oh dang, now I know why the lady at my bank is so aggressive about trying to get me to sign up for stuff. I finally started sending the pamphlets back to her in the tube thingy at the drive thru since cleaning out my car and realizing that most of the trash was old bank pamphlets from past attempts to get me to sign up for something. She won't take "no, thank you" for an answer!

[Meredith]

I don't work outside the home right now. I occasionally work from home making odds and ends like handbags and such. I haven't had much time to get a real business going (like an Etsy shop) since DS2 was born, but I'd like to do more with it in the future.

Pre-kids, I was a registered pharmacy technician. I had to take medical leave when I got pregnant with DS1 because I had HG, and I wasn't able to go back before the 90-day FMLA limit was up, so they filled my position. I went back to work part-time at a different drug store as a regular cashier when DS1 was about 13 months old, but, once again, I had to quit when I got pregnant with DS2. ETA: I didn't have HG that time, but I just felt lousy during that first trimester, and I wasn't making very much or working much anyway, so we decided it wouldn't hurt that much financially for me to go ahead and quit.

I've had a few other jobs as well - custodial (scrubbing toilets), grocery store cashier, and fabric store associate.

[Maret00]

Sounds like we are all acomplised hard working women!

With people like us we will be able to get the world to understand breastfeeding and other things!

[Tiffers]

I'm a currently looking for work Special Education teacher. I'm certified to teach students with any disability from ages preschool to 21.

I've worked a lot of different jobs since I was a teen. My longest job was in real estate. I was the sales and office manager for a residential construction company. I took and passed all the classes for my real estate license but never took the official bar exam because I only sold houses for the company I worked for.

[kohlby]

I'm a SAHM. And I suppose I could be called a teacher since we homeschool. :)

Before my first child, I was a high school math teacher. I also was the cross country coach and a track coach. My degree was actually elementart education - multisubjects K-8 with a middle school (5-8) math endorsement. I learned through student teaching that elementary education wasn't the place for me!

[leosmommy]

I was just wondering about the types of women that come to this site.

I wanted to know do you work? (And yes being a stay at home mom counts) What kind of work do you do?

Did you do something diffrent before your child was born? Before you were married? Did you stop working when you had your child?

I like knowing things!

I work in Social Services with mostly teenagers, but if it is a sibling group, I will get younger kiddos. I am currently still on maternity leave.

I was in my current job when I became pregnant.

I have worked with at risk youth since 2000, so about a year before I got married.

I did stop working temporarily, I took/am still taking an extended 7 month maternity leave. When I go back, it will be part time.

[paper_]

I am an aerospace/systems engineer. I work on PAC-3 (army anti-ballistic missile) and a "black" project. I previously worked for the Navy on target modeling and lethality, AGM-154 JSOW, and Fiber-Optic Towed Decoy flight tests. I have also worked in a Petsmart, kroger, and another small grocery store.

[SerialMom]

I've :

Taught karate
Managed a laundromat
Worked on a survey crew
Managed a chiropractic office
Been a massage therapist
Been a software engineer
Sung opera (for money! Wow!)
Been a reservist in the Navy

And various other things...

Now, I'm a homeschooling SAHM and finishing my Music degree, while taking nursing prerequisites. Considering going back in the Reserves.

Wow! You've done alot of cool stuff. I bet you can do anything you put your mind to.

I've done pre-k teacher in a center, Quality Assurance Analyst for ten years, then in-home daycare SAHM, now just SAHM. Not just... it's the best job ever IMO.

[Gigi]

I am currently a middle school science teacher. Done that for the past two school years.

I taught high school science and health from 2001 - 2007.

I was a fitness instructor/personal trainer/National Board Certified Athletic Trainer before that.

I have worked part time as a grocery store clerk and an engraver for Things Remembered (back when I was in college).

[maksmom]

We have some very diverse people here careerwise, that is pretty cool. Before I was an optician, I managed an AFES video rental in Vicenza, Italy, where DD1 was born. Prior to that, I was a restaurant hostess, drug store cashier, and waitress/cashier/salad bar girl. These were my highschool/college jobs.

[cream_city]

I'm an English professor and a writer. I primarily teach American Literature and creative writing.

I was in school for ages, and have also worked in publishing as an assistant editor and copy editor (I was copy editor for a daily paper, which I loved). I also worked as a waitress for many years.

[MiMi_of_4]

I'm a retired elementary teacher ~ but I also taught a cross-categorical special education class at the junior high level for two years. With the exception of one year in a second grade classroom, I taught fourth graders until I walked out of my classroom for the final time at the end of the 2006-2007 school year.

I've worked at some sort of a job for the past 40 years, starting with a volunteer postion as a camp counselor for special needs kids (loved doing this for two summers).

My first paid position was as a cook's aide at our local nursing home and then I helped put myself through college working as a student secretary.

After I graduated, I worked as an executive secretary for a year and then landed my first teaching job.

During my second year as a special education teacher, I became pregnant with my first child and my ex-husband and I moved back to our hometown. After she was born, I was a substitute teacher and one of those jobs turned into a permanent position when a teacher didn't return from her maternity leave.

In addition, when my second child was out of grade school, I began working after school in a wallpaper/craft store and eventually began hanging wallpaper with the owner. I ended up managing the store part-time and did that for a few years until she and I decided to open our own ladies' boutique. We were only open a few months when she moved away, so that was the end of my days as the owner of a clothing store.

I went back to hanging wallpaper until I began teaching computer classes through our Regional Office and local junior college; that led to me teaching classes for our after-school program for a couple of years. Next job up was coordinator of TeenREACH, an afterschool program for at-risk kids and after having that position for two years, I took over as the director of the program.

During the last two years I taught, I took it easy and didn't have a part-time job, nor did I do anything at all the year after I retired.

Last school year, I substitute taught a few days a week, but we moved recently and I don't have any plans to do anything other than volunteer in the classrooms of my two oldest grandkids when school starts.

My job right now is full-time gramma!

[joshsmom]

I'm a sahm now, for the last 4 years. Before kids I taught kindergarten and will go back to work once my kids are n school FT.

[Violet]

I am a special education assistant. I work with kids that have severe to moderate autisum. Sometimes I work with kids that have other disabilites too.

[spooky_bubble_tea]

Before I got together with my husband I happily worked at Pet Supermarket. I love animals and helping people, so this was an awesome outlet for both.

Now I'm a stay at home mom, but I plan on trying to sell some paintings and such. With the way the cost of living is now we live pretty much paycheck to paycheck and I'd like to have some extra to buy some things for my husband and my son.

[vulturemom]

I am a daycare "teacher" and a assistant Liberian. I started both these jobs about 8 months ago.

Before that I was a sahm. About 5 years

Before that I was a sewer at a furniture factory. a little over three years

Before that I did daycare in my home and homeschooled my children for about 5 years.

Before that I was a sahm.

Before that I was single with no children, a student and worked part time at a dry cleaners.

I think that is my complete job history but, could be forgetting something.

I have 5 kids and one on the way ranging from 19 to due in November.

[jodyvo]

I currently work as a supervisor at an in-patient psychiatric hospital. I work on a specialized unit with children and adolescents with developmental disabilities.
I am currently working on my master's degree in social work

[_MrsC_]

I was lucky enough to land myself a job right out of college in a large company with lots of room for movement. I spent 5 years in the warehouse for a factory that builds blood analyzers for hospitals. I was the inventory coordinator. From there I was moved to the purchasing group in the same factory. I spent three years there and just recently (today was my first day!) transferred to another factory that manufactures the slides that go through the blood analyzers. I'm not exactly sure yet what my job will be but I think it's some combination of the past two jobs only the material we work with is completely different.

From High School until I graduated from college, I cleaned motel rooms, worked for a gun shop, brewed coffee for the mobile mart, and sold tickets to the college dance and theater productions.

[PiccoloRose]

I have a completely useless degree in Music Education. They are trying to obliterate all of the fine arts programs in the schools here (and in all the surrounding areas). I would love to get to actually use my degree one day. I used to want to teach high school band, but have changed my mind and think I would really like to teach middle school band.

Before that I bounced around the "typical" minimum wage student type jobs and usually changed whenever I could afford to.

Right now, though, I am a SAHM and absolutely love it. I really don't want to have to get a job before DD starts in school.