What do you do for a living?

[Cali]

I was the top financial manager for a major company.

Now I am a taxi, cook, maid, bank, with a MBA, for teenagers. LOL

[EmmaPeel007]

Production coordinator for a videogame publisher. Yes, there are times I do get to play games for a living

[biggomez777]

I'm a counselor/guard for special needs kids at a maximum security juvenile facility.

[WoodSprite]

Librarian, Media Specialist, Archivist-Historian, Web-master, Computer Software Trainer, Technician and sometime ArcGIS mapper. I've worn several 'hats' over the years.

A library cat! Me, too. Librarian, preservationist/archivist, library systems/training/troubleshooting, library web manager, etc.

Oh, and professional musician. Ditched the real job after 23 years in academia and actually made a meager living doing music for a few years, until we were carjacked at gunpoint while on tour. Lost EVERYTHING from instruments to our entire stock of 5 CD titles to our toothbrushes and clothing. And the car, of course. That's how I got here....equal parts bad judgment and bad luck. Now I'm back to digitizing rare books.

[AngelinaCat]

Librarian, Media Specialist, Archivist-Historian, Web-master, Computer Software Trainer, Technician and sometime ArcGIS mapper. I've worn several 'hats' over the years.

[NowImDownInIt]

I am an AutoCAD drafter in the Oil and Gas field. Sometimes chemical. Depends on where the money is...

[BK2008]

Accountant / Bookkeeper 20+ years, different industries..

Sheesh! And I am in BK, but cash & costing projections wore related are no problem for me....

[nkthen]

Birthday Party Entertainer

[RedLight]

OK, if you want a great laugh, I am an accountant and work for a large oil and natural gas company. You know they say, you are worst in your personal lives with what you do at work. I guess that is true.

[bk4sky]

well ok ill tell you what ive been doing for a living hopefully you guys will still be my friend. i fell into a really good paying collections job at a young age, making great money in commission, i promoted quickly to collection manager and life was great, i had money to go out to expensive clubs and weekend getaways every weekend. been on many wonderful out of country vacations....it was softcore collections tho, collections on people who fell behind on their timeshare payments. we didnt report to the CBR's, all we could really do is call them and talk them into paying. well i left that job due to harrassment from the other manager. went to another company doing collections for several lines of business including state taxes, and criminal fines, dealing with people who have been in prision things like that, now that was hardcore collections. it was low paying but within 6 months i was promoted again to collections supervisor and it was a relief, i was making good money again and slowly pulling myself out of the debt i created. well that company went belly up and now im back to bottom of the rung customer service 10/hr job. they keep promising me supervisor positions will be opening soon.....kinda ironic huh...a collector filing for bankruptcy. i never thought it would come to this but it did. and i wasnt a mean collector, i treated everyone with respect but it was my job to call and collect the money. i dont want to be a collector anymore. after all this is over im going back to school to be a surgical technologist. i want to actually do a job that makes me feel good about myself. when im at work and someone starts telling me about all their problems in my head im thinking dont i know it!

[sick of debt]

Speech-language pathologist

[monlyba]

mine's kinda-sorta ironic. I'm a food stamps caseworker. so, when my clients imply that I don't know what it's like to be broke like them... well, I can assure them I know a little bit about it. maybe I'm not as bad off as some of them, but I'm not up on a high horse looking down on them by any means. not to mention I'm sure my job pays way less than they think!

[TEW]

I am retired from the federal government after 34.5 years. I worked in the IT field for the last 12 years of my career after that was contracted out I managed a multi million dollar contract the contract was for supplying the services I preformed.

I had a credit score of 735 2 years ago I will be filing as soon as I can pay my attorney.

[Bobby'sGirl]

Semiretired

Teach nutrition part time at local college. May start some seminars, etc, as soon as my girls are totally out of the nest and I can downsize my life and travel a bit to make it work.

[gymbofreak]

Im In criminal justice, their is always a demand..but never any money!