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What do you Clydes / Athenas do for a J - O - B ?

Old 05-01-11, 05:56 PM
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i own my own millwork company. we manufacture interior and exterior trim as well do turn key installation. pretty much i ride in my truck all day and chase my employees all over.
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Originally Posted by mwchandler21
Civil Engineer. I design roads.
Originally Posted by BHOFM
I have found the enemy!
No, BHOFM, the enemy would be ME! I sell cars & trucks!

I also used to design websites full-time from home for 12 years, now it's just part-time.

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Secondary social studies teacher, also certified in special ed. On the side, I try to convince your kids to drive like you would want them to.
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Originally Posted by Indyv8a
Secondary social studies teacher, also certified in special ed. On the side, I try to convince your kids to drive like you would want them to.
Good luck with that one
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I feel a little bit intimidating knowing everybody's else's profession so don't laugh to hard. I work as a gardener. LAUSD graduate and University of Baghdad graduate.

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Just finished college. For the time being I'm working from home doing online search evaluation. I plan on going to grad school to get a Master's in Social Work then get my LCSW license then possibly start my own practice or work in mental health.
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I'm working in Public Housing as a Affordable Housing developer. I chase money (grants, loans, tax credits) and partnerships to finance and build/remodel/redevelop public housing, subsidized rental housing, and affordable for sale housing.
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I'm working in Public Housing as a Affordable Housing developer. I chase money (grants, loans, tax credits) and partnerships to finance and build/remodel/redevelop public housing, subsidized rental housing, and affordable for sale housing.
My inner Tea Party doesn't like you. :-)
 
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Originally Posted by The Historian
My inner Tea Party doesn't like you. :-)
AS long as that same inner Tea Praty doesn't like all the corporate subsidies given Large corps and their even larger tax breaks that keeps under cutting our country's well being I good with that.
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AS long as that same inner Tea Praty doesn't like all the corporate subsidies given Large corps and their even larger tax breaks that keeps under cutting our country's well being I good with that.
Big Business always manages to buy whoever it needs in whatever government is in place.
 
Old 05-06-11, 10:42 AM
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Originally Posted by natbla
I'm working in Public Housing as a Affordable Housing developer. I chase money (grants, loans, tax credits) and partnerships to finance and build/remodel/redevelop public housing, subsidized rental housing, and affordable for sale housing.

Thank you for doing this. I can just imagine the emotional roller coaster this task brings with it. Probably pretty thankless as well. I'm glad to know you.
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Old 05-06-11, 05:25 PM
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Software programmer in that same organization, based on your description and location.
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Good luck with that one
I can only do what I can do. But it pays well for the effort I put in.
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Originally Posted by jethro56
Thank you for doing this. I can just imagine the emotional roller coaster this task brings with it. Probably pretty thankless as well. I'm glad to know you.
The job has its ups and downs. But the hardest (and also most interesting) part is the managing all the parts, and stakeholders to form a cohesive approach to a project that meets both the community's needs and is attractive to the funders/investors. Honestly, the biggest frustrations are people related not project related.
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I work for a concrete company mostly maintenance but drive the trucks sometimes, trying to make the world hard.
In my free time I am a firearms and marksmanship instructor.
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I figure I fit in with this section given my weight but my job is being the mom. I did work for a blind organization for about a year and half (best job ever), done retail w/some management, worked for a box company tossing boxes onto the conveyor belt that eats and dents your packages, worked for a physics professor who was so disorganized I had to leave, and some other inane stupid jobs over the years. Don't ask me to toss papers for living, I got fired for being to "loud" at 3am when I was helping a friend.

If I needed to really work, I'd probably end up quilting for others via an industrial sewing machine. Other than being the mom, my sedentary unpaid day job is quilting. I design a lot of my quilts, do some occasional reviews on sewing machines and other fancy gadgets via my blog, and piece/quilt. Occasionally I put some quilts in local shows. Since I'm lucky enough to live near one of the top quilting museums, I visit when I can.
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