What Career - Current or Past?
 

Choose the classification which best meets your life work - current or past?

If none match, please add your career in the thread. There are only 10 options available for the poll.

I listed Military. I am a retired Navy Air Traffic Controller. I continued as a controller for the Department of Defense. Six more yeas and I am done with that also.

I am a chemist. I've been in management as well.

computer programmer

Graphic designer. I'm not sure that fits any of those categories. Although I do all my work on computers, they aren't really my work. And a designer isn't really a craftsperson either.

Once a Forester, now retired.

Ever meet a guy in Kamloops area named MacDonald?

I am the civil version of the guys you tell where to go.

For 30 years I was a sales rep. Then the Bypass and my boss decided that with my sales experience and computer skills- I would take over the role of Marketing. Did a good job at it for 2 years then the Prostate cancer and another spell off work. Marketing was so easy that I took on another challenge of working at another depot for a few years while it was setting up. Came back and my old jobs of Marketing and Sales had gone so became the bloke at the end of the phone sorting your problems.

But I need a problem to solve so into the stores and sort them out, 2 years later and I proved an idiot could do this job so became a fill in for all the various departments that had a problem. Only a couple of years to retirement and I am mainly a delivery driver now---Till a customer has a problem that needs curing onsite and I am asked to go and sort it out. Funny how problems are not problems when you go out to see it,

Just looking for retirement now so I can get away from 25 year old Graduates that know it all--But don't

Insurance agent, sometimes realtor, fundraising and event planning for charitable organizations

I'm "The Dad".

I've done several different things in my life but, at this point, I don't think that it's appropriate to allow myself to be defined by how I earn my money.

I'm the patriarch of a growing clan. I'm not a particularly outgoing personality but, in spite of that, I can see how my example has affected, and is affecting, my children and grand children.

Psychologist

I run an agency that provides training and consultation to human service organizations, and I teach at a university.

Waste management.

Chemical engineer.

Interesting that 1/3 of replies are computer/engineering and only 1 engineer and 1 computer reporting so far (and why are those a single choice?)

Clever!!

Direct Customer Service and Sales with a technical slant = Professional Babysitter**********

Maintenance Technician for the City.

Mechanical engineer by training, moved into systems engineering (i.e., not so worried whether mechanical, electrical or software, just make it work), and lately, although my title hasn't changed, I'm leaning toward program management.

X Millitary.
X Govt. Worker.

Current Snow Skier.

Ward of the Govt.

Cyclist and bike salesman as a teenager, then Preppie, turned ski bum, then turned Yuppie. Became a career-man w/ a multi-cultural (my wife is an Italian native) family. Then a globe Trekking businessman & ski bum... ...and now a cyclist again!

So did you pick engineering in the poll?

After spending most of my career involved in technology startups of one kind of another, I'm doing Finance and Accounting consulting. I currently bridge the gap between the accounting weenies and the software geeks, meaning I'm a bit of both - a weenie geek? I live in "database land", speaking the language of Structured Queries. I no longer put my career ahead of my happiness, however. I'm now a cyclist, and a husband, more than anything else.

Rescue, Emergency Room, then Forensic nursing make up most of my working years.

Been an Engineer except for a 3 year period of teaching and while I got my law degree. Went straight back to engineering on graduation for law degree and have stayed on military construction sites for 23 years now. I am degreed as an environmental engineer but work as a civil engineer in quality control on the sites. Love my job and my family.

Bill