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OK so I am feeling nose.
I have been scanning all the message boards...what car do you drive,how do you speak etc etc.
Just wondered what we all got up-to job wise?
I spend my days looking after other peoples teeth as I am a Dental Hygienist ;D
I have to be thorough and pinickity about cleaning other peoples teeth,patient and tenacious at times.....stands me in good stead for tracing the family tree....nothing can be rushed.
Keep smiling :P
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The word should read nosy....not nose!!!!! I have not got some weird fettish for feeling other peoples facial parts...honest!!! ::)
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;D well am am a caretaker for the local primary school,its right opposit my house and i get five weeks holiday in the summer (with pay) and all the other holidays the kids have too!! ;D
i actually realy like my job! although resuscitating goldfish 5 minutes to 12 on new years eve wasn't so cool! :( ;D
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My job description says that I am an "Admin Assistant" but it's a lot more interesting than that! I work with one other colleague and a team of volunteers running a Lifeskills Centre. We have groups, mostly of children aged 10 and 11 who come to learn about keeping themselves safe by experiencing risk.
We have two former industrial units which are set out like a series of stage or film sets and represent a farm, visit to the beach, a railway crossing or rooms in a home and the students, in groups of about 5, go to each set in turn with their guide and learn safety in an interactive way.
There are about six permanent centres around the country in places such as Bristol, Bournemouth and Milton Keynes and ours in Cornwall, as well as numerous temporary events which are held usually in the summer.
We also have groups of students, the elderly, youth groups such as Guides, Scouts, Young Farmers etc.
It's a very varied and interesting job, if underpaid! At this time of year (school hols) there is an opportunity to look at RC in an extended lunch break!
Ellen
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redspookhunter...dare I ask why you were resusitating goldfish new years eve?....I had to give mouth to mouth and heart massage to my pet hamster once :P
Sounds like a great job especially the holidays ::)
Ellie Bob....I love the idea of the lifeskill centre.....especially the mock railway crossings etc.I have never heard of anything like this in australia.
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har! har!
i wasn't literally resusitaing them! ;D
but the pumps had stopped working and they couldn't breath so had to clean out pumps,get them going again,it was pretty sad realy as one of the fish was in a bad way i put the now working pumps back in and the 'ok' fish went up to the 'in a bad way' fish and kissed it!! no lie i have never seen that befor but sadly the fish died :'( the surviving one is still ok though :)
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aah...sounds like the scene from Titanic where Rose and Jack are on the floating door and ...Jack doesn't make it... :'( :'( :'(only joking...they say that goldfish are very intelligent...are you sure the ok fish was not licking the bad way fish to see if he was edible ???Joking apart ( sorry but I am getting tired and a bit mischievous close to bed time... ;).)at leasst you did your best to help him...sniff sniff :'(My hamster actually came back to life!
Dawn
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I'm an Administrator (boring) but I work for the High Weald AONB Unit. That is one of the loveliest Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty in the country. (Or I think so anyway!)
We don't do countryside management, more a strategic body and we deal with the councils and other bodies that are in the area. We do a lot of promotion, and education.
I hate the work but I love the area and the team I work with.
Kerry
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;D ;D hhmm i dont think fish have tounges! ;)
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I am a corporate domestic engineer leading a team of four and a sometime personel performance adviser.
old rowley
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Me? I'm just a B&B Landlady (though the place is named as a Hotel) and Steak House owner in Blackpool
Great work if you like meeting people - awful work if you hate housework!
Fantastic for me as I get so excited if we get guests who are from the areas I am researching in and even more exciting if they have a name that is in my tree lol
Poor people end up going through 100 questions before they have even got to their rooms!
Carol
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I am a corporate domestic engineer leading a team of four and a sometime personel performance adviser.
old rowley
A housewife perchance? :)
Me - currently an insurance broker but (hopefully) just about to start a computer tutoring business part time as well and see what happens.
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your nearly there xr, but I will deepen my voice and hit the keyboard with more force as I am what is now classed as a "househusband" ;D as for the last bit "sometime personel perforfomance adviser" that's for when I tell the wife that her bum dosen't look big in what she has got on ;D ;D ;D
old rowley
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I'm a health and safety professional (and please none of the jokes - I've heard them all) trying to make sure my organisation meets the law and can operate reasonably at the same time.
I must be doing OK - my colleagues are pleased to see me ;)
My pet hate is the no win no fee lawyers... :D
meles
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har! har!
i wasn't literally resusitaing them! ;D
but the pumps had stopped working and they couldn't breath so had to clean out pumps,get them going again,it was pretty sad realy as one of the fish was in a bad way i put the now working pumps back in and the 'ok' fish went up to the 'in a bad way' fish and kissed it!! no lie i have never seen that befor but sadly the fish died :'( the surviving one is still ok though :)
I think the ok fish was eating the sick fish. They do that. Sorry. :'(
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I'm a legal secretary. Might put matrimonial legal secretary but not unless I actually had that job and currently I don't :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
Waaaahhhhh!!!!! I want to be back in the divorce business!!!! :'( :'( :'( I liked that! ;D ;D
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;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D RETIRED ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Cheers Dave
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Redspookhunter...sorry I lost the thread....went to bed after getting my name onto as many of the messages as I could....no,I guess fish probably don't have tongues do they ;D. :-[They can give a nasty suck though...I dangled my finger into the boating lake at west park (midlands )as a toddler...something thought I was tasty cos it either licked me with its imaginary tongue,or sucked with its big lips...I had a sore red finger for days :'(
PS do you like my new picture signature...I luv hamsters and we are not allowed them in Australia....looks a bit like the one I gave mouth to mouth to.. ;)
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I drown - proof children, ie teach them to swim.
Karenlee
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I'm a biologist.
[Yes, fish have tongues.]
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Well,seem's as though I'm in with all sort's of advisory personell here!
Being retired my main occupation is anything and everything that need's doing,outdoor's,domestic,handyman this+that,you name it!It's a good job I've alway's "wanted to know".Fiddler on the go!
Goggy. ;) ;D
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Courtesy of Lloydy's post on the ELLS - I am a 'Senior Research Associate in the field of Child Development and Human Relations' (Thank you Lloydy ;) ) Plus, full time carer to my elderly Mum
Barbara 8)
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I am a freelance copy editor. Great job, flexible hours to have time with my family. See me work now. :D There's where the problem comes in.
Kath
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That's sounds a nice job Kath. I want a flexible job where I can be my own boss, do what I enjoy doing and earn enough money to live!!!!
Kerry
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Great thread ;D
I work as a dispatcher for the emergency doctors, great job love it, hours very unsociable though, but always something interesting happening.
Jane
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A microbiologist. Soon to be retired - hooray!!
Cheers
Magrat
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Karenlee wrote:
I drown - proof children, ie teach them to swim.
I was thinking of putting "drowner" - in the 19th century, a drowner was a chap who "drowned", or flooded the water-meadows in the southern chalk valleys. It sounds a bit brutal though, so it'll have to be "farmer".
Fred
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Courtesy of Lloydy's post on the ELLS - I am a 'Senior Research Associate in the field of Child Development and Human Relations' (Thank you Lloydy ;) ) Plus, full time carer to my elderly Mum
Barbara 8)
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,177842.msg853790.html#msg853790 ;)
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now that i've told u what i due, i'm ascared of makin' mistakes. :-[
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Hi
Housewife and Mum to 3...
Regards
Iria
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I am a nurse specialising in Audiological Medicine. Love the work, hate the constraints put on us by the management which is making doing the job as we would like to do it, extremely difficult. May be forced into the private sector which would be a shame. I suppose in a 19th century census I would be described as a provider of ear trumpets, and the way things are going that is probably what I will be for the next census. ::) ;)
Linda.
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On the recent Aussie census I put secretary because that's my official title - I'm actually an admin assistant but their pay rates are much higher so I get the lowly secretary title and wage. Bloody Government!!!
I was working for a Domiciliary Therapy Team - a group of health professionals who go to people's homes to treat them in podiatry, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech pathology, and dietetics. I did all their admin.
I am going back to work next week (after maternity leave) and I will be doing a slightly different job then - admin support for a Rapid Response group who have staff in emergency rooms, councils, rehabilitation centres, Dom teams, assessment teams, etc, who identify elderly people at risk and get them plugged into services that will hopefully stop them from turning up in emergency rooms in terrible shape.
I love the job because I work in an rundown house on the grounds of a hospital and all the other staff are out during the day - I'm there by myself so I can surf the 'net, talk to myself, pick my nose, slack off, etc, etc!
But up till next week, I guess I'm a
Senior Research Associate in the field of Child Development and Human Relations
... plus chef, chaffeur, fashion consultant, hairdresser, manicurist, nurse, psychiatrist, entertainer, swimming coach, and lost sock finder. Best job in the world!!!
Kez :)
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Last census, before kids, I was a Graphic Designer. Now I'm a full time mum but by 2011, I would love to be a Reflexologist with my own small practice.
Hoping to start a course early next year if all goes well.
Pipkim :)
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I'm a Housewife, Mum to 3 children, and also a part-time typist. With all the washing, ironing, dusting, hoovering, window cleaning, gardening, school runs, nursery runs and cooking I wonder how I fit it all in ;D
Jan
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I don't want to depress you Jan, but it doesn't get any better! I still do all those things only work full time now. Doing the child minding with grandchildren so their Mums can go out to work and keeping an eye on elderly parents!!!
Ellen
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Full-time Peeler and part-time child (and adult) drown-prooferer :o
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Nothing exciting - I'm a teacher and of course a full time mum with all that goes with it!!
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I actually qualified as a Swimming Teacher and Lifeguard - part time while I was doing my A levels.
Now I'm a chartered Civil Engineer, looking after environmental infrastructure in South and Eastern Europe. (i.e. water supply, waste water disposal and treatment, waste disposal and management), so lots to do there. That pays the bills.
And for the last 10 years I've been running my own translation office, doing mostly technical stuff that other translators don't touch. That pays for my holidays.
And I still teach kids to swim at the local swimming club.
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Goodness D ap D
When do you have time for genealogy??
Kerry ;D ;D ;D
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When I'm at work :-)
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Naughty naughty - I would never do that!!!!!! ::) ::) ::) ::) ;) ;) ;)
Kerry
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Oh I do Kerry, but only when I am waiting for patients to arrive. ::)
Linda.
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I'm just worried that one day Big Brother (East Sussex County Council) is going to tell me off so I try to limit it to early morning and lunch time. Trouble is I work in an office which is affiliated loosely to the council and we don't like the control they have over, so my bosses don't actually mind so long as it doesn't stop me from working!!! But you try telling that to the IT department!!! Too beaucratic by half :(