Roland J. Prather
Jedi
Last job front desk hotel clerk, currently jobless.
supriyanoel
Jedi
I have had the pleasure and am eternally grateful to be able to work at something I love,which is teaching yoga. It really came to me 17 years ago,this transitional period that has continued to guide and direct me.From owning and operating a vintage clothing store in Manhattans east village(clothing,costumes,fashion,hair and makeup)at a time that was very interesting. Punk rock,Max's Kansas City,CBGB's,the city was colorful creatively,artistically,and musically. It was great fun,not a whole lot of money and it wasn't a big concern. The greater part of the downtown artists networked and anyone who wanted could fit in easily.Turned the store into a coffee house,which ended up staying open late and catering to a theatre crowd.This wasn't to be. All along I did readings from the clothing store and started to come OUT slowly about these OTHER abilities that I had. I never liked charging for it,however. Since I'd end up advising people to consider bodywork of one kind or another after alot of these readings, to release the stored up fear INSIDE, to put it mildly,something happened to change my world.Yoga happened, and I've been teaching it ever since. It sprang out of me as if I'd been at it all my life,and in a way I'd had,just not in the physical.I was happily surprised that this seemed to be something that was awakened in me and came as naturally as breathing. I began teaching a year after practicing, and have been ever since,averaging about 15 classes a week . Teaching adults,children elderly,Alzheimer's,cardiac patients in beginnerd to advanced in a wide variety of places,some of which are governed by petty tyrants,thereby making the opportunity to better evolve into the hopeful STO candidate I sincerely hope I am.There is no room for resistance to change for this colorful individual. I can be me in this work also because any kind of fearful mask that I might be using to hide with doesn't last for long,so I am forced to be on my toes. What a gift! Perfect for the lazy and slothful perfectionist that used to be scared and shy of speaking to groups!I guess the years and years of reading all the sort of material that's spoken about on the forum and the continuing hunger for knowledge,no matter what else seemed to be going on produced me.There is a EE workshop in my town this week.I hope to go. Thank you all for listening.I know I went on a bit.I need to post more.I just came out of a little mental prison and have to curb the self-importance,having sooo much to SAY!Oh let me not forget that I painted pictures in the past and some people would pay me.Still a sensitive topic,I'd say.Hardly any of my friends are yoga teachers and I'm glad for the diversity,as is the diversity on this forum that I have to say I'm proud to be a part of.
Crystla24
Jedi
Supervisor of a landfill and recycling center. I've kinda got a Good-will Hunting thing going on right now do to the volumes of college text books I find at the recycling center lol. At the landfill I run heavy equipment and do various dirt construction. When the weather is bad, I get holed up in a little office with no internet and read...or pursue practicing my artistic ability. Been working on charcoal portraits here and there. Also, I had started schooling online for web-design with intentions of making web-sites with a Wi-fi cabable phone and laptop when I was stormed into my office at work; to make money while I was making money :) In my position I have networking capabilities with every construction contractor in the area as well as selling my web-design skills to various recycling centers all over the state. Eventually I found it too hard to finish the schooling while working full-time and quit. Having all the textbooks and software, I am trying to teach myself from there. I am also tattooing. Turns out Photoshop is an excellent tool for tattoo designs :) As far as dreaming to work for myself, I would like to pursue tattoo and web design.
Before this I worked under a licensed veterinarian as a Cattle-vet. I worked for uber-huge world-wide evil corporation Cargill (supplies meat to places like Wal-mart and McDonald's). If anyone is interested I do have some idea as to what goes into the meat and how the cattle are treated. Other than the awful corporate politics and having to treat animals like $ signs. I love working with cattle. There is an entire psychology behind it that I loved. I could walk one line through a pen and have every cow calmly walk right through the gate I wanted. Cowboys working there for 20+ years could not do this, mostly due to fear tactics of herding the cattle. Maybe if one using body movement and just "asks" they have no problem cooperating ;)
Other than these two ventures, all my previous jobs were in the food industry- cashiering and waitressing. Hopefully my CDL and heavy equipment experience will keep me from ever having to do THAT again :)
One other thing maybe worth mentioning. Combining my work histories, I am forming a hypothesis of how to eliminate silage (corn they feed cattle) tarps from landfills. If this is possible, more plastic could be saved from waste than all individual recycling efforts combined. Agri-plastic is a huge problem and a solution could be worthy of a Peace-prize. Figured I could use some of my time trying to return something back. I KNOW my idea works short-term. Right now I have to see how I could test it long-term against the elements of nature :) Maybe I should look into some grants to pursue this, I really don't want to sell off my idea. I don't want corporate entrepreneurs benefiting. I want to fit it into local government and small farms so everyone can take advantage at the lowest costs possible- if, that is, my ideas ever leave the ground.
Before this I worked under a licensed veterinarian as a Cattle-vet. I worked for uber-huge world-wide evil corporation Cargill (supplies meat to places like Wal-mart and McDonald's). If anyone is interested I do have some idea as to what goes into the meat and how the cattle are treated. Other than the awful corporate politics and having to treat animals like $ signs. I love working with cattle. There is an entire psychology behind it that I loved. I could walk one line through a pen and have every cow calmly walk right through the gate I wanted. Cowboys working there for 20+ years could not do this, mostly due to fear tactics of herding the cattle. Maybe if one using body movement and just "asks" they have no problem cooperating ;)
Other than these two ventures, all my previous jobs were in the food industry- cashiering and waitressing. Hopefully my CDL and heavy equipment experience will keep me from ever having to do THAT again :)
One other thing maybe worth mentioning. Combining my work histories, I am forming a hypothesis of how to eliminate silage (corn they feed cattle) tarps from landfills. If this is possible, more plastic could be saved from waste than all individual recycling efforts combined. Agri-plastic is a huge problem and a solution could be worthy of a Peace-prize. Figured I could use some of my time trying to return something back. I KNOW my idea works short-term. Right now I have to see how I could test it long-term against the elements of nature :) Maybe I should look into some grants to pursue this, I really don't want to sell off my idea. I don't want corporate entrepreneurs benefiting. I want to fit it into local government and small farms so everyone can take advantage at the lowest costs possible- if, that is, my ideas ever leave the ground.
Registered nurse for 20 years, worked in psychiatry and chemical dependency (addictions) for 17 years, then oncology (cancer nursing) for the last three.
For the first few years I hated being a nurse. I am a type "B" personality, I am not a perfectionist, I am not naturally organized. Psychiatry was especially hard because I am an armchair "student" of the old school psychologies (psychodynamic psychology, neo-Jungian type stuff, self psychology) and have used the newer stuff (cognitive/behavioral especially) in my own therapy and later, on myself.
Modern psychiatry is 99% neurochemistry and medication administration. The only "therapy" given is a structured milieu where staff will prevent you from hurting yourself or others or destroying property while your Zyprexa kicks in. Admittedly, we took health histories that include traumatic experiences, family history, but when the rubber hit the road, it was biochemical therapy all the way. Private clinics may still provide more wholistic therapies, but not the major metropolitan hospitals I worked in.
I did enjoy and find a lot of meaning in working with addicted persons. It was great to admit a heroin addict for treatment -- abscesses and open sores, skinny, pale and completely strung out, and after about six weeks of intense REAL therapy, food, and getting them through the withdrawls (vomiting, diarrhea, extreme pain, horrendous anxiety and depression), you'd turn loose a person who looking NOTHING like the pre-zombie that was shoved through the front door. The relapse rate after a year is about 39% where I worked and a LOT lower at five years, but we did some real work there, and even if they did relapse, we did our best to RUIN whatever pleasure to be had from the heroin. You can try, but you can't unlearn or unexperience the freedom of life from the slavery of addiction.
Then, oncology . . . I didn't know if I'd be "able" to handle it, but it turns out that it the most positive and uplifting jobs I've had. And, my patients die all the time, I get to know them at diagnosis, give them the chemo, care for them during the infections and complications of the chemo, and if they do not go into remission, I take care of them while they get palliative care and then while they die. Sounds horrible, but . . . it's not. I DO get very emotionally exhausted, and it's wise to take vacations from work and to manage how involved I get emotionally, which is easier sometimes than others. For every five new nurses we hire, one stays on, sometimes none. I am not religious and have no specific beliefs about "life after death". Sometimes, is thew worst place in the world to work, but those times are thankfully rare.
I'm still a nurse because I have gotten very good at it :D, at least the "routine" and paradigm of nursing. I've learned to be very organized, type "A" when it is necessary, and since I don't freak out or panic hardly ever, I end up in leadership positions. I enjoy "taking care" of the nurses who take care of the patient.
So, my "work" in this life has been to be a "supporter". Not a healer, per se, I deliver the goods and keep a close eye on the process, know when to report, can walk in a room and know from a single look if the patient is going "bad". I participate in the healing, help deliver it, but I seem to have been cut out for the supportive role in life.
I'm the kind of person people open up to, and enjoy participating in domestic abuse support forums four and a half years since I ended my abusive marriage. I have a small hobby farm, and when I'm very bad, I cruise Craigslist for people who want to sell or give away ducks, chickens or geese to someone who won't eat them. I lost count of how many I have, probably somewhere near 30, on a five acre swamp particularly suited for waterfowl and pigs (I have four of those too).
So, I think my work is to "take care of _________ " in this life.
For the first few years I hated being a nurse. I am a type "B" personality, I am not a perfectionist, I am not naturally organized. Psychiatry was especially hard because I am an armchair "student" of the old school psychologies (psychodynamic psychology, neo-Jungian type stuff, self psychology) and have used the newer stuff (cognitive/behavioral especially) in my own therapy and later, on myself.
Modern psychiatry is 99% neurochemistry and medication administration. The only "therapy" given is a structured milieu where staff will prevent you from hurting yourself or others or destroying property while your Zyprexa kicks in. Admittedly, we took health histories that include traumatic experiences, family history, but when the rubber hit the road, it was biochemical therapy all the way. Private clinics may still provide more wholistic therapies, but not the major metropolitan hospitals I worked in.
I did enjoy and find a lot of meaning in working with addicted persons. It was great to admit a heroin addict for treatment -- abscesses and open sores, skinny, pale and completely strung out, and after about six weeks of intense REAL therapy, food, and getting them through the withdrawls (vomiting, diarrhea, extreme pain, horrendous anxiety and depression), you'd turn loose a person who looking NOTHING like the pre-zombie that was shoved through the front door. The relapse rate after a year is about 39% where I worked and a LOT lower at five years, but we did some real work there, and even if they did relapse, we did our best to RUIN whatever pleasure to be had from the heroin. You can try, but you can't unlearn or unexperience the freedom of life from the slavery of addiction.
Then, oncology . . . I didn't know if I'd be "able" to handle it, but it turns out that it the most positive and uplifting jobs I've had. And, my patients die all the time, I get to know them at diagnosis, give them the chemo, care for them during the infections and complications of the chemo, and if they do not go into remission, I take care of them while they get palliative care and then while they die. Sounds horrible, but . . . it's not. I DO get very emotionally exhausted, and it's wise to take vacations from work and to manage how involved I get emotionally, which is easier sometimes than others. For every five new nurses we hire, one stays on, sometimes none. I am not religious and have no specific beliefs about "life after death". Sometimes, is thew worst place in the world to work, but those times are thankfully rare.
I'm still a nurse because I have gotten very good at it :D, at least the "routine" and paradigm of nursing. I've learned to be very organized, type "A" when it is necessary, and since I don't freak out or panic hardly ever, I end up in leadership positions. I enjoy "taking care" of the nurses who take care of the patient.
So, my "work" in this life has been to be a "supporter". Not a healer, per se, I deliver the goods and keep a close eye on the process, know when to report, can walk in a room and know from a single look if the patient is going "bad". I participate in the healing, help deliver it, but I seem to have been cut out for the supportive role in life.
I'm the kind of person people open up to, and enjoy participating in domestic abuse support forums four and a half years since I ended my abusive marriage. I have a small hobby farm, and when I'm very bad, I cruise Craigslist for people who want to sell or give away ducks, chickens or geese to someone who won't eat them. I lost count of how many I have, probably somewhere near 30, on a five acre swamp particularly suited for waterfowl and pigs (I have four of those too).
So, I think my work is to "take care of _________ " in this life.
Zadius Sky
The Living Force
Currently working as a Shipping and Receiving Clerk for a bookstore at the local university. It's a temporary position, started from last Thursday until next week. I'm still looking for a job in a library and at the same time, I am taking courses in Library Cataloging.
Job hunting is a full-time job!
Job hunting is a full-time job!
I'm a plant biologist by education, but I'm a microbiology lab technician at the moment.
soulshifter
The Force is Strong With This One
I was a lifeguard for about 10 years, then I went and got a BA in Theology (because "I had questions") and decided after the four years of religious "enlightenment" that I should be a pharmacist instead. 
I've been a pharmacist for about 10 years now, although I'll be a whistle blowing, rescue tube toting, "Hey! Don't run around the pool", zinc oxide on the nose-type of guy for life ;D
P.S. Never swim alone, and NEVER put those "water wings" on your kids for floatation!
I've been a pharmacist for about 10 years now, although I'll be a whistle blowing, rescue tube toting, "Hey! Don't run around the pool", zinc oxide on the nose-type of guy for life ;D
P.S. Never swim alone, and NEVER put those "water wings" on your kids for floatation!
David Topi
Jedi Master
Telecom engineer, and since a few years, trainer, coach and "healer"- for lack of a better word (reiki, sanergia, remote healing, soul clearing, TRE)
Zadius Sky
The Living Force
Zadius Sky said:
Currently working as a Telecommunication Assistant (temp) at the same university and will last for the next seven weeks. I am helping with the replacing/installing all old phones with new ones across the campus . I did not expect to work in a Telecommunication field at all, but I got the call, so I'd have to take what I can get.
I am currently working as a travel agent. Due to the change of location, a clientele is very different from before and struggling to deal with diverse people in various backgrounds. One thing that I learned so far is that I should not be nice to everyone to provide good services.
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Bar Kochba
Guest
On January 1st of this year I got promoted to Assistant Superintendent at the golf "community" where I am employed. I work a lot more hours now, 55-60 per week. It is a test for me in the sense that I am doing something I don't really want to do and doing my damnedest to do it well. And I have much less time to spend with my family now. As I have no college degree and no skills that would allow me to make the money I make which supports my family, this is the job I am currently enslaved to and will be the best assistant superintendent that I can be until some future time when I can make a move to do something else.
