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I am officially unemployed, I have encountered blocks during my adventure in this incarnation. After asking the Creator for help I was led to a universal science to give me an idea of my soul purpose. My path is a hard one, it is spiritual in nature, & indicates a service to others orientation. I am a healer, & a teacher so that is the path I will walk if I can get through my karmic debts. Those of you who are chronically unemployed like me believe & manifest; success is achievable.
 
Vrillin said:
I am officially unemployed, I have encountered blocks during my adventure in this incarnation. After asking the Creator for help I was led to a universal science to give me an idea of my soul purpose. My path is a hard one, it is spiritual in nature, & indicates a service to others orientation. I am a healer, & a teacher so that is the path I will walk if I can get through my karmic debts. Those of you who are chronically unemployed like me believe & manifest; success is achievable.
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Vrillin, have you read the Wave Series yet? You seem to be quite invested in some deep newage thinking that is not serving you well at all. if you haven't read it in its entirety, I strongly suggest it.
 
From April will be unemployed probably for two months. After that, hopely 8 months contract with Board of Education in our area. Hard time is comming. In the main time doing vegetables garden, fixing computers and software, trying to sale some things from Japan in Europe through Internet. Several teaching jobs, to come around the time.
 
I am a self-employed English teacher in Japan. I teach kids from age 2 all the way up to grandmothers of over 70.
 
I've really enjoyed reading how diverse everyone's job or careers are. Even reading about those who've experienced at least one soul sucking job too... especially the lawyers. I worked as a courier for about 45 of them for 5 years in a real estate firm when the market was in much better shape. Oddly enough their support staff were far more difficult to work with then many of the attorney's themselves.

Like some I don't have a degree but had worked many odd jobs through out life such as fast food, waitressing, retail and then moved to banking and the local paper for a bit. More often than not, working two at a time so I know how exhausting it can be trying to make ends meet.

Later I became a private investigator because I wanted to learn how to find the truth when it was needed. Oddly though that job was really a glorified baby sitting job for people with more money than sense. But I learned more about the systems we live under and saw how much people are just pawns in the game so it was very helpful in that respect. I spent most of my time in the car and we were old school but I met some of the most interesting people when working.

Which bring me to my current position which I am very thankful to have. I help my long time friend and roommate run his towing business. He was a transmission repair mechanic for 20 years at a local dealership and we talk about, buying, selling, towing, fixing, and sometimes crushing cars. I've had to learn the basics of bookkeeping and Quickbooks which for me was no easy feat. But we both have come a long way over the last 4 years and are doing pretty well considering the state of the worlds economic troubles.
 
I was a Computer Aided Designer / Architectural Technician for over 20 years;

then got my MSC in Sustainable Architecture - so just when I was experienced and qualified enough to earn some decent money - I started to 'wake up', :huh:

so sold my house, lived off grid on a canalboat and worked as a life model! :D

now living in a caravan, and working as part-time carer for a physically / mentally impaired gentleman

am also currently designing and looking to build and then share the knowledge on affordable (truly), natural, earthquake proof homes - earthbag domes (trying to put the arc back into arch-itecture! :))
 
dreamrider said:
am also currently designing and looking to build and then share the knowledge on affordable (truly), natural, earthquake proof homes - earthbag domes (trying to put the arc back into arch-itecture! :))
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Very cool, dreamrider.
I've been fascinated with yurts after watching a documentary about Mongolian herder's a few years back. (I hope this isn't considered too much noise) But, this is a link to one that I think is just beautiful.
_http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DEiQX3zuw67I&v=EiQX3zuw67I&gl=US
BTW, I was a graphic designer, specifically package design, before my 3 children. I am not employed right now, but I am in the process of opening an Etsy account for my woodworking.
 
chrissy, couldn't open the link, but yes I love yurts too! no need to feel cornered in a circular space :)
 
I've worked a few things, but right now both my jobs are attached to phones.

One is customer service, and the other is in outbound sales. I also sell electronics on the side.

I'm a full time student as well though. All these jobs, plus reading, plus school, has left me with a jam packed schedule!
 
A lot of jobs in my life, librarian, cashier, usher in a Conservatoire of cinematographic art, organizer in a community center, chambermaid in a hotel in Barcelona (very interesting job when you have a lot of imagination, like me ;D ), I also worked in fields to pick fruits (that I never, ever eat one myself ;) ) and now since one month my sister gave me the possibility (from Canada) to transcript audio recordings of conversations whit fathers who lost their child. This is the most fascinating job I have had in my life and surely the most enriching. I do this job at home so this is also the perfect job while living here, in a remote village of 20 inhabitants.


This threat is really, really fascinating.
 
I've got about 20yrs experience in retail, banking and finance. These days I prefer jobs that are not so brain work intensive. I do some back office/filing work in a physiotherapist clinic and I've wanted to add something that is more physically demanding so I've applied for some filling work in a supermarket as well. Although I like the satisfaction of doing a job well, I also like to keep my headspace clear for rehashing stuff that I read, free association or observing myself.
 
so many different people and work profiles :D

my main work is in sale ( booking hotel,apartment and camp ) accommodation for an hotel chain and like second job I work like an basketball referee :P
so i work each day , all day and time left if for reading and thinking about many ideas

KO SMO
 
I've got the summer job last week at the seaside, at last! :cool:
I'm travelling tomorrow and starting with work on Monday as cleaning woman in a family hotel.
It will be fine for beginning as i need to practice external consideration, patience, efficiency, resourcefulness etc.
Also, some cash would be nice support for my so needed independent living and continuing education.
Unfortunately, i will not have access to the Internet ie sott/forum for about four months, but some Gurdjieff and Ouspensky literature will be handy for sure! :whistle:
Wish me luck! :scooter:
 
Briseis said:
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.
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Enjoyed your post Briseis. 20 years is a long time as a nurse, how have you managed to keep your sanity? my friend (mental health nurse) says she has gone 'crazy' from the job and that the biggest challenge is the office politics. Like yourself, she tries to take vacations etc. but it is not enough. I have been considering leaving disability work for nursing but am wary based on all the stories you hear of nurse burnout.
 
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