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At the moment i work in shipyard. Wasn't been always like that. At first i worked in office but really i don't like office work, to much sitting. So i gone to somewhat more of physical work area, and that how i ended in shipyard and for now i cant complain. Lots of physical work which is just fine with me :D

Also i do programming for 17 years now, that is some hobby of mine since i was a kid and i do freelancing in that area from time to time, mostly when i need extra money or my family, since they live in Bosnia still and there working opportunities are few and that also goes from city to city. In some there is and in some there isn't at all. When war started we had to move and than everything changed for my parents, and since they are now in age when you cant go to pension yet job is nowhere to be found but they manage it. Mother works in one firm that is barely working and giving pays to workers and dad is invalid from war so they patch it somehow but it kinda comes hard from time to time. I'm here with my sister, we don't live together, long story. Enough to say she likes to party a lot and have only fun, she has good intentions but as we know "road to hell is pawned with good intentions" so kind a sticks to that. Before i used to fix broken computers but i quit with that because of peoples unreasonable requests (make cake from cr*p somewhat in that sense) and now i do that pro bono, ergo i don't charge for my services but also do that when i can.

In the end i can't complain i train my self to be adaptable, programming help me a lot in that since general idea of an hacker is high skills in finding solutions to a problems, although word hacker in our society bears negative accent which is far from truth.

But never mind that. Reading some of posts here made me realize where ever you go you will find same problems related to job and above that how many through their jobs have learn lot of other things. Thank you all for sharing part of your lives :)
 
lux12 said:
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:
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Wish you luck, and with good books 4 months will past like a weeks. ;)
 
Hello everyone,

I am a massage therapist and have been for the last six years. Before that I worked in many different offices in clerical support positions (secretary, administrative assistant, word processor, etc). The corporate world was a soul crusher for me and a much needed change was needed in my life. So I up and quit and went to massage school. Massage was something I thought about doing for many years before I finally got brave enough to let go and follow my heart.

I now love my work and find it so fulfulling.... being able to bring relaxation and a sense of well being to my clients for at least one hour in their lives. I work on a "on-call" basis in a couple different spas here in my town and also at an assisted living community providing massage to the elderly which is also very rewarding.

Being an independent contractor, I have more freedom in my life to be able to spend time on the real Work. The only down side to being a massage therapist is I find it can be quite physically straining on my "machine."

:)
 
After being out of work for 3 years I am thrilled to be earning a living as an Administrative Associate at a computer company. I started out as a temporary receptionist 6 months ago which was a blow to my ego because my background was as an Executive Assistant. But I had to deal with the reality of massive unemployment and took the job with the goal of being the best darn receptionist they've ever had. I guess it worked because they hired me and I grateful because now I can start paying my bills on time.

What I really love though, is teaching ballroom dance. I'm not currently teaching because of an ankle injury and don't know if I can go back to being on my feet for 5 hours straight after working a full day at the office. I will say that not having a second job, is nice to be able to go home at the end of the day and have time to read.
 
When I was 18 years old, I learned massage therapist. I knew very early on, medicine was my calling. With 22 years I worked 1 year in Austria, because I'm very happy to ski. My first practice, I opened the age of 24. With 34 years ago I started a new job as physiotherapist. In 1997 I opened my new practice in our house. The practice has a rehabilitation department, now came to an education as a chiropractor. With our son, the direction changed again. I started training in sensory integration, dyscalculia, dyslexia. In 2001 I got sick (cancer) and was out of action for some time. My passion for psychotherapy was very big and I started a correspondence course to make my high school. My goal was a psychiatrist. The training I had to stop because our youngest sick by the treatment with hormones was. My time was not enough for everything that happened. Family, house, dog and Practice. In 2009 a friend of mine died during treatment in my arms. At that time I wanted to give up everything. So I took a course for hospice. Dying is part of my life to life itself as I have learned very quickly that medicine is a collection of lies. For me, man and nature together. So I do my testing in October as medical practitioners. My whole life has always been a single study. In my spare time I build furniture, ride my bike, our dog. I "eat" books. But my favorite hobby is my family.

Anne
 
I am currently a stay at home mom to my 17 month old daughter and have been since she was born. I should be able to finish my B.A. in Psychology either this fall or spring semester as I only have a few credits left and can finally afford to pay what I owe the school. I am considering applying for the PhD program in clinical psychology after that. I have to take some tests and get recommendations from professors and it's fairly competitive. They accept 5-9 students per year out of approximately 130 applicants, so I don't want to get my hopes up. I will prepare as best I can and see what happens. I may have to apply to a few different programs, but we will see what life is like when it gets closer to application time if it will be feasible for me to go.

But I have always been fascinated by psychology and have been enthralled reading many of the psychology books recommended here and I think I would really enjoy both the research and the practice.

Edited to add: I do a ton of knitting and crocheting as well for friends and family :D I love it!
 
I work in a public school as a cleaner about 5 years ago.
I studied to be an accountant because my family had an own small business( in Colombia) and my father wanted me to manage it but it went bankrupt, at that time(12 years ago) I met my current wife,she was born in Colombia but her father is an Belgian, so we decided to come to Belgium to look for a beter life, the problem was that we did not speak the language(dutch) and I started to learn it, after a while I could speak a little to find a job which I didn't speak much.
Despite I have to work hard (that requires strong physical efforts), I like it.
 
I'm a computer programmer. But with my wife away a lot at the moment and with us living in a mountain village in a foreign country, I'm doing the House Husband role. Still I get about 3 hours a day to do remote freelance work while the kids are at school which is wonderfully flexible. No set hours, no set delivery dates. When I deliver, I get paid - great motivation without external pressure. My usual clients (banks, governments, utility companies - Enterprise J2EE, Oracle) won't consider remote part time work, so it's smaller scale stuff for clients who just need some web coding done - PHP, MySQL, JScript, CSS, AJAX. Hopefully it'll keep my hand in so I'm not totally rusty when we move back and I try for a job that pays more €10 an hour - amusingly also what the babysitter charges.
 
Intelligence Analyst for the Police/ Local Council...but this fact is of minimum importance.

The real work starts when I get home; cooking, planting, harvesting, caring for chickens/ rabbits, walking, thinking, reading, learning, admiring, talking, listening, sleeping, dreaming - in short - living.
 
I pay the bills with medical transcription, these days generally more Quality Assurance and mentoring than actual typing.

I like to spend much of my free time in various crafts, particularly fiber arts - spinning, weaving, sewing, knitting, crochet - but also things like gardening, photography, bookbinding, jewelry-making, basketry, etc. I like to use my hands and learn to make things.
 
I do Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery planning so that businesses can continue to function during emergencies and recover from disruptions. Sounds exciting, but it is mostly boring updating of plans and documents...pays the bills though.
 
Mining and industrial sales representative for a pumping/water treatment company. Being part of the mining boom in Australia I'm comparatively lucky with job security which unfortunately works to lull me into a false sense of security for upcoming wave effects.

Good luck to those seeking work and I hope networking on here helps. Great thread.
 
After one year of education to be an organic farmer, i left Bayonne and i moved in Lot et Garonne for looking for soil to make PPAM (Perfum (scent?) Medicinal and Aromatic Plant). More precisely, distillation for organic essential oil.
 
Wow Sebbe, that sounds really interesting! How did you learn? By experience/ work placement or an educational course.
 
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