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What do you do for a living?

Discussion in 'Fred's House of Pancakes' started by malorn, Feb 16, 2008.

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  1. Office and Administrative Support

    3 vote(s)
    2.1%
  2. Installation, Maintenance and Repair

    2 vote(s)
    1.4%
  3. Construction and Extraction

    1 vote(s)
    0.7%
  4. Life, Physical and social science

    2 vote(s)
    1.4%
  5. Farming, fishing and forestry

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  6. Arts, design, entertainment, sports, media

    3 vote(s)
    2.1%
  7. Retail, sales and related occupations

    2 vote(s)
    1.4%
  8. Production

    4 vote(s)
    2.8%
  9. Community and social services

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  10. Education, training and library

    7 vote(s)
    4.9%
  11. Healthcare Support

    2 vote(s)
    1.4%
  12. Personal Care and Service

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  13. Healthcare practitioners/technical occupations

    11 vote(s)
    7.7%
  14. Business and financial operations

    3 vote(s)
    2.1%
  15. Computer and mathematical

    30 vote(s)
    21.0%
  16. Management

    3 vote(s)
    2.1%
  17. Legal

    4 vote(s)
    2.8%
  18. Customer service representatives

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  19. Bookkeeping, accounting and auditing

    1 vote(s)
    0.7%
  20. Municipal employeed

    2 vote(s)
    1.4%
  21. State employee

    1 vote(s)
    0.7%
  22. Federal employee

    3 vote(s)
    2.1%
  23. Retired

    18 vote(s)
    12.6%
  24. Self-Employed

    16 vote(s)
    11.2%
  25. Other-(Please list in a reply)

    25 vote(s)
    17.5%
  1. malorn

    malorn Senior Member

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    I am interested to see what Prius chatters do for a living. Please be honest.
     
  2. Jack66

    Jack66 Kinda Jovial Member

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  3. Godiva

    Godiva AmeriKan Citizen

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    Teacher Librarian in a Middle School.
     
  4. qbee42

    qbee42 My other car is a boat

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    Electrical Engineer. I own a company that designs and builds micro-controller based electronic equipment.

    Tom
     
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    Boo Boola Boola Member

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    Humble Dirt Lawyer aka Real Estate Attorney in a big, corporate, white shoe law firm. I move commas. But am presently on sabbatical or retired (haven't decided which yet).
     
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    road__rider Junior Member

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    Control Room Operator at a coal fired electric generating power plant
     
  7. TonyPSchaefer

    TonyPSchaefer Your Friendly Moderator
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    Design, develop, deliver instructor-led training in a corporate environment. I also do web-delivered training materials.

    Of course, I can't share the proprietary ones with you all, but there are applications outside of work: HSD Presentation
     
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    pewd Clarinet Dude

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  9. Dr Ed

    Dr Ed New Member

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    paprius4030 My first Prius

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    We own an Ice Cream Store/Fast Food in Pocono's, Pa.
     
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  13. jammin012

    jammin012 The man behind The Man

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    TJandGENESIS Are We Having Fun Yet?

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    patsparks An Aussie perspective

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    Scaley or Mermaid.
    Sometimes I get called much worse.










    Road Transport Compliance Officer.

    I drive around in a new car, checking out trucks, looking important and taking to people.
     
  16. Tom6850

    Tom6850 Retired

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    timstorey Junior Member

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  18. Rae Vynn

    Rae Vynn Artist In Residence

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    Knowledge Engineer, currently either retired or between gigs.

    Example of the work I did:

    Any of the help articles accessible on this website, I very well could have written, edited, or otherwise touched.
     
  19. Joe_Waters

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  20. Rae Vynn

    Rae Vynn Artist In Residence

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    I've seen that shirt at thinkgeek.com! :)