What do you do for a living?

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

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What do you do for a living?

  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%
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  1. jammin012

    jammin012 The man behind The Man

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    Funny, I read that as a 2. LOL
     
    #21 jammin012, Feb 17, 2008
  2. ewhanley

    ewhanley New Member

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    #22 ewhanley, Feb 17, 2008
  3. F8L

    F8L Protecting Habitat & AG Lands

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    I couldn't vote so my "other":

    #1 Student
    #2 Retail (car audio store)
    #3 Intern for a Land Managment/Conservation NGO
    #4 Independent contractor (for habitat surveys)
     
    #23 F8L, Feb 17, 2008
  4. moregas

    moregas New Member

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  5. BarbB

    BarbB New Member

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    Ordained minister, United Church of Christ, working as administrator in nonprofit agency that provides housing & other services to runaway and homeless youth.
     
    #25 BarbB, Feb 17, 2008
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    ctmurray Member

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    Scientist - new product development at Fortune 500 company.
     
    #26 ctmurray, Feb 17, 2008
  7. jammin012

    jammin012 The man behind The Man

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    You'd think with the knowledge base we have going here we couldn't figure out a way to do some "Back To The Future" mods on the Prius.

    You know, run on garbage, fly around anti gravity like, gullwing doors.... :cool:
     
    #27 jammin012, Feb 17, 2008
  8. fed123

    fed123 Member

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    #28 fed123, Feb 17, 2008
  9. AuntBee

    AuntBee New Member

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  10. darelldd

    darelldd Prius is our Gas Guzzler

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    Photovoltaic sales and consultation.
    Builder of LED lighting devices.
    Designer of User Interfaces for lighting products.
    Full-time Dad.

    (I notice that the only one who hasn't answered is the OP) ??
     
    #30 darelldd, Feb 18, 2008
  11. Wildkow

    Wildkow New Member

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    Just sold my first commercial property, Motel, for $1.86M!

    Wildkow
     
    #31 Wildkow, Feb 18, 2008
  12. mkiefer83

    mkiefer83 Junior Member

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    Electrical Engineer - Toyota Technical Center - Ann Arbor, MI
     
    #32 mkiefer83, Feb 18, 2008
  13. daniel

    daniel Cat Lovers Against the Bomb

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    In other words, if you're so smart how come you can't do magic?

    I think everyone here knows what the OP does: He sells dinosaurs.

    I'm retired.
     
    #33 daniel, Feb 18, 2008
  14. Spectra

    Spectra Amphi-Prius

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    community college prof -- botany, zoology.

    Been a winding road to here -- I think I'll stay :D
     
    #34 Spectra, Feb 18, 2008
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    phoskins New Member

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    Retired Navy Submariner; Now work for Federal Gov't as Director of Human Performance Improvement for the submarine force.
     
    #35 phoskins, Feb 18, 2008
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    Darwood Senior Member

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    I run a small EDI Consulting group.
    (Electronic Data Interchange).
     
    #36 Darwood, Feb 18, 2008
  17. galaxee

    galaxee mostly benevolent

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    i am: student/biomedical research
    husband is: student/biomedical equipment technology
     
    #37 galaxee, Feb 18, 2008
  18. tleonhar

    tleonhar Senior Member

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    Install/support computer equip. for an airline (yes you can blame me for those self service checkin kiosks).
     
    #38 tleonhar, Feb 18, 2008
  19. malorn

    malorn Senior Member

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    They suck if you are traveling with your family otherwise they are ok.
     
    #39 malorn, Feb 18, 2008
  20. Wildkow

    Wildkow New Member

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    What an eclectic bunch of bipedal humanoids. 133.gif
     
    #40 Wildkow, Feb 18, 2008
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