What do you do?

[the captians wench]

Do you have an online store? I'm looking for a French 1600's dress.

To the topic at hand- I'm a court clerk/writer/Rainbow seller part time.

ATM I only do ebay and what custom orders I pick up here and there online and from spreading my business cards around. I hope to have my own website up by the end of the year, but it's a process. Right now saving for Ireland ranks above the cost of a website. Partly because of the money, and partly because I'm not sure I'm ready to handle steady orders.

If you are serious about my stuff PM me an email and I'll send you my info and some photos.

 

[Sir_Winston54]

Yep, no go, but I'm not entirely upset. They can be a great account, but they can also be total scumbags from what other indie designers have told me, and the conversation was giving me the willies.

Trust your instincts. From the couple or three of your posts I've seen over the last 5 years, you've got pretty good ones.

 

[MasDom]

Well pet know what I do, I'll humor you though.

Hypnosis, and erotic hypnosis by telephone appointment.

On occasion I do a service to help single mom's.

 

[nh23]

Make wigs, weaves, and hair extentions. It's mostly salon owners that buy the hair. I didn't realize there was such a market for it until I saw that talk show and really started looking inot it. I mean, I always knew that you could sell your hair, but I figured for $200 max and only because my hair is virgin hair and I always have so much of it when I cut it. Even $600 is more that what I ever thought I could get, until I saw that talk show anyway.

Wonder how much I could hold out for if the economy didn't go sour.

Wow! I've never even heard of this.

 

[nh23]

Well pet know what I do, I'll humor you though.

Hypnosis, and erotic hypnosis by telephone appointment.

On occasion I do a service to help single mom's.

Thank You Master! LOL you just had to make that last one look dirty didn't you.

Do you find it weird we are sitting in bed together posting to each other?

 

[CutieMouse]

I just have to pop back in to admit I'm perving on Rosco's current book tattoo avatar...

 

[Homburg]

Independent physical damage appraiser. I looked at wrecked stuff and figure out how much it will take to fix it. This involves a lot of driving, phone time, research, etc. To be frank, I really, honestly dig the work. I just dislike the industry and don't really care for my employers. But I am utterly addicted to working from home and setting my own schedule.

I work cars, light, medium, and heavy trucks, trailers of all sorts, construction equipment, boats, motorcycles, personal watercraft, the occasional house/structure, and just about anything else that they think someone will pay me to look at.

I also have a side business doing the same thing I do usually. It's successful enough that I was able to give my dad a job. Can't complain.

 

[kiss_of_sin]

im sorry about the reaction, i do hope you recover

im a petty officer third class in the navy. electricians mate/sar swimmer. stationed in japan, my ship is an amphib. we tote around marines on their ops and our own embassador ops. i have been to every country on this side of the earth. pretty exciting. ^.^

 

[bridgeburner]

nh23,

Just wanted to thank you for starting this thread. I'm having the best time reading about everyone!

You definitely should get cookied for this!

 

[bridgeburner]

heh, just realized I wrote "cookied" when I meant to write "cookies" ---- but I like it so I'm leaving it.

I've created a new verb!!!

Get your cookie on, kids!

 

[shy slave]

Really interesting thread.

Plus I have not seen MasDom post before, nh, he is really good looking....but what service does he provide to single moms???? You are right, he did make it look naughty!

I am slightly in awe of those who have yellow pages style CV's.

I started working with people who have various high level learning disabilities (severe mental retardation in the US, I think) when I was twelve, and thirty years later I am still there.

I qualified as an LD nurse, and studied whilst working and bringing up my sons to get into the management side of the role.

I am also a medium and have had private clients and done phone work in this, and with the economy as it is I may go back to the lines.

Its seems that BDSM covers almost every job, it does seemt hat alot of subs have care type roles - nurse, homemaker, sex worker; interesting.

 

[VelvetDarkness]

Do you miss nursing?

Yes and no.

I miss the work itself and the patients (especially my renal/dialysis patients as you get attached when you see them 3 days a week). I miss having set working hours and no responsibility outside of those hours. I miss having everything I did regulated by other people (senior nurses, Drs, NHS protocols etc) and I miss always knowing when I had made the right choice. I miss seeing people improve (seeing a renal patient get a successful transplant was a particular and rare thrill) and I miss knowing I was making a real difference. I miss my colleagues (though I still see some of them socially) and the camaraderie we shared in the face of crappy hours/pay/equipment and stupid decisions from on high based on targets set by clueless, headline grabbing politicians.

I don't miss the long hours and the crap pay. I don't miss feeling undervalued and unappreciated as the government fretted over whether to give us a 3% payrise, having awarded themselves a 15% hike that same year. I don't miss worrying over my pension contributions and struggling to repay student debt. Nor do I miss Blair royally shafting the overtime system and seeing 40% of my 'enhanced overtime rate' going straight to the government in second job tax. I don't miss envying peers who never bothered with uni and who were 3 years ahead of me career-wise, earning far more money than I did. I don't miss clinging to my grade in the face of economic uncertainty and seeing immigrant nurses promised some of the better, more senior posts in order to attract them from overseas.

I enjoy being my own boss but it brings with it so much responsibility and no such thing as a day off. Self employed means don't work = don't eat and time off costs whatever I spend plus whatever I would have earned if I'd grafted. My job is high stress at times in a way that nursing never was, because there's no doctor or senior colleague to pass the buck to. If I and my business partners fuck up, there's no safety net and nobody else to blame. It would be exhilarating if the economy wasn't so totally buggered but these days it's like bunjee jumping without knowing how long the rope is. There's just so much uncertainty. Also, as a new enterprise, there's no let up. There's no peak or plateau, just running in order to stand still, with the odd incremental bit of ground gained along the way. J is convinced he's the next Branson and FWIW I agree with him. Me? I'm not entirely sure I'm built for the big leagues but I bit this off and so I'll damn well chew it.

Wow. That was a bit of a rant.

 

[VelvetDarkness]

Yeah I did the youth hostel two seasons running met interesting people from all over the world some of them I'm still in contact with.

You weren't ever in Glencoe were you?

 

[the captians wench]

Wow! I've never even heard of this.

I remember reading about it in books as a kid. Le Mis comes to mind.

Then I saw a movie that was about that old parable, the wife sells her hair to buy her husband a watch chain and he sells his watch to buy her a comb.

I knew it was possible to do, I just had no idea how to go about it.

When my step dad finally let us kids know he had cancer I started donating my hair every other christmas. I would cut about 20 inches off and donate it to wigs for kids. It made me feel like I was suporting him, even though he hated that I cut my hair. After he died, well I've just had a hard time cutting it. I've felt like it was time for a while now, this way it will help me get to where I want to be.

 

[billc393]

I'm curious about those who have the Yellow Page resumes, what are your feelings about this and have they changed over the years?

......And it wasn't until my 20 year reunion that I realized not only was I OK with my meandering career path but the peers I had once envied now wished they could be more like me.

What has your experience been?

Like yours... sort of took any job that would pay the bills and sounded interesting. I too envied many of my friends and relatives who seemed to have a 'grand design' for their careers... I just never saw anything I tought would hold my interest for very long.

Eventually drifted into the computer field and have bounced around there for about 20 years now... doing a little bit of almost everything... the current job came about totally by surprise... as have most of them!

All in all, these days I'm really glad I've had all the experience, and interesting things to work on over the years.

 

[Etoile]

Re: hair donation, don't use Locks of Love. They sell the wigs to families, they don't give them for free.
http://www.onmilwaukee.com/family/articles/locksforlove.html

Organizations that give hair free to families and children:
http://www.beautifullengths.com/en_US/
http://www.wigsforkids.org/

 

[the captians wench]

Re: hair donation, don't use Locks of Love. They sell the wigs to families, they don't give them for free.
http://www.onmilwaukee.com/family/articles/locksforlove.html

Organizations that give hair free to families and children:
http://www.beautifullengths.com/en_US/
http://www.wigsforkids.org/

Yeah, I found that one out when I first researched donating my hair. Lock of Love also focases on different conditions behind the loss of hair, not just cancer. While I don't see anything wrong with that, I just had a certian intent in mind. It was kind of theriputic to me and helped me cope with my step dad's condition.

I've always used wigs for kids.

 

[HisSexyPet]

Re: hair donation, don't use Locks of Love. They sell the wigs to families, they don't give them for free.
http://www.onmilwaukee.com/family/articles/locksforlove.html

Organizations that give hair free to families and children:
http://www.beautifullengths.com/en_US/
http://www.wigsforkids.org/

Thank you for this information. When my daughter decides it is time to cut her waist length hair to shoulder length she was going to send it to Locks of Love. After seeing this will rethink that since the reason behind it was to GIVE it to the kids in need.

 

[CutieMouse]

Sorry, mini-hijack...

I'm curious about those who have the Yellow Page resumes, what are your feelings about this and have they changed over the years?

I ask this because almost into my late twenties I felt like a dismal failure many times. I watched my peers complete their degrees and/or move into steady jobs and careers, while I drifted from place to place and job to job. It took awhile for me to realize that there is no right or wrong and that I am not cut out for what most people consider "normal" - i.e. steady job, pension, house, etc. And it wasn't until my 20 year reunion that I realized not only was I OK with my meandering career path but the peers I had once envied now wished they could be more like me.

What has your experience been?

I only gave my current work-thingie... the real list goes something like this:

History Museum Tour Guide (various museums over the years)
Artist
Retail
Mother
[Homebirther]
[Home Schooling Parent]
Homemaker
Volunteer Breastfeeding Educator
Research/Training to become a Doula
Research/Training to become an IBCLC
Small Business Owner - preschool market
Barrista
Freelance Research Assistant
Freelance Rare Book Cataloguer
Unpublished (still working on the project bit by bit) Writer
Catalogue Head at a used/rare bookshop (my boss was an ass)
Small Business Owner (Part Time dealing in Rare Books)
Small Business Owner (online vintage lingerie/clothing/textiles)
Lingerie Fitter/Retail Sales

While I'm appreciative of my current employment (and dammed good at what I do), I will admit I struggle with not feeling "more successful."

 

[ecstaticsub]

I am a clinical pharmacist. I love what I do. It is extremely stressful, but can be very rewarding. I like that I can help other professionals--nurses, PA, NP, and MDs, and others do their job better.

The pay is great, but our responsibilities are growing. Because of the nursing shortage and MD shortage more and more responsibility is falling to pharmacists. I wouldn't mind this except we are experiencing severe shortages in our field too. There are times when I may be the only pharmacist in the hospital and responsible for 100+ patients. If any of those patients are a premature newborn or a critical ICU patient it can be very busy and stressful.

The best part about being a pharmacist is the knowledge I have when I need healthcare myself or for my family. I have dropped doctors when they have prescribed what I consider inappropriate drug therapy for whatever issue I am seeing them for. I get into some good discussions with them too about drug therapy.

 

[rosco rathbone]

heh, just realized I wrote "cookied" when I meant to write "cookies" ---- but I like it so I'm leaving it.

I've created a new verb!!!

Get your cookie on, kids!

I was blown away by your jobs list, beebles.

 

[graceanne]

nh23,

Just wanted to thank you for starting this thread. I'm having the best time reading about everyone!

You definitely should get cookied for this!

Considering the original meaning of 'cookie' (back when the whole cookie thing started), I love the verb.

 

[nh23]

Independent physical damage appraiser. I looked at wrecked stuff and figure out how much it will take to fix it. This involves a lot of driving, phone time, research, etc. To be frank, I really, honestly dig the work. I just dislike the industry and don't really care for my employers. But I am utterly addicted to working from home and setting my own schedule.

I work cars, light, medium, and heavy trucks, trailers of all sorts, construction equipment, boats, motorcycles, personal watercraft, the occasional house/structure, and just about anything else that they think someone will pay me to look at.

I also have a side business doing the same thing I do usually. It's successful enough that I was able to give my dad a job. Can't complain.

It's good that you can be at home with your family when you want to be. I would love to be able to set my own schedule.

im sorry about the reaction, i do hope you recover

im a petty officer third class in the navy. electricians mate/sar swimmer. stationed in japan, my ship is an amphib. we tote around marines on their ops and our own embassador ops. i have been to every country on this side of the earth. pretty exciting. ^.^

Thank you! I'm feeling a lot better today. And thank you for all of the work you are doing for our country. We need to do more as a country for our military and military families.

nh23,

Just wanted to thank you for starting this thread. I'm having the best time reading about everyone!

You definitely should get cookied for this!

You're welcome! I'm curious as to what getting cookied would involve.

 

[nh23]

Really interesting thread.

Plus I have not seen MasDom post before, nh, he is really good looking....but what service does he provide to single moms???? You are right, he did make it look naughty!

I am slightly in awe of those who have yellow pages style CV's.

I started working with people who have various high level learning disabilities (severe mental retardation in the US, I think) when I was twelve, and thirty years later I am still there.

I qualified as an LD nurse, and studied whilst working and bringing up my sons to get into the management side of the role.

I am also a medium and have had private clients and done phone work in this, and with the economy as it is I may go back to the lines.

Its seems that BDSM covers almost every job, it does seemt hat alot of subs have care type roles - nurse, homemaker, sex worker; interesting.

Master says Thank you! We've been together going on oh...two years Living together for the last year and a half or so. I actually met him on another site and brought him over to Lit. He doesn't post often though.

His service to single moms..*giggles* He's rotten. Since he works from home he's here all the time. He watches my kids while I'm working. He also watches my sister's (single mom) children for her while she's working for a very low price to help her out. He's also the handy man for all the single mommies in our neighborhood and my family.

I've never heard of an LD nurse. Did you work for the school system?

Yes and no.

I miss the work itself and the patients (especially my renal/dialysis patients as you get attached when you see them 3 days a week). I miss having set working hours and no responsibility outside of those hours. I miss having everything I did regulated by other people (senior nurses, Drs, NHS protocols etc) and I miss always knowing when I had made the right choice. I miss seeing people improve (seeing a renal patient get a successful transplant was a particular and rare thrill) and I miss knowing I was making a real difference. I miss my colleagues (though I still see some of them socially) and the camaraderie we shared in the face of crappy hours/pay/equipment and stupid decisions from on high based on targets set by clueless, headline grabbing politicians.

I don't miss the long hours and the crap pay. I don't miss feeling undervalued and unappreciated as the government fretted over whether to give us a 3% payrise, having awarded themselves a 15% hike that same year. I don't miss worrying over my pension contributions and struggling to repay student debt. Nor do I miss Blair royally shafting the overtime system and seeing 40% of my 'enhanced overtime rate' going straight to the government in second job tax. I don't miss envying peers who never bothered with uni and who were 3 years ahead of me career-wise, earning far more money than I did. I don't miss clinging to my grade in the face of economic uncertainty and seeing immigrant nurses promised some of the better, more senior posts in order to attract them from overseas.

I enjoy being my own boss but it brings with it so much responsibility and no such thing as a day off. Self employed means don't work = don't eat and time off costs whatever I spend plus whatever I would have earned if I'd grafted. My job is high stress at times in a way that nursing never was, because there's no doctor or senior colleague to pass the buck to. If I and my business partners fuck up, there's no safety net and nobody else to blame. It would be exhilarating if the economy wasn't so totally buggered but these days it's like bunjee jumping without knowing how long the rope is. There's just so much uncertainty. Also, as a new enterprise, there's no let up. There's no peak or plateau, just running in order to stand still, with the odd incremental bit of ground gained along the way. J is convinced he's the next Branson and FWIW I agree with him. Me? I'm not entirely sure I'm built for the big leagues but I bit this off and so I'll damn well chew it.

Wow. That was a bit of a rant.

LOL. I would miss my work a ton if I went into something else. I've been in health care for the last 12 years. It is a high stress job though. But, like you said self employment comes with it's own challenges.

Re: hair donation, don't use Locks of Love. They sell the wigs to families, they don't give them for free.
http://www.onmilwaukee.com/family/articles/locksforlove.html

Organizations that give hair free to families and children:
http://www.beautifullengths.com/en_US/
http://www.wigsforkids.org/

I wish I would have known this before. About six months ago Master cut ten inches off his hair and donated it to locks of love.

 

[nh23]

I only gave my current work-thingie... the real list goes something like this:

History Museum Tour Guide (various museums over the years)
Artist
Retail
Mother
[Homebirther]
[Home Schooling Parent]
Homemaker
Volunteer Breastfeeding Educator
Research/Training to become a Doula
Research/Training to become an IBCLC
Small Business Owner - preschool market
Barrista
Freelance Research Assistant
Freelance Rare Book Cataloguer
Unpublished (still working on the project bit by bit) Writer
Catalogue Head at a used/rare bookshop (my boss was an ass)
Small Business Owner (Part Time dealing in Rare Books)
Small Business Owner (online vintage lingerie/clothing/textiles)
Lingerie Fitter/Retail Sales

While I'm appreciative of my current employment (and dammed good at what I do), I will admit I struggle with not feeling "more successful."

Pfftt. I haven't seen a job on this thread that isn't important.

I am a clinical pharmacist. I love what I do. It is extremely stressful, but can be very rewarding. I like that I can help other professionals--nurses, PA, NP, and MDs, and others do their job better.

The pay is great, but our responsibilities are growing. Because of the nursing shortage and MD shortage more and more responsibility is falling to pharmacists. I wouldn't mind this except we are experiencing severe shortages in our field too. There are times when I may be the only pharmacist in the hospital and responsible for 100+ patients. If any of those patients are a premature newborn or a critical ICU patient it can be very busy and stressful.

The best part about being a pharmacist is the knowledge I have when I need healthcare myself or for my family. I have dropped doctors when they have prescribed what I consider inappropriate drug therapy for whatever issue I am seeing them for. I get into some good discussions with them too about drug therapy.

We you guys. Pharm changes so much that I can't keep up with it as a nurse. You guys are lifesavers.