What do/did you do for a living?

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I have done a little of everything. For most of my life I have had to take what jobs that I could get just to pay the bills and make ends meet. For over 5 years I drove truck over the road.

I am now sick and tired of driving truck over the road and am and have been since 2008 trying to find work locally.

My goal is to start my own business. I am very entrepreneurial in nature and have on several occasions been told by several women that they thought I would make a good manager somewhere.

Trying to start over is not very easy though and trying to make new friends in the process isn't very easy either.

nlphypno80 said:

Trying to start over is not very easy though and trying to make new friends in the process isn't very easy either.

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Good luck in your search. We are rooting for you.

JJ

Jonathan Jarvis said:

Good luck in your search. We are rooting for you.

JJ

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Thank you. I appreciate that very much.

I am a Customer service trainer

I help out at a greenhouse and at a farm a couple days a week.

I don't think i work exactly. Personally, I have always striven to build businesses and i reinvest profit in ways that now pays for me to actually live life less self centeredly. Every employee job I have ever had resulted in my own laziness and inefficiency; both for my employer and my family. I came to a certain point where i began to realize that there are bigger problems in the world than "financial security" (which is a joke in our day anyway) and i personally feel that everyone actually ought to be "unemployed" and smart in a simple way about it. If more of us were to see through the current employment system, taking care of people who can't work would actually become easier too. Kind of a difficult problem though since this would mean we would each have to actually "grow up and get a real job". But i think the problem here is a general oversight of the fact that there is a broken world out there that's calling.

Instead of thinking about "calling my list of job opportunities", i have tried to (as simply as possible) answer the call that's right in front of me. I guess i've made a career out of the needs around me, and though it came at personal cost, it also came with personal reward too. I also know that is hard to embrace though. I've struggled to provide for a family of six children for the last 15 years and its not easy to take risks. But instead of being "safe" and hiding what makes you actually enjoy life, why not see, even theologically, that we have a will for one reason, to glorify God.

I've always been curious how a will can do that when it spends most of its time hiding in the shadows of financial security of a "job" where the biggest risk you take is a personality conflict or an accounting error or misreading a blueprint. It always bothered me to think what was behind the curtain in my definition of "financial safety" or "security".

But now I'm starting to o feel a little preachy and i don't want that so I have a question:

what in addition to a "busy schedule" do we do for anyone other than ourselves and our own "kingdom"?

Personally, that's where I struggle to answer and see Gods vision for the "short" time I have to live and apply myself. So what's the call on you?

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I help out at a greenhouse every monday and a farm every tuesday and friday.

I was in retail management for most of my adult life. Now I work at a large financial institution.

Nice thread idea, and some interesting reading. In retrospect, I see a common theme in my own life:

>Jet mechanic in the AF. But I moved to "material"...er, "materiel support", where I watched over tools and chemicals instead. I liked paperwork and accounts better.

>Security police in the reserves. Carried a machine gun watched the planes land. Did a lot of training until we were activated, then went off to Kuwait and Saudi. Lay in a sandbag palace and kept my aim on the gate for runners.

>Security officer at Sony/BMG. Sent off truckloads of tiny handheld game systems (PSPs) in unmarked trucks worth over 1mil at a time. Lots of paperwork.

>College; went in for ministry, came out with a degree in business, a wife, and two kids! First things, first I suppose.

>House parent at a youth home. Learned how to shop off of $3 a day/person and live below minimum wage.

Now we are trying to move back home, and I'm looking to start a career with my bachelor's. I feel like I've always been watching and guarding things.

People talk about wearing different "hats," but I envision the tools I've carried: a wrench, then a hazmat mask, then a machine gun, then a clipboard, then a notebook & Bible, then an apron, lol.

I am launching a project that is a decentralized prediction market based on the upcoming Ethereum protocol. Got heavily into cryptocurrency three years ago and I have to say that interest has really changed my life for the better. In the past year I have had the chance to meet some of the smartest people ever and work on something I think is really benefitting things! You can check it out at Augur.net

Apprentice diesel mechanic. I work on buses. I'm trying to go to school for zoological veterinary medicine tho. I want to specialize in big cats and bears.

Pretty much if I could become the Israeli Grisly Adams that'd be cool.

Started a new Christian centered clothing business with fun and inspiring designs: https://twitter.com/BeyondThePinkT

Haha right in my signature! I'm a licensed Florida Realtor and an Entrepreneur with my own clothing line.


Love what I do, couldn't imagine myself doing anything else. In both jobs I make it a mission to help people and it involves so much creativity!

Personal Banker

I used at be a test pilot from Aifix

Carrythecross said:

I retired last year after I tore my left knee up fighting an industrial fire and became an author. It’s a lot more mellow and safe. I have four novels published and am working on two more

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What are your novels about? Do you have a link to them.

I wrote one a year or so ago, was more a short story. https://www.facebook.com/Freefall-Fiction-Satans-fall-from-grace-867751736652939/ an earlier version of it can be read free at http://www.futureandahope.net/fiction.php

What do I do? Well I am a Website Designer, I build Websites. See my website at http://www.guardianonlinedevelopment.com.au/ I know it needs some work, hopefully (if I have time) I will be revamping it.

Been driving trucks and heavy equipment for the last.22 years and two week ago I was call in the office and I was told I was being fired for (falsifying time sheets ) willful disobedience. I did not get unemployment and i am not sure a appeal will work.
I ineed to work but i i just cant handle the emptiness of being alone anymore.
Helping people is my passion. So i am praying about it and seeking goods will for me. I have no clue how i can doit but I really would like to study to be a chaplain. At 44 it is intimidating. but i really. i don't have any clue where to start. I Will make if it his will.

Carrythecross said:

You may have discussed this before, but I’m the new guy and would like to get to know all of you better. What do, or did you do for a living? I’ll start.

I was a firefighter/paramedic for over 24 years. I started out as a volunteer on a rural fire department. Rural volunteers are often looked down on by the “professionals” but we wore all of the hats. Fire departments are comprised of engine companies, ladder companies and apparatus engineers. Engine companies or “truckies” deploy the hoses and fight the fire. Ladder companies do the search and rescue for trapped victims and Apparatus engineers pump the water through all of the different hoses maintaining the volume and pressure needed. Friction loss builds up as more hose is deployed and they go up different stories.
It is very difficult for the ladder crew to tell the pumper what they need, you are wearing three layers of clothes and very thick gloves. Your mike is clipped to your collar, but you have a mask on supplying fresh air. You fumble for the mike, try to find the button, depress it and say, “This is hose team two, I need more pressure!” Meanwhile, you are crawling through pitch black. It is nothing like the movies. Visibility is zero, temperatures at the ceiling are around 1,800 degrees.

On the floor, where you are crawling blind looking for victims, it is around 300 degrees. You go by feel alone and your ears. At some point, all of the substances in the room are giving off flammable vapors and the entire room will ignite at once in what as known as a flashover. Right before this happens, your ears start burning through your Nomex hood and ear flaps. You follow the hose back out. If you are more than ten feet into the room, you aren’t going to make it.

Meanwhile, I was a paramedic making calls on gunshots, stabbings, car wrecks, child births, heart attack and other assorted calls. I retired last year after I tore my left knee up fighting an industrial fire and became an author. It’s a lot more mellow and safe. I have four novels published and am working on two more.

So, what do you do for a living?

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Former high tech PR Consultant and author/editor (20 years).

Now Iconographer.