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I'm a mom!
When we got married, we both agreed that I wouldn't work once the kidlets arrived.
H has an interesting job, though - he works at a huge cemetary/mortuary. But, no he doesn't see dead people, only live ones. He's a regional manager for advanced funeral planning.
 
I am purchasing manager for Canteen Corp. a Division Of Compass, the largest foodservice co. in the world. We are the vending side and the largest in the nation. I purchase all the food that we make for the machines. We also have a great catering dept. and we feed the elderly and schools. We are catering the Boy Scout Jamboree in VA. this month. 20000 boy scouts. Ohhh boy.
 
I am here in the brigade system found commonly in hotels:

Executive Chef
Executive Sous Chef
Garde Manger Chef
Pastry Chef
Chef de Cuisine
Chef Tournant
Sous Chef

I basically float between both the restaurant and banquet kitchens in the hotel and run the areas when the department chefs are off or on vacation. I also work with the chefs in menu development, specials, and if one particular area is expected to be busier than the others during certain days.
 
I work outdoors. Where the rest of you go to play, I go there to work. I work on a national forest with the Forest Service. I am a vegetation management specialist (that is the PC version of my title) or a Forester/Timber Sale Administrator (non-PC version). The forest I work on is the Tahoe National Forest in California.
 
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Golly, quite a few of you actually work in the food industry. I don't know why that surprises me, but it does. SierraCook, your job sounds like a great one, if only for the environment. I never wanted to work in the food industry. I just like to cook. I work as Senior Payroll Analyst for a high energy physics laboratory in northern IL. We employ 2200-2500 people from all over the world, so I'm pretty busy. It's a great place to work. We also have 6800 acres of beautiful natural IL prairie and forest, and all of the beautiful wildlife that goes with it. I love to go out for walks at lunchtime to enjoy all of it. Except in the winter...

BC
 
I work at Monster.com. I do some behind the scenes stuff that is pretty specific to this company. I love my job because I get to work from home outside on my deck and that gives me a lot more time to spend with my family :)
 
DampCharcoal said:
LOL! Same for me but I work at a golf club. SC's job is much cooler than mine! :cool:

The best thing about our jobs, DC, is that we get to enjoy the outdoors. Working behind a desk is OK in the winter, but I prefer to be outside in the summer. The only thing I dislike about my job is the insects, especially this year. The mosquitos are so bad that we have to liberally spray each other with insect repellant to keep them away. Our crew people were thinking about getting mosquito netting to put over their hardhats.
 
We saw a show the other day (local in SC, I think). These 2 guys are comedian/fishermen. From what I understood of the show, they get paid to just go fish with different people and tell jokes. Where can I get a job like that? Not necessarily fishing, but wow, the ideas some people come up with, and make money with!

:) Barbara
 
I'm a Sous, we feed about 300 a night and the menu changes every day ( which I love)
 
I just started work as a credit fraud detective as I like to call the position. Basically I recieve paperwork that can range from "Oh the atm didint give me my $20" to "People stole my card from the mail and went on a shopping spree". I have acess to ATM records, security cameras and all that and well I figure out what course of action needs to be taken.


Edit: btw this is either ironic or "a full recovery" since one of my first buisnesses was fencing stolen goods when I was in highschool (besides scamming tourists by "reading their palm or tarot").
 
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DampCharcoal said:
Yep, you just about wrecked this thread, mrsdove. :LOL: The question is, can you cook?

I cook a couple of things very well. Hubby does most of the cooking but I will say that I can bake well enough that you would weigh 300lbs at my house! Lots of yummies and I almost always pawn them off on other people. :pig:
 
I used to be in nonprofit management and health education but am home now (long story but a good ending at least!). I still do a little consulting and grant writing on the side but I'm keeping things quiet until the baby comes in the fall.
 
I am a primary school teacher which i really love. I have 2 kids so I'm a housewife and a mum too I guess!
if anyone has any easy recipes for 30 people to cook together with very little equipment I'd love to have them.
Thanks
Christine
 
I am a word processing operator for a large law firm.....in other words, I am the one to type those nasty longggggg documents that people never know where to sign or what they are signing.
 
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