texasgirl
Master Chef
Accounts Payable.
What do you do for work?
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navywife
Cook
Nope. One of the few who doesn't!
He's a nurse.Have you seen the next generation of prowler? It's called the Growler. Suh-weet!
Nope. One of the few who doesn't!
Have you seen the next generation of prowler? It's called the Growler. Suh-weet!
My hat's off to him. Give him a great big hug for me.
Andy M.
Certified Pretend Chef
Mike, that puts you in my age bracket. One of my jobs while in collage was working in a plant that made punch cards.
Callisto in NC
Washing Up
My dad used to work with the punch cards. He worked on computers bigger than my house and now has to call me to fix his PC. I remember going to his work and playing with the punch card machines.
LOL - first thing I ever programmed:
Hated having to track down the burned wires on that bakelite board to "debug" a program!
Data entry (what CRT?)
A database was a stack of punch cards - and we didn't need no stinkin software to sort data for us ... we had these puppys!
Unfortunately, the Navy didn't want me for my programming abilities back in 1967 ... so I went medical for 20 years ... worked back into biomedical engineering (computer/med lab equipment interfacting, real-time data acquisition, analysis) - then back into full time programming (some legal, some mortgage banking but mostly soil/concrete dam engineering). Won a couple of awards from the Corps of Engineers for creating a LAN version of what would be the WWW a few years later - under DOS 3.0.
Currently - unemployed.
Hated having to track down the burned wires on that bakelite board to "debug" a program!
Data entry (what CRT?)
A database was a stack of punch cards - and we didn't need no stinkin software to sort data for us ... we had these puppys!
Unfortunately, the Navy didn't want me for my programming abilities back in 1967 ... so I went medical for 20 years ... worked back into biomedical engineering (computer/med lab equipment interfacting, real-time data acquisition, analysis) - then back into full time programming (some legal, some mortgage banking but mostly soil/concrete dam engineering). Won a couple of awards from the Corps of Engineers for creating a LAN version of what would be the WWW a few years later - under DOS 3.0.
Currently - unemployed.
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HMGgal
Senior Cook
Wow. Interesting thread. The stay-at-home-grandpa cracked me up. I work, then take care of the grandkids after work. They are 2 and 1/2 and 6 months. Yikes. For my "real" job, I'm an adapted physical education specialist in the public school system. I do the the P.E. and remedial movement programs for k-8th graders in 25 different schools in my district. My students run the gamut from severe multiple disabilities through the autism spectrum, etc. I take all my equipment to at least 5 schools a day. It's exhausting, but I get my own workouts in at 5:30 a.m., then hit the ground running until I fall into bed at 9.
qmax
Sous Chef
Nope. One of the few who doesn't!
Have you seen the next generation of prowler? It's called the Growler. Suh-weet!
My company builds the the Growler.
My wife is a nurse, too.
Synchronicity.
punkrawkchef
Assistant Cook
I am a personal chef.
LOL - first thing I ever programmed:
Data entry (what CRT?)
A database was a stack of punch cards - and we didn't need no stinkin software to sort data for us ... we had these puppys!
We made our own program cards!!
IBM 360? My first "computer" job was in Data Entry. We had card punch machines as well as a mini computer.
Next I was a main frame operator. Kept in shape mounting and dismounting tape drives and tending to printers the size of a small car.
Now I run batch jobs on a main frame from a remote site. Now I am out of shape, technology stinks!!
prep school teacher and personal chef for a small clientele
I am happiest in front of my class in discussion of a novel or in front of a professional range making my food dance and sing.
I am happiest in front of my class in discussion of a novel or in front of a professional range making my food dance and sing.
GB
Chief Eating Officer
My dad did the same thing and I remember going with him to his office and playing with the punch cards too. My dad has been in computers forever. My mother was actually one of the first private citizens to use email. I think it was back in the 60's, but I could be wrong. Her first email was a recipe
GB
Chief Eating Officer
I work for a company that makes and sells 3D printers. People never understand what I mean until I show them a model of something that has been printed out. The example I always give people is you know how car companies when they are designing a new car make a model of it out of clay so they can see what it will look like? Well they do not do that anymore. Now they use a 3D printer to print out a model of the car and all the parts.
GrillingFool
Head Chef
Book and ephemera dealer, mostly on ebay.
GB
Chief Eating Officer
navywife
Cook
My paid job is mental health therapist and I am on the front lines with 14 adolescents. Sounds tough, but its a great job. They are so much fun even though they are working on stuff.
My unpaid jobs include first and foremost, wife and mom, website mod, manager of ball teams, chief cook and bottle washer, and senior support to my mom.
My unpaid jobs include first and foremost, wife and mom, website mod, manager of ball teams, chief cook and bottle washer, and senior support to my mom.
getoutamykitchen
Master Chef
Full time mom to the most awesome young man in the universe, wife of the most caring, hard working husband in the universe, full time caregiver to my 82 yr. old mother with dementia and part-time photographer.
marigeorge
Senior Cook
A retired claims examiner. 
