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Q&A: Your Career
Just curious....if you don't mind sharing...
Industry:
Title:
Brief Description:
Do you like your career:
Best/Worst Part about it:
**if you're a stay at home Mom that is ABSOLUTELY a career so please also respond. Same goes if you're a student! Though it's not a career, you're busting your buns, so let's hear about what you're studying for!**
Re: Q&A: Your Career
Industry: Law firm
Title: Desktop Application Analyst II
Description: Our team handles all of the implementation, testing, packaging and deployment of applications to everyone's desktop. We also get to tell attorneys, "sorry, you cannot have itunes on your work laptop" and there's nothin' they can do about it!
Do you like your career: I do!
Best/Worst Part about it: Best - I'm motivated and challenged/Worst - don't know yet. I've only been in this role for 2 weeks.
My passion however is photography. My goal is to (one day) do that full time!
Finally...we are Mr. & Mrs.!!! WooHoo!!!
Planning Bio
Married Bio (Work In Progress)
I love hearing what all of you actually do while nesting away during the day!
Industry: Medicine
Title: Student
Brief Description: I study all the time and rack up ridiculous amounts of student loans in the process. Three more years and I'll be a doctor of some sort.
Do you like your career: Most days, but not if you ask me before exam week or when I get loan statements.
Best/Worst Part about it: Best: it's always what I've wanted. I love medicine and I know I won't be bored with my career once it gets started.
Worst: I miss going out with friends all the time during school because I'm stuck in my office with my laptop. We don't get to have a life most of the time.
Industry: Politics
Title: Operations Coordinator
Brief Description: I work at a political non-profit and do minor IT stuff, some accounting, HR, and office management.
Do you like your career: Yup!
Best/Worst Part about it: I love that I am working for something that I believe in and that I believe makes this country better. The worst part is that I don't know what the next step for me to take in a few years is. I still don't really know what I want to be when I grow up.Industry: Beverage production
Title: Human Resources
Brief Description: I do all the hiring, drug tests, orientations, pay the state employee tax witholdings, reconcile other insurance statements, employee counseling, write ups, terminations, unemployment claims
Do you like your career: Yes I love it!
Best/Worst Part about it: Best part is when I hire someone that exceeds our expectations and gets 2 promotions within a year! Worst part is dealing with all the high school BS that still goes on on the production floor and having to terminate someone. Thankfully I have never had to do a lay off because I think that would be far worse than terminating someone for something they knew was wrong.
Industry: Education
Title: Latin teacher
Brief Description: This year I'm teaching 6th-9th grades introductory Latin. I'll have taught every grade from 1st-12th by the end of this year.
Do you like your career: Mostly
Best/Worst Part about it: I love to teach and my passion is Latin, but I was in a horrible job situation last year and it dimmed my enthusiasm a bit. I'm considering going back to school in a year or two so I can eventually teach college rather than primary or secondary.Industry: education
Title: primary reading and math specialist
Brief Description: This particular position is new, so I'm not *exactly* sure, yet! I think I will go into kinder, 1st, and 2nd grade classrooms and do small intervention groups with kids who need extra support.
Do you like your career: Yes.....but after a really bad year last year, I need a school-year that brings me back to it a bit.
Best/Worst Part about it: I work with low-income, ELL students so making a difference in their lives is so rewarding. These kids generally are so appreciative and eager to learn. I love the relationships I have with my students. The worst part is definitely the politics-district, state, and national. Let me do my job and leave me alone!Industry: Staffing/Employment
Title: Recruiter
Brief Description: I try to get people jobs. Mostly in the administrative, legal and HR fields.
Do you like your career: Sometimes I do and sometimes I don't. These last two years have been awful but I'm hoping we continue to pick up business.
Best/Worst Part about it: The best part is when I find someone their dream job and they are so happy they cry. The worst is either when I have to fire someone or I have to tell someone that I can't help them because they don't have the skills my clients are looking for.
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This is NOT my ideal career, this is a job until I get my career
Industry: Navy Medicine
Title: Management Assistant
Brief Description: I basically do all of the grunt work, order supplies, edit documents, create presentations, etc, etc.
Do you like your career: I like some of the people here, but politics just get involved and the work is boring.
Best/Worst Part about it: The best part is some of the people I work with. The worst is politics and whiny coworkers.
My career that I should be in and am licensed and qualified for.
Industry: Education
Title: Prek-sixth grade Elementary Educator
Brief Description: I'm qualified to teach Prekindergarten through sixth grade.
Elementary Educators either teach all subjects to their class or team teach. Team teaching is where one teacher will teach one subject and another teacher will teach the others. The classes switch half way through the day.
Do you like your career: I love teaching
Best/Worst Part about it: The best part about teaching is when you see a child's face light up and they just understand what you've been trying to teach them. The worst part would be behavior issues that arise and have to be addressed.
My Planning Bio
Well... I am unemployed. I went to school for 4 1/2 years to be a teacher, but with the stupid economy I have no job and school starts in a week and a half... soo.... yea... but I did start a photography business and hopefully that will take off.
Industry: accounting
Title: audit associate, CPA
Brief Description: I work for one of the Big Four acct firms auditing private companies to make sure their financial statements are properly stated. It basically involves working 60hr/wk and having no life.
Do you like your career: I like accounting, but I despise my current job.
Best/Worst Part about it: Best - The only good thing is I get paid. Worst - I get treated horribly, horrible benefits, and tons of unpaid overtime.
Bio updated 8/6/10 with a few pro pics
Industry: Broadcasting
Title: Reception/Sales Assistant
Brief Description: i answer the phone, enter customer orders, update databases, help customer with stock questions... and more but thats it in a nutshell
Do you like your career: i wouldn't call it a career... but for the most part i like it.
Best/Worst Part about it: best part is its a great company to work for. they pay well and offer great benefits to their employees. they treat us great. worst part is that i really don't like dealing with the phones and that there really isn't an opportunity to move up in this company.
Industry: Private international school
Title: Sports Medical Advisor
Description: I watch sports and take care of all the injuries when the students get hurt.
Do you like your career: Yes, I get to watch sports and be outside as my job!
Best/Worst part: best is lots of good time off! The worst is that it can be some LONG hours!
Industry: Benefits Outsourcing
Title: Human Resources
Brief Description: Hire, fire, chat, internet surf, make wedding invitations all day.
Do you like your career: No. I fell into it and it's not my dream. Working on my dream right now.
Best/Worst Part about it: Best - I finish my duties quickly (most days) and have time for other things. Worst - I feel like it's pointless, I waste time and am getting/giving nothing.
Industry: Education
Title: pre-K teacher
Brief Description: This will be my first time teaching older kids. I have previously taught 2-3 yr olds. I am really excited and looking forward to the challenge. I get to get the kids ready for kindergarten, which is really important to me. I love kids and they are my passion and joy.
Do you like your career: Yes, I just wish I could my teaching license and get my Master's degree like I was in the process of before moving.
Best/Worst Part about it: the pay (I work at our church, so it is pretty much minimum wage bc they look at it as ministry/service to the church & community), discipline issues, picky & annoying parents - sometimes this may be worse than the pay part. But I do know I have a good group of kids this year, so that should help a bunchIndustry: Parenthood
Title: Domestic Engineer (what the life insurance lady told me its really called hahaha)
Brief Description: I live life every day with my 4 year old & 2 year old. I do it all, the raising, the teaching, the play groups, the Dr's appointments, the housework, and general crap around the house.
Do you like your career: Its not a career thats for sure. I do like it. Its great to not ever miss anything in my childrens lives. All the 1st's all the accomplishments the good stuff. Its not personally fulfilling though. Im appreciative of the chance to do it, but I would love to be out in the world working a paid job again.
Best/Worst Part about it: Best- Im here for them for everything from riding bikes to potty training to runny noses. I have 2 beautiful children who are my whole world. Worst- Im lonely. I love my kids more than anything but every single day I think about how much better I felt about myself when I got dressed & left the house every morning. & lets face it, I hands down have the worst pay, paintings, mudpies, & beaded necklaces are beautiful but they dont buy Mommy a new purse.Title: Student
Brief Description: Studying, research, and volunteering and doing all the other good things that will help me get into Grad School. Racking up debt.
Do you like your career: Yes, I really enjoy helping people and figuring out how to help them solve their problems.
Best/Worst Part about it:
Best: I'll have a job that I will eventually love.
Worst: Debt from student loans
Title: Preschool Special Education Paraprofessional
Brief Description: I work with autistic preschoolers as an assistant teacher.
Do you like your career: Yes, although this specific job is not technically my career. I am a certified elementary school teacher, going back to school to be a special education teacher. I want my own classroom so bad it hurts, but I just can't even seem to get an interview. I love teaching and working with kids all day long!
Best/Worst Part about it:
Best: Making a difference in a child's life
Worst: Not being able to find a full time teaching job, but I am at least grateful that i have been able to work with kids since I graduated and not in another field.
Title: Administrative Manager
Brief Description: Gosh, I do freakin' everything in this office! Answer the phones, help the candidates, all the weekly/monthly/quarterly reports, manage everyone's time off, deal with all our vendors/order supplies...I'm the only administrative person at the company right now so anything that's not recruiting ison me.
Do you like your career: Nope. We're about to relocate and I'm STOKED about that. Looking for a job in the music industry, I have some leads in PR and think I would love it!
Best/Worst Part about it: Best: My boss really likes me & my co-workers are nice. Worst: I'm either bored or stressed all the time. Since I'm alone in my department there's no one to back me up, ever.
Industry: Education
Title: Teacher and Athletic Coach
Brief Description: I teach freshman social studies and coach vb and sb and I love my students and athletes. They are teenagers who drive you crazy, but those special moments come along that remind you why you do what you do.
Do you like your career: Yes
Best/Worst Part about it: Best part - kids; worst part - parents who don't have a clue but act as if they do. And, being away from my family and friends. I do feel like I miss out on a lot because of the hours we put in.
Industry: Insurance
Title: Office manager/HR/Admin Assistant (really whoever needs what)
Brief Description: See above. Literally whatever the office needs I handle. I take care of the CEO and COO's schedule. And I'm taking over benefits and other HR duties. Lots of different things.
Do you like your career: Love it.
Best/Worst Part about it: I haven't been in it long enough to have a major complaint. (I've been here since May). Best part, by far the people I work with. Worst part: picking up after slobby co-workers. But like I said, no major complaints.Industry: Education
Title: Special Education Teacher
Brief Description: I am working at a charter school that supports the International Baccalaureate program and houses K-8, so I will be serving all ages and doing my best to help!
Do you like your career: LOVE IT....
Best/Worst Part about it:
I love seeing the kids learn. The moment they understand something you have possibly been working on for a year or even two years and then they finally get it. That is an incredible experience. The hardest part is when you haven't figured out what the best way to help them is and of course the politics that go on in education... they suck.
Industry: Advertising
Title: Department Coordinator
Brief Description: I am assistant to the top two sellers in my office. Right hand to management, Have 3 people reporting to me, And take care of all the office issues Go 2 Girl.
Do you like your career: Paying the bills
Industry: Banking
Title: Operations Specialist
Brief Description: manage all tellers, run the operations and clerical side of the bank, i work directly under the manager and asst. manager.
Do you like your career: yes, it's great. but not what i expected to get into since i majored in film. my passion is photography (which i'll keep as a side job) im afraid if i take it full-time, i'll resent it.
Best/Worst Part about it: you get a lot of crap for things you can't control, sales goals at the bank suck. lol.Industry: Automotive
Title: Warranty Administrator
Brief Description: Process warranty claims, answer phones, schedule appointments, take care of rental bills, run reports, Along with a bunch of misc things.
Do you like your career: Sometimes yes, sometimes no
Best/Worst Part about it: Best- I have my own office ( kinda- file girl is in there a couple hours a day). Worst- I get paid half of what I should, hours can be long, work with some idiots sometimes lol.
Industry: Federal Government
Title: Transportation Security Specialist (Watch Officer)... but just took a position to be an Executive Assistant.
Brief Description: Current job: I sit around waiting for bad things to happen lol. New job: getting things done for leadership.
Do you like your career: Current job: Yes, to some degree, but have a lot of frustrations. New job: hopefully
Best/Worst Part about it: Best: working for the government,, job security, knowing that I am keeping people safe, contributing to national security, some of the people I work with!
Worst: some of the screwups/idiots/incompetent people I work with... oh the lazy ones too.
My Bio Updated 10/6/09 with tons more DIY
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Industry: Juvenile Court
Title: Probation Counselor
Brief Description: Court-ordered juvenile facility. Kids that are in trouble with the court are ordered here by the judge. They stay here until the judge orders them home or another facility. We joke and call ourselves "glorified babysitters", but we are counselors. Assigned to each case as counselors, keep in contact with every person in their case.
Do you like your career: Yes
Best/Worst Part about it: Best: We are counselors, try to help them. Worst: Need a lot of patience. Cannot take the job home with you and vice versa.
Industry: Healthcare
Title: Clinical Lead (Nurse) of a Cardiac Progressive Care Unit
Brief Description: I am responsible for 12 RNs, making sure they are up to date with licensure, education, performing properly. Deal with issues that arise from them as well as the RNs working under me for the day if I am in charge of the unit. I was the educator of the unit before and I miss it...but this is a step up the ladder for my company. The hospital I work for just finished building a new hospital last year - so the unit I came to work on is brand new - no one has ever worked together and then the RNs were told they were going to be taking care of sicker patients...I did all of their education, classroom training, posters, tests, etc. This position opened up and since it was considered a step-up, I took it knowing I probably would not like it because of the opportunities.
Do you like your career: I love nursing. Adore it, I love helping patients and families. I also love educating the nurses, when I get to work I have multiple RNs coming up to me and asking questions, looking for that training - that makes my day. I feel awful the RNs do not have others they can turn to for the support.
Best/Worst Part about it: I had a lot less stress and work when I was doing education - and I make the same as what I do now...Because our unit is going through a transition the RNs are afraid to say they are scared and having 3 bad/challenging ones who call the Union every time I turn around - it is stressful. The other bad part is I cannot be there every minute of every day and the nurses make mistakes - the MDs who I have worked with (on a different unit in the hospital) come to me and are really frustrated. But the best part is seeing the nurses finally getting a concept I have explained to them for the past 8 months and seeing it in real time - love it! I am sticking with the position for at least a year to be fair to the RNs who need support right now - then back to get my NP.
Industry: Healthcare
Title: Nurse Clinician I (aka brand new nurse)
Brief Description: Im a Neonatal ICU nurse. I care for patients born between 23 weeks gestation through post term (depending on their diagnosis & progression, some of our patients have been w us up to 6 months of age) I'm responsible for all assessments, medications, labwork, ivs etc as well as relaying information to the residents & attendings. Educating families is a huge part too.
Do you like your career: I love it. It's strange because I never planned to be a nurse until I started working as a CNA. (after all the awful medical events that have happened in my family, you'd think it was the last thing Id want to do.) I went to nursing school because of the unit I work in and feel very fortunate to have a spot on their team.
Best/Worst Part about it: I love the complexity of ICUs and seeing parents get to take their babies home finally. The worst part is that there is so much to learn & Im still so new that sometimes I feel like I'll never learn it all to the point that I'll be comfortable to be away from my preceptor. I know what Im doing, I just really like having that safety net sometimes lol. The bad days are the worst too-when patients code or die & seeing how it affects the family.
"Everything will be alright in the end. So if it's not alright, it is not yet the end."
"She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time." The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Me:28 DH:28 TTC since 1/11 Dx: unexplained IF/early DOR
Feb'12- Clomid/TI with CD3 &21 labs(normal)& SA-count 6mil/ml,morph/motil OK-BFN
April'12 Ultrasounds,HSG -clear, slight acurate uterus
5/14 IUI #1-50 mg clomid-post wash total motile count 19.3 prometrium 2dpiui= BFN
6/11-IUI #2-100 mg clomid & prometrium post wash count total motile 17.5 = BFN
7/6 IUI#3 with 100 mg clomid, estridiol, prometrium. post wash total motile count 23.3 = BFN
8/30IVF#1 BCPs, Follistim, Menopur,Ganerelix,Novarel.
ER 9/11-8R, 7M, 5F.
ET 9/14 2 embies transferred. 1 10cell Grade 4, 1 8cell Grade 4. No frosties. BFN
IVF#2 BCPs, Follistim, Menopur, Ganerelix, Novarel, Baby Aspirin
ER 12/5-16R, 12M, 8F!
ET 12/10 5dt! 1 fully expanded blast & 1 early blast. No frosties. BFN
2/13- Saline sono revealed a polyp. All additional labwork coming back normal. Genetic screen revealed DH has MTHFR deficiency & I am a carrier for it.
3/13 hysteroscopy & polypectomy
next up-Reproductive immunologist Appt 3/27, cycling in may?
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PAIF/SAIF welcome!
Industry:
Education
Title:
4th Grade teacher (right now, reading and writing)
Brief Description:
I find my job fairly self-explanatory.
Do you like your career:
Yes
If you don't you won't survive past 2-3 years.
Best Part about it:
I've been off since June 5th and I still get paid every month (Oh- and making a difference in the life of a child... blah, blah)
Worst Part about it:
Grading papers
Carter born 5/28/11
BFP 9/27/12 EDD 6/11/13, MC 9wks, no HB