What Was Your Profession In Life

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  1. Hedi Mitchell

    Hedi Mitchell Supreme Member
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    Just a few words on what was your profession in life. Started out as office worker in various types of companies. Last 12 years of working was as a cosmetic advisor for Walgreens. Best job ever !
     
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    Senior systems analyst and project manager for a major petrochemical company.
     
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    Warehouse, shipping/receiving, electronics stockroom, then progressed into purchasing and inventory management. Loved having my own office with computer, filing cabinet and phone.
     
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    @Gloria Mitchell

    My sole "profession" throughout life has been denigration of the "tax man". Taxation is tantamount to parasitism; parasites are the worst things afflicting humanity.

    Frank
     
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    Jill of all Trades, mistress to none.
     
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    Retail, drove Coke truck, managed Hess gas station, Harvester International mechanic, etc.
    Purchasing, Vendor Contracts and Inventory Manager for a couple of decades, CPM certified.
    Business Analyst, Systems Analyst and general business advisor for a couple of decades.

    It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
     
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    Jumping jackrabbits, Johnny, Gloria said, "Just a few words on what was your profession in life." Notice a few highlighted.
     
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    Worked with computers most of life(began in 1958) as programmer, analyst, consultant, contract p/a, motel owner, school bus driver, convenience store associate.
     
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  9. Lon Tanner

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    My first profession lasting 15 years was a Licensed Mortician/Embalmer Funeral Director. My second profession lasting 26 years was a Licensed Sales Manager for Financial Services/Investments/Insurance.
     
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    Worked as a Quality Engineer for various defense contractors.
    Worked as a department manager for a retail department store.
    Owner of and lawn and landscaping business
     
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    First careers =USAF public affairs officer then journalist community papers.

    Subsequent & concurrent careers = psychotherapist, hypnotherapist, adjunct faculty in psychology courses at a medical school.

    Final career = website designer for solopreneurs.

    Retirement hobby = elderotica fiction writer.
     
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  12. Hoot Crawford

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    bagged groceries, then pumped gas and turned wrenches, then metallurgical technician, then Inventory manager (CPIM), then 25 years Accounting manager>VP/Controller, MBA, CPA

    Since I retired I've had a real estate license, a life/health insurance license, and owned a coffee shop.
     
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  13. Ken Anderson

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    • Paper bag machine adjuster/supervisor
    • Paramedic/EMS Director
    • Program Chairman, Emergency Medical Technology at a state college
    • Co-owner of a private ambulance company
    • Web directory editor
     
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    And I forgot that for about 10 years I taught Economics and Finance and a few other courses as an Adjunct Professor at a local university
     
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  15. Hedi Mitchell

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    I was a insurance adjuster for the big IH rigs :)
     
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