Nosey question

[Cassiepod]

Senior Product Stewardship Specialist

More exciting than it sounds (honestly )

[Thurston Garden]

Aspiring Market Gardener (failed due to sh*te soil/heavy rain combo)
Pig/Poultry keeper (marginally more successful )
Consultant Surveyor (need money as there's no damn veg to sell)
Part time Archaeologist (new found skill from long term interest!)
House Husband (OH works in the Scottish Parliament full time)
Taxi Triver (OH don't drive )

[the.fee.fairy]

I work for Fedex. I'm an associate Export Clearance Broker. Until something better comes along, or i can get off my arse and save money properly to open my own piercing studio (i've done a year's training, and i've got one course left - when i can afford to do it...),

Until then...i'm stuck in a job that i don't like, one that disagrees with my ethics and treats me as a worker rather than a person.

[eccentric_emma]

not as exciting as everyone else....i work in an off license.


Sounds quite exciting to me.... you get staff discount I presume...

yes the discount is quite good, but i work for a large company so its a bit of a McJob really. luckily my boss is good and lets me get away with a lot, like not wearing uniform on weekends and keeping my piercings in. which strictly is not allowed.

[Chickenlady]

[quote="QuakerBear"]Nine to five I'm a GDB (genneral dogs body)/ office manager / office mother (I have 16 men to look after, just this week I've had to stop one eating things he found on the floor and another from buying drugs on the net).
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Lord - I thought the two year olds were bad! I will stick to the childminding.

[Karen_D]

[quote="Chickenlady"]So...*leans on bar and takes a sip of martini*...what do you do for a living?

[quote]

I'm full time at home now (by home I mean here or at the allotment). We can just about scrape through on one salary and since I stopped being a wage slave we've certainly noticed an improvement in our quality of life - husband too as I can get most things that don't involve heavy lifting done so he can come home and relax a bit after work.

Wassail

Karen

[chadspad]

Im definitely a lady of leisure! I have a 6 year old that Im here to run around to school and pick up at lunchtime. They also have Weds off in France. I cook and clean, tend my veggies, look after my chooks. Other than that I have french lessons and coffee mornings with several different friends. Ah lifes pretty damn good!

Mr Chadspad on the other hand works 5 or 6 days a week.He is a registered gardener. He also builds and installs swimming pools and rennovates houses for the affluent English with homes here.

[ina]

Officially - scientific assistant. In reality - general dogsbody. I do everything from sticking my arm up to the elbow into the backside of a ewe to numbercrunching to making coffee and baking cakes when the big boss comes round... Oh, and telling everybody off for not separating their waste properly and leaving the lights on. I also act as painter and decorator, demolisher of livestock housing, occasional lab assistant, auditor (great! - the opportunity to tell others off yet again! ), general stirrer of sh*te... Somebody has to do it.

And in my spare time I'm mum to two goats and two kittens, not-very-successful gardener (worst year ever!), and constant knitter of socks and other woolly garments.

[QuakerBear]

Nine to five I'm a GDB (genneral dogs body)/ office manager / office mother (I have 16 men to look after, just this week I've had to stop one eating things he found on the floor and another from buying drugs on the net).
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Lord - I thought the two year olds were bad! I will stick to the childminding.

That's really not the worst of it. When they start to play rough and tumble they really damage things. They're big men and they just forget how heavy they are and how easy it is to break furniture and bones. Then when they get angry the obsenities are amazing (and usually related to bottoms)!

I suppose you could say I'm a damage limitation officer/safety enforcer.

One week their favorite game was trying to pour orange juice on each others head's.

[Russian Doll]

im a full time mum..so i do diy, cooking, cleaning, child minding, accounts, and probably loads more

[Clara]

Mama. ´nuff said.

I´m a clinical aromatherapist by trade, though not doing this at the mo (see above ).

[Thomzo]

I'm a Chartered Accountant

Well someone has to do it. And the money makes up for a lot of things. Actually, I quite enjoy my job (apart from the 5 years at Farepak that is). I tend to specialise in acquisitions and disposals of businesses which can be really challenging and interesting. What I don't enjoy is the stupidly long hours that tend to go with this job. That is why I usually do short term contracts. I've just started a 6 month contract which should end in early May. My plan then is to have a few months off in the summer.

Otherwise I am an occasional property developer, decorator, unsuccessful gardner, mum to 2 cats and 5 chickens, card maker. I've also been an interior designer, artist and dance teacher in the past.

Zoe

[yugogypsy]

At the moment, I am a full time isher, trying to keep body and soul together with what I can grow or trade for.

Otherwise, I've been a dishwasher/prep cook in a restaurant and a janitor in another restaurant.

Hopefully by next summer I'll be running a roadside stand here to sell a bit of the surplus for ready cash.

Disability doesn't go far.

Lois

[caithnesscrofter]

right now I sit on my bum with broken bones.

But, a mudmason, do alot of round pole woodworking, general building, gardening, mommying, started making alot of herbal cosmetics/creams/salves which I will be selling locally in the new year, collect, cultivate and concoct my own herbal medicines.

OH is a session bassist and crofter.

[Andy Hamilton]

Co-Writer of the selfsufficientish bible , I sasy writer at the moment it it more of fact checker!

I guess as I write occasionally for a magazine too then I am a journalist as well.

Of course cook, gardener, home brewer clothes fixer and eco cleaner could also be counted in there as at what else I do with my time.