The Conservative Cave
The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: Dacabeti on January 28, 2013, 04:22:12 PM
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I know there is an introduction thread, which helps the older people get to know the newer people, but I don't want to rad through a few years of back post. SO I thought I'd ask here. I hope I'm not breaking the rules.
After I got out of the Army I went to school to be an Electronic Engineer. For years I worked for the largest Biomedical device Company in the World. I worked mainly with DNA sequencing and Genomics. I have helped some of the foremost authorities get published. I did design work for about 4 months before I realized I hated it. I soon went out to the field. I worked my way up the ladder to being the Region Field Service Manager before leaving for a Japanese Company in MN. I am currently the Director of International Field Service for Central, South, and North America. I work for a subsidiary of Fujitsu that specializes in Electronic Kiosk. 1 of every 3 kiosk in the world is a PFU kiosk. We are currently working on a small start-up called Digiboo.
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A Klondike bar ??? Hell no !!!
I'm a Schwans food salesman !!! Got my own ice cream ! :whistling:
http://www.schwans.com/
Grew up on a dairy farm and milked cows until 2004
drove truck OTR for a year
Went to work for Schwans Food in 06 , and been there ever since , other than a short stint as a Ford/Lincoln car sales ..
Ran my own gun shop , specializing in "Assault Weapons" , until the first AWB ...
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I work for Vandaly Industries as an Importer and Exporter and I have a part time gig as a back up Chippendale's dancer. Haven't got any calls for that gig yet though. :-)
Sadly my real job is much less interesting, I am a Groundskeeper/ Maintenance tech/ anything under the sun that needs done guy at an apartment complex.
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I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate,
A poet, a pawn and a king. :-)
I am a rhythm analysis technician at a local hospital. I sit in a room for 12 hours and watch heart rhyhms, and make sure no one dies. I'll have been here 5 years next month.
Before that, I was a paramedic for about 8 years.
Before that, did a myriad of jobs.
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Not working right now but looking. I have worked retail for a few years after I got out of the Army between 1989 and 1999. Then worked at a local recreation center that was co located with my National Guard unit for two years 1999 to 2001. Then I worked for the guard for a time off and on till I got hired to work as a security guard in 2003 for a condo filled with rich people in Omaha and then I got fired along with all the others that had worked there for years because the new building manager was an idiot and didn't want any of us around and replaced all of us with friends of his.
Then I went to work for a security company for over seven years 2004 to 2012 I left them to find a new job and worked in training for a day for ESPN customer service got sick while training and they fired me. Them I went to work selling insurance and started out ok but the sales were not enough so after 5 weeks I got fired from that job. I didn't mind because It' wasn't a career I cared for and it wasn't easy to do. So now I'm out looking for a new job.
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I'm a demo dolly at a software company. My title is pre-sales systems engineer. I'm in no way an engineer. My job is to handle the technical part of a sale (demos, RFPs, technical questions, proof of concepts, etc).
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I was a paralegal at a corporate immigration law firm for about 5 years. Last May I quit that job to go back to school, and I recently graduated with a Bachelor of Science in nursing and I will be starting work as an ICU nurse as soon as my Washington State license comes through :yahoo:
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IT pincushion/punching bag and handholder of people who are better off with rocks and sticks than a computer. I support our national distribution network in addition to two offices and a service garage in my immediate area. I'm a busy guy.
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A Klondike bar ??? Hell no !!!
I'm a Schwans food salesman !!! Got my own ice cream ! :whistling:
http://www.schwans.com/
Grew up on a dairy farm and milked cows until 2004
drove truck OTR for a year
Went to work for Schwans Food in 06 , and been there ever since , other than a short stint as a Ford/Lincoln car sales ..
Ran my own gun shop , specializing in "Assault Weapons" , until the first AWB ...
I have not ever purchased from Shwans, but I could see a truck arose nd here every now and then. Maybe I should.
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I rewind electric motors, big and small, single phase, three phase and DC.
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I work for Vandaly Industries as an Importer and Exporter and I have a part time gig as a back up Chippendale's dancer. Haven't got any calls for that gig yet though. :-)
Sadly my real job is much less interesting, I am a Groundskeeper/ Maintenance tech/ anything under the sun that needs done guy at an apartment complex.
George?
Before I joined the army I worked as a groundskeepers at UC Davis.
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I have not ever purchased from Shwans, but I could see a truck arose nd here every now and then. Maybe I should.
Our home base is up there in Marshall , MN ... I know we blanket that state :-)
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I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate,
A poet, a pawn and a king. :-)
I am a rhythm analysis technician at a local hospital. I sit in a room for 12 hours and watch heart rhyhms, and make sure no one dies. I'll have been here 5 years next month.
Before that, I was a paramedic for about 8 years.
Before that, did a myriad of jobs.
What monitors do you work with? I designed a board for the Philips MP50.
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I started my career, lo these many years ago, as an apprentice draftsman. 25 years, one degree and 4 states later, I'm a mechanical and piping systems designer for an industrial engineering firm that supports the region's mines and oil & gas production fields. In between I have worked as a (civilian) shipwright for the US Navy, done 5 years as a Manufacturing/Engineering Liaison for Boeing, and owned and operated my own freelance engineering support business.
It's been a helluva ride. :popcorn:
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For the past 9 years, I have worked at Walmart. . This is my fourth store and I have done 2 remodels . Before that, i did data entry for 3 3rd party insurance companies, and worked 13 years in the banking industry.
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I went to school to be an electronic engineer but hated math and chemistry, so I thought I would see how many jobs I could do in a lifetime. :-)
I had jobs fixing everything from TV's to computers and computer games (one place distributed casino type games for bars...I was told they were not for gambling :lmao:), money sorting machines, etc,.
Got involved in politics, had political jobs in various county departments, ran for township and county office's, I found out politicians don't take kindly to people with their own mind. :lmao:
Then I decided, as I was aging, to get a job with lots of exercise so I became a mailman.
My wife in the mean time ran afoul of office politics in her career so was booted by some male chauvinists and started her own business which we currently operate (20 years now) to the dismay of DUmmies. :-)
BTW: I'm semi-retired.
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My wife in the mean time ran afoul of office politics in her career so was booted by some male chauvinists and started her own business which we currently operate (20 years now) to the dismay of DUmmies. :-)
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She does drug testing? :whistling:
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I am retired for health reasons. I'm not carbon-datable yet, but getting there.
My background is in accounting. I stayed with it about twenty years too long.
In my other life, way long time ago, I was in the music field. I was too grounded in reality for showbiz, tho.
Thanks for asking. It helps keep my memory on its toes.
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12 years in the Navy (nuclear power, submarines, electronics tech), then got out and worked as a Test Technician/Technical Specialist for Southern California Edison for 7 years. After that, got sick of CA and came to NH where I work as a Senior Relay Technician at a nuclear power plant. Been doing that for 6 1/2 years now.
If people ask me what I do, it's one of those jobs nobody notices until I don't do it, or do it wrong.
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I work for the Dept of the Army, managing disability evaluation cases and counseling Soldiers going through the process. Before I went to work for DA (in reverse order, with some overlap), I caught dirty doctors for Medicare, was an investigator for a law firm, a paramedic, a lawman (spent some of that time working drug enforcement), and a Soldier. I was a flight medic and medical NCO in a Cavalry squadron.
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I'm retired. Over the space of the past forty years or so, I was variously an engineering student, a criminology student, an M60-series tank Soldier and NCO, an infantry drill sergeant, a law student (JD cum laude) with a couple of other graduate degrees, an Army officer (Colonel at retirement), an attorney (Latterly working in military administrative law, federal employment law, and environmental law), gun nut, homesteader, and artist working in graphics and metal. I speak passable German, can read your basic "Poster" Russian but can't process it fast enough to have a conversation in Russian anymore due to a long lack of practice, and have a tiny smattering of Spanish and Arabic.
Oh yeah...and I'm one of those rural, ignorant, uncultured gun-toting hicks the DUmmies look so far down on from their lofty perches.
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Ah....well, I am a Benefits Specialist for a security company. I am that wicked little harridan that forces everyone to enroll in benefits they don't want, and can't afford, simply to turn around and tell you I can't help you with any of your benefit issues, thanks to HIPAA, of course. I spend all my days learning about laws that never go into effect, and answering questions you shouldn't even have to ask. At times, I may be called in to help you with a life insurance claim, or a 401K rollover, but mostly I am strangled by the paperwork that consumes my field.
Fell into it over 20 years ago, and I am good at it, so I stay.
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I'm an occupational therapist and run a rehab department. I also run a few cows in my home area. In the summers I moonlight as a polo groom/exercise rider, and in the winter I do light repairs on rentals for friends and day work on local ranches in my spare time.
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I too, am in the 40+ yr work time... :thatsright:
Currently I'm a Realtor and have been for the last 16 yrs. 5.5 spent in new construction( which involved floor plan and interior design, and working with finishings for specific buyers), 5.5 selling foreclosures (and doing the entire process from the day after the bank gets it back on the courthouse steps) for the last 2 yrs, I evaluate property for major lenders (BofA, Chase, Citi, Wells, Fannie& Freddie among others) for preforeclosure, short sale, foreclosure, removal of PMI or loan modification and some on insurance paid damage repairs. I do drive bys - exteriors - and interiors, both of which if there are damages, I have to determine how much it will cost to bring the house/site to average and market price over a 6month period. I also have worked with investors for the last 10 yrs, for both flipping and rental properties. And close to 300 hours of continuing ed in real estate.
I am also a Customer Care Agent for Jewelry Television. Which is a glorified title for selling jewelry over the phone.
I do the billing for the other half's company, and I'm trying to figure out a way to turn my love for dessert making into a consistent way of making money.
Spent 15 yrs as a very active community volunteer. On the Board of Directors of several organizations: City Ballet, Junior League, Art Gallery, AGAPE(halfway house program for women with alcohol/drug addictions), Florence Crittendon (home for unwed mothers), my kids' elementary school PTA Board, Church womens' group. Also was an active participant in the Symphony League, Knox Medical Association Wives, ran the elementary school clinic for 3-4 years, home room mom for both kids and a soccer/dance school mom.
Have one of those totally useless degrees that y'all make fun of. :tongue: BA in sociology with a concentration in criminal justice, minors in Psych and Anthropology, 1 class short of minors in English and History. Not worth the paper it's printed on, but I'm great at Trivia games. :yahoo:
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High school English teacher
I teach 10th and 11th grade
English II, 20th Century Literature, and British Literature.
On weekends, I'm an adjunct professor at a community college.
I also do SAT tutoring for the verbal sections.
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HVAC tech that started as an oil truck driver at a local oil Co in 1977! I also make fishing rods but haven't sold one since 2008! I wonder why?
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Hospital security guard.
Dream job is to be a firefighter though.
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Many, many years ago, I received a BS in Broadcast Journalism and thought I'd magically become a famous radio DJ or news person. When that didn't happen, I went to work in publishing and was an editor of a division of the company that owned PC Magazine, PC Computing and many other publications. After that, I taught myself technical writing and worked for a telecommunications company writing user manuals, hardware and software installation instructions, etc. Currently, I work for a very large defense contractor on a long term (we're in our second decade) contract for the Army upgrading their entire logistics system from several 1970s-based mainframe systems. The system was fully deployed in 2010 and is one of the world’s largest, fully integrated supply chain, maintenance, repair and overhaul planning and execution solutions. It manages approximately $22.5 billion in inventory, including spare and repair parts to sustain communications and electronics equipment and systems, aviation equipment, missiles, tanks, armaments and munitions. I'm still performing technical writing duties (specs, processes/procedures, plans, you name it) and am in charge of document management.
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Many, many years ago, I received a BS in Broadcast Journalism and thought I'd magically become a famous radio DJ or news person. When that didn't happen, I went to work in publishing and was an editor of a division of the company that owned PC Magazine, PC Computing and many other publications. After that, I taught myself technical writing and worked for a telecommunications company writing user manuals, hardware and software installation instructions, etc. Currently, I work for a very large defense contractor on a long term (we're in our second decade) contract for the Army upgrading their entire logistics system from several 1970s-based mainframe systems. The system was fully deployed in 2010 and is one of the world’s largest, fully integrated supply chain, maintenance, repair and overhaul planning and execution solutions. It manages approximately $22.5 billion in inventory, including spare and repair parts to sustain communications and electronics equipment and systems, aviation equipment, missiles, tanks, armaments and munitions. I'm still performing technical writing duties (specs, processes/procedures, plans, you name it) and am in charge of document management.
Wow!!
Your job seems overwhelming.
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Many, many years ago, I received a BS in Broadcast Journalism and thought I'd magically become a famous radio DJ or news person. When that didn't happen, I went to work in publishing and was an editor of a division of the company that owned PC Magazine, PC Computing and many other publications. After that, I taught myself technical writing and worked for a telecommunications company writing user manuals, hardware and software installation instructions, etc. Currently, I work for a very large defense contractor on a long term (we're in our second decade) contract for the Army upgrading their entire logistics system from several 1970s-based mainframe systems. The system was fully deployed in 2010 and is one of the world’s largest, fully integrated supply chain, maintenance, repair and overhaul planning and execution solutions. It manages approximately $22.5 billion in inventory, including spare and repair parts to sustain communications and electronics equipment and systems, aviation equipment, missiles, tanks, armaments and munitions. I'm still performing technical writing duties (specs, processes/procedures, plans, you name it) and am in charge of document management.
My BA was in tech writing. :cheersmate:
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Many, many years ago, I received a BS in Broadcast Journalism and thought I'd magically become a famous radio DJ or news person. When that didn't happen, I went to work in publishing and was an editor of a division of the company that owned PC Magazine, PC Computing and many other publications. After that, I taught myself technical writing and worked for a telecommunications company writing user manuals, hardware and software installation instructions, etc. Currently, I work for a very large defense contractor on a long term (we're in our second decade) contract for the Army upgrading their entire logistics system from several 1970s-based mainframe systems. The system was fully deployed in 2010 and is one of the world’s largest, fully integrated supply chain, maintenance, repair and overhaul planning and execution solutions. It manages approximately $22.5 billion in inventory, including spare and repair parts to sustain communications and electronics equipment and systems, aviation equipment, missiles, tanks, armaments and munitions. I'm still performing technical writing duties (specs, processes/procedures, plans, you name it) and am in charge of document management.
BEAUTY AND BRAINS! :panic: :panic: :panic: :panic:
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JohnnyYuma, my husband was a Schwan's guy years ago. Is it true what he tells me about the housewives? :naughty: :lmao:
My background is in accounting, and I do financial analysis, currently for a wholesale food distributor. The food industry business model involves everybody billing each other, then billing each other back for everything under the sun. It's a complex tracking mechanism that involves such a minute level of detail, your head would explode (down to a sugar packet with a UPC as long as your arm, for instance). I'm in charge of that for this company.
I cut my teeth and built my career in the paper industry, with a stint in the semiconductor circus.
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JohnnyYuma, my husband was a Schwan's guy years ago. Is it true what he tells me about the housewives? :naughty: :lmao:
Some of them are "interesting" , to say the least ....
Most of my customers are normal ol farm folks and a rather large Amish community ....
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can lurkers see this stuff?
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After working almost 10 years in Information Technology as a SysAdmin at a Big-4 accounting firm, I am now a Datacenter Specialist and the aforementioned Big-4 accounting firm is my customer for the past year and a half. It's mostly grunt work, but I get paid well for what I do.
And if you think it's a pain to call tech support and deal with Indians, try having them as coworkers. :whatever:
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And if you think it's a pain to call tech support and deal with Indians, try having them as coworkers. :whatever:
I had the most AMAZING experience with ATT. My son got his first cell phone 2 months ago. Well texted I think 1 text every minute for most of December. I got the bill and :panic: it was huge! I called ATT and I didn't ask for credit forgiveness just asked if I could change the texting limit or turn it off. I got this American girl, Stacy, and she was phenominal. She told me she was so sorry and she would look into my bill when she had a chance. I got a phone call from her on Saturday and she said that she took off all those texts that my son went over the limit and credited it back to me. OMG! I felt so great, restored some faith for me.
I got a text asking about my satisfaction and I gave her all 10's and then it had me repsond to what made the customer service so great. I told them it was amazing to finally have someone I could understand and not leave me feeling more confused than before I called. I hope she gets something out of it. I gave Carmax dude a raving review and I saw him last week, and he told me thanks. I said "Did you get a raise?" and he said "no, I got this pin". It was a pin that said customer service hero. ::)
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can lurkers see this stuff?
unfortunately...yes.
but no where to move it due to post counts of several posters. only place it could go is to the fight club. :whistling:
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And if you think it's a pain to call tech support and deal with Indians, try having them as coworkers. :whatever:
As a tech writer working with engineers, I have a ton of Indian coworkers.
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In a past life I was a welder building tanks. Water tanks, oil tanks, gas tanks, elevated tanks. That kind of evolved into just welding on several different iron structures and we worked all over God's creation.
For the last 13 years I've been a Realtor. I'm a broker/owner of my real estate business. Right now ... I'm thinking of going back to welding. My kids are grown now (which was the reason I got off the road in the first place ... so I could stay home and be a dad) and I'm feeling the call of the wild again.
I have an interview with one of my old tankee buds to possibly go back into the field building and repairing tanks. I'm kind of excited about it but I have a lot to do to make sure I can keep my real estate office open while I go weld and hang iron. If I can make that side of it work y'all will see me a whole lot less on here.
KC
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As a tech writer working with engineers, I have a ton of Indian coworkers.
Your thoughts on them?
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As a tech writer working with engineers, I have a ton of Indian coworkers.
The primary company I do reports for, is in Utah. Thankfully, the main QC department is there. However, the "first reviewers" are in India. Try explaining to an Indian that just because a house has 2000SF, does not mean it is not a dump!
When I was selling foreclosures, I would have to secure the property, get it winterized, trashed out, etc. I was assigned a house that didn't look bad from the front. Inside was trashed, lots of broken windows (either inner or outer pane, but not both), everything but the tub and a broken up cabinet in kitchen was stolen. It was being used as a crack house and a block away is the projects. The police went with me one time, to "post" the house as being repossessed and told me I was on my own any other time I went back.
I get a call from India, from the guy on the first rung of the REO management ladder. His job was to make sure I was doing mine in getting the house ready to go on the market. He wanted me to board up all windows and broken level doors, leaving access only through the front door and no visibility into the house. I'm responsible for the safety of anyone going into the house. No way was I going to board up the house, with no way to see if anyone was in it, and having some other Realtor, OR ME, go into a house that I had no idea if anyone was in there or not. He and I spent 45 minutes discussing this on the phone. I thought he understood that nothing else could happen to house unless someone set fire to it and he agreed to not board it up. I say thanks and have a good day and he says "you too, Miss Debbie...you get that house boarded up by tomorrow, yes?" :banghead:
I didn't board it up, it sold 2 weeks later and closed a week later, and I never went back to it.
They are very nice people and very polite, but it has to be much easier to talk to them in person than to try to explain some stuff over the phone!!!!
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And if you think it's a pain to call tech support and deal with Indians, try having them as coworkers.
Especially around lunchtime.
Curry is evil stuff... I put it in some of my recipes and started using it almost daily until the BO started. I stopped eating it ASAP.
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Your thoughts on them?
I've never really had any problems; they are usually polite to a fault. I do have some difficulty understanding their speech at times but most of the time, their writing is fine, if somewhat British-centric.
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Retired from GM.
My working life started when I enlisted in the Army in 1970. I was sent to Ft. Huachuca for my AIT where I was trained as a radar tech. after leaving the military, I went to school where I studied data processing. My field of studies included programing in COBOL,
fortran, RPG ll and of course Basic.
I started at GM in 76 as a end user. At the time of my retirement, I was part of a team that made arrangements for procuring all necessary engineering/design materials for new model prototype builds. It was during this time that I developed my great dislike of design Engineers. Anal as a description doesn't do them justice.
I retired in 06 as GM was shedding bodies.
For the last several years, I travel the country officiating for USPSA in major matches. My match fee and room are paid for. Sometimes transportation. if working the Handgun Nationals, my transportation, lodging, food and match fee is paid plus a Per Diem fee.
I shoot in a USPSA match every Sunday between April and December and I practice every Wednesday all year long. I shoot about 2K rounds a month.
I've had the pleasure of meeting/shooting with the biggest names in the shooting sport world.
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What monitors do you work with? I designed a board for the Philips MP50.
Mindray. Formerly Datascope.
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Hmm, I always answer this question with "I mooch off my husband". It wasn't always that way, but when I was pregnant with our first, I resigned from the Army rather than attempt one of those two active duty parent families so en vogue these days. It was 1985 and we were stationed in Frankfurt, Germany, so there was no support system...we lived amongst Germans. Well, I did learn passably fair German despite having acquired my BA in French. I didn't want to teach and since my Dad was career Air Force the military seemed the right way to go. Ugh, spent six years in 2 Armored Divisions, 2AD at Ft. Hood (Bleh) and then 3AD in Frankfurt where I met my wonderful husband.
Besides the Army, I did my three years of college with the work study program in the ROTC department, doing basic office paperwork. I graduated at age 20 and looking back I was in no way mature enough to handle being a second lieutenant that young. Ah well. Who wouldn't do things differently from time to time if possible?
Besides the Army stint, I worked as a pension benefits analyst at the Plumbers and Pipefitters National Pension Fund while my husband was working at DIA and we were living on Ft. Belvoir, VA. I enjoyed working there very, very much, but hubby did not want to retire on the East coast. Being military intelligence, there really are limited job opportunities for his field. So, back to Ft. Huachuca we went. He's been retired for over 5 years now after a 30-year career and he achieved the pinnacle of warrant officer rank and retired as a CW5. Because I have always been somewhat contrary, when we married I was a captain and he was a staff sergeant. Ask me how much I gave a shit about what the Army brass might have done to me-the JAG lawyer I consulted beforehand told me it could mean a court martial.
It's long past water under the bridge. I've carved out my latest niche in life here in Arizona, rescuing animals from various shelters and groups (and my cat Lucy from a dumpster). We have lucky 13 under our roof and it actually does keep my day pretty full cleaning up after them and giving them all the love and attention they deserve. Sometimes I babysit my grandson if he's down from Phoenix, but mostly I keep my local friendly vet in business. :-)
So, compared to all of you who have shared your experiences, my work history is pretty much non-existent. I like to think raising two kids to become productive tax-paying and law abiding citizens while supporting my husband's career has to still count for something. But I will leave nothing much in the way of accomplishments when my life is summed up at the end. And it's hard to feel good about myself sometimes with all the feminists out there insisting we women should do and have it all. :(
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I rewind electric motors, big and small, single phase, three phase and DC.
Do you get an employee discount? :hyper:
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So, compared to all of you who have shared your experiences, my work history is pretty much non-existent. I like to think raising two kids to become productive tax-paying and law abiding citizens while supporting my husband's career has to still count for something. But I will leave nothing much in the way of accomplishments when my life is summed up at the end. And it's hard to feel good about myself sometimes with all the feminists out there insisting we women should do and have it all. :(
Screw 'em.
Not that you're seeking my approval, but... I think women who don't work outside the home usually do so much for the community. Like you caring for neglected animals. I bet you've contributed in countless ways. I also think husbands and children of women who can stay at home have an advantage via the support they receive from that wife/mother.
I only do what I do out of necessity. It was never my husband's and my plan. I do it well, but it's only second best.
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Do you get an employee discount? :hyper:
Sort of. However when my furnace blower motor went out, it wasn't worth my time to fix it. It was much easier and quicker to buy a new one.
Let me guess you have some little motor from a car?
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Sort of. However when my furnace blower motor went out, it wasn't worth my time to fix it. It was much easier and quicker to buy a new one.
Let me guess you have some little motor from a car?
I was wondering what a 144v DC motor went for. I have my eye on a Triumph Spitfire.
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I was wondering what a 144v DC motor went for. I have my eye on a Triumph Spitfire.
I'm guessing that you're talking about something like this.
http://www.evparts.com/products/street-vehicle/motors--dot/96-to-192-volt-street-vehicle-motors/mt2120.htm
That isn't something we normally deal with.
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Two grand!
Prices have really gone up.
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Screw 'em.
Not that you're seeking my approval, but... I think women who don't work outside the home usually do so much for the community. Like you caring for neglected animals. I bet you've contributed in countless ways. I also think husbands and children of women who can stay at home have an advantage via the support they receive from that wife/mother.
I only do what I do out of necessity. It was never my husband's and my plan. I do it well, but it's only second best.
Thanks for that, sweetie. Yeah, it has taken me a long, long time to be basically okay with being "just a wife and mom" ::). Some people have felt very free over the years to act all incredulous about my waste of a college education, blah, blah, blah. I admit I have come up with the I mooch off my husband line as a sorta throwaway defense. I do respect all of the men and women who do work outside the home to provide for their kids. I just wish we still lived in a country where one paycheck could support a family. It's rare these days; the military for all of its downsides at times is still one of the few vocations where it IS possible.
I really feel as though I get more from my animals than I give to them. Unconditional love is so rewarding. And God bless my husband for understanding my need to rescue cats and dogs. I won the lottery when I married him!
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I worked in accounting until my 2nd kid was born. I worked so my husband could go to college. I went back to work for a school district for a little while (in purchasing) in 1997-1998 but then got pregnant again. I haven't "worked" since.
Now I stay at home and spend my husbands money of crafty crap, furniture and male stripper movies on pay per view.
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:rofl:
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So, compared to all of you who have shared your experiences, my work history is pretty much non-existent. I like to think raising two kids to become productive tax-paying and law abiding citizens while supporting my husband's career has to still count for something. But I will leave nothing much in the way of accomplishments when my life is summed up at the end. And it's hard to feel good about myself sometimes with all the feminists out there insisting we women should do and have it all. :(
You are far, far too modest, dear lady.
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You are far, far too modest, dear lady.
Danke sehr, mein Guten Herr Oberst! :cheersmate:
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Was a B-52 crew chief in the USAF then got into the computer business in the mid'80s.
Currently work in IT for an agency in the County of Orange during the day and as a pyrotechnician at Disneyland at night.
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I had the most AMAZING experience with ATT. My son got his first cell phone 2 months ago. Well texted I think 1 text every minute for most of December. I got the bill and :panic: it was huge! I called ATT and I didn't ask for credit forgiveness just asked if I could change the texting limit or turn it off. I got this American girl, Stacy, and she was phenominal. She told me she was so sorry and she would look into my bill when she had a chance. I got a phone call from her on Saturday and she said that she took off all those texts that my son went over the limit and credited it back to me. OMG! I felt so great, restored some faith for me.
I got a text asking about my satisfaction and I gave her all 10's and then it had me repsond to what made the customer service so great. I told them it was amazing to finally have someone I could understand and not leave me feeling more confused than before I called. I hope she gets something out of it. I gave Carmax dude a raving review and I saw him last week, and he told me thanks. I said "Did you get a raise?" and he said "no, I got this pin". It was a pin that said customer service hero. ::)
AT & T has cell phone in bound service call centers in cities like Davenport, IA. I know a few people that work there, it seems that the company takes pretty good care of the employees.
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Retired Army Officer and currently City Policeman and Church Choir Director.
oh, and torch of moral authorityclarity... (****ers)
...and a bitchslap for being nosy.
:fuelfire:
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JohnnyYuma, my husband was a Schwan's guy years ago. Is it true what he tells me about the housewives? :naughty: :lmao:
If you mean horny attention starved MILFS in need of a good shagging then yup.
A few even wrote in to the FB page asking what the policy was on shagging schwans drivers.
Gives new meaning to the term "Special Recipe" doesn't it? :naughty:
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what the policy was on shagging schwans drivers.
Oh my God. ::)
Boudicca, about those rescued animals and keeping the vet in business: I do the same thing. Bless you for what you do, God put you here to do that. I have a very sick cat at the animal hospital now. Not sure he's going to make it or not. He's had a hard, hard life. His tail was squished flat at some point. :(
<--- See that kitten in my avatar getting ready to bitchslap the unsuspecting one for no good reason? He looks exactly like one of my rescues. He's so affectionate, I just love him.
Dutch, I had no idea you were the church choir director. Somehow, that shocked me.
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So, compared to all of you who have shared your experiences, my work history is pretty much non-existent. I like to think raising two kids to become productive tax-paying and law abiding citizens while supporting my husband's career has to still count for something. But I will leave nothing much in the way of accomplishments when my life is summed up at the end. And it's hard to feel good about myself sometimes with all the feminists out there insisting we women should do and have it all. :(
I was a stay at home mom for most of 15 yrs!! That's when I did most of my volunteer work.
My SIL always kind of "looked down" on me because I was a SAHM and she was the big powerful HR exec with Allstate. She got "eliminated" a couple of years ago. They had a once a week housekeeper prior to her not working, and my brother stopped her coming thinking his wife could do what the housekeeper did. :lmao: He wasn't happy when he was the one working and also cleaning up. Seems she told him this SAHM stuff was really hard. :whistling:
If I hadn't gotten divorced when I did at almost 40, I would have continued to be a SAHM.
Never ever put yourself down for doing what you did. Being head of the house and doing pretty much everything it takes to care for the kids and run a household is being an expert in a whole bunch of different fields. Unfortunately, all that work experience doesn't mean shit in the "real" ::) work force. Really not fair.
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Retired from fed service. Stint on AD Army and a bunch of years active reserve. Doing part time merchandising. Volunteering at local ministries for different causes. DIYer around the house and acreage since DH hates doing that stuff.
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Oh my God. ::)
Boudicca, about those rescued animals and keeping the vet in business: I do the same thing. Bless you for what you do, God put you here to do that. I have a very sick cat at the animal hospital now. Not sure he's going to make it or not. He's had a hard, hard life. His tail was squished flat at some point. :(
<--- See that kitten in my avatar getting ready to bitchslap the unsuspecting one for no good reason? He looks exactly like one of my rescues. He's so affectionate, I just love him.
Dutch, I had no idea you were the church choir director. Somehow, that shocked me.
Karin, I pray your cat gets better. I've got another problem with the same terrier mix who was in the hospital for two days after Thanksgiving. He's passing bloody stools and now refuses to eat. I'm waiting for my husband to get here so we can take him in...stupid me let my son take my car for a few days (long story). I guess I ALWAYS need transportation.
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Did the Army for 20 years active duty, first (for one enlistment) as an Army Security Agency cook (big whoop - I had to be careful what I said around the eggs); and for the rest of my career as a euphonium player.
Well, I did other stuff during that time too. Operations (meaning working with requestors for band support and dealing with some pretty interesting people; preparing temp duty docs, flag orders (in Berlin) and all sorts of other stuff); drove a truck, helped out running sound, spent several years running a supply room (two property books), admin stuff, training stuff. Passed the Defense Language Institute exam in German, so I became an MOS linguist as well and while it's kinda rusty now, it wasn't that long ago when I was dreaming in German.
Played two bugle jobs (Taps) in my career. As a low brass player, that was difficult and I fired myself because I didn't do it well. Those guys and gals deserve better than me.
Saw the Berlin Wall come down and it wasn't too long after that when a lot of folks were saying to put the damn thing back up again. I spent almost half of my career in Berlin -- too long, perhaps.
Since retirement from the Army 18 years ago, I've worked in quality assurance in pharmaceuticals, automotive (yuck), and now medical devices where I manage a small group. It's a good way to make a living, but working with civilians SUCKS DONKEY BALLS most of the time. :-)
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Mindray. Formerly Datascope.
I have a friend with Space Labs and another with Nihon Khoden. The NK stuff is pretty impressive. The 12 lead Telemetry BP cuff is amazing.
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I have a friend with Space Labs and another with Nihon Khoden. The NK stuff is pretty impressive. The 12 lead Telemetry BP cuff is amazing.
Whoooosh!!! Right over my head. :lmao:
Boudicaa, prayers up for your terrier mix. :(
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Whoooosh!!! Right over my head. :lmao:
This came up when I Googled Space Lab.
(http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff68/kayaktn/spacelab.jpg)
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This came up when I Googled Space Lab.
(http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff68/kayaktn/spacelab.jpg)
H5
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I have a lifetime of manufacturing, repair, sales & customer service.
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I've been on the tech side of telecommunications for almost 30 years.
Started out in the Army as a Microwave/Satellite operator. I've worked on everything from analog DS0 circuits up through OC192 and DWDM stuff, including IP related systems. Former CCNA.
Currently a field engineer in the cell phone industry.
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Whoooosh!!! Right over my head. :lmao:
Boudicaa, prayers up for your terrier mix. :(
Thanks, sweetie! How's your cat doing?
MacBeth left the vet with a qualified bill of health...he's on three medications and a special diet, which I will keep him on indefinitely. He's quit vomiting and the runs have significantly diminished in volume and frequency.
I just hate it when our beloved animals are ill. The vet clinic people all know me and joke that I should work there at reception, since I practically live there some weeks. I probably COULD get a job there, but truly it's days like today that make me realize I've got my hands full right at home.
I'm still offering prayers up for your kitty and all the other sick and hurt animals out there. Little children and animals both. They are the most vulnerable and so precious.
LOL, I think I shall answer the question re the Klondike bar! I don't do anything for one of those. I'm not a big fan of ice cream. Unfortunately for my hips, I love baked goods. :drool:
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Other than being a professional orthopedic surgery patient for the last 2-1/2 years, most of my working years were spent in the medical field.
My first two jobs included working for a law firm and then for the county in the probation department where I discovered my younger brother was on juvenile probation. Imagine my shock.
I then began work in a fairly large hospital as a radiology transcriptionist. This was when my son was young so I worked part-time in the evenings while my then-husband watched the kiddo. I then moved to a private clinic where I became the transcription department manager.
In 1994, I started my own medical transcription company and did that until Obamacare passed. I then had to close my business because it was going to be very burdensome to buy new equipment and pay even more taxes.
Now, I stay at home and eat bon-bons and watch Jerry Springer between doctor appointments and various surgeries. My husband is happy I get to stay at home and do his laundry and make him dinner, but he's banned me from watching HGTV.
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I currently hold a state pharmacy technician's license and passed an exam for a national certification that makes it legal for me to work in any state.
I work for a large company that everyone has heard of. I moved to Nevada almost five years ago and was lucky to get this job, unemployment is high, the highest in the United States.
After working full time as a pharmacy technician for the first few years, I was given an opportunity to be a "back up tech" and learn the rest of the store operations. It's working out pretty well.
I had no pharmacy experience, they hired me based on my customer service skills, which they really needed at the time. They interviewed over 90 people, and I was Blessed to be the first one hired.
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Was a B-52 crew chief in the USAF then got into the computer business in the mid'80s.
Currently work in IT for an agency in the County of Orange during the day and as a pyrotechnician at Disneyland at night.
My husband was a B-52 radar navigator. It was his first plane. Where were you stationed?
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Other than being a professional orthopedic surgery patient for the last 2-1/2 years, most of my working years were spent in the medical field.
My first two jobs included working for a law firm and then for the county in the probation department where I discovered my younger brother was on juvenile probation. Imagine my shock.
I then began work in a fairly large hospital as a radiology transcriptionist. This was when my son was young so I worked part-time in the evenings while my then-husband watched the kiddo. I then moved to a private clinic where I became the transcription department manager.
In 1994, I started my own medical transcription company and did that until Obamacare passed. I then had to close my business because it was going to be very burdensome to buy new equipment and pay even more taxes.
Now, I stay at home and eat bon-bons and watch Jerry Springer between doctor appointments and various surgeries. My husband is happy I get to stay at home and do his laundry and make him dinner, but he's banned me from watching HGTV.
I think that the pool was what did it.
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My husband was a B-52 radar navigator. It was his first plane. Where were you stationed?
Castle AFB in Northern California. Crewed on G and H model BUFFs
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If they break shit, I fix it.
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If they break shit, I fix it.
You're a duct tape dispenser?
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You're a duct tape dispenser?
:lol: :rotf:
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You're a duct tape dispenser?
If need be.......
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I work for a public health agency of the federal government.
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I work for a public health agency of the federal government.
I'll try to not hold that against you.
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I'll try to not hold that against you.
Thanks. There are a lot of conservatives that work for the federal government. I'm sure that we are outnumbered by about ten to one, but still, there are a lot of us.
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Currently a college student looking for work. I plan on going to National Guard boot camp if possible this summer. For experience and a small income.
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You're a duct tape dispenser?
I'm one of those, too.
Unfortunately, the thing that's broke, is broke so bad, I'm almost out of tape.
I need the company in the north-west to send me a new, improved roll.
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Thanks. There are a lot of conservatives that work for the federal government. I'm sure that we are outnumbered by about ten to one, but still, there are a lot of us.
Only because there's a shitload of Government employees.
Not your fault though.
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Thanks. There are a lot of conservatives that work for the federal government. I'm sure that we are outnumbered by about ten to one, but still, there are a lot of us.
I know. My wife just retired from a Federal job.
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I instruct math for the adult high school at our community college and also run the remedial math lab for the college students
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I am electronics engineer. My background is RF test and measurement (19 years). For the last 5 years, I have been the technical lead on multiple products lines used in radar systems.
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I am electronics engineer. My background is RF test and measurement (19 years). For the last 5 years, I have been the technical lead on multiple products lines used in radar systems.
Of course you have no knowledge of a test facility ENE of 29 palms.
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Of course you have no knowledge of a test facility ENE of 29 palms.
None.
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Well, 9 years today at Wal-Maht!!!! :yahoo: :yahoo:4 stores, two remodels , and a prep inventory later!!!!
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Well, 9 years today at Wal-Maht!!!! :yahoo: :yahoo:4 stores, two remodels , and a prep inventory later!!!!
What's your rank? Sergeant? 1st Lieutenant?
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Well, 9 years today at Wal-Maht!!!! :yahoo: :yahoo:4 stores, two remodels , and a prep inventory later!!!!
H^5.
If it weren't for the folks at Walmart that stick around as long as you have, the store would be a COMPLETE disaster for customers to use.
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What's your rank? Sergeant? 1st Lieutenant?
2nd lt cmdr
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2nd lt cmdr
Hey, that's the same rank as this guy!
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m99y4gTMyU1r9a32bo1_400.jpg)
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Hey, that's the same rank as this guy!
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m99y4gTMyU1r9a32bo1_400.jpg)
And this guy.
(http://images.zap2it.com/images/tv-EP00002846/mchales-navy-5.jpg)
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I'm a Complex Real Property Appraiser for the NYS Dept. of Tax & Finance. I work in the Valuation Services Division, and I appraise electrical substations and water/sewage treatment plants across NYS. Before that, I was a Senior Lab Technician for the NYS Dept. of Health, analyzing water samples for organic contaminants, in the lab that did all of the testing for the Love Canal toxic waste dump in the late 70s.
Before that, I worked in an ice cream plant . . . and before that, I was an Army officer--Signal Corps, though I never saw a signal battalion. I was in two different Armored Cavalry Regiments.
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Started out in the Army as a Microwave/Satellite operator.
MOS 29Y?
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My husband makes super scary guns with super secret technology.
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My husband makes super scary guns with super secret technology.
:bow: :bow2: :bow: :bow2: :bow: :bow2:
:-* to you! O-)
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My husband makes super scary guns with super secret technology.
Can I get one with a compass in the stock?
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Can I get one with a compass in the stock?
Sounds like a Red Ryder BB gun.
You'll shoot your eye out.
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Can I get one with a compass in the stock?
Got an extra $15k - $20k laying around?
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My husband makes super scary guns with super secret technology.
He's gonna send me a couple and let me test them out, right?
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I am a rhythm analysis technician at a local hospital. I sit in a room for 12 hours and watch heart rhythms, and make sure no one dies. I'll have been here 5 years next month.
Guys like you have helped keep my son alive. He has hypoplastic left heart syndrome and goes into dangerously high supraventricular tachycardia sometimes.
Thanks for doing what you do.
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I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate,
A poet, a pawn and a king. :-)
I am a rhythm analysis technician at a local hospital. I sit in a room for 12 hours and watch heart rhyhms, and make sure no one dies. I'll have been here 5 years next month.
Before that, I was a paramedic for about 8 years.
Before that, did a myriad of jobs.
I started having heart problems back in 1998 so they sent a recorder home with me. I caught the fast heart rate the next day and called it in. I was told to go directly to the ER, my heart was beating over 250 beats per minute. They did an angiogram then put some sort of leads up through the same incision through my groin that they did the angiogram with. A tech guy sat there with a wall of switches and knobs and recreated my fast rate. He slowed it down and sped it up, made it skip beats. I thought I was going to die because I had no control what's so ever and was wide awake when he was doing it. They thought before the test I had ventricular tachycardia (bad) but it ended up being supra ventricular tachycardia (not as bad). Is that what you do?
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Got an extra $15k - $20k laying around?
yep, in the mail.
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I started having heart problems back in 1998 so they sent a recorder home with me. I caught the fast heart rate the next day and called it in. I was told to go directly to the ER, my heart was beating over 250 beats per minute. They did an angiogram then put some sort of leads up through the same incision through my groin that they did the angiogram with. A tech guy sat there with a wall of switches and knobs and recreated my fast rate. He slowed it down and sped it up, made it skip beats. I thought I was going to die because I had no control what's so ever and was wide awake when he was doing it. They thought before the test I had ventricular tachycardia (bad) but it ended up being supra ventricular tachycardia (not as bad). Is that what you do?
That's scary BEG. Something like that happened to my mom recently. When she got to the ER, her heartbeat was at 170 beats/minute. She is sure it was higher than that before she arrived. They had to restart her heart a couple of times (at least that is how she explained it). She said she felt like she was going to die.