What do you do for a living?

**Pcm** · May-01-09, 05:30 PM

Perhaps it's none of my business, but since day one on this forum, I've always wondered what kind of people use this site.

Are you a professional? A student? Neither?

I'm just curious.

I'll start.

I am a intern [[for one more week, I move into a new position after that) at Communicore Visual Communications in Birmingham.

K. Now YOU go!

**douglasm** · May-01-09, 05:33 PM

Retail merchandiser. What's that? Well, you see coupon machines in stores? Dora and I install them. And floor ads, and shopping cart ads. And I rep a fresh and frozen chicken line. And a couple of other grocery type merchandising jobs.....

**BirdWoman** · May-01-09, 05:51 PM

I'm an ornithologist -- I run the Rouge River Bird Observatory at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. I first started on this list when I was working on a breeding bird project and looking for folks who knew of locations that had nesting Ring-necked Pheasants!

**Linda from Detroit** · May-01-09, 06:26 PM

At the moment I'm on a hiatus from the University of Kentucky. My husband has stage 2 bladder cancer [[next Friday they are removing the bladder and a few other parts). Up until now I've been a Jill of all trades. I worked at AT & T in Plymouth, Michigan as a LD/OVS operator. Prior to that I was in the insurance industry as a commercial property and package underwriter in the Ren Cen. After the AT and T job, I did an about face and went to work at a facility for mentally ill patients and loved it. I am now in my second year of psychologist/sociology training while I am a part time administrator for a residental care facility. Actually, I would prefer psychiatric nursing, but I have 3 fusions in my cervical spine and would not be able to do parts of the physical training that is in the basic nursing. Oh, well, that's what happens when you get old and still keep wanting to do something different!

**ombili** · May-01-09, 06:47 PM

I am currently a graduate student at WSU in counseling, with only one semester remaining for completion. I also work full-time in Southeastern Michigan as a workforce development professional.

Sludgedaddy · May-01-09, 07:16 PM

I currently have a joint venture with some of the Amish in Michigan's Thumb growing medical marijuana. We call this enterprise: Beards, Bread and Beyond.

**DetroitPlanner** · May-01-09, 07:32 PM

I sell size 15 shoes to midgets.

LodgeDodger · May-01-09, 07:48 PM

Education's my game. I freelance as an automotive writer.

**Mama Jackson** · May-01-09, 08:11 PM

Linda in Detroit "My husband has stage 2 bladder cancer [[next Friday they are removing the bladder and a few other parts)."

I hope he does well, and recups quickly. That has to be so hard on you two, best wishes for you both.

diver1369 · May-01-09, 08:15 PM

civil servant

**Zimm** · May-01-09, 08:20 PM

I'm work in sales for a credit repair company [[we're reputable, not fly-by-night scammers) and will be going back to school in a week and a half.

formerly of the advertising media planning industry, but those jobs are more gone than jobs on the Big 3's lines...

**Blueidone** · May-01-09, 08:23 PM

Currently own my own secretarial/bookkeeping business. Have been office admin at various companies for over 30 years.

Linda from Detroit...will keep your husband [[and you) in our prayers.

**cycledetroit** · May-01-09, 08:28 PM

I have been a full time professional nanny/household manager for 8 years. I LOVE my job! Alex, the BF, is a Graphic Designer who works from home.

**Patrick** · May-01-09, 08:37 PM

Security for Morris Day and the Time

**PCN** · May-01-09, 08:45 PM

Teacher with 32 years in DPS.

**spaceman_spiff** · May-01-09, 08:51 PM

I'm a new attorney, of-counsel to a small Detroit firm. I'm currently looking for a salaried associate position, if anyone's hiring...

**n7hn** · May-01-09, 09:43 PM

testing tech, restoring service so all you can use ATM's, internet lines, Alarms, FAA ckts and other essential services. HAte me , Love me, whatever.......

**izzyindetroit** · May-01-09, 10:18 PM

I graduated from eastern a year ago.

Currently work for a community development organization which networks many of the city's community development corporations and their assisting non-profits.

Commuting back to EMU in the fall for a masters in historic preservation planning.

**Mackinaw** · May-01-09, 11:06 PM

student of law.

**grumpyoldlady** · May-01-09, 11:26 PM

Retired..not by choice...but by injury. Former clerical worker for an interstate natural gas pipeline company that WAS based in the Ren Cen before it was devoured by a company out of Texas. Also worked for a number of years for WJBK.

**President Sekou** · May-01-09, 11:31 PM

Law student by day professional porn watcher by night.

**Irvine Laird** · May-02-09, 12:09 AM

I'm a community organizer and partnership development officer for Habitat for Humanity.

**ASR89** · May-02-09, 12:20 AM

I get paid.

**professorscott** · May-02-09, 12:59 AM

I teach classes at University, but you might have gathered that from my handle.

I do a lot of other things as well, but that's the one I get paid for. I'd be quite well off if I could figure out how to get paid for the other shit.

I went through a cancer scare myself last summer, the result of which is that I "probably don't" have prostate cancer, as the doctors put it. We paid a damned lot of money to get to "probably don't". So Linda, you and your family are in my family's prayers as well. The testing to discover that I probably don't have cancer was barbaric enough; I can't imagine what actually having it is like, though I'll probably know someday.

**Hamtragedy** · May-02-09, 01:09 AM

I fix up old houses, mostly south of 8 mile, some historic, some otherwise, but don't limit myself. I'm slammed with work right now, and couldn't be more pleased.