• Welcome to Religious Forums, a friendly forum to discuss all religions in a friendly surrounding.

    Your voice is missing! You will need to register to get access to the following site features:
    • Reply to discussions and create your own threads.
    • Our modern chat room. No add-ons or extensions required, just login and start chatting!
    • Access to private conversations with other members.

    We hope to see you as a part of our community soon!

What do you do for a living?

Jainarayan

ॐ नमो भगवते वासुदेवाय
Staff member
Premium Member
IT (IBM iSeries aka AS/400) systems administrator. In IT almost 40 years, at this company almost 22 years. I shoulda become a cop. :(
 

viole

Ontological Naturalist
Premium Member
After doing retail most of my life, I decided it was time for a career change. Imagine someone my age getting into the medical field, but that is precisely what I did.

For a little more than a year now, I have been a CNA at a nursing home. I find the job to be satisfying because I am helping elderly people who cannot properly take care of themselves. I figure I will continue to do this until I retire.

What is it that you do for a living?

Applied Mathematician. Mainly financial stuff for financial institutes here in Switzerland.

Ciao

- viole
 

sun rise

The world is on fire
Premium Member
I started out in college studying chemistry. Then due to various circumstances, it was the 60's, I switched to psychology thinking I was going to be a counselor. And of course, like many others of the era I wound up with computers first as a programmer and later as a systems administrator for Unix machines. My last decade was being a tiny part of online banking for a major bank.

Now in my retirement I mostly do volunteer IT work and help out with video production where my detailed IT mind is at home.
 

robocop (actually)

Well-Known Member
Premium Member
After doing retail most of my life, I decided it was time for a career change. Imagine someone my age getting into the medical field, but that is precisely what I did.

For a little more than a year now, I have been a CNA at a nursing home. I find the job to be satisfying because I am helping elderly people who cannot properly take care of themselves. I figure I will continue to do this until I retire.

What is it that you do for a living?
I take my pills and stay out of trouble. But I've recently realized how important it is to work, so I'm trying to work harder now. (I worked a lot in 2018 for pay).
 

exchemist

Veteran Member
I'm retired after 33 years with Shell, in a whole series of different jobs and locations but all in the lubricants business. Before that I trained to be a patent agent, but stopped before the exams - too little pay, too much tedious law.

Now I bring up my teenage son (my wife having died), look after the house, see my aged father in his nursing home, help him to write his memoirs and manage his financial affairs, and sing in two choirs.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
And I even volunteer for an organization that hands out rescued free food and clothing without checking to see if they are deserving or not. What could be more socialist than that?
Call them "Comrade" while serving?

Btw, I actually pay dues to volunteer.
It seems that I haven't thought this thru.
 

MikeDwight

Well-Known Member
Starting my 3rd year with Firehouse Subs, Hearty and Flavorful. Drop in for Jamaican Jerk Turkey. Did Accounting for College had a year as a payroll clerk, wheres my paycheck?! Going crazy over 10 years over the Current, Current, correct stance of Alabama toward itself.
 

Milton Platt

Well-Known Member
After doing retail most of my life, I decided it was time for a career change. Imagine someone my age getting into the medical field, but that is precisely what I did.

For a little more than a year now, I have been a CNA at a nursing home. I find the job to be satisfying because I am helping elderly people who cannot properly take care of themselves. I figure I will continue to do this until I retire.

What is it that you do for a living?

Well, I'm retired now, but I did a mid-life career change just like you. Like you, I worked in retail for many years. I switched to commercial refrigeration, where I stayed for nearly 26 hears. I eventually found myself at a large research hospital in Houston, Texas, Lots o esoteric equipment to entertain myself with.
 

ginaGH

New Member
when my father stopped working, he became interested in cryptocurrency. Now he is trying to earn his first bitcoin. :)
 

Wu Wei

ursus senum severiorum and ex-Bisy Backson
truth be told, I am the official, self-appointed, pick-a-nick basket inspector for RF....

picnic-basket-inspection
 
Top