American Freepers - What's your job?

[Tomalak]

Free Republic has something of a reputation in many circles as being home of raving mad fanatics or rednecks like Cletus from The Simpsons. What always strikes me though is how smart, thoughtful and well-read the average Freeper is. It's not just compared to the stereotype, but to almost any news forum. Take the forums on Democratic Underground or The Guardian. You'd expect the Liberal Elite to be out in force there. But all you really see are morons who can't reason or think or handle argument.

So I want to know a bit more about the average Freeper. What job do you have? How badly wrong is the stereotype compared to what you acually are?

[ArcLight]

Reporter for a rather well-known newspaper in the US.

[DollyCali]

Job progression

Naval officer

Taught school (high/college) 10 years didn't fit

Owned commercial real estate co 10 yrs- lotsa $$$ - no good vibes

Grad school/seminary/ordained

Hospice/Hospital Chaplain - worked w/aids & cancer patients..... 3 years - very poor/very fulfilled

NOW: (10 years) taking care of invalid mom & several other aunts/uncle. NO PAY...all poor. Take care of our own. No govt help. The American / dolly way


(YES I AM THAT OLD)

Future: who knows but it will be great.

Nice thread/nice idea. I am new to Freepers for about a week...

[Mrs. P]

Registered nurse with BSN, quit work a few years ago to start a family. I had worked mostly in ICU and emergency departments for 15 years. Now I'm a 'stay home' mom who is never home....

[Born Conservative]

It's actually kind of fun being the only conservative in the building. One of my favorite activities is to take people to lunch at the shooting range. I have created at least a dozen gun nuts on campus.

I've converted a few liberal doctors myself. They just LUVVVV to shoot my SKS!

[petuniasevan]

I work in a folding carton manufacturing facility.

If it wasn't for Free Republic my brain cells would wither away due to lack of use!

[poorman]

Truck Driver for a paper company - spot trailers and move trailers across town.

[freedumb2003]

You should be getting praise all over the place!

Listen to Dr. Laura -- she'll be a great counter to any of the "working (i.e. selfish) Moms" criticism that might be levelled at you.

Working Moms bred Gangsta rap, Columbine, and the brats pulling people out of cars in SF in "Peace" rallies.

There is a book out there with the title "the myth of the 2-income family" or something similar. It demonstrates that essentially, by the time you subtract the marginal costs of the second spouse working (and I think that it can be either gender) -- car, gasoline, working wardrobe, restaurant lunches and dinners, hired child care, etc. -- the net is very very small. The idea of "self-fulfullment" is more important to many than the idea of "doing the right thing by your kids" or "ensuring your values are instilled into your children."

Hang in there and know there are a lot of us out there who support you.

btw: My mother was a single mother of 7 as a result of my Dad's selfish separation from the family. I know first-hand how difficult it is to be a single Mom and know that it hurt my mother through her whole life that she had to work and could not provide the support she felt we deserved. She died young, in her early 60's.

The important thing is that she didn't CHOOSE the single Mom route, nor did she do anything immoral to result that way. And she taught all of her children the importance of values and moras and passing those on.

Stay strong and hug your kids next chance you get.

[dansangel]

Training Specialist for billing and collections software - train all new hires to national corporation's headquarters.

[dansangel]

This is a fun one if you care to participate.

[Focault's Pendulum]

I put the Braille bumps on the drive thru MAC machines.

[andysandmikesmom]

My primary job was wife and mother, glad to spend my time at home, caring for my two boys, and making a wonderful home for my wonderful husband....

Once the boys were gone and on their own, went to work as a Health Care Worker, primarily in nursing homes...I love to take care of the senior citizens...you can learn so very much from them...

The hubby is retired military, and now currently working at the trusty post office, loading and off loading postal trucks on the docks in the middle of the night...I know there are those, who love to boo the postal service, but my hubby works so hard, works long hours(11hours a day), and he does his best to make sure that the mail moves along swifly and efficiently....

He retires from the post office in two years...then we plan to close up the house, jump into the RV, and spend our retirement living in the RV, seeing this great country...and we will keep driving until we drop dead, or until the family decides we are looney and need to be committed...

[RobFromGa]

I work for several rock video producers.

When the female singers need their nipples tweaked so they look super attractive in the videos, they call me in at the right time and I have special tools that get them to stand at just the right angle and protuberance. There are only ten of us and I am the only one from Georgia.

The only bad part is they don't pay anything/

[Tijeras_Slim]

Anyone have a DU account? Please set up a thread asking the same question and see what they say.

You get banned at DU for having a job.

Slim's been a bicycle mechanic, prison warden, and now a scientist working on cool stuff. Pretty good for a philosophy major. :)

[dansangel]

:-)

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Freep mail me with what your major was in.

I was manager of International Accounts until we were bought and our new owners decided to shut down the sales department and I was laid off. Found a job as administrative coordinator of quality control,(read glorified secretary) not my dream job but it was work. Worked there seven months and was asked to help out in HR off and on. Business picked up and I was then offered a job as Human Resource Manager (bilingual).

Still not quite sure how it all happened but I am having a ball.

[Hobsonphile]

I know I'm a little late to this...

I am currently a student studying speech pathology in Worcester. I graduated from the College of William and Mary with highest honors, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa.

How's that for busting the stereotype? ;)

[Henrietta]

Attorney, practicing in the areas of business law and estate planning

[Vigilantcitizen]

"When the female singers need their nipples tweaked so they look super attractive in the videos, they call me in at the right time and I have special tools that get them to stand at just the right angle and protuberance. There are only ten of us and I am the only one from Georgia."

I hate to bust your bubble, Rob, but there are more than one of us here in Georgia. Tell you what, you get east of the hooch and I'll take west...; ^ )>

[Vigilantcitizen]

Thanks for the ping, hon.

I program and operate a CNC(computer controlled)router or woodcutting machine for an exhibit/museum/themed enviroment fabrication company. Actually, I'm just a paid tool.