[Tomalak]

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[bazbo]

Started my working career as a deli clerk after graduation from high school in 1969. moved up to deli manager then bought a Pepperidge Farm bread and roll franchise. Sold the franchise after 2 years at a nice profit and became Assistant Director of Sales for Goodwill Industries and left that to work in a machine shop for Loraine Crane in Chattanooga Tennessee. At the age of 27 enlisted in the Marine Corps reserves. After boot camp at Paris Island was assigned to an artillary unit in Chattanooga, TN (155mm howitzers) while working at the crane manufacturing company. In 1981 Loraine Crane Co. decided to move back to Loraine, Ohio and at the age of 31 I went active duty marine. My first enlistment was as a euphonium player in the marine corps depot band at San Diego recruit training depot. I re-enlisted for avionics and after a year of intense training was assigned to VMA-533, Cherry Point, NC where I worked on the avionics equipment aboard the A6 Intruder aircraft. The squadron was attached to the USS John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier and I did a mediterranean cruise patroling Mohamar Khadafi's "Line of Death". After being injured aboard the carrier I left the corps and went to work for what was at the time Lockheed, now United Space Alliance as a tile technician. After 9 months I posted for a job in payloads where I installed payloads in the shuttle's payload bay. After two years I moved on to Environmental Control System where the temperature, pressure and humidity were controlled within the PCR, (Payload Changeout Room) and the Shuttle payload bay while it was at either pad A or B. In the mean time I attended Barry University and in December of 2001 received my BS degree in Information Technology, (computers have been a hobby for me since 1969 when I typed RPG code into a keypunch machine for the then state of the art IBM model 360/20 mainframe. After obtaining the degree I moved up to Computer Science Staff and loaded software in firing rooms 1,2, and 3 for shuttle launches. Next, I moved on to Desktop Services and 8 months ago joined the IT Security team. I am currently attending University of Miami's Master of Science in Management of Technology program and at the age of 52 am looking forward to at least another 20 productive years. Thanks for asking and may God continue to guide and direct our leaders...

[Mustang]

Oh...I forgot to answer your question.

My name is Emanuel Labor and I work in the fields all day!

[AmerRepb]

Planner

[Nita Nuprez]

Bumpity-bump.

[Objective Reality]

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.

Well, there's a self-evident mouthful, eh?

I think the Liberal Elite are online somewhere, but the DU Administrators Lounge ain't it. DU is run by people whom, had Gore prevailed, would have been tasked with uploading pictures to the Tipper website, or coming up with snotty graphics in furtherance of the "Ostracize The Boy Scouts" campaign, at best.

As time goes by, I'm almost moved to a semblence of pity for the DU and its dismal minions, in the same way I was moved to pity for Gollum's character in The Two Towers. It's populated primarily by the treasonous and the totally insane (e.g., those who openly hope U.S. troops get nerve-gassed by the Iraqis, or that the Russian Navy will open up with a tactical nuclear weapon on a U.S. aircraft carrier, with no provocation whatsoever), with few-and-far-between beacons of rationale who get routinely consumed, Langolier style, by the general populace. Those who survive the first few mass maulings from their comrades invariably get driven equally insane - I mean, good God, look at poor Will Pitt; the guy self-publishes a vanity press interview with Saddam's whore, and now he fancies himself the liberal P.J. O'Rourke, for Chrissake, despite producing just unbearably wretched prose.

As for the status of Liberal Elites there, I've seen at least a dozen likely candidates get driven away and excoriated as being one of us, merely for offering some rational observation along the lines of "um, I don't really like Bush's tax agenda either, but that doesn't really warrant a comparison to Hitler..." I have to wonder which of these were actually, say, George Mitchell, or Mario Cuomo, or who knows?

Personally, I would love to read an actual Liberal Elite bulletin board, but I imagine you'd have to have attended several $1000/plate dinners before you'd even ear of such a place online, and that it would be secured with biometric (thumb or retina scan) authentication.

[CFIIIMEIATP737]

Flight Instructor

[DeepInEnemyTerritory]

Social Security Administration, Customer Service Rep

[WFTR]

I'm a corrosion/materials engineer at a petrochemical plant. My academic background is BS in Materials Engineering from Virginia Tech ('86), MS in Metals Science and Engineering from Penn State ('88), and MS in Chemical Engineering from Tennessee Tech ('99).

[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....

[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.

[dansangel]

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

[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...

[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