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BouncyBoo -> RE: what does everybody do!? for a living/job?.. (1/13/2014 4:33:59 PM)

Essentially I lead a team of two (including me) in researching and maintaining a global tax calendar and a 'family of forms' template-thing. It's pretty cool in a nerdy-random-way.



slavekate80 -> RE: what does everybody do!? for a living/job?.. (1/13/2014 8:14:58 PM)

I'm a cocktail waitress, and I may be starting a second job as a dancer part-time next week. I got an offer of employment contingent upon some paperwork and the paperwork hasn't gone through yet, so I won't know until the end of the week whether I have the second job or not.



mketom -> RE: what does everybody do!? for a living/job?.. (5/14/2014 3:04:33 PM)

Retired Navy Working Private Security



BecomingV -> RE: what does everybody do!? for a living/job?.. (5/14/2014 4:19:07 PM)

Oside, I like your posts. I'm truly sorry about your illness, but that's not fair. If someone here says, I'm an Olympic runner - one who presumably felt joy doing it, they are naturally going to feel sorry for someone without working legs, because they know what others are missing. That feeling is about their passion and joy and a magnanimous heart that wants others to feel all of that, too. It has nothing to do with whether the person without working legs actually wants to run.

While this may be an area of sensitivity for you, I think the poster meant you no harm at all. I also think some posters are reacting to the word, "insult." That's intellectual, distant and ego-related. Really, we'd all have to shut up completely if we were to avoid insulting others, ever. Too much diversity to achieve that. I think a more understanding response would have come if you'd used the word, "hurtful." The heart, people respond to.

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ORIGINAL: OsideGirl

I own a small corporate travel management firm and a leisure travel agency.


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ORIGINAL: LorraineCA
MisterP61, you are absolutely 100% right! I feel sorry for any woman who didn't experience Motherhood.


As a cancer survivor who cannot have children, I always find that attitude insulting.



OP - Jill of all trades, including:
soda jerk
stagehand (carpentry and electric)
sexual assault/domestic violence counselor
media/public relations for a parent/child association
human rights activist
elder care and child care
sailing crew - 1st mate
phone sex actress
writer
and more... LOL, I follow my fancy.

To those who question how people afford things... not everyone lives 9 to 5, or works as an employee to accumulate money. Some are born, or become, independently wealthy. Investments. Inheritance. Lotto. Savings. Barter. Marriage. Insurance payouts from accidents or court cases. Finding treasure - like a rare coin or postage stamp. Lots of people do not work for a living.

ETA - I don't consider parenthood to be something done for a living.



MissKittyDeVine -> RE: what does everybody do!? for a living/job?.. (5/14/2014 4:51:56 PM)

I get where Oside's coming from, I think. I'm child-free, but for far less dramatic reasons than Oside. And I wouldn't be too impressed if someone tried to pity me for not having children. It's like saying that we are incomplete women or people. And for anyone who would have loved children but couldn't, it must be incredibly hurtful to be pitied.



BecomingV -> RE: what does everybody do!? for a living/job?.. (5/14/2014 5:10:20 PM)

"Feel sorry for" and "pity" are two different things. Pity involves not respecting the pitied. Feeling sorry for someone, means your heart goes out for their loss, and respect is present. I read that post as the latter and I think two women here took it as the former.

I finished reading the thread and it says to start a new one to continue this, so I'm out.
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ORIGINAL: MissKittyDeVine

I get where Oside's coming from, I think. I'm child-free, but for far less dramatic reasons than Oside. And I wouldn't be too impressed if someone tried to pity me for not having children. It's like saying that we are incomplete women or people. And for anyone who would have loved children but couldn't, it must be incredibly hurtful to be pitied.




Derangedsuka -> RE: what does everybody do!? for a living/job?.. (5/14/2014 5:54:32 PM)

I am in my third year studying business administration, a mother of 3 kids and a volunteer at a homeless hostel.



thompsonx -> RE: what does everybody do!? for a living/job?.. (5/15/2014 8:14:54 AM)


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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

I am a gigolo.


We know that but what do you do for a living?[;)]



thompsonx -> RE: what does everybody do!? for a living/job?.. (5/15/2014 8:25:54 AM)


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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

Mag....even I know that my chances of getting a blowjob on this thread now have vanished.


Quitters never win and winners never quit...have you considered lowering your prices?



Greta75 -> RE: what does everybody do!? for a living/job?.. (5/15/2014 8:41:54 AM)


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ORIGINAL: thompsonx
Quitters never win and winners never quit...have you considered lowering your prices?

I thought gigolos are paid to do muff diving and not receive blowjobs! He gotta pay his client for blowjobs!



thompsonx -> RE: what does everybody do!? for a living/job?.. (5/15/2014 8:54:47 AM)

Fr:
I used to work as an "enforcer" for my uncle but I gave that up for the lucrative profession of door to door anvil salesman.



SeekingTrinity -> RE: what does everybody do!? for a living/job?.. (5/15/2014 11:05:09 AM)

Becoming...

You have to understand that LorraineCA was one of many made-up socks of someone with way too much free fucking time on his/her hands. It was all bullshit and "she" didn't really exist. It was all designed just to piss people off and cause drama.



Lynnxz -> RE: what does everybody do!? for a living/job?.. (5/15/2014 11:53:23 AM)

I stick honey and seaweed into extra holes that people acquire.



RockaRolla -> RE: what does everybody do!? for a living/job?.. (5/15/2014 12:34:01 PM)

I'm a baker at a grocery store. I'm responsible for filling the shelves with bakery bread/cookies/breakfast junk/etc.



thompsonx -> RE: what does everybody do!? for a living/job?.. (5/15/2014 1:47:19 PM)


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ORIGINAL: RockaRolla

I'm a baker at a grocery store.


I am looking for a tart[;)]



BecomingV -> RE: what does everybody do!? for a living/job?.. (5/22/2014 1:23:56 PM)

Well, thanks for that information, ST. If that's true, then that was just mean. I must admit to being vulnerable to not recognizing deliberate harm and tend to suspect misunderstanding, instead. It's kind of a nice trait, but it fails me at times like this. So, perhaps the responses to her posts were reacting to a fuller picture, knowing the posts were mean-spirited. I responded to the actual posts, themselves. (Still, I do feel a bit protective of Oside as for years now, her posts have added value to my life. I thought she wouldn't feel so hurt if it were just a misunderstanding.)
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ORIGINAL: SeekingTrinity

Becoming...

You have to understand that LorraineCA was one of many made-up socks of someone with way too much free fucking time on his/her hands. It was all bullshit and "she" didn't really exist. It was all designed just to piss people off and cause drama.




Byronsbayonet -> RE: what does everybody do!? for a living/job?.. (5/22/2014 2:05:45 PM)

Writer



ivone57 -> RE: what does everybody do!? for a living/job?.. (5/22/2014 2:16:49 PM)

im a full time wife ..... I don't work but when I did I worked last at cingular wireless in the call center for years and before that years and years as a manager at McDonalds... now its disability



KMsAngel -> RE: what does everybody do!? for a living/job?.. (5/23/2014 3:40:09 PM)


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ORIGINAL: Byronsbayonet

Writer

funniest post i've seen in ages.[:D]



chatterbox24 -> RE: what does everybody do!? for a living/job?.. (5/24/2014 4:22:42 AM)

I have friends who choose not have have kids they rock! It simply doesn't matter. Being a parent is extremely demanding and until you experience it yourself omg you just don't know yikes....Calgon take me away days.
I am an unemployed nurse by choice right now. Full time cook maid taxi driver bill payer pool woman and disciplinarian and crazy person.



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