What do you and/or your SO do to earn a - living?

SOUTHERN MOMMY wrote: This may or may not have been a topic it seems like it was.


Before i got divorced i was a SAHM and my ex was a OBGYN. But wow what a life change working and caring for 2 kids is. I currently have 1 full time job and 1 part time job my full time job is driving a public transportation bus for the largest transportation system in my state and my part time job is with the us postal service. I also have 2 small business of my own one is breeding/selling yorkies and i also put on fund raiser beauty pageants usually only 2 to 4 per year but i enjoy that so much i don't make any money from the pageants so it is really more like a hobby for me.

I am just interested in what everyone else does.

mom2tripp replied: Right now I stay at home with Tripp but soon to be a teacher, DH is a fireman with a local county

Insanemomof3 replied: I am a SAHM and hubby is an Auto Tech

3_call_me_mama replied: I stay at home and also care for a little girl at my house. On the side i do mystery shopping adn audits/merchandising work for a company. I do that generally 1-2 nights a week. it's great casue it pays my car payment adn covers anythign i spend (well sometimes) DH is a systems/network administrator for the Communtiy College Of VT (part of the Vermont State Colleges)

kayla's mama replied: I'm a bank teller wishing to be in medical billing again DH is a grocery dept manager at a local grocery store.

moped replied: I am an engineering technician for an oil & gas co. and DH is a mechanical drafter and a stay at home daddy to Jack!

PhiMuMommy replied: Right now i'm going to school full time and working part time (i'm also taking care of my mom who can't work..) My SO is in another state.. but alex's father works full time at lewis bakery (when he isn't suspended or injured) ...

PrairieMom replied: I'm a full time SAHM, but I also work part time as a respiratory therapist. Dh owns a web design business.

coasterqueen replied: I am a business manager for a non-profit association. I wear many hats from meeting planner, political action committee fund manager, legislative aid for our office, business manager, accounts payable, accounts receivable, etc, etc, etc. I could go on for ever. That's what happens when one person and an executive director runs a non-profit. The other lady in our office runs our hotline.

Dh is an electrical engineer for a nationwide company.

A&A'smommy replied: Hey well I work part time with community education doing just basicly whatever and my dh is the network administrator for our public school system.
Where is your husband a doctor at?

SOUTHERN MOMMY replied:
My EX is a Dr at UAB.

coasterqueen replied:
Is UAB a university hospital? I've never heard of that. Sounds like your jobs are a handful huh?

A&A'smommy replied:
oops sorry i meant your ex not really sure what I was thinking there

SOUTHERN MOMMY replied:
Thats o.k. Do you know where UAB is? You are in alabama ain't you?

Yes, UAB is a university hospital.

A&A'smommy replied:
yes UAB is a medical school they have a great hospital too

A&A'smommy replied:
yes I do know where its at

SOUTHERN MOMMY replied:
His is stressful i'm sure of that i lived wiht the man almost 7 years.

Non of my jobs are really what i would call stressful i actually love all of them. The part that is stressful to me is working all the hours i work and doing everything for the kids too. It is way better than it was it seems like i am getting the hang of it now.

MyBlueEyedBabies replied: I am a SAHM and Dh is a Police and Fire Dispatcher and a full time Student. Hopefully when he graduates in October he will get a better paying holiday off kind of job

huggybugboy replied: I am going to school and student-teaching, making NO money. DH designs roof trusses at a local hardware store.

jacobsmama replied: I'm a nurse at obgyn I love the work but hate the long hours and I only work part time since I had Jacob...I also am working from home now too for a group called 4pointmoms..Soon enough I will be able to stay home full time..DH is a Welder at local RV manufactorer.

mummy2girls replied: I work with kids .... mostly disabled....

amymom replied: I am mostly a stay at home mom. I take care of my MIL, who does not need much care. I work for a temporary agency filling in at various jobs. I also sub at the school for teacher's aides and clerical work. I am looking for FT employment and being picky about what job I will accept.

DH is self employed as a distributor of books and gifts. He does small displays in offices and returns a week or so later to deliver any orders.

MommyToAshley replied: Most of you already know this, but DH and I run our own business. We do programming, web design, develop custom web applications. We do a lot of online database work.

And, my other full time job... I am Mommy to Ashley.

MyBrownEyedBoy replied: I am a full time clinical lab scientist. If you ever have your blood drawn in a hospital, it is someone like me who runs the tests. But I work 7 days on and have 7 days off so I am also kind of a full time SAHM when I am off. I love my schedule. Best of both worlds if you ask me.
Aaron is an attorney. Just made partner, but we have yet to see the money roll in like we expected.

moxee24 replied: I am a SAHM to my DS and PATIENTLY( i think ) waiting for the arrival of baby #2 ( any day now) and DH is a Welder

CAMSMOM1 replied: Hello!
I work P/T as a Supervisor at an after school program for children grades K-6th. I have 60 students enrolled, and 5 staff working under me. Our program is on site at a local Elementary school. It's a great program, before and after school, and since it's on site at the Elementary school, convienant for the parents/students. I looooove my job working with kids! I've been doing it for 5 years now, and I like supervising. I still get to interact with the children, but get paid enough so I don't have to get a 2nd job. I also get all the holidays off the children/school's do, so I'm off for 2 weeks for Christmas break. I have every holiday off, paid, that's a huge bonus! When I'm not working (in the mornings) I stay at home with my son. Best of both worlds!
My husband is working for a national automotive repair shop. He's been the manager there for 3 years. He works a lot of hours, but I get my car worked on for free! Which has been good, because my last car was a lemon! Thank God he bought me a new car!
I eventually want to finish school. I am almost done with my Child Development degree. I'm just not sure what I want to do with it.
So that's me!

Hillbilly Housewife replied: well, one year ago - I was a legal assistant for several lawyers, 2 of which were stationned out of office. One in another part of Canada, and oone in Washington - the other 2 travelled almost weekly to the Northwest Territories.

and DH was a burger flipper.......

Today - I am on mat leave. I first went to school in nursing - I barrely stayed one month in the course, before I was asked to work as a coordinator for a management team that runs this and other old agwe homes... but now wjem I go back to work, I will be doing reception at this centre (where i live) 2 days a week, and leisure activities the other 3 days a week.

DH is a materials and installations technician... nd is on emergency call one week out of 2. Now what his job emtails, I'm not quite sure... he does everything from fixing a computer (he's a degree in Computer engineering) to unclogging a toilet to dismantling amd remantling office furniture.

Jamison'smama replied: I am primarily a SAHM but I work part time as a family counselor and actually teach parenting classes on Sundays. I am a social worker and I have worked primarily in the domestic violence field but now I work with general family issues.

Until Friday, my DH was the Director of the ID card program at the major university here, as of January 3rd, he will be Vice President of a Fort Worth company specializing in computer services.

MamaJAM replied: I'm a SAHM - DH is a software engineer

Boys r us replied: Well, for the last almost 8 years, I've been a financial advisor at a large Bank. On Friday, I began training for a new department within the same bank, where I will be making decisions regarding people's accounts behind the scenes, never dealing directly with the customer..which is a GOD SEND!

I also have my Real Estate License, which I basically only use for our own personal gain b/c my DH and I buy and sell investment houses on the side and instead of paying out 6% to a stranger, that money stays in our pockets with me acting as the agent for us.

My DH is a smart cookie and is microsoft and Cisco Systems certified(well he's lacking I think one of the cisco certs..which he will probably never have b/c there are only like 4,000 people with this certification) and he runs the IT department at General Electric (G.E.).

and like I mentioned, we do investment houses on the side.

punkeemunkee'smom replied: I am a SAHM. My husband and I also own a truck dispatch company(small right now but growing) My husband hauls cattle for a living~it is a very hard but cool job! I have a small craft business as well (more fun for me than acually make any $$$ ) and I homeschool Tay...we are busy but I LOVE it!

TANNER'S MOM replied: I am a manager in a truck brokerage firm. I do everything from billing to windows on any given day though. I do gripe about my job as does everyone else..but I really do love it too. Around here we say.. It sure beats the chicken plant.

My DH is welder, he works in a large factory. We also have a small farm that I think it cost more than it will ever make. We buy sale and trade horses mostly. We have some cattle... very few these days

And he also welds and does farm work for other people and area farmers.

mckayleesmom replied: My husband is a Recruiter Trainer for the Army right now...in about six months he will be a Station Commander. Im a sahm.

mom21kid2dogs replied: I am a SAHM for at least one more year to Olivia. Then I'll likely return to my passion of 22 years~post adoption services at the public children services agency I previously worked for.

My husband is an attorney specializing in real estate & probate. He teaches Real Estate Law at a local college as well.

CantWait replied: My official title is Project Assistant for Adult Programming and Deployment for the Military Family Resource Centre where I live. All this basically means that I help (or am suppose to, I do it all) plan programs for adults in the community (knitting, reading clubs, scrapbooking, cooking), as well as reception duties, and working with families whose loved one is deployed overseas (that's the only reason I took the job).

It's much different then what I thought it was going to be.

DH is in the military.

~Roo'sMama~ replied:
What kind of work do you do for them? Do you like it? I have been looking for a good thing to do at home that isn't too time consuming but it's so hard to know which ones are trustworthy.

I am a sahm, and Dh is working in the customer service dept. in a factory.

3xsthefun replied: I'm a SAHM and DH is a Mechanical Technician.

My2Beauties replied: I am an HR Specialist for one of the largest healthcare corporations in the US, I work in the payroll deparment here for over 17,000 employees. My DH is a railroad conductor with CSX.

MomToJade&Jordan replied: Well I'm a SAHM and my DH is in the Air Force.

Kaitlin'smom replied: I am an Associate Agent for and Insurance Company. DH is a IT contractor at Imas. I also have a second job I am a wardrobe person for The Human Race Theatre CO....basicaly I dress do quick changes and laundry for shows..I LOVE that job. Its so fun, sure hectic sometimes but a blast.

My favorite job is caring for my daughter.

Sarah&Mackenzie replied: I am the office administrator for a Potato Farm (we raise potatoes that are turned into potato chips) I do all the accounting work and office work. My DH is a Foreman for a road construction company.

jcc64 replied: I am a senior stylist for a textile design company in NYC.
Dh is the IT guy and operations manager for a small investment company.

5littleladies replied: I'm a SAHM and hubby works as a cutter in a glass plant-freaks me out all the time.

mysweetpeasWil&Wes replied: I am a SAHM and DH is Director of Land Acquisitions and Entitlements for a national home developer.

C&K*s Mommie replied: I SAH, go to school p/t. Chris works about 60hrs/wk selling cars.

~Kellie~ replied: I'm a SAHM...DH is a high school Algebra II teacher

My3LilMonkeys replied: DH works in a paperback book plant. The work he does varies week to week as he is trained to do several different jobs. BIG perk for me though is that we get free damaged/misprint (most of which are just little things like pages are crooked by a cm or the cover is bent ) books before they even reach the stores!

I work for a husband and wife who own 3 businesses. Unfortunately this does not mean I get 3 paychecks!

The 1st is an office building, 3 rental properties and several timeshare/vacation homes that I do A/P, A/R and tenant relations for.

They also own a small personalized calendar business that I do a lot of data entry work for, mainly in the 4th quarter.

And the biggest business is an in-hospital baby picture business that I do payroll and reporting for. I am also trained in most other aspects of the business and serve as the main backup for the customer service, photo printing, HR and scheduling departments.

Maddie&EthansMom replied: I am a SAHM and my DH is a GSM at a Ford dealership.

Our Lil' Family replied: I am a SAHM and DH is a FT paramedic until tomorrow. He will go PT and go to PA (Physician's Associate) school full time for 28 months starting in January!

dolfinrse replied: I am a secretary for the local county and dh does heating and air conditioning (Right now he is on worker's comp, he fell off a ladder 2 mos. ago)

MommyofTwins replied: I am a Lab Technician and my husband is an X-ray technician. Weird...

redchief replied: For most of my adult life I've been a full time plumber. When benefits started being reduced in the 90's I took a PT EMS job, which became FT in order to meet the requirements for benefits. So today I'm a full time Master Plumber and a full time EMT. I also work part time as a county fire academy instructor.

DW is a cafeteria assistant at local elementary school. While the children were young she worked part time in the plumbing office as a file clerk, but was mostly SAHM.

TsurugiButterfly replied: Prior to the baby being born, I worked at The Home Depot in their merchandising department. Mike works on their overnight freight team. (No, we didn't meet there... we actually met when we both used to work at a Mobil On-the-Run, hehe) I'm in the process of just trying to find some sort of work, even part-time, preferably in food service, as someday I intend to go back to school for culinary arts.

CosmetologyMommy replied: I am a cosmetology student and I work on Sundays as an assistant at a salon I plan on working at part time when I finish school and DH is an HVAC(Heating,ventilation and air conditioning) tech and some plumbing, dry walling and other maintence type stuff at a apartment complex.