What field of work are you in?

[clairern 0]

Nursing

[MissStacey 1]

I am a Hairstylist by trade.

Lately I am: chef, maid, dog trainer, babysitter, gardener, chauffeur, teacher, nurse, hostess, and drinker.

[~krakatoa~ 27]

In the midst of the craziness of getting the visa for Ritesh and finding him a good job in IT, I am starting to think about my own job options when we go back - especially in the current market... I have been working in corporate training and teaching (sales/marketing, inter-cultural, and language) most of my life, and I love designing curriculum, actually teaching and working with participants - but am not a huge fan of corporate politics... Luckily, Ritesh will probably not have too many problems finding a good job fairly quickly and we have some money saved, so I am going to take a few months to settle in and look around - 'see what's on the menu' so to speak.

A couple of questions for the forum:

1) What kind of work do you do?

2) What do you love and hate about your particular profession and organization?

3) Would you recommend your profession and/or organization to others?

4) Are you hiring?

Please feel free to add other details!

1. I am a formulation scientist involved in personal care and household products development and patenting. I am new in this field, I used to work in analytical lab, sales and technical dept., and some minor healthcare back home.

2. I love the challenges, everyday there is something new to learn and discover. It is nice to be able to have that freedom to conceptualize a good material and then formulate and create a product (like lotions personal care, and laundry detergents for household research) from scratch. The organization provides support for technical skills & development. The company itself promotes "green products".

I cannot say I hate but what gets me sometimes is the politics there. It's everywhere so I just try to keep myself off of it.

3. Yes, very much. The pay is very rewarding (entry level is $45k-70k depending on previous work exp). The work environment can be challenging at first especially for immigrants like me, but once you adapt, it will be smooth-sailing. The benefits are great. You meet a lot of new people from all over the world (suppliers). You have the chance to travel for conventions, stay in very nice hotels expenses paid by the company of course. Majority of the people in the research facility are nice. In the corporate headquarters, no comment. We had applicants from other states like Ohio, Utah who were all interviewed by teleconference, and personal interviews done here in CA. All expenses like travel fares, hotels, food, paid for by the company.

4. I have to check the internal jobs available. I haven't checked lately.

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1) What kind of work do you do?

2) What do you love and hate about your particular profession and organization?

3) Would you recommend your profession and/or organization to others?

4) Are you hiring?

Please feel free to add other details!

1. IT - infrastructure support, not development

2. I love the challenge. I hate certain aspects of the organization, most people have been around a very long time they're less open to 'new' ideas than they oughta be.

3. Yes. It's a very supportive organization and they pay well.

4. Yes.

[Jamie76 0]

1) Environmental Engineer for a mining company

2) I love most of it. Every day it's something new. With the mining industry booming though, we can't hire enough people in the environmental field, so we are stretched thin.

3) Definitely. It's pretty stable. With countries like China and India needing huge amounts of metals for their growth, mining will be important for decades.

4) Yes

[Ban Hammer 13,334]

1) What kind of work do you do?

2) What do you love and hate about your particular profession and organization?

3) Would you recommend your profession and/or organization to others?

4) Are you hiring?

Please feel free to add other details!

1 - lesbian porn stunt tongue

2 - i love everything about my job.

3 - yes.

4 - yes, but you have to be able to push start a pickup truck with your tongue.

[Nagishkaw 510]

Retired

What's there to hate?

[pnrmbr975 1]

A couple of questions for the forum:

1) What kind of work do you do?

2) What do you love and hate about your particular profession and organization?

3) Would you recommend your profession and/or organization to others?

4) Are you hiring?

Please feel free to add other details!

1. Electronics engineer.

2. Recession-proof. Benefits. I hate the nosy people in the manufacturing dept.

3. Yes.

4. In the research and development dept., yes.

[melusine 5]

Hahaha ! I wonder if i should copy paste some of the answers here lol !

Used to be graphic designer pre-press/website for the last 7 years. But i went back to school last year to get a formation in 3d animation and visual effects wich is the original field i wanted to work with (but i was too early, school in this field in france 15 years ago just didn't exist).

For now i'm just out from school and i am still looking for a job/internship in my newly and shiny new field.

Spirit... i am thinking about learning sailing when i'll get in the US ! I have friends who will leave for a sailing world tour in a few weeks.... that gives idea

[Ms. Squirrel 11]

1) What kind of work do you do?

I am the assistant to the management/ event marketer/ project manager for an international investment bank

Mainly I organise (well, used to before they froze all projects due to the banking crisis) fancy client events, closing dinners, participation of the bank at trade fairs within Europe, all kinds of business off sites. Besides that, I seem to be the spiritual guidance for my boss and his right hand.

2) What do you love and hate about your particular profession and organization?

Don't hate anything about my profession, it's my passion, I love it and would not like to do anything else.

The company itself could be more decisive. Decisions are being dragged out for - as it seems - forever. I wish they would hire more professional people (speaking for the German branch), not people who have no idea about what they are doing (especially back office).

3) Would you recommend your profession and/or organization to others?

My profession - yes, definitely. The bank - in general I would not recommend working for an investment bank.

4) Are you hiring?

Nope, banking crisis

[BishopMnA 0]

1. IT - Initially an SAP ERP Developer...now It Manager

2. Love the constant challenge...but now I'm burned out on the constantly changing IT field...been doing it for about 10 years.

3. Yes, IT is a great profession...its just difficult to stay in for a long time...

4. All companies seem to be hiring SAP consultants perpetually...

Peace,

MarkNAAm

[lazylivn 0]

I'm a paraprofessional in the mental health field. I love it, got flexible hours. My personal nickname for it is Rent-a-friend. Hate writing the case notes...I'm procrastinating them now.

[sereia 0]

In the midst of the craziness of getting the visa for Ritesh and finding him a good job in IT, I am starting to think about my own job options when we go back - especially in the current market... I have been working in corporate training and teaching (sales/marketing, inter-cultural, and language) most of my life, and I love designing curriculum, actually teaching and working with participants - but am not a huge fan of corporate politics... Luckily, Ritesh will probably not have too many problems finding a good job fairly quickly and we have some money saved, so I am going to take a few months to settle in and look around - 'see what's on the menu' so to speak.

A couple of questions for the forum:

1) What kind of work do you do?

2) What do you love and hate about your particular profession and organization?

3) Would you recommend your profession and/or organization to others?

4) Are you hiring?

Please feel free to add other details!

you already know my answers to these questions.. but

1. i'm a chef.

2. i love that i can be creative/artistic and do something that makes people happy! i hate pretty much everything else about it now!

3. i absolutely would NOT recommend becoming a chef to anyone.

4. i'm not hiring. slow industry right now too. definitely took a beating lately!!

[pnrmbr975 1]

Retired

What's there to hate?

That's the best job!

[milimelo 4,477]

Trained dental technician (never did it past my highschool years), teacher of English as a Foreign Language (only did that for 6 months), program coordinator (higher education exchange program) and finally personal/executive assistant. Loved working with college students but that will have to wait.

The new job (which I start in April) is admin support to managers/directors at a big firm - they have offices all over the States.

As far as I know, there are currently 200+ jobs opening posted on the website.

Forgot to mention - great benefits.

Edited March 29, 2008 by milimelo