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tnitnetny wrote:For now, I am an insurance agent. I just got married and will be moving to Ontario sometime in the next year, so when my Visa comes in, I will be looking for a new job.
Ooohhhh!!! Where to?? I'm living in Toronto now! :) Maybe we can meet up for a quilting date and you can sew circles around me! I've only made one quilt top but I'm very anxious to keep learning! :D I have the material for my second quilt already bought! :)

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I am moving to London. It is about 2 hours from Toronto, but you never know. You may decide to come down and play with my machines one day. ;) I do have the professional quilting machine and an embroidery machine after all.

I should move sometime between November and January. But I should be coming up an hour here and there to work on his house, move stuff up, and get ready to move up. Maybe we could get together for lunch in Hamilton or something.

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Everyone has (or had...) such cool jobs!

I've worked at a major retailer (customer service supervisor) for a little over 5 years, while I work on my BS in mathematics teaching. Graduate in December, and hope to move on up to teach in high school. :)
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I don't have a very exciting job. I'm working as a customer service advisor in a call centre for a "consumer imaging company" (i.e. printers, scanners, cameras, etc.). I just troubleshoot the printers, faxes and scanners.

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I am currently working as a Lab Technician for a large winery. But my favorite job was the one before this as a Wildlife Biologist for an endangered rabbit and rat doing environmental impact reports. I had to move on since the government didnt think bunnies needed money anymore :cry:

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JokeOFaRomantiic wrote:Currently I work as a 'cake decorator' at a grocery chain. I use the term 'cake decorator' loosely because decorating cakes (the whole reason I took the job) is only about 2% of the job. The rest is doing the production of everything else that has frosting on it...

Before this, I was the assistant manager at GameStop, worked at a couple of Dairy Queens, was a secretary at a driving school, and worked at RadioShack.

I'm also in uni for Website Programming and Development. What I would love to do is work from home, doing freelance web development. And making cakes. :3 I'm getting there though. Getting married April 14th, and future husband is getting promoted at work (hopefully, had a first interview today).

tnitnetny -- congrats on getting married!!
Oh wow! We've got something in common! I'm currently a cake decorator at Walmart myself. Cupcakes are the bane of my existence some days.

I was unemployed for a few years while I recovered from cancer but before that going backwards from most recent I worked in a local pizza shop near my college, was a manager at a Dollar General, worked in the office of a small grocery store, worked in a deli, took incoming calls for the junk you see for sale on tv, was a night receptionist at my college, worked in the campus library, worked at a local used bookstore, concessions at a movie theater, and did balloon decorating for events.

Now that I look at it, I'm all over the map. lol
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Everyone has a way cooler job than me. I am currently a training consultant in the banking industry but I've been a shift supervisor at a bakery cafe, a supervisor at a now defunct bookseller, a "sandwich artist" at a sub shop (and likewise barista and smoothie maker in the extension to the shop), a cashier at both a toyseller (specializing in - go figure - the video games section) and an also now defunct "big box" store. The best part of all is just how many science and engineering degrees everyone seems to have. Add me to the count for that - I actually have a BS in Geological Sciences. Got burnt out towards the end of college and decided not to pursue the Master's but the calculus level math earns me cred.
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Currently I work as a personal assistant to 4 lawyers and a law graduate (yes 4 lawyers). I also own and run my own cake business.

In the past I've worked at supermarket chains, a clothing store and Virgin Music.
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I work in the circulation department for a newspaper. Boring stuff really. I run a few reports, do some light customer service, enter some new accounts, and oversee and coordinate our news in education program. Booooooooring! But it pays the bills...

I wish I had a cubicle with high walls like my coworkers (mine are low, no privacy at all, it blows) so that I could keep a crochet hook and a ball of yarn in my desk for my "down time"... which I have a lot of.

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I am a PHP developer. Right now I'm making medical billing software.

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