What job/occupation do you do?

[Zaria]

Currently I work in the oil/gas industry... a very male dominated redneck mentality workplace.  I can almost guarantee that I will lose my job when I come out.  I have heard several co workers state that they would 'beat the ->-bleeped-<- outta any ->-bleeped-<-'... not exactly encouraging.    Because of this, I am looking to retrain in a more trans friendly environment.  I was considering being a hairstylist... but is that too stereotypical?  I could take the course telling people I want to be a 'barber'... then when I finally come out, I'm pretty sure that I would still have work... one of the many things on my 'to worry about' list...

-hugs
Zaria

[cynthialee]

Housewife.

[Mahsa Tezani]

I was considering being a hairstylist...

Anyone can go to beauty school, not everyone can be a stylist. It takes talent and to be basically on top of the beauty curve. If you think the men are judging you now, wait til you go to beauty school with a bunch of teenage girls.

[Graverobber9]

I wash dishes in my college's cafeteria. It's suprisingly a tolerable job.

[envie]

My head is spinning right now regarding my occupation.
I am professional musician and music instructor but I had to get myself a steady job after the birth of my daughter.
So I have been a tropical plant technician or nurse if you will. I prefer the latter term myself.

But now my daughters bio mom got a job and she is gonna be working full time by the end of January and I am being faced to either pay most of my income to the child care or become a home stay mom.
However I am not romantically involved with my daughter's mom any longer but the financial necessity has forced us to remain in the same household. I have been supporting us for the past 3 years. Now I still can't move out and I am looking into being completely dependent on her. On the top of it I have an interview tomorrow for a nanny position for taking care of a 4 and 2.5 year old plus my 2.5 years old daughter. I pass fairly well by when faced with new people and their children the stakes are a bit higher and I wonder how, when and if I should come out to them. And the people wanted German speaking nanny which is what I can do but I haven,t had a chance to speak German in past 10 years and the father is native speaker! Oh sweat, sweat!

[Chloe]

Another pilot! What license/ratings did you have?

So there is more of us here? . I have missed that.

Very wierd indeed - the "pilot thing" - my father was rated on EveryThing as Exec VP Ops/Chief Pilot Nor'Atlantic for Pan American many years but the really wierd thing is his best Captain friend "George", who was married & lived just down the street from us growing up as kids, became "Georgette" and this was in the early 707 mid-sixties !!!

Well, ultimately lol my "coming out" to him, thus primed already, just 6 years ago wasn't as difficult as i had thought it would be! I Was Idiot Customer Service, fly free retired for life but otherwise DO NOT MISS AIRLINE FLYING at all . . .

. . . as the novelty of just getting into those "better fed cabin back there seats" has definitely worn off for sure!

"Ladies and Gentlemen, this is our Clipper Captain's extra seat trainee speaking, we are about to depart
so pleeeze keep your hands and feet inside the ride at all times
until it has come to a complete stop at The End arriving _pause: Cap? hopefully vvveryy smoothly".

_{short silence later:} "Anyone who has to LEAVE, like me, RIGHT NOW plz feel free to do so at this time "

Pilots, for WHATEVER reasons, tend to be very right brain, highly trained math oriented individuals who
carefully keep track, usually in a 'lil black book they're always hiding, to ensure their
"combined total takeoffs plus safe landings divided all by two. . .remains equal to even number always" ? ? ?

WHY ?

Isn't "modern medicine" wonderful? Ever wonder also why doctors used to but not anymore hold
newborns up, by the ankles, just before give'n 'em a good slap on the butt too for good measure?

Why can't a "dumb blond" drive a plane?

lol Just how many "dumb blond" jokes were there?

  ( )
_{dad in 377 Stratocruiser uniform in front of the Long Beach apartment i was born in (a Boeing 314 "Flying Boat" / worked it's "Marine Air Terminal" 12yrs)}

[juliekins]

I'm currently working in a call center where I'm part of a team that enrolls people in their group insurance benefits. I've done this for the past month.

Prior to this temp gig, I sold windows and doors for a large home improvement company. That job lasted 4 months, but the hours and drive time was a killer.

What both of these jobs have done is return my confidence. I was jobless for better than two years, though I was interviewing periodically.
It took me being forced to go into people's home's doing direct sales to realize that people accepted me simply as the woman I am. My fear had been holding me back, big time.

While working in the call center, I've worked hard on my voice, with much success. I will say, however, that 6 hours on the phone requires lots of constant sips of H20.

Unless I decide differently, I plan on going back into the field as an insurance saleswoman come December. (I had owned my own insurance agency for 14 years prior to transition)

I guess we don't realize how transition will be for each of us. I thought I had planned it all so well, but it took me an additional 3 years to find my footing as a woman out in the daily work a day world. I'm glad to have arrived!

[pretty pauline]

Since I got married, I now work as a fulltime housewife.

[shortNsweet]

Just graduated from college last spring. I have an engineering degree and hoping to get a real job soon. I'm currently doing part-time work as a surveyor. Wouldn't be so bad, but the people I have to work with are terrible people...

[Tristan]

wow. everyone has such cool jobs. i myself am a registered nurse and paramedic. doing pre reqs for medical school

[Daniel006]

I'm currently loading and unloading aircraft with a fairly well known airline.

Before that I was working as a pilot (stopped doing that 2010) and that was because of my identification problems. I want to go back but if I will manage? that is the big IF.

I know I want to be a pilot.  I have about 45-50 hours toward my private certificate and I have made my first solo cross country.  I'm afraid that being trans will keep me from my dream.  Any input?  Right now though, I'm trying to get *me* squared away before putting any more money into training.

Even if I can't become a pilot, I know I would like to stay in the airline industry, possibly as an aircraft mechanic.

[Venus-Castina]

I know I want to be a pilot.  I have about 45-50 hours toward my private certificate and I have made my first solo cross country.  I'm afraid that being trans will keep me from my dream.  Any input?  Right now though, I'm trying to get *me* squared away before putting any more money into training.

At the moment I think the worldwide recession is a much larger issue in finding a job as an airline pilot than being trans is.

[lonely girl]

Electrical/computer engineer to-be

[shortNsweet]

Electrical/computer engineer to-be

Representing for the engineers! lol

[Catherine Sarah]

A Technical Director (TD) in the Film and Television industry.  Nothing to do in a Corporate sense, it's all about creating the reality behind Producers esoterical whims. Something like Christmas shopping on steroids.  LOL

Be safe, well and happy
Lotsa luv
Catherine

[tekla]

Something like Christmas shopping on steroids

Yeah, that sounds perfect.  Working for IATSE in theater (the poor red-headed stepchild where every penny is pinched until it screams), and in touring rock (the nouveau riche cousin were everything looks nice, but is fake) movie set and shoots are just money fountains.  While I'm sure that somewhere there are accounts blowing fuses it always seemed to me that cost was never a problem when it came to doing movies.

[El]

I work in sales :/ its pretty soul destroying

[Sindo]

I'm an archivist. Just finishing up my degree now and the archives where I've been volunteering for the past year is getting a grant which means I should be getting a paid project archivist position.

[Kristyn74]

I'M a stonemason.I build feature walls,houses and fireplace out of stone.

Someday im going to build a castle,looking st purchasing 50acres at the moment for it.

http://www.electricscotland.com/pictures/Inverness_Castle.jpg


Kristyn

[Dana_H]

I'M a stonemason.I build feature walls,houses and fireplace out of stone.

Someday im going to build a castle,looking st purchasing 50acres at the moment for it.

http://www.electricscotland.com/pictures/Inverness_Castle.jpg


Kristyn

There is a man here in Colorado who has been building his own castle since 1969.  For years, it was a one-man labor of love, but in recent years he has had some help on secondary projects.  http://www.bishopcastle.org  Having visited in person, I am uncomfortable with some of his construction methods, but it is an interesting project.

The site appears to not have been updated for quite some time.