What do you do for work?

[Ms. OBrien CVT]

I am a Veterinary Technician.  At the moment I am not employed, but when I came out I was in retail and my old employer was fantastic about my transition.

[Sara Thomas]

I drive a truck in the oil-field (sometimes very fast... but that's just between me and thee).

[big kim]

I'm landlady/manager of a guest house.I deal with reception/book keeping/ordering stock/cooking/cleaning/bar work.I was already 17 years post op when I came here everyone has been great with me.

[Jayr]

Some of you have such awesome jobs, or at least interesting/important ones.

I feel like a loser because I'm not sure where I want too go career wise,
and right now I only work at a gas station.

I know I'm only 19(next week), but still.
Around here people my age know where they are going..

Good luck to those of you that are currently searching for employment!

[HeatherR]

I sell nissans in Phoenix, AZ.  I'm not out at work. 

[JessicaH]

I drive a truck in the oil-field (sometimes very fast... but that's just between me and thee).

You sound very familiar to a FB friend I have from Texas.....

[JessicaH]

I'm an international project manager but I do everything from sales, management, collections, research, contracting, bidding, etc.  I travel a lot but it gets lonely. I have spent the last month in South Africa being in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Port Elizebeth, Durban and back in Joburg. Nest stops, Mozambique, Ghana, Angola, London and then back to Dallas.

[Sara Thomas]

You sound very familiar to a FB friend I have from Texas.....

I am from Texas, but it doesn't appear that we are FB friends... pleased to meet you, however. My S.O. and I get up to Dallas pretty regularly, for a break from the grind... we are going up there toward the end of the month to see Scott Weiland at The House of Blues.

Take care on your travels!

[RosieD]

Some of you have such awesome jobs, or at least interesting/important ones.

I feel like a loser because I'm not sure where I want too go career

I wouldn't do that if I were you. At 19 I was homeless and squatting in a flat in one of the grottier parts of London. It took the arrival of a bairn for me to get serious about having a career and working out what I wanted to do.

You have plenty of time, just don't beat yourself up over it m'kay?

R

[Shodan]

What Rosie said.

When I was 19 I was stealing for a living. Then I moved to Florida to be a carnie for a while. It wasn't until I met my wife did I finally settle down and go to college. I was 24 at the time.

[Emily Aster]

Ditto. I had the work ethic of a couch potato at that age. I wanted a degree in everything, but didn't want the job, just the knowledge. Spent a lot of years just trying to stay off welfare, food shopping at dollar stores, extremely bad credit, etc. Eventually I took my primary hobby and spent 10 more years bouncing from company to company until one of them gave me a chance to get paid for it.

[big kim]

I was a mess at 19,the only things I gave a rat's ass about were my BSA Thunderbolt,drinking,weed and girls.I was stood in front of a conveyor belt in a chemical factory for a living and I dropped out of night school.

[Jumpingcats]

Unemployed currently, but just graduated college. Maybe I should sell cars, you all seem to be doing well with it, with cool employers.

But really, I don't know what I'll be doing, I need to find something that pays enough to pay these student loans off and enough to live on. Would be nice to find an open minded employer too.

[Saffron]

I'm a videogame programmer, I sort of transitioned at work but didn't feel ready to deal with coworkers so I'm currently working as freelance from home.

Transitioning on the job at a Silicon Valley Tech company (top maker of GPUs - which if you know that means, you will know my company ).

So YOU are the one to blame when the GPU drivers doesn't works as it should? 

I work in Law Enforcement, I'm a cop, a  SHERIFF CORRECTIONS DEPUTY  My current duties are Jail Guard, Court Bailiff and Prisoner Transport.  I am currently in the process of transitioning on the job! I am the first and only trans person my department and entire county have ever had.

That sounds cool! I know it must be a hard job... I wish you all the best transitioning on the job 

[holly]

I work for a certain Swedish furniture store and transitioned on the job. It was pretty intense dragging my coworkers into a room and explaining what was going on, but they were all wonderful. Between hrt and longer hair most of my customers thought I was a girl anyway, so it was a pretty easy transition in that regard too.

I've only got another 4 days there, and I'm off to work for a fashion label which is just so exciting! I seriously never would have thought that was a possibility at all, but here I am! (Now I just need to decide what to spend my wardrobe allowance on )

In between that, I'm almost finished my masters in hr, so I'm on campus a couple days a week. I took a year off uni while I transitioned, and told a lecturer that I had gotten along very well with. She was amazing, and helped me out with changing my name on their records and getting a new transcript and parchment issued. As for the students, almost everyone I was with graduated on my year off, so it's a bit of a fresh start this year.

Oh, and at 19 I moved to the country, set up my own business and ran it for the next 6 years. Seemed like a good idea at the time, but it was hard hard work and I missed out on a lot. I still sort of envy my friends that were carefree and going between jobs and study at that age. I guess the grass is always greener?

[AusBelle]

I work for our states police service, in a public contact centre as a civilian.  I'm work in our policy area and liaise directly with officers and staff from all over the state.  I've been here now for many years, and transitioned before i joined.  It's interesting work at times. 

[Joanna Dark]

I'm a paid blogger now and used to be magazine editor and hope to be again. Graduated in 2004, worked for a newspaper, then a niche women's pub for 5 years and then a trade mag for a year. Might go to grad school for eng lit or history and become a professor. I love love love college. The atmosphere that is. Never been a partier. I like small intimate gatherings as opposed to sports parties and the like, unless its college basketball, which I love.

[XchristineX]

Lol your gonna love this
I work in very isolated mining camps doing kitchen work
I can't say as male or female coz we're not allowed to wear make up
Use scented products what so ever. Everyone has the same uniform
And wears hair nets....I usually go in for 20 days at a time and out for ten
The last project I was assigned to last year was alpacas forest Kerr project
This year I'm crossing fingers for imperial metals red Chris mine...
Going to be a 700 man camp mmmm gonna try and get marries in there lool

[Penny Gurl]

Well my current "day job" is as a dispatcher for a school bus company and my weekend job is a freelance photographer, primarily for wedding studios.  I'm not out at either yet but slowly working up the courage (and client base) before the school bus company I was a portrait studio manager.

[KateConnors]

I'm a videogame programmer, I sort of transitioned at work but didn't feel ready to deal with coworkers so I'm currently working as freelance from home.

So YOU are the one to blame when the GPU drivers doesn't works as it should? 

Not me fortunately, those guys work so hard and have a tough job.  I work on non-gaming applications for GPUs.