What do you do for a living?

[Raell]

Currently teaching ESL in southern Thailand

Currently and most of my life, I make and use my own inventions to solve my problems, design my own clothes.
I even wrote out provisional patents, and contacted a few companies to do licensing deals on a few of them..got positive response, but chickened out from fear of paperwork. I have made prototypes or tested almost 100 inventions

Also
Past jobs:
High school prep teacher in Mexico for one semester in 2001
ESL teacher at a KY university, one year
Writing teacher at a community college
substitute teacher in two KY counties
Census worker in several KY counties, 2010
part-time stock options trader for 3 years
real estate investment small business owner..5 yrs
studio musician for a live music T.V. show in eastern KY, 1995
part-time exotic bird breeder, 5 years in 1980s
part-time piano teacher 10 years
secretary/marketing/media for chiropractor office
singer (in 4 languages), studio musician, radio control operator at a radio station in Haiti during the 1960s, part of 50s.
(I was born in 1952, but my dad built the radio station and I was drafted as a singer, along with my siblings back in the days where all broadcasts were live.)

I mostly worked part time and supported my husband's businesses.
Not smart. I was religious at the time.

[Drexy/Drex]

Heavy mobile  machine operator,  dump trucks. Front end loaders etc,
Working with  a crew in remote locations bulk earthworks  building  roads ,bridges
for mining. Companies,  used to do 4 weeks on one week off but now due to the economic  downturn it's 2weeks on and one off.... been doing this for a long time

[King Malachite]

I work at a plant.

[SonadoraXVX]

Work in the legal local government department, for the past 19 years, can't shake the legal field, even though I a graduate degree in psychology(ie.working on my 2nd one in psych too, 2/3 of it done). I was thinking, hmmmmm, maybe the legal field is calling, Law School?

I do need a break from school though, I'm kind of burned out, and do need to pay down my school loans to afford law school.

[Steph Eigen]

In order:
Ameteur Radio operator since being a kid (sort of a job!) wanted to be an electrical engineer or chemist since childhood.  Went to college initially for EE, changed to chemistry.

Sequentially--

College: B.S. in Chemistry, Physics, Math;
First round graduate school:  PhD Physical Inorganic Chemistry
Second round graduate school: Medical School
Residency in Internal Medicine, fellowship training in Cardiology
Practiced cardiology in community for about 20 years.
Returned to academia, now professor in a major university medical school for about 10 years
     Research in prevention of heart disease
     Research in chaos theory and information theory using big data to predict disease outcomes
     Research in lipoproteins and vascular biology
     Take care of a lot of patients.

Recently, I've become interested in studying the cardiovascular effects of HRT and testosterone withdrawal in MtFs. This has not been adequately studied and has important implications.   

[Maybebaby56]

In order:
Ameteur Radio operator since being a kid (sort of a job!) wanted to be an electrical engineer or chemist since childhood.  Went to college initially for EE, changed to chemistry.

Sequentially--

College: B.S. in Chemistry, Physics, Math;
First round graduate school:  PhD Physical Inorganic Chemistry
Second round graduate school: Medical School
Residency in Internal Medicine, fellowship training in Cardiology
Practiced cardiology in community for about 20 years.
Returned to academia, now professor in a major university medical school for about 10 years
     Research in prevention of heart disease
     Research in chaos theory and information theory using big data to predict disease outcomes
     Research in lipoproteins and vascular biology
     Take care of a lot of patients.

Recently, I've become interested in studying the cardiovascular effects of HRT and testosterone withdrawal in MtFs. This has not been adequately studied and has important implications.

"wanted to be an electrical engineer or chemist since childhood.  Went to college initially for EE, changed to chemistry."

Okay Steph, now I have  serious case of hero worship going on here, lol.

I decided to be a chemist when I was seven years old.  I wasn't quite sure what chemists did, exactly, but I knew that is what I wanted to be.

The med school, practicing cardiologist, yeah that's impressive, but not nearly as impressive as a PhD in Fizz Inorganic!
My PhD was also in chemistry (inorganic/organometallic), and I ended up being a materials scientist for the Navy. However I do have an undergrad degree in biochemistry, and I did three years at a school of pharmacy, so I know a little bit about pharmacology as well.

Since you have returned to the hallowed halls of academia, I bequeath to a quest (request?):  to educate all those surgeons out there who think you have to stop talking estradiol by non-oral routes before surgery!  I have waved papers under doctors' noses, showing them that there is no correlation between sublingual, transdermal or parenteral E2 with effects on clotting or incidences of thromboembolism to no avail. It is cruel and unnecessary for surgeons to demand that trans girls suffer through menopausal symptoms under the illusion this will be safer. I hope you will agree.

With kindness,

Terri

[Steph Eigen]

There are a lot of us here with degrees in engineering, basic sciences, CS, and tech-stuff.

Back in my earlier days, I studied alkali metals in nonaqueous solutions, electrides, alkali metal anions, and the like.  I still read the literature in this field, in many ways miss the work very much.

I get a thrill out of watching numbers crunch, did my share of programming and numerical stuff, now infrequently write code, mostly direct the big picture, conceptual aspects of our projects; let the programmers do what they do.

I've generated a thread months ago noting the high prevalence of STEM careers in MtF.

To the point about E withdrawal, your point is well taken.  Truth is, there is very little rigorous data, something that is needed. 

Steph

[NotSure81]

A pre-transition electrician with 10 years residential and light commercial, and a year of heavy industrial experience.

Imagine that, want to be a androgynous electrician that leans toward the feminine side. Transitioning isnt on the table due to the place I live, and the company I work for.

I was also hoping to get into IT at some point in my life, but that never happened.

[sammie83]

I'm new here and wanted to post on this because my job is my main barrier to transitioning. I work in the family business, which is a business consultancy service.

It might just be my prejudices being projected onto others but, I don't think many (if any) of my clients would be slightest bit accepting or understanding of Sammie. It's a harsh reality of the world but, im not mainstream.

Coupled with the fact that I can't risk damage to the business or the family, it's a bit bleak really.

[Vincent J]

I currently am a student and work part time at a macy's warehouse.

[David1987]

I' m a physician, although I' m not working right now, but studying to get into a residency program.

[tehuti]

It's quite a few once you start adding them up! But my favourites were Library Officer, Store Mangager for an Aquarium shop and my current job of four years, Ambulance Transport Officer - we do non emergency transport and low acuity house calls. Paramedics is the end goal. There's a new intake happening now so fingers crossed. Wish me luck

[Katiepie]

Currently working in the bakery of a Costco Warehouse. It is a wonderful experience so far being in for almost 7 months now. Though my main operatives consist of the mass production and packaging of most if not all of our goods. One day a week I do get to deal with the cake decoration side of things, and am able to slowly hone my skills in icing and the creative side of a cake.

Also trying to fine tune my own cake recipe in baking on my own time. I can never get sick and tired of baked goods. I have already modified my current recipe to allow for a slight bit more liquid to make it less dense. Only baked my own recipe twice. Once at its base work in progress, and the second time with a slight modification of more milk in the batter.
I guess I can call my successful sale of a homemade Chinese sponge cake recipe, with a strawberry whipped topping, and strawberry chunks in the middle, a small business venture.

When I re-entered the education track back in the summer of 2013, community college, my interest in majors changed from electric engineering, to chemistry, then to forestry/environmental sciences.
I have so far stopped progress with school back in the fall of 2016, due to several adjustments in my own life. I would love to try and get back into school eventually, but being more of a workaholic, and not so much being too great academically, that may put it off for a bit more time.

Though in light of my many adjustments to life. I might either just eventually get a B.S. in Business, and open up my own bakery. Or even go back for my endeavors in environmental science.
Which I can coexist all my endeavors together, as in the span of environmental science, botany is a real relevance to my baking needs as I can eventually grow my own garden/orchard, and use it in my own baking.

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