Whats your profession and do you like it :)?

[Dee Marshall]

No kidding! Mine had the New York Yankee symbols on either side. On the passenger side it had my pets names. I used to travel with my cat and dog.

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I think it was a large tow truck. The art was a red bomb with a nude riding it. It was in White Plains.

[ToniDatyga]

I think it was a large tow truck. The art was a red bomb with a nude riding it. It was in White Plains.

Awesome! [emoji12]

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[TonyaW]

I am a Pharmacist. I have been working in hospital and retail pharmacies for over 40 years.

Hey me too.

No hospital time though and not quite as long.

Used to say "I sell drugs" but I'm doing long term care and not retail now so that doesn't fit anymore. 

As for the original question, I like it better now that I don't deal with customers anymore.

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[Dani]

As for the original question, I like it better now that I don't deal with customers anymore.

Some of the customers behavior is the reason I retired. Everyday I had to argue with a customer or two about no refills for their controlled drug prescription. The laws are strict. You must have a valid prescription or I cannot fill a controlled drug. I am not even mentioning the forged prescriptions that were presented to me. In my guess, about 3% of my customers have a serious drug problem.

[Dee Marshall]

Some of the customers behavior is the reason I retired. Everyday I had to argue with a customer or two about no refills for their controlled drug prescription. The laws are strict. You must have a valid prescription or I cannot fill a controlled drug. I am not even mentioning the forged prescriptions that were presented to me. In my guess, about 3% of my customers have a serious drug problem.

I hate this behavior. I have a client with a traumatic brain injury. She's in constant severe pain that can only be controlled by a low dose of a time released opioid on a strict schedule. She's been on the prescription for years. Bad behavior by others is making it harder and harder for her to find a pharmacy that will accept her prescription. Pharmacies just drop out of the area of business because it's too much hassle.

In keeping with the theme of the thread I help people with TBIs to regain lost skills, learn compensation skills, or I help them with tasks they no longer can do by themselves.

[Artesia]

I am a Dietary Manager.  I have been doing it for the last 5 years, and have been in food service in one form or another for the last 25 years, counting my military experience.  I am burnt out on it, and looking for a change.  Sadly I have no other marketable skills.  I am thinking about learning to be a Laser Esthetician.  It sounds like fun to shoot people with a laser all day.  Managing people is not my cup of tea, and cooking no longer interests me.

[Julia1996]

I cut hair. I like it pretty well but I will have to go part time when I start school in the fall.

[HannahHindle]

I'm an actor. I'm currently juggling free lance work (theatre, film etc) as well as an extended seasonal contract in an immersive theatrical experience in a seaside town near me. I enjoy it a lot...though once I transition it'll be very interesting...

[Dayta]

I'm an engineering manager for a space propulsion group in a large aerospace company.  I've been working in satellite propulsion for almost 35 years now, after studying chemical engineering, and having the good fortune of graduating just as the "gas crisis" hit the US, effectively pausing the entire petroleum industry, so I scrounged around for jobs the first couple of years before landing a position in aerospace. 

Yeah, I really like the field, and unlike maybe most of the managers I've worked with over the years, I do love the management aspects of the job, way more so than the technical challenges and sophistication of the products and services we provide.  While I think in some ways, I'm not typical of engineers, and may have found equal or greater satisfaction in other fields, like maybe psychology or philosophy, I don't regret it for a second, and heartily encourage engineering as a field of study, if only for the advantages given engineering students graduating and looking for employment, seeing it as almost a "free pass" to get into industry, after which ridiculously broad opportunities become available.  I've known many, many engineers over the decades, and the work that each did was almost completely unique, based upon their particular skills, knowledge, experience, and interests. 

I think this is probably even more true today, with deep cuts facing academics in lots of humanities fields of study.  This has been a public service announcement from the American Society of Transgender Engineers (sorry for that, I was kind of getting out of hand pimping out my field, and I don't think that the ASTE is a real thing.  Yet. )

Erin

[Marcieelizabeth]

Just another useless thread for fun !

I am a baker at the local grocery store in town. I gotta say i rather enjoy it, and will be pretty sad when I have to leave it. How about you?

Entomologist - it is a calling not a job! 

[Kendra]

Entomologist - it is a calling not a job! 

Entomologist... I've worked on the other type of bug, computer hardware and software since the 1980s.  Joined Microsoft in 1991.  The company's support for LGBT is great and keeps improving.  Career wise, a few rough patches but overall I feel very fortunate. 

At some point I might completely switch gears and go into music as a profession.  I started violin at age 6, landed scholarships for both music and engineering in college, joined a rather loud band in 2000 (electric violin).  I find performing music on stage more natural as I transition to female. 

[barbie]

Yeah, I really like the field, and unlike maybe most of the managers I've worked with over the years, I do love the management aspects of the job, way more so than the technical challenges and sophistication of the products and services we provide.  While I think in some ways, I'm not typical of engineers, and may have found equal or greater satisfaction in other fields, like maybe psychology or philosophy, I don't regret it for a second, and heartily encourage engineering as a field of study, if only for the advantages given engineering students graduating and looking for employment, seeing it as almost a "free pass" to get into industry, after which ridiculously broad opportunities become available.  I've known many, many engineers over the decades, and the work that each did was almost completely unique, based upon their particular skills, knowledge, experience, and interests. 

Very interesting!

barbie~~

[baseballfan]

Wow.....there are a ton of IT folks on here.  I wonder if there is a reason for that, or it is just a coincidence.

I work in sports.  Don't want to get too specific, but I work for a sports team.

[rmaddy]

ER (that's A&E to many of you) Doctor.  Like it, but it's a bit stressful constantly meeting new people and not knowing how they feel about me being quite obviously "out".

[Veronique10]

Owner operator truck driver.I own my own truck and lease my services on to a carrier.Oddly enough there are more trans truckers out here than you would think.The days are long and the road is always hard,but I pretty much would not want to do anything else.Trucking has helped me experiance the world and do things I could have never done otherwise.I have many hobbies and interests and trucking takes me where I want to go.Not a life for everyone but it is working for me.

Yep, used to be in that industry. Now self-employed in app development. Both careers let me spend time by myself and offer a lot of autonomy. The few times in my life that didn't work alone, I found the environments to be toxic. It was difficult to be myself around masses of co-workers, who I mostly found to be unsympathetic and gossipy. Though I did make some good friends and formed relationships, this was generally the exception.

[TheOtherLucas]

I'm an actor. I'm currently juggling free lance work (theatre, film etc) as well as an extended seasonal contract in an immersive theatrical experience in a seaside town near me. I enjoy it a lot...though once I transition it'll be very interesting...

I'm a film freelancer too, just on the other side of the camera.  I'm waiting until I get into the union and can be on my own insurance before I start transitioning, but otherwise it gets pretty discouraging being celebrating for being one of only a few 'women' in a 'man's job'.  I love what I do because I get to tell stories & work with new people every day.

[Steph Eigen]

It seems there is a disproportionate representation of the STEM professions in our ranks.  This has been observed to be true by others.  I don't know of a formal survey or study of this phenomenon, but it appears to be real.

Steph

[AnonyMs]

It seems there is a disproportionate representation of the STEM professions in our ranks.  This has been observed to be true by others.  I don't know of a formal survey or study of this phenomenon, but it appears to be real.

I think it might be because its online. Most of the people I've met in person are not STEM.

[Michelle_P]

I think it might be because its online. Most of the people I've met in person are not STEM.

Correct, unfortunately.  The crowd here is filtered by both gender issues, and both having access and being comfortable communicating via an electronic forum through a web site.

Quite a few trans people I interact with in 'real life' do not have regular access to secure or private Internet communications that would permit them to use this site, or the time and skills to make regular use of this forum.  These folks are definitely not STEM workers.

[LindseyP]

Count me as another IT person.  I've work in the insurance industry for a long time.  Mostly on the software vendor side.  I'm a BA/Principal Consultant type.  I love it because it is never the same job twice and every client does things differently.  I am currently in job search mode as my current company did not have enough contracts in the States.  I'm really bummed out about that, as I love my work, but the job search has been going well enough.   I'm hopeful it won't take too long.