What is/was your day job :)

[suzanna]

Well i have allways been a SAHM, and I have loved it. There is allways some thing diffrent to do.
My kids left home and I missed them so much I took on Fostering children.So now we have 4 little indigenous under four.
who we have had for 2 yrs last Dec.

We were told the other week that they could stay with us until they are 18.( Long Term Care)
So that means i will be umm  bloody old....57 now. So this is the reason we bought Therm so the children could eat healthy.
As they did not have a great start in life

Gee they keep you young, but they love all the sorbets and home cooking, We are alos on a small farm with cows,and we grow grain
suzanna

[meganjane]

Wow suzanna, that's a big ask - 4 under 4!

Lovely to read about everyone. I'm amazed at how many of us are in the teaching and medical professions.

I'm a teacher too. I have mainly taught in our little Primary School and have also taught for a term in a high school teaching Drama and English. I spent a couple of years teaching Literacy and Maths at TAFE and am now a relief teacher at our school. I'm also getting a little school choir going. I've sung for years and was in a large choir, then started my own choir here which ran for two years until the only men in the choir left town!

I now run my own business making and selling skin and hair care products (called Skinflint because it's high quality products at reasonable prices).
I'm also a Local Govt Councillor and have been on Council for 8 years. I'm a Justice of the Peace too!

Over the years I've been a consultant for (taking a big breath):
Amway
Neways
Some food company whose name escapes me
Creative Memories
Trinature
Melaleuca

I was VERY tempted to become a TMX consultant, but I'm too busy!

Well, that's me! Next....

[Nay-nay]

meganjane - very very interesting! Do you ever melt soy wax in TMX for your soy melts for the oil burner?? I have made them using the TMX - (just for our own use and presents.)

[cookie1]

As said before I'm a teacher too. Retired now, very occasional relief.

[KL_inTheMiX]

I'm a working mum to two kids, two fur-kids, a DH and we also have DH's dad in the granny flat next door.
I've been in the Royal Australian Air Force almost 22years ( a life time!!). First as a Signals Operator and then as an Airborne Electronics Analyst (flying in the back-end of the P3C maritime patrol aircraft).

Still 'in' but possibly about to become a SAHM due to DH's new job opportunity. Not sure yet.
    Just want to KNOW already!!!!

[meganjane]

Wow KL, that's so interesting! Hope you find out soon!!

Nay, I don't use my TMX for anything but food. I have a workshop for my products and use a bains marie for melting my soy wax. My workshop smells divine when I walk in - a combination of soap, reed diffusers and soy melts!!

[katesjoy]

I am a midwife in a birth centre so see women through the whole kit and kaboodle, pregnancy, labour and birth and post baby.  I absolutely love my job, even when l am exhausted by it.  Although Nay-nay's descriptiion of her life sounds very close to my ideal.

[achookwoman]

My last full time job was as Registrar at a private school in the Western suburbs of Melbourne.  In fact the very school that our Gold champion Lydia attended .  Before that I had taught all levels, from prep to tertiary,  and across all systems,  and across 6 disciplines.
The reason for this is that I trained as a Furniture Designer.   And then later did an Arts degree at Melb Uni.  I chose to work in schools as my DH was a teacher and we had 2 school aged children.   Some of the more interesting aspects of my job were that I initiated an overseas program for our school. School exchanges and overseas students who came to live with Australian families most often from our school,  and attended our school.   When I retired, I was invited by the school to handle special projects.  One day a week I  investigated and then set up an Equestrian Program that could be part of year 11 and 12 course.   I also set up a flying course for year 10 and 11 students.
I loved the interaction with the students,   but spent most of my time in administration.  I was fortunate, in that the time at this school,  I had a very supportive headmaster.  However in the end the lack of any break from work, ( I would travel overseas during school hols. to visit the parents of the students from overseas).meant I got tired.  I also had an aging mother who required help.
This is just the last few years,  but there you are another teacher!
 

[judydawn]

You girls are knocking me out with your high profile jobs - what a clever group of people on this forum.

Just mentioned KL's occupation to DH (who loves anything to do with planes, ships etc) and he straightaway said she must be from SA as this is where the Orions are based. He'd love to be married to someone like you KL - I'm not at all interested when he yabbers on about anything to do with the war, planes, air-craft carriers and the like.

[Thermomixer]

Gosh Chookie - are you taking full responsibility for the Gold medal ? 

[achookwoman]

Wish I could,  but I think her mum deserves a little corner.

[Karen3]

Gosh - all of you are amazing! Thank you for sharing.
I'm a SAHM (love it most of the time!), and about to start a new job teaching kids about frogs and their habitats. I am very excited about starting next week.
For all the SAHMs out there, here's a link to a publication about SAHMs, that I was involved with a couple of years ago. I'm on the cover too, so should I put cover girl on the list as well?

http://www.dhcs.act.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/39061/MSB_Web.pdf

Good health and happy thermomixing,
K3

[KL_inTheMiX]

JudyDawn..... I had a little jaded giggle at your DH's expense. 
I couldn't think of anything WORSE than someone rabbitting on about aircraft all day!!  Sad, but true. All I ever wanted to know was if the bludi thing was serviceable enough to stay in the sky!!!

The most technical I ever got wrt aircraft was the 'suck - squeeze - bang - blow' theory of how an engine actually works.
The rest has faded in the dim recesses of my memory......

(don't panic Australia...... the good guys are still out there doing the job!!!)

[judydawn]

 

[Russell]

Hey All,

Although I am currently a Project Manager in Information Technology, I prefer to just call myself a Computer Programmer, as that is my true calling. Unfortunately, in the public service, if you want a promotion, you have to move into a management role.

However, we moved west from brisbane 2 years ago, and I'm desperately trying to find ANY job in the local area that will pay the bills, as I hate living away from the family all week. That's the reason we moved rural after all, to get better quality of life together. Unfortunately, I.T. and the bush don't really go well together, all I.T. work tends to be centralised. Working as an independent in something like web design etc is possible, but it is a hugely competitive market since you are competing with the whole world. I'm the type who likes a nice dependable income so I don't have to stress about where the next mortgage payment is coming from.

Unfortunately, pay rates in the bush are horrible as well. So anything I have to look for in rural needs to be a couple levels higher than what we could survive on in Brisbane. My DW is a SAHM and we have two boys, one with ADHD and Aspergers Syndrome, who has just started school. That takes a huge commitment of time and emotional resources, so the option of both of us working in out for now.

My dream is to run my own business from home. I've made several attempts part-time, but nothing has panned out yet. There has been talk of redundancies in my job for about 4 months now that I'm holding out for, but it's wishful thinking I think. I'ma  bit young to retire yet. If I did get one, maybe I could quit and become a Thermomix consultant

Russell.