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I am an I/O Psychologist (not the therapy-giving kind of psychologist!)

I understand that mindset. DW worked at a credit card company call center but that was literally driving her batty after a few years. There were times when she just shuddered and had to force her way to go there. There came a day when she just burst out in tears because of the BS she was telling the people, because it was just wrong -- she quit that job. She found a job at Intuit which was call center related, but was fairly stress-free until such time as management changed. Ultimately, her first desire was to be her own boss while helping out with some of the household expenses. She had owned a video store years before she moved in with me, so that was her area of expertise. She wanted to try to sell DVDs online, so we started doing that part time 6 years ago. When this Intuit job stressed her out so much that she felt the same stresses, she and I discussed that she should just concentrate on what SHE wanted to do, and I would take over her bills she was paying with her income from that last job. It was tough financially for a while until things got better. She spends about 9 to 11 hours a day doing that. However, she has a much brighter mental outlook on life and is MUCH happier. That makes everything worth it.

She nets about 1/2 of what she brought in before, working outside the house, but that is enough for her to feel like she is contributing to the household. I am privileged that I bring in enough money so she can do what she loves to do without having to worry about the house payment not being made or having food on the table, etc. I am also privileged that I love doing what I do, too, so we do have the best of both worlds.

Well I guess could best be described as a Jane-of-all-trades.

I went to school for advertising design and did some freelance work for a few years. I worked as a marketing director for the branch office of a life-insurance company for a few years. I then switched to wireless phone/data tech support but that became boring to me.

Now I'm "the lady of the house" and do not work a traditional job. I have rheumatoid arthritis so for me to try to work within an actual schedule is next to impossible. Writing has been a passion of mine for as long as I can remember and I figure it's as good a time as any to pursue it.

Llyn
Don't talk to me about skewed statistics! I'm doing a research project at the moment which is driving me crazy because of that precise problem. Damn complex and interesting participants...

Ogriv

I'm a business analyst in the mining industry. I've just swapped over to the oil & gas industry though, so hopefully it will be a bit more interesting as it was getting to the stage where, if my old boss had asked me to run the Life of Asset valuations once more, I would have had to tear out all my hair and have a nervous breakdown. A girl can only change protocols and manipulate company valuations so many times before it will push you over the edge. At least I got to implement new systems and learn about more computer applications though.

I work in a very maths oriented area, although I like to be creative so usually I'll offer to do anything involving writing documents or designing systems.

I'm studying for a Computer-Aided Drafting degree, and might eventually get into mechanical engineering. I have to take the math thing slowly, but I am working to overcome the idea that I suck at math. I think it's more of a self-esteem issue than the truth.

An interesting thing about working and being CF: I've worked at some pretty [censored] jobs, which I've left because they aren't worth the hassel. Sadly, a lot of the people who work at these low-paying, high-stress jobs are parents who have no choice but to continue every day because they can't take the risk of being unemployed.

I wonder what the world would be like for employees if more people could take risks and just leave [censored] jobs? I bet the jobs wouldn't be so bad. As it is, these [censored] employers know that they have captive workers, and so they can keep making more and more unreasonable demands.

I work for a large global IT company as an accountant. My job not only requires lots of math and numbers, but alot of system testing and integration. However, I am not all math and systematic oriented...I also love to write poetry and fiction stories.

I am an archaeologist and the big shots in my profession (Mediterranean archaeology)have always been men. Women are slowly catching up but are still not real big shots yet.

Archaeology is a lifestyle and unlike what most people believe, it is 10% excavation, and 90% analysis/study/writing. Interestingly, as I have mentioned before in this forum, archaeologists tend to marry other archaeologists and I know many such couples - where both husband and wife are very successful- who are childfree and happy about it!

I have a degree in economics, then became an accountant. I've worked as a buyer for marble and granite, an efficiency expert for a large accounting firm, as a cash-flow crisis consultant for a receivership, as a corporate controller for an international firm for about 10 years. I setup a lot of their Canadian plants on a new payroll and time-keeping system. Now I work in government in financial services systems. All kinda mathy.

My passion is acting, cooking and reading. Go figure.

That's a really good point. I would feel so TRAPPED with children and having to provide. I don't do "trapped" very well. Funny, I've always done freelance jobs on the side of my main job. I think I always like to feel I have a back-up plan. When I don't have a back-up plan (in anything) I feel quite anxious.