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This question came up on another thread. Just curious what everyone and their spouses do for a living...<P>I am a Electrical and Computer Engineer currently working on Mass Storage devices in Hardware Engineering.<P>My husband was a SAHD, recently he started working 3rd shift stocking shelves at a local food store while he attends college full time for his Archeology degree...<P>HbH

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I am a self-employed Heating/Air Conditioning contractor, wife (thinker) runs the office (phones, paperwork, books etc.) as well as sahm (and trained as a nurse, worked some at it too) raisied 4 children. But I did study mech eng at U of Michigan, and spent 3 yrs in Army (special forces).<p>[This message has been edited by sad_n_lonely (edited August 26, 2001).]

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I supervise 2 supportive living homes. We help mentally retarded adults be independent and able to live on their own. <BR>There used to be a lot of people in the health care field here but I'm not sure about now. <P>Mitzi [Linked Image from marriagebuilders.com]

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Tax Operations Manager. One of those yucky analytical type. Work with taxes too long you turn into one of THEM!!!! Alien of a different breed..... IRS! [Linked Image from marriagebuilders.com]<P>Just joking. Actually most of those government folks are pretty nice once you get past the red tape and other sticky stuff!!! They are just humans doing an inhumane job. Aren't we all?<P>L.

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I'm in banking ... Operations analyst. Not an engineer, but still a numbers/analytical type [Linked Image from marriagebuilders.com].<P>H (WS) is in sales. "Mr. Outgoing".

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Computer Science Engineer here, thru my current job have learned massive amounts of electrical engineering as well. I work for Intel, Campus is all R & D of 64 bit workstations/servers. I'm a BIOS/Firmware engineer, very low level stuff. I love it!<P>XH is a professional musician, guitar player (30+ years). After a few years of school he recently landed a job with the City, managing their Cisco Routers. <P>OW is a Welfare recepient. Runs Kareoke on the side. She is also a full time meanie!<BR><p>[This message has been edited by Resilient (edited August 27, 2001).]

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I am a Key Account Manager for a top food/beverage company in the US. I have 2 large chains that I call on at the headquarter level out in East Texas.<P>My hubby is a Computer Software Administrator for the southern U.S. for an international oil well service company. He started out as a petroleum engineer and ended up going back to school for computers.

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I am a physics professor at a research university. My research speciality is experimental high energy physics (particle accelerators/atom smashers). A longer discussion is in the "to Jeffers" thread.<P>W is SAHM. Also, nearly full-time substitute teacher (deg. in Child Development).<P>--Jeffers

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Ohhhhhh Goodie!!!<P>Now I know from wence you come JEFFERS!!!! lol<P>

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Orchid:<BR><B>Tax Operations Manager. One of those yucky analytical type. Work with taxes too long you turn into one of THEM!!!! Alien of a different breed..... IRS! [Linked Image from marriagebuilders.com]<P><BR>L.</B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P><BR>sniff.. yes, we KNOW your type over in sales! You CPA types are always ruining our fun! [Linked Image from marriagebuilders.com]<BR>

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Resilient,<P>In my field we get to make use of both duct tape AND computers. It's heaven. <P>When are the 1.5 GHz chips comin' out?? We're burnin daylight here!!!!

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I'm a software engineer, current position is as project lead in a fortune 50 company doing research.<P>Owned my own consulting business for years doing the same thing. I gave up the business a few years ago to save my marriage. So I lost the business and my marriage. Oh well..<P>STL is a web developer/master and instructor for a fortune 50 company. His other careeres have been in the Army and as a journalist/author. <P>I hope he finishes one of those books in his filing cabinet and he gets a best seller. hope hope hope

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You'd appreciate this Jeffers ...<P>Friday I was working on a 4 way Itanium proc server, 933 Mhz, 133 Mhz FSB, with 4 banks for RAM, 5 slots in each bank, each slot populated with 1 Gig stick of RAM. 20 Gig RAM!!! ... I kid you NOT. [Linked Image from marriagebuilders.com]<P>Regarding the 1.5 GHz chips, all I'm allowed to say is "RSN".<P>Jo<P><p>[This message has been edited by Resilient (edited August 27, 2001).]

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Jo,<BR>Yours is definitely bigger than mine. LOL [Linked Image from marriagebuilders.com]<BR>--Jeffers

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Jeffers,<P>Gawd I wish it was mine, was a system under development. I was just playin with it. [Linked Image from marriagebuilders.com]

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Hi, <P>H & I are both mech. eng. I have just applied for postgrad in technology management at Univ of Sussex, starting this Oct. We both work for Gov. org., me in science&technology, H in defence. <P>Adrian


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