Lizzie wrote:

Sanguina wrote: I am a trained Forensic Investigator (CSI). It is never boring, that is for certain. However, Iam now living in the UK and having trouble finidng a position because to work with the Police here you have to be a resident for 3 years. I have only been here for 1 thus far so I am working temporary jobs. Currently I am temping at London Metropolitan University. that actually sounds really cool! I am a stay @ home mom, however am trying to get up the nerve to go back and get my degree in ele. education -- it's been way too long since I was in school so I just need to take the plunge and sign up! Scares the crap out of me though!!!!

I hear ya! I am a stay at home mom of 2 boys too, and my youngest starts Kindergarten in the fall. I've been on the PTO at my oldest's school for 3 years now and I help out at my little one's preschool. Not to mention helping out with boy scouts and babysitting nephews or friends kids every now and then. That seems to happen when you stay at home, though...ya get asked more often.
I'd like to get back to school or to work, but it's really overwhelming. And a job is not an easy thing to find here lately....the economy in MI is really not a big help. Not to mention how much it costs for gas! A part-time job would have to cover the cost to fill my tank plus save some money....not very likely I guess.

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Before I had my son I was in the middle of double-majoring in English and Anthropology and working as a Barista. Right now I'm a stay at home mom but I'll be going back to school in the fall. I'm not going back to that job though. My get-up-at-four 'o' clock-every-morning-coffee-slinging days are over.

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I am a full time Nanny for two families. One has two girls (6 and 4) the other has 4 boys (11, 9, 7, and almost 2). I have a third family only on the weekends with three children (girl 7, girl 5, boy 3) Some months I only have one off day so I feel like a SAHM! I love it and wouldn't trade it for anything!

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I am a pre-school teacher. I teach a total of 30 kids on M-W-F (15 in my morning class and 15 in my afternoon class). On T-Th i stay at home with my kids girl (almost 10) and 2 boys (almost 6 and almost 2). I am also a soccor, football, dance, baseball, gymnastics mom. On the side I go cheer for dear hubby's football team--he's the coach! I love it all and wouldn't trade any of it!

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"Yeah, it's an off day when I don't get somebody telling me how edible I smell."

]I work in a junior high school as a librarian assistant.

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He took my face between his two stone hands, holding it tightly while his midnight eyes glared into mine with the gravitational force of a black hole. "I will never leave you again"____Stephanie Meyer New Moon

I'm a legal secretary, directly responsible for the happiness of five attorneys. Having said that, there are over 100 lawyers in the firm and if any one of them asks me to do something I have to do it.

In my spare time, I'm a total nerd! I read tons of books and comics, and play table-top rpg's.

Vampire: The Masquerade anyone?

I also write sometimes, mostly crappy poetry.

I have a nephew who I adore and would do anything for. I get to hang with him twice a week.

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I run a daycare from home so I get to sneak to my computer durning naptime. I have 10 kids including my 2. I am co-pres of the PTO at my boys school and in the young womens program at church. I am also training for my first triathlon which is a job in itself!
Thanks for asking!

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Sanguina wrote:

I am a trained Forensic Investigator (CSI). It is never boring, that is for certain. However, Iam now living in the UK and having trouble finding a position because to work with the Police here you have to be a resident for 3 years. I have only been here for 1 thus far so I am working temporary jobs. Currently I am temping at London Metropolitan University.

Go you, I have one friend who does this job in Cardiff and another who is at Uni training in Ealing.

I am a Teaching Assistant, it's a different role that that of the same name in the US. Here in the UK I support the learning of children with special learning needs. These could be cognitive, speech, hearing, behaviour,global delay or specific learning needs due to a physical disability. I am currently working with 7-11 year old children and my job can be very rewarding.

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I am a bookkeeper at a grocery store. I work 3am to noon, so that ai am home when my kids get home from school and I take my lunch break to get them off to school. Up until January, I home schooled my oldest son. Now that he is high school age he wants to have those exeriences.

I'm an author (historical romance for Zebra Books and Harlequin SPICE and and officially-licensed NASCAR romance for Harlequin NASCAR), which is great because it allows me to work at home and be available for my two daughters (ages seven and eight). Gets a little crazy sometimes, especially when I'm under deadline or off on book tours/publicity events, but mostly it's a dream come true, so I can't complain.

Before I had kids, I worked in non-profit development. I managed the foundation and corporate gifts/sponsorship programs at the American Museum of Natural History, and then American Ballet Theatre.

OME!! gosh.. i feel almost embarrassed to make a comment.. you guys are all so amazing,, everything you do...and i thought i was overwhelmed.. I'm just a sahm.. i used to work for 2 great othopedic surgeons but i had a baby in December and decided to stay at home and take care of him at least for the first year... i never got to do it with my daughter and now that i have the chance i wanted to take advantage of it.. i have been looking for something that i can do at home because i just feel like i want to have some spending money.. i guess i miss the income i used to have from my job.. so if anybody knows of anything .. please let me know..

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OME!! gosh.. i feel almost embarrassed to make a comment.. you guys are all so amazing

And so are you, every mum is amazing....I stayed at home for my kids, now I have the job I love and my kids are nearly grown up.

You are not a sham, you'e a mum and that's precious!

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cynthial11 wrote:

OME!! gosh.. i feel almost embarrassed to make a comment.. you guys are all so amazing,, everything you do...and i thought i was overwhelmed.. I'm just a sahm..

NEVER be embarrassed about being a SAHM! That is actually my dream job, but even once we have kids, I don't think it will actually happen!

Right now I'm working two jobs (middle school teacher in the day/librarian in the evening) while my husband finishes up college. One more year and he'll graduate so I can drop one job or another, and hopefully have a baby or two!

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"My Edward and I, then, are happy: and the more so, because those we most love are happy likewise."
(from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte)

i live in the uk and deliver newspapers which is a really early morning start usually about 5am, then come home and take care of my kids with my hubby before he goes to work.
nothing exciting but it does me.

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Hi Vicky, Woot! Another UK mum. You brave lady getting up in all weathers early in the morning...you part vamp or what?

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