Poll: Are You Proud Of....

[Canadian Karen]

Oops! Sorry, quoted the wrong person! Should have quoted Geoff!

Karen

[melrobsings]

melrobsings- both of your jobs sound so exciting. Have you been in anything that we may have seen? Plays, TV?

Wow, i have been all over the US doing regional theatre, mostly in CA, FL, SC, NYC and PA. I worked on Holland America Cruise Line for 3 years as lead singer ALL OVER the world. Worked at Disneyland years ago as a Christmas Caroler...Done some TV stuff but nothing to really write home about. Doing a show at the end of Aug in NYC...lol have you seen me? I'm normally in a wig...

[RiceAddict]

Count me among the proud! I am a collections specialist at a museum. I've been in several museums over the past few years and it is great. I basically advise as to the best way to store, organize, and handle a variety of historic, artistic, and cultural object. Learning history or culture from a book is one thing, but when you are able to hold it in your hands it takes your breath away.

Here is the current project I am leading: Open Original Shared Link

[ItchyMeredith]

I am a proud stay at home mom to two boys- a 2 1/2 year old and a 9 month old. I was a 4th grade teacher in downtown Los Angeles and I plan to go back when my youngest is in school.

I LOVE TEACHING and I couldn't imagine doing any other job. As I see it now I am still a teacher I just have 2 students instead of 30.

Meredith

[Daxin]

I am VERY proud of what I do. I work as an Aerospace Controller for the Canadian Forces. I LOVE my job. Keeping my eyes (electronic though they may be) on the skys, and keeping my pilot safe...who can ask for more. I LOVE going to work each and every day.

[little d]

I love what I do sometimes too. Im a patient care tech if I worked in a Dr office a Medical assistant. I currantly work in the nursery with the newborns just hours old until they go home, and in the transitioanl nursery for the infant who are not sick enough for the NICU. Sometimes these are the infants who have to stay for maybe weeks. It is great until one of these little babies turn south go blue on you and being a tech I can not adminaster OX on a baby because I am not a nurse. I will get attached to and infant who has to stay we had a couple of years ago born anacyphalic all he had was and exposed brain stem, spineal fluid leaking, seizures every couple of seconds. I got pretty bad he stayed for a week with us his mom was up on the sick mom floor and really did not want to see the infant because of her culture, any way mom finally went home took her what she thought was going to be a healthy baby home to die in Hospice care October 30 2005 he passed two days after. Talk about and hard day at work getting attached to something or someone who you know is not going to make it is hard but also rewarding, like the time we had this little girl for 2 wks nothing wrong with her just little, We did love this little girl like our own gave her baths, doing what we could for this health infant who was the best baby ever these are the moments that make it worth while in the nursery and I love it.

donna

[blueeyedmanda]

I love what I do sometimes too. Im a patient care tech if I worked in a Dr office a Medical assistant. I currantly work in the nursery with the newborns just hours old until they go home, and in the transitioanl nursery for the infant who are not sick enough for the NICU. Sometimes these are the infants who have to stay for maybe weeks. It is great until one of these little babies turn south go blue on you and being a tech I can not adminaster OX on a baby because I am not a nurse. I will get attached to and infant who has to stay we had a couple of years ago born anacyphalic all he had was and exposed brain stem, spineal fluid leaking, seizures every couple of seconds. I got pretty bad he stayed for a week with us his mom was up on the sick mom floor and really did not want to see the infant because of her culture, any way mom finally went home took her what she thought was going to be a healthy baby home to die in Hospice care October 30 2005 he passed two days after. Talk about and hard day at work getting attached to something or someone who you know is not going to make it is hard but also rewarding, like the time we had this little girl for 2 wks nothing wrong with her just little, We did love this little girl like our own gave her baths, doing what we could for this health infant who was the best baby ever these are the moments that make it worth while in the nursery and I love it.

donna

Donna,

You have to be a special person to work with such tiny little miracles. I get so sad when I pass the NICU at work. I have to say those babies are little fighters though. They really overcome the odds. From working in the lab at the hospital here, I know sometimes they stay for months and then move to the PICU until they are able to go home.

[little d]

Donna,

You have to be a special person to work with such tiny little miracles. I get so sad when I pass the NICU at work. I have to say those babies are little fighters though. They really overcome the odds. From working in the lab at the hospital here, I know sometimes they stay for months and then move to the PICU until they are able to go home.

I am not in the NICU but I am with the newborns and we do have our share of infants that need attention. My nusery that i work in has a room full of well infants that can stay with mom and stay in the nusery when mom is wanting sleep nothing wrong with the infant. And then we have our Transitional care room for the infants who are not well enough to stay in the first nusery and not sick enough for the NICU but from time to time we will have that one infant that will cause trouble for us and have to go down to NICU. Last year before we had the Transitional part of our nusery we had this baby who really did not look good it ate ok and everything but when the baby laid there in the crib something was differant about this one I kept looking at her gums and lips to see if she was pink because this infant was African American and it is harder to tell if they are pink or blue. Blue on a baby is not pretty. So anyway I kept asking my nurse to come and look, she told me to do vitals on this baby HR, Resp, and Temp. If you have ever heard a very slight heartmurmur sounds like a washing machine well this murmur I heard sounded like 3 Machine going in rince cycle, I told the nurse she better come and hear this and she looked listened and took the pulse ox which was 75 needs to be 85 or better, someone callled NICU they came up and usually they think that we don't know anything because they are better than us well they took this baby speedy quick took blood work and the baby oxygen that she was getting was 65. Needless to say I saved this baby from dying NICU said that the baby would have been dead by morning and I really fealt good about saving a life. The next night I got to see the infant when I took mom to see her baby at Cook's childrens hospital next door and told her that I was in the nusery when the baby was sent down I was too modest to tell her that it was me who kept looking at her baby. The baby had open heart surgery that was the first time for me to see a baby that just had heart surgery. That was pretty wild. The NICU nurse who took the baby came up and told us good catch that never happens.

donna

[Cruiser Bob]

Any suggestions, I know utlimatley it is mine, but wanted to know if anyone else was in this particular situation. Thanks for listening.

Follow your heart.

Anything less is not being true to yourself and will more than likely be negative energy, which will more than likely manifest itself as a health issue. Been there done that - actually living through the back half of it, after running the family business for 21 years, currently a real job - but I resign in October and we'll see where I land.

Read: Sacred Choices by Christel Nani Open Original Shared Link

Me:

Geological Engineer - from schooling

Real Estate Appraiser - 21 years in Bend, Oregon

Review Appraiser-Forest Service - 1 year, South Lake Tahoe, CA

Next year - who knows, but I'll be in Oregon

Bob