How do you make a living?

[Liketobake]

I was just wondering what kind of jobs or work people on the forum do?

I am a nurse, and I have started to make a very tiny amount of money online on my blog, and selling photos (I'm into photography).

[Harleygirl]

I am a medication aid at in a memory care facility. I am also a respiratory therapy student.

[Starliteny]

I'm a hairstylist. I'm also trying to make money on my hobby doing computer graphics.

[QSis]

I'm the manager of the hardware store in my town.

Lee

[Dough Boy]

I am a professional Handyman and amateur bread baker. I also teach (for free) bread baking, fly fishing and fly tying for youth and adults.

[Trinity]

Totally dependent on dear, sweet hubby to take care of me and the kids! :p

Trinity Joy :D

[Chowhound]

I own a small boarding business for house pets.

[Kimchee]

I sell paper ephemera on ebay.

[QSis]

Hey, Chowhound, I don't think I ever knew that before! You sure have the land for it!

Kimchee, I had to look up "ephemera", then went to ebay to check out some of the stuff! Fascinating!

I've finished cleaning out my mother's house and am in the process of cleaning out my aunt's house. I'm sure I have tossed thousands of dollars worth of that stuff away. Guess most everyone does, and that's why it's valuable, right? :-)

Lee

[Chowhound]

You're kidding, Lee. I mentioned it on other forums in similar threads. I guess we don't catch everything though, especially the forums where you don't always wind up on the first new post when you click it.
Now you've got me going to Google that paper (lol).

[homecook]

I'm retired. lol

[Kimchee]

Hey, dont throw it away, I will take it all!
Gimme paper!

[Max Sutton]

I've been retired for 12.5 years now.

[Tyler]

I'm a web entrepreneur, bringing you lovely sites such as CookingForums.net :P

[Whoopie Pie]

I am a cake decorator in a grocery store! I was in retail management for years and after quitting a terrible job, I needed an income, so I took the first thing to come along (I already had cake decorating experience), this was supposed to be a temporary job, but I loved it so much and made it work financially, so I am still there 4 years later.

My friends and family think that I am crazy not to open a bakery, I already sell so many baked goods to friends and co-workers that I am half way there!

[Big Daddy's House]

I'm looking for a part-time job to suppliment my SSDI and pention incomes.

[Carnilosoraptor]

I am currently a free loader. :(

Still, that's to change soon, hopefully.

[LDSmominthekitchen]

I"ll be a full-time student as of next month, but for right now i'm a stay at home mom.

[Big Daddy's House]

I may be getting a volunteer job tutoring children. I hope so at least.

[Chowhound]

Tutoring what, Sherm? What is your field of "expertise"?

[Big Daddy's House]

Children. I like working with them. It's light duty sit-down work mostly, and doesn't require any strenuous work.

I've worked with them before, but got laid off. I've been offered the oportunity to go back, so if they accept me back, I'm going.

[Chowhound]

Yeah, I caught the children part. I was wondering what you would be "tutoring" them in... math, history, cooking.... Or is it more like a mentor/big brother thing?

[Big Daddy's House]

Oh.

Sorry, reading.

[Mama]

I'm a web entrepreneur, bringing you lovely sites such as CookingForums.net :P

Me too...except I build websites. It's interesting to hear about what everyone does. We have quite a variety here.

[Chowhound]

Reading. That's cool. The lost art.

[Big Daddy's House]

Yes it is.

Some kids don't like to read though. One little boy who I tutored before didn't like to read. He kept on giving me all kinds of drama. He would always find excuses not to read, up to and including arguing with me. He loved to argue!

[Big Daddy's House]

This little boy always came down to the library mad and angry with someone upstairs who stopped him from being a little bully.

He would even get mad with me, taking his anger and frustration out on me! He started punching me in the face. I stopped him though. I didn't hit him or yell at him, but I DID tell him politely that he can't do that, and I was not going to let him do it.

He had serious behavioral problems, up to and including poking fun at me because of my size and disrespecting me and others, but after some counsiling, he began to change from his mean and nasty ways. He eventually became one of my best mentees and we then got along like two peas in a pod! He became a great kid!!

And it truly saddened me and broke my heart because *I was laid off and couldn't tutoring this boy any more!!! After he became one of the sweetest kids in the school, I hated to be forced into a lay-off and not be able to continue tutoring and mentoring him!!

[Dough Boy]

This little boy always came down to the library mad and angry with someone upstairs who stopped him from being a little bully.

He would even get mad with me, taking his anger and frustration out on me! He started punching me in the face. I stopped him though. I didn't hit him or yell at him, but I DID tell him politely that he can't do that, and I was not going to let him do it.

He had serious behavioral problems, up to and including poking fun at me because of my size and disrespecting me and others, but after some counsiling, he began to change from his mean and nasty ways. He eventually became one of my best mentees and we then got along like two peas in a pod! He became a great kid!!

And it truly saddened me and broke my heart because *I was laid off and couldn't tutoring this boy any more!!! After he became one of the sweetest kids in the school, I hated to be forced into a lay-off and not be able to continue tutoring and mentoring him!!Sadly, money gets in the way of education. Couldn't you volunteer to continue to teach/mentor the boy? In my town we have had many adults volunteer in the schools tutoring, mentoring or just helping out in the before & after school programs.