what jobs do you do?
May 22nd 2009, 2:59 pm
#46
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Re: what jobs do you do?
christ!!!! how!! good example! not who!!!:
May 22nd 2009, 3:18 pm
#47
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Re: what jobs do you do?
Retired now but was a Earthmoving superintendent for the last 31 years in Virginia and Arizona,heavy equipment operator in Somerset UK (M5 Motorway)
May 22nd 2009, 4:20 pm
#48
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Location: Reno Nevada
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Re: what jobs do you do?
California state manager for a frozen food company.
Before very varied, but all in sales/marketing around the world.
Before very varied, but all in sales/marketing around the world.
May 23rd 2009, 1:19 am
#49
Dizzy Blonde
Joined: Sep 2007
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio.
Posts: 964
Re: what jobs do you do?
I was a PA / Executive Assistant in England
Now a 'Guest Services Agent' (Receptionist) in a hotel earning SFA an hour..... but its a job!
Now a 'Guest Services Agent' (Receptionist) in a hotel earning SFA an hour..... but its a job!
May 23rd 2009, 1:29 am
#50
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Location: Cornwall >>> Marin, CA >>> Cornwall!
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Re: what jobs do you do?
UK was in IT and retrained for plumbing.
Here work for leak detection and repair company. Pools and houses
Here work for leak detection and repair company. Pools and houses
May 23rd 2009, 6:14 am
#52
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Location: Austin, Texas in my own little world
Posts: 21,691
Re: what jobs do you do?
computer stuff with emphasis on operating systems and handling customers around the world around the clock. This sounds better than it is. Also have a DBA for landscaping/gardening/nursery and computer consulting, and am president of my own neighbourhood association. 
May 23rd 2009, 6:36 am
#53
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Re: what jobs do you do?
5 years in the UK as a games engine programmer working on consoles... landed a job stateside back in 2003, moved over in 2004 and been here since... title changed, money increased massively but the work itself is the same... on the last year of my second H1B right now heading to greencard (Interview 6/22)
May 23rd 2009, 7:36 am
#54
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Re: what jobs do you do?
Back home I was a Publican 
while over here I now see the other end of the scale, meaning people going too far after a night out Security in a Hospital.
while over here I now see the other end of the scale, meaning people going too far after a night out Security in a Hospital.
May 24th 2009, 7:39 am
#56
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Joined: Aug 2008
Location: Clearwater, FL
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Re: what jobs do you do?
Manager of a Health Information Dept in the NHS in the UK, now a VP Marketing for a Web Publicity company.... very different! ...much better!
May 24th 2009, 7:54 am
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Re: what jobs do you do?
I was a truck driver in the U.K. 
Then a Chauffeur to a English Lord and Lady 
Now..... Was a Truck driver...Now drive for a local compant here in Kansas City
Then a Chauffeur to a English Lord and Lady Now..... Was a Truck driver...Now drive for a local compant here in Kansas City
May 24th 2009, 9:06 am
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