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Amish Heart said:
I've worked with children all of my life. Started out babysitting. Got married and had 5 kids. Homeschooled. Then I started an in home day care, but with academics. That way, our children could also be with me. That grew, hired an employee, but was tired of our house wear and tear. So, we found a commercial acre and a third for sale, and it was a mile from our house. We got permission from our planning and zoning to build (that was brutal), bought the land, designed the 4k ft building. built it, and opened for business. Used our savings. It's been good...open for 15 plus years, anywhere from 9-12 employees at a time. I do day to day director operations, and train our teachers to teach...reading, math, and science. We have students as young as 2, all the way through kindergarten during the day. But have our older big kids to age twelve, before and after school till 6 p.m., full time during the summer, and also during school out times, like today and the next two weeks. Big kids usually gain 1/2 grade of academics in the 10 weeks of summer they are with us.
But...I am ready to sell and retire. Husband has health problems, and we raise the twin grandkids that are 12 yrs old. Am ready to move to the farm after we sell and husband retires. He works in aerospace. Manages the engineers that fly satellites for the military. The lady that "visited" while we were open last week is sure that her husband and her and another silent investor will be getting bank financing in January. I will believe it when I see it. And...the big and...is also getting husband to retire. He is of age this coming summer, but really, really loves his job. Maybe he might consider consulting.
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My dad was in aerospace as well. He took the 'golden' severance package when he was ready to retire. They offered 6 months salary to those that voluntarily took the 'layoffs'. He made sure his pension kicked in after the 6 months was up. Not sure what company your hubby works for but he should check into it to see if they do the same thing.
 
Everyone has been adding past work history. Here are some I had before I got into film...

Worked at a doll hospital
Was a 'fuzzy' and a 'face' character at Disneyland
Was the rat at Chuck E Cheese when I was in high school
Worked at a record shop
Retail
Dispatcher
Wedding cake decorator
Barista
 
Here's my work history list:

Clay Pigeon stacker (at a trap range)
Newspaper delivery boy
Fast Food counter attendant
Furniture store employee / General laborer
Disc Jockey
Army National Guard
EKG Technician / College student (nuclear medicine)
Prison Transport Officer / College student (criminal justice / psychology)
Prison Security Specialist / College student (criminal justice / psychology)
Deputy Sheriff
State Police Officer
 
After school Stock boy.
Recreation Vehicle Draftsman until gasoline hit $1 a gallon and the industry folded.
Graduated from a Law Enforcement Academy resulting in employment with the same Government entity for the next 20 years.
Semi retired by working only 40 to 45 hours per week as a Plant Manager for a privately owned communications company.
Served two elected terms on a local Board.
Presently 44 years into a life time sentence for marrying my High School sweetheart.
 
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@SheepDog there is life after extensive injuries you just have to do things in a different ways as my DH would tell you and listen to your body and pain levels and work accordingly. You are right that your frame of mind and thinking positively is the way to do it and it also helps having a supportive and loving wife by your side and you will get there :D.
 
I'm a semi (sorta) retired registered nurse. I work as circulator in a small free standing day surgery. We do mostly skin cancers and cataracts with lens implants. We do a few colon scopes. I'm considering full retirement, but then, I've been considering that for awhile now.
Nursing has been one of the joys of my life along with my hubby, chlidren, and grand children.
 
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The Lazy L said:
After school Stock boy.
Recreation Vehicle Draftsman until gasoline hit $1 a gallon and the industry folded.
Graduated from a Law Enforcement Academy resulting in employment with the same Government entity for the next 20 years.
Semi retired by working only 40 to 45 hours per week as a Plant Manager for a privately owned communications company.
Served two elected terms on a local Board.
Presently 44 years into a life time sentence for marrying my High School sweetheart.
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You mean you're still in the joint?
 
The Lazy L said:
After school Stock boy.
Recreation Vehicle Draftsman until gasoline hit $1 a gallon and the industry folded.
Graduated from a Law Enforcement Academy resulting in employment with the same Government entity for the next 20 years.
Semi retired by working only 40 to 45 hours per week as a Plant Manager for a privately owned communications company.
Served two elected terms on a local Board.
Presently 44 years into a life time sentence for marrying my High School sweetheart.
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Underage?
 
In California I was a city bus driver worked my way up to road supervisor, dispatcher and finally safety/training manager. In Arkansas I'm a utility worker in a plywood plant. Hard but simple work wouldn't trade places with my former self. 50 months until I throw in the towel.
 
Tommy D. said:
Do you care to expand on that statement?
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Neuropathy in my legs, permanent nerve damage in both my wrists from carpel tunnel, arthritis and degenerative disc syndrome down my entire spine and in addition,5 bulging disc in my spine and also COPD.
 
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squirrelhunter said:
I'm disabled.
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Aahhhh come on Mon! I know you had a before life like the rest of us that are disabled. Come on,give it up!
squirrelhunter said:
Neuropathy in my legs, permanent nerve damage in both my wrists from carpel tunnel, arthritis and degenerative disc syndrome down my entire spine and in addition,5 bulging disc in my spine and also COPD.
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All that is rough going. And you still provide care for your neighbor. My hat's off to you!
 
gumpy said:
Aahhhh come on Mon! I know you had a before life like the rest of us that are disabled. Come on,give it up!

All that is rough going. And you still provide care for your neighbor. My hat's off to you!
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Before I became disabled I worked in a variety of factories,the last 1 made industrial screw jacks and I was 1 of the assemblers. Not jacks most people think of that's in your trunks for jacking up cars,these are made for industries for about any kind of moving type job imaginable and they're custom built for whatever the customer needs. They vary from a 250 lb lift to 250 ton lift and in any length too.


And yeah I still help out my neighbor the best I can. My wife does a little for him too though.
 
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Retired US Navy, Senior Chief Petty Officer. I am currently a consultant for a industrial boiler company (stoker) and a hobby farmer (21 head of cattle and we raise 2-3 hogs for the freezer every year). We grow about a 1-2 acre garden every year, we can, freeze and freeze dry (harvest right). Wife was a pharmacist but is now full time at home. My job requires me to travel the world so now my wife can go with me to interesting places she wants to now that she is not working. My neighbors (Amish) watch the animals for us while we are gone.
 
Homesteader33 said:
Retired US Navy, Senior Chief Petty Officer. I am currently a consultant for a industrial boiler company (stoker) and a hobby farmer (21 head of cattle and we raise 2-3 hogs for the freezer every year). We grow about a 1-2 acre garden every year, we can, freeze and freeze dry (harvest right). Wife was a pharmacist but is now full time at home. My job requires me to travel the world so now my wife can go with me to interesting places she wants to now that she is not working. My neighbors (Amish) watch the animals for us while we are gone.
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The Amish are probably a great resource for homesteading knowledge too. I find them fascinating.
 
cntrywmn said:
WOW, y'all are impressive. Me, I'm retired from 40+ years doing office work, from Customer Service, Secretary, Receptionist, Inventory Control, Data Entry, General Office, etc. Now I'm just the "'Homestead Manager" on our little 10+ acre retirement homestead.
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There's no such thing as"just" a Homestead Manager! Lol
 
@cntrywmn a homestead manager does inventorying of stock, a stock purchaser in groceries, gardening mechanical equipment, is a household engineer, a home decorator, a master budgeter and generally a jack or what we call them here a Jill of all trades. In fact there was a study a while ago that worked out what a lady does in one day as a stay at home mum if they had to hire someone to do that work would far outweigh what their husbands would bring in in wages. Now you are a "homestead manager" so your worth is far greater again as you live on acreage.

Incidentally I am also a homestead manager of a .5 acre property and a carer for my ex military husband with injuries and I never stop working but it is all things we love to do such as gardening, preserving and making everything from scratch. Who said the when you are retired "you have nothing to do" because we are busier now than when we did work :D .
 
@Sewingcreations15, thank you for the kind words & you're absolutely correct, I'm busier now than I was before I "retired", lol. My boyfriend is a semi-retired truck driver, so is not here a lot, so taking care of the property here is my job, I also have a small garden, a small flock of 19 chickens & 2 Nigerian Dwarf goats, I also bake our bread, sew & make everything from scratch.
 
Spikedriver said:
The Amish are probably a great resource for homesteading knowledge too. I find them fascinating.
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They most certainly are, they are also master builders using whats available!
 
Retired. I previously worked for a large consumer goods company headquartered in Cincinnati doing Quality assurance and Project Management. 6 Months before I was going to tell them I was retiring, they offered me a "package", and made me an offer I couldn't refuse :) Now I do volunteer work for the local Ronald McDonald house(https://www.rmhcincinnati.org/), a foster child advocacy program(www.prokids.org), and St Vincent de Paul.
 
Chris said:
I got called a turd hurder today.
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I got called a few unpleasant things today too.
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dademoss said:
Retired. I previously worked for a large consumer goods company headquartered in Cincinnati doing Quality assurance and Project Management. 6 Months before I was going to tell them I was retiring, they offered me a "package", and made me an offer I couldn't refuse :) Now I do volunteer work for the local Ronald McDonald house(https://www.rmhcincinnati.org/), a foster child advocacy program(www.prokids.org), and St Vincent de Paul.
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Much respect for volunteering at RMH. My daughter was born 10 weeks early and needed a 47 day stay in the NICU before she could go home. RMH was a godsend to us at that time. We got to know the staff and see all the work they do. It's one of the best charities IMO.
 
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