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[SandySparkles]

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@GoneButNotForgotten wrote:

My favorite job was as an administrator for a high-tech company: I had my own office and DIDN'T HAVE TO ANSWER PHONES ! Instead of being at everyone's beck-and-call, they were at mine.

My absolutely worst job was as a receptionist for a business that processed disability claims for Boeing. Oy, the stories I could tell!

I also worked as a temp for a few years and, again, the stories I could tell you!

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@GoneButNotForgotten Welcome!🥰 WOW! I job where I did not have to answer phones would have been my favorite also!😄 Pssst. I would LOVE❤ to hear a few of those stories!!!😁

THANK you SO much for caring to share your favorite job!🤗

~~~All we need is LOVE💖

[SandySparkles]

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@cjm61 wrote:

@SandySparkles I don't think many people realize when speaking to customer service/representative, it is just a person with limited control and doing their best job with the tools they are given.

My sister-in-law worked at Kaiser also but at the reception desk. We always debated who got the worst abuse. I felt that people were far more likely to yell and scream on the phone than they would in person. I still feel this way, which has enabled me to be much more compassionate towards CS.

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@cjm61 Welcome back!🥰 I WHOLEHEARTEDLY concur, with this also, but there are people who will yell over the phone and be QUITE aggressive in person! THOSE people scare me!😄 I have the utmost respect for ANYONE in customer service!❤

THANK you SO much for caring to share another perspective!🤗

~~~All we need is LOVE💖

[SandySparkles]

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@smoochy wrote:

I worked in a profession I didn't like for forty-six years. When I was 19 I had just spent two semesters in college taking Intro to linguistics, communications 101 etc. But I was clueless about what I wanted to do. Back then (1970),  I really just wanted to be a wealthy socialite wife of a doctor or CEO. But alas. 😅 Also a liberal arts degree was considered iffy, as far as getting jobs. So I let my mother talk me into going to nursing school. My talents and true love at that time were in the arts-singing, English lit, communication and writing. Least skilled in and not interested in math and science. Yeah. I spent most of my career job hopping. Luckily I made an excellent wage at every job. My last ten years or so were in the hospice field, which I liked more than anything else I had done. The ability to help ease suffering for my dying patients and to emotionally support their families was special. That said, you can imagine the relief I felt the day I retired in 2018. 
These past six years have been the best of my life. 
Now at 72, I am still indulging my love of vocal performance in a big acappella show chorus. And reading. And stewarding my little free library. The things I might have done for a career I'm now doing as hobbies 🥰

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@smoochy Welcome!🥰 My most sincere apologies for the late welcome!😊 I thoroughly enjoyed reading your post, and like how you experienced multiple careers, but ended up enjoying the MOST rewarding of all of them!❤ Being a hospice nurse takes a SPECIAL kind of person, with a loving and compassionate spirit.👍 To now be able to do what you LOVE ❤ in retirement, is truly rewarding! You seem to be living your best life, and I am SO happy for you!!😁

THANK you SO much for caring to share!🤗

~~~All we need is LOVE💖

[SandySparkles]

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@SaveTheTurtles wrote:

I haven't had many jobs in my working years. Tended to stay put. I'll start with the worst first:

McDonalds when I was a teenager. I thought it would be fun at the register taking orders. But, they put me on the deep fryer making french fries. I lasted 1 day.

I loved selling yellow pages advertising for the bulk of my career back in it's heyday. I then went into collections for them. I loved that too. I spent 26 years doing this until it was sold in 2012 and I was eligible to retire.

My current job is in purchasing which I've been doing since 2012. I LOVE this job the most. Hey, I get to shop and buy stuff all day everyday. Doesn't get much better than that!  

I'm going to retire for real at the end of the year and am looking forward to the next chapter!

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@SaveTheTurtles Welcome!🥰 I am revisiting the thread, and see that I did not address your retirement; though I meant to!😊 I would like to CONGRATULATE you early and wish you a HAPPY retirement, as you begin this WELL deserved next chapter!😁 May it be ALL you ever dreamed it would!!❤❤

~~~All we need is LOVE💖

[GoneButNotForgotten]

Sandy--did you hit your kids with the spoon or just pound it to make threatening noise?

[Catiele]

My first job was at an insurance company. I was in charge of the files. It was easy and I liked it.

My favorite job was working at a Christmas House. It was a big old house filled with Christmas decor. Of course it was a seasonal job but I loved it.

[SandySparkles]

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@GoneButNotForgotten wrote:

Sandy--did you hit your kids with the spoon or just pound it to make threatening noise?

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@GoneButNotForgotten Welcome!🥰 ??? Was this meant for someone else?

THANK you SO much for caring to share today!🤗

~~~All we need is LOVE💖

[SandySparkles]

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@Catiele wrote:

My first job was at an insurance company. I was in charge of the files. It was easy and I liked it.

My favorite job was working at a Christmas House. It was a big old house filled with Christmas decor. Of course it was a seasonal job but I loved it.

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@Catiele Welcome!🥰 I woukd have LOVED❤ working at the Christmas house!😁

THANK you SO much for caring to share today!🤗

~~~All we need is LOVE💖

[Gorgf]

Assisted Living Care Staff- CNA

Physically and Emotionally exhausting, poor management, low pay, multiple shifts in a row, few weekends or holidays off, incompetent  immature workers, some who stole,  verbal abuse from clients and families.  Director fired for embezzling.  Assisted Director stole narcotics, never prosicuted. High staff turnover and some refusal to preform duties leaving messes for next shift.

Jobs were not easy to find at the time in 2008 when laid off and thankfully I had a better opportunity  with Health Insurance come up before I got on Medicare. This organization owned 32 Assisted Living Homes. They took residents who belonged in Nursing Homes for the money, including Hospice Care. We were not nurses by any means.

No Health Insurance. The young women working there were often unmarried with children so they had State Health Insurance coverage.

[SandySparkles]

@Gorgf Welcome!🥰 WOW! I can see why that is your worst job, and am sorry to read of that experience!😐 It is sad that those type of jobs are perhaps some of the hardest, but also thankless! Thankfully, things improved for you!❤

THANK you SO much for caring to share today!🤗

~~~All we need is LOVE💖