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What your DH does for a living... - 6/20/2008 5:39:14 PM
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Mrs.X
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...and what you admire and like about it....and maybe what you don't like about.
I'll post mine in a little bit.
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RE: What your DH does for a living... - 6/20/2008 6:07:40 PM
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Mrs.X
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My hubby is an exterminator (kills pests). He works for a small company, the only other employee is his boss. I like that he makes people's lives more pleasant by keeping the bugs and other pests away. A lady was having a problem with rats in her house, and he young daughter suffers from asthma which can be affected by pests. I overheard on the phone with the woman and how grateful she was for getting rid of them and how her daughter hasn't had an asthma attack in 2 weeks. The woman sounded almost teary. That was pretty cool.
Just yesterday, hubby went and did a pigeon job. There were a family of pigeons in the attick of someone's home. Rober rounded up all the pigeons in a potato sack and then asked his boss what to do with them. His boss said to snap their necks (not a practice done with all birds, but with pigeons it is). Robert explained to his boss that he couldn't do that to the birds, and that he'd bring the birds over to his boss' house. His boss was understanding, thankfully. I really saw a sweet side of Robert. A few other times he had squirrel jobs and couldn't bring himself to snap the squirrel's neck, so he trapped them and released them into the wild (locally). He said he would have done that for the pigeons, but they were freshly hatched, so they would have suffered and died anyway. Whenever he covers vents (for bird jobs), he always tries to get the birds out first so they can die instantly rather than starve to death. He is very sweet with animals, but he also doesn't have a problem with smashing a spider with his shoe. LOL!
What I don't like about his job is him having to always work outside even when it's cold/raining or hot. Poor guy.
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RE: What your DH does for a living... - 6/20/2008 6:55:58 PM
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Well, like I used to be, he's an engineer. Only he does research and makes way more money then I did. Honestly, I don't have many complaints. There were times when he'd get really tied up with a project and work very long hours, but that hasn't happened in a while.
We're very blessed with dH's job. Good money, flexible hours, good medical, okay dental, and tons of paid vacation and sick leave. When I was working full time, I only got the standard 2 weeks vacation, but dH got twice that, plus 12 company holidays (they give everybody the week in between Christmas and New Years off, without drawing from their vacation days).
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RE: What your DH does for a living... - 6/20/2008 8:18:05 PM
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DH is currently working every other week as a Walgreen's night manager. It has it's advantages and disadvantages but I try and focus on the positive things. It gives us GREAT benefits and good vacation days(although nothing like we were used to with the Marine Corps). I can't really complain other then that it gets lonely at night when he is working.
He also works the opposite week as a financial management adviser and is the specialist in the office for a certain program. He is on a trial contract right now to see how well/fast he can learn WealthVision and we are praying, praying, praying that he gets the job full time. We are pretty sure he will(his boss has been introducing him as the "expert") but we prefer not to count our chickens before they hatch. Getting that job would be about a $20k per year pay raise so we are praying HARD, LOL!
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RE: What your DH does for a living... - 6/20/2008 8:19:50 PM
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My hubby is mechanic so its very handy having someone like that around, he is great with his hands. He has worked in workshops up until this year when he moved to work for a mining company serving their heavy vehicles and lighter vehicles. These truck tyres are taller than our house!! So what I like about this job is the pay is good and they treat him better than a workshop or a car dealership. But the work is hard and long hours, he works rain or shine and even when it is like 45 celcius (which is like the hottest of hots) he is still under an engine or something like that. And its hard on his back and his knees and his hands.
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RE: What your DH does for a living... - 6/20/2008 9:05:52 PM
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My husband is a production supervisor for a large poultry company in the area. Northwest Arkansas is the chicken capital of the world, LOL. He supervises the line workers and oversees the data on production, and he also supervises the shipping dept (which he did before he started supervising the production line, but he is really good at that job, so they have him doing both). He works 12 hour days, and he's gone for about 14 hrs. a day. He is paid nicely (enough for me not to have to work, but nothing extravagant) and we have good benefits, so we're thankful for his job. He has his business degree and has always wanted to work in the agricultural industry.
He works even on his days off, though. He can't sit still. He does a lot of auctioning and livestock and farm equipment buying/sellling/trading, etc. on the side.
Before he got this job, he was a police officer for about 7 years. The pay and politics were awful. But . . . . there was the uniform. . . . .  
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RE: What your DH does for a living... - 6/20/2008 10:35:26 PM
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He's the I.T. manager of the main Internet company in our city. I admire that he goes above and beyond his job description, but I don't like the fact that in order to get this job he had to agree to be on-call 24/7...literally. He doesn't get called out that much, but it seems when he does it's when we have family plans.
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RE: What your DH does for a living... - 6/20/2008 10:37:22 PM
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Up till 4 years ago last April, my husband was a Finance Director for a large firm in the Defence Industry.
4 years ago last April, at the age of 48, he was made redundant. He was given a reasonable settlement, but we knew that finding another job at 48 would not be easy. And it wasn't - with all the jobs he applied for, he was told he was overqualified. Bosses didn't want someone coming in who had more skills than them.
So Dave started painting pictures. He had never had any training, other than what he'd done at high school. He started painting local forest scenes, seascapes, views of/from our local golf course. He started exhibiting them, then people asked him to do a demonstration/workshop at their art groups.
That led to him being asked to teach adults art at an evening class at a local college. He said he wasn't qualified as a teacher, so the college said they'd train him at the same time. So for the last 2 years he has been studying to become a teacher, and also teaching! He teaches 2 art classes per week (might be 3 next year), and also does beginners guitar classes from time to time.
And he paints and sells his pictures. His latest venture is pet portraits:
West Highland Terrier
Welsh Terrier
Springer Spaniel
It's great that Dave works from home; it means he sees a lot more of all of us than he did when he was going out to work each day. It's also truly inspirational to see each painting come together, and to see the care and attention he lavishes on each one, to get it just right.
The only downside is that we're having to try and live on about a seventh of what he was earning before. But God is good, and we manage. 
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RE: What your DH does for a living... - 6/20/2008 10:43:31 PM
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My dh is a software engineer for an educational company. In the last few years he's moved more into the creative branch of the company and does some development. He's good at that kind of thing.
I'm really proud of his dedication and his work ethic. He really has a heart for the customer (teachers and students) and spends inordinate amounts of time trying to make products easier and more helpful for them when other programmers would just move on. He also spends a lot of time researching technology topics so he can introduce new things to the company.
He knows his weaknesses and he's good at minimizing them and playing off his strengths. I'm really proud of him.
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RE: What your DH does for a living... - 6/20/2008 10:54:31 PM
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ORIGINAL: stellaluna
My husband is a railroad engineer.
I told my hubby that, and he started drooling ... that's his dream job (I'm a model train widow!)
As of right now, he is a customer service rep in a call centre ... doing cellphone activations. He is definitely counting down the days until the newest lil one arrives, so he can take 9 months of parental leave!!! Bonus for his job: benefits!!! (medical, dental, vision, chiropractic ... even massage therapy!!!)
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RE: What your DH does for a living... - 6/21/2008 2:44:00 AM
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quote:
ORIGINAL: manda59
Up till 4 years ago last April, my husband was a Finance Director for a large firm in the Defence Industry.
4 years ago last April, at the age of 48, he was made redundant. He was given a reasonable settlement, but we knew that finding another job at 48 would not be easy. And it wasn't - with all the jobs he applied for, he was told he was overqualified. Bosses didn't want someone coming in who had more skills than them.
So Dave started painting pictures. He had never had any training, other than what he'd done at high school. He started painting local forest scenes, seascapes, views of/from our local golf course. He started exhibiting them, then people asked him to do a demonstration/workshop at their art groups.
That led to him being asked to teach adults art at an evening class at a local college. He said he wasn't qualified as a teacher, so the college said they'd train him at the same time. So for the last 2 years he has been studying to become a teacher, and also teaching! He teaches 2 art classes per week (might be 3 next year), and also does beginners guitar classes from time to time.
And he paints and sells his pictures. His latest venture is pet portraits:
West Highland Terrier
Welsh Terrier
Springer Spaniel
It's great that Dave works from home; it means he sees a lot more of all of us than he did when he was going out to work each day. It's also truly inspirational to see each painting come together, and to see the care and attention he lavishes on each one, to get it just right.
The only downside is that we're having to try and live on about a seventh of what he was earning before. But God is good, and we manage.
Manda- your husband has an awesome talent!! Those are very good!
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RE: What your DH does for a living... - 6/21/2008 6:07:47 AM
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Short answer: My DH (like myself) is a missionary.
More details: DH works a lot in communications, being websites, brochures, prayer cards, posters, and all kinds of other things. He's also a worship leader and has his hand in many different local bands, as either a guitarist or drummer. On top of that he's very involved in mentoring & discipling youth, many through his relationship with them through music.
I love that he's passionate about what he does and put his all into it, over and beyond what he's asked. I also love that we live overseas & get to pour our lives into the youth here and demonstrate Christ to them.
I don't like that, since it's not a normal 9-5 job, it's hard to separate "life" and "ministry", as well as the host of other things that come with living in a foreign country. "Salary" is a challenge since we are responsible for finding sponsors for our ministry here. DH gave up 2 amazing IT/programming job offers because God was calling us back into missions. I'm very proud of him for sticking to what he knew God was saying to us, in spite of these incredible offers, but sometimes I wish we had more of a stable income.
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RE: What your DH does for a living... - 6/21/2008 7:09:26 AM
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My dh is currently a "technician" at a dialysis clinic. I haven't quite figured out how they fill up 8 hours a day for him, but I do know he cleans the machines (lots of acid and bleach, scary stuff), hauls things around, does deliveries and helps at other clinics closeby, and is the unofficial repairman who saves them lots of money.  He fixed my leaky dishwasher with his toolbox and a piece of wire, so I imagine they love having him around.
He is also currently building a real-estate/rental business. It was really rough going at first, but we finally have one rent check coming in and he's in the process of weeding through applicants for another house. Once that's done we'll be halfway to his goal of being self-sufficient, though I think he'll keep working at his job until we have enough from the houses to live on and then give wiggle room for more investment.
His dialysis job is a pretty good one. They give a living wage, lots of bonuses and gifts, frequent raises, and I doubt they will ever fire him because he is one of their most stable and reliable workers, and they have a hard time finding someone to work his shift, which starts at 4 am.
The shift is what I don't like about that job. It really messes with our schedule. If I stay up after he leaves for work, I'm exhausted. But if I go back to bed I always sleep later than I wanted to and don't get a good start on the day.  It also means we have to go to bed really early, so we miss out on a lot of events and church stuff.
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RE: What your DH does for a living... - 6/21/2008 9:34:05 AM
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ORIGINAL: manda59
Up till 4 years ago last April, my husband was a Finance Director for a large firm in the Defence Industry.
4 years ago last April, at the age of 48, he was made redundant. He was given a reasonable settlement, but we knew that finding another job at 48 would not be easy. And it wasn't - with all the jobs he applied for, he was told he was overqualified. Bosses didn't want someone coming in who had more skills than them.
So Dave started painting pictures. He had never had any training, other than what he'd done at high school. He started painting local forest scenes, seascapes, views of/from our local golf course. He started exhibiting them, then people asked him to do a demonstration/workshop at their art groups.
That led to him being asked to teach adults art at an evening class at a local college. He said he wasn't qualified as a teacher, so the college said they'd train him at the same time. So for the last 2 years he has been studying to become a teacher, and also teaching! He teaches 2 art classes per week (might be 3 next year), and also does beginners guitar classes from time to time.
And he paints and sells his pictures. His latest venture is pet portraits:
West Highland Terrier
Welsh Terrier
Springer Spaniel
It's great that Dave works from home; it means he sees a lot more of all of us than he did when he was going out to work each day. It's also truly inspirational to see each painting come together, and to see the care and attention he lavishes on each one, to get it just right.
The only downside is that we're having to try and live on about a seventh of what he was earning before. But God is good, and we manage.
Manda, your husband's talent is incredible. The puppy in the briefcase is to die for.
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RE: What your DH does for a living... - 6/21/2008 10:03:53 AM
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My hubby to be is an Electrian and is going to go school for electrical engineering in the fall.
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RE: What your DH does for a living... - 6/21/2008 10:06:42 AM
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My husband is a union pipefitter. It's good pay and good benefits. What I don't like is never knowing where he might be sent to work. We've been lucky, especially with the price of gas, the last few years have been close to home. I don't like how unpredictable it can be sometimes. Being sent to one work site for a few weeks. Another work site for a couple months etc.... As long as he keeps working somewhere ,though, I'm good.
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RE: What your DH does for a living... - 6/21/2008 10:01:06 PM
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My husband is a software engineer. He programs high end DVD players, stereo receivers, remotes, and other consumer electronics. (Ya know, like how when you press a button on the remote, the equipment knows what to do!)
I like it because for the most part he likes it. He gets to tinker with hardware and software. The company he works for is great - they don't work their engineers to death like some companies do. He makes enough that I haven't had to settle for a job I didn't like or that is full time. (I'm looking for part time work but have had a hard time finding anything.) He's usually home by 7:00. He gets decent benefits.
I don't like that it's hard for him to take time off when they've got projects in progress. When you're one of two engineers, things don't get done when you take off. We haven't had a TON of problem with this, but we have had a couple minor issues.
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