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Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Australia
Posts: 283
Intensive Care Nurse. In a 20 bed unit at least 3 at a time relate to alcohol. Still didn't stop me for a long time but made me more aware.
8 months of being a stay at home mum tipped my drinking over the edge! So to anyone who thinks that is easy it's not! I now go to work twice a week for a break...lol. Love my work/home life balance now!
8 months of being a stay at home mum tipped my drinking over the edge! So to anyone who thinks that is easy it's not! I now go to work twice a week for a break...lol. Love my work/home life balance now!
Member
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: directly above the center of the earth
Posts: 71
while a drug abuser: waitress, record shop manager, grocery checker, travel agent, card dealer.
while a drunk: grocery checker, student, assistant/associate professor, now senior scientist.
still a drunk - just no longer practicing!
while a drunk: grocery checker, student, assistant/associate professor, now senior scientist.
still a drunk - just no longer practicing!
SOBERWRLDRCDPOWER
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Wesley Chapel, Florida
Posts: 42
I am a 3 time world record holder in the bench press which by the way doesn'y pay anything.lol And I'm also a Personal TrainerIt is cool to see where all walks of life people come from that have that common bond.
*Grateful*
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Midwest
Posts: 2,619
I have been a waitress, a Title Insurance Rep, a bank teller, a pharmacy tech for 15 years....and went back to work as a medical claims adjustor and hated it....so the hubby told me to quit. 
Currently I am doing my most favorite job in the world.... wife, mother (son 8) and a daycare provider to 2 kids just 3 days a week! Bliss!
Lily
Currently I am doing my most favorite job in the world.... wife, mother (son 8) and a daycare provider to 2 kids just 3 days a week! Bliss!
Lily
Om, Aum, Ohm...
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Punxsutawney/Pittsburgh
Posts: 4,797
Geez, we're all over the map with some very startling concentrations in paralegal work and teaching!
In no particular order: writer, management/advertising, salesperson, SAHM, graphic designer, administrative assistant, office manager for small business, warehouse grunt, college writing instructor, and currently, supervisor in the mental health field. Spent several years on disability. And I can weld, wire, prepare taxes, cut hair, and grow a mighty fine garden (as well as preserve the harvest).
Peace & Love,
Sugah
In no particular order: writer, management/advertising, salesperson, SAHM, graphic designer, administrative assistant, office manager for small business, warehouse grunt, college writing instructor, and currently, supervisor in the mental health field. Spent several years on disability. And I can weld, wire, prepare taxes, cut hair, and grow a mighty fine garden (as well as preserve the harvest).
Peace & Love,
Sugah
Member
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Louisiana
Posts: 8,642
I'm a piano teacher/performing musician. I taught at the collegiate level, and now have a large independent studio. Amazingly, my drinking did not permanently affect my performing or teaching. It's difficult to play Mozart when you're drunk, so ....exit the booze.
Today's Muse
Join Date: May 2007
Location: West end
Posts: 1,081
I've lost a job as a bank vault teller, a job in retail, and a waitress position, due to my drinking career. The waitress job was a disaster. Hard to handle food when you have the shakes from alcohol withdrawals. The cups of soup were especially difficult to handle. Hard to hide the fact you're shaking when you can hear the bowl and saucer rattling. My solution was to keep booze in my purse to guzzle in the ladies room to alleviate my problems. Funny thing, it made things worse. I don't recommend this. My last night there I came plowing through the double doors (plowed) with a plate of food and the Chinese egg roll from the dinner combo went flying off the plate and sailed across the room. I pretty much suspected that was the end of my waitressing career, and it was.
Since being sober, I've worked for the Department of Corrections in a men's maximum security prison. I have worked in Education, Property, and Medical. I just recently promoted to Admin Assistant working for management. I never in a million years thought I would be working in a prison, but I love it and have been there for over 7 years. If all goes as I hope, I will retire from DOC.
Since being sober, I've worked for the Department of Corrections in a men's maximum security prison. I have worked in Education, Property, and Medical. I just recently promoted to Admin Assistant working for management. I never in a million years thought I would be working in a prison, but I love it and have been there for over 7 years. If all goes as I hope, I will retire from DOC.
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