What do you do for a living?

[MrsSassyPants]

No such thing as "non profit.".  I'm a hotel manager.  It kinda sucks and the pay sucks too.

[PopeyesPappy]

No such thing as "non profit."

Bullshit

[SilentFutility]

No such thing as "non profit.".  I'm a hotel manager.  It kinda sucks and the pay sucks too.

Here, let me google that for you.

[PickelledEggs]

I've had many shitty jobs. How I was never fired, I'll never know.

As of now I am a full time artist and a part time delivery service CSR

The delivery service gig is only about 6 or so hrs a week to add a little bit of extra money to my income, and get me out of the house.... otherwise I lock myself in the studio binging on anime while I work on my artwork.

[Woody]

I'm a lineworker, high voltage. Ladies show yer bombz now!  :-D

[MrsSassyPants]

For any business or charity venture, there will be a profit in mind. I don't believe it no matter what google says.

[PopeyesPappy]

Well fingers I've been involved in several non profit animal rescue groups and I can assure you that the goal of those groups was to place animals in homes and not to make a profit. Furthermore those groups made no profit. In fact all of them needed the people that were part of the group to spend their own money on necessities like food and medical bills in order for the groups to survive.

[MrsSassyPants]

I just have a hard time believing in that for some reason   I'm cynical.

[PopeyesPappy]

Your profile says east tennessee. Get in touch with the greyhound rescue group in knoxville and ask them how much profit they make.

[Plu]

I don't know about the US but here we have business types that are legally not allowed to turn a profit, so it's fairly easy for me to believe they exist. These companies are required to invest 100% of their excess income back into their own organisation and are not allowed to pay their people over a certain (low) amount.

They really have no choice but to act like a non-profit, and there's plenty of them.

[entropy]

Seeing the discussions about whether going to college should be about studying whatever you are interested in or about learning things that will enable you to have an economically successful career tickled me a little bit. It tickled me because if the conversation had happened in the late 60's/early 70's when I first went to college, a LOT of the conversation would be about how being in college kept you out of the military draft. That sure was a big motivation for me.

Unfortunately, my draft lottery number was "5" (because my birthday was "pulled out of the pile" on the fifth pull) so I knew that I would be drafted very shortly after getting my degree. At that time, about 200 guys a week were being killed in Vietnam so knowing I would get drafted tended to make me pretty fatalistic about what would happen after graduation. I thought, what the hell, if I'm going to get drafted and sent to Vietnam to get killed then I'm not going to worry about getting a degree in something that will lead me to a great career. I took a basic course in philosophy for my general education requirements and really liked it, so I became a philosophy major (minored in religion and sociology).

I graduated with a B.A. in philosophy and got drafted. I wasn't sent to Vietnam and I didn't die and then I got out. I bounced around working part time gigs - mostly worked in a home for emotionally disturbed adolescents - until I realized I had my G.I. Bill college benefits, so I went back to college. I thought about going for a masters degree but I had seen some of the ridiculous hoop jumping some of my friends had to go through to get their masters and I didn't want to do that so I decided to go for another bachelor's degree. I started out studying electrical engineering but my interests tend to be really broad so I found that major to be too constricting. Then I discovered an agronomy program at Cal Poly. It was great! I took classes that varied from organic chemistry to surveying to plant pathology to welding. It seemed like it would be practical to get a B.S. degree in agronomy, but after I graduated I discovered that the only jobs available were in the federal government doing things like grain inspection services which I wasn't too excited about doing. Oops.

I still had some G.I. Bill benefits left so I decided to try getting a teaching credential since I knew I liked working with kids from my time working in the home for emotionally disturbed adolescents. I did get the credential and spent almost 30 years teaching middle school science. I was fortunate enough to get a position teaching all kinds of sciences in a new middle school for gifted (high I.Q. - 130 and above) kids. I was given a lot of freedom to form the curriculum. My natural teaching style is Socratic dialogue which works well with gifted kids. They love being asked challenging questions! Unfortunately, over the last several years there has been a huge push to get every teacher to be doing the same thing at the same time in the same way. Uhg. I just ignored the trend for a long time and got by with a lot of passive resistance. But eventually the school district administration began to seriously take away my autonomy. I didn't really want to retire so early, but I figured out that I could trim back my lifestyle enough to make it, so I bailed. I miss the kids but I don't miss grading papers and I sure as heck don't miss administrators trying to tell me how to do my job when I knew I was already doing high quality teaching (in fact, what they were forcing me to do made my teaching worse). To me, teaching is an art and a craft and they were trying to make it like a factory line job.

[Mmm]

Chilling, but it's good to like something one self like, that's nice.

[dgirl1986]

I write technical documentation and work instructions for the IT department of a sect of state government. Most boring job ever lol. I hope to go into psychology though.

[AllPurposeAtheist]

A sect of state gubnit? Which religion?

[Solitary]

Being a judge is a perfect job for an atheist that listens to evidence instead of faulty logic that lawyers use to win a case instead of getting to the truth of the matter at hand.  =D>  Good choice! Solitary

very thank you your spiritual! support to me.

and thank the Net for giving the chance us for communicating.

what do you think about age for embark to life. as age.

my social enviroment insistence that you must work and earn money.

but my dreams are different.

what dou u think?

what u think is important for me.

Are you kidding, what I think is important? I'm humbled for the first time in my life.  :oops:  If one has a job they love and get benefits and a wage you can live on it is better than one you hate no matter what the pay. I've done both, unfortunately the one I loved didn't have any benefits or retirement. I did a test on the internet that showed what your profession should be and mine showed I should be a judge. I never really thought about because I never really knew what I wanted to do because I was just trying to survive. I'm really happy now that I don't have to be under anyone else's control, but now I'm too old to enjoy all the things I did when I was younger and able. There's more to life than work unless work is your life and you love it. Thanks for making my day.  8-)   :)  Solitary