Tell us about your job
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Was newspaper reporter, library clerk, nurse's assistant, department store worker, waitress, cook, free lance writer and a few other odd jobs, and currently help my disabled sister who has severe agoraphobia, as if she's under a spell. She can't leave the house. She's high maintenance, and keeping up that big house is work. She's a lot of fun. Hate to see her suffer at times with her disability. We split the bills, but I need to procure more employment outside the house sooner or later. Here lately I've become a correspondent or stringer for a newspaper. Got a special story coming out soon. I'd love to have a very elderly person to love and help, again, always liked working with the elderly, and it occurs to me I should visit a local nursing home, visit with the patients, to experience that again. One does like to feel useful. Singer-songwriter is my avocation, or hobby.
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Nancy R:
I only watched Grey's Anatomy once - the episode with the big shootout in the hospital. I suppose they have made plenty of mistakes over the years. I did watch every episode of M*A*S*H though! I was an RN the last couple years it was on. Great show!
Did you see the episode with the dead soldier who walked around the camp but didn't know he was dead until the end? No one I talk to ever seems to remember that one.
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SusyLuvsPaul:
Was newspaper reporter, library clerk, nurse's assistant, department store worker, cook, free lance writer and a few other odd jobs, and currently help my disabled sister who has severe agoraphobia, as if she's under a spell. She can't leave the house. She's high maintenance, and keeping up that big house is work. She's a lot of fun. Hate to see her suffer at times with her disability. We split the bills, but I need to procure more employment outside the house sooner or later. Here lately I've become a correspondent or stringer for a newspaper. Got a special story coming out soon. I'd love to have a very elderly person to love and help, again, always liked working with the elderly, and it occurs to me I should visit a local nursing home, visit with the patients, to experience that again. One does like to feel useful. Singer-songwriter is my avocation, or hobby.
Were you a librarian? I've heard that's a pretty hard job to get. I don't know why. It doesn't seem like the most competitive field, but I've met a few people who said it was difficult to get their foot in the door. Or were you more like a filing assistant or something? I don't know what a library clerk is.
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SusyLuvsPaul:
Hailey, you didn't actually tell us about your jobs, what you do at them.
I was a performer at Disneyland in some of the stage productions and most of the special Christmas, New Year, 5th and 10th anniversary programs. In the early days, I was a face character for a little while. I played Belle and Snow White and did a few daytime parades. Now, I mostly concentrate on stage work. No one can be a princess forever.
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You've written books and they were published too, isn't that true? And you sing and dance
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HaileyMcComet:
Nancy R:
I only watched Grey's Anatomy once - the episode with the big shootout in the hospital. I suppose they have made plenty of mistakes over the years. I did watch every episode of M*A*S*H though! I was an RN the last couple years it was on. Great show!
Did you see the episode with the dead soldier who walked around the camp but didn't know he was dead until the end? No one I talk to ever seems to remember that one.
Sorry but I don't remember that episode either!
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Nancy R:
Sorry but I don't remember that episode either!
No one ever does. Did I dream it? Klinger is sick with some kind of fever or something. He's the only one who sees the dead soldier. Everyone else goes about their daily routine while the soldier wanders around the camp and observes, wondering why they're all so upset over petty problems when life is too precious. That's the message of the episode. It sounds like something Alan Alda might have written.
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SusyLuvsPaul:
You've written books and they were published too, isn't that true? And you sing and dance
That's what I'm talking about when I say stage performer. I'm a dancer, primarily. I don't consider writing a job. I don't have to fight traffic to get somewhere on time so someone else can look over my shoulder and yell at me for screwing up. Maybe that's not the dictionary definition of a job.
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HaileyMcComet:
Nancy R:
Sorry but I don't remember that episode either!
No one ever does. Did I dream it? Klinger is sick with some kind of fever or something. He's the only one who sees the dead soldier. Everyone else goes about their daily routine while the soldier wanders around the camp and observes, wondering why they're all so upset over petty problems when life is too precious. That's the message of the episode. It sounds like something Alan Alda might have written.
I recall seeing that one, Hailey and I really dug it, was kind of surreal, very artistic
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HaileyMcComet:
SusyLuvsPaul:
You've written books and they were published too, isn't that true? And you sing and dance
That's what I'm talking about when I say stage performer. I'm a dancer, primarily. I don't consider writing a job. I don't have to fight traffic to get somewhere on time so someone else can look over my shoulder and yell at me for screwing up. Maybe that's not the dictionary definition of a job.
I saw that you had several books published and they all sound interesting, intriguing. You're not talking about newspaper writing/reporting where you do have to get places on time and worry about getting all the right true important facts in (not "alternative facts," needless to say) and not make mistakes. I've still been enjoying my return to that. Maybe I'll regain more of my old knack for it, hope so. Not done too badly so far. Did a cultural artsy piece on New Yorker writer Joseph Mitchell recently and then covered Diabetes Day and will cover a cool blues music show Friday. Also want to write about a paw paw orchid, LOL, call it "Way Down Yonder in the Paw Paw Patch"--the paw paw's a cross between a banana and a mango, I'm told. Wasn't familiar with this fruit.
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I'd definitely consider journalism a real job. And a very important one, too. We need journalists to tell us what the politicians are up to. As soon as they stop doing that, everyone will get their information from websites and radio shows that push a specific agenda and don't adhere to any rules of journalism. The less people know, the more they vote for people who think absolutely nothing of them.
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HaileyMcComet:
I'd definitely consider journalism a real job. And a very important one, too. We need journalists to tell us what the politicians are up to. As soon as they stop doing that, everyone will get their information from websites and radio shows that push a specific agenda and don't adhere to any rules of journalism. The less people know, the more they vote for people who think absolutely nothing of them.
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If someone could have advised me to wait and take a different job, oh so many years ago... *sigh*
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HaileyMcComet:
Nancy R:
I only watched Grey's Anatomy once - the episode with the big shootout in the hospital. I suppose they have made plenty of mistakes over the years. I did watch every episode of M*A*S*H though! I was an RN the last couple years it was on. Great show!
Did you see the episode with the dead soldier who walked around the camp but didn't know he was dead until the end? No one I talk to ever seems to remember that one.
I remember that one. Different, for sure. The Sixth Sense did something similar.
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Fan4-45years:
HaileyMcComet:
Did you see the episode with the dead soldier who walked around the camp but didn't know he was dead until the end? No one I talk to ever seems to remember that one.
I remember that one. Different, for sure. The Sixth Sense did something similar.
Do you remember what season it was? I'd love to figure out that title, but the show was on for 11 years. That's a lot of seasons to dig through.
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love2travel:
If someone could have advised me to wait and take a different job, oh so many years ago... *sigh*
What would you have done differently?
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Hailey I wish you'd post excerpts from your books on the "What's That You're Doing?" forum
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Tell us about your job... I have had several over the years. My volunteer Life research alone has spanned a little over 40 years and around 100,000 hours. It has taken me away from personal time and time with family. Just before I turned into a dedicated metaphysical researcher, I was working as a machinist finishing hydraulic pumps, motors and valve bodies for heavy equipment. We had government contracts as well. Was also working part-time as a professional driver off loading brand new cars and pickups and trucks from rail cars. Before I retired, I worked 7 years as a working Freight Supervisor for a large Wholesale Distributor. We delivered 250,000 varied products to thousands of stores in over a dozen states. I spent 9 years just before retiring as a professional driver shuffling trailers around for a large business that distributed product to every large, middle and small sized store in over 12 states as well.
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SusyLuvsPaul:
Hailey I wish you'd post excerpts from your books on the "What's That You're Doing?" forum
I'm not here to spam everyone. I don't need to upset the moderators more than usual. Besides, that's the hardest thing to do. I never know what to cut out and what to include.
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HaileyMcComet:
love2travel:
If someone could have advised me to wait and take a different job, oh so many years ago... *sigh*
What would you have done differently?
Finished the last year of college. Would have had a job better suited to my strengths. It's difficult to put yourself through school.