I thought it might be fun to have a topic to learn a little more about each other. We all have a common love of budgies and birds in general, but what do we do for a job... study, work in an office, stay at home parent???

 

Share a little about yourself if you like. :hmm: I'll go first.

 

I work full time as a Book Binder. We mainly focus on Wedding albums, and create them from scratch for Professional Photographers, but we do do some old style book binding, so newspapers, thesis' and restorations etc... I have been in this Career for 3 1/2 years and really enjoy the challenges it brings on a day to day basis. I've always been creative and used to love making things at home, and when I got this job I couldn't believe I could get paid to make stuff :thumbs_up: It's pretty cool.

 

Below are some pictures of the type of stuff we make as it's really hard to explain it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your turn...

Edited November 28, 200915 yr by maesie

I am a High School Teacher. I teach Years 7-12, that is ages 11-18.

 

My main area of teaching is Information Technology. Everything from Web Page Design, Video editing, Flash, Hardware and Software, Communications and Databases, to name a few topics.

 

I am also the Year 7 Coordinator at the Catholic Boys College where I teach. This means I am in charge of 150 boys aged somewhere between 11-13. This means their welfare is my main concern. I deal with everything from bullying to adolescent issues such as puberty and maturity, special learning needs such as dyslexia, anxiety or ADHD, to behaviour or emotional issues, to gifted and talented students.

 

As a teacher, and a year coordinator, you tend to need to be a bit of a jack of all trades. Patience is a key component in my life. With year 7, I spend a lot of time interacting with parents.

 

Now, as for some of you who are thinking that teachers only work 9-3, and this thread is about 9-5 work, let me state I work from about 7:30-5 at school everyday, and then I am usually doing other work through the night. As for holidays, the beginning of January is probably the only time when you are not doing preparation or marking. Even as I type this, it is as I am taking a break from reading 150 student reports. I have to write a comment on each one.

 

Teaching is not a job for everybody, but it is one I love. If you love holidays, then teaching is not the job for you. If you love holidays, try winning the lottery. The kids will kill you in week 1 if you are hanging out only for the holidays.

I have been a medical microbiologist for 25 years in a very large private laboratory system. I also teach microbiology, medical terminology, lab math and specimen collection and handling as evening courses at a local university college. I also am very active in the labour movement here in British Columbia, Canada and serve as a chief shop stewaard in my workplace, am an elected exucutive officer in my union local, I am chair of our negotiations committee and I am Chair of the occupational health & safety committee. In addition, I am singlehandedly organizing a huge medical trade show to be held in Oct of 2010 which will involve biotech vendors from all over North America and will host 300-350 delegates. Add to that the fact that I have three children (ages 6,9 and 16) an you might say I'm a wee bit busy!

 

okay! Who is next?

Anyone else???

I do leadlight and stained glass windows. I design them and make them from lots of pieces of coloured glass that I cut out, assemble and make with lead and solder. I have been doing that for around 26 years. Today I made two windows for a client and our Liv off this forum came with me to help me fit them, as she is here visiting.

 

I have the 24/7 job of being a stay at home mum, fulltime student at Uni and a web developer

I do leadlight and stained glass windows. I design them and make them from lots of pieces of coloured glass that I cut out, assemble and make with lead and solder. I have been doing that for around 26 years. Today I made two windows for a client and our Liv off this forum came with me to help me fit them, as she is here visiting.

 

 

 

Do you have any pictures? They must be beautiful!

(Rhetorical question- I'm sure you have loads of pics )

I do leadlight and stained glass windows. I design them and make them from lots of pieces of coloured glass that I cut out, assemble and make with lead and solder. I have been doing that for around 26 years. Today I made two windows for a client and our Liv off this forum came with me to help me fit them, as she is here visiting.

 

 

 

Do you have any pictures? They must be beautiful!

(Rhetorical question- I'm sure you have loads of pics )

http://www.artiglass.com.au/

I do leadlight and stained glass windows. I design them and make them from lots of pieces of coloured glass that I cut out, assemble and make with lead and solder. I have been doing that for around 26 years. Today I made two windows for a client and our Liv off this forum came with me to help me fit them, as she is here visiting.

 

 

 

Do you have any pictures? They must be beautiful!

(Rhetorical question- I'm sure you have loads of pics )

http://www.artiglass.com.au/

 

Wow. All I can say is WOW, WOW, and again, Wow.

 

Your are fabulously talented.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I learned something from your website: my front door is leadlight!

 

here it is

 

 

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We learned the hard way that it was repairable!

 

(One summer our son hit a golfball into it. Turns out, each of those glass shapes is a separate piece, and he only broke one of them! Thank goodness.)

im now stay at home mum caused by accident (accident was not my kids lol)

 

i was a drug and alcohol councilor working in a needle exchange for a district hospital for three years

i taught harm minimization as well their and correct use of injecting implements

sexual education and safety aids awareness and hep a ,b,and c edification and many other sexually related health issues

on every Friday night and Wednesday nights

i worked voluntary on a bus that went around feeding the youth and sporting them with information of all kinds depending on their different issues or needs

sometimes housing sometimes crisis help drug abuse mental health basically covered all avenues legal advice ect

 

this was before my accident and after a long stint of lets just call it bad judgment of life choise starting from young age

 

i have always painted and written poetry and am in the process of trying to bring together a showing of my art works and my writings in an exhibition im going to call one mind one million emotions after the tightal of the book i was going to publish but reneged at last moments beliving i could use my works for a better way this exabhition will be with all moneys made going toward people with mental health isuess not just to a foundation but in away that directly benifits them personally ..im not sure how as yet it will be entry at a 50 cent donation and all art work displayed and writtings avalibal for purchus at a cost of 2 dollors per print for the paintings and 1 dollor per writting

frames will be suplyed for a small cost if wanted

 

all my art works relate to my emotional state through out my life time beginning at age thirteen

throught to now as do my writtings ,most come hand in had with eachother

u see i have been clasafided with bypolar however relisticlly apart from being a tad over emotional at times im quiet normal bit straight forward and blunt at times and thanks to our beautiful kaz and other admin you guys rearley see my sarcastic side or harsh words i can sometimes remark with unknowingly not really relizing how they may efect others untill told

ive always struggled with alot of people and dont fully fit in anywhere with society and find it hard to keep friends on acount that people dont understand my need to be honest weather it hurts them or not so i try not to keep freiends now has been this way for years now

why i breed my birds for sanity and santuary

i wasnt always classified with illness it wasnt untill i had a brake down in 13 years ago that they decided this

i say decided as theirs been quiet a few debates on my real state of mind

some say im fine and quiet sane others say im a total fruit loop me i just think its funny now and exept the classification be it true or not as i can help other who truley do have mental health issuse

i can honestly say though in my eyes im not meantally ill as such however im quiet from normal also ...so understand them sticking me under a labble

so i have rambled enough

here is a small look at a few of my works

 

the source

 

 

next two are a sequence

 

a change in contousness

 

cut off your nose to spite your face

 

 

this one is my first painting ever i did when i was 13 years old

its called

anguished

well their are more but thats just a few

will post others if interested to see

so thts quiet alot about me lol i have nothing to hide im very happy in this time of my life and my my chirdren are very beautiful and with out them mabe i would be unwell just happens im not with out them im very blessed specially to have my little girl whom came through my accident with me (asi was carrying her at time ) she truley is a god send and im only glad i listened to my heart and not my doctors when it involved her chances of haveing a happy healthy normal life and my fight against their decishion to as they put it make my recovery eassier and less depromental to my health i can only say i have been truley blessed with her pressents and they couldnt have been more wrong im glad i stuck to my guns and forght as hard as i dd to keep her

my beautiful children

Edited December 8, 200915 yr by GenericBlue

Well before l went on permanent disability. l use to work at an electronics factory. I would solder wires onto parts and sometimes l would build wire harnesses. I would also inspect and test the end products.

To give you an idea of the products we would make. Here is a link to the company that l worked for http://www.parker.com/portal/site/PARKER

 

Since l have been off work I like to work on my art. l do mostly wildlife drawings and l use pencil or coloured pencils. I'm starting to also try sketching with markers. What l would like to do is more digital artwork. I also enjoy photography.

Edited December 9, 200915 yr by birdluv

I am a Builder. Heres some pics of a job I finished last week.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I began in hospitality, then went into business management, next youth work. Now together with my wife I own/operate a national training company. We provide workplace training in business, civil construction and water industry. For the past 10 years I've also been an ordained minister of religion[pentecostal] So I'm kept very busy, but I get to travel a lot, this year I'll spend 30-40% of my time travelling, it's tough but someone has to do it.

I am a Builder. Heres some pics of a job I finished last week.

 

 

 

 

 

if this was my home this bit would have been a walk in out door aviry ajoining to house arrrr to dream

I help run a Medium to Large Electrical Contracting Business employing 20 to 40 electricians depending on work.. My main part is Estimatiing and Project Managment of jobs from $100,000 to $2 million.

 

Due to the down turn in the International Finacial Market and the slow down in the Austrailan building industry, it has meant that I have to work longer and do more Tenders to aquire work for my men.. This has mean less time for the birds. But that is now changing with me refocusing more on them.

 

This is where I work.

I am a mum of 4 beautiful children of which i homeschool and soon to be mum of a foster child which will make 5 beautiful children. I also manage a CAP (Christians Against Poverty) centre in Picton NSW doing debt counselling and co-ordinate the running of Money management (or budgeting)courses FREE of charge to our local community. I also Manage Wollondilly Care which is the name of the ministry attached to our church C3 Wollondilly which looks after peoples needs in our Community that are finding it tough by helping pay water, electricity & Phone bills, giving them emergency food parcels, supplying councelling FREE of charge, teaching budgeting skills and as of this year educating young single mum's & dad's to shop & cook healthy meals on a budget. I also co-ordinate with some other local services the Community Christmas Party where we give families a good Christmas dinner and every child recieves a present that has been donated by members of the public. A very rewarding job indeed and it keeps me out of trouble. My budgies are my down time, if i feel a bit stressed i just hang around and watch them for about 10 mins and i feel really relaxed, even though they are busy little bees they are also quite tranquil.

I am a sales representive in the animal health industry. I sell primarily production animal products dealing with farmers, vets, wholesalers and anyone in between. I've been looking after WA for my company for the past 16 years. We deal with dairy cattle, beef cattle, pigs, poultry and sheep - selling antibiotics, rumen modifiers, external paraciticides, livestock housing insect treatments and a few others.

 

I give presentations, training sessions, attend trade displays, help to run registration and commercial trials, produce programs for pest and disease control and occasionally attend and diagnose complaints about product efficacy.

 

I am away from home a substantial amount of time (for example my husband will be baching for 3 weeks this month!) and struggle to fit my hobbies and my family (sadly) into my lifestyle - hence no children for us..........

 

We see a lot of this sort of thing.

 

Nubbly ... Now I know how you get your birds so nice... it's the Cattle medication! Now I know I heard a MOOOOOO in Burnie

Did I say we sell hormone Growth Promotants

lol Coming to Rocky, Nubbly.. we might have to talk

We see a lot of this sort of thing.

 

 

Talk about NEW MUTATIONS !!!!! stripey blue sheep !!

We see a lot of this sort of thing.

 

 

Talk about NEW MUTATIONS !!!!! stripey blue sheep !!

no thats where their going to cut and slice the meat sorry i couldnt resist :rofl:

Oh my GB, what an imagination you have!!!!!!

 

Anyway THOSE sheep would be pretty chewy

Oh my GB, what an imagination you have!!!!!!

 

Anyway THOSE sheep would be pretty chewy

 

yes well i can be a bit over the top at times i am an artist after all always visioning things in as many different ways i can looking for good ideas to paint

sometimes callous as well as happy , fun ,saddened ectra

i guess i could have said something like they were makeing a cheep print pj set as in draw the strips on the sheep then sheer and knit wallah new stripped pjs or feet boots woolen blanket :raincloud:

We see a lot of this sort of thing.

 

 

 

Is this what is meant by "backlining"?