What kind of occupations/professions are here at the cafe?

[Shellon]

I put beans on the table as a Special Needs Advocate at our local High School. Specifically one student in my charge, but it's now grown to facilitating for the needs of eight other special needs kids.

LOVE IT!

[Jim]

You would be a DOMESTIC ENGINEER.

Moms aren't engineers. Engineers are persons that run or maintain engines or persons that design ingenious devices, as in the Latin word ingenium.

No disrespect to homemakers intended. I paid my dues keeping house and raising a kid. The job is more of a combination of a teacher, housekeeper and nurse. 24 hours a day. Not the same as being an engineer, which I am.

[Shellon]

Domestic Goddess?

:)

[dmiller]

I lift folks from their wheel chair to a toilet seat when they need to void themselves.

Then I get to wipe their butts, since they can't do it for themselves.

Sometimes they cough so hard -- they end up throwing up on themselves.

I get to clean up the mess, and then since they are mad at themselves for doing so ---

I get to console them saying that "this happens to everyone".

Call me an ambassador (of sorts), who loves the unloved.

I didn't see a category for that either, but that's ok. Really! :)

[brideofjc]

Moms aren't engineers. Engineers are persons that run or maintain engines or persons that design ingenious devices, as in the Latin word ingenium.

No disrespect to homemakers intended. I paid my dues keeping house and raising a kid. The job is more of a combination of a teacher, housekeeper and nurse. 24 hours a day. Not the same as being an engineer, which I am.

No disrespect to you either....but someone can ENGINEER something...i.e. COORDINATE things

Webster's: To plan, construct, etc. as an engineer. To manage skillfully.

Women (or men, as the case may be) who are stay-at-home professionals, know that it takes a lot of planning, coordinating, i.e. ENGINEERING to efficiently keep a

home and the children running smoothly.

I lift folks from their wheel chair to a toilet seat when they need to void themselves.

Then I get to wipe their butts, since they can't do it for themselves.

Sometimes they cough so hard -- they end up throwing up on themselves.

I get to clean up the mess, and then since they are mad at themselves for doing so ---

I get to console them saying that "this happens to everyone".

Call me an ambassador (of sorts), who loves the unloved.

I didn't see a category for that either, but that's ok. Really! :)

Well, technically, that would be in MEDICAL FIELD (ANYTHING RELATED).

But I did forget to put in the category of ANGELS.

[Mister P-Mosh]

MISTER P-MOSH: You could have chosen "Internet (anything related)"

MSTAR1: You could have chosen "Antiques/Restorationers"

IT WAS THERE GUYS....IT REALLY IS! So far the only thing that I missed was Artist and Morticians (anything related). I just also messed up the poll, it was too lengthy apparently for this board capabilities. Ah well, it was a nice try if I do say so myself.

Actually no. My job has absolutely nothing to do with the internet, so it doesn't fit into that category. It doesn't matter though, the poll doesn't work for me at all. Still, I would place technology related things into a professional category. It's just as complicated to be a software engineer as it is to be a mechanical engineer or architect.

[Al Poole]

WG!!!

I LOVE IT!! You ARE SO right.

When it's free "they" just crawl out of the wood work don't they.

[Watered Garden]

I see these commercials for groups like Save The Children, and all these little starving orphans are lining up decently and peacefully for their morsel of bread. But at the warehouse, some of the fattest, richest, best-fed people you'd ever see are pushing and shoving, making nasty comments if it isn't cooked yet and needs another three minutes or so.

I was once demonstrating frozen barbecue wings next to a freezer. When the wings came out of the oven, there were half a dozen people standing around, including this one lady who had been patiently waiting awhile. When I got them out of the 450 degree oven, some big fat bubba type (no offense to all you bubbas out there) actually came up from behind me, SHOVED me out of the way into the freezer door, and grabbed the biggest wing right off the metal tray I baked it on!

The lady and I just stared at each other. She had waited five minutes. I gave her two.

I hope the damfool burned his mouth to blisters.

My other source of amazement is what people shovel into their kids' mouths without reading the ingredients. Once I was giving out these chocolate flavored calcium chews and people gave them to their babies! There were probably a lot of constipated kids that night. Also products specifically developed for diabetics, that are sweetened with alcohol sugars and sucralose. These can produce cramps, gas, and diarrhea. But glug, glug glug! Oh she likes it1 Can she try the vanilla?

Fortunately there was a coupon out on diapers that week.....

[Jim]

No disrespect to you either....but someone can ENGINEER something...i.e. COORDINATE things

Webster's: To plan, construct, etc. as an engineer. To manage skillfully.

Nope. That's the verb form of engineer and using it to describe an activity doesn't make the person doing the activity the noun. For example, I could "cook up a plan" but that wouldn't make me a cook.

[RottieGrrrl]

WG these stories are a hoot. This is why when I go to my warehouse club I DON'T BROWSE. I know where the steaks/meats/desserts are and I hightail it there and out. Next time I may take a little extra time to notice what's going on around me....but then again....maybe not.

[brideofjc]

Nope. That's the verb form of engineer and using it to describe an activity doesn't make the person doing the activity the noun. For example, I could "cook up a plan" but that wouldn't make me a cook.

Yes, it would! It would make you the cook of the plan!

So yes, DOMESTIC ENGINEER! HAH!