What do you do?

jimg20 · Post by **jimg20** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 4:13 pm

Our working class backgrounds mean no trust funds for us. Our inheritances can't be put in a bank.

I am an architect working primarily in retail work. I travel to the city where the project will be built and beg the Planning Board and City Council for approval of our building, site plan, signs and anything else they want to get their hands on. I have elite status on three airlines at this time. I have been or will be in your neighborhood at some time. This week it is in the Fort Lauderdale and Baltimore areas. Next week it is Chicagoland and who knows where else. I am looking forward to the next trip to the Dulles area where Ksee has offered to pull together a group for a drink or two. The next time I'm in RI/MA I hope to meet that group.

Mrs G is an RN who operates a nurse-managed out patient clinic. We have three grown daughters and four grandchildren.

We too are getting by and budgeting and planning USVI trips. The elite status helps compound the frequent flier accounts and mileage allows us to fly for free making the trips that much more affordable.

Whan we hit the Powerball we'll charter a jet and bring all 12 of us to STJ to celebrate. Meanwhile does anyone need a project built in the VI?

JIM

sailorgirl · Post by **sailorgirl** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 4:17 pm

Lawyer here... Ok I'll wait for the onslaught of jokes

DH is a HS math tecaher in an The City (NYC). school system. Everyday is an adventure for him

liamsaunt · Post by **liamsaunt** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 4:51 pm

I'm the assistant to a vp at a large university.

John is an international tax attorney.

Work....boo.

Where's the beach??

alw1977 · Post by **alw1977** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 10:32 am

I'm a commercial real estate attorney and the husband owns his own business, but basically he's a software engineer who has a contract with the federal government.

Plus, I own a business making handmade jewelry on the side (ladies, PM me for the URL! It's cute stuff!).

I'm a little busy.

Liamsaunt... your other half is an international tax attorney? Ugh, my stomach turns when I think about doing that type of work!

We afford two trips a year by saving in advance, traveling in off season and using FF miles. We also tend to stay in budget places as opposed to extravagent villas. I'd rather have two trips a year done modestly than one done extravagantly. That's just me though - to each his own!

Oh - and we don't have kids yet, which sure helps with the budget! However, we'll likely be jumping into that pot of boiling water in the next year or so... so quite a few things will change at that point.

laurie · Post by **laurie** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 9:15 pm

I am an RN , have worked in Labor&Delivery for 25yrs. Mike is self employed in the financing/leasing industry. We usually travel with friends and share a villa. Have taken our children twice but now that they are both in college , we tell them that college is their STJ trip (many times over). Its our 30th anniversary this yr so may travel solo for @ least part of the trip. We usually plan well in advance, booking for Dec 08 now and air is really cheap. Laurie

IslandAddict · Post by **IslandAddict** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 9:12 am

Ok, I'll bite, if only to see my ticker!

I am a Fine Art Dealer specializing in obtaining art that has suffered some "distress", then having it conserved before reselling it. We also provide fine art "expertise" to the insurance industry (this is what pays the bills). The company I work with also has a small gallery in the Westtown area in Chicago.

Mrs. Addict is a personal chef which is her dream job. We should all be so lucky.

Thanks everyone for all the great information, island time soon come!

Jo Ann - VA · Post by **Jo Ann - VA** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 9:45 pm

I work for a printing company - customer service and Gregg is a manufacturing engineer for a company that makes nuclear products.
Both us us work close to home and for the most part like our jobs.

It's just the two of us now so we have more money for vacations...Yes!

I'm still trying to win the lottery so we can buy a villa in St John. What a nice dream!

flip-flop · Post by **flip-flop** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 8:38 am

I head up marketing for a very old established professional society (we're talking founded in the early 1800s).

My husband is an IT geek with people skills. He's a gov't contractor in database design and functionality. Currently, I thank Mattel Toys and China for funding many future trips to STJ.

AnyTing · Post by **AnyTing** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 8:45 am

I'm an industrial psychologist (fancy name for someone who went to college for 10 years but doesn't really know how to do anything) who works as a government Civil Service/HR Director. Husband is a civil engineer who, very ambitiously (or stupidly, depending) started his own engineering firm 10 years ago. Turned out to be a very good idea.

Maggy · Post by **Maggy** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 12:30 pm

I am working for an airline in Scandinavia. I'm with the Crew Planning department, and working with our longhoul fleet pilots. I work as an analyst, which include long term planning, dimension (how many do we need), optimazation (how do we use them smart) and other logistic problems.

alw1977 · Post by **alw1977** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 2:12 pm

flip-flop, we're married to the same type! "An IT geek with people skills" sums up my husband as well. Okay, well considering he records Star Trek on our Tivo, maybe just "a geek with people skills".

mbw1024 · Post by **mbw1024** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 2:19 pm

oh add my husband to the Star Trek IT geek list! He works for a state univerity in NJ. I work for a large Insurance company.

flip-flop · Post by **flip-flop** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 2:48 pm

alw1977 wrote:flip-flop, we're married to the same type! "An IT geek with people skills" sums up my husband as well. Okay, well considering he records Star Trek on our Tivo, maybe just "a geek with people skills".

Our Tivo list looks like someone with multiple personalities chose it. His geeky stuff (a mix of science, history, and cartoons!), my entertainment tv and dramas, and my daughters PBS learning shows/cartoons.

Xislandgirl · Post by **Xislandgirl** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 3:41 pm

flip-flop wrote:
alw1977 wrote:flip-flop, we're married to the same type! "An IT geek with people skills" sums up my husband as well. Okay, well considering he records Star Trek on our Tivo, maybe just "a geek with people skills".
Our Tivo list looks like someone with multiple personalities chose it. His geeky stuff (a mix of science, history, and cartoons!), my entertainment tv and dramas, and my daughters PBS learning shows/cartoons.

I can only DVR one show because he refuses to delete an episaode of Stargate SG-1. He has ever episode ever and watches them over and over again. Thank God that Mutant X isn't on anymore, I would never get to tape a show.

I feel your pain

jmq · Post by **jmq** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 3:51 pm

You know that Seinfeld episode where George couldn’t read more than 2 pgs in that book on “Risk Management”? Yup, that’s my profession, but not the boring finance side, the on-site risk assessment/risk control side in lotsa different industries. Better half is finance analyst in reinsurance.

Re Tivo/DVRs, it is quite amazing how little time it takes to play back a show like Idol or many other reality type programs for that matter.
What a lot of fluff.
And with dramas like Lost we’ll start watching 20-25 min late on purpose and chase it til we catch up to it live, just to skip the ads.

Re above comments on room on DVR reminds me I gotta transfer that 4th quarter of the Super Bowl over to DVD before it "accidently" gets erased. HD programming takes up too much space on the hard drive.

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