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Working Moms
Working Mama Poll
Thought it might be fun to get acquainted with eachother - new and veterans 
1. What is your occupation?
2. What does your DH do?
3. What are your hours?
4. Do you like what you do?
5. What is one thing you love to do with your family?
6. What is one thing you wish you could change about your work life?
7. What is one fun tidbit about you? 
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Re: Working Mama Poll
1. CPA
2. Electrician
3. May - December I work normal 8 to 5. January - April I work 8 to 8 for tax season.
4. Yes. It's interesting and rewarding. I don't care for tax season hours, though.
5. We enjoy walks outside when the weather is fair.
6. I wish I lived closer to home so I could see G at lunchtime.
7. My birthday and H's birthday are on the same day. G was born only 13 days after our birthday day.
Big brother and sister are excited to meet the new baby! It's a GIRL!
~ G ~ 10/2008
~ E ~ 7/2010
Hello, I am new to this particular board...
1. What is your occupation? Sales Coordinator
2. What does your DH do? Outside Events Manager
3. What are your hours? 8 hours a day M-F
4. Do you like what you do? Not really
5. What is one thing you love to do with your family? Cooking
6. What is one thing you wish you could change about your work life? They need a daycare.
7. What is one fun tidbit about you?
I know how to work the turntables like no ones business 
1. What is your occupation? Marketing & Sales Admin Asst.
2. What does your DH do? Life Insurance Rep
3. What are your hours? 8am - 5pm
4. Do you like what you do? no, hope to go back to school to become a teacher
5. What is one thing you love to do with your family? snuggle
6. What is one thing you wish you could change about your work life? have different hours...something allowing me to get off before 5pm
7. What is one fun tidbit about you? ??
1. What is your occupation?: I handle bodily injury claims for an auto insurance company
2. What does your DH do?: He is in charge of the admissions dept for a local hospital
3. What are your hours?: I work 8-5 M-F
4. Do you like what you do? NOPE
5. What is one thing you love to do with your family? cuddle, take naps
6. What is one thing you wish you could change about your work life? I wish I could work part time.
7. What is one fun tidbit about you? I got bit by a monkey in Barbados. Her name was Tiffany.
1. Sales/CSR for a printer
2. Mechanic
3. 7:30-4:30
4. Somedays, others not so much.
5. Play with DS. He loves to climb over us when we all get home from work/daycare.
6. Flex my hours more
7. I used to figure skate - cannot wait to show DS how to do it!
I just found this board yesterday so I'm very new.......
1. What is your occupation? Web Designer
2. What does your DH do? IT Manager
3. What are your hours? M-F 8-4
4. Do you like what you do? It's interesting enough. I like the company I work for for sure.
5. What is one thing you love to do with your family? I'm stealing...but snuggling is a great answer
6. What is one thing you wish you could change about your work life? I would love to work part time.
7. What is one fun tidbit about you? Hmmm, I'm a bonafide message board junkie.....you'll see
thanks to jennied
1. What is your occupation? ~ US Air Force, Airspace manager and flight scheduler
2. What does your DH do? ~ US Air Force, Crew Chief
3. What are your hours? ~ Currently 0730-1600..(7:30am-4pm) I will be moving to another duty section shortly where my hours will be long and unpredictable...*yay*
4. Do you like what you do? ~ YES I do...
5. What is one thing you love to do with your family? ~ We like to go to the park and let DD tear around on the playground, she loves to swing
6. What is one thing you wish you could change about your work life? ~ I wish I didn't have to deploy, go TDY, or be subject to unrealistic physical standards...haha everything that makes the military the military LOL. But I do it.
7. What is one fun tidbit about you?
~ I'm Pagan.
2. What does your DH do? SAHD
3. What are your hours? 8ish to 5ish at the moment...I've got some flexibility and right now am building up credit time.
4. Do you like what you do? My career/field, yes. My specific job, no.
5. What is one thing you love to do with your family? Going outside when it's warm enough and playing with the dogs and DD in the sprinkler or running around the yard.
6. What is one thing you wish you could change about your work life? Wish I wasn't basically a consultant.
7. What is one fun tidbit about you? I've spent time (more than just driving through) in 48 states. Michigan and Alaska, your time will come.
1. What is your occupation? Membership Cooridinator
2. What does your DH do? Delivery Manager
3. What are your hours? 7:30am-4pm
4. Do you like what you do? Spend time with Family and Friends.
5. What is one thing you love to do with your family? Going camping.
6. What is one thing you wish you could change about your work life? Work from home.
7. What is one fun tidbit about you? I am a home body. I love being in my own home.
1. What is your occupation? i work at an airport
2. What does your DH do? he works at a university
3. What are your hours? 8:30a - 5pm
4. Do you like what you do? negative
5. What is one thing you love to do with your family? just be together. i like taking DD to the park - she gets excited and I like seeing her independent of us
6. What is one thing you wish you could change about your work life? my job
7. What is one fun tidbit about you? I have 4 dogs and 9 fish
1. What is your occupation? Media Analyst
2. What does your DH do? Currently unemployed. He used to be the sales manager for a contruction staffing agency and we all know how well the construction industry is doing right now.
3. What are your hours? 8:30 - 5:30 M-F I would love to talk my manager into 8-5 instead. That last 1/2 hour really screws up my schedule.
4. Do you like what you do? Used to, not so much anymore. Now I am bored and I hate the company that I work for. I am considering a career change, but its probably better if I wait until DH finds a new job before making any big changes.
5. What is one thing you love to do with your family? I love our "play time" with DD after dinner. We have a finished basement that was supposed to be DH's "man cave". It has turned into DD's play room and every night (well, most nights) after dinner we go downstairs and play with all her toys until her bedtime.
6. What is one thing you wish you could change about your work life? To be 100% honest I wish I could be a SAHM and just freelance for my current company about 10 hrs per week. I have no chance of this happening unless DH finds a great new job. In the meantime, I wish I could take a paycut and work 4 days a week so that I could spend more time with DD. This might be possible, but I am waiting until our busy season is over before approaching my manager about it.
7. What is one fun tidbit about you?
DH and I had roomates on our honeymoon. We went to Playa Del Carmen for our honeymoon and ended up getting stranded there for two weeks due to Hurricane Wilma. The hotel made everyone double up rooms because some of the hotel was flooding. It was crazy, but at least our roomates were cool. Our honeymoon was DH's first trip out of the country. I have not been able to talk him into traveling abroad since!
Fun!!
1. What is your occupation? staff attorney at a state supreme court
2. What does your DH do? business development mgr for ben and jerry's
3. What are your hours? 8:30 - 5:30, but I take work home a lot
4. Do you like what you do? LOVE it.
5. What is one thing you love to do with your family? cuddle, watch movies, shop
6. What is one thing you wish you could change about your work life? can't think of anything, but a daycare would be nice like the pp mentioned
7. What is one fun tidbit about you?
active member of the DAR - yes, I'm a nerd I know
1. What is your occupation? Corporate Trainer
2. What does your DH do? Insurance Claims/Adjunct Professor
3. What are your hours? 730-430 (ish)
4. Do you like what you do? Yes
5. What is one thing you love to do with your family? We love to travel
6. What is one thing you wish you could change about your work life? The commute
7. What is one fun tidbit about you? I lived in England until I was 11
You are Pagan and in the Air Force? That's awesome.
1. What is your occupation? College Admissions
2. What does your DH do? School Teacher
3. What are your hours? varies - mostly 9-6pm
4. Do you like what you do? I do, but I can get burnt out a lot too. It has a lot of highs and lows.
5. What is one thing you love to do with your family? I love taking walks - just playing around the house and being silly.
6. What is one thing you wish you could change about your work life? A better balance - PT would be a dream
Or to have summer's off to be with my DH and DD.
7. What is one fun tidbit about you?
I love to save money and see our savings account get bigger - It feels like a great accomplishment - we are even considering paying off our one mortgage - ahh that would be awesome!
1. What is your occupation? Executive Assistant to the Mayor of our city
2. What does your DH do? Bank teller
3. What are your hours? 8-5, some afterhours
4. Do you like what you do? love it!
5. What is one thing you love to do with your family? taking walks outside
6. What is one thing you wish you could change about your work life? hmmm, four day work weeks maybe
7. What is one fun tidbit about you?
I am incapable of keeping the same hairstyle for more than a few months
1. What is your occupation? Claims Administrator (Ch. 13 bankruptcy)
2. What does your DH do? Pharma Sales Rep
3. What are your hours? 8:30-5:00
4. Do you like what you do? Yes
5. What is one thing you love to do with your family? Play games
6. What is one thing you wish you could change about your work life? I wouldn't mind working PT but FT isn't bad at all either
7. What is one fun tidbit about you?
My boobs are too big
Matthew Kevin
7/31/83-7/20/11
Met 1/8/00
Engaged 4/21/06
Married 9/29/07
Two beautiful legacies: Noah Matthew (2 yrs) and Chloe Marcella (8 mos)
Day Three
1. What is your occupation? Financial Analyst
2. What does your DH do? Account Manager
3. What are your hours? M-Th 7-6
4. Do you like what you do? Not really, but I love the flexibility the company gives me
5. What is one thing you love to do with your family? Go for walks/hikes
6. What is one thing you wish you could change about your work life? More interraction with people, less sitting at the computer
7. What is one fun tidbit about you?
I am a die hard Bon Jovi Fan
1. What is your occupation?
2. What does your DH do?
3. What are your hours?
4. Do you like what you do?
5. What is one thing you love to do with your family?
6. What is one thing you wish you could change about your work life?
7. What is one fun tidbit about you?
1. What is your occupation? Senior Technical Account Manager
2. What does your DH do? Target Store Manager
3. What are your hours? 7a-4p, M-Th (give or take, my hours are pretty flexible)
4. Do you like what you do? it's not awful, but I would kill myself if I thought I'd be doing this forever. I'm doing this now for the money and flexiblity, eventually I'll figure out what I really want to do!
5. What is one thing you love to do with your family? just stay home and play together. It seems so rare we're all just home together
6. What is one thing you wish you could change about your work life? I wish I had a job that I loved
7. What is one fun tidbit about you? When I was in my early 20's I moved back and forth from MA to NM 4 times in a 3 year period
1. I just accepted an offer for a new job today - Data Coordinator
2. Heavy Equipment Operator
3. M, T, W: 8-4:30, Th: 8-2, Friday=Off
4. I don't think I will love the new position, but I am hoping I like it alot
5. We love going for walks in the fields behind our house, to the park, etc.
6. I wanted PT and finally got a job for 30 hours! Yay! I like to think it would be nice to work from home tho...
7. I love bellydancing...and dancing in general...when DH is out of the house the girls and I have our own little dance party...if someone looked in my windows they would think I was crazy...
1. What is your occupation? Director of Development @ Medical School
2. What does your DH do? Medical Student
3. What are your hours? 8-4:30
4. Do you like what you do?No.
5. What is one thing you love to do with your family? Read books, cuddle, playoutside
6. What is one thing you wish you could change about your work life? Part-time or full time school.
7. What is one fun tidbit about you? I played college volleyball and i'm TALL
1. What is your occupation? social worker
2. What does your DH do? security officer
3. What are your hours? 8:30-4:30
4. Do you like what you do? at times, but mostly no
5. What is one thing you love to do with your family? just spending time together. It's hard b/c DH works 3rd shift and every weekend
6. What is one thing you wish you could change about your work life? The work part of it, I'd love to SAH
7. What is one fun tidbit about you? I enjoy torturing myself with insanely hard recipes and craft projects
1. Your occupation? PICU RN
2. DH occipation? Elementary teacher
3. Hours? Fri, Sat 7pm to 7am
4. Like what you do? Yes. I do not always love it, but it is rewarding.
5. Like to do with your family? Hang out at home, visit my parents, travel, watch the kids play sports
6. Change about your work life? Really nothing, I would like to get off working night shifts and weekends, but right now it works for our family, so I am sucking it up!
7. Fun tidbit? I know calligraphy, I am a speed reader, and a fifth grade spelling champ.
1. What is your occupation? Media relations
2. What does your DH do? Financial advisor
3. What are your hours? 9 to 5-ish, but I am required to respond to requests on nights and weekends also, and that happens often.
4. Do you like what you do? Not this week! I am actually trying to figure out whether I can/want to keep doing this or need to find another line of work.
5. What is one thing you love to do with your family? DS is only 5 months so he doesn't "do" much yet, but I love to make him laugh and go out to dinner with my DH.
6. What is one thing you wish you could change about your work life? Oh, where to begin. How about, some degree of autonomy/ability to control what comes my way, and from there we'll go to working part time instead of full time...
7. What is one fun tidbit about you?
I know how to polka!
1. What is your occupation? attorney
2. What does your DH do? attorney
3. What are your hours? usually 8 to 5:30 or so, with some nights and weekends thrown in depending on my case load
4. Do you like what you do? yes
5. What is one thing you love to do with your family? I love eating breakfast on weekend mornings together, and I love DS's bath time (DH and I both do it)
6. What is one thing you wish you could change about your work life? It's feast or famine a lot of the times -- I am either slow or slammed. I wish I could get a happy medium, but it's the nature of litigation, I guess.
7. What is one fun tidbit about you?
Fun? Hmmm. I have broken into 3 SEC football stadiums.
1. What is your occupation? VP, Software Development.
2. What does your DH do? VP, Software Development (we both work in high-tech, not at the same company).
3. What are your hours? Flexible...usually 8-5, plus some hours in the evening from home, but not every night.
4. Do you like what you do? Yes, I love it.
5. What is one thing you love to do with your family? Playing....inside and outside.
6. What is one thing you wish you could change about your work life? I would not change a thing.
7. What is one fun tidbit about you? Hmmm.. I used to own a clothing boutique on top of my full time job and my son. Sadly, we closed it last year. It was a fun 'job'!
1. What is your occupation? Paralegal
2. What does your DH do? Sales Director, Cadillac
3. What are your hours? They are flexible thank goodness! Usually 8-4 and work from home a few hours or days.
4. Do you like what you do? Love my work, still unsure about my co. We were recently bought out.
5. What is one thing you love to do with your family? Spend time at the beach.
6. What is one thing you wish you could change about your work life? The fact that I didn't have such a long commute and having to travel. I hate being away from LO.
7. What is one fun tidbit about you?
I love to watch UFC, ride dirtbikes and do anything outdoors. I am such a tomboy but I also love to shop. :-)
Me, too. And the same color.
Duchess: my sisters and I have the same problem, only they are much worse than I am. What have you read? I've hit the basics -- Twilight, House of Night -- but they've read them all.
. What is your occupation?
lawyer, in house
2. What does your DH do?
sales
3. What are your hours?
8:30 to 5
4. Do you like what you do?
Yep
5. What is one thing you love to do with your family?
go on vacation. LOL!
6. What is one thing you wish you could change about your work life?
More $$$
7. What is one fun tidbit about you?
Ditto on the Vampire book thing. I'm really addicted to me ereader and it is a very dangerous thing!
1. registered nurse in a trauma icu
2. college professor/microbiologist
3. my hours- 2 nights a week... 7p to 7:30a. really, longer, and rarely a break, but whatever. DH's hours vary each semester... but many days he leaves early, comes home late... may run in on weekends. research. blah
4. I do like what I do... I just do not like the night shift.
5. I love going for walks at the parks and playing at the playground. Any chance we get, we do this together.
6. work days. hoping for an 11a-11p position ... supposed to be posted soon.
7. I'm 4'11" . I love heels... and of course picked the only career where I cannot wear them. lol.
1. What is your occupation? Internal Audit for a large Bank
2. What does your DH do? Consulting
3. What are your hours? Usually 7:30-4:30 but they're somewhat flexible as I work from home.
4. Do you like what you do? Not really. No one likes working with auditors. I'm a huge softee and have a hard time being the bad guy, especially when I'm working with auditees who are nice.
5. What is one thing you love to do with your family? In the summer it was go for long walks and explore different playgrounds.
6. What is one thing you wish you could change about your work life? I just wish I had a more fulfilling job.
7. What is one fun tidbit about you? I love bargain shopping and never pay full price for anything!
1. What is your occupation? Teacher
2. What does your DH do? Co-owns daycare with my MIL/Personal trainer
3. What are your hours? 8:15-3
4. Do you like what you do? Love it!!!
5. What is one thing you love to do with your family? Spend time together. DH works long hours so don't get to spend a lot of time together as a family.
6. What is one thing you wish you could change about your work life? Nada.
7. What is one fun tidbit about you?
I've never missed an episode of Monk and am sad that the series is over 
So far I've just gone through the Sookie Stackhouse books and the first two Twilight books. I will have to see what else is out there when I'm done. My husband says he has dreams that I'm going to leave him for a vampire (:
1. What is your occupation? HR Manager
2. What does your DH do? Medical Supply Sales Account Manager
3. What are your hours? 8 - 4:30ish
4. Do you like what you do? Depends on the day; but I get to work from home all the time and that makes it worth it.
5. What is one thing you love to do with your family? Take the boat out and go swimming
6. What is one thing you wish you could change about your work life? I wish I could either reduce my hours to 32 (and keep the same pay HAHA) or compress my schedule into working 9/80's.
7. What is one fun tidbit about you?
I love singing and generally want to sing to anything that comes on the radio.
Thought it might be fun to get acquainted with eachother - new and veterans
1. What is your occupation? Writer/Communications Dept for a financial company
2. What does your DH do? Engineer
3. What are your hours? 8:30-5
4. Do you like what you do? Yes, but it can be slow and I get bored. I don't really mind though. I sometimes wish I had a little more creative freedom.
5. What is one thing you love to do with your family? Go on outings like museums, sports games, etc.
6. What is one thing you wish you could change about your work life? more money!
7. What is one fun tidbit about you?
I love to read but I do the majority of my reading in the bathroom these days. Lol
1. What is your occupation? HS English teacher, cheerleading coach
2. What does your DH do? Drinks wine for a living...okay, so he works for the local university as the bar and beverage director and banquet director of the alumni center's private membership club and he runs the suites at the football and basketball stadiums. But that's way not as awesome sounding. And he does get to drink a lot on the job!
3. What are your hours? Technically? I'm contracted 7:45-3:30. Realistically? 7:30-5:30, plus games on two to four nights a week, so I regularly don't get home until 11pm or so. Blech.
4. Do you like what you do? Yep. Usually. And I'd suck at doing anything else.
5. What is one thing you love to do with your family? Watch college sports. DD is a fanatic. It's hilarious. Make dinner.
6. What is one thing you wish you could change about your work life? I'd love to not have to go to games, but still coach. Sadly, that's never going to happen.
7. What is one fun tidbit about you? My due date for #2 is two weeks from Saturday! Oh, and homecoming is one week from Saturday. Ah!