What do you DO?

NatesLady1309

Working moms of any sort (part time, full time)- what do you do? As in what's your title and/or job description? If it's something vague sounding like "I'm a payroll clerk," please elaborate with what you ACTUALLY do all day if you are comfortable with that such as "I primarily enter people's hours from different job sites and deal with tax information." I think most of the Feb. moms work outside of the home so this can be sort of a GTKY. And... GO! 

MollySm

I am a nanny.  I used to be a teacher, before moving to California (first grade in Philadelphia).  Now I work 3 - 4 days a week as a nanny for two little sisters.  Grace turned 2 in July, and Ella turned 1 in September.  For the most part it's like being a SAHM, except I get paid (yay!), and I'm in someone else's home (boo!).  I can't get any cleaning, cooking, etc. done while the girls are napping, which sucks.  But I have Lucia with me, which is fabulous.  

MrMrsandBaby

I'm an Implementation Consultant for a very well known payroll/HCM (Human Capital Management) vendor.  Basically what I do is take a client and set up their new benefits website, which is so involved that it takes 12 weeks!  We set up a whole new HRIS structure for them.  My background is benefits, HR and HRIS so it is a perfect job for me!

k3montel

I'm a Special Education Resource Room teacher for kids in grades K-3.  When our school psychologist assesses students, I use the information to provide an Individualized Education Program (IEP).  I choose long term goals and short term objectives based on assessments, observations, and General Education teacher input.  I then work in a one-on-one or small group setting to help them achieve these goals / objectives. 

boilerup227

I work *VERY* occasionally (as in 2-3 days a month) as a speech therapist.

Bella61811

I work full time as a Head Nurse/Lab Nurse at an allergy & asthma practice. I triage patients for appointments, perform breathing tests, allergy skin testing, and administer allergy shots. I also handle the lab studies for all 4 offices in our practice so I call every patient with their lab results. I also handle all patient phone calls with whatever questions they may have.

nattyk

I'm a drug and alcohol rehab counselor.  I run therapy groups, do individual therapy sessions with people, and do intake evaluations.  I love my job, it's so cool to watch people transform themselves. 

frasey

High school teacher. Ive taught ESL for the past 7 years. Our school days are broken up into 4 periods of 75 mins each, and we teach 3 of the 4. Before DD was born, I taught the lowest level of ESL which was actually literacy development, which was geared to the kids who are not literate in their own language, or who do not have age-appropriate education. SO FUN. 8 kids in my homeroom. I also taught mainstream gr 11 physical geography, and ESL math, which was gr 7-8 level math. Best job in the world.

ssimon621

I'm a budget analyst in a local municipality. I pay major bills for the City, as in Electricity, the Sheriff's Office for the jail, most outside contractors, etc. I also am the office manager, so I deal with internal office issues such as supply orders, maintenance request, scheduling travel, and helping onboard new employees. Lastly, I work with the budgeting process that takes place yearly. I gather essential paperwork, and help to produce budget documents. I have a very weird job description. I just do what I'm asked and play on the bump in between putting invoices in. I work 35 hrs per week.

Jlobebe2012

I am a nurse.. But a telephone nurse right now. I work for a pharmaceutical consulting company that takes new or high risk independent drug companies and makes them more marketable by the services that my company provides to their patients. I personally educate patients over the phones who take a risky MS medication. I also provide financial and education resources to these patients. I miss bedside nursing A LOT, as that is what I did for the past 3 years. I have been here for 2 years, and my job can be very boring at times. I like fast pace and excitement. However, I am in Nurse Practitioner school, so during my down time I am able to study, and my job pays for my tuition, so it does have its perks. I will return to the hospital in the next 3 years hopefully. At that point in time, I would love to work in the ER, and then eventually join a practice as I head into retirement years.

Emily6778

I work for a large travel agency.  My specific role is working with various Aupair agencies and booking flights for their client into and out of the US.

Lawren

I work for a Dermatologist. I enter all of the insurance, prior authorizations for drug coverage and call in most of the prescriptions.

christinak22

I'm a benefits administrator for a church denomination. There are so many things I do it's hard to describe easily! I process all enrollments, changes, and terminations in benefits to pastors, church staff and missionaries' accounts. I go between the insurance company and the member to get difficult medical claims covered. I do all billing/receiving to and from local churches for their employees' benefits. I manage our webpage and marketing. Yep, pretty much run the show. I like that there's variety to my days, though, and I really manage myself and my time, which is nice.

runrinserepeat

I work for a software development company. I support three of our customers. If they have a problem, they come to me and I make it better.

HappyToBe2012

I am a property tax assessor with the state of Maryland government. I process business personal property [tangible assets such as furniture, fixtures, computers, tools, machinery, etc] and generate tax assessments for companies registered to do business in MD. The assessments are then used by county and local governments to generate tax bills. Not exactly what I thought I would be doing, but I have great benefits, leave, and a retirement package so it works. Plus it's no stress and I get to leave work at work at the end of the day.

jmccall79

I am a Financial Aid Program Specialist...big title, but the low man on the totum pole.  I pay out grant and scholarship money to post-secondary institutions in the state, for 5 different programs.  Of course there's way more involved than just sending the money, but that's the gist of it.

Jen0204

My job title is Contract Management.  Basically my company sells various equipment and my department sells the service contracts to maintain that equipment.  I do some of the sales, but my job is more of the admin side - fixing quotes, booking contracts, and doing the crappy miscellaneous jobs for the department that other people won't do and I get suckered into doing.  It's boring, but it pays well, it's 1 mile from our condo, 10 minutes from daycare, and extremely flexible.

allisons1014

I am a Development Officer for a hospital foundation.  I raise money to support patient care programs, employee scholarships, new equipment etc.  I work a lot with grateful patients and their families, employee giving and our direct mail and quarterly newsletter.  It's a lot of fun and I really enjoy it.

heymommy

I'm a portrait photographer. I started way back 1996. The past few years my work is very seasonal. I make 80% or more of my income from October 'til the first week of December. I'm in the busy season right now but Im only doing about 1/3 of what I normally do because of the new LO.

It is very hard to get work now because of all the competition and new people selling all the photos on a CD for dirt cheap. I refuse to do that at this time. I only sell the finished product. I'm very traditional / old school.

I'm thinking of getting out of the business which makes me sad because it is all I ever wanted to do since age 12. Things just are not what they use to be. Not sure what I will do.

michelle7482

MollySm:

I am a nanny.  I used to be a teacher, before moving to California (first grade in Philadelphia).  Now I work 3 - 4 days a week as a nanny for two little sisters.  Grace turned 2 in July, and Ella turned 1 in September.  For the most part it's like being a SAHM, except I get paid (yay!), and I'm in someone else's home (boo!).  I can't get any cleaning, cooking, etc. done while the girls are napping, which sucks.  But I have Lucia with me, which is fabulous.  

Where did you teach?  I live in Philly and taught 5th grade in a Catholic School until this past year when my school closed. 

laura.noel

I am an elementary school band teacher. I teach wind/ percussion instruments to small groups of 4th and 5th grade students, and I direct a 4th grade band and a 5th grade band. I write my own schedule, and arrange a lot of my own music, so that takes a lot of my time, too.

cheese.fiend

Before I had L, I was an immigration attorney for a domestic violence non-profit organization. I petitioned USCIS (part of the Department of Homeland Security) for immigration benefits on behalf of my clients on the basis of their crime victim status. I loved my job; it was truly an honor to be a part of these women's journeys - especially those I was able to see through to full citizenship.  I would have gone back to work had a long commute not been involved. 

sparks2987

I am the executive director of a  case management company under the DD waiver. In English I am the director of 15 social workers and do social work myself for adults with developmental disabilities. We set up lives for adults with developmental disabilities, we help them find a place to live, help them find jobs, make sure someone is helping them with any medical needs, set them up with therapies if needed, help them get integrated into the community into events they like to do. We go to their houses and make sure the paid employees are taking care of them correctly, giving them the proper medication, we make sure they have food and clothing, we help them build the skills they need to care and provide for themselves. We occasionally deal with emergency situations and placements.

I love my job and it has completely changed my life, it can be beyond stressful and take an emotional toll on me but it is so rewarding.

 

cmd9465

I am a consumer products package designer.

I create the package designs for diapers, wipes, bottled water, paper towel, toilet paper, sanitary and incontinence products. (Free diapers, yay!) Anything from running a photo shoot for babies that go on packages to illustrating the character graphic that go on the actual diaper.

Part time: Photographer and album designer

mle5d

I'm a Career Counselor for a university. I work with our Accounting students to prepare them for the job market and assist with the job search process. I love it!

NatnDyl

I am the lead paralegal in the bankruptcy department of a mid size lawfirm. I direct workflow (see which files aren't moving and why), handle all highly contested matters and sensitive clients. While I was on maternity leave the rest of the paralegals pissed of a client. Now I'm the only one that handles that client's files. Sometimes I think my job is to be a fixer. I may not have made the problem, but I'll find a solution.

reikotxm

I'm a 3D Artist at a big gaming company (no, not a video game company). I create 3D models and animate them. I also do 2D animation as well and some designing and layouts.

88eve88

I am an elementary school teacher.  Right now, (well, when I return from mat leave) I am teaching Grade 2.  I've taught Grade 4 in the past, but I think Grade 2 is the best age to teach!  I teach in a pod classroom, which is a large space with 2 teachers and 2 classes combined ... one BIG happy family!  I love my teaching partner and we get along extremely well, so I am actually looking forward to heading back to work in the new year.  It's so much nicer when there's another adult in the room with you!!

karleegirl

I'm an infusion rn in an oupatient oncology clinic. I start iv's,manage central line catheters and port a caths (long term indwelling iv accesses) . I infuse chemotherapy,immune therapy and blood boosting med. I take calls from those same patients and help manage their many side effects. We get very close to our patients and their families so I do a little psych nursing too.

autumn423

I am a Physician Assistant in a very busy ER in Manhattan.  I work 4 10s, nightshift

Jeanine88

I SAH now, but I am going back to work in a few weeks. I'm a middle school reading teacher in a charter school in an inner city.  I love teaching and I'm glad my job can get me in part time. I am a mom to my kids in addition to being a teacher because of the homes they come from. It's very rewarding. 

mydawn

I am a teacher. I taught kindergarten in an international school until LO was born. I am not working at the moment, but I am finishing up a master's degree in early childhood education. I am currently designing my research project, which will involve emergent biliteracy in preschool aged children. 

pennyandandy

k3montel:

I'm a Special Education Resource Room teacher for kids in grades K-3.  When our school psychologist assesses students, I use the information to provide an Individualized Education Program (IEP).  I choose long term goals and short term objectives based on assessments, observations, and General Education teacher input.  I then work in a one-on-one or small group setting to help them achieve these goals / objectives. 

This is exactly what I do, except that I only work with 3rd grade, unless there is some kind of crazy circumstance. I have kiddos that run the gammut from slight learning disabilities, to severe autism and mental retardation.

ALane1128

Before Jackson I was a hair stylist. We moved from TX to WI when I was 8 months pregnant...and in this business you don't get hired being 8 months! So after Jackson was born DH started a business and instead of hiring an office manager I worked for him from home and did phone calls, invoices/billing, setting up appointments and shows. We just hired my sister so now I only do it 2 days a week. I still do hair on the side and will eventually get back into the salon when all our kids are in school

nanilove87

I'm a third grade teacher. I love it! Kinda, haha! This year has been rough because of all the new stuff our school is rolling out, but for the most part I enjoy it. I love my students!

Ya Never Know

I'm currently unemployed because of layoffs, but I am a graphic/web designer, and that is what I'll be job searching for. For now, I'm just mom I guess.

dmsny

I am classicly trained as a CPA and used to be an auditor. Then I worked for many years as a forensic accountant and fraud investigator. At my current job I am coded to Internal Audit but I still do some investigative projects. A lot of the work i do is confidential. I work for a top 10 CPA firm as a senior manager. But what do i actually do? Hard to explain. Essentially I meet with clients, conduct interviews, perform risk assessments, perform financial analysis, do compliance work, manage projects, document and test internal controls, and I am supposed to be finding new clients. I've counted graves in cemeteries, i've box dived looking for a smoking gun email, i've interviewed construction workers hanging off the scaffold on the 34th floor of the new One World Trade Center. I was not the one on the scaffold the construction guys were! I love asking questions, I love digging things up, I love a good spreadsheet. If anyone ever has a need for internal audit or forensic services, hit me up.

cbaglini

boilerup227:

I work *VERY* occasionally (as in 2-3 days a month) as a speech therapist.

 

This. I work 2 days per month (12 hr/ month contract). I am an occupational therapist providing consultation to day habilitation programs servicing adults with developmental disabilities. 

CotterpinDoozer

I recentl became a communications and development manager at a YWCA... I write press releases, organize fund raises, do PSA's, photography, event planning.  It's pretty awesome.

Jen0204

Ya Never Know:

I'm currently unemployed because of layoffs, but I am a graphic/web designer, and that is what I'll be job searching for. For now, I'm just mom I guess.

I wouldn't ever say you're "just" a mom! It's an important job, and being home with the girls full-time was much harder then working full-time.  

HattieLove

I'm a substitute middle school teacher and a substitute preschool teacher. So I'm basically a SAHM the majority of the time.