GTKY: What do you do?

nlwz123 · August 2015

Hey guys,

Sorry if this has been posted before, but I didn't see it when I searched.

What does everyone here do for a living? Do you like what you do? What are your plans post-baby?

kmcc14 · August 2015

I work in the administration department for a commercial real estate company. I will be quitting to stay at home when baby comes.

nlwz123 · August 2015

kmcconnell22 said:

I work in the administration department for a commercial real estate company. I will be quitting to stay at home when baby comes.

Are they letting you take maternity leave before you quit?

nlwz123 · August 2015

I work in clinical research (predominantly heart failure and behavioral health) full-time, but I will be going down to part-time after the baby comes. I'm nervous about how I'm going to balance work and having a baby.

kmcc14 · August 2015

nlwz123 said:

kmcconnell22 said:

I work in the administration department for a commercial real estate company. I will be quitting to stay at home when baby comes.

Are they letting you take maternity leave before you quit?

I don't think I will be able to because their maternity leave is paid through STD.

mommiesandbabies · August 2015

I'm a mid level administrator at a university.
I plan to keep working since even though it doesn't make a ton of financial sense with four small kids, leaving the work force for a while would be rough on my career.

MissMheMhe · August 2015

I am a trial secretary for the state attorney's 20th circuit office in Florida. I work with 3 wonderful ASA's and love every minute of it. I will be taking 3 months after baby comes then returning to work. I would love to stay home bit the state benefits are way too good to leave my job.

laxdixdar · August 2015

I'm the program manager/nurse for an Alzheimers day center. Basically daycare for Alzheimers and other medically needy patients.

After the baby is a hot topic right now. This is an epic moment in my career with a job and income I'm very happy with. So I'm still on the fence... DH is wishful I get caught in my feelings and SAH though.

Monilee1017 · August 2015

I am a SAHM, I honestly never wanted to be one. I always wanted to work, at least part time when I had kids. After my second DH and I decided it would be the best thing for the family, for me to stay home, so after I worked about 6 weeks after returning I quit. It was the longest winter in my life, but I love it now! Will continue to be a SAHM until this one starts school, then will work part-time.

nlwz123 · August 2015

Monilee1017 said:

I am a SAHM, I honestly never wanted to be one. I always wanted to work, at least part time when I had kids. After my second DH and I decided it would be the best thing for the family, for me to stay home, so after I worked about 6 weeks after returning I quit. It was the longest winter in my life, but I love it now! Will continue to be a SAHM until this one starts school, then will work part-time.

I'm glad it worked out for you! Was there a specific job field that you wanted to be in?

RunnerMeg · August 2015

nlwz123 said:
I work in clinical research (predominantly heart failure and behavioral health) full-time, but I will be going down to part-time after the baby comes. I'm nervous about how I'm going to balance work and having a baby.

I used to work in oncology clinical research (I resigned to stay home with DS shortly after he was born. Research is a relatively small field, so I'm always excited to "meet" someone else who works in it.

nlwz123 · August 2015

RunnerMeg said:

I work in clinical research (predominantly heart failure and behavioral health) full-time, but I will be going down to part-time after the baby comes. I'm nervous about how I'm going to balance work and having a baby.
I used to work in oncology clinical research (I resigned to stay home with DS shortly after he was born. Research is a relatively small field, so I'm always excited to "meet" someone else who works in it.

Oooh, that's awesome! Were you doing medication clinical trials?

ashs88 · August 2015

I am a manufacturing engineer. I love everything about my job, except for the commute which is 45-50 minutes each way. DH is in journalism so I am the "breadwinner" of the family and it would be very difficult financially for me to stop working after baby #2 is born. I am also the kind of person who would probably go nuts staying at home, so I will going back to work full time after my maternity leave.

Grace213 · August 2015

I manage a tanning salon. After #2 I'll go back for a bit but then I would like to donate my eggs (already approved... Then I got pregnant. Oops!) and work PT to spend more time with my babies. The first year after #1 was really hard on me working FT.

CaraBoonie · August 2015

I'm back to being a student after 4 years hating life in PR, lol. Went back to grad school to become an elementary school teacher, and I'm on my final semester, which means student teaching during the day and seminars in the evenings. I graduate mid-December and then am free after, giving me a full month to get ready for the baby, and then 6-7 months with her before hopefully starting a job as a classroom teacher next fall (in a perfect world). This baby was planned down to the week in order to make this work, and luckily it worked out and my body followed through with my plan. When I do start working, I plan on using a combination of daycare/nanny/babysitter and my mom who is a college professor, so she only works a few days a week, and some of those are evenings. While I haven't been a full-time teacher yet, and I know how hard it can be, every single day I've spent as a substitute teacher or observing in classrooms has been ten times better than a day doing my old job, and I'm excited to spend my days around children! It also hopefully will make life easier when my kid(s) are school age to be on a similar schedule as them.

RunnerMeg · August 2015

nlwz123 said:

RunnerMeg said:

nlwz123 said:
I work in clinical research (predominantly heart failure and behavioral health) full-time, but I will be going down to part-time after the baby comes. I'm nervous about how I'm going to balance work and having a baby.
I used to work in oncology clinical research (I resigned to stay home with DS shortly after he was born. Research is a relatively small field, so I'm always excited to "meet" someone else who works in it.

Oooh, that's awesome! Were you doing medication clinical trials?

Yes, we did stage I-III trials. Primarily treatment trials, and a few non-treatment trials. I worked at a large academic cancer facility. What about you? Medication trials? What's your background? I always love hearing about how someone gets into clinical research.

amargaret24 · August 2015

I do a few things.... I tour with my fiance with a music group handling all the marketing and merchandise. This gig is more for fun so my fiance and I can spend time together rather than him just leave. Good thing I got pregnant RIGHT before the tour started! Man, traveling through Australia, Europe, and 3 weeks already done in the US has been really nice while having morning sickness (not!) We head out on Friday for 5 weeks!!!! 3 of those weeks I'll be sleeping on a bus. YIKES.

When I'm not touring, which was only a "this year thing"... I am a freelance Internet Marketing Consultant for small to mid/large businesses. Mostly start up who are in the process of figuring out their target demographics and how to reach them. I transitioned to freelance from being a full time Ecomm Marketing Manager at a website called Lulus.com, some of you might have heard of it. It got to boring though.

Once baby comes I plan on freelancing still which is super great because I do 80% from home, but I am also in the process of starting my own Music Management company, so hopefully a few months after baby I'll have signed my first (or 2nd) artist by then. Fingers crossed.

Monilee1017 · August 2015

@nlwz123 I have a degree in hospitality and service management so I'll either find something part-time in that or go to a store or something part-time. DH says I never have to work and can always be a SAHM but I don't know if that is something I want to do forever. 5 years until this one starts school so I have time to think. Plus I will only be 47 when this one graduates high school. So I will definitely go back to work at some point, I couldn't imagine sitting at home all day with no kids for 20 years while DH was working, nothing against women who never work.

nlwz123 · August 2015

RunnerMeg said:

RunnerMeg said:

I work in clinical research (predominantly heart failure and behavioral health) full-time, but I will be going down to part-time after the baby comes. I'm nervous about how I'm going to balance work and having a baby.
I used to work in oncology clinical research (I resigned to stay home with DS shortly after he was born. Research is a relatively small field, so I'm always excited to "meet" someone else who works in it.

Oooh, that's awesome! Were you doing medication clinical trials?
Yes, we did stage I-III trials. Primarily treatment trials, and a few non-treatment trials. I worked at a large academic cancer facility. What about you? Medication trials? What's your background? I always love hearing about how someone gets into clinical research.

Cool! Was it just general oncology or specific cancer studies?

I work for a health system and went to school for public health. I work in heart failure pharmacogenomic research (mainly observation, I personally don't do drug trials), and on the flip-side I work on a proactive behavioral health study to improve detection of mental illness in the hospital. So my time is very split between two different types of research, but it's been nice!

allisongraw · August 2015

Graphic Designer here! I was freelancing but decided to take a full time job., and got pregnant that same month! Whoops! I think I'll end up going back to freelance after DS is born..

JAGClark · August 2015

I work for a non-profit medical association doing marketing, communications and business member relations.

I will be off for 12 weeks, and coming back after.

jferrer1212 · August 2015

Hello all science & healthcare related mom's to be out there!! I'm a medical lab tech!! I work in a hospital laboratory & work in multiple depts to get your doctors results & data to make decisions!! I love telling ppl what I do because not too many ppl know what it is I do! After your Rn, doctor, or phlebotomist draws ur blood & collects urine, stool, sputum, csf, it comes to me!! Need Rhogam? Blood transfusion? Culture that bacteria & figure out exactly which antibiotic works best? Check your iron? I get to look under microscopes & play with big instruments :-) haha. Well, that was quite motivating for me to get ready for work now! :-) love from the science nerd here!!

jferrer1212 · August 2015

Opps I forgot. Plans are; I work part time now, I will get one month off before baby (use it or lose it) and then get 12 weeks after baby comes. I hope that's how it will go anyway. Double checkin with HR this week!

ntyravgsp · August 2015

SAHM. Previously worked with people on their investment and life insurance portfolios. Also this topic has already been posted, you just have to search the term "job" to find it: https://forums.thebump.com/discussion/12576756/gtky-what-is-your-job

nlwz123 · August 2015

ntyravgsp said:

SAHM. Previously worked with people on their investment and life insurance portfolios. Also this topic has already been posted, you just have to search the term "job" to find it: https://forums.thebump.com/discussion/12576756/gtky-what-is-your-job

It was posted back in May. No one seems to mind.

KaraEpp16 · August 2015

nlwz123 said:

ntyravgsp said:

SAHM. Previously worked with people on their investment and life insurance portfolios. Also this topic has already been posted, you just have to search the term "job" to find it: https://forums.thebump.com/discussion/12576756/gtky-what-is-your-job

It was posted back in May. No one seems to mind.

Except the ladies that have been here since May and have already posted in that particular GTKY.

ntyravgsp · August 2015

nlwz123 said:
Hey guys,

Sorry if this has been posted before, but I didn't see it when I searched.

What does everyone here do for a living? Do you like what you do? What are your plans post-baby?

I don't mind either, quite a few new people on here since then. Just pointing out that it is there.

nlwz123 · August 2015

KaraEpp16 said:

nlwz123 said:

ntyravgsp said:

SAHM. Previously worked with people on their investment and life insurance portfolios. Also this topic has already been posted, you just have to search the term "job" to find it: https://forums.thebump.com/discussion/12576756/gtky-what-is-your-job

It was posted back in May. No one seems to mind.

Except the ladies that have been here since May and have already posted in that particular GTKY.

This thread seriously bothers you because it's a duplicate of one in MAY?

Snoopylovesbelle · August 2015

Bothers is probably the wrong word. But that thread could have been resurrected so the new people could contribute to that one and see what everyone else posted.

KaraEpp16 · August 2015

No - I just think it could have been refreshed in a different way. I'm not bothered - I'm just slightly bummed that we're only about 5 months in and we're repeating GTKY topics.

kmcc14 · August 2015

ntyravgsp said:
I don't mind either, quite a few new people on here since then. Just pointing out that it is there.

Yourself included, right? I see you just joined on the 6th.

Snoopylovesbelle · August 2015

Lol

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KaraEpp16 · August 2015

kmcconnell22 said:

ntyravgsp said:
I don't mind either, quite a few new people on here since then. Just pointing out that it is there.

Yourself included, right? I see you just joined on the 6th.

She joined the 6th and knows how to use the search function - Seems like some of the old practices have made an impression on new ladies even though there seems to be a lack of redirection on this board.

ntyravgsp · August 2015

Eta @kmcconnell22 yup, a newb who knows how to read.

Snoopylovesbelle · August 2015

amargaret24 · August 2015

If only there was a cut, copy, and paste method here on TB. We could pretend this never happened! But it did. I even participated and secretly remember the post from a million weeks ago. I just didn't say anything and went ahead and participated.... selfishly felt like talking about myself...... I've failed our BMB. hmmmm...

AlabamaWorley · August 2015

kmcc14 · August 2015

KaraEpp16 said:
She joined the 6th and knows how to use the search function - Seems like some of the old practices have made an impression on new ladies even though there seems to be a lack of redirection on this board.

I disagree that there is a lack of redirection on the board. There is nothing wrong with starting up a GTKY for a topic that was covered months ago. Plenty of new people have joined since then. Using the search function is still encouraged, fyi.

Snoopylovesbelle · August 2015

Yes the 15 SSS symptom threads on the first page most days prove that yes most people use the search function

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kmcc14 · August 2015

ntyravgsp said:

Eta @kmcconnell22 yup, a newb who knows how to read.

Don't recall seeing your intro post.

KaraEpp16 · August 2015

kmcconnell22 said:

KaraEpp16 said:
She joined the 6th and knows how to use the search function - Seems like some of the old practices have made an impression on new ladies even though there seems to be a lack of redirection on this board.

I disagree that there is a lack of redirection on the board. There is nothing wrong with starting up a GTKY for a topic that was covered months ago. Plenty of new people have joined since then. Using the search function is still encouraged, fyi.

"There is nothing wrong with starting up a *NEW* GTKY topic" Like I said, I think it could have been executed in a more refreshing way or the OP could have used the search function and resurrected the old GTKY. Maybe resurrecting the previous ones would be a great thing for the board and all of the new members.

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