What do you do for a living? Or would like to do?

[Lucinda]

Bev, it's too late for me given the sort of person I am! I work with the trainee Drs and I see the lifestyle they have. It's a long training, then a really nomadic lifestyle - 6 months here, 6 months there, irregular shifts and long hours, and I would be doing that until too far into my middle age! i want to settle down and put down roots and get more animals!

So I have other plans in the pipeline . .

 

[DebbieR]

I know what you mean Lucinda. I would love to study animal behaviour and be a dog trainer or something like that but I'm now 37 and have a husband, a landlord and a vet to support. Can't afford to leave work to retrain and can't afford to get the correspondence courses.

 

[michellemuffin]

I left work years ago to raise 5 kids but ill health has stopped me returning but i would like to some day, maybe in one of the islands t shops or we have a holiday park not too far away and my daughters best friends mum is the main employer and she often says go for it, but i always end up ill and then doubting my ability, I have spondelothyis of my lower back chronic osteoarthritis, and suspected mulitple sclorosis amongst other things like diabetes and under active thyroid and stomach ulcers plague me, I think the stress of having the 3 boys adhd to cope with has made me suseptable to ill health, but i live in hope, I've got the neuro on monday to see why my right arm does'nt work anymore, poor me, thats where my pigs come into it they relax me and I feel better for their love,

Sorry to hear about your health probs, good luck with the neuro on Monday. A close friend of mine has MS but it did take a while to diagnose as they didn't want to 'ruin' her life, it was only when she asked outright have I got it they admitted she had : I hope you don't have it, sounds like you have enough on your plate.

I don't think it's a coincidence that so many of us on here have chronic health probs and love to have piggies and buns. If I'm feeling really bad I go and hug a pig and it works really well

Kathryn x

maybe pigs should be available on the NHS they certainly destress and relax us they already told me I am 95% sure to have MS but the diagnosis is very hard to do as a lot of the tests are not too good at pinpointing the proof, and I refuse a lumber puncture as i have had a bad back and no one touches my back, I think it will be diagnoised as MS my Gp has said yes it is, just be patient and wait sometimes it can take years

 

[kayjay]

I left work years ago to raise 5 kids but ill health has stopped me returning but i would like to some day, maybe in one of the islands t shops or we have a holiday park not too far away and my daughters best friends mum is the main employer and she often says go for it, but i always end up ill and then doubting my ability, I have spondelothyis of my lower back chronic osteoarthritis, and suspected mulitple sclorosis amongst other things like diabetes and under active thyroid and stomach ulcers plague me, I think the stress of having the 3 boys adhd to cope with has made me suseptable to ill health, but i live in hope, I've got the neuro on monday to see why my right arm does'nt work anymore, poor me, thats where my pigs come into it they relax me and I feel better for their love,

Sorry to hear about your health probs, good luck with the neuro on Monday. A close friend of mine has MS but it did take a while to diagnose as they didn't want to 'ruin' her life, it was only when she asked outright have I got it they admitted she had : I hope you don't have it, sounds like you have enough on your plate.

I don't think it's a coincidence that so many of us on here have chronic health probs and love to have piggies and buns. If I'm feeling really bad I go and hug a pig and it works really well

Kathryn x

maybe pigs should be available on the NHS they certainly destress and relax us they already told me I am 95% sure to have MS but the diagnosis is very hard to do as a lot of the tests are not too good at pinpointing the proof, and I refuse a lumber puncture as i have had a bad back and no one touches my back, I think it will be diagnoised as MS my Gp has said yes it is, just be patient and wait sometimes it can take years

I don't blame you for no one touching your back, I've heard people having probs for years after a lumbar puncture of epidural. My friend had a lumbar puncture but they still didn't tell her. She rang me up one day and asked what I thought she had and I said MS or MND so she went back to the doctors and asked and they confirmed it. I guess time will tell, sometimes there's nothing to be gained by knowing for definite unless there's a 'cure' available. Interestingly now my friend says if there was a cure she's not sure if she'd go for it as MS defines who she is so much. I've been telling her to get some piggies but she says she's happy cuddling her cat and OH !

Good luck, let us know how you get on

Kathryn x

ps I've enjoyed those mags thanks

 

[snugglypig]

I'd love to be a dressmaker or even be able to use a sewing machine. I love designing clothes and would love to be able to make them. I especially love designing clothes that would actually fit the larger lady rather than having to wear normal clothes that have just been made bigger but with all the wrong proportions. I have so many ideas - if I was talented I'd be a millyonaire ;D

Get yourself on a course like at night school, the machine part is the easy bit, Its like riding a bike once you can do it you never forget.
if you can design you are half way there.
I learn't at school and was lucky to follow after my mum who was self taught. mind you I can remember as a kid wishing we could go buy clothes at a shop, Boy was I Ungrateful. I love making for my kids bet they will say the same thing.

karen

 

[iris]

I'm working as a Junior Process Engineer.

I would like to try something that has nothing to do with engineering...

 

[alisont]

I work as a support tutor in a local college, supporting students with moderate learning difficulties and more and more 16 year old lads with behaviour issues or who have been excluded from school.

Hard work and way too much paperwork but I do enjoy it, keeps me young working with all these teenagers! Ive done part of my teaching course but not in any rush to complete it as means silly amounts of paperwork and stress!

Job coaching would be a good job too, helping/supporting adults with learning difficulties into paid employment.

I'm happy where I am for the mo, Id one day love to work for the Vegan society or an animal rights group. The vegan society move to Birmingham next year so I will be keeping an eye out for jobs!

Alison

 

[staffie lass]

I am a dental nurse , but would love to be able to afford to do full time animal rescue, dogs cats small furries etc if I win the lottery I will buy land to open my own rescue, I think Andrea`s animal roadshow sounds a cool job ;D

 

[Spuggyhawk]

I am an Occupational Therapist, qualified a year ago and don't miss the University life at all. I work closely with nurses and don't know how they cope with the pressures.

I do some dog rescue but would like to run my own boarding kennels which would fund more dog rescue. I used to have lots of piggies and miss the piggie chatter.

 

[carrot_tit]

I work with disadvantaged young people for the charity Prince's Trust.

But i'd love to be a mortuary assistant or a forensic pathologist. I just have no idea how to get into either.

 

[SkinnyLover]

At the moment I am unemployed as I am undergoing tests for illness. My idea job would be a midwife, which is why I'm studying with OU to get my qualifications

 

[cavykind]

Wow can't believe how many of you would like to work with the "departed" ?
Not for me I'm afraid...good job someone can do it though!

Barbara

 

[SweetEdge]

I'm an IT field technician... Always had an interest in computers and servers etc etc, and they cant answer back at you - well they can try ;D

If I could choose what I would love to do it would be either a vet, own my own pet shop so I could make sure all the animals went to good homes or an astronaut! (A bit of a difference I know!) hehehe

x

 

[hermoine76]

I'm a stay at home mum.I was planning to go back to work this year but my son was very ill and has been diagnosed with Crohns disease.He has been in hospital for a large part of this year and I have stayed with him,I think I would have been sacked if I had a job :o .He is in remission at the moment but I know it can flare up anytime and I know if I get a job and he becomes ill again I will want to be with him and not working.I have looked for a job working from home but its hard to find anything genuine.


Heidi

 

[Lucinda]

carrot tit, to be a pathologist you have to train as a Dr first. Had I done medicine, which i should have, it's one of the areas I was most interested in. Pathology isn't just PMs though; there is a lot of reviewing slides and biopsies to make diagnoses.

 

[ss4ya]

well currently i am working for a civil engineering company in Taunton, Somerset, but hopefully by the end of next year i will be singing full time. (fingers crossed) hopefully will make it as a career after i go on X Factor hehe

 

[poppy]

I'm a Nursery Nurse. i work in a school as a Teaching Assistant three mornings a week have been doing this job for 16 years :o

I also run my own business with my daughter

 

[DebbieR]

I'd love to be a dressmaker or even be able to use a sewing machine. I love designing clothes and would love to be able to make them. I especially love designing clothes that would actually fit the larger lady rather than having to wear normal clothes that have just been made bigger but with all the wrong proportions. I have so many ideas - if I was talented I'd be a millyonaire ;D

Get yourself on a course like at night school, the machine part is the easy bit, Its like riding a bike once you can do it you never forget.
if you can design you are half way there.
I learn't at school and was lucky to follow after my mum who was self taught. mind you I can remember as a kid wishing we could go buy clothes at a shop, Boy was I Ungrateful. I love making for my kids bet they will say the same thing.

karen

I have often thought of it but my school experience of learning how to make clothes has put me off a bit. We had to make a skirt from a pattern but because I was larger than the average bear I had to get a pattern that was really old fashioned I'm pretty sure no-one makes patterns in my size - there isn't enough paper and material in the world ;D