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Joined: 09 Apr 2007 Posts: 87 Location: New Albany, Ohio
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 9:25 pm Post subject: Jobs
Usually someone starts a thread like this on every forum. What do you do for a living?
I own a fundraising & community improvement consulting firm (I specialize in fundraising for technical projects) and also do computer hardware support and website work as an independent contractor for several organizations.
Medical records technician. At the moment my main jobs are to pull charts for surgery, doctors, and for various studies, as well as preparing the mail. I also am responsible for assembling and analyzing charts for signatures and reports, abstracting, putting paperwork that has been separated from the chart (like lab results that weren't available at the time the chart was being processed) on the chart , answering calls, faxing patient information to hospitals, filing charts back onto the shelves, and requesting charts from offsite (or going after them myself in case of an emergency).
Fortunately my schedule is 2nd shift Sunday to Thursday giving me some time to ghost hunt on the weekend.
_________________ Lead investigator
Ohio Valley Ghost Hunters
I work fulltime in a museum doing records and database work to make the collections more accessable to the public. I also work parttime in another museum doing setup and breakdown for events, and keeping an eye on the museum part of the building during those. Both museums are haunted, so that's definite perk. I love the fact that I learn so much about history in the course of my work, too. I feel very blessed to have the jobs that I do.
We have a lot in common workwise. I spent almost a decade doing database work for the fundraising departments of some non-profits. The museum work is more my cup of tea, but it was fulfilling to work in fundraising where I knew my efforts were going to support a good cause. The yearly trips down to Charleston, SC for Raiser's Edge training didn't hurt, either. And Darkstar, I've always found there to be a lot of similarities in records work regardless of which field you do it in. I kept nodding my head while reading about your job thinking, "Oh yeah, that sounds familiar."
I woke up one Sunday morning in 1993 and packed a suitcase for a two week trip to Kentucky, picked up the phone and called a dear friend who had recently retired. "Jackie, when I get back from this trip, I'm taking the early retirement." The wife's chin and the skillet she was holding both hit the floor at the same time. That trip made seven turn arounds in a row and I had grown tired of the travel. At that moment I cast off my Defense Analyst role of some twenty six years and went home to sit and wait for my retirement check in the mailbox. Only one drawback to retirement; I used to have my week-ends off!
_________________ Phil Foreman
aka Pawclaws or QMSgt Kass Irons
Mosby's Raiders Light Artillery CSA
I help keep the computers and electronics going in a fully automated transportation system for WVU. About a year or two more and I'll join the ranks of those with no time on their hands though. Who called it retirement???
I also run a part time business designing and consultant for specialized electronic systems. I can take an idea and turn it into a completed project. I build the one-of-a-kind devices that aren't available on the market because no body else wants one or there is not sufficient demand to warrant a big company building them. Yes, that includes ghost hunting equipment too.
Joined: 09 Apr 2007 Posts: 87 Location: New Albany, Ohio
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 10:41 am Post subject:
Interesting jobs. I'm a long way from retirement (29 years old). I think working in a museum would be one of a few jobs I'd call perfect for me. I'm an enormous history nut. I went into fundraising to help organizations stay afloat that are involved in history or general community improvement.
Joined: 11 Apr 2007 Posts: 141 Location: St Clairsville Ohio
Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 10:23 pm Post subject:
I'm a receptionist for a Hematologist/ Oncologists' office. I do phones , a lot of clerical work in the office, make appts, file, keep charts.... there's a lot of little things that add up to a very busy practice.. I hate to say that we're very busy and have been getting new patients like crazy.......Ghosthunting takes me away from it all for sure..
Joined: 26 Apr 2007 Posts: 4 Location: Newark Ohio, USA
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 4:02 pm Post subject:
I run/am the shipping/samples department for Tectum, where we make acoustical panelling used in gymnasiums, churches and many schools. I ship samples of tectum and literature detailing our product to houndreds of companies, mostly in the US but also in korea, abu dhabi, canada, switzerland, mexico, etc.
in the past I've been a cook, delivery man, apliance repair man, repo man, retail cashier, gas station atendant, field worker, logger, restaraunt manager, farmer, salesman, contractor, construction worker, wire puller, florist designer, handyman, custodian, cleaner, etc., etc.
Joined: 03 May 2007 Posts: 4 Location: Bellefontaine
Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 4:35 pm Post subject:
I am the engineering manager at a company that designs and builds plastic injection molds. If you have been in a hospital hooked up to a machine of any type then we might have already met.
_________________ Digital Recorder .............................. $ 55
EMF Meter..................................... $100
Hearing your friend scream like a baby.. Priceless
Joined: 09 Apr 2007 Posts: 87 Location: New Albany, Ohio
Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 10:15 pm Post subject:
That sounds like an interesting job...I have a Mechanical Engineering Technology degree from Kent State but since getting laid off from the electric company I really haven't used it. I have always had an interest in Engineering.
Joined: 26 Aug 2007 Posts: 76 Location: Thornville Ohio
Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 6:55 pm Post subject:
I'm in the wedding business. I own and operate a catering company, my husband is a wedding disc jockey. Love food. Enjoy entertaining others. Probably because I haven't had one of those "Bridezillas" yet, lol.
Im the mail lady here in Dresden. Its ok I guess.... good money. A lot more work than one may think it is. I have a photgenic(sp?) memory so it is pretty easy for me.
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