Your Other Life...or...What's Your Line?

[E.M. T.]

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[E.M. T.]

This is so cool to read what everyone has done! I'm going to borrow Eileen's format, since this could be really long otherwise, and I always write too much anyway! :wink:

Babysitter
Trained a young half-arab horse to the saddle
Learned to sew garments from Grandma Nellie
Burger King employee
RCA TV Service Contract phone sales (hated this!)
Waitress
Computer Lab Student Assistant at University of Akron
PSIA-certified ski instructor
qualified whitewater river guide
Moved to Philadelphia after college: Software Conversion Rep - spent months at clients' CATV businesses
Moved to Sacramento: Software Programmer
Bought an Arabian mare and took up AERC Equestrian Endurance Racing
Introduced to ballroom dancing by a horsey friend, and eventually lost a bunch of West Coast Swing competitions, lol.
Software Quality Assurance Engineer (loved this work!) - one business trip to Rome, Italy led to my close friendship with Dodo e Max in Rome (just got back from their 20th Wedding Anniversary party, there!)
Met my DH white water rafting on the Stanislaus River near Yosemite, camping in Calaveras Big Trees.
Moved to Sunnyvale, CA with DH.
More Software QA work, then Tech Crash!
Worked for my friend's gorgeous boutique jewelry store (always loved stone, of any sort!)
Took several years of Ceramics classes at community college, LOVED that!
DH gets job offer near Seattle that he can't refuse, lol, and we move there 5 weeks after the decision is made!
Take my 1985 Singer for servicing so I can make drapes for our new house,... end up with a high-end Pfaff with embroidery functionality! Finally, sewing is interesting, because this machine can help me EMBELLISH!
Find TQS, and fall in love with it and the community!

[E.M. T.]

I´m a truckdriver and I also drive a 9 ton excavator. Me and my husband bury phone cabels to houses. There have been alot of digging around kindergardens and you should se the kids faces when thay notice that it´s a girl driving the excavator . ITS A GIRL DRIVING !!!!! I always tell them that I know a much tougher job than this and thats to be a teacher, also there teachers job is tougher ,... I know that cause i tryed
I do exercise when I´m not sewing on my spear time,.... depending on the season I do bicycle, drive dirtbike and play ishockey. I dont compete anymore, its just for the exercice.

[Roseanne M.]

I´m a truckdriver and I also drive a 9 ton excavator. Me and my husband bury phone cabels to houses. There have been alot of digging around kindergardens and you should se the kids faces when thay notice that it´s a girl driving the excavator . ITS A GIRL DRIVING !!!!! I always tell them that I know a much tougher job than this and thats to be a teacher, also there teachers job is tougher ,... I know that cause i tryed
I do exercise when I´m not sewing on my spear time,.... depending on the season I do bicycle, drive dirtbike and play ishockey. I dont compete anymore, its just for the exercice.

What fun!
Also, you belly dancing girls are (to quote Margo) too stinkin' cool!!
I'm really enjoying this topic.
btw, my name is the combo of my two grandmothers - Rose (from Sicily) and Anne (of German/Hungarian ancestry)

[Annette R.]

Parents gave you a first name but called you by your middle name. When I was born I was given the first name of my mother and uncle so there were three of us with the same first and last names so, of course, they called me by my middle name. Well, that was fine for many years as I just used my first initial and my middle name as my legal name. Then I turned 65, and here in the US medicare decides what your name is no matter what you have been your whole life because it is whatever is on your social security card so now I have to use my first name for everything. And since DH calls me by a nickname, Ann has little relationship to any of it. Ann is a shortened version of my middle name actually so it sort of relates but when I die no one will know its me if they use my legal name in my obituary. LOL!!!! That may not be all bad, I will be a legend - at least in my own mind. Aren't names interesting? Hugs, Ann

[Annette R.]

wow.... we went from belly dancing to truck driver and, thanks to Lisa, everything in between! How interesting!

Ann, I can so relate to the name dilemma. I was born Nancy Kalynn Hall. My parents had fully planned on calling me Nancy, but a cousin insisted on Kalynn and it stuck. I hear of a lot of Kalynns now but not in the 60's. I was forever trying to get people to pronounce and spell it correctly. Didn't help any that my mom didn't spell it phonetically. It is pronounce Kalin, with the emphasis on the first syllable and a long a sound. People naturally want to say Kay Lynn, with the emphasis on Lynn. And of course, every teacher, doctor's office, etc. has called me Nancy. So I pretty much answer to any of it! People always ask where my mom came up with it. She doesn't really say, but she had a little sister named Linda Kay. (?)

[Rita C.]

Names are very interesting aren't they? We were all called after saints - and my brother had the misfortune to be given Mary as a middle name. This was quite common in the 50s here in Ireland. When my youngest brother arrived in the 60s we all petitioned my mother to leave Mary out of his name which, thankfully, she did. We were upbraided regularly for not living up to our saints names. Self-mortification and stigmata were never my thing though!

[Rita C.]

Wow, so many belly dancers! I agree with the "too stinkin' cool" comment

BTW, Charae is a gorgeous name, and your dance teacher was mental to not like it!

[wendy w.]

Belly dancing is great fun. I had to give up when we did loads of spins and I got dizzy. Just loved the dressing up and the different styles. Can we have some pictures of you all in action

[Charae H.]

I will defer to JoJo on this one. I personally have nothing historic--I guess we had cameras back then for stills, but pictures that moved???? I'm not so sure :wink: And the phrase "wide angled lens" keeps popping into mind when I think about what would be required today. I'm pretty sure they would shut down this site if I uploaded something. But, let me check...yep, I can still do a belly roll. As a matter of fact it's easier. Although I may be confusing undulations with harmonic motion. ops:

[Margo C.]

I will defer to JoJo on this one. I personally have nothing historic--I guess we had cameras back then for stills, but pictures that moved???? I'm not so sure :wink: And the phrase "wide angled lens" keeps popping into mind when I think about what would be required today. I'm pretty sure they would shut down this site if I uploaded something. But, let me check...yep, I can still do a belly roll. As a matter of fact it's easier. Although I may be confusing undulations with harmonic motion. ops:

:lol: :lol: :lol:

[Rita C.]

:lol: :lol: :lol:

[Jo H.]

I would love to share pictures, but I lost everything I owned from my younger days in a fire at my parents home. Pictures are the toughest things to lose.

P.S. And, I owned a Brownie camera -- anyone remember those???

[E.M. T.]

:lol: :lol: :lol: You bet !!

[E.M. T.]

My first camera was a brownie! I have fond memories of it and took it all over our travels as a family.
Now as for names - I have lived all my life with a misspelled name. Jeanine should actually be Jeannine with double n, but my mother forgot where the double nn went when she was registering me at the Hospital for Foreigners in Rio de Janeiro. Brazil where I was born. It is a French name meaning little Jean coming from Jeanne. I have too often been called Geanie or Jenny and nowadays am no longer shy to correct everyone who mispronounces my name.

Jeanine