I hear you on the "not a salesman" thing!!! That's my worst part of my work, & I'm horrible at it. In fact, probably 99% of my business comes from referrals so I don't have to do cold calling!! I'm great at what I do, just have to learn how to let people know about me.....

If I could get a few more clients, I'd actually be making a semi-comfortable living! (& could truly afford those lessons that I justify to myself by saying they are an "investment"... )

I'm an ER RN.
Sure comes in handy for those skating aches, pains and injuries!

I'm good at sales--as you can all tell, I don't mind talking to people! LOL!!! I started this thread so that we all might be able to network with one another, exchange services, barter our goods, and refer clients to one another, all with the good intentions of raising more $$$ for you know what! Maybe, we can all help one another out from time-to-time to satifsy our ice additction: like when I fall, I call that one whose an RN, you need a home you call me, someone says they need a website developed, we call that other person, you need graphics, I call you, need drywall put up, well, you know who to call...so on and so forth...

I work for the government...I'm a unit clerk for an Air Force Reserve Unit. I work part-time (32 hours a week) and get to flex my hours during skating season. My boss is best friends with the skating director's wife....so when I need to skate he is very understanding! As long as my work is done without him asking...I get to!

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Ah, show skating!!! I do it for the glitter!

[QUOTE=sceptique]I'm a management consultant for Accenture. It's a punishment for not thinking well enough when I was 23 what I really want to be in 10 years.... QUOTE]

I was a management consultant for them until last march. I hated my job, gave it up, and am not happy and unemployed while I search for my true calling. At least I get to skate 5 days a week, if I was working there it would only be weekends.

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The hardest thing about ice skating is the ice.

Evelina,

What do you think your true calling is?

i work as a pediatric occupational therapist in a specialized school (the PTs there are quite helpful for all my bruises and such). I also do some contract work..homecare visits and working at an outpatient clinic to feed my costly and addictive hobby of skating. )

I am a Certified Financial Planner, which affords me a flexible enough schedule that I can work around skating and skating related travel.

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If you keep your eyes on God, you can walk on water.

I teach fourth grade and do lots of summer inservices to fund my daughter's skating. I just get to do group lessons for myself.

I'm a proofreader/copy-editor for a small consultancy. Trying to find a position where I can combine my job and my degree (chemistry), but no joy yet.

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"Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases:
(1) It's completely impossible.
(2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing.
(3) I said it was a good idea all along."
- Arthur C Clarke

Mintypoppet,

I love your handle name! Do you know about the Chemical Heritage Foundation? Here is their link:

http://www.chemheritage.org/

I've seen them post employment opportunities for proof readers all of the time. If you were in Philly, this would be the place for you.

I've been a gas passer for 33 years----Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist in a large city hospital. It hasn't help me deal with injuries......

I'm a stay-at-home Mom.

There's no such thing... everyone is adequate in their own right!

God bless you and IceMomma too! Teachers are wonderful people.

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In fact, it doesn't matter. In the past 2 years I have only spent maybe 10 days in total in the office, most of the time I'm working at client offices. And anyway, 12-hour days and skating do not go well together... I just keep it to weekends.

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That's the very reason that makes me keep the job - I strongly believe that the search for a true calling goes better when the bills are paid. Yet I understand you - it's a demanding job that is tough enough even if you like it; if you hate it - it just destroys you. I try to think of it as a character-building experience... and of course there's always a hope that some day something else will come up.

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My other car is a Zamboni

No idea what my true calling is, but it's the summer, and I get to skate monday to friday, so searching for it at the moment is not a bad way to live!

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The hardest thing about ice skating is the ice.

I am a pediatric hematologist/oncologist in a university hospital. If I skate early enough in the day most people are still sleeping and let me skate. Otherwise my beeper goes off way too often!!!

I'm unemployed. The husband works for EDS.

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Mrs Redboots
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I love my computer because my friends live in it!
Ice dancers have lovely big curves!

I'm a full-time mum and proud of it! My skating is my reward for everything I do thanklessly for my family

Nicki

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I manage an Electrical Engineering department in the Commercial Aircraft division of Boeing. I have no kids at home, but I have 22 who work for me...

I'm a mechanical engineer-- and I currently design the implants and instruments used in spinal surgery.

In an earlier consulting job, I worked a bit on hips, knees, shoulders... I like to think that I'm contributing to what I'll probably need to replace if I keep up this active lifestyle!

I'm a neuropharmacologist by training, formerly a Director for a pharmaceutical research & manufacturing company. Took early retirement (yay!) and now keep busy as a community volunteer, Golden Retriever mom and would-be skater

Ellen

I'm still a student (MBA degree next two years). Fortunately, the rink has enough skating times scattered across the week that regardless of my schedule I can find SOME time to skate.

And since I recently wrote two term papers in the span of one week (A's on both!!), I feel I can justify procrastinating on school work by skating...