What was (is) your job before you had bubs?

[TheMamma]

What was (is) your job before you had bubs? Are you going back to work?

Just being nosey!

I was (am) a Senior Consultant in a recruitment agency. I'm still deciding if I'm going back.

[Hokey Pokey]

I went back when Ebony was about 10/12 weeks old I think?
I do nightfill so it wasn't as hard to leave my baby behind, knowing she was tucked up in bed with Daddy home.:)

[eeyorethedonkey21]

i was an office / accounts administrator.

dont really want to go back to work especially for someone else. would rather come up with my own business and set it up and work for myself. or possibly get my hubby's business set up properly and consistent amounts of work.

[PandP]

I was in Banking (Project Management) for 8 years until I came to the mines. Then I drove trucks for a while the I was a Field Assistant for Geo-Tech/Hydro which I LOVED!!

Then I went to London (for 12 months) and worked in marketing for Disney.

Then I came back to Perth and worked in a school while I was pregnant.

Now I am back at the mines and looking around at what I might do this time around...

Sometimes I think I should get back on a "track" but it is amazing how transferable you can make your skills with a little bit of imagination!!

[Sheer Bliss]

auntyEp - WOW you have done heaps!

I was (am) a business analyst (or cost accountant - which makes it sound more boring - lol) at a steel manufacturing plant. The job itself is pretty boring, but working onsite with all the different stuff that goes on makes up for it somewhat. I am on maternity leave until dec-08 when i'll go back 3days per week. I just finished my CPA - so now i have that & my degree behind me I am going o ask for more $$$ - so sorta looking fwd to that! :thumbsup:

[TheMamma]

I was in Banking (Project Management) for 8 years until I came to the mines. Then I drove trucks for a while the I was a Field Assistant for Geo-Tech/Hydro which I LOVED!!

Then I went to London (for 12 months) and worked in marketing for Disney.

Then I came back to Perth and worked in a school while I was pregnant.

Now I am back at the mines and looking around at what I might do this time around...

Sometimes I think I should get back on a "track" but it is amazing how transferable you can make your skills with a little bit of imagination!!

How do the fellas treat a woman in the mines?

[PandP]

no dramas. There are so many opportunities up here for women that you wouldn't get in a city (IMO). 'Cause it's a residential mine most people are couples or families so it's all in!!

[SammiJane]

My job is boring then lol
I am a sales assistant with Big W and i also work in the cash office for holiday relief

[QTB]

whoops sorrry just realised it was a birth groups thread!

[PandP]

Sammi - I am a Big W fan. You are doing a great job! They have the best baby stuff range. Ohhh I miss the shops!!

[camille]

I was in hospitalitity for a few years when I left school then when I was 20 I got into legal secretary/receptionist work.

I had a mid-life crisis at 28 and decided that I hated the whole law industry and decided to do something I had a passion for.

I enrolled at Uni and have been doing a Bachelor of Human Movement Science/Human Physiology part-time externally (which works very well with young kids) and when I finish next year I will work as an exercise scientist/exercise physiologist in either rehab or with elite athletes.

I would also like to do further study in the future in sonography/radiography as I am interested in working in cardiac investigations/rehab.

Not bad for someone who was no good at school and got the lowest possible TE score!

[jacks mum]

I was a chef, the last couple of years before I had Jack I was chef/manager running cafe's within work places. The nights, weekends and public holidays are not the best now, great when I was younger and used to party with the people I worked with. wow that sounds old, how things have changed.

I now still work 1-2 nights waitressing in a friends restaurant which is really cool and I do bookkeeping from home and of course we're getting our online store happening.

No I hope to not go back to work. Although DH is renovating at the moment (since early Oct) so things could go either way when the money runs out.

[Pink73]

I was a nanny for 10 years, but wanted to do somthing different before having my own kids so I went and go a job with the council driving there buses Iam so glad I did as I have had two lots of maternity pay about to be 3 lots and in total have had 5 years off.

[ZooKeeper]

journalist, publicist and community worker. kept doing the third one as it was voluntary even while PG and when DD was born but winding it up now. NEVER want to do the second for local acts again as it was just all hard slog and promises of pay which never came mostly, going to be MIL's publicist tho, she's just written a corker of a book about libido and post-menopausal women. the first one, call myself freelance but have not knuckled down properly, am going into book length writing instead mostly.

otherwise as paid work pre-DD in twenty something years I've driven a checkout, waitressed, cleaned, planted garlic, planted trees, been a word processor, been a receptionist, worked in marketing, sold teddy bears door to door, spruiked, collected for Greenpeace, worked a bar and pub, done industrial espionage in the carparking industry, been a research assistant for someone's PhD, delivered pamphlets, worked in a larger sizes fashion boutique (even tho I'm a skinny little thing), hosted karaoke, done standup comedy, been an extra on TV, produced/directed/written a play, done child minding, ... and there's probably things I forgot. might use any of that experience again in the future either to get paid doing the thing again, or in a story :D
(my fave author John Steinbeck also did a lot of things before he settled down to becoming a great writer, I'm inspired by that.)

[mrsmiley]

I worked in retail for 8 years, then worked in a bank(hated it), then moved to QLD and worked on an island for 4 years in hospitality. Then moved to Gold Coast and worked in a couple of hotels here.
Then came up with an opportunity and worked for myself cleaning brand new houses in the contruction industry. Which I did till 2 weeks before I had DS.
But nothing is a good a job as being a mum, that is the best one by far:)

[boy wrangler]

I'm a Primary School Teacher, and not really wanting to go back full time for ages. I'm the sort of teacher that gives it my all, at school from 7 to 5ish, and doing work at home too. I don't think I could be the mum I want to be, and the teacher I want to be at the same time!

That being said, my amazing boss has organized one day a week starting in third term, and I'll probably do a days relief here and there once I'm not feeding through the day!