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Are you employed full or part time?
Yes 59%  59%  [ 33 ]
No 41%  41%  [ 23 ]
Total votes : 56

pi woman
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14 Feb 2017, 7:48 pm

I've been an engineer with the same company for the last 31 years. Serious "people problems" 15 years ago caused me to move to the same company in a different city.



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15 Feb 2017, 1:01 am

I said yes in the poll even tho I am now retired. I worked pretty much all my life, with very few gaps, until I reached retirement age. The last 25 years I worked as a computer techie.

I would like to do some volunteer activities but all I can find is places where they want me to answer the phone or help them when they are at fairs etc where there are large numbers of people. You can imagine how those sit with my AS nature.


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15 Feb 2017, 1:08 am

Its weird read here how american's law for job its way more more flexible than Brazilian's laws.



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15 Feb 2017, 2:49 am

the_phoenix wrote:
I give you much credit, Kipro ...

I once volunteered to work in a kitchen for a Women's Retreat weekend.
It was 95 degrees outside, and they soon discovered that
I could not handle preparing food for large numbers of people ...
couldn't even peel potatoes fast enough,
so they awarded me the job of
* drumroll please * ...
Dishwasher!

It was all going fine, until
the dishwasher broke!
But I survived. :D

Glad you had an overall good experience! 8)

...


thanks. 8)

they tried getting me to prep, working with dough, debearding and cleaning mussels, etc.

i enjoyed the mussels, but otherwise there my performance didn't shine as much. i was pretty slow, over-kneading dough, sometimes poking a hole in it. it's not plasticine. that i learned.

our dishwasher didn't break, but it sometimes did make way too many suds. :skull:


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15 Feb 2017, 3:53 am

I work as a teacher, a path that I am sort of regretting in the last couple of years since self diagnosis. But it does allow me to be completely obsessive in my teaching area.