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What did you grow up to be?
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I’m a home infusion pharmacist. In what setting do you work?
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I work at a United Health Group owned mental health specialty pharmacy. Closed door, mail order. We do a lot of LAI's and Spravato for clinics.
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Mail order would be more closely related to what the techs do at the company I work for. I would have checked to see if we had openings in Texas if you wanted a change of setting before going back to school. I was hoping to save you from retail work
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Haha, I'll have to keep that in mind! I started in a high volume retail chain. I loved the pace of the work (on average 1k scripts a day), even worked with a really good team, but the patients were such dicks that when they offered me a M-F 8a-5p job I was instantly hooked. Worked out that I got a raise in the process, but to be honest, I'd have probably taken it even if it were only breaking even.Mail order would be more closely related to what the techs do at the company I work for. I would have checked to see if we had openings in Texas if you wanted a change of setting before going back to school. I was hoping to save you from retail work
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I feel for you there. Both of my parents are on disability, but thankfully my dad is still mobile enough to mostly care for them both. I have to pitch in for expenses, but I mostly don't have to worry about being at home with them yet. It's great of you to put someone else's needs above your own like that. Not everyone would, sadly.
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I'm no saint, that's for sure! Just doing what I need to for her
I almost became one as well, but the local CVS decided not to hire me even though on paper I was more than qualified. I did lack the certification, but supposedly they were going to help me get it according to the posting. Maybe they just found someone who had it already, who knows.
I ended up in a Volvo owned company that builds busses. Originally in one that built coaches including Greyhounds. Due to a shutdown, now I'm in their sister company making basically city busses. There's plenty of them in NYC and Chicago, but also in a lot of other larger metropolis around the country.
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I work for a family-owned medical parts manufacturer. Relatively simple things like gears, sprockets, pulley mechanisms, clamps, cleanroom latches. We do some contract work for Phillips for things like the manual control device for the instruments used during bypass surgeries.
When I'm not helping get useful things into the hands of people that know what they're doing to help/save others, I'm doing military contract work. Because that makes sense. Building motors and other components designed/used for drones. Ostensibly, for good - things like bomb disposal robots. But understandably I'm not asking what else those things are powering, or how we ended up with such contracts, or anything like that.
When I'm not helping get useful things into the hands of people that know what they're doing to help/save others, I'm doing military contract work. Because that makes sense. Building motors and other components designed/used for drones. Ostensibly, for good - things like bomb disposal robots. But understandably I'm not asking what else those things are powering, or how we ended up with such contracts, or anything like that.
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I work at a school with kids from ages 6-12. I'm not really a teacher, though that's what I studied for. 
I'm more like an extra adult in the classrooms, helping kids that have a tough time at school, special needs students etc. I'm also out on the school yard at recess with all that that entails, like helping the kids settle arguments or maybe helping them find something to do! I also work with what we swedes call 'fritids', which translated would be 'free time' I guess. That takes place after school is over and is similar to day care, but for older kids. When the parents have work, and the kids can't be at home by themselves, then they come to us at 'fritids'! 
We do different activities, help the kids with home work, play games and generally just have a nice, relaxing time until the parents pick rhw kids up!
I'm more like an extra adult in the classrooms, helping kids that have a tough time at school, special needs students etc. I'm also out on the school yard at recess with all that that entails, like helping the kids settle arguments or maybe helping them find something to do! I also work with what we swedes call 'fritids', which translated would be 'free time' I guess. That takes place after school is over and is similar to day care, but for older kids. When the parents have work, and the kids can't be at home by themselves, then they come to us at 'fritids'! We do different activities, help the kids with home work, play games and generally just have a nice, relaxing time until the parents pick rhw kids up!
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How do you get that title to fit on your business card?
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My job title is Senior Project Administrator. Because apparently "Administrator" is better than "Coordinator". It's vague and sounds like something in IT.
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That's awesome! I'm in a similar boat, actually. I just decided I was way too old to go back to school *and* med school, so I'm going to do the sonography and specialize in neurology.
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As I was reading that, I was expecting you to say you chose to become a brain surgeon.
Needles to say, I'm a tad disappointed.
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If your dream is to be a doctor and you have the drive for it, I don't believe you're ever too old.
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1) I do not have the hands to ever be a surgeon, let alone something as important as a brain surgeon
2) I just don't think I have the kind of mind that can handle that at all. Those guys are on a different level.
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I spent almost 15 years with Target before switching things up. Used to really love that company. One thing I miss was how much they cared about keeping up with tech in the retail industry though.
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I've been here all 7 years since I graduated and while nowhere is perfect, it's a pretty good gig I think. We try to do a pretty good job keeping up with tech, generally behind the "cutting edge" stuff but still ahead of the majority of places.
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You’re not too old to go back to school. Up until my senior year of undergrad I wanted to be a veterinarian. I then decided I didn’t want to diagnose. I worked for a few years doing bench chemistry and quality control for two different pharmaceutical companies. I went to pharmacy school at 27, took an accelerated program and graduated at 30. There were people in my class that mid-30s to mid-50s
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This. I graduated with a person in their 60s and a few 40 year olds.
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The company I work for is national, there’s a good chance you guys deliver for us
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next year will be year 8 of being a high school history teacher! mainly been teaching american history during that time. i taught AP Psych the last three years but that class got dropped from my school’s schedule
Inferno Ballastics?
It's likely through a third party, but there's a pretty high chance we've touched your package.
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International Baccalaureate, it’s like AP but way more intense
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In the state I work in, we contract directly with the companies and I would talk directly with dispatchers when I’m on call. We rotate through courier companies a lot because they promise a lot more than they can deliver (pun intended) when they see how high our volume is
I for one blame the salesmen. I can't count the number of times over the last 7 years some huge account would slip through our fingers because Sales insisted we could pick up a new customer without hiring more contractors.
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One of the biggest issues we have with all the companies is the drivers don’t call the patients with an ETA
Oh yeah. The most stressful part of this job that I had to come to accept is that no matter how carefully I lay out the instructions or their route to somebody, it's still up to them to follow through. Old job would have us call patients directly to give them etas, which of course would kick us in the balls when the driver would then run their route backwards.
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I originally intended to get into game development, but I got an internship with an engineering and architectural company while I was still in school. I found a niche developing software for semiconductor companies (mostly relating to design and construction of new fabs), and now I'm managing a team of devs doing the same thing.
The clients frequently make me want to put my head through a wall, but I've learned a ton, the working conditions are waaay better than anything in the gaming industry, and it is satisfying to know I'm helping to get important technology out into the world.
Sometimes I still think about fleshing out one of my many game ideas and taking some time off of work to build it, but honestly there are other things I'd rather do with the time and money. Maybe if I could get enough of a prototype built to get funding to work on that instead of my current job, but both parts of that plan seem seem quite unlikely to ever happen.
The clients frequently make me want to put my head through a wall, but I've learned a ton, the working conditions are waaay better than anything in the gaming industry, and it is satisfying to know I'm helping to get important technology out into the world.
Sometimes I still think about fleshing out one of my many game ideas and taking some time off of work to build it, but honestly there are other things I'd rather do with the time and money. Maybe if I could get enough of a prototype built to get funding to work on that instead of my current job, but both parts of that plan seem seem quite unlikely to ever happen.
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^^This. My psych is in his 50s and went from therapist to psych about 5 years ago, he went back and loved it!
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I disagree! If you're willing to learn a new tech stack and you have good fundamentals, I think you'll be able to find something. You'll have to brush up and maybe make a little project to demonstrate you're still capable, but it's definitely doable. The job market for software devs is less hot than it was, but it's still a struggle to fill positions. We regularly hire people with zero experience in our tech stack because we have no other choice. (And we're currently hiring for a fully remote Blazor/SQL server dev, if anyone is interested!)It's a prospect I'm facing, I don't see anyone taking a chance on a mid-30s Java programmer that hasn't been in the field for almost 8 years at this point, so I might have to go back and learn something new. Not relishing it, as I was not a particularly great student
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I hope so, it would be nice to get back into the field again, though I definitely don't want to go back to making loan origination software, lol, that was no fun! Or maybe it was just the company.
I guess I have a tiny leg up on zero experience candidates, at least.
This is where I get petty, lol. My dad is a PL SQL developer, so even though I'm good with SQL I always promised myself I'd never go into that side of things because I didn't want to follow in his footsteps, lol. I guess I still sort of did, because honestly programming is sort of a universal experience, but...at least I was never a SQL developer
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You’re self-employed doing community outreach and stuffIt's a prospect I'm facing, I don't see anyone taking a chance on a mid-30s Java programmer that hasn't been in the field for almost 8 years at this point, so I might have to go back and learn something new. Not relishing it, as I was not a particularly great student
You worked on creating an international consortium of various professionals to assist each other in a relatively private space without needing to venture into the cesspools of other social media outlets
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It's funny, when I was younger I did actually use GW on one resume as a fluffed out piece of job experience
. Didn't help, I didn't get that job, but ah well
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You’re still coding/programming. You’re networking with other computer people. I’m sure you can use someone as a reference that you were an independent consultant on a project or somethingIt's funny, when I was younger I did actually use GW on one resume as a fluffed out piece of job experience
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Good point, I probably could find someone to use as a reference.