What do you do for a living?
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Full-time Social Worker. Currently work with the homeless, placing them into appropriate accommodation and helping those at risk of homelessness to maintain their current arrangements to avoid them losing their accommodation. Wouldn't mind changing fields though, the hopelessness of working with too many people with not enough accommodation or resources is very emotionally draining!
KuriKat ·
Awesome thread. It's really interesting to see what everyone does here. My career has been a little bit all over the place. I started at a bank writing policy and operating manuals after getting my masters in international relations and then quickly focused on translating antimoney laundering and anti terrorist financing policies to our manuals. Somewhat irritated at the privacy invasion I was supporting, I got into privacy and started a certificate in privacy law. Then I spent 6 months working in a horrible office doing work I loved until I bailed for my current easy but unrewarding job in a federal government economic development agency. I'm now entertaining an offer that would get me back into privacy and access to information with the provincial government. Do any of you discuss pole with coworkers? Only the admin assistant at my current job knows that I pole, as she's pretty cool. Otherwise, I just refer to my "dance class" or some such. I think attitudes are still such that I'd be judged for it unfairly by some coworkers.
Ingrid ·
i always found it fun that my instructors were layers and stuff like that. ^^ My self, im a pole and bellydance instructor, work as a reseptionist at my gym, do part time work with mentally chalanged and im a full time student doing a bachelor in land surveying. :P lol, its kind a random :P and i were wondering wy im always tierd... :P
@KuriKat: I tend not to tell about pole. Only three people (I think!) in the house where I work (>500 employees) know for different reasons. Not that I think it would be a problem if people knew really, but it does feel awkward to talk about it with collegues. It's not like you say "I play tennis" and people replies "ok, cool" and that's it. If you say "pole" then a discussion always will follow and even if it's just out of pure curiosity I just don't feel too comfortable. If I tell it's between four eyes and I would never want to shout it out in a group (at work at least), if I didn't know the involved people very well. It's a bit of a pity since I'm so proud of what I can do on the pole, but everything has good and bad sides. For exampel, how many sports could be practiced alone at home whenever you feel like it? That's a big advantage with pole compared to many other work-out forms in my opinion🥂. I tend to remember that whenever I feel annoyed about that I "can't tell".
My work colleagues know.. I figured that Anyone who works with street sex workers has to be open minded enough to accept I pole! :-)
I teach college English (literature, writing, and research, mostly) during the day and pole fitness at night!
Big Shocker here...I am a chemist! I started out in pharmaceutical and moved into drug discovery. When my company folded I worked at Gojo (Purell and hand soaps) and now work in inorganic testing low level metallic impurities in ceramics used for chemical manufacturing. BTW, the name was a nickname given to me and a college mate...I was chemgoddess1 and she was chemgoddess2!
Which is also the reason I am such an analytical geek on the forums. It is in my blood!
DedeJoy ·
I love how all these beautiful, talented polers are also obviously smart, savvy women who have all got it going ON. Y'all are awesome! I'm an editor for a major international educational publishing firm. I rearrange commas all day. :>) I was recently hired by my studio to teach pole, so I'm now teaching pole conditioning and beginner pole classes.
darcit ·
Great thread! I'm a stone tile artist during the day and a pole dance instructor in the evenings, and I love both my jobs! They let me indulge my passions of art, power tools and pole. 😉
@KuriKat: My team mates at work know. But I'm "strange" so no one is too surprised no matter what I do...
I'm almost 24 years old and I've been working at a commercial real estate appraisal firm as an analyst for two years. I got my Bachelors of Business Administration in Finance from Texas A&M University in 2010. My job is fairly boring, but I find it interesting in a way. Each new property always brings something different. Basically, I do background research on the properties we appraise on things like tax structure, demographics, employers, employment trends, neighborhood growth, market trends for that property type, flood zones, environmental hazards, etc. I also write the front half of the report describing the details of these things as well as describing the particulars of the subject property we're appraising. Basically, I write the part of the report that no one reads. It's all about the number at the end. I do like my job, but it's stressful because I am the designated analyst for two appraisers. Normally, it's one analyst for each appraiser, but there aren't enough and I was the one chosen to pick up the slack. I struggle to meet deadlines for both of them and am feeling a bit burned out. I am taking classes through the Appraisal Institute with hopes of getting my MAI years down the road. The AVERAGE age for MAIs (Member Appraisal Institute - it's a professional designation, like CPA) is 55 years old. MAIs are few and far between and very valuable, and the vast majority of those who have them are approaching retirement. It takes many many years to get one, but I'm working on it, and if I choose to stay in appraisal, it would go a long way toward helping me get a job practically anywhere. In the past, I've worked as an accounting intern for the corporate office of a large Dairy Queen franchise (39 stores), as a bank teller, a loan secretary in the same bank, and as a data processor, also for the same bank. So, Lavona, I certainly know what you mean about people in banks. When I'm not working, I like to do crafts, pole, and play with/train my dogs. I also volunteer my time at a high-kill shelter here in Houston, helping walk dogs, bathe dogs and puppies, and council adopters. When I go to volunteer, I normally end up staying there 6 to 8 hours, so it's almost like I "worked" there that day. Still, I love doing it. Most people don't understand why because it's so sad, but I figure that if I can be a bright spot in that animal's day, I've done some good for it, even if it dies tomorrow.
Oh my goodness! I didn't realize how long that was. Man, I tend to ramble. I apologize!
RoseMay ·
So fun to read which interesting jobs the girls here have :-) I'm studying information systems at a university full time and working as a software developer part time 🤓 I'm currently working on my bachelor thesis in applied cryptography 🤓
Medamaid ·
I am a hairstylist. One of my clients had asked me to join a pole dancing class with her and I have been hooked ever since. I have told all my co workers, friends, family and even some clients that I pole dance. I get mixed reviews on the subject but that's their problem not mine. Usually the conversation starts with how did you get that bruise? Lol
Raine ·
Great Post.... Impressed with the diversity..... I am a Office Administrator for a Nonprofit that it involded in Community Development and now studing for my Personal Trainer Certification
Suzara ·
I have my BS in Finance I do bookkeeping for 3 companies part-time, teach belly dance, and sell belly dance wear.
It's so interesting to read all the different jobs you ladies have. I work in television as an associate producer, writing promotional material. I'm currently looking for a new job, if anyone has any leads send them my way:)
Felisha ·
I have an associates in something I'm never going to do. Lol and before my daughter was diagnosed with CP I worked for AT&T and actually loved it. But I just bought my books and I will be ACE group certified very soon! :)
Felisha ·
And Im also a self-taught baker I sell layered fondant cakes, cupcakes and cakepops... Kind of ironic since I'm so into fitness... :) can't help my sweet tooth
I own a full service Pilates Studio for post-rehab and fitness clientele. I've developed my own Pegasus Barre Fusion Certification ( a blend of Pilates and Barre Techniques) program. I am also in the process of getting it approved by ACE and AFFA. I added Aerial Fitness to the mix and I am currently looking to expand and take that to a second location. (My Pilates studio is a little small to really be able to do the Aerial work justice, but we still have a great time!)
TansyRae ·
Laundry and dishes....aka Full Time Mom...LOL. I dabble as a seamstress - costumes, custom corsetry and specializing in 18th century reproduction clothing. I also teach pole conditioning classes, supervise open studio time and sub here and there for other instructors. But I went to school for esthetics, worked as a make-up artist, flight attendant, had kid one, went back to working in salon then opened my own salon, became a single mom, worked as a production manager/ pharmacy tech for a long-term care pharmacy then moved and went into medical billing...got remarried and now happily stay at home doing a little bit of everything.
I work as a licensed civil engineer doing project managment in municipal wastewater design. I work with mostly men ... in fact, my immediate co-workers are all men ... so I don't usually talk about pole at work. All of the 7 women that work on my floor DO know that I pole, though, and are very interested in trying it one day! 🙂 Oh ... and my boss knows that I pole. I had to tell him when he called me in to ask about the bruises he sees on my legs/arms. Gotta love a concerned boss!
I'm a Web and iOS programmer working in a university's IT department. Currently working on an iphone/ipad app I think a lot of us pole dancers will enjoy using.(can't wait to share here once it's in the app store!) I'm also a freelance artist specializing in charcoal and color pastel drawings from photos.
Piaketz ·
@KuriKat The other faculty at the med school all know that I pole and are highly supportive. Our department chair regularly asks me if she can see my new pics. They are so proud about it that sometimes they even tell the med students and residents, and I cringe a little inside whenever I have to teach said students/residents haha! At the clinic though, only a few people know... my 2 assistants (they saw my bruises), one of the social workers and the psychiatrist. Someone told the SW about my bruises, and she approached me out of concern. Awwww... 😉 And the psychiatrist... well, at least she doesn't think I'm crazy lol! I think she's crazier... she used to start secretly gyrating behind everyone's back whenever she saw me coz she likes to tease me (in a friendly way) about pole. I had not-so-nice comments from another colleague at the clinic about me doing aerials though, so I can just imagine what his reaction would be like if he heard that I pole. As a result I try to be careful who I tell now. And I'll die if any of my patients ever found out! Lol! I already get so much flack for looking "too young" already! 🌸
