Retired, and identify as such.
::Waves::
Medicines licensing for most of my career, eventually becoming a freelance consultant. (Like yourself, I started out in labs).
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Nothing these days. I am 77.
I worked in the Inland Revenue as a Tax Officer until 1994 when I was medically retired due to a nervous disorder.
However, the following year I was Baptised into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, since when I have been kept well occupied in various ways, even if not gainfully in the usual sense. However I have benefited financially in one way, as the help from Brethren has enabled me to recover a sizeable sum of which I’d been defrauded.
I’ve been retired for a year and a half. But I was a legal secretary from 1979 to 2023, and held a few inconsequential admin jobs before that.
I was lucky I stumbled into the legal field, because I sucked at anything to do with numbers or accounting. I was good with the written word, though, and I was top of my college class at shorthand. My skills saw me through over forty years of work in various law firms.
It looks like I retired just in time. I was reading about “jobs which are becoming extinct” in some online article the other day, and secretarial positions were in the list. I’m sure, however, legal secretaries will still be needed, albeit not as many. Scanning documents and storing them in the cloud was becoming a bigger and bigger part of my job at the time I retired, and that was boring and burdensome. I missed the days of taking letters in shorthand and proofing, editing, and cite-checking my bosses’ work.
I’m a full time musician and music educator.
I teach band, orchestra and jazz band part time at a local high school- I’m the assistant director, there’s a full time music teacher there who has to deal with the school district’s red tape. I just come in and teach. I recently switched over from being paid by the music booster club to being paid by the school district from the recent Prop 28 (I think that’s the number) fund voted in by California for arts in schools. There was a substantial raise involved. Yay me.
Performing musician- wise, I play upright bass, electric bass and tuba. All styles except reggae. I just don’t get it. I play a lot of pit orchestra, traditional jazz, classical, big band, rock… well, mostly everything. I’m a member in about nine bands.
My newest enterprise is starting up a local community band. We just had our second concert. I’d really like to phase from playing to conducting and music arranging, mostly brass quintets.
My career ever since graduating high school has been playing for pay. To pay the bills, I’ve:
made pizzas
worked in a music store
drove school busses
made Adirondack chairs
worked in winery tasting rooms
driving instructor
given private music lessons
I do identify as my career. What I do is what I am. Musician.
Licensed insurance rep for personal home/auto in Canada.
With the exception of <1 year that I worked for a private law firm (collections, foreclosures and bankruptcy - fun stuff!) I’ve worked for a federal agency for 38 years. 25 as an attorney, the last 13 as an administrative law judge. Basically a paper pusher. Retiring 3 years from last month.
Semi-retired Tour guide. Work anything from 0-4 days a week. Average 2.
Worked in IT for 30+ years.
I dunno, Beck - survivor, cheerleader, rabble rouser, morale builder, content creator, crack shot, voice of reason AND frivolity - seems like it all oughta count for something…
I manage the IT department of a small hospital.
Does your hospital use EPIC? (I used to ride the train with a nurse responsible for training people on it, so I heard a lot about it)(plus that’s where my own patient portal is)
My daughter used to work for EPIC. What an amazing HQ campus. In case you were wondering where your healthcare $ went! 
It was too expensive for us. We might have been able to afford a crippled version of EPIC but the inability to customize that version turned off even our Super-Pro-EPIC providers.
We use Cerner, which was recently bought by Oracle and is now Oracle Health.
My god is this real? Look at the castle!
Epic Headquarters | Travel Wisconsin
All it lacks is a couple of peasants digging in the mud spouting philosophy.
Looking back at my post from when this thread started, I realised I could have phrased it differently.
I’m in the art of persuasion. Persuading judges to accept my view of the world.
I’m a full charge bookkeeper. I enjoy doing books.
I’m new to Quickbooks Online and have had to teach myself how to use it. I just started a new job doing books for someone who has never had a bookkeeper. These books are a mess. I’m having so much fun cleaning them up.
The chart of accounts are a mess, vendors are duplicated and tripled and misspelled and there are dollar figures everywhere. To further complicate things, there are two stores and when cash flow demands store one pay the rent for store two, there was never an entry made to reflect the transfer. Payroll wasn’t split properly either.
I really am having a blast, but man my neck hurts from all the typing.
It is. A good friend of mine is a senior IT guy for one of the big hospital networks here in Chicago, and he goes up to their campus regularly for training and meetings. He loves the place.
As a bass player myself, I find Reggae interesting. It doesn’t come naturally to me, but I’m trying to find my way into the feel?
I’m a jam musician myself, guitar mostly but I’ve picked up the bass in the last couple of years. The last time I found myself in a reggae jam I literally asked how to play reggae bass before we started and someone said, “just hit the root on the one and you’re golden.” Seemed simple enough for a simple bass player.
I have lived off disability benefits (roughly $1200 a month) for the past 20+ years due to various physical and mental issues I would rather NOT detail.
I also help take care of my elderly mother who lives in the same subsidized housing complex as I do. (We do have separate apartments thankfully.)