What do you do??

I'm a stay at home mom, but ironically I don't stay at home very much. :rolleyes: I'm assisting with a reading program at my son's 1st grade class, coaching my daughter's soccer team, mentoring my son's sunday school class, assisting with the cub scouts, and not to mention all the chauffering, laundry, and general grunt work. ;)

Before all that, I worked as an Entomology lab manager, wildlife rehab volunteer, and even as a vet tech. I whole-heartedly enjoy any work with animals.

I work as a software support analyst (phones! =P) but before that, I was in software development for the same company. Will have been there 12 years next month.

Wedding planning rules my life at the moment and destroys my sleep most nights...can't wait til this planning crap is done (wedding is next month).

Other than that, Rick and I play computer games (currently Battle for Middle Earth 2), I used to quilt (Carmen's cage is now on my quilting table, so hard to quilt these days) and before that I did community theatre costuming (got tired of the slavery).

I am a computer dweeb. I am currently working for Information Builders as a Quality Assurance Analyst, but I have run the full gambit of the Software industry - programmer, application developer, consultant, QA, Network Administrator (hardware), product management and MIS manager -- everything but sales.


However, I did spend two years working at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, working mostly with Cats, Dogs, Rhesus Monkies and Rabbits. Other people worked with Rats and mice. We did not work with snakes or spiders of any kind (although I did hear the occasional "gee it would be good if we had a spider to try that out on"). Yes, I am one of those EVIL laboratory research analysts that did experiments with animals. I think that it is better than testing on humans, although my sergeant wanted to use death row inmates to test on.

Before I was an Army Lab Tech, I was an Attack Helicopter Repairman & Crewchief, and also a Cavalry Scout Team Leader -- I had fun on the Korean DMZ and in Germany.

My wife is responsible for our getting our first snake. She has been asking for one for years. I always balked until we went to my daughter's sleep-away camp for visitors day. They had a beautiful 5' boa and I got to hold it -- sold me on a snake as a pet immediately!

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I forgot, for fun I am a serious D&D player and Game Master -- two nights a week!

For work I manage our business from my home office.
For fun I like to read (mostly non-fiction, but also some fiction), I play some video games, love wine tasting, work out at the gym 3+ times per week....but my biggest passion is shopping. I can shop all day, even if I don't end up buying anything. I love fashion, I love looking good, and I LOVE sales.

I am a computer programmer(software developer). I mainly use C#, C++ and (server side) PHP.

Cassandra when you say "Software Developer" you mean you write syntax (as I do) or instructions that when compiled and executed will be sent to the processor to be acted upon?

Hi all! I work in quality assurance with O-I, inc. We make all sorts of glass and plastic packaging for everything from pharmaceutical to beverage to food to household stuff. I am currently in Milwaukee working with the Miller Brewing account. Yeah!! Free beer!!

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Originally Posted by Kilo

Cassandra when you say "Software Developer" you mean you write syntax (as I do) or instructions that when compiled and executed will be sent to the processor to be acted upon?

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Was...past tense.

And no, I was not a coder. I did everything else; testing, bug tracking, interfacing with other humans since coders lack that ability, UI design, presentations, doc writing, interfaced hardware manufacturers, etc.

I'm a stay-at-home Mom, with all the multitude of hats that that entails. I like computer games...but not a lot of them. I have a tendency to get hooked on one game and play it for a LONG time before finally moving on to something else. I love to read, and will read just about anything except hard-core horror and romance.


This past year, I did volunteer work with Team In Training, which is an organization that raises money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and is the largest endurance-sport training organization in the world. I trained for a 100 mile bike ride one season, and supported the cycle team the next season. Because our military life is in serious flux this season, my TNT efforts are on hold, but I do plan on picking it up again next year and am eager to start training again myself.

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Originally Posted by JLC

Because our military life is in serious flux this season

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Military? Details if possible.

As a veteran, I am interested in all families who support the US with service. I am just curious.

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Originally Posted by AkivaSmith

Military? Details if possible.

As a veteran, I am interested in all families who support the US with service. I am just curious.

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:) Happy to provide details. My hubby is an officer in the AF. We've been in for 16 years. He just pinned on Lt. Col. I'm SO proud of him!!!

The "flux" part was that he was supposed to deploy this fall...and that date got changed multiple times....and then suddenly they tell him "Oh, there's a command job opened up in San Antonio, so you have to take that and PCS this fall..." But we don't have orders yet....and he still may get a short deployment before we PCS. Driving me NUTS at the moment to not be able to plan or count on anything for the next few months! :rolleye2: