CDers, what is your vocation?

[borbiusle]

Bomber Jet Aircraft Technician

[Vi]

Farmer = Tan all year.

[melanieee]

Explosives maker

[wendy68]

Mental health therapist

[Laura_Stephens]

Mental health therapist

Ever work with other CD's?

[tifftg]

also trucks in my early years

[weekend woman]

Auto mechanic
Automotive machinist
Hydraulic mechanic/tool repair
Back to auto mechanic
this covers the last 43 years

[KarenS]

11 1/2 years in Veterinary Medicine

8 Months in Home Land Security (crap ass job)

3 years and counting with a CNWDI clearance and I cannot tell you more than that, but if you know what CNWDI means you fully understand.

I am a jack of all trades master of none.

I do know what CNWDI means, had one for awhile. Now I work on the other side of the in-hour equation. If you know what that means, then you know what I do for commercial enterprise. But, this time, I have a degree in it and seeking a higher level degree.

Suffice to say, tech. Everyone knows me as a geek. Don't think about doing what I do unless you could program a computer when you were born and do it without any instruction.

I also do home repair and remodeling, sing, and play guitar.

[Lisa Renee]

Presently I work in the customer service field for a freight company
I have also worked;

Machinest Mate in the US Navy 3 1/2 years
Auto Mechanic Close to 20 years
Auto Parts counter About 14 years

Part time jobs;

Pizza hut cook
Security Officer

[Earlene]

Work on retail electronics and computers. As a hobby I like to do crafts.

Earlene

[DianneRoberts]

Crash Test Dummy

[pantyhoselover]

Airline Pilot
Technical background

[Berta82]

Firefighter/Paramedic

[Violetgray]

From my experience, an unusually high percentage of CD/trans (that I've met, read about, heard from online, etc) are with the tech fields, specifically that of computer programming/engineering, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering, illustrating not a gravitation toward artistic vocations, but those of intellectual creativity.

I am an Electrical Engineer.

Interesting choice of words here.. "artistic vocation" and "intellectual creativity?" I think most would associate vocation with intellect and creativity with the word artistic.

At any rate, I'm a part time stand up comic, and I work in a library, and I'm also an aspiring writer. I struggle with math, I'm much better at languages and drawing, so I guess I'm definitely a right-brained person!

[Annie D]

High school teacher and varsity coach for 12 years and still coaching.
Elementary physical education for 8 years.
Parks and Recreation director for 4 years.
YMCA physical director and executive director for 9 years.
Elementary p.e. for 5 years when teachers made less than $10K a year.

Did I say that the kids love my nails?

[tamarav]

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[SIZE=4]Cosmetologist. for me that also includes: hairstylist, wig stylist, makeup artist, permanent makeup artist, color specialist. I get to go to work dressed everyday and love every minute of it.[/SIZE]

[Fran Moore]

I used to wonder about this too KC, as I used to meet a lot of "left brainers" at the various transgendered conventions that I have attended. Also a lot of engineers for some reason

As this thread proves, we come from all walks of life and a variety of professions, so I would have to say that there is no real "common thread" or connection between crossdressing and occupation, although some may have "adjusted" their jobs to fit into a more condusive crossdressing lifestyle.

For me, I earn a living at what gives me personal satisfaction and acceptable compensation, and am fortunate enough to get up and go to a job that I enjoy doing every day. That mindset also applies to crossdressing, and I wouldn't want to be a desk jockey, or do something that I disliked or wasn't good at, just to wear a dress every day.

It's a free country. Do what you want to, wear what you want to.


I'm a heavy equipment operator.



I am left handed though......



Suzanne

[Jennylace]

Well I own a computer store and as the boss I can go to work dressed.
I'm also a alternitive lifestyle Disk jocky. I play at local clubs for the transgender crowd also have been doing a lot of fetish dances for local swinger groups and a few civil unions. and work for a local lesbian Inn very high end clients. so I get to have a lot of fun in a dress.
sometimes will sub as lead guitar in a band here and there.

[TxKimberly]

I started my career off being a Pershing Electronics and Material Specialist in the US Army. The Pershing was a mobile, mid-ranged, nuclear missile and it was my job to keep it and all of it's support systems functoning so that we could kill the most people with the least time and effort. (No, I don't really consider it a laughing matter, but it's either laugh or cry . . )

When the did away with that system (one of the happiest days of my life) I was retrained into Repair and Calibration of test and diagnostic equipment and that paved the road for what later became my civilian career.

Today, I am a field service engineer for a company based out of Wilmington MA and I travel the country, and sometimes the world, doing installations, repairs, and training on the equipment my company makes.

While I do work on other systems my company produces, most of my work these days is done on our assorted Mass Spectrum analyzers. Mostly this has me working around the universities, semiconductor, automotive, and gas production and analysis industries.

My hobbies are writing and recording my own songs, programming, and reading science fiction.

[Ashlee]

Berta82, kathy lake & I all have the same careers.

[dennisGTS]

US Army 14 year (so far) service member UH-60A/L Blackhawk Maintenance Test Pilot. Plan on retiring at 20 years of service. Before I joined the Army, I had a job as a bagger at the Commissary and as a Bellman at a Hotel.

[Christina Horton]

undercover police officer working in intelligence.

Is that not an oxymoron. LOL. Just kidding hun.

Manager in a transportation company here.

Hay I want a good job driving could you give me a good job where I can dress while driving. LOL.



Ok I am a long haul Trucker. Have been for the past 15 years or so.

Before that I was working at my dad's auto body shop as a body mechanic and a mechanical helper to the real mechanic's. I learned alot. But that was when I was young. I am still young at 39 so I still have a long time to find a job I want and will love . Soooon I hope.

[gender_blender]

Interesting choice of words here.. "artistic vocation" and "intellectual creativity?" I think most would associate vocation with intellect and creativity with the word artistic.

Thanks. I always select all of my words wisely.

I respectfully disagree. I don't think most would jump to that word associaton necessarily. While artistic endeavours are indeed creative (by conveyence of feeling), their "intellectual" merit is subjective or debatable (hence, the study/interpretation of the Arts), whereas intellectual vocations (such as engineering) facilitate creativity of a more problem-solving/practical nature and are generally denoted by accepted standards of higher fact-based education and much larger paychecks. :P

[Misty is Kindafem]

My division manages large low voltage/technology construction projects and I'm the boss lady.

I'm actually the boss MAN, but a girl can dream.

-Misty

[BRANDI66]

Between the Corps an my Department I was in law enforcement 8 years and been a diagnostic auto tech for almost 10