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08-09-2019, 06:29 AM
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(08-09-2019, 01:03 AM)Phaedrus Wrote: If you're single, what did your ex do and/or what do you wish for your future significant other to do?
If i have some future relationship i can only hope they would do something they enjoy for living, not just work. Work could only be a means to support what they love to do. Unless they find a job they truly enjoy.
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08-09-2019, 09:55 AM
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Boss Lady sells drugs across the street from a local school.
(She works at a mail-order pharmacy that is across from UMSL.)
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08-09-2019, 10:08 AM
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Mrs. OakTree works for a fuel management company. They manage fuel accounts for other much larger companies/sort the paper work out etc.
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08-09-2019, 10:14 AM
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My wife didn't work, except for a year and a half at a book company. Since we had no kids, we could afford that. However, she wrote a fantasy novel which she couldn't get published and a book on lucid dreaming which we self-published. She also took care of her elderly mother for 20+ years.
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08-09-2019, 10:49 AM
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(08-09-2019, 04:29 AM)jerry mcmasters Wrote: (08-09-2019, 04:03 AM)Mark Wrote: (08-09-2019, 01:20 AM)Phaedrus Wrote: Does that make you the father of the murderer, or was someone else the father? Also, what's the murderer's name?
Definitely not. I take pride in not adding to the human population. Anyway she hadn't had any access to my baby batter for many years before conceiving her little .. boy.
"Baby batter." Good lord Mark, I've never heard that one before!
"Good lord Mark", I like that. May I call you call you my good vassal Jerry? (There is a nice benefits package involved.)
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08-09-2019, 11:14 AM
What's your SO do for a living?
My husband's a computer programmer.
Past SOs have included an editor, architect, professor, firefighter, truck driver, and librarian. Almost all musicians, as well.
god, ugh
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08-09-2019, 11:40 AM
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(08-09-2019, 11:14 AM)julep Wrote: My husband's a computer programmer.
Past SOs have included an editor, architect, professor, firefighter, truck driver, and librarian. Almost all musicians, as well.
That makes six. Or were one or more of them multi-tools, like me?
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08-09-2019, 01:45 PM
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(08-09-2019, 11:40 AM)Fireball Wrote: (08-09-2019, 11:14 AM)julep Wrote: My husband's a computer programmer.
Past SOs have included an editor, architect, professor, firefighter, truck driver, and librarian. Almost all musicians, as well.
That makes six. Or were one or more of them multi-tools, like me?
Those were boyfriends rather than husbands...but yes, six individuals. Although the architect had just gotten done with being a math prof and was shortly on his way to career #3 as a music theory professor, he isn’t the professor referenced on the list (that guy was an economics prof who’s now at Goldman Sachs in London).
god, ugh
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08-09-2019, 02:37 PM
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(08-09-2019, 11:14 AM)julep Wrote: My husband's a computer programmer.
Past SOs have included an editor, architect, professor, firefighter, truck driver, and librarian. Almost all musicians, as well.
I've always wanted to date a firefighter, but somehow I always wind up with policemen (I've dated 4). I don't seek them out either, it just happens that way.
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08-09-2019, 02:40 PM
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(08-09-2019, 05:46 AM)no one Wrote: Designs complex and disturbing obstacle courses that overflow with many concealed traps.
Hey, that sounds fun. How do I get in on the ground floor of this operation?
Mr. D42 teaches Shakespeare and theatre tech classes and when he's not doing that he acting in stuff and singing me silly songs.
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08-09-2019, 02:42 PM
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(08-09-2019, 01:15 AM)Mark Wrote: My wife of 35+ years has done a lot of things including teaching elementary school, working as a maid at the Wawona resort in Yosemite N.P. and teaching in the textile department of the California College of Arts.
My first wife had been a watch repair person back when that was a thing, became a baker and opened a bakery in San Francisco and then famously became the mother of a murderer.
I think I got off the sinking ship just in time, though the truth is that ship left me. I am so grateful.
Is that California Instutitute of the Arts? I almost went there to study theatre but it was a too expensive for me even with a scholarship. Dang. Great school.
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08-09-2019, 02:42 PM
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We're both retired. She used to be PA to a major US publication's Australian CEO.
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08-09-2019, 02:50 PM
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(08-09-2019, 02:37 PM)Jenny Wrote: (08-09-2019, 11:14 AM)julep Wrote: My husband's a computer programmer.
Past SOs have included an editor, architect, professor, firefighter, truck driver, and librarian. Almost all musicians, as well.
I've always wanted to date a firefighter, but somehow I always wind up with policemen (I've dated 4). I don't seek them out either, it just happens that way.
Firefighters are great people. What an amazing career. Who doesn't admire firefighters?
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08-09-2019, 02:50 PM
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Oh I almost forgot, in my early 20's I also dated a local comic. I met him at a bar when he was writing jokes on cocktail napkins.
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08-09-2019, 02:51 PM
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(08-09-2019, 02:50 PM)Dancefortwo Wrote: Firefighters are great people. What an amazing career. Who doesn't admire firefighters?
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08-09-2019, 03:25 PM
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(08-09-2019, 02:51 PM)Phaedrus Wrote: (08-09-2019, 02:50 PM)Dancefortwo Wrote: Firefighters are great people. What an amazing career. Who doesn't admire firefighters?
When I was in college I was in line at the supermarket and I had a lot of groceries and a big bag of cat litter I was buying. These two firefighters were in line behind me and they unloaded my entire shopping cart full of stuff onto the check out belt. It was soooo cool.
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08-09-2019, 03:53 PM
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Hired right out of university by a Fortune 500 company then spent the next 22 years climbing the corporate ladder. Started by stocking shelves in grocery stores and finished running their fine fragrances division for all of Latin America and Canada. Retired at the ripe old age of 44.
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08-09-2019, 03:55 PM
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(08-09-2019, 11:40 AM)Fireball Wrote: (08-09-2019, 11:14 AM)julep Wrote: My husband's a computer programmer.
Past SOs have included an editor, architect, professor, firefighter, truck driver, and librarian. Almost all musicians, as well.
That makes six. Or were one or more of them multi-tools, like me? You're a tool alright, fireball.
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08-09-2019, 03:59 PM
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(08-09-2019, 05:46 AM)no one Wrote: Designs complex and disturbing obstacle courses that overflow with many concealed traps.
Insurance business then?
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08-09-2019, 04:03 PM
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(08-09-2019, 02:37 PM)Jenny Wrote: (08-09-2019, 11:14 AM)julep Wrote: My husband's a computer programmer.
Past SOs have included an editor, architect, professor, firefighter, truck driver, and librarian. Almost all musicians, as well.
I've always wanted to date a firefighter, but somehow I always wind up with policemen (I've dated 4). I don't seek them out either, it just happens that way. I have had a couple of cops ask me out, back in my dating days, but nothing much came of those dates. The firefighter was a very nice guy, but I spent a lot of time worrying about his safety.
It's funny, usually I don't think of the guys I've dated by profession, more by instrument...I tend to have big crushes on high brass (trumpets, horns) and wind up with low brass (trombonists, especially, for a while there were a lot of trombonists). By instrument, the guys on my above SO list are trombonist, pianist, audience member, guitarist, singer, and percussionist.
And my husband is a fellow clarinetist.
god, ugh
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08-09-2019, 04:07 PM
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She manages an elementary school kitchen. There are five people in the kitchen including the cashier, and they serve about 900 meals a day. Earlier this week she was notified that they didn't have to worry about unpaid balances any more. Those will now be handled by the central office. She was more than OK with that. She is a city school system employee with state school system benefits. A couple of weeks ago everyone was notified the state was changing their requirements for retirement. This pushed her eligibility date out from two years from now to four years from now. She not so OK with that one.
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08-09-2019, 04:31 PM
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According to the nuns, he is sitting on a cloud and playing the harp.
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08-15-2019, 01:39 PM
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My wife is a former investigative reporter (for newspapers, back when they were more of a "thing") and currently a freelance writer / editor. She's been a judge on an international writing competition the past couple of years.
My prior / late wife was a software developer, mostly on mainframe computers, before she became disabled.
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08-15-2019, 01:44 PM
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(08-09-2019, 02:50 PM)Dancefortwo Wrote: Firefighters are great people. What an amazing career. Who doesn't admire firefighters? You mean the lunatics who run into burning buildings?
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08-15-2019, 02:28 PM
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(08-09-2019, 04:03 PM)julep Wrote: It's funny, usually I don't think of the guys I've dated by profession, more by instrument...I tend to have big crushes on high brass (trumpets, horns) and wind up with low brass (trombonists, especially, for a while there were a lot of trombonists). By instrument, the guys on my above SO list are trombonist, pianist, audience member, guitarist, singer, and percussionist.
I didn't even know those could be dating criteria.
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