What is your job/profession?

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I’m a shopkeeper. I own a small lumberyard/hardware store in western Kansas. That means I do a little of everything. CEO, janitor, sales clerk, HR manager, complaint department, referee of employee disputes, IT specialist…what’d I miss?
 
Wow. Amazing! Haha. You didn’t miss anything! The most important thing in all of that is that you love your work and serve God and others through it.
Peace!
 
I am ceramics designer but not working momentally due to health and other problems.
And university student (religious pedagogy) but also on pause.
 
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I’m a Medical Technologist (hospital laboratory scientist) retired for almost three years now. However, I’ve been contacted to see if I’d be willing to come back if Covid19 causes severe shortages in my lab! I’d be glad to as long they don’t expect me to work my rear off like I was thirty again! 😂😂😂. So far, no call back…
 
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I’ve been in the field of pharmacology for the major part of my career.
Just a sidenote, I wonder why I never see a “thank you for your service” for (insert country here) when someone says they’ve been a, eg., firefighter?
 
I’m a medical technologist, too! Bachelor’s Degree and a MT(ASCP) certifcation. I’ve worked since 1980 in the hospital microbiology department. I would like to retire (I’m 62) when I’m 67 and hope I am able to stay healthy and strong until then. I do not want to die on the job.

I also play piano and organ, and during times when the we are not under “shelter in place” policies, I play at several churches, as well as in various secular settings (accompanying singers and choirs, musical theater, etc.). I will probably keep playing wherever I am needed (church especiallky) until they pry my cold, dead fingers off the keys and cold, dead feet off the pedals!
 
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Just a sidenote, I wonder why I never see a “ thank you for your service ” for (insert country here) when someone says they’ve been a, eg., firefighter?
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Can’t speak for wherever you live, but in the USA we thank our first responders often and frequently. There are a ton of such “thank yous” for police, fire and paramedics often happening around the community, including a lot of freebies and discounts from businesses. And such things happen even in non-COVID times.
 
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If you say so I believe you. It is just that I’ve never seen it, or heard it.
 
It is probably more evident in a smaller community, where the firemen are often volunteers and the people who work in all the first responder sections tend to come from the area and be known around town.
 
Michaelangelo said:
…Just a sidenote, I wonder why I never see a “thank you for your service” for (insert country here) when someone says they’ve been a, eg., firefighter?
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Hi Michaelangelo,

This is just MY answer to your question. Police, Firefighters, ALL who do dangerous work ARE thanked and GREATLY appreciated. I take nothing away from how brave they are, dangerous their jobs are, or how truly safe they keep us. I live in a great county, we love them, and they know it. Our police and sheriff deputies know how we feel and even drive around with their windows down.

But there is something special about someone who volunteers to do a job so dangerous that they have their blood type written on both a dog tag around their neck and on the back of their boots. A job so dangerous that they need to wear body armour, not a bullet-proof vest. A job where you are looking up for snipers, across for an ambush, and down for an IED, all at the same time. A job were you may not get to bathe for a week or two and you’re living and sleeping in the same clothes. A job where you are eating all your food out of plastic pouches, with not a whole lot of choices. And a job where you are willing to be away from your family and kids for months to years at a time. Yes, we thank our military members for their service AND for the very many sacrifices that they and their families make for the rest of us. THEY are why the rest of us can sleep at night. THAT is why we say “Thank you for your service”.
 
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Studying at uni, double majoring in Japanese and Journalism. I hope to eventually get a job in Tokyo working for NHK or Japan Times in the long term. Short term I’ll probably work with the JET English teaching program after college, as that’s the easiest way to get into the country as a foreigner.
 
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But there is something special about someone who volunteers to do a job so dangerous that they have their blood type written on both a dog tag around their neck and on the back of their boots. A job so dangerous that they need to wear body armour, not a bullet-proof vest. A job where you are looking up for snipers, across for an ambush, and down for an IED, all at the same time. A job were you may not get to bathe for a week or two and you’re living and sleeping in the same clothes. A job where you are eating all your food out of plastic pouches, with not a whole lot of choices. And a job where you are willing to be away from your family and kids for months to years at a time. Yes, we thank our military members for their service AND for the very many sacrifices that they and their families make for the rest of us. THEY are why the rest of us can sleep at night. THAT is why we say “Thank you for your service”.
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The sentiment is nice and much appreciated. That said, know that being deployed to Sangin or Fallujah is not the typical experience of being in the military. I’m an Iraq and Afghanistan vet and deployments are not 24/7 shootouts.

Again, I do appreciate the thought. But what you’re describing is a pretty atypical day for most people in uniform, not the norm.
 
I understand that most deployments in the military are not in combat, let alone 24/7 shootouts, but when one signs on the dotted line, combat is always a possibility. And there are police officers who go their whole career without ever firing their gun. No, combat is not the norm in the military, but there still is a special sacrifice that military members make that we ask of no other occupation. That is why I thank them.

And thank you for your many sacrifices.
 
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