what or where are you working?

[Floyd]

hey that is umfair! what is your age?

I'm seventeen.

[rumble_bubbles]

I'm a camp counsellor, which is fun, because I get to dance around and sing and play with cute little kids all day. I'm also a waitress, which is less fun, but pays so much better. When I finish school I want to go into music therapy... or possibly rape crisis counsellor. Random, I know, but I really haven't decided yet.

[Guest]

It seems like quite some posters in this thread have the opportunity of working with children .

I currently do as well and love it. We deal with victims of abuse, both of a sexual and physical nature, as well as monitor child development programmes. Basically, it's mostly field work and one of its major constraints is being on-call for the Hotline 24 hours a day – that means, taking calls from home yet remaining available whenever an emergency crops up. I had difficulties in coping with such situations of crises last year when I would be studying and receiving calls during the night.

We have had some nutty cases – at times, it feels incredible how people can misinterpret situations of abuse such as the most recent one which involved the apparent cold-blooded murder of 50 chicks (I'm sparing you the details but when we reached there, it wasn't as dramatic as ascertained by the panic-stricken caller ). However, genuine cases of incest and paedophilia are always heartbreaking.

The team though is fantastic to work with and that makes up for all the hardships

[jay/wt4evr]

I'm till at school {:paranoid} but during summer I go to a ranch in Tuscany to train horses {well, just two horses up now, and I did just the final touches, more like riding and perfectioning :( } but I often help my mother in her travel agency, when she started I programmed the computers {still dunno how I did t cos me and computers don't get on well...} and sometimes I get to train the girls on stage hehe 19-20-21 years old girls have to listen to meee woo I can train dogs too {well, not for competitions though} but I never did it as a job... that's all I think =)

[Guest]

hehe 19-20-21 years old girls have to listen to meee woo

That's the coolest part of the job lol.

I still think that it's nice that you get to work with horses on such a regular basis... inclusive of the additional experience of working for your mother's agency. They are fruitful as starters for later life.

[jay/wt4evr]

Well, I wouldn't say 'regular, coz I go there only two weeks a year in summer....
and yes that's the coolest part, coz they look in a dumb way at me thinking 'who the hell this child thinks she is' but they have to listen