(( I work at McMaster-Carr. ))

I work at UPS. My title is an acronym that doesn't really mean anything. I'm basically the go-between for customers who have special requests and/or complaints and the delivery drivers. And, believe me, that ain't easy.

I currently work as an Editor for a company that makes subsea wellheads for the oil and gas industry. A lot of what I do is to proof the technical writers and make sure the language is clear and easy to understand. I try to keep the instructions so clear that anyone could do it, and I dare say I've done fairly well. There is a data management component to it, as I house and organize the massive library of procedures we've produced.

I am a Pre-K teacher in a private international school in Cairo, teaching an American curriculum. Teaching pre-k is pretty much my calling in life, I can't imagine doing anything else. I am never bored and I always feel at the end of the day that I made a difference, however small. Teaching literacy is my specialty.

On the side I am a freelance artist; I have recently self-published a coloring book, I sell digital stamps on Etsy, take art commissions and run a fairly successful store on Zazzle.

I'm an Electrical Engineer. Mostly test circuit boards. Really boring.

I'm a Community Support Specialist, commonly known as a Caseworker, for a behavioral health organization.  My team assists adults with severe and persistent mental and behavioral health problems transition to independent living.  I currently have a caseload of 11 clients, which will increase by two next week as we get new admits.  Individually, depending on each client's level of functioning, skills, and their chosen treatment goals, I do everything from act as their payee, teach them how to ride the bus, dispense their medications and teach them how to count and manage their prescriptions, schedule for and attend doctor and psychiatrist appointments with them, help them create healthy and budget friendly shopping lists and shop with them, teach them how to clean and organize their homes, help them find apartments, order drug screens; there are too many kinds of interventions to list.  Broadly, for each client I will assist them with applying for SSI, Section 8 Housing Assistance, Medicaid/Medicare, and Food Stamps (that way, even if they fail or drop out of the program, they have some way to help them get food, healthcare and shelter), as well as make sure that they are following necessary program requirements such as: attending three psychosocial rehabilitation activities or "groups" per week, passing their twice monthly housing inspections, completion of various DMH required reviews and being medication complaint. 

This job is mostly me dealing with client crisis after client crisis, it involves a plethora of paperwork and documentation that demands a certain amount of routine in order to get done (which is impossible with such unpredictable clients and the intense demands on my time), the pay is so low I still live in low-income housing myself,  and I was recently sexually assaulted by one of my clients... so my feelings about this job are currently pretty poor.

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