Does your current job require some kind of industry-specific license?

[Orrex]

[Tangerine LaBamba]

1. I don't practice any more,

but I still keep my Bar membership up to date, just "Inactive."

Does that count?

[Orrex]

2. Sure!

Come to think of it, I don't know why I even specified "current job."


If your membership is up to date, what would you need to do to resume your practice?

[Tangerine LaBamba]

5. Send the Bar Association a check

for the difference between dues for "Inactive" and dues for "Active." They'd send me a new Bar card. That would be it.

But, then, I'd be obligated to attend a certain number of Continuing Legal Education seminars in the coming year, and, really, I don't want to do that. And, if I don't do that, my membership could be revoked, or, at the very least, downscaled back to "Inactive."

There are a lot of things about which I'm casual, but paying my annual Bar dues is the one thing about which I am compulsive.........

[Mr. Ected]

14. I was out of the country for almost 8 years

When I came back, all I need to do was pay my back dues and take 14.1 CLE hours to catch up.

I was amazed, quite frankly.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

19. What state?

In Virginia, if you miss paying your dues, you'll be removed from the ranks within a year.

Eight years? That is truly amazing.......................

[Mr. Ected]

21. Georgia

Granted, I had $3500 in back dues to pay...but big deal.

I couldn't believe the CLE requirement. I thought I'd have to sit for months, and instead, I basically handled it with 2 seminars and one online presentation.

Baffling.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

15. I'm in the same boat.

Went into another line of work (that requires a different license), didn't have the time, money or inclination to attend incredibly tedious CLE courses (which would also mean having to use my vacation time to do so), and went to voluntary inactive status. But I still have to send them a check every year.

[Moondog]

20. I haven't practiced law for a few years now, but I still keep my licenses active.

One state requires 30 hours of CLE every three years. The last three year cycle I discovered the joys of online CLE. My clock resets later this year, and I'll do it again. Much less aggravation and annoyance than finding, and attending, 30 hours worth of seminars.

The other state of licensure does not have any sort of CLE requirement. I pay them gladly, each and every year.

[bridgit]

3. Well, I suppose, in a sense; we operate an llc and there's stuff that needs certify'n...

Stuff like that ya'mean?

[Orrex]

4. I'd say that qualifies.

Presumably it's not a certification you'd be required to hold for just any ol' job, right?

Sounds like it makes the cut!

[Forkboy]

6. I have a Fluffernutter and Spam license.

Hard to acquire.

[Tobin S.]

7. Yep, a Class A Commercial Driver's License

With Hazardous Materials and Double and Triple Trailer endorsements. I also have the Tanker endorsement, but I don't currently haul tanks.

[jmowreader]

46. IOW, the standard pre-9/11 "fresh out of driver school" CDL

Have you seen the "X" endorsement at least some states have? It's a combination of Hazmat and Tanker because someone finally figured out a tanker endorsement is nearly useless without a hazmat endorsement.

[Tobin S.]

51. I have the X endorsement

And there is nothing pre-9/11 about my CDL. I had to do the background check, fingerprint, and proof of citizenship thing. I had to renew it last year. I've been a trucker for 12.5 years. That hazmat endorsement is only good for 4 years here in Ohio. Then you have to re-certify.

[Strong Atheist]

8. Recommended,

dammit! x(

... and, yes, it does...

[Adsos Letter]

9. I'm retired, but I still keep my Painting and Decorating License...

C-33

[trof]

10. Commercial pilot's license, instrument rating, etc.

I was a military and commercial pilot.

[TZ]

11. No.

We evul shills want to make it easier to corrupt people..errr I mean recruit more employees..:hi:

[Rabrrrrrr]

12. Technically, I'm supposed to have a surgeon's "license", but, eh, I've never bothered.

All that school and shit. Waste of time.

I just printed up some business cards, and that made it legal enough for me.

[femmocrat]

13. Yes. Teaching requires many hoops to jump through.

Including continuing education requirements.

[suninvited]

16. Although inactive now

I had my massage therapy license in Florida. I have to decide by August if I want to pay the fees to reactivate it (about $400) or it will go null and void, because I didnt renew it in 2007. I think once I get back to the Gulf Coast I will probably want to practice again, so I will probably cough up the money.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

17. Commercial pilot and flight instructor licenses.

[EndersDame]

35. coolest license so far!

[santamargarita]

45. Airline Transport Pilot/CFI/CFII/MEI and

40 years worth of aircraft type ratings

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

48. You got me beat -- I have only commercial, ME, CFI/CFII.

But I do have an A&P.

[santamargarita]

50. I've probably been around longer

[Richardo]

18. Not a license, but an identification card.

I now have to have a specific TSA-issued and approved ID to have access to seaports, airports, etc.

[Kali]

22. no but national animal ID is probably going to be rammed down our throats soon

I keep getting these increasingly official looking letters giving me the wonderful opportunity to "voluntarily" register the premises. I keep the envelope for reuse and toss the letter. But it is coming.

Oh and I do have a drivers liscense - dog knows I need that way too much:eyes:

[Heidi]

23. Other than my permission from the government to work as a painter,

no, not at all. And as much as I appreciate science-based, archival methods of creating art and pratice them in my own art, I don't want government oversight of artists. No way, no how. Ever.

[Richardo]

24. Greetings, Heidi:

In re: your latest work as submitted in BA-MD Painting Plan No 234-9865.

It is the considered opinion of the review committee of the Bureau of Aesthetics, Multimedia Directorate (BA-MD), that the pigment proposed for painting coordinates A30/J19 of the above-referenced work would resonate more favorably with the majority of your target demographic (op cit, pp 23-25) if it were changed to a red more closely aligned with Pantone values PMS 180 or 1805. It is up to the discretion of you, the artist, as to which one of these you will ultimately employ.

Best of luck in your endeavor and we look forward to your 3Q 2009 Progress Report, due 15 October 2009.

Sincerely,


Bueau of Aesthetics,
Multimedia Directorate

[Heidi]

28. Re: Your considered opinion.

Bite me. I would much rather write installation instructions for industrial fans targeted to hog confinement facilities than surrender my artist vision.

Best of luck in your endeavor to persuade me to comply.

Heidi,

Rebel on the cusp of menopause

[datasuspect]

25. Well, the training in my field is pretty rigorous

you have to know the tensile strengths and elasticities of various fabrics and materials.

[Richardo]

26. Trampoline tester?

:shrug:

[datasuspect]

27. official bikini inspector

[Orrex]

43. Do you also work in a support capacity?

[GOPisEvil]

29. Yes, I hold insurance adjuster licenses in the states that require them.

[Danger Mouse]

30. We have to be certified to perfrom therapeutic holds, so I guess that counts.

[mike_c]

31. if you consider a PhD a license, then yes-- otherwise, no /nt

[bigwillq]

32. No (nt)

[av8rdave]

33. Most definitely...a few of them.

[EndersDame]

34. I need to be TABC certification

http://www.tabc.state.tx.us/

[Orrex]

36. I was licensed by the TABC in 1992; not sure when it expired.

Before I moved to Austin, I wouldn't have thought that I'd need a license to work at 7-11!

[EndersDame]

38. I am moving back to Austin in a few weeks! I believe it is Texas' crazy rules about alcohol

[Orrex]

39. Yes indeed!

There was one spot on South Congress (IIRC) that had two beer sellers on either side of a purple brick building with a big sign that read GUNS.


Yeeeee-haaawwwwww!

[EndersDame]

40. Right here in Wacko there is a liqour store that also does bonds

[Orrex]

41. Of course there is! How could there not be?!?

It's a magical land, that's for sure.


Somewhere on Guadalupe I was accosted by a man with a pair of pliers who asked me, in a suitably raspy voice, to pull his tooth for him.

[Common Sense Party]

37. Yes, FINRA registered representative (securities) license, as well

as state insurance license.

[Orrex]

42. I remember when it was NASD, and this was all fields

These young whippersnappers!

Which license(s) do you have, if you don't mind saying? When I was in financial services, I had to have a 6, and if I'd stayed in the position I'd have needed a 63. Not the 7, though.

[Common Sense Party]

49. Oh, I remember the NASD, too. I've been around for a few years.

I got my 6 and 63 back in 95 when I started in the industry, got my Series 7 back in '05.

I don't have any of the other ones that are so prevalent now--24, 66, etc.

[DatManFromNawlins]

44. No, but I wish it did

Requiring the licensing software developers would weed out a ton of horrible ones and slaughter the H1-B market in IT.

[jmowreader]

47. A couple...

Class A Commercial Driver's License, no endorsements--I need to get a hazardous materials endorsement, but that's complex

Free and Secure Trade (FAST) card, which allows me to cross the Canadian border more easily--not that I ever get to...

I also have a very good security clearance, and I'm going to inform my fleet manager so he can get it turned on so we can start bidding for loads containing classified freight

[Wapsie B]

52. At double-naught spy school they told me I don't need no stinking certificate.

[PVnRT]

53. Some positions require a PE here

I have one, but don't really need it.