We all began as something else.

[WilliamPitt]

I was a high school teacher.

What were you before all this began?

[MedleyMisty]

1. A high school student

I graduated in 1999.

[saracat]

2. A theatrical producer/director

[Mythsaje]

3. I think that begs the question...

"WHEN did all this begin?"

[The Blue Flower]

4. Playwright

I just can't write comedy anymore. And nothing I can imagine can compare to the reality that has fallen upon us.

[Emit]

5. Politically naive.

:shrug:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

6. A Nobel laureate. (literature)

[lips]

7. A Rascal.

[greatauntoftriplets]

8. Ha!!

I won the Peace Prize.

[rucky]

45. that WAS a killer lounge post

I have the printout right next to my Hesse collection.

[ourbluenation]

9. if you mean Nov, 2000 - I was a copywriter for a green catalog. n/t

[Horse with no Name]

10. I was still a nurse

But now I am a pissed off nurse.
Does that count for anything?

[Dr Fate]

11. A chump.

No longer though.

[liberalnurse]

12. Well, I went into Nursing straight out of high school

so, I've been a nurse a long time...just added a few letters after the RN. So, today, I'm a nurse legislative liaison for my state, I work political campaigns with a strong focus on fund raising and strategy. At present.....I'm trying to get investors for Progressive Radio in Ohio.

Oh, I'm a founding member of this little group.:hi:

http://www.ohdemnurses.org/mambo/

[Parche]

13. We Were All Fetus's

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :hi:

[tekisui]

14. I was a gardener.

[subsuelo]

15. less conscious

[BlackVelvet04]

16. A nice, normal

human being.

[Bjornsdotter]

17. Teacher

High school and college, then I had children and I was a Mom.

Cheers

[Horse with no Name]

18. I just had to add a big BULLSHIT

to one of the posts in this thread...
:rofl:

[ReadTomPaine]

19. I was a journalist for the print media and a tech sector executive.

I still do both, on occasion.

[KittyWampus]

20. Gardener

[StrongBad]

21. Ignorant (and full of bliss)

n/t

[EFerrari]

22. Married. And I don't think that's hyperbole.

But whaddo I know. :)

[Deja Q]

23. Lots of things. I don't plan to retire yet, thanks for asking.

[Whisp]

24. a big sucker.

believing and shit. believing what I heard on the teevee and believing the social structures hoisted upon us. believing in heros somewhere afar with medals and creds of some sorts while I didn't recognize the ones in my own personal face.

[dog_lovin_dem]

25. I was an exhausted Master's student in 2000...

and a mental health therapist on 9/11. I didn't actually become politically active until then and haven't stopped. After the 2004 election I was the one who needed therapy.

[blues90]

26. Just a working class hero

Climbing past 51 years old and hoping things would continue to allow us to climb out of Reagans spillage and I must admit I never really knew much at all about bush .

[emilyg]

27. Nurse.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

28. Rock Star

eom

[JeffR]

29. Executive with a transnational corporation

Thank God, I'm younger - albeit poorer - than that now.

[idgiehkt]

30. anonymous parcel of cosmos

floating among the vapors

[deutsey]

31. A person who actually believed in the promise of America.

It's hard to believe how naive I was...

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

32. Indocrinated. n/t

[RainDog]

33. a poor sharecropper's son with no rhythm n/t

[Forkboy]

34. Still somewhat sane.

[Truthiness Inspector]

35. Why did you leave teaching?

Not that I don't enjoy your writing, because I do, but what made you leave teaching high school?

[NoPasaran]

36. International Man of Intrigue

[kineneb]

37. farmers market manager; Hubby worked for WorldCom

lived in the SF Bay area. Now we live in the country, and Hubby is on dialysis 3 days/wk. You can guess what I do now.

[TwilightGardener]

38. Nurse.

[Vilis Veritas]

39. Something else...

Now I am something more.

Tomorrow, I will be something better.

No Fear.

Edited to add: Java Applications Developer...Now, I am a dad, my job is just a job and my son is the future.

[bridgit]

40. you mean of course before the auto accident in which i coded for some 3.5 minutes...

well, a Shakespearian actor/SAG union member (still...can't stop paying dues somehow), an Alvin Ailey dancer http://www.alvinailey.org but now it is merely theater lighting/consulting/bizz admin & compliance auditing...what a long strange trip it has been

[Booster]

41. A tv engineer with one of the big networks - 34 years, now retired.

[alittlelark]

42. I was voice talent for Tivo, Greyhound, and many gaming companies.

I am now someone who will only take contracts w/ those that pass my 'smell test'.

[rucky]

43. I baked herbal dog biscuits. n/t

[wildbilln864]

44. one of the sheep.

just a regular member of the herd.

[hfojvt]

46. What was I? Or what was my job?

I worked as a factory temp until August of 2001. Was getting trained in customer service for a credit card company when 9/11 happened. Got fired in March and got my current job the next August.

Before election 2000 I 'was' also a landlord, a businessman, a musician, a family historian, a researcher, a bicyclist, a breeder of dogs, and the writer of the following LTTE in October:

from October of 2000:

Dear Editor,

I notice with some dismay that all the letters I have read have been pro-Bush. Are no Gore supporters writing, or are no Gore supporters being printed? Let me at least write for Gore and see if it is printed or suppressed.

First, I will give 520 billion reasons not to vote for Bush. That is the amount of money that the top 1% gets from the Bush tax cut. The public needs this money much worse than the millionaires who 'earn' it. Four percent of that tax cut goes to the bottom forty percent, compared to 40% to the top 1%. Such an unequal distribution is not inevitable in an income tax cut, but a result of Bush's desire to cut the top rates which most Americans don't pay. Only a cut at the bottom is for all taxpayers.

One of the pro-Bush letters mentioned "It's a Wonderful Life" which is also my favorite metaphor because the Republican party is the part that serves the Potters of this world and tilts the field even more in their favor. Gore promises to fight for the George Baileys and the Ernies and Berts, and I trust him far more than I trust Bush's 'compassion'.

Bush promises to end partisan bickering, and I believe that because his own party will run everything. Unless the Democrats filibuster and appoint special prosecutors (and they probably can't as a minority) the Republicans will compromise with the Democrats by allowing the Democrats to do what the Republicans want - help the rich people and the corporations make things that much harder for ordinary working people. Their Iowa platform includes abolishing the minimum wage doesn't it?

Gore proposes to use the imaginary surplus to reduce the debt and shore up social security which is surely a much more noble plan than using it to line the pockets of the wealthy. Surely Bush's tax cut is the last thing we should do if there is no surplus, and I still think that most of the surplus comes from Social Security and needs to be saved for my imaginary retirement.

I have mostly spoken against Bush instead of for Gore, but it is usually easier to be sure of what you do not want. A Bush presidency quite frankly scares me, whereas I am sure that Gore will be safe based on the last eight years. Eight years ago I did not see that much difference between Bush and Clinton, but now there is enough between Bush-2 and Gore to go with Gore.