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Permalink Reply by Chloé French on August 25, 2012 at 5:54am

I love this topic! You are all INCREDIBLE women!

I am a student midwife in Ocean City, MD. I work as a birth and postpartum doula - meaning I support moms and families during pregnancy, attend their birth at the hospital/birth center/home, and then help around the house in the postpartum. It's such a profoundly rewarding (and exhausting...but in a good way) job. I hope I get to do it full-time someday!

To pay the bills, I manage two motels in town, which keeps me crazy busy in the summer, but then it slows down a lot in the winter. 

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Permalink Reply by Kerosene Deluxe on August 25, 2012 at 9:15am

I'm a make up artist (for Smashbox Cosmetics)

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Permalink Reply by Kastle - Stiletto City on August 26, 2012 at 12:35pm

I'm a writer. I run my own blog called Stiletto City (www.stilettocity.com) featuring fashion (mostly vintage and often PUG!), beauty and LA events. I also freelance for other sites and work a day job writing for an interior design site and doing marketing communications, web content production and social media. Nice to meet everyone here!

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Permalink Reply by Thora Bjerremose Frandsen on August 29, 2012 at 4:15pm

Wow, great topic. I thought you'd all work as models, lovely ladies :) 

I work part-time in an office of a garbage disposal site, managing incoming trucks in Copenhagen, Denmark . One day, I, as a joke, told one of the drivers that he could do the managing himself, as I was dead-tired. He looked at me with a grin and said "I'll do it - if you drive the truck all the way and unload it, and drive it back here". in 5 secs I was in the truck, and having a blast. Decided quickly and signed up for a drivers license for trucks :) 
That's my second job, mostly on weekends. It's so much fun, driving a truck, and the comments about a girl in a big truck are usually positive. And who says you can't be feminine in a male dominant workplace? I have to wear steel toe boots and luminescent clothes because I'm in traffic. I cut up a pair of shorts and made a work-skirt that has gotten so many compliments, it's unbelievable. People keep coming over to me and telling me that I'm good at my job, and that I'm the prettiest truck driver they've ever seen - I love my job!
I think the more non-personal you have to dress at work, and unfeminine, the harder you compensate when you're off :)
My next project is sewing a dress for work, already have the fabric. Trying hard not to end up looking like a lemon ;)

Thank you all for sharing your lives and thoughts here. 

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Permalink Reply by Holly on August 29, 2012 at 10:39pm

I love seeing all the diverse careers out there! Although, if I had to pick one it would definitely involve antique books. 

I run a copywriting company that specializes in lingerie marketing. I'm also a regular columnist for several lingerie blogs/lingerie trade journals. I live in a more conservative area of the country, so no one understands my job and secretly thinks I'm a weird underwear/clothes collector. Explaining the deliveries I get to my neighbors is consistently awkward.

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Permalink Reply by Madeleine. on September 2, 2012 at 4:15am

Im a beauty therapist whose studying to become a social worker. Im all lipstick and human rights!

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Permalink Reply by Stephanie Whyte on September 2, 2012 at 1:04pm

I'm a Family Physician who just finished residency.  I took a few months off to unwind/travel/get married, and I am starting to look for a position in the suburbs of Chicago.  I do enjoy bringing the PUG look to the hospital, as it really livens the place up, especially with little old ladies who then reminisce about having had outfits like mine.

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Permalink Reply by Desilu on September 3, 2012 at 8:15am

Oh I can totally imagine that it would. If I was wearing PUG when I worked at the hospital, I can imagine the looks and discussions  I would have had...

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Permalink Reply by Miss Bamboo on September 3, 2012 at 12:19pm

 Hi there, well i sell Vintage Clothing & accessories online for a living, & it's getting harder & harder . We also have repro line called  Cal-Noir of Hollywood ..... more info on my profile for those interested .    It's nice to be working for yourself doing something you love but it's a jungle out there .

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Zapien on September 3, 2012 at 11:42pm

Reading all the comments here and I truly love the Honesty in them all.

II will share that I am a Chemist and mix chemicals for a living. I've worked industry and now I'm currently working for the Chemistry department of a community college. My favorite days are when I get to wear what I love and enjoy under a labcoat and not get it full of acid wholes. But even if I do, I make it a work outfit and bust it out when ever I can!

I want to say that It has been hard having the styles that I do when I work with people who have no appreciation for uniqueness, mainly the females. At first I took it very hard and began to dress like they would in order to avoid the critisims, now; however, I wear what I desire for I realized that their critisims is mainly jealosy in the work space.

I Love being a chemist with a P.U.G. personality and style!!!  

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Permalink Reply by Jessi Hardin on September 4, 2012 at 2:25pm

You go girl! Let them be jealous! ;)

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Permalink Reply by Desilu on September 5, 2012 at 9:51pm

lmao... yes, ruining the fabric because of a drunk does tend to piss me off too. i worked as a foodserver/bartender/cocktail waitress/hostess when I was in my 20s and in college. It was always fun to really shock the hell out of the boys that the little 5'2" waitress was going to (and able) to 86 them out the door. lol. rock on!

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