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View Poll Results: In what environment do you spend the greatest amount of your time working?
Cubicle or shared office 30 41.67%
Individual office (such as a doctor's or lawyer's office) 14 19.44%
Retail floor, gas / convenience store, ticket box, or similar environment 3 4.17%
In a hotel, motel, hostel, pension, B & B, ryoku, or similar setting 1 1.39%
Outdoors on job sites other than infrastructure 2 2.78%
In multiple private homes and other businesses (plumbers, HVAC specialists, etc.) 1 1.39%
On public utilties or infrastructure (road workers, tower climbers, etc.) 1 1.39%
In a venue (stage performers, musicians, etc.) 1 1.39%
Travelling to various indoor locations across a wide territory (travelling salespeople, IT consultants, etc.) 3 4.17%
On the street or in another public area (street vendors, buskers, hustlers, etc.) 0 0%
In an individual private household, for money (butler, nanny, servant, etc.) 0 0%
In a private household, not for pay (housewife, slave, etc.) 1 1.39%
In a warehouse or similar setting 4 5.56%
In a moving vehicle (bus driver, taxi driver, chauffeur, 1 1.39%
Equally split between two or more 2 2.78%
I'm unemployed, but seeking employment 7 9.72%
I'm unemployed, and not seeking employment 1 1.39%
Voters: 72. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 10-23-2011, 06:56 AM
 
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I did the cubicle, white collar, ridiculous, dehumanizing nonsense for 20 years and walked out. I switched to blue collar retail because I loved people. After a few months I realized that I grossly over-estimated the intelligence and common sense of the average consuming public and hate retail now, too. The slowest woman in the world came into the store today and broke a jar of molasses. She couldn't outrun the spill.

After Corporate America and Retail, it doesn't leave much out there but for me to make my own opportunities and start fulfilling my own goals and objectives instead of other people's. That's what I intend to do.
Welcome to your freedom! It's nice out here in the world of independents.
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Old 10-23-2011, 07:01 AM
 
Location: Southern NC
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I own a residential cleaning service, so we're in various private homes every day of the week.
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Old 10-23-2011, 09:59 AM
 
Location: Ohio
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I used to work out of a car, now I graduated to an office.
Whoa, are you the Lincoln Lawyer??
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Old 10-23-2011, 01:59 PM
 
Location: Santa Ana
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in retail at Target, well have not started yet because my Drug Test results have not been submitted to them yet, so my orientation is delayed
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Old 10-23-2011, 06:05 PM
 
Location: Baltimore
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I do a couple things.

I work on location for various IndyCar/NASCAR and ALMS events on the broadcast side doing in car cameras.

I work in real estate as an agent, landlord, developer and investor.

I coach lacrosse at the high school level.

I'm working on a novel about life in the work place
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