Share Your Labors

I’ve helped bring together my sister-in-law’s wedding in Yucaipa, about 500 people attended (and most of them are Laker fans >:( ). Got sick doing it, and brought my cough back to Hangzhou where I’m currently working to finish my CE teaching notes for the nutritionists at our hospital, draft letters to healthcare leaders at Mayo & Johns Hopkins among others, and prepare an introduction to hospital order sets for our president.

I didn’t even know it was Labor Day, but I thank you for reminding me as I take this moment to contemplate the beginning of the end of the year.

but I hear science is making strides in that area. Someday, I’ll get to sip PBR for two.

HS teacher and both football and basketball coach.

I am studying accounting and cinema studies( the film classes are mainly to give me a break from all the business and numbers stuff from accounting).
During the summer I work as a screen printer. As far as summer jobs go it’s pretty interesting work. I have been doing it for a few years now and I’m still not bored with it.

To say it’s laboring is a stretch, but that’s what I love about it. And on top of that, I’m unemployed as far as actual jobs are concerned, which means I get to focus my attention on the thing I really want to do. It could be much worse.

I teach the best high school students in Seoul. They matriculate to top US colleges at better rates than all but the top three or four US high schools and we’re top in the world in SAT scores.

I also teach SAT prep and do college counseling privately (not, of course, to the students at the high school that employs me).

I love my job and I own at it.

coach football and work with a virtue first program. we teach our kids about virtue and work with our community involving the church elementary school middle school and high school and getting most of the other sports on board.

Supposedly I’m also a mod, but I just use it to send tominhawaii bogus warnings ;-)

I work as an editor at a press release newswire. I copy edit, sometimes write, screen submissions for libel and mostly determine what’s news and what’s not. Basically, I am many bloggers worst nightmare!

Last week I was loudly cursed by a customer who decided it was not my job to judge what is news and what is fluff (news to my boss for sure). She demanded my name and email, she wanted my supervisor’s name and threatened to pull her account. If she had only read the text she was trying to pass off as a press release she would have learned about an outpatient mental health clinic renowned for helping people overcome anger and aggression and learn to live peaceful, productive lives.

Oh, irony.

Happy labor day to all.

I’m a full-time student at University of Puget Sound (Tacoma, WA), plus I take classes at Portland State in the summer.

I’m going to be an urban planner.

I work a library, can you keep the noise down?

That´s probably why I´ve never been engaged in a Bedge fight. If you would be Aussies I would fight with you just to fit in. There are more lawyers than taxi drivers in Spain, so it´s not a big thing, specially in a small town. Kind of Atticus Finch (not that I´m that a great guy though).

I work on loan modifications for the home equity depart of a certain bank (who shall remain nameless). I talk to people who got suckerd into getting another mortgage who some have their house already paid off. I crunch numbers and sometimes I have to ware a ‘bill collector’s" hat. I talk to people all day and hear about their hard times in this dilapidated economy in which my bank probably had a part in causing.

I hear all the horror stories about their home values and how it has dropped. Sometimes I have to be the one to tell these people of what could happen or will happen if they do not continue paying this loan that they took out when they had jobs and not worrying about their next meal. In the past year that I’ve been working for this bank, who is a proud sponsor of YOUR Portland Trail Blazers (this is the only aspect of my job that I’m proud of), I’ve come to detest the financial industry even more . Oh and to top it all off I have to work on Sundays. God, i should of went to med school like Pops wanted. ~sigh~

Cheers, Rip City!

I’m another Blazers fan exiled in this land of the early morning onion truck (native to McMinnville). I’m working on graduate research in political/economic development and I do some corporate consulting on the side – because, hey, research fellowships don’t even keep a fellow in cheap local beer.

Happy Labor Day, everyone. Here’s to the hands of the working man (and woman!).

At first, but now I teach along with manageing the foreign interns, marketing and web updates. As you can tell the web stuff isn’t my strong suit. But, we have fun.

PEOPLE IN SEOUL, KOREA. I screwed up and have a 19 hour lay over at Incheon this December. Get in at midnight. Any suggestions?

I am 70, and was retired, but a flood of medical problems wiped out my retirement savings, because of that my wife and I started a home and small office cleaning service called "HGVLM-HAVE BROOM WILL TRAVEL" How is that for a plug?

Anyway I have my head in so many toilet bowls my friends are calling me pot head or worst. S___ Head.

…while I prepare for university classes that I teach to Indonesian college and university students…while I make plans to visit neighboring countries with relief and development teams…while I listen to the afternoon call to prayer…while I chit-chat with some of the poorest people you’ll ever meet…while I try, in my small way (just as you all do in your small way), to make my corner of the world a better place.

In the past two NBA basketball seasons I’ve seen a total of 8 games televised on satellite television, including Roy’s miracle shot against Houston, his 54 point game against Phoenix, and last year the game where Oden went down. I was aching with each of you, albeit 15 hour ahead. Keep up the good work Dave and Ben and all who contribute…you help keep me close to “my guys.”

While growing up in Troutdale, Oregon I had a dream to be a Texas High School Football Coach which became reality back in 92. I became a head coach in 06.

The basketball coach at my school is friends with a guy in the Mavs front office and got me 7th row seats to last years Blazers/Mavs OT game when Dre scored 52. I was the fat guy sitting behind Mike and Mike during the post game show with the BRoy All Star poster. Plan to be at the January 5th game in Dalas this year.

GO BLAZERS

I am a full-time pastor of a Christian church and a part-time professor of Philosophy, World Religions, Islam, American History and Church History: Reformation to the Present.

I run a company that provides computer training to senior citizens; I also dabble in computer repair, and tutor computer students at a local community college a few days a week.

I will be starting a new job as a clarinetist in the Macao Orchestra in China this September!

… at Indiana State … finishing my last toward a BS in psychology. I’m also a residential technician at a mental health facility. I’m strongly considering moving to Portland after I graduate in December. So, if anyone knows of job opportunities near PDX … case management our otherwise, drop me a line. Obviously, I’d need advice on living arrangements too, but I am serious about making it a reality.

For area domestic violence shelter, technical writer for corporate / startups, and IT developer for the same. A labor of love, a labor of necessity, and a labor of agony. Happy to be employed nonetheless! Shout out to those who are not: may this upcoming Blazer season find you employed very soon!

No…. Students aren’t allowed to enter my class with Faker gear on.

Bending numbers into knowledge since 1997

for Fred Meyer support center and drummer for The Incapacitators.
Makin’ sure the computers run at the stores, and layin’ down original rock n’ roll.

<insert band websites here, but I won’t…you can find us easily>

My wife and I have a shoe store in Corvallis.

And I’m stuck working today…

I’m a bus driver with the lift program for Tri-Met. (Most people know it as “the short bus.”) A good portion the clients are the elderly and dialysis patients. Most of the rest have varying degrees of mental problems, both small and great. A tremendously rewarding job.

I’ve been a vintage swing dance instructor in Portland for more than 10 years. I LOVE to teach. Meeting my wife at a swing event is just icing on the cake.

I work at a hotel property with all kinds of stuff going on, restaurants, bars, golf course, live music, and so on. I am the first line of defense for equipment malfunctions and then coordinate repairs with vendors so as not to disturb our guests.

to brighten your morning subway ride. Among my greatest hits: “MARTHA STEWART STOCK FALLING LIKE A BAD SOUFFLÉ,” “ADULTS WHO WERE SPANKED OFTEN GET TANKED,” “AIR MORE STINKY, KIDS LESS THINKY,” “ALIENS STOLE MY ELECTION.” It’s an extremely specialized skill for which there is probably only one employer in the whole country.

In addition, I am making a film about the history of bombing, for which we’ve traveled to famously bombed cities like Guernica, Spain, Hiroshima, Japan, and Halabja, Iraq, talking to the local old-timers about their experiences. The film is at a fund-raising stage right now, so if there are any random billionaires reading this who want to make a difference in the world . . .

If you need some nice dress shoes I can have them shipped to you free of shipping.

in a compounding pharmacy. I make drugs (cue the meth jokes). It’s actually kinda cool—I make lots of creams, capsules, suppositories (including the fabulous rectal rocket), suspensions,and tablets. It’s like cooking for 10 hours a day, albeit far more exacting than any cooking I do at home.

in Vancouver. Been programming since I was 12 and in business since 2005, and a Bedger since 2006. I’m up to 5 employees now and growing steadily.

My website (currently being redesigned, but you can check it out anyway) — www.clearsightdesign.com — best websites for the best price in the Portland Metro area and best customer service too — hey, if you can’t throw in a plug here, where can you? :)

And I’m also working today—maybe because when I was a kid my dad convinced me that Labor Day was when you labor extra hard…?

     Whenever weather is at its worst, whether its blizzard, flood, tornado, or scorching heat, I get called out of my warm bed or hanging out with family and friends to climb a pole and make sure your, heater/air conditioner/lights, get turned back on and you get back to being comfortable. I can’t complain, I get paid for it, and it’s actually a pretty fun and adventurous job.

     I lived in Sandy/Gresham for about 8 years from the start of the Jailblazer era when you could walk in to the Rose Garden with a nose-bleed ticket and still walk down to the 100 level and sit in any open seat. (Although I remember there being more Purple and Yellow Jerseys than Blazer Gear back then.) And climaxing with the last game I attended which was the thousandth (exaggeration) sold-out game in a row, and incredibly loud Game 2 playoff victory against the Rockets season before last. I think that the turning point in the middle of all that, (besides the Pritchard Drafts/trades) was the 13 game win streak 3 seasons ago. It’s nice to look back at how things changed.

P.S. It may have been in the best interest in the team, but I still miss Outlaw, Blake, and Webster.

I’m getting my Masters at University of Connecticut, but hometown is near the Portland area! I’m an athletic trainer at a high school in Hartford… and stay up late nights listening to Blazer games til 1 am.!

everyday for the last four months has been a Holladay

Sure am grateful to have this day off ( :

Part of a routine examination of a patient is the mental status exam. Typical questions include, “What is your name? What is your birthday? What is the date today? Who is the president?” These questions are helpful when speaking to a person who might be confused, to clarify if what they are telling you is actually true or not.

Part of the mental status exam I perform is, "What professional sports team plays in Portland? (If they don’t know, I ask them what NBA team plays in Portland). Then I ask them to name as many current Trailblazers as possible. If they can’t name any current Trailblazers, I ask them to name as many former Trailblazers as possible.

I never cease to be amazed when a 92-year-old lady tells me that she misses Shavlik, or remembers that Terry Porter used to make funny faces while shooting freethrows.

A big part of my job is to make a personal connection with my patients, and I take every opportunity to find out if any of my patients are Blazers fans so we can connect on that level.

My other job is as Daddy of an 8-month old. My daughter attended a Blazers game the night before she was born, and has been to several since.

Countin’ flowers on the wall
That don’t bother me at all
Playin’ solitaire till dawn with a deck of fifty-one
Smokin’ cigarettes and watchin’ Captain Kangaroo
Now don’t tell me I’ve nothin’ to do

All from lovely Hillsboro, OR. They prefer to call it OR- AAAA- GOOONE on the east coast. Call it whatever you want as long as you buy my software.

my main job is pulling myself out of bed each morning to go make money.

taxpayers give me money to make sure the technology that teachers “need” is working day by day. mostly i change passwords they forgot or let expire, plug stuff in when “it won’t turn on!”, and clear paper jams when, “it won’t print!” or show them, again, how their projector works.

In addition to bargaining contracts and litigating grievances, we’ve set up some very progressive programs for conflict resolution, a service the Union provides to non union employees and managers in addition to providing mediation services for union members. I’d say that right now we have, by far, the most productive labor/management partnership in Oregon.

I feel good about looking for ways to make unions relevant to workers who no longer fit in the old industrial union paradigm, moving beyond conflict and resistance to change and working to protect the rights of workers while helping the employer stay competitive. You don’t don’t have to balance the books on the backs of employees to compete if you can do better work.

I coordinate the volunteers who fix customers computers. And fix some myself. Lots of Blazers fans in the core volunteer group, including Bedgers.

Currently doing the small business route, specializing in graphic and printing. Love the Blazers ever since I moved to Oregon in 1996.

Getch U Sum BurtonArts!!!!! GO BLAZERS!!!

to help furriners like and understand the US. Its a nice job, with an assistant to do most of the tedious admin work. Don’t punch a clock, just need to get things done on time, so nobody bugs me about 2 hour lunches or naps at my desk. The money is pretty weak but I only work 42 weeks a year, plus I get paid vacation, so I’m back in Oregon for good long stretches.

I supplement by working door and sometimes bar-backing at a bar on my block. It is consistently voted Best Dive Bar in DC. Its pretty sleepy: few fights, fantastic jukebox. Its a funny little place. If you’re in DC, come by the Raven (that’s right, Corvid) on the weekends. Its Portland, cheap, too.

I have a great life, and never would have designed it this way when I was 20

but if you must know I am a manager at a sporting goods store.

in a conservatory in New York. During my rare free time I like to spend it on on Bedge, but seeing as I don’t have much of that I can’t be as regular on here as I was in HS :(

as well as a full-time student (except this Summer). My job entails corresponding with artists, labels, and promotions companies, getting the best new music sent to the station, reviewed, and entered into our catalogue, as well as letting our DJs know about new releases which might work well on their shows. I also help with a variety of events, such as concerts, and help train new DJs. Finally, I host a radio show on Saturday afternoon’s playing a mix of indie rock, americana, 60’s and 70’s soul and classic rock, and a smidge of jazz and blues.

In the near future, our Production Director (also a devoted BEdger) and myself have plans to unveil a Blazers themed talk show. It’s still in the formative stages, but with any luck, it should be yet another outlet for Blazer fans to voice their opinions and engage with each other around Blazer issues. If anyone has any advice, questions, or feedback, we’d be happy to receive it.

I spent almost 50 years as a Medical Technologist (aka: vampire, bloodsucker, leach, etc.). It consisted of drawing specimens, running tests on them, reporting out the results. I also did x-ray for 20 years. I loved working in small hospitals where you do everything. My greatest fear was boredom.

I enjoyed my job to the end. If the years of concrete floors had not taken such a toll on my underpinnings, I would still be doing it. It is a lucky person that can say they looked forward to their job each day. I cannot imagine spending almost one third of my life hating what I did.

I now find I am busier than when I worked. My to-do list has grown X3. I have more time with family than ever before. Life is good! Go Blazers

My job just ended so I’m heading to Australia and New Zealand for 6 weeks.
Be back just in time for the season to start.

I just play video games around 5 years old or so because my pc cant handle anything newer. IT sucks I want to play basketball really bad but cannot, neither can I do anything else fun that requires physicality

Moved back to Boise, ID after 4 wonderful years in Portland. Unfortunately lack of job prospects ate through my savings fairly quickly and forced me back home. About to start a course in tax preparation, and plan on enrolling at BSU to complete my Spanish degree in the near future.

After many years as a corporate project management monkey (and a few layoffs), PGE laid off my entire floor and was the final straw for me.

Now I get paid 1/3 of what I used to make but am 5x happier.

I work for PSU starting this fall. I used to work at CCC in Oregon City working with students that have learning differences and also in computer technology. I cherish the special education community and look forward helping others in the future.

I just got back from volunteering in Haiti for the last two months at a hospital! One of the hardest things I’ve ever done. Usually during the off season I run bball camps for a former blazer (now Miami heat), and this year I decided to do somethif different…

Highlight was starting a Sunday morning bball league that started with 4 players and ended with 18 on my last Sunday there! So good to have something like bball to distract both the locals who have been devastated by the earthquake and myself from the overwhelming needs of Haiti! I might post a blog about pickup games in Haiti, as it was a learning experience.

I only catch about 20 games a year on national TV, but I still love my Blazers! Born and raised in Salem

So the people of Texas can watch the Blazers beat their beloved Spurs/Mavs/Rockets.

Born and raised in Salem, spent most of my 20’s in Portland, moved to Austin two years ago. I love it here, but wish I could spend my summers in the NW.

can thank me if they get their UPS packages on time

my parents

I got my start at the now defunct Storefront Theatre, also worked at Artists’ Rep when they were located in the YWCA on 10th Ave. Spent a couple of seasons at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland and now live and work in NYC.

I’ve yet to get that Big Break that would make life so much easier…. a couple TV series I was cast as a regular in were cancelled before airing!! arrgh! but I’ve been lucky enough to be able to make my living doing nothing but acting for nearly 10 years now, steadily do lots of theater, TV and commercials. Film less frequently. I got to work with Denzel Washington on Broadway (Julius Caesar)! He never learned my name, always called me by my character: “heeeyy…. Octavius….”
I shot The Kingdom on an extremely hot day in Arizona, and because of the heat, all the actors, stars and smaller roles together, were holed up in the same big room in the government building we were shooting in. Jennifer Garner was in the room with baby and the baby’s nanny, and on a break she was sort of bouncing her around, introducing her (him? it….?) to everyone. For some reason I asked “is this yours..?” She looked at me very strangely, in fact everyone in the room kind of looked at me strangely… but she said “yes.”
Note to self… movie stars are unlikely to play with random kids on movie sets…

I founded a non-profit organization that raises money for charities and schools by collecting athletic shoes to be distributed throughout the world.

I sell enterprise software to companies over 750 million in revenue. Accounts like Toyota, Sony, Dreamworks, Amgen, etc.

Hi Blazer Fans,

Born and raised in Australia currently work with a system called SAP working on the HR business improvement side of things for the company I work for. I am also a husband, dad to 3 beautiful girls and a die hard Blazer fan (well as die hard as you can be on the other side of the world.)

Such a diverse group of people here which is great to see.

I have strange and long working hours. I am paid well to make my customers happy. I am paid to develop phantasies in the minds of my clients. I don’t have to be the best at my job, there’s still a need for me. I get paid a lot, but my boss keeps most of it. I have a close relationship with my co-workers. I spend a lot of time in hotel rooms. My shoes get worn off quickly. When I leave the house in the morning to go to work I look great, but sometimes terrible in the evening when I come home. I have some trouble keeping a balance between my work and my family. It’s not that easy to explain to outsiders what exactly I do for a living. If one customer isn’t happy with me and beats me up, I just get sent to the next one.

I help companies become more innovative, but also have other management experience.

I have traveled to about 50 countries (private and business).

I have volunteered in Africa a few times to help organizations such as Earthwatch.org and Lewa.org which was very rewarding.

I have worked in a rehab hospital with geriatric and neurologically-impaired patients, which contributed to me not becoming a physician although I think that would be my alternative career.

I’m also a part-time student at a good US university. Don’t worry taxpayer, I pay for all of it myself.

I’m good at predicting trends. I e.g. knew about the pending Internet boom in 1995/96 (I was too young to leave school), and about the pending financial crisis in early 2007. I knew US car companies were in deep trouble in 2004. I knew about a lot of tech companies and products before you did. So far I suck at capitalizing on such insights for my personal wealth aside from wealth of knowledge.

I have met with Bill Gates, Paul Allen, and Mark Cuban, but they wouldn’t recognize me ;-)

BE junk drawer legend has it that I’m some kind of secret agent out there to gather intelligence and occasionally kill enemies of the state. This is not true. No, really. Now move along, this is not the spy you were looking for.

www.dunnelectronics.com
A small family owned business who have been in business since 1975 here in Portland. We are a local distributor(die hard competitor of Platt Electric) for industrial electronics, controls, sensors and safety. I’m doing inside sales, shipping and assembly, and at 23 years old with no education past high school, it’s all been a great learning experience for me. Unfortunately, I find myself distracted daily by BE… And I don’t intend to stop anytime soon. :)

I work as a delivery coordinator for a large beverage company making sure that America and Canada have their soft drink fixes. I will be working in the winter to continue my quest for a bechelors degree in Global Logistics via online classes at ECU. For the person that does the special education research,( BlazerRoddy) thank you for working to improve the lives of those that can’t. I have a 22 year old special needs child an am very greatful for the advances in technology and teaching methods.

Waiting to take over my parents upcoming wine-empire: please see

www.fincaogawa.com.ar

Thinking of getting into IT or accounting

I actually filled in for Sports in June, and desperately searched for a way to work a “Blazers Edge” reference into my sportscast (“Kevin Pritchard’s wheelings and dealings on draft day have always been the Blazers’ Edge”) but unfortunately I never had an excuse to run Blazer news.

Basically, my job is to cover the day’s stories in southern Oregon, and convince people that I’m not out to get them (a handfull of bad reporters gives all of us a bad name).

I’ve worn the hats of a toy developer, science fiction editor, musician, graphic/web designer and dot com flunky, but I currently teach kids.

though currently not for anyone

Last year was my first year teaching, and I taught 7th and 8th grade English at a junior high up here in Puyallup. Unfortunately, budgets being as they are, I wasn’t able to stay, so I’ll be subbing unless I can pull down a classroom job in the next few weeks.

Here’s some of my Blazer gear I had in my classroom last year (and will have again, one day). Gotta represent!
Outside the door
Up front, next to the whiteboard. Students spent a lot of time looking at this one.
Free fishing with Brian Grant poster.
And the piece de resistance: Detlef Schrempf for literacy.

I’ll give a brief synopsis of my job since not many people truly understand what we do, hence the term “ambulance driver.” Many people are completely unaware that we are medical professionals and not just drivers.

I work for AMR, the largest ambulance provider in the Portland-metro area. We respond to mainly 911 calls, but also plenty of non-emergent transfers. These transfers range from little old ladies who need an ambulance ride home who can’t walk, from taking people to dialysis appointments, to critical care transports where we have a ventilator running and the patient is on multiple medications constantly dripping in the IV that require monitoring.

Our most common 911 calls are people falling down, vehicle collisions, psychiatric emergencies, and medical problems such as trouble breathing, chest pain, or other medical problems. We usually spend 20-30 minutes with people on scene, make sure we get a full medical history and medications, gather their vital signs like blood pressure, heart rate, EKG rhythm, etc., and stabilize on scene with IV medications, oxygen, electrical heart treatments, and the like. For more critical patients we do more drastic things like place breathing tubes in their lungs, place a drill in their bone if we cant get an IV, or even a tracheotomy in the most dire situations. We transport patients to the appropriate hospital and give a full verbal report to the doctor and nurses, and a written report to go in the patients records.

A typical day is we start out at our operations center, check our ambulance out, then drive around the county to assigned areas called posts, and wait there until we get moved to a different area or get assigned a call. The dispatcher moves us around like chess pieces to cover the county appropriately. We run an average of about 5-6 calls per day, but sometimes are VERY slow, like do nothing all day slow, and sometimes VERY busy, like we have a 911 call waiting for us when we transport someone to the hospital.

Probably one of the most bizarre calls I ever ran was a guy who shoved 36 inches of wire into his urethra for fun. It tangled up into a ball inside his bladder and had to be surgically removed. Yeah, lots of people were huddled around his X-ray in the ED.

I work 12 hour shifts on a 2-2-3 schedule. 10 years of lifting people has taken it’s toll on my back, and I am now back in school to become an RN. I enjoy taking care of patients immensely, but am tired of lifting them.

I work an internal IT call center for one of the largest non-profit healthcare providers in the Pacfic Northwest. You may know us by our viral “pink glove” video or the way we take over all the downtown bridges once a year. Although I am not somebody who takes your temperature, wheels your gurney, changes your bedpans, or x-ray’s your spleen, I talk to all of those people every day, making sure they have unobstructed access to whichever of the two hundred different IT systems we use across the organization.

For example, did you know that if you are discharged from a hospital that the nurses are required by law to provide you with hardcopy of recommendations or advice related to the care you received? These are called “discharge instructions.” Do you know what happens when an emergency room nurse goes to print that off and the printer even just a little bit uncooperative?

First, she gets REALLY mad.
Second, she calls me.

I’m okay with that. I am really, really happy to have the opportunity to help these people out. While my customers may sometimes be miserable, hysterical, or incomprehensible, they are never bleeding, unconscious, or require being physically restrained. I am at no risk for physical harm in my little fabric cubicle. I don’t have to deal with bodily fluids, I’m not required to offer condolences to surviving kin. I just do my part to keep the blinking lights blinking. I’ve been in IT for over 15 years, and while this is one of the least sexy IT jobs I’ve ever had, it’s one of the most rewarding I’ve ever had as well. Go figure.

I retired from the military in 1976 and from the accounting busines in 2002. And I enjoy it very much!