Jan 17, 2003 -- The Friday Five

1. Where do you currently work?
I work for a Government Sponsored Enterprise in Chicago.

2. How many other jobs have you had and where?
Before this job, I worked for an international non-profit corporation, which specialized in housing finance education. I had that job for 4 years.

Before that, I had a Fulbright Grant to teach in the public school system in Austria. I taught English, American History and sometimes literature.

Before and during that, I worked teaching English to executives in Austrian businesses for Inlinqua.

The two years prior to this, I was in school getting my Masters. The three years prior to that, I worked at McCain Foods in Chicago in the Frozen Foods division in Marketing.

Prior to this job, I had a plethora of jobs while getting through my undergraduate education and high school. Some of these jobs were: concession stand attendant at a drive-in movie, Telephone Interviewer for a marketing research company, and for a major US TV network. I was also a "Life Instructor" at a home for the developmentally disabled, and an office intern for the Secretary of State.

3. What do you like best about your job ?
The variety of work I get to do.

4. What do you like least about your job?
Too much office politics

5. What is your dream job?
Researching German Lit/Linguistics Prof at the University of Salzburg, Austria, or University of Tübingen, Germany.