Unpaid work: garden maintenance, house painter, instruction book interpreter (when no one else in the house could be bothered to read the instructions to work the latest electronic/household/phone/computer type gadget and get it to work), household fixer of all things, most of the cooking, driver, second in charge of cleaning, ironing and pet care.
Paid work: Did Economics at Uni 30 years ago; I can only just recall what demand and supply are! A bank offered me a job straight out of uni without needing to do the normal job interview BS so I took it. Worked in a number of Australian and Foreign Banks and Finance companies until I thought it might be fun to supervise what they do and worked for the government regulator of banks for a while and then moved to another government agency concerned with anti-money laundering and counter terrorism financing. Not at the pointy end with the cops et al but more with those that are supposed to report transactions to us. (You know; when banks have to report transactions of $10,000 in cash or more, 100 point ID check for opening accounts etc. – it’s all in a process of change at the moment as new legislation has been introduced so Australia complies with global standards and other countries won’t apply economic sanctions against us for not complying)
Fun and unpaid work: Travel photography; see a few trips here:
Africa:
http://www.markandkay.smugmug.com/gallery/6162125_hsa7c
Antarctica:
http://markandkay.smugmug.com/Prior%...0Photos/269525
Europe:
http://markandkay.smugmug.com/Prior%...0Photos/269530
The main web site:
http://markandkay.smugmug.com/
Now wondering how much longer I will have to work to make up for the 50% reduction in retirement savings….does anyone remember 1987?