My first post here, been reading for months. Seems a lot of people posting are in the medical field. I thought it would be cool to hear what fellow sleevers do for a living.

The wife and I are both Respiratory Therapists here in Michigan. I am just starting this journey with my 8 hour information seminar ( pre-op ) scheduled for later this month. My better half was sleeved the end of April. She is doing awesome. Down 84 lbs total including the pre-op weight loss.

Im so excited to get my life back after getting this incredible weight loss tool.

Hope to hear from you guys.

I am a professor--love my job! Sleeved July 1 and glad I only taught online courses this summer so I could work from home.

Medical Technologist, or lab geek for those who don't know what an MT is. When they say they're sending your ______ for testing, that's me doing the testing. LOL. I noticed a large number of medical people had had this done too while i was getting all my pre-op treatment done. Every doctors office I went to had someone in it who had surgery.

I am a critical care nurse in icu......have lost 113 lbs in 8 months! I lovvvvvvve my sleeve.......never ever have i eaten this consistently healthy in my entire life!

I am a registered nurse in an emergency room.....scheduled for surgery 8/29/13

I was reading a study this morning..

55% of nurses are overweight or obese..

my profession ??? I am of the oldest profession

(Not that! get your minds out of the gutter <img src='http://www.bariatricpal.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />)

I am a mom and a wife. The woman on the block that all the other women send there kids to after school if they are stuck at work..

So much for ...

"If a man will not work' date=' he shall not eat" (2 Thess 3:10)[/quote']

You have a great and much needed job. Working

(Away from home) moms need someone like you who can and is willing to be their when they can't. The best thing for children is to have mom at home. But now days even more so that's not always an option. So thanks for being there.

Business Analyst in Newark, New Jersey.

I'm thankful that we have so many nurses in here. If this were not the best WLS procedure, the nurses would know that. Being pre-op, it's reassuring that I've chosen the right path.

I am a learning and development specialist for a very large travel company. I have worked in the same industry for the same company for 24 years. I love to travel and absolutely love my job! I am also a single mom to 2 amazing daughters, 9 & 11. Surgery is Aug 14. Getting so close : )

I'm a High School Counselor for the last 9 years. I love it!

My reason for being and most important job is mother to three amazing sons. They are 13, 9 and 4. My other full time job is as a speech pathologist in a nursing home. I've worked with geriatric patients for 18 years and I see the effects of obesity in the later years. Later being relative. We've had a recent run of people in their 40's and 50's who have had strokes related to weight, high blood pressure and diabetes. It's not pretty and I plan to do whatever it takes to avoid it. Nothing depresses me more than seeing a young person that I know for sure is going I be living in the nursing home starting in their 50's. That is a horrible sentence. I commend all of us on here who are fighting the good fight and trying to improve our odds. It's worth it.

I am one of the geeks on the board. I manage a Technical Support team for a software / hardware company. My team works with our Enterprise level customers and our products are used by the large fleet / logistics companies in the country.

double post.

CVT certified veterinary technician for 12 years. Raft guide, ski instructor and property assessor for an environmental consulting firm in previous life (lives). Surgery in Jan and hoping to get back to my raft guide "fighting weight" ! Course my diet in those days consisted of Cliff bars, coffee and beer so hoping to be a little healthier

Great topic! I'm a firefighter/paramedic in Washington state.

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Nice to see some people that are in this state on here!

I work in sales selling to the industrial and commercial world. Located in Snohomish County Washington.