waitress very short term
baby photographer
printer, color correcter at a pro photo lab
photographer for a college (work/study grant)
journalist and photographer for newspaper
freelance photographer
studio photographer
tourist photographer
self employed as portrait, wedding and commercial photographer
Currently a student once again plus:
freelance writer and photographer
web designer
I'm glad this thread was started, I'm fascinated by the variety of jobs all you smart people have held. Plant Woman reminds me of two short jobs I had that she and I have in common: printer and photo lab person: I used to tend photo-processing machines, and make stats (fancy photocopies) for a couple of firms. It involves working in a dark room all day, the traditional "Don't turn on the light, you'll expose the paper!" labs. It appears that graphic arts are a base profession for a number of people here.
I couldn't possibly remember every job I've had nor do I care to try, but I have done pretty much every unskilled job in food service, retail, warehouse, maintenance, office and landscaping, re-wired a house (basement to attic) with an electrician, drove a fuel truck in the Army, and spent many years in client/server support and administration. My first job consisted of stuffing envelopes and binding books for a printing company, my current job is as technical manager of a training center where we deliver education in various enterprise computing technologies.
Oh wow, let's see if I can remember them all. Started working at 14 as a summer camp counselor for the local rec center, did that for 2 years.
Running the tills at Wendy's. Working drive thru sucks.
Running the tills at Schlotzky's Deli. Fired for "insubordination". The shift manager and I were having a laugh and someone told on me.
Front end lead at Media Play, then receiving over one Christmas. I hated that job. I walked out and proceeded to hang out in the coffee shop next door.
TGI Friday's hostess, bus girl, waitress, bartender, expo, fry, sautee, window, back to waitress. Quit this job multiple times.
Expo and prep at Champps Americana. Quit it and went back to Friday's. I was in and out of these two for just over 6 years.
Mellow Mushroom. Pizza out the front door, pot out the back. I waited tables, though. 3 months. Crappiest restaurant I ever worked in. The clientele was awful. Stupid neo rich people.
I've done various officey temp jobs, mostly reception, tier 1 tech support, and data entry.
I was a loan processor at a small mortgage lending firm. I had the awesomest boss evar there. He let me wear jeans, band t shirts, boots, and allowed me to dye my hair funny colors.
Ran my own web design/custom publishing company with my husband. It's on the back burner for now as the economy sucks and we need steady income.
I now work for a document imaging/mailroom company. The job's repetitive and a bit boring at times but the management is abysmal.
I started my working career in the strawberry fields. I hated it so much I quickly talked myself into a student assistant job at the nearby branch of the public library. That was consistent until I finished university with my bachelor's degree, punctuated with summer jobs as a greenhouseman's assistant, a door-to-door salesman (failed), a construction yard gopher, and a production zinc plater.
My first 'real' job was as an economic development researcher at the Chamber of Commerce. That job morphed through committee staff, lobbyist assistant and department manager positions. During this time, I also received payment as a Shakespearean actor, but it was an aberration in a recreation, rather than a planned career move.
In the Reagan depression, I sold print advertising as part of an attempt to start a neighborhood shopper newspaper. It failed. That and neighborhood political activism landed me as a garbage hauler/recycler with a worker-owned and operated recycling collective. I did five years helping prove that curbside recycling could work. It was a scruffy environmentalist shoestring operation...we introduced source-separated curbside pickup recycling service and innovated in recycled recycling vehicles.
After the city franchised private residential waste hauling and the state mandated curbside pickup of recycling, I left the collective to return to graduate school to get my teaching certificate and master's degree in teaching. While in graduate school, I worked part-time in interlibrary loan at a university library.
I received my teaching certificate and taught as a substitute teacher in six local school districts for five years. I worked temporary summer assignments for the university library and, as teaching jobs in the region disappeared, I accepted a permanent position with journal check-in. I've since moved into circulation and reserve collection...information management; access mostly. I'm a 'pump-jockey at the information station'. HR calls it 'library technician', it's the updated 'library clerk'....I'm a 'para-professional' (sans MLS).
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I've had as many as seven different jobs in a single year, sometimes more than one at a time. The total number of jobs I've worked for nearly as many employers is 43.
-Paper boy (1)
-Wheat harvest hand (2)
-Farm hand (2)
-Veterinary assistant (1)
-Gas Station Attendant (2)
-Site restoration contractor (1)
-Grocery store bagger (1)
-Pizza delivery driver (3)
-Dishwasher (1)
-Pizza maker (1)
-Busser in pizza restaurant (1)
-Waiter in pizza restaurant (1)
-Cashier in pizza restaurant (1)
-Assistant manager trainee in pizza restaurant (2)
-Convenience store cashier (1)
-Grocery store clerk and meat counter help (1)
-Industrial construction laborer (2)
-House painter (1)
-Security guard (1)
-Department store clerk (1)
-Department store manager (1)
-Car salesman (1)
-Oilfield service equipment operator (1)
-Oil well wireline service equipment operator (1)
-Truck driver (2)
-Lab analyst (2)
-Truck loader for nitrogen fertilizer plants (1)
-Plant operator in ammonia fertilizer plant (1)
-Sour gas sweetening plant and sulfur plant operator (1)
-Oilfield pumper (1)
-Gas Controller for natural gas company in Salt Lake City (1)
-Gas Controller for Wyoming to California natural gas pipeline company based in Salt Lake City (1)
-Gas Controller for Colorado to Washington natural gas pipeline company based in Salt Lake City (1)
-Pipeline Controller (title change only) for natural gas gathering and processing company monitoring facilities in Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, and Alabama and soon to be added, Pennsylvania and Ohio, based in Tusla, Oklahomistan. (1)
I've had as many as seven different jobs in a single year, sometimes more than one at a time. The total number of jobs I've worked for nearly as many employers is 43.
-Paper boy (1)
-Wheat harvest hand (2)
-Farm hand (2)
-Veterinary assistant (1)
-Gas Station Attendant (2)
-Site restoration contractor (1)
-Grocery store bagger (1)
-Pizza delivery driver (3)
-Dishwasher (1)
-Pizza maker (1)
-Busser in pizza restaurant (1)
-Waiter in pizza restaurant (1)
-Cashier in pizza restaurant (1)
-Assistant manager trainee in pizza restaurant (2)
-Convenience store cashier (1)
-Grocery store clerk and meat counter help (1)
-Industrial construction laborer (2)
-House painter (1)
-Security guard (1)
-Department store clerk (1)
-Department store manager (1)
-Car salesman (1)
-Oilfield service equipment operator (1)
-Oil well wireline service equipment operator (1)
-Truck driver (2)
-Lab analyst (2)
-Truck loader for nitrogen fertilizer plants (1)
-Plant operator in ammonia fertilizer plant (1)
-Sour gas sweetening plant and sulfur plant operator (1)
-Oilfield pumper (1)
-Gas Controller for natural gas company in Salt Lake City (1)
-Gas Controller for Wyoming to California natural gas pipeline company based in Salt Lake City (1)
-Gas Controller for Colorado to Washington natural gas pipeline company based in Salt Lake City (1)
-Pipeline Controller (title change only) for natural gas gathering and processing company monitoring facilities in Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, and Alabama and soon to be added, Pennsylvania and Ohio, based in Tusla, Oklahomistan. (1)
Now you understand why he says he is "SO OLD" and ready to retire.
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“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.”~~Mark Twain
I've had as many as seven different jobs in a single year, sometimes more than one at a time. The total number of jobs I've worked for nearly as many employers is 43.
-Paper boy (1)
-Wheat harvest hand (2)
-Farm hand (2)
-Veterinary assistant (1)
-Gas Station Attendant (2)
-Site restoration contractor (1)
-Grocery store bagger (1)
-Pizza delivery driver (3)
-Dishwasher (1)
-Pizza maker (1)
-Busser in pizza restaurant (1)
-Waiter in pizza restaurant (1)
-Cashier in pizza restaurant (1)
-Assistant manager trainee in pizza restaurant (2)
-Convenience store cashier (1)
-Grocery store clerk and meat counter help (1)
-Industrial construction laborer (2)
-House painter (1)
-Security guard (1)
-Department store clerk (1)
-Department store manager (1)
-Car salesman (1)
-Oilfield service equipment operator (1)
-Oil well wireline service equipment operator (1)
-Truck driver (2)
-Lab analyst (2)
-Truck loader for nitrogen fertilizer plants (1)
-Plant operator in ammonia fertilizer plant (1)
-Sour gas sweetening plant and sulfur plant operator (1)
-Oilfield pumper (1)
-Gas Controller for natural gas company in Salt Lake City (1)
-Gas Controller for Wyoming to California natural gas pipeline company based in Salt Lake City (1)
-Gas Controller for Colorado to Washington natural gas pipeline company based in Salt Lake City (1)
-Pipeline Controller (title change only) for natural gas gathering and processing company monitoring facilities in Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, and Alabama and soon to be added, Pennsylvania and Ohio, based in Tusla, Oklahomistan. (1)
My first job was hauling garbage for a county fair. That is, I dumped the cans into these big hand-drawn cart things and pulled them hither and yon. But we haulers were better than those peons who had to pick up garbage off the ground, yessiree.
Then I was a "utility clerk" at Pak n Save, one of the first bag-yer-own, warehouse-sized grocery outfits. We called it Pak n Slave. I did several jobs there, including graveyard shift while still a minor and thus it was illegal for them to employ me that way, the last being on the receiving dock where as an 18-year-old skinny college student I got to cuss out enormous truck drivers who had to do what I said.
The rest of college I worked at Monkey Ward in sales and bookkeeping. The sales sucked, as I was on full commission selling absolute crap.
After graduating from college with an oh-so-useful English degree, I continued to work for the shitty department store until I wormed my way into the mailroom at an Evil Multinational Corporation (EMC). Worked there as a contractor until I conned somebody into hiring me as a proofreader for their glorified typing pool.
Worked my way up through the ranks in the exciting field of office support while I did yet more schooling to get a paralegal certificate. Then I managed to get a legal assistant job at the EMC. After awhile I convinced the folks there that I could do real legal stuff rather than secretarial shit, and got another job as an Export Compliance Officer.
Worked in compliance and contract administration until I got the call to come out here to Humidston and be a contract specialist, where I mostly review trading contracts for compliance with US antiboycott law, which everybody else has the good sense not to know anything about. I also review the same contracts for commercial concerns, although I don't know nearly as much about such miniscule details. So I mostly milk the compliance expertise for all it's worth and spend the rest of my time abusing people on the Internet.
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"Her eyes in certain light were violet, and all her teeth were even. That's a rare, fair feature: even teeth. She smiled to excess, but she chewed with real distinction." - Eleanor of Aquitaine
- Slinging soft frozen lemonade at the Rose Bowl and Six Flags
- Cashier at Blockbuster Video
- Veterinary technician
- Pizza delivery
- Front desk at motel
- Receptionist (Manufacturing)
- Film crew
- Accountant (Manufacturing)
- Military intelligence analyst
- Web developer (Entertainment)
- Project manager (University)
I don't even try to understand what that could be! You foreigners have some weird jobs.
You are. You are the foreigner.
Graveyard shift is the overnight shift, and a convenience store is like a small shop that sells convenience items and is usually open 24 hours.
Ah, so it's not really an undertaker desk at a convenience store! Because that was my first thought. You have some weird shops in the colonies: I've seen "Guns and diamonds", so "Beer and coffins" would be right up your alley.
A little late, but it illustrates my point perfectly!
When I was growing up, mom got her shoes fixed at Vic's Shoe Repair and UPS. Then, one time in the early nineties, she wrote me a post card from some Book Store and Coffee Shop and she was all, "Not unlike Vic's." Shows what we knew.
Here in Puddle City, we used to have an interesting outlet in the most populous neighborhood in the state, Better Beef and Bible, a butcher and christian book store.
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