Hamsters ate my last try at this… lemme try again.
Aside to the OP-- my mom was a Bally’s Aladdin’s Castle/Bally’s Great Escape employee from 1984 to 1990 or so. I was often pressed into service, cleaning Skee-Ball machines. Good times!
These are paid positions, as opposed to “mom’s making me do this” positions.
1986-1992 Garbage man for a local garbage company (all under the table, and most at an illegal age, so I won’t mention names)
1988-1992 Dishwasher for a local pizza parlor (again, under the table and mostly underage, so no name mentions)
1989-1990 Retail worker, Mr. Bulky’s candy store
1990 Database creator/maintainer for now-defunct local comic book shop
1990-1993 Cook/crew leader, Hardee’s
1993-present Pharmacy stockman for a Really-Big-and-Omnipresent retailer
1994-1999 “Wares Guy” for a Goodwill Store
2005-present Supplemental Instructor/Supplemental Learning Assistant for a university 100-level logic class
2008-present Supplemental Instructor for a university symbolic logic class
Raspberry picker.
Amusement park attendant.
Convenience store clerk.
Set designer. (4 different theatres over 4 years.)
Scenic Artist. (again, the same job at various places)
Sculptor for Muppets.
Furniture store gallery decorator.
Teacher of scenic art.
Museum exhibit builder.
High School:
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[li]Jane-of-all-trades/household helper (for local career-lady who was too busy to do her own stuff)[/li][li]Various babysitting and petsitting gigs around the 'hood[/li][li]Baskin-Robbins flunkie[/li][/ul]
University:
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[li]Salesperson for La Senza Girl[/li][li]Ride attendant for an amusement park (mostly kiddie bumper boats, whee)[/li][li]Salesperson for Baby Gap[/li][/ul]
After Uni:
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[li]Manager for Gap/GapKids/BabyGap[/li][li]Data entry for WhitePages[/li][li]Call centre slave[/li][li]Project flunkie (which is a strangely all-encompassing kind of job that defeats attempts to explain)[/li][/ul]
Paperboy
Gofer in a Mom’n’Pop jewlwry store
Stocker in a department store
Kitchen help in college dorm
Book store gofer in college
Grunt in a Hardee’s
Civil Service electrical engineer
Electrical engineer for Big Three auto company
Civil Service electrical engineer; 2nd job as as instructor in trade school
Defense contractor software engineer
(6 months unemployed)
Civil Service electrical engineer (NASA)
Defense contractor software engineer
First Job - Sales advisor in a clothes shop (Oct 2001 - October 2005)
Second Job - Worked in ASDA (REALLY REALLY hated that job!- October 2005 - April 2006)
Third and current job - Car Rental Operator April 2006 - Present. This job was only intended to be a taste of management as a placement for my degree. Needless to say the prospect of leaving the craphole of Asda led me away!
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[li]swallow shooter[/li][li]bean rider (same summer)[/li][li]grocery sacker[/li][li]movie theater ticket taker[/li][li]movie theater concessions[/li][li]movie theater box office[/li][li]summer university lab assistant[/li][li]undergraduate assistant at LANL[/li][li]part-time Macintosh repair tech[/li][li]full-time general computer/network repair tech[/li][li]self-employed attorney[/li][li]assistant county attorney[/li][/ul]
I’m sure I’m overlooking a couple. I’ve occasionally done some freelance computer repairs for cash. And I’ve done some odd stuff unpaid, like volleyball line judge and running the chains for high school football. But that’s the meat up there.
Since 1988, this is my resume, in a nutshell…
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[li]Burger King. Worked there for an embarrassingly too long of time, left when I was an assistant manager.[/li][li]Construction general laborer- Job I took out of desperation to get out of previous job. I worked there for two days.[/li][li]Office Max, electronics sales associate, three years.[/li][li]Tech support stint that lasted about two months before returning to…[/li][li]Office Max, where I worked for another two years as supervisor for the electronics department.[/li][li]Printer testing technician for HP (contract employee). Worked there for four years before I was laid off.[/li][li]Same as above, but worked for a different contractor. I was fired after seven months due to some asshole who had it in for me and got me fired over a misunderstanding that I could not successfully dispute.[/li][li]Call center, booking travel for cardholders redeeming points. Been here for over two years now.[/li][/ul]
Babysitter
Office temp
Bagel bakery worker
Coffee shop manager
Tutor at an EXTREMELY screwed up summer camp / cram school
Temp for a legal document processing center
Toy store clerk
Graduate teaching fellow
Office temp (again)
Tutor for a university summer program
Substitute teacher
AP exam grader
Freelance writer (sort of, made a whopping $1,600 that way. 1,700 if you count payment in STA Travel vouchers)
Visiting assistant professor
Adjunct instructor
I guess I’ve had a more interesting working life than I thought. (My next job will be tenure-track assistant professor, and will, I hope, be the last for quite some time.)
Cashier at a small boutique. Hated it. Worked there for about a year.
Miscellaneous work for a wholesale rep, mostly packing boxes for the webstores and scanning catalogues. I think I was there almost a year.
Temp work, mostly data entry
Graphic Design for where I am now. I was there about two months.
Temp work (a few weeks)
Data entry for medical billing
Graphic work for a custom book-binding place (that sucked and the bosses sucked. Don’t get me started). I was there three weeks. I repeat, don’t get me started. It was stupid enough that it doesn’t go on my resume. Well, that and it was so astoundingly short.
Graphic design. I’m going on my third year.
I may have forgotten a few or gotten stuff out of order.
Data entry at my dad’s company
Real estate secretary
Campus job as music professor’s assistant
Suncoast retail worker
Graduate assistant in a business library
Art librarian, all by myself
Public library substitute
Public librarian
I’m not sure I’ll remember them all, but skipping the short-term temp jobs:
Department store assistant bookkeeper
Law office receptionist
Food server - Howard Johnsons
Food server - The Jolly Roger (back when they had the little wench outfits)
Airline accountant
Food Server - Baker’s Square
Office Manager - Auto Diagnostic machine sales
Accountant - insurance company
Accountant - film production office
Accountant - property management company
Contract accountant - utility company
Office manager/bookkeeper - theater company
Accountant - major retail company
Accountant - another major retailer
Accountant - large theater auditorium (B-way, symphony, concerts)
Accountant - food retailer
Accountant - waste management service aka"the dump"
Accountant - office furniture & supply company
Business & Finance Director - non-profit history museum
Looks pretty boring, all in all. Too damn corporate.
1993-1994 (summers): Electrician’s assistant
1995-1998 (summers): Ride operator at a kiddie amusement park
1995-1999 (school year): Various food service, mostly short-order cook
1999-present: Teaching/TAing and research (varies semester to semester)
Plus a smattering of babysitting and the like before 1993, of course.
In order but I am to tired to think of the exact dates.
LabelCraft
Dairy Queen
Phil’s Deli
Clark Gas Station
Chaloupka’s Deli
Massara’s Supermarket - Deli
Johns Deli
GCC / Mede America / Healtheon / Healtheon WebMD / WebMD / Emdeon
The last was all the same place starting from 1992 to present.
I bet you thought I would end up working at a deli. I actually did not mind the work and I learned a lot. I still can make a kick ass party tray to this day.
Summer 1989: Bus boy/ Janitor at a Chili’s Restaurant on Bissonnet @ 59 in Houston (not there any more)
Summer 1991: Flower delivery boy. Rather surreal- we had a middle-aged white trash driver, a lesbian small-time pro wrestler, a gay rodeo cowboy, a 400 lb Mexican guy, and his 110 lb younger brother, a rather hot lipstick lesbian, and me, a 18 year old recent high school graduate. Fun job though.
Summers 1992-1994: Engineering intern / part time surveyor.
School year 1992-1995: Resident Advisor
School year 1995-1996, Fall 1996, summer 1996: Computer phone-in help desk worker for University
Imo’s Pizza - made everything but the pizzas in high school, made pizzas while I worked there randomly during college, worked 3 years steady in high school and on breaks during college
dorm dining hall - everything from serving slop, baking cookies, dishroom, mopping, only one semester here, horrible job
Circuit City - sold cameras mainly, and computers during Vista rush, junior year of college, horrible job, best pay I’ve made so far though
current college library - periodicals desk, pretty much do nothing, occasionally help people locate journals or work mircoform machines, put new journals away, easy job but shit pay, here for going on a year, likely will quit in fall, need more money
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[li]political party intern[/li][li]data entry clerk/researcher for newspaper[/li][li]theatrical carpenter[/li][li]video store clerk[/li][li]auto store cashier[/li][li]chain restaurant hostess[/li][li]hotel desk clerk[/li][li]researcher.editor for a crazy man[/li][li]photographer’s assistant[/li][li]secret hotel camera spy[/li][li]office assistant at internet startup[/li][li]high school teacher in Africa[/li][/ul]
