- Harrods (temp for sales week)
- Local authority data entry clerk
- Computer programmer / lecturer
- Administator National Chess Federation
- Chess, roleplaying + computer games teacher :eek:
In no particular order:
Restaurant bus boy
Disc jockey
Newspaper reporter
Radio news director
TV news reporter
Booth announcer
“Adult” book store clerk
Soldier
Gandy dancer
Call center phone agent & supervisor
Construction laborer
Security guard
Mobile home salesman
Pizza deliveryman
College instructor
This is a great brain exerciser.
Highschool:
Dunkin Donuts Donut finisher.
Pizza Cashier
Supermarket cashier
College:
Health and beauty aid cashier/asst manager
Medical Receptionist
Post College:
Office Manager for small company 2 years
Business Director for med sized company 5 years
Executive Director med sized company 12 years
Author
I tend to stay put rather than job hop. I admire all the different experiences other posters have had.
long ago : Babysitting
1995-1997 : Selling school-logo products at the school store in high school
1995 - 1997 : Concession stand at school dances
1998-99-2000 : Receptionist/clerk at City Hall (summer replacement, did 3 summers)
1999-2000 : Telephone Sales Rep (yes, it’s telemarketing)
2001 : Candy store employee
2001-2002 : Bath and Body products store employee
2002-2005 : Tech for a pharma company that does clinical trials
2006 : Medical technologist, blood bank
2007-present : Medical technologist, evening shift generalist
(I’m guessing at some of the years, there was a decent amount of overlap for some jobs, as I was working a few places at once)
[QUOTE=ZipperJJ]
heh. It’s a farm thing. The swallow shooting was shooting barn swallows with a .22 (a rusty old bolt-action thing, I’m lucky it didn’t blow up on me; actually had to pry the spent shells out with a pocketknife) so they wouldn’t crap on all the expensive farming equipment. And bean riding is something I’m pretty sure is still done: you get a tractor and outfit the front with a special rig consisting of, one, a big tank of Round-Up weed killer, and two, a long horizontal arm with four seats and a spray gun for each seat. You get four people (usually kids) to sit on the seats, and drive up and down the rows of beans. When the kids see a weed, they blast it. I got four bucks an hour for that one, which is good money when you’re 12.
Well in reverse order…
2008 - present: Current job at a technology startup
2002-2008: Microsoft UK
mid 2000-2002: Technology startup which didn’t do so well…
1998-mid 2000: Microsoft US in Redmond as a test engineer
1996-1998: Support call center.
1996: Spent six months in Portland, OR, working various jobs as I just moved there. I was a lifeguard, worked part time in a restaurant, and worked (for about 2 weeks) in a stockbroker’s office as a phone drone cold-calling customers
1994-1996: Going to college in Montana, so worked as a lifeguard, auto mechanic, light construction, tutor in math and science, surgical tech in the hospital, and also was in the Montana Air National Guard during all of this. Dropping out of college meant I was actually working less than whilst going to school.
1991-1994: US Air Force, aircraft armament systems technician
High School (1987-1991): Worked in a pizza joint, had a paper route, washed dishes at a restaurant, worked for 2 summers at a local ranch shoveling sheep shit, and summer after I graduated worked for my grandparents landscaping their newly built house.
Pre-high school (1980-1987): Mowed lawns, babysitting, shoveling snow in the winter.
Damn, let’s see if I can remember. Roughly in order from when I was 8 in '69.
The first money I made was shoveling snow. Didn’t pay FICA, though.
Mowing lawns. Dito.
Babysitting when my sister couldn’t. Likewise.
paper route. still no SS deductions
Worked at a popcorn stand when I was in 8th grade. More of the same!
janitor at a jr. high. First time to pay into “The System”
watered people’s lawns
dishwasher
janitor again
delivery for a blue-print company (Do people in the CAD world know what this is?)
assembly line worker – absolutely mind-numbing work. never again!
Mormon missionary (not paid)
janitor
store clerk in a basket shop in a mall. Cute customers.
night security on campus
professional magician
translation manager
import manager
sales manager
marketing manager
sales and marketing manager
just a marketing manager
Pizza delivery driver
Telephone opinion survey taker
Musician
Barback
Body Piercer
Sound engineer
Constitutional Law tutor/Research assistant
Law Clerk to U.S. District Judge
Attorney at Law
High school:
Cemetary mower
Residential lawn mower
Plastics factory drone
Construction laborer
laborer for a house mover
XC ski shop attendant
Farm hand
Dishwasher
Between high school + college:
US Army Stinger missile gunner/teamchief
Bum
Tech school:
Plastics factory drone (for 2 days)
You know the little basket of fake grass with smelly soap cameos/sea shells? I assembled and shrink-wrapped them.
laborer for a house mover
Little Ceasers pizza drone
Big white party tent erector
College:
Lab assistant
Retail store warehouse worker
After college:
Microbiology QC technician for a pharmaceutical company
Lab technician for an academic institution
Side business as a micropipette calibrator
I’m sure I’ve forgotten several.
High School:
Camp counselor - pack of 14 5-year-olds and only three of us. Oh, and since I was underage I was paid the equivalent of $1.50/hr. Hated that job.
Ice Cream Cake Decorator - Had a lot of fun for a while, good high school job. Free ice cream rocked!
College:
‘Associate’ - Bath and Body works sales. Bad work environment and they tried to make me work while I was scheduled for finals.
Assistant - Asian antique store. Couldn’t look customers in the face, and he had makeup in the back room if one of us forgot to wear some. Spent three weeks listening to the same opera CD and addressing envelopes. Oh, and he hated letting us get lunch; he would nap in his office and ignore us instead of letting us eat. The fridge had food so old the mold connected boxes to each other. His wares were gorgeous though!
Data Entry - Billed as an internship with occasional overtime, but just data entry around 60-70 hours a week. Paid really well, if I hadn’t been heavily misled as to the position I probably would’ve enjoyed making all the money.
Library Assistant - Current job. Law library at a law school, really easy work. Check in/out material, open and close library, shift/shelve books. I can study while on the desk, and the hours are very flexible to work around my school schedule.
forgot two…
Best job I ever had was a grave digger. People didn’t ask me for my services at parties or when I went home for visits, and rarely a customer complaint. If they did complain, we just hit them with shovels until they went away! 
Worst was ski lift operator - nothing worse, being a skier, than having a bunch of out-of-breath sunburned people with huge grins bragging about the powder when you’re freezing your bollocks off on the top of a mountain trying vainly to keep warm.
Apprentice Electronics Tech (starting at about age 12)
Journeyman Electronics Tech
Cryomagnetics Lab Assistant
Bartender
Jazz Trombonist in a cabaret
Lab Assistant in Charge of Robotics and Explaining Things to Boneheaded Mech E Students
Blackjack Dealer
Cellular Radio Network Designer/Optimizer
Systems Engineer (working on military communications networks)
Tech Support (briefly, for a weird little cell phone/PBX interface)
Test Engineer (cellular network software stuff)
Software Engineer (more stuff mostly related to cell phones)
Several of those overlapped, and throughout most of it, I also did freelance electronics design and consulting. I may have also omitted a few, for various reasons.
High School and College Summers -
Line cook and cook for Marine Corps OCS (one summer)
College -
Convenience store clerk
Assistant to Clerk of House of Delegates
Chief Intern for State Parks Department
Post Graduate -
Legal assistant
Graduate School -
Graduate Assistant to Dean
Zoning Officer
Post Graduate School -
Planner
Senior Planner
Planning Director for rural locality
Planner with state environmental agency
Secretary to local Board of Zoning Appeals
Comprehensive Planner
Director of Community Development
High School:
McDonald’s – burger maker
Grocery store – produce section
Men’s clothing store – the manager’s bitch
Bulletin board system – system operator
Post-HS:
US Air Force, computer repair guy
Scientific Research Lab, computer technician
Hospital, PC technician II
Consulting firm, network administrator
Post-college
Public school system, high school history teacher
Consulting firm, network engineer
Restaurant reviews website, webmaster/developer
Consulting firm, network architect
Naturally forgot something
School:
Food Vendor at Baseball games
Synagogue assistant
University:
Stocked shelves at Sobes
Guitar lesson instructor
Instrument cleaner
Post University
Guitar Instructor
Band Teacher
Next job? Looks like I’ll be subbing soon
Starting at the age of 15:
High School:
Busser/food runner - local vegetarian restaurant
Waitress - Johnny Rockets
Virtual World employee (anybody remember them?)
Waitress - Johnny Rockets
College:
Waitress - local diner
Gas America cashier
Post-College (didn’t finish):
Hostess/busser - local japanese restaurant
Vet clinic employee (everything from receptionist work to kennel duties to grooming assistant)
House cleaner
Accounting assistant (to my mother-in-law)
Office manager/bookkeeper for a property management company
Office manager/bookkeeper/customer service for a costume shop
Stay at home mom
Starting June 30, student at community college enrolled in a three-year AAS program to become a registered vet tech
This is my first post in over a week! Stupid Paypal e-check took nine days to process. It’s good to be back.