Highschool:
-Recorded stats for a local minor league baseball team
As an undergrad:
-Shabbat custodian at our town’s synagogue
-Dishwasher (for six whole hours!) at a pasta restaurant
-Dishwasher in a bakery for the nicest woman on the planet
-Client service representative for a health insurance agency
As a grad student:
-Tutorial leader for a first-year English 110 class
-Columnist for the university’s “official” newspaper (which is my current job)
As I’ve mentioned on other threads, I also host a radio show on our community station, but since I’m not getting paid I consider that to be volunteer work rather than actual employment. But I invest so much of my time in the station that sometimes it feels like real work.
Various crap banking/fraud/mortgage/office jobs
Voluntary work in a cats home
Sculptor/Bronze Caster
“Actress” TV-X, The Fantasy Channel
Lurking in Shadows and Scaring the Crap out of People in the London Dungeon
Mortician/Embalmer
Web Designer
General Lazy Good-For-Nothing
Done all the teen jobs, like baby sitting, paper-rounds, etc, and loads of temping in factories, warehouses, offices, blah. Probably more stuff I forget.
Photographer (when I was 9 I took photos on a school trip and sold them to my classmates)
Paper boy
Lawn mower
Rubik’s Cube solver (5p to do it for you, 25p to teach you how)
Author (I wrote a short book on how to do the Rubik’s cube and sold it at school)
Warehouse assistant
Sandwich delivery driver
Waiter (fired after 3 hours)
Barman (fired after 10 minutes)
Electronic circuit designer
Hardware store guy
Software tester
Van courier
Actor
Mandolin player (at a museum in Japan)
Journalist
Advertising copywriter
Marketing executive
Magazine editor
Typesetter
Website editor
Webmaster
Communications manager
Babysitter
Stable girl-- not that I was sane; I shoveled horse poo
Teaching assistant
Truck stop waitress
Cocktail waitress- only job I ever just plain quit. It was that or rip the arm off the next guy who tried to feel me up and beat him to death with it.
College duplicating center invoice processor/whipping girl
English tutor
Gas station attendant-- picture Clerks but with a lot of guns
College photo lab tech-- best job ever since I was paid to hang out with friends, and use the darkroom for my own work whilst occassionally preventing beginners from poisoning themselves and/or others
Substitute teacher
Teacher
Library helper at school
filing at a tax place
babysitting
Putting up fences on my anties farm (barb wire. NOT fun. Bulls and cows shitting and splasing near you. Not. Fun.)
“sales associate” (cashier) at Reddi-mart
“sales associate”(cashier) at Shell Canada
I’m currently working the till at both reddi-mart and Shell… I get a measely 7 50 at reddi-mart and 9 00 at Shell… I’m begining to think that its not worth it to not get one day of sleeping in…
OK. Let’s go back to 15 and work from there - anything before that was mowing lawns and stuff and I would have been paid out of the goodness of people’s hearts, not like a regular job.
Jobs I collected real paychecks for - in chronological order:
Grocery stock boy
Bag boy
Fire department hose cleaner / hanger
Car washer (dealership)
Stagehand
Painter
Stage lighting and sound tech
Follow Spot operator
Trade show booth rental and set up
Stagehand again (IATSE this time)
Overnight radio operator and announcer
Painter again
Forklift driver
Stage & House sound tech
Stage actor (I got paid a whole $750 for one eight show run…)
Tent rental and setup (you know, for big outdoor weddings, trade shows and such)
Automotive soap, shampoo and cleaner manufacturing - mixing tech
Home appliance delivery truck driver
Painter, still again
Radio apprentice engineer
Rope making - twisting room operator
Roofing and framing carpentry - apprentice
Rope making - finisher and forklift driver
Painter - one last time
Cable TV installer
Cable TV producer / editor
Security guard
Computer plotter and mainframe manufacturing - test tech
R&D machinery tech - capacitor manufacturer
Security guard again
TV master control operator
TV editor / producer / writer
TV News videographer
TV satellite uplink operator
Trade show “Video Wall” tech
TV staff engineer
TV maintenance engineer
TV engineering manager
TV Director of Engineering (currently)
Landscaper flunkie
Gas station attendant
Photographic lab assistant (flunkie)
Newspaper sales solicitor
Newspaper circulation territory manager
Wedding photographer
Auto body shop flunkie
Foreign car mechanic
School photography person
Emergency room technician
Paramedic
Electronics store salesperson
Electronics repair technician
Forklift operator and truck driver
Bank equipment manufacturer service tech
Manager of above firm
Automotive diagnostic equipment salesman
Commercial security equipment salesman
Construction framer
Owner of construction/security/consulting business
I also teach adult evening education, have been a firefighter/hazmat technician for 30 years, and was perhaps a Cambodian prostitute, but cannot locate the W-4 form.
Apple picker and watched the store at Grandpa’s orchard.
Babysat perhaps 5 times and hated it. I’d rather pick apples, thanks.
Learning center assistant (in college)
Assistant to the English Dept. computer lab (college)
Clerk in gourmet popcorn shop
Worked for dad in flea market selling very strange stuff, I mean, merchandise
Tarot card reader
Freelance astrologer
Interactive courseware specialist (for computer-based training)
Writer/editor for a publishing company that published astrology forecasts (best job ever . . . company went out of business)
Temp jobs as “administrative assistant” for a few companies
Proofreader and editorial assistant for a major publisher
Publications designer for a nonprofit
Freelance editor and proofreader (current)
Soap and candlemaking business owner (current)
And I’ve applied at a local florist for a delivery job
I’m only 41, but damn, I’ve had some fun! I am not cut out for corporate life.
Fast food cook
Bus Boy
Intern (I got paid!)
Courier
Disk Jockey (on air and clubs)
Waiter
Research Assistant
Beta Tester
Acquisitions Technician
Lineman in an auto plant
Receptionist
Fulfillment Supervisor
Circulation Manager
Circulation Manager/Webmaster
Circulation Manager/Webmaster/Network Admin (Help!)
Publications Manager
Marketing Director
Circulation Director
This is fun!
Roughly chronological, starting in late high school, through undergrad and grad school to present)
Babysitter (well paid and liked the kids, scary but true)
Pizza Hut hostess and dishwasher
Grocery store cashier
Flower shop attendant
Garden center cashier (also, through the 5 years I was there, greenhouse chick, gift shop cashier, and just about everything else)
Personal care attendant through disabled student services at university (very good pay for doing such things as laundry, light cleaning, and getting folks dressed and showered in the morning)
Note-taker in university for a visually-impaired student (not as bizarre as it sounds, she magnified them to read them)
Interniship (unpaid) at a large library for grad school
Library assistant at a consumer health library (although I’m the “real” librarian w/the degree, there is no other staff)
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