I’m so, so sorry. Are you better now?
I feel rather unexperienced. I’ve been:
Lifeguard
Dishroom monkey (I got promoted to the guy who runs the bigass dishwasher.)
Web designer
Software engineer (this is the one I’ve been doing for the past six years, albeit for four different companies.)
Supermarket - bagger, stocker, cashier, office clerk
Convenience store - cashier
Drug store - stocker/cashier
Trucking company - biller
Pawn shop - clerk
Paper distribution company - counter sales, assorted crap
Hospital - insurance biller, contract management specialist
In roughly accurate chronological order:
Paper Boy
Maintenance Runner/Gofer at a Private School
Fast Food Burger Flipper (Hardee’s)
Short Order Cook - Breakfast
Busboy
Short Order Cook - Greek Deli
Waiter
Warehouse Grunt
Forklift Operator
Tactical Comms Technician - US Army
Recon/LRP - US Army (after Jump School, RIP et al.)
Supply Flunky - US Army (after getting badly injured on a jump)
Cold Weather Training Cadre - US Army (after healing up a bit and waiting to get out)
Bartender (ahh, free at last - the salad days)
Sales Executive - Marketing Firm
Line Cook - Upscale Private Restaurant
Grounds Maintenance (Private School on 200 acres - mostly just mowing)
Professional Guitarist
Professional Bassist
Booking Agent
Music Publicist
Music Management
Full time Photographer (out of the music game with tendinitis & frustration)
Concert Promoter (starting to get the itch back)
Music Manager
Booking Agent
Professional Guitarist
And that’s where we stand today…occasional concert and festival promotion, full time touring musician, handling most booking and management duties for my group and booking a couple of others as well.
Damn, it doesn’t seem like a long list until you type it all out…
Summer Camp Staff
KMart food counter (TellMeImNotCrazy, you’re not the only one who did this thankless job!)
Retail - Shoes
Asst. to the News Director, FM radio
Receptionist, FM radio station
Traffic coordinator, FM radio
Continuity Director, FM radio
Continuity Director, TV station
Customer service rep, online brokerage firm
Margins Analyst, online brokerage firm
Securities Lending Operations Analyst, online brokerage firm
Currently, stable hand/groom, dressage/eventing training stables
and, I homeschool my 7 yr old son
Paperboy
Lawn and yard work
Fruit picker
Dishwasher
Pulled hay bales out of the baler and stacked them on a flatbed
Built fixtures in a department store before it opened
Construction laborer
Library page
Clerical work for insurance company
Clerical work for business office at a university
Read textbooks to a blind guy
Pipefitter in a university “steam lab”
Engineering intern at a nuclear power plant
Automotive design engineer
Lecturer at an engineering college
Rocket scientist
Well, this should be depressing. In chronological order:
Worlds worst waitress
Reprographics associate
Diazo operator
bill collector
junkyard bookkeeper
bill collector
junk yard/repair garage office manager
junkyard owner
doctors office manager
bill collector
loan officer
finance company office manager
bill collector
Machine shop manager
HR drone
bill collector
And Homemaker/full time stepmom/part time student, except during the waitress stint and HR Drone. Some were simultaneous, and each “collector” was preceeded by a period of unemployment – a period just long enough for me to manage to forget “horrific & soul-sucking”, but to still remember “pays very well.”
I don’t have very many, only being 22:
Construction worker
Lawn mower
Hardware store stocker/cashier
College work study (worked in the admisions office)
Asbestos removal site air tester
Lab assistant
Wal-Mart Associate (I’m as emabarrased about this as you are)
Biomedical technician (current job)
At 22, having been (and remaining) a full-time student all my life:
Babysitter
Sleepaway camp counselor
Bakery clerk
Clerk in HR/Occupational Health and Safety (6 summers total, all my responsibilities are there when I get back. Sigh.)
Data entry
Research assistant to a professor
TA for a university class
Crap jobs before/during college:
Delivered newspapers
Delivered advertisements door to door (those annoying advertisement bags that used to hang on your door knob)
Slave labor in my uncle’s restaurant (he didn’t want people to think I got special treatment just for being a relative, so he was harder on me than anyone else, which in the long run ended up being a good thing since it taught me how to work hard)
Worked the night shift in McDonalds
Sold vacuum cleaners door to door (worst job I ever had)
Delivered Pizza
Radio Shack Sales Dweeb
Delivered radioactive drugs to hospitals
After college:
Hardware engineer for a defense contractor that made airborne radar and flir systems
Hardware/software designer for automation equipment in a power plant
Hardware/software designer for a company that made medical test equipment and stage lighting
Hardware/software designer for neurobiology research lab
Hardware/software designer for company that makes industrial control systems (my present job)
I’m 39, by the way.
junior outreach coordinator
assistant to office manager
cook
tofu maker
nanny
filer (into card catalog at library)
weaving instructor
kitting instructor
pre-catalog searcher (also at library)
word processor
graphic design artist
personal line appraiser (how much would it cost to rebuild your home)
field technology support
network administrator
Not even remotely in chronological order:
baby sitter
pizza maker
insurance typist
waitress
student teacher for art class
sandwich maker
set builder
car washer
data entry
housekeeper
owner of housekeeping business
switchboard operator
receptionist
telemarketer
light operator’s assistant for a band at The Troubador
wrangler
care-taker for woman who had suffered a stroke
horse trader
live-in nanny
restaurant manager
banquet server
database manager
cocktail waitress
encyclopedia salesperson
cashier at hardware store
bartender
front office manager
personal assistant
freelance writer
copy editor (print)
news editor (print)
insurance assistant
office coordinator
computer lab assistant
car rental return driver
historical society archivist
I knew I’d forget one: I was a Casino Pit Clerk (but not very long, it was one of the most soul sucking jobs of them all.
And yes, friedo, I’m much better now, thanks 
Including jobs while at school.
Woolies shelf stacker.
Assistant to powder monkey on a construction site.
“Gardener” at a motel.
Rifle range target spotter.
Chainman.
Trainee Land and Engineering Surveyor.
Salesman.
Psychiatric Nurse.
Storeman.
Bookmaker’s clerk.
Audio engineer.
Band manager.
Mail sorter. (Aussie rite of passage)
Public Servant including many computer roles (QA management, info security, data analysis, project management)
Okay, les’see:
Babysitting full time @ 15 during summers
Burger King on the “strip” in Castro Valley (lots of fun in the drive-thru)
Counter @ Otis Spunkmeyer’s Olde Tyme Cookies
Wait tables at small seafood restaurant
Clerical job with Chamber of Commerce (paid the rent during HS)
Clerical job with MCI subcontractor
Clerical job with ceramic tile distributor
Admin for Regional Mgr of Paging company (when pagers first hit!)
Clerical job with EZ-Go golf-cart dealer
Salesperson/framer @ Prints Plus
Manager for Prints Plus
Cashier @ Grand Auto
Asst Mgr @ Grand Auto
Store Mgr @ Grand Auto
Admin to Warehouse Manager @ Grand Auto
Admin to Regional Vice-President @ Grand Auto
Grand Auto bought out by Kragen - Admin to Regional VP @ Kragen (one of only 10 GA personnel kept!)
Admin to Service Mgr @ #1 CAT dealer in CA…Peterson Power
Offered Office Mgr position and turned down due to two small children and not needing extra stress.
Back in my university days, as a second job one summer, I sold roses on the street corner, in the evenings. ( I had lots of fun !)
In the same vein, and during the same summer, I helped out some friends selling, helium filled balloons that said, “Praise The Lord”, on them, outside a hall where Billy Graham was speaking that evening. (Almost too easy !)
Paperboy
Production line worker at a booze bottling plant – holiday job.
Dogsbody at a small classical record company.
Audio equipment bench technician.
Seismic survey technician. On a ship, mostly in the North Sea.
PA sound guy. A friend and I ran a sound system hire company. Rock bands and raves mostly.
White van man. This was pretty ghastly, driving around central London fixing cash registers. I walked out after ten weeks.
Programmer/developer.
Blimey, what a short list. I could throw in musician but I’ve never really made money playing, only as a roadie or sound engineer.
fast food peon
movie theatre concession worker
movie theater box girl (my first promotion!)
retail sales clerk
retail assistant manager
retail manager
administrative assistant (work study job in school)
engineering intern
structural engineer-in-training
Hmmm, it’s not a particulary varied list and disguises that I spent a long time in retail until I finished my degree. (15 year plan 
)
I haven’t seen one of my mom’s jobs listed – she was a chicken sexer for awhile, at a hatchery.
Mine:
Babysitter
Corn detassler
Waitress
Secretary for ISU Extension service right out of high school – the boss gave me a shorthand test before hiring me. It’s been 40 years but I’ll never forget his advice to a farmer about raspberry root rot.
Secretary and Community Organizer at Neighborhood House in Seattle in the 60’s – that was my most interesting job
Secretary for a bar review company
Secretary at Evergreen Legal Services in Seattle – also very interesting, then legal secretary and assistant at a very progressive Seattle law firm
Temp clerical in a factory, and then permanently in H.R. for 12 years
Currently secretary for nursing instructors at community college --the two nicest employers I’ve ever had
Paperboy
No job while in high school
College bookstore clerk (4 years)
The retail years (13 of them), in a drug store chain:
Head cashier
Receiver
Asst manager
Buyer at corp. office
Currently:
Programmer, at health care TPA