Political party intern
Data entry clerk
Scene shop carpenter
Video store clerk
Auto parts store cashier
Editor for a crazy guy
Hotel front desk clerk
Restaurant hostess
Photo studio assistant
Startup secretary
Computer teacher in Cameroon
English teacher in China
Chair springer in furniture factory
Hospital maintenance
Teaching assistant
Technical editor
Petroleum geologist
Environmental geologist
Headhunter for enviromental scientists
Computer lab tech
Software QA
Software development
Paperboy
<summer jobs>
Messenger in NY
Letter Carrier
Order filler in jewelry warehouse
File clerk
Circuit designer/builder for a radio telescope project
<Grad school>
RA/TA
Lecturer
<real work>
Member of Research Staff
Research Leader/Supervisor
Eminence grise
[ul][li]Kennel boy[/li][li]Factory worker[/li][li]McDonalds’ monkey[/li][li]Martial arts instructore[/li][li]Janitor/busboy/furniture deliveryman - that was a tough summer[/li][li]Marketing researcher[/li][li]Executive recruiter [/li][li]Credit manager at a department store[/li][li]Computer programmer[/ul][/li]
Regards,
Shodan
High School
Tobacco Harvesting
Tobacco Stringer
Tobacco Hanger
Residential Construction Laborer
Construction Office Clerk
College
Commercial Construction Laborer
Computer Lab Tech
Elementary Summer School Teacher - Computers
C Programmer
Career (20 years and going strong)
Programmer/Analyst (Company 1)
Software Engineer (Company 1)
Software Project Manager (Company 1)
Application Support Manager (Company 1)
Application Development Manager (Company 1)
Director of IT (Company 1 - Total 10 years)
President and Managing Consultant (Company 2 - 6 years)
Enterprise IT Manager - Customer Facing Applications (Company 3 - 2 years)
Global Practice Director (Company 4 - 2 years and still going)
Liquor store clerk (2 years)
Price Club stocker/forklift driver (11 years)
Business Owner (financial half of company) - (17 years)
…and about 7 years of “professional student” interspersed between those three occupations.
Advertiser paper route
News Sun paper route
Datacenter tape jockey
Datacenter tape librarian
Datecenter batch analyst
Datecenter systems analyst
Datecenter batch analyst, but Sr. now.
Paper boy. (14 y.o.)
Burger King. (16 y.o.)
K-Mart. (17-18 y.o.)
After HS:
Graphic Technician at a small Tradeshow Display Distributor - '91 - '93
Graphic Designer at a small Service Bureau - '93 – '97
Art Director at a small Design House - '97 – 2001
Creative Director at a large Corporation - '01 – '07
CG modeling and Animation / Visual Effects (Self Employed) - '07 – Today
And a TON of freelance and contract work in-between / at night / over the weekends.
Stoop labor for the family truck farm
Antique store duster
Babysitter
Lawn care
Waitress (several places)
Remodeling assistant (gofer)
Cashier / small town general store
Cashier / convenience store / gas station
Nursing assistant
Singer / keyboardist in a country band
Sander in a furniture factory
Dining room supervisor in a bar / restaurant
Cook
Assembly line worker in the auto industry
Assembly line lead / auto industry
Material handler lead / auto industry
Quality auditor / auto industry
Church organist
Grader in a wood flooring factory
Print advertising sales rep
Quality auditor / plastics plant
General utility worker / poultry processing plant
Weigh scaler / poultry processing plant
Raw products inspector / poultry processing plant
Inventory clerk in the maintenance department / poultry processing plant
Quality assurance lead / software distributor
Banquet service crew lead (holiday job)
Quality assurance lead / electical supply distributor
Jill-of-all-trades (inventory control, administrative, etc…) / electical supply distributor
Material review board / cell phone distributor
Inventory control lead / restaurant distributor
Inventory reconciler / cell phone repair center
I didn’t realize just how many things I’ve done over the past forty years until I began this list. Some of them were concurrent, though.
I just remembered two more:
Writing obituaries and doing administrative stuff for the advertising group at a small radio station.
Admin at a food service company/internet startup.
Real jobs with actual paychecks and tax forms?
Book store worker (after school, weekends, and summers)
Construction worker (summers)
Laboratory worker (summers)
Physician
Lifeguard
Computer programmer
Machine shop assistant
Computer programmer
Research assistant
Computer programmer
Lead engineer
Director of engineering
Lead game designer
Director of game design
Senior game designer (company one)
Senior game designer (company two)