every "job" I've ever had. Share yours! if you can remember all of them.

[cyclevillian]

on a recent bike ride home from work I got to thinking about every job/gig/activity that I've ever been paid for. I found this list to be interesting and diverse and thought I'd share. Maybe it will motivate someone to earn some extra money in a way they hadn't thought of before. Maybe you will share some interesting jobs/gigs. trying to do this chronologically, but its hard to remember.

lawn mower ($6 per mow)
grocery store bagger/ cart wrangler (first real job, i think i made $6/hr)
dairy queen employee (ate wayy too much ice cream. $7/hr)
stand in for a major motion picture (went to try and be an extra along several thousand others from my town and somehow got to be a stand in. it was amazing. $10/hr)
food runner (avg $10/hr with tips)
scientific study participant (cant remember what it was for, but i had some electrodes on my head and had to answer some questions. $20)
food taster (YUM brands tests out their new products and pays you cash and gives you lots of food. hard to get called more than once a month or so. $20 per tasting)
door holder (got paid $50 to let people into a private event, oh yeah)
concert setter upper (set up the stage to a local concert. $100)
mover (usually paid in food/drinks but I once made $75)
grader (graded a couple undergrad classes. $10/hr)
ESPN assistant (helped the crew set up the equipment to put the first down line on the screen, lots of calibrating and playing with expensive cameras :). $100)
research assistant ($10/hr to crunch numbers in excel)
engineering co-op at power plant (avg $17/hr)
Pump Engineer (current job~$25+/hr plus benefits)

[GuitarStv]

- Telemarketing (first job was a doozy . . . we were marketing credit cards to people with bad credit . . . Providian Visa Platinum) min. wage plus commission I think I averaged about 8-10$/hour.
- Temp factory work (All kinds of factories) - 9$/hour
- Lumber yard general labour - 9$/hour
- General labour at a roving auction house (I was one of the guys who would hold items up while people bid).  We were paid out of a briefcase at the end of the 10 - 16 hour day . . . usually between 130 - 200$.  All under the table.
- Steel Tempering Factory - 10$/hour (had to work in front of a blast furnace all summer - temperature were usually about 55 - 60 degrees C)
- Home Depot order picker - 9$/hour
- Pest Control Technician - 12$/hour - Best job ever!  Very relaxed atmosphere, people were great, lots of time and a half overtime, and if you got your work done early, you could go home.
- Insectary Technician - 14$/hour - I was in charge of growing large quantities of moths, which we infected with paraitic wasps then harvested the wasps to sell to farmers as an organic pest control.  Not as fun as it sounds.  Much of my day was spent shovelling dead moths into bins, and vacuuming up escapees.  Not for the faint of heart.
- Computer Engineer (aerospace) - 20-25$/hour - Flight simulators for the military
- Computer Engineer (tranportation) - 30-35$/hour - Train and railway simulation and design

[Spudd]

1. Sub sandwich shop worker. I loved this job with a passion. $5/hr + free subs/pop/milkshakes.
2. Frozen yogurt shop "supervisor". $5.50/hr + free frozen yogurt.
3. University research assistant. I don't remember the pay scale but it was better than the fast food.
4. Telemarketer, trying to sell magazine subscriptions. I lasted 2 weeks. Did not make a single sale. Minimum wage.
5. Intern position at college, setting up a new computer network for one of their labs. Again don't remember the pay scale.
6. Seasonal retail assistant in a kitchenware shop. Minimum wage, but it was kind of fun. Probably wouldn't have been fun on the long term, but I was only there for about 2 months for the Christmas rush so it was fun.
7. Megacorp IT position, 15 years now. It started off well but then we outsourced our IT and now it's just drudgery and stress.

[Zaga]

1. Recycler - my dad would give me scrap starting at age 9 and I would separate out all of the different metals and sell them, very lucrative for a kid!
2. Lifeguard/swim teacher
3. Worked in an ice cream and pizza shop
4. Chemistry TA and stockroom worker
5. Model for art students
6. Resident Assistant at a group home for the mentally retarded - 1 year
7. Vet Tech/Nanny - yes, this was my real title.  Hated this one, I wanted to spend more time at the office, but mostly I just cleaned up after the vet and her kids.  The kids were great, but the vet not so much. - 2 years
8. Temp chocolate packer - for the holiday season one year
9. Lab tech at a microbiology lab - 1 year
10. Temp office worker - they found out about my science background and soon had me running spreadsheets and working in their lab, loved this one even though it only lasted 3 months
11. Lab assistant to Research assistant - current job, 6 years so far.  This one is pretty awesome, but I'm not sure I like the way the new owners of the company are changing things.  So I may be back to looking for a new job come 2014.

[MissStache]

Filing work at my mom's doctor's office- $5/hr
Receptionist at a hair salon- $5.50/hr
checkout/helpdesk at college library- $6.50/hr (?)
Associate at retail bookstore- $6.25/hr (?)
Docent at historic site - $7/hr
Ghost/history walking tour guide- $35-45/tour + tips (I made some awesome $ doing this!)
Caretaker for a 101 year old - $5/hr (This was while I was doing the two above- money wasn't good, but I got to spend a few hours every Sunday evening with an interesting old woman and her primary caregiver was one of the best people I ever met!)
Site director for a tiny historic site - $27K/year (my first big girl job!)
Receptionst for a regional Girl Scout office New England- $31K/year
Admin Assistant for dept w/in GS- $33K/year
Regional coordinator for GS Cookie Sales - $38K/year (talk about a strange job...)
Event Coordinator/General "hey can you do this" at a historic bed and breakfast - about $25K/year- hourly rate varied and I made a killing on tips when I did stuff for events
Liability Adjuster for major auto insurer - $42K/year (without question the most grueling, difficult job I have ever done)
Corportate compensation analyst for company - 51K/year - current job.

What an interesting walk down memory lane...I've never really looked at the progression of the work I've done (and what I've been paid), oddly.  Fascinating!

[spider1204]

Mow Lawns($5-10 depending on size)
Helping my dad do his weekend job($25 / day, throwing chlorine into the city water supply!)
Cleaned out a totally trashed rental unit ($200 + extra $100 from selling valuables that were left behind)
Undergraduate TA ($1500 / semester for 5-10 hours / week)
Dining Hall Worker ($9 / hr)
Summer Research Assistant ($20 / hr)
Confederate in Psychology Experiment ($15 / hr, one of the most fun jobs ever, loved the acting involved in pretending you have just as little knowledge about the experiment as the actual participant.)
Software Engineer (70k salary)

[wing117]

1.) Lawn Mower for Mother/Grandparents - $10/week (10 years old)
2.) Garbage Man - $5/hr  (13 years old)
3.) Roofer/Construction - $6.50/hr (13-14 years old)
4.) Carpenter/Contractor - $5.50/hr-15.00/hr (Did this on the side for a while (14y/o to 21y/o)
5.) Library Technician - 8/hr (14-15 years old)
6.) Student Worker - 7.25/hr-10.00/hr (14-16 years old)
7.) Consultant - ~10K/yr - Another side job I ran for ~3 years (15-18 years old)
8.) Network Intern - 14.75/hr (17-18)
9.) District Technician - 19/hr (18)
10.) Desktop Manager - 21/hr (18-21)
11.) System Administrator - 0/hr - Volunteer (19-21)
12.) Solution Architect/Consultant - 25.25/hr + Quarterly Commission (10%) + Yearly Bonus (15%) (21-22)
13.) Desktop Support Specialist - 28.90/hr (22-24)
14.) Sr. Systems and Operations Specialist - 41.80/hr (24-present)

Annnd that's where I'm at now.

[sol]

1.  Janitor.  Minimum wage.
2.  Library Page.  Near minimum wage.
3.  Research Assistant, college and grad school, near minimum wage.
4.  Geologist.  Best job in the world, and mountains of money. 

I don't intend to ever have another regular job.

[etselec]

Chronologically is hard, since I had so many of these jobs overlapping/intermittently. But this is a great exercise. 24 jobs! I've had one "job" for every year old that I am.

weed puller - 1 cent per weed
lemonade stand operator - variable
backyard circus operator/talent - variable
dog walker - 25-50 cents per walk
plant/pet sitter - variable
babysitter - $10-15/hr
academic aide (typing and organizational tasks for a physically disabled grad student) - $10/hr
assistant teacher at afterschool - $6.25/hr
TA / office assistant at academic summer program - $10/hr paid by tuition discount (I worked half the day & took classes half the day)
waitress at retirement home restaurant, non-tipped - $9/hr
personal aide (stayed with a very elderly person, making sure she didn't fall, etc.) - $15/hr
college departmental admin assistant - $8.80/hr
college course TA/grader - $8.80/hr
mass mailing prep (stuffing envelopes) - $8.20/hr
temp office admin (nonprofit) - $15/hr
college van driver - $8.50/hr
college catering staff - $8.50/hr
psych study participant - $5-10/hr plus candy bar
psych study confederate - $8.80/hr
sociology research assistant - $8.80/hr
temp program staff (nonprofit) - $10/hr
Americorps - $12k/year
freelance editing (in a specialty field) - $38/hr
nonprofit admin - $32-38k/year

[Carrie]

1. Selling artwork on my parent's back door to their friends -- $0.50/ea (5 years old)
2. Selling fig trees (that I grew) to a local nursery -- $1/ea - had 50 of them (8 years old)
3. Cleaning grandpa's house bi-weekly with sister -- $15/ea visit (11-15 years old)
4. Started a fashion company -- sewed a few outfits, made some jewelry, got a story written about me in the local paper then promptly lost interest.  Profit = 0.  (age 11)
5. Babysitting, first as mother's helper @11/12 years @$2-$3/hour; later as "experienced" sitter making anywhere from $4-$8+/hr; some summer nanny positions through high school years.
6. Played background music for a socialite's party in an antebellum mansion -- got paid $50 for two hours -- I was 12 or 13 years old.  A one-time thing.
7. Taught Violin lessons to other kids - $25/ hr.  I had two students.  (14-16 years old)
8. Worked the childcare room at a Gym 3-4 evenings per week during the aerobics classes -- got free gym membership & made a minimum of $5/hr, usually averaged $10-$18 (the parents had to pay $1/child, some gave me more) -- this also gave me a LOT of contacts for other babysitting jobs. (13-17 years old)
9. Play school --- summers, three mornings per week, took care of 4-5 pre-school aged children - rotating homes, did activities with them and made $12-$15/hr by charging each parent a reasonable rate of $3/hr per child.  I did this for two summers, for the same group of parents.  (summers of 15yo & 16yo)
10. Worked the nursery at a church every Sunday morning - $10/hr, (17-19years old)
11. Architectural model builder started at $5/hr, got a raise to $6.50 (17-19 years old), came back for one project during college and made $25/hr for a weekend.
12. Cleaned a few new construction houses, paid by contractor -- $15/hr -- this was really hard work (16-17 years old)
13. Tutor at community college - tutored English, Math, History (employed by the CC), $6.50/hr (18-19 years old)
14. House sitter - bartered services - house sitting in exchange for band playing at my wedding (value of $300 or so - this was a long time ago!)
15. Intern at architecture firm summers during college - $6.50 - $8/hr (19-22ish)
16. Co-op student intern for one year (age 22) $10/hr
17. Tutored fellow classmate in Structures III for a summer - $20/hr (23?)
18. First salaried job the summer prior to graduation, intern architect - $32k + benefits & signing bonus (I was still a student - this was fabulous!)
19. Intern architect post graduation - $35k + 7k bonuses (age 24)
20. Licensed architect - made about $42.5k base, + $2500-$5k annual bonuses.... (27?)
Then I quit my job to be a SAHM. paid nothing. :) (age 29 to present)
21. Did contract architecture work w/baby - architect - $25/hr.  Took a break, then a year or two later found new clients and started charging $35/hr.  And... this is when I realize that it's time to start charging more, as I've had this rate for 4 years now.  I currently work 8-10 hours per week and will incrementally increase the hours when toddler starts preschool. 
22. Current: side job - make a few hundred here and there with sewing.  Does not work out to very much hourly -- maybe $10-$15, but I like it...so....
23. Current: side job with my husband - architectural photography - this is very spotty, but we charge $95-$110/hr for this.  It's not a big money maker, we haven't shot a job in a while, and I just don't have the time or desire to market it right now.

I was a very busy teenager, where has my entrepreneurial self gone?!  Good grief, I need to tap back into all that potential and generate some moolah.  This was a great exercise.

[ace1224]

babysitting -- started at 5 ended at 10 dollars per hour (13-20 years old)
lifeguard -- minimum wage to 10 dollars per hour (15-17 years old)
head lifeguard - 12 dollars per hour (18 years old) - home from college for summer
pool manager - 14 dollars per hour (19-21 years old) - home from college for summer
dairy queen - minimum wage freshman year of college
cocktail waitress, no clue i got fired after 4 days, i'm not a good waitress, freshman year of college
fish market cashier - 7.50 an hour sophmore year of college
undergraduate research assistant - 10 dollars per hour, junior and senior years of college
chemist- approx 50,000 a year, current job
dog walker side hustle 10 dollars per hour cash only

[EK]

Paid work only, plenty other volunteer stuff was scattered in:

Cleaning family houses: $1-2 per job (when I was a wee tot)
Weeding grandma's garden: $5 per bucket of weeds (wee tot)
Pet sitter - $5 / visit (I think I was 11 or 12)
Baby sitter - $10-15 an hour or $20/ day for family
Summer camp counselor - minimum wage
Summer camp office assistant - $7 / hour
Selling my artwork - varied
Kitchen grunt at concert venue - minimum wage... This one was the WORST!
VIP waitress at same concert venue - $8/ hr plus awesome tips
Ice cream scooper/ cashier at dippin dots stand - min wage
Cotton candy maker - min wage
Cashier at lowe's - $6.50 / hour I think
Light board operator for auditorium - minimum wage
Best buy cashier - can't remember
Etsy shop proprietor - profit varied between $5-30 dollars per item sold.
Nanny - began 66k/ year, currently 80k+/year - current job

[MissStache]

Nanny - began 66k/ year, currently 80k+/year - current job

Holy smokes!  You're making BANK as a nanny, but I bet it is hard work!

[brandino29]

Paper route- ~$100-150/month (age 9, then again for a couple years around 11 on a different route)
Lifeguard-$5.25-6.00/hr (several summers in a row)
Grocery bagger - ~$5.50/hr (lasted 3 weeks)
Line cook -$6.25/hr - about two semesters during undergrad
Lawn mowing - $15/hr cash (weekends only April through October for about 6 years while home for summer and after started working full time, made some good supplemental cash money this way putting in 10 hour days once a week, hard but enjoyable)
Pool manager-$7.25/hr (just after graduating college in the spring and with plans to go abroad in the fall, unfortunately didn't last and had to quit bc pool board was full of morons and thought I should add the pool chemicals twice a week on my 'free time.' Great summer job for a 22 year old otherwise)
Temp - $9.50/hr - secretary at Frito-Lay
English teacher abroad - ~$1,000/month
Personal trainer - $17.50/hr (while in grad school)
Paid grad school internship - $10/hr
Unemployed job hunter with masters - $10/hr (went back to personal training, shouldn't have moved though while looking for work)
Temp - $11/hr - warehouse worker at same Frito-Lay
State government - $32,000/yr
County health department - $37,000-47,000/yr
Non-profit, policy analyst - $50,000/yr
Real estate investor!!! (started last week) - $ remains to be seen

[teen persuasion]

Babysitting, at first weekends only, then in HS daily afterschool.
Craft store cashier, probably min wage.
College dorm desk attendant, min wage.
Math lab tutor, min wage.
Freshman orientation (academic testing), min wage.
Software work for Academic Development office, $5/hr (whoo! above min wage).
Published a newsletter for a writer's group, $5/hr.
SAT prep.
In-home childcare.
SAHM, priceless.
Library temp, $8/hr.
Children's librarian, $12-14.5/ hr.

[Myrmida]

CHILDHOOD
(Side Note: My siblings and I received allowances as kids, and we were required to do chores.  We were not paid for the chores, but we were fined if we didn't do them.  The fines were garnished from our allowances.)
Age 7-9: Kool-Aid stands - 10cents/glass (I'm not sure if the price even covered the costs of materials, which were heavily subsidized by my parents).  Also, helped mom and siblings deliver flyers for $0.02/flyer.
Age 9: My brother gave me 7 houses from his paper route.  I had deliver the daily papers, collect the money weekly (although some people would just pay for weeks or months in advance) from the customers and remit to my brother who remitted to the paper.  Attempted to publish my own newspaper using my toy typewriter - dismal failure, largely through lack of appropriate technology (this was before home PCs were common - gasp!)
Age 10, 12 and 14: Garage sales in different years.  My brother, sister and I ran this to sell toys we had outgrown as well as anything our parents wanted to get rid of.  We got to keep all the profits.
Age 12: I was finally old enough to get my own newspaper route!  I learned a hard lesson when I overdrew my chequing account once while paying the newspaper for the amounts collected from customers.
Age 13: Moved to a new city that only had an early morning delivery, so no more paper route.  Started babysitting (I think the rate was about $5/hour by the time I stopped).  Also did light housekeeping for $15/hour for a couple of select clients.
Age 16: Taught piano for a couple of years to a couple of my babysitting clients for $15/half hour lesson.
ADULTHOOD
Age 18-25: Peon in oil and gas company.  Returned for 7 summers, generally increasing my responsibilities and the complexity of my work over time.
Age 19: Lunchtime supervisor at elementary school (this was my worst job!).
Age ~25: Computer lab monitor.
Age 26: Summer in law firm.
Age 27: Article in law firm, leading to associate work for a few years.
Age 3?: Left law firm for in-house position at oil and gas company.

Note: I was great at hustling when I was a child, and I really enjoyed the work I did.  As an adult, I seemed to buy into the corporate lifestyle and feel like I've lost my hustling skills and a lot of my enjoyment of work.  Maybe I'll regain them after FI.

[amerikian]

• Cook at Hardees
• Logging hand
• Bough Cutting
• Farm Hand
• Logging
• Trim Saw Operator at Lumber Mill
• Wood Stacker at Lumber Mill
• Waiter/Bartending
• Disaster Restoration (Service Master during college)
• Restaurant Manager (Pizza Hut & Johnny Rockets)
• Apartment Manager
• New/Used Toyota Car Sales
• Retail Store Manager
• Assistant Product Manager
• Product Manager

[ncornilsen]

Ranch hand on parents ranch - best education I ever got, mind you - $room and board. (age 4-18)

General labor around horse stable $10/hr, plus dated daughter of owner for a while... fooling around on the clock? best job ever! (16-18)

Gas station attendance (9 months, worst job of my life. Coworker was stealing from the till, and convinced boss it was me. min wage. (17)

Plywood mill - layup line patcher, core layer and feeder - tough job, lost a bunch of weight, learned importance of going to college! $10/hr.  4 weeks 'till the
place burned to the ground in 2005. (18)

Car parts store parts runner and counter guy - min wage plus huge discount on race parts. I think that place got back every dollar they ever paid me! (3 months, just before college)

Veneer Greenchain puller at plywood mill - by far the most physically demanding job I've ever had. $17/hr. Did this on summers for two summers during college.

Engineering Intern at silicon wafer manufacturer in Portland OR - $17.34/hr, 6 months. (age 21)
engineering intern at metal casting company in Portland, one of two fortune 500 companies in Oregon. $19/hr, 6 months. Age 22
Full time engineer at the same metal casting company, currently still there 3 years later. started at $26ish, much higher now, plus benefits and bonuses!

[August West]

it turned out to be a longer list than I expected:

shoveling snow (roofs and driveways)
lawn mowing
baby sitting
grave digging (one time - my friend and I each got $100 to dig a grave by hand at the local cemetery)
christmas tree harvesting
stacking hay bails
house painting
huckleberry picking ($20 per gallon)
yue tree bark harvesting
fire trail digging
loading/stacking firewood
newspaper delivery
logging truck shop hand
computer lab monitor
plywood mill worker
pizza delivery
golf course grounds crew
civil engineer

[yolfer]

12 - 14: babysitter
14 - 15: cleaning workout equipment at local gym (I hate Simple Green forever now)
15 - 16: scorekeeper for basketball games at local gym (you'd be surprised how serious old men are about the accuracy of their b-ball game scores)
16 - 18: building custom CD-R duplicating towers (and other odd jobs) at a local startup
18 - 19: house painter (I hate house painting forever now)
19 - 21: various jobs in tech support and research (while in college)
21 - present: software developer

I guess I haven't been unemployed for any appreciable length of time since I was 12!

[KulshanGirl]

Teen years:
Babysitter
Retail - Toy store
Retail - Movie rental store (awesome job, it was a brand new thing to rent movies in the 80's on VHS!)

College:
Mother's Helper
International Cat Show Prize Ribbon Assembler (WORST job ever.  But I can make hilarious legit-looking "awards" for people.  LOL)
Cashier at Pay-N-Save (In Hawaii for one summer)
Cashier at Pay-N-Save (Back home in college town, PT for the last couple of years of school)

Post college:
Layout and production at a publishing company (first full time job! part computers, part old fashioned wax/trim, photos in a darkroom and pre-press on pins!)
Layout and production at a small regional family magazine, very part time but cool perks, at the same time as ^
Design and production at a local service bureau (computers! This job was more valuable than my entire degree.)
Design and layout for an international trade journal (now everything is on computers!)
Freelance graphic designer (got a likely side hustle right here!)
PT "7 Habits" Workshop Coordinator/Fulfillment at a Franklin Covey company (to supplement the freelance, became a total 7 Habits horn tooter here, still use the planner pages, hehe.)
***Real Estate advertising coordinator at a newspaper (everyone should work for a while at a daily paper.  It is hellish, and will make you totally appreciate whatever jobs come after.)
In-house graphic design/production (that I appreciate and put up with a lot because it's not a daily paper.  I've been here almost 9 years.)

*** It was at this job that I became frugal, got my consumer debts paid off, and saved to buy my house.  I also saved up enough Eff-You money to quit and take 4 months off and find a job that I liked better.  Not exactly how I'd do it now, but that summer was the best and it solidified for me the need to never, EVER live paycheck to paycheck.  I felt rich, that I could do that with no stress and no debt.  :)

Edited to add:  Forgot about Pay-N-Save. 
 

[sleepyguy]

highschool diploma and self educated.

1. self employed - walk kids to school
2. assistant day care teacher at nfp
3. assembly line factory worker - favour for dad
4. self employed - computer support
5. desktop support - bank
6. lan administrator - bank
7. network administrator - bank (present)
8. self employed - tennis coach (present)
9. self employed - poker player (present)

Age 34, hopefully FIRE by 40ish.  Obviously I had a head start with zero student loans, well I did attend college for 1yr... but I was just not built to sit in class :)

[davisgang90]

Baby sitter 7th-9th grade
Grocery Bagger 10th-11th grade
Office Worker 12th grade
Gym worker - summer before college
Lifeguard - summer after Freshman year college
Bookstore cashier/stocker - Junior year college
Temp Worker - Summer after Junior year college
Grocery bagger/ice bag filler/stock boy - summer after Junior year college
Hotel Page/Bellhop - Senior year college
US Naval Aviator (helicopter pilot) 23 years and counting

[Insanity]

High School:
Nursing Home Kitchen Staff (tasty)
Allowance for doing chores around the house (no chores, no money)

College:
Co-op'd as a software engineer (part of our program)
Side job my senior year working for a graphics group
Software Engineer
Software Security

[aclarridge]

1. Sign holder for a pizza place
2. Snow shovelling
3. Drugstore
4. Temp agency worker (odd jobs)
5. Lawn mowing
6. Assistant engineer (~5 summers?)
7. Teaching assistant
8. Math tutor
9. Research assistant
10. Coop investment analyst for pension fund
11. Risk reporting senior analyst for bank
12. Model validation senior analyst for bank (present)

I think the ones I liked the most were lawn mowing and teaching. Definitely plan to pick those back up.

[EK]

Nanny - began 66k/ year, currently 80k+/year - current job

Holy smokes!  You're making BANK as a nanny, but I bet it is hard work!

Hahahaha!!  To be honest... It's not!  I'm only the nanny of one kid and she's in school most of the time!  And I only work every other week... Pretty sweet gig!

[kkbmustang]

Ages 11-17:
Babysitter

17-21 (College):
Retail clothing sales associate
Grocery store checker
Canvassed neighborhoods to raise money for environmental non-profit
Research assistant for professor
Box office attendant at dollar movie theater
Telemarketing
University orientation leader for incoming freshman
University retail store cashier
Temp Agency Worker (secretary, filing, receptionist, etc.)
Restaurant Waitress
Restaurant Hostess
Babysitting

21-24 (Law School):
Law Clerk
Babysitter

24-Present:
Attorney
Adjunct Professor
Freelance Writer

[Gerard]

In order?
House painter
Clerk in insurance company
Advertising manager for campus newspaper
Shipping clerk for plastics recycler
Editor of music industry magazine
Busboy
Sandwich maker
Rock musician
Data entry clerk
Professor

I also spent a day and a half carrying big rolls of fabric in a factory that made underwear with the days of the week embroidered on them, but I wasn't strong enough for the job.

[totoro]

In order:
Paper route
Babysitter
Retail clerk
Server - restaurant
Server - night club
AV Tech
TA
Teacher
Research Assistant
Law Clerk
Lawyer - firm
Lawyer - self-employed

Best job is the one I have now, but working in restaurants was pretty fun.

[Ms Betterhome]

I can't remember the pay rate for most of these jobs ( I've been working since 1983, yikes), but here's my best recollection. Some of these jobs overlapped:

Babysitter
Face-painter/ game organiser at children's parties
Retail assistant
Youth theatre trainee
Childcare worker
Market researcher (telephone polls)
Cabaret/stand up performer ( mostly paid in beer as I recall it)
Housecleaner
Tour guide/tour booker ( this was a great job when I was doing my undergrad degree)
Research assistant
Audio book producer
Freelance journalist
Community educator/facilitator
Research consultant
University professor ( current job, with tenure and *very* good pay and conditions - I plan to stick with it, and do some consulting on the side).

[James]

Mowing grass
Babysitting
De-tasseling corn
Stocking at grocery store
Managing produce area at grocery store
shingling and general carpentry for someone who had their house burn
Working at a propane company installing 60,000 gal propane tanks for turkey farms
Apprenticing as a plumber for 4 months
Working as an orderly
Working as a nursing assistant
Nursing - long term care, med/surg, orthopedics, thoracic, trauma, etc (three different employers)
Anesthesia at big hospital
Anesthesia at small hospital
Photography (side gig for school sports and family portraits)

[lauren_knows]

In order:

- Cashier at Fanny Farmer Chocolates (in a mall)
- Ice Cream Jockey at Friendlies Restaurant
- Waiter at Friendlies Restaurant
- Lawn Mower / Landscaper at Large Landscaping Company
- Grunt at my Step-dad's Flooring Installation Company
- Math Homework Grader (college)
- Waiter at Olive Garden
- Waiter at Daily Grill in DC
- Systems Engineer
- "Consultant"
- Test Director

[grantmeaname]

Waiter (and cashier, cook, dishwasher, floorscrubber...) for Frisch's Big Boy.
High school marching band tech (less than $3/hour. God I loved that job, but it was just no money.)
Intern with a museum's archaeology department.
Undergraduate research fellow.
AmeriCorps with the same museum.
Paper pusher for a 5-person financial advisor's office.
Teaching Assistant.

[Russ]

licking envelopes at my dad's office (paid in lunch and love)
lawn mower
babysitter
audio tech (three-night thing for a grade school musical theatre production)
high school marching band percussion instructor
bike mechanic (possibly the coolest people I'll ever work with)
undergrad research assistant (building / programming a high-precision CNC table. didn't actually do much)
engineering intern #1 (turbine blade designer for military aircraft gas turbine engines)
concert/festival promoter (put up posters in exchange for "free" tickets)
machine shop assistant (engineering undergrad shop. went from checking out tools to basically running the shop my last couple months. most I've learned on a job so far)
engineering intern #2 (project engineer performing stamping press upgrades in an automotive factory. boooooring and hella overtime, but good money)
manufacturing design engineer (make sure all the holes go in the right places in carbon fiber bicycle frames)

[eman resu]

farmhand
mopped floors at local diner (paid in candy bars one lean week. Yum!)
janitor (at my high school after senior year. This is not a great way to get dates.)
waste water treatment plant attendant (kinda literalized the old saw about s**t running downhill.)
video store cashier (Hmmm, also not a great way to get dates... but better than sewage.)
video store manager (married somehow at this point. Whew!)
legal document courier (Thank you Netflix.)
bank teller
staff auditor
various banking thisorthat

[ToeInTheWater]

High school and earlier

Paper Route.  IIRC, i made $50-$60 month.  would have been back about 1970 or so
McDonalds.  started at minimum wage, which was <$2.50/hr

College

Food Service / College dorm
Engineering Intern, chemical plant
College Library
Engineering Intern, chemical plant
Engineering Intern, Research facility

After Graduation

Big Oil (15 yrs)
Engineer (of varying levels)ppl
Analyst (i'm sure that had a more specific title)
Supply Analyst
Financial Analyst
Crude Oil / Refined Products trader
Financial Reporting Supervisor

Natural Gas utility / marketing subsidiary (6 yrs)
Supply Planner
Price Risk manager / trader

Electric Risk Management (13 yrs and counting)
Nat Gas financial Trader
Director of Gas Trading
Director Member / Client Services (relationship manager, contract renewals, troubleshooting)
Director of Portfolio Modeling  (since late 2008)

[chicagomeg]

2007-Restaurant Hostess, $6.85/hour
2007-2008, University Phone Fundraiser (AWFUL), $8.00/hour
2008, Summer Internship at Case Management Organization, $1500 stipend for the summer I believe?
2008, Waitress, for 3 days, still not sure what I was getting paid as my "paycheck" was $15 stapled to a receipt with my name on it, plus tips
2008, Produce Stocker, $8.50/hour? Less union dues...
2008-2010, Receptionist at Campus Res. Hall, promoted manager during 2nd year, $8.00 then $8.50
2009, Summer, Hotel Front Desk, $10.00/hour? (Gosh, I have a bad memory for this don't I!)
2010-2011, Student Worker in my current office, $8.00/hour
2011, Station Hand on a sheep farm in S. Australia, $550/week maybe?
2011-2012, Waitress, worked out to about $14/hour on average
2011-2012, Data Entry Temp, $8.00/hour
2012, Admin. Asst. at a non profit, $12/hour as a temp and $16.85/hour as a full timer
2012-Present, Admin Asst. at a university, $19.25/hour

Whew!
 

[gooki]

Relief paper boy
Cable runner for camera crew at sports events
Kentucky Fried Chicken server/burger flipper
Pirate
Recordable DVD distributor
Computing tutor
Web designer for Polytechnic
Website co-ordinator for City Council
Graphic/web designer for small design studio
Graphic designer for Industrial Instruments
Multimedia developer for Industrial Instruments
User interface designer for Industrial Instruments
User experience/user interface designer for Fleet Management
User experience/user interface designer for Financial Software

And about three failed attempts at starting my own business. Only the recordable DVD distribution ever made me any money, but I shelved that when I travelled overseas.

[ketchup]

Middle School:
Data entry helping my dad set up his patient database, 10 cents a record.

High school:
Dairy Queen, $6-10/hr.
Shitty job at Target hauling crap around in the middle of the night and stocking the store, $9/hr.

Since high school:
Fixing broken Xbox 360 consoles, ~$40/hr (sweet!).
Helping a guy from high school put together new desktop computer, $100.
Lab technician, $12.50-$13.50/hr with awesome benefits 'n' shit.

[Zaga]

Nanny - began 66k/ year, currently 80k+/year - current job

Holy smokes!  You're making BANK as a nanny, but I bet it is hard work!

Hahahaha!!  To be honest... It's not!  I'm only the nanny of one kid and she's in school most of the time!  And I only work every other week... Pretty sweet gig!

Wow, my nanny gig was crap!  I only got paid $7.50 an hour and only for the hours that I was either with the kids or cleaning the house.  SO glad to have that behind me!

[Samsam]

Middle School:
Alphabetized records in Dad's office - Child labor - $0

High School:
Tennis instructor - $7 - $10 / hr (got a raise each year)
Internship at a chemical company keeping their budget - $10 / hr

College:
Worked at college Phone Donation Program (literally calling people to ask for school donations...made me feel terrible but best paying job on campus) - $10 / hr
Research Job in robotics - $? (I don't remember, wasn't in that one for the money)
Internship with blood glucose devices
Internship with robotic arm building devices

Grad:
Research job machine learning and statistics - about $9 / hr
Internship in investment banking in Tokyo - alot of yen

Full-time:
Field Engineer - about $45 / hr

[EK]

Wow, my nanny gig was crap!  I only got paid $7.50 an hour and only for the hours that I was either with the kids or cleaning the house.  SO glad to have that behind me!

That was a crap gig!  I don't have any cleaning duties- my nanny family has a dedicated cleaning staff.  ;)  The extremely wealthy areas in and around NYC are probably the only place that nannies can make real money though, and I think I have about the best nanny gig there is out of even those.  There are certainly opportunities to make as much as I do, but generally with a lot more work and you'd have to be willing to be paid under the table.

[Joshin]

Middle/high school:

Babysitter
Dishwasher
Pizza cook

College:

Pizza place manager
Hotel shift manager
Paper delivery
Pizza delivery driver
Travel agency receptionist

Adult:
Bank teller
Restaurant manager
Paper delivery (again)

And now:
Writer/journalist (It really is possible to make good money doing what you love!)

[jrhampt]

Great thread topic.

high school:
before/after school daycare (minimum wage, don't really like kids either)

college:
office temp (maybe $10-15/hr?)
receptionist at country club (similar pay to office temp)
kitchen staff at summer camp (can't remember, but this was a fun summer even though hours and pay were probably crap)
cocktail waitress (varied depending on tips, but sometimes a few hundred dollars a night)
figure model/spokesmodel for various products ($25-$100+/hr)

post-college:
DEP intern (state dept of environmental protection - around $10/hr)
environmental geology (my experience differs from Sol's - working for university pay was less than $30k/yr)
1 week as lab tech for Clairol (can't remember - commute was way too far but job smelled good)
graphics for market research firm ($35k)
test prep on the side for Kaplan (up to $25/hr if tutoring)
scoring TOEFL for ETS (freelance, online, around $20/hr)
summer teaching ESL in Costa Rica and waitressing (can't remember, probably crap pay, but it was fun)
current career as database analyst/SQL/SASprogrammer/statistician (varied, starting at $35k for nonprofit to $100k+ for insurance industry)

Since my current job is flexible and I can telecommute a few days a week, I'm going to hang on to this one for a while longer.  Maybe I should have been a merchant marine, though, or a geologist somewhere other than New England.

[dorkus619]

Student - my dad paid me $5/A or $5/letter grade improved :D
Local minor league baseball stadium food service - summers age 15-19
Rite Aid cashier - after school in high school
Geek Squad @ Best Buy - $10/hr! summer before college + 1 semester, quit for more convenient job
Landlord - $325-$900/month during college, after college, and now still (last roommates move out this month)
Student A/V Technician - $8/hr-$10/hr summer before college - all during college
Web & Graphic Designer - $12-15/hr  worked there 2.5 yrs
Designer for plastic/films industry - $19/hr   current

Plus some cheap freelance website jobs.
Also, two days I helped my (now ex) father in law rake leaves for his landscaping biz ($$$!)

[pdxcyn]

Mall pretzel stand - min. wage ($3.35/hr I believe)
Math tutor
Library Assistant (during college years)
Bilingual Admin. Asst. @Japanese engineering firm (learned drafting while working here) about $20K/yr
Occasional photographer's model
English teacher in Japan (3.6 million yen/yr about $40K at the time)
Temp. Admin. jobs
Drafter for patent applications
Grader for state administered student writing exams
Bilingual Admin.@Japanese Optics firm(finally cracked $30K here)
Translation Coordinator
Drafter @RV manufacturer
Drafter @Cabinet manufacturer
Drafter @Architectural firm
(until 2008, then a subsequent long period of unemployment)
Drafter/Estimator @same cabinet manufacturer as above (current job $20.79/hr)

[JohnGalt]

Before Age 16:
Helped out my mother when her seasonally busy job was in busy season

16-through college:
Subway (2 weeks, hated it)
Print shop owned by neighbors (5 years)
Poker (1 semester)
Intern - constructing and maintaining excel spreadsheets (1 year)
Intern - statistical modeling (6 months, hired full time after graduating)

Post college:
statistical modeler / programmer for a consulting firm (3 years)
statistical modeler / programmer for a different consulting firm (3 years, present position)

[zinnie]

This is fun to think about! My jobs have all been very similar...

Cashier/ line cook
Restaurant shift manager
Server
Editorial assistant
Assistant editor
English editor
Science proposal writer
Development editor
Associate sponsoring editor
Sponsoring editor

Edit: forgot some!

[Mr Mark]

I've never tried to write them all Down before... here goes!

Lawn mowing
Paper delivery
Delivery for a pharmacy
Working in a corner store
Picking fruit
Picking zucchini (worst job ever)
Picking tomatoes
Running a roadside fruit stand
Making assembled cardboard boxes from flat ones
Inspection line for peas
Dehydrating peas, cabbage, carrots and beans
Making packets of instant soup in a factory
Working in a bar (many!)
Cocktail barman
Wine steward in a private club
Draftsman in a subsea engineering company
Bus boy
Part-time postman's assistant, delivering mail
Spaying suntan lotion onto people at a beach from a portable Spraygun (very fun summer!)
University teaching assistant
Exploring for gold
Gas station attendant
Managed a gas station/repairshop for 6 months
Measuring gravity and making models of the rocks for a hydrology authority
Exploring for oil and gas
Business Planning and economist
Commercial negotiation
Advanced diving instructor (and helped run a large, albeit non-profit, dive center)
Teacher and facilitator
Driven the 'course car' for a major driving event on an F1 circuit (just a day)

Feel I'm forgetting a few others, but close enough!

Edit
Member of couple of rock bands, playing covers

[Megatron]

elementary years

• community clean up crew - $4.25 / hr
• answer phones and pack food for carry outs at my uncle restaurant -worked for food

high school

• office max - stockboy, furniture sales ($8 / hr)
• playing chess at the beach for cash. 5 minute games ($5-$10 per game), I usually set up a board and beats 9 out of 10 players on average. if i keep getting players I can make up to 25$/hour. only on weekends and summers. Was also good training for chess team in high school.

college

• Computer lab technician - University  $9.50/hr (all throughout college)
• Amway business owner - break even averages
• Stock trading in the dorm room -  (negative eleventy billion dollars) 
• Washed test tubes for chemistry lab

after college

• Software engineer / Architect- built state-wide enterprise systems for state governments
• Software engineer small startup - built ecommerce solution for businesses
• Software engineer - built solutions for in house system for a property developer
• Database ninja - startup (didn't take off )
• Software engineer - another startup in sports technology 
• Software engineer - mid size company in healthcare
• Software engineer - mid size company in investments (100k +)