Author Topic: every "job" I've ever had. Share yours! if you can remember all of them.  (Read 16443 times)

SavingMon(k)ey

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Freelance musician (since high school)
Computer lab monitor
Medical records clerk at hospital (this one sucked)
Community program music teacher
Private music teacher
Graduate teaching assistant
Survey passer-outer at museum
Public school music teacher


mulescent

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School lunch worker (middle school)
Computer skills teacher (high school)
Mini-golf/driving range assistant manager (high school)
Library research assistant (undergraduate)
Technician
Graduate research assistant (i.e. grad student)
Postdoctoral fellow
Assistant professor

Rural

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Gah. In order no less? I'll try, but that's all it is: an attempt.

Babysitter
Grocery cashier
Gas station attendant (held concurrently with the above)
Mall cashier
Graduate teaching assistant
Copy editor (side gig while GTA)
Slightly better paid GTA
Adjunct instructor (side gig)
Copy editor (slowly morphed from side gig to a real gig)
Preschool teacher
Preschool director
Private high school teacher
Adjunct instructor (side gig again, post- move to the sticks)
Copy editor (my own business)
University professor
Copy editor (back to side gig, concurrent with the above)

FiveSigmas

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Hey, neat idea! Here's my list:

Lemonade salesman
Lawn mower
Data entry technician
Babysitter
Math/computer skills tutor
Summer math researcher
Math TA
Substitute teacher
Software developer

I'd say of all the jobs, lemonade salesman had the best benefits: free housing, health care, food, clothes, chauffeur service, love and attention. The pay was rotten, though.

porkchop

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Should be interesting if I can remember all of them.

Teenage Years:
Worked construction sites for my dad during summers

After graduating high school -
(18 - 23yo)
Warehouse for Beer Distributor - loading trucks
Driver for said Beer Distributor
Truck driver for Lumber company - one of my favorite jobs, mostly due to the AWESOME people I worked with. I miss those guys.
Construction truck driver - materials, road base, asphalt, etc.
Custom Mix Concrete Truck driver

Dispatcher for startup ISP
Transferred to Tech Support a few months later, worked in Tech Support for a few years
Moved to Ops Support
Moved to Sys Admin
after ~12 years at the ISP I got an amazing job at one of the worlds biggest hosting companies I'm a Linux Sys Admin there, and absolutely love it.

I'm sure I missed something in there

ZiziPB

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Some very interesting career paths!!!

Here is mine (starting in high school):

- tutor (math, English)
- waitress in a coffee shop
- photographer's assistant at proms and school picture days
- house cleaner
- babysitter
- occassional fleamarket seller
- interpreter/translator
- interpreter, country rep and general helper for a textile startup
- paralegal
- lawyer (big law for 11 years, in-house currently)

My current job is my last full time job, if I can help it ;-) I love it but I want to retire in 5 years...

Storypage

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(In order of appearance)

Dairy farm (milker)

Roofer

US Marine

Boxer

Roofer

Sheet Metal worker

Convenience Store Clerk

Puppeteer

Storyteller

Children's entertainer

Children's Librarian

Night stocker at Target (part time for extra cash)

Ford call center (part time for extra cash)

Magician (for extra cash)

Reference Librarian

Farmer (coming full circle)


MelodysMustache

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I have not thought about this for a while, so my list may be incomplete.

Babysitting
Making sandwiches at a sandwich shop
pool aide
library assistant
temp secretarial work
computer programmer (3 different companies)
project manager (2 different companies)
system engineer - current

mgreczyn

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Lawnmower
Babysitter
Mover
Lifeguard
Doorman at a nightclub (very temporary, ridiculous job)
USAF officer for 7 years, the next five jobs fall into this period
Lieutenant (just trying not to break anything)
Air Weapons Officer
Instructor Air Weapons Officer (just trying to keep lieutenants from breaking expensive stuff)
Instructor / Evaluator Air Weapons Officer 
AWACS Senior Director
Wind development intern during grad school
Wind development manager
Wind development regional vice president
« Last Edit: August 23, 2013, 10:04:44 AM by mgreczyn »

Peanut Butter

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can-recycler (bought all my school art supplies and first bicycle with the proceeds)
stablehand (exchanged labor for reduced board/training for my horse)
paper route
Burger King
Assistant Web Developer (work-study in college)
Goat Milker (milked 60+ does by hand twice a day...my handshake was AMAZING by the end of that summer)
Baby sitter for the State (childcare for working parents on welfare - $2/child/hour)
Graveyard waitress at Denny's (with tips averaged ~$15-20/hour)
Product Development Assistant
Hotel Night Auditor (loved this job, about 1.5 hours worth of work a night, the rest I was free to study/fart around on the internet)
Plasma Donor (ended up about $250/month, as the more times you donated in a month the more money they give you each time)
Emergency Room Tech (Paramedic - this is my primary employment now, recently took a paycut to move to a city with more educational opportunities)
Mobile Crisis Team Medic (my second job, I fill in as a relief for the other medics on the team.)

mgreczyn

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PB, tell us more about the emergency work.  How do you like it?

Peanut Butter

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PB, tell us more about the emergency work.  How do you like it?

Eh, it's a living. To be honest, unless you're planning on going into the fire service, there's easier ways to make more money in the medical profession. I was planning on going into the FD, but then I realized that I couldn't stand frat houses when I was in college, so why would I want to work in one? If I could do it over again, I'd go to school instead to be a Respiratory Therapist or a Radiology Tech. Hell, even sterile processing techs make similar money to me with less stress and training.

It has its rewarding moments. Just last month a guy went into v-fib right in front of me, and we were able to revive him - he was awake and talking in coherent sentences on the way to the Cath lab. I was the first one on his chest doing CPR during the code, and his wife (little Japanese lady who didn't speak a word of English) gave me a big hug after it was all over. Those moments make it all worthwhile, unfortunately they're few and far between. Most patients need a big dose of HTFU and STFU. My facility is also one of the only hospitals in the area with psych holding cells, so everyone sends their psych patients to us. Last week I got to deal with someone making a shit sandwich out of the padding on the benches and eating it. This is not even in my top ten "crazy ER stories" list, if that gives you an idea. Bomb threats, murder and sexual threats are all part of a day's work in the ER.

Living the dream!
« Last Edit: August 23, 2013, 01:15:07 PM by Peanut Butter »

mgreczyn

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Pretty much what I had imagined :)  Thanks for doing it and may those good moments come more frequently in the future.

Mayan

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Most of mine are along a similar theme:

Babysitter
Leading kids pony rides at birthday parties and events
Kennel assistant at a vet clinic (walking dogs, cleaning cages)
Animal care tech for research group (mostly just cleaning hog pens)
Vet assistant at mixed animal practice
Wildlife research assistant in National Forest
Equine nutrition research assistant (part time while in undergrad)
Vet tech (part time while in undergrad)
Park ranger working on sea turtle/bird management (best summer job ever)
Ostrich husbandry instructor
Small animal vet

Plus some unpaid volunteering at vet clinics, wildlife projects and zoos and paying tuition to work in vet school

CU Tiger

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Babysitting, lots and lots of babysitting
Grocery store cashier
Dormitory desk receptionist
Summer Camp counselor
Stripper in a printing plant (relax, it's a pre-press process and is done fully clothed)
Bindery worker
General helper in print shop
Barmaid
General helper in wool warehouse
CSR
Clerk in Hallmark store
Temp worker
Office mgr. and typesetter for print shop
Graphic Artist
Bookstore clerk
Events manager in bookstore
Office manager
Temp worker
Personal assistant to psychotic business owner
Temp worker
Administrative Assistant

I have a feeling I left a few jobs out, but can't think what.

Zikoris

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  • Location: Vancouver, BC
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Farmhand(First job at 13) - 7.50/hr
Pizza cook - 10/hr
Delivering food in a hospital - 11/hr
Coffee shop - 12/hr
Pharmaceutical factory worker - 13/hr
Temping - unloading trailers, garbage collector, flower warehouse shipper/receiver - 13-15/h
Skip tracing at a collection agency - 18-20/hr(commission-based)
Brothel receptionist - 12/hr
Shipping clerk in a warehouse 13/hr
Doing dishes and maintaining coffee machines for bankers 15/hr
Getting drinks for lawyers(current) 20/hr

CU Tiger

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Skip tracing at a collection agency - 18-20/hr(commission-based)
Brothel receptionist - 12/hr

You must have some funny work stories from these two jobs.