What jobs have you been employed at?

i_am_Lois

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My work history is full of various jobs. What sorts of jobs have you had? I never seemed to earn that much and felt no qualms about starting a new job in a new field, whenever I got bored. On average, I'd get bored after about 4 years. Some professions I enjoyed more and stayed longer... about 8 years. The various jobs I've had were:

mimeographing sales receipts for a catalog company (Spiegal)
cook (breakfast & lunch) at a small shop
tax examiner at the IRS
sewing machine operator (horse blankets)
packed shipping orders for a catalog company (Sears)
sewing machine operator (ironing board covers)
dog groomer
filled vending machines
ran a lunch counter in a factory
supervisor in recreation department at a nursing home
certified nursing assistant at a nursing home
certified nursing assistant for a home health care agency

I've also occasionally earned extra money working from home, by doing personalized embroidery and sewing alterations to clothes.
 

Ooof, where to start?


  • Lemonade Stand Proprietor
  • Newspaper Delivery Technician
  • Magician
  • Tutor (High School and College)
  • Martial Arts Instructor / School Owner (several times)
  • Chinese Medicine Doctor (OMD)
  • Escort
  • Bodyguard
  • Bouncer (several times)
  • Chemist (several times)
  • Safety Manager / Director
  • Alarm Systems Sales Manager
  • Janitor
  • Wedding Photographer
  • Freelance Photographer
  • Commercial Cleaning Company Owner
  • Writer / Editor / Proofreader
  • Professional Pirate (Renaissance Fairs)
  • Maintenance Man (BlockBuster Video, various hotels, motels)
  • Wooden Toy Maker
  • Dollhouse Maker
  • Taoist Philosophical Counselor
  • Factory Line Worker

I'm sure there are more, but I'm only on my second cup ...
 
Paper boy
Theater usher
Bag boy
Produce mgr.
Assistant store manager
Sold Singer sewing machines
Sold office equipment
Bread salesman
Night supervisor for bread company
Retired
Part time propane filler and all around go-fer

i know I have forgotten a couple in between jobs, but like Lois, I have had a ton of jobs.
Oh:
Farm work
Planted Christmas trees, one summer
Tank mechanic in Army
Worked in Ford garage as mechanic
Mechanic, nights, in a Sears garage
Damn, no wonder my body's a mess. Never really listed these before.:rolleyes:
 
Hi Lois,

I'm always surprised that others have had a lot of variety in their work-history. For me it isn't bad that I have experienced a lot of positions, but the moving around, well, I got bored faster then you did, LOL! (might as well laugh but I'm paying for my short-term jobs now)

I started out just wanting to be a wife, then I slowly realized I need to get a bit more education to work in the type of job I wanted, which was office-work (yes, I needed more education before I tried marriage again too). Ok, I'll try to list all I've done k;)

21-Dealer
bartender
waitress
pumped gas
(after biz college below)
administrative assistant (babysat executives)
call-center (csr)
payroll clerk
accounts payable assistant
file clerk
(back to some light-industrial)
packing and shipping (2 warehouse jobs doing this)
nanny/housekeeper/cook (4 children, all under 9)
laundry-room, ranch in Wyoming one Summer
phone operator
reconciler (went 4 times a day counting and changing out tills at resort)
led horse-back trail-rides, fed and watered 30 horses (including 2 stallions):help1:
cold-called for bids on high-rise window-cleaning jobs

I'm sure there's more, and the only big mistake I made was allowing myself to be payed "under the table" for 6 years as a 21-dealer, stupid. Would have made my SS look much better.

Thanks for the thread Lois, kinda fun remembering all I've done and where I've been. Never tried pole-dancing though:confused:
 
Paper boy
Theater usher
Bag boy
Produce mgr.
Assistant store manager
Sold Singer sewing machines
Sold office equipment
Bread salesman
Night supervisor for bread company
Retired
Part time propane filler and all around go-fer

i know I have forgotten a couple in between jobs, but like Lois, I have had a ton of jobs.
Oh:
Farm work
Planted Christmas trees, one summer
Tank mechanic in Army
Worked in Ford garage as mechanic
Mechanic, nights, in a Sears garage
Damn, no wonder my body's a mess. Never really listed these before.:rolleyes:

This is a great thread for me, I've spent a lot of time thinking I'm some, kind of leper because I didn't stick with one job all my life. I love seeing your lists, there's a lot to be said for doing different things as well isn't there:) My mom was an usher in a theater too Pappy!!:) Denise
 
Aye, Matey. When I was a little guy, I use to wonder what a life being a pirate would be like. I did everything else, but somehow missed the pirate thing.

Ah, well, you may have "swashed your buckle" so just be glad for all you did do
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Being a Professional Pirate, or "PP" as we call it in the trade, is no easy thing.

Everyone thinks we just hang around drinking and wenching and plundering and pillaging and sword-fighting, and we DO, but there are other less romantic things we have to do in the course of our work ... picking fleas out of each other's beards, paying wenchimony, dealing with the wee lads and lassies when they pop up, tryin' ta find a decent port in a storm, bein' forced ta kiss th' Captain's Daughter ...

It isn't all yo-ho-ho and bottles of rum and dead men's chests.

'Tis a hard-'nuff life for us ...
 

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