What jobs have you been employed at?

bowmore said:
During my 50 years in Aerospace, I wore many hats:
Field Engineer
Program Manager
Project Engineer
Cost Estimator
Manufacturing Engineer
Sr. Contract Administrator
At the same time
Flight Instructor
CAP Pilot
RR Diesel engine mechanic
Angel Flight West Commend Pilot
Tourist RR conductor
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I was a software engineer in the aerospace industry. I didn't wear a hat back then, though. I still had most of my hair.
 

rasmusjc said:
Various Hardware/Software Engineering Jobs, including:

- Bone Growth Stimulation Software and Device Modifications (dropped reject rate from 33% to .5%).
- Software that converted a 1080p HD tv picture down to recognizable 1 x 2 inch Preview Display.
- Software in a flame quality device that kept a Power Station from exploding.....so I'm told
- RFID scanner software in scanners used by retailers.

Yeah, I don't know electronics or how to program.....(if I talk to current 'headhunters' nowadays)
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But there is the occasional need for a mossback and they are hard to find!
 
Babysitting. Age 11-15
Cashier: pizza parlor and Jack in the Box. Age 15-16
Assistant lithographer for college newspapers. Age 16-17
Daycare worker, 2 year olds. Age 17
Hard contact lens grinder. Age 17. One day of this and I knew I could never work production assembly.
Secretary for a Mayor and a Fire Marshal; EMS 911 Operator. Age 18-21.
Mother: 1976.
Enlisted in Air National Guard to Air Force Reserve to Air Force Active duty. Worked as enlisted medic, enlisted civil engineering technologist then commissioned. Officer Education and Training at Maxwell AFB; Officer, Hospital Medical Services Corps Officer. (1980-2000).
Mother again in 1986; 1988; last time 1994. (Four kids total)
College degrees: 1981 (Civil Engineering); 1984 (Hospital/Health Services Administration); 1990 (Gerontology Master's); 2005 (Bachelor of Science, Nursing (At age 50): my what to do in retirement plan)
College Instructor 1990-1991
Neonatal Intensive Care Nurse (NICU) 2005-2009.
2011-2012 Pediatric Supervisory Nurse Specialist
2012 Usher for a large movie theater.
2022 Cashier for Shipley's Donuts
Present: Landscaping design and consulting.
Grandmother of eight.
 

dbeyat45 said:
paper boy
electrician's offsider
window cleaner
school teacher
air force officer
gas station manager
computer programmer
applications and systems support
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,
,
very busy retired
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Being a school teacher needs special education,
air force officer also must have special education, etc...
My father was an air force officer, a pilot, then a teacher at Air force military university. I remember he studied a lot.
You were employed in so many different spheres.
Which way did you manage?
 
I did a lot of globe trekking
  • Plastic injection
  • Steel worker
  • U.S. Army
  • Defense contractor
  • Veterans Administration
  • Professional waiter
  • Retail
  • Automotive factory
Probably a few others I forgot about.
 
I worked at a retail store age 17
Then a grocery store
A factory as a sewer
Another factoty as a bundler
An answering services
A junk mail factoty
Then I went back to school in my 30's for LPN
As an LPN I worked in Nursing Homess
per diem in a hospital
15 years in an Oncology/ hemotogy office. I did blood draw as and started I've
Then for home care
I retired in 2023. Still work at the home care at least 1 day a week school year I am a paraprofessional
 
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