This is meant to compliment the 9 to 5 thread, but instead of just your current job it would be interesting to see the variety of jobs people have held in their whole career.
I got my first job at 15 years old, in 1978, working part-time at Baskin Robbins. Since then I've worked at (in order):
Valeria's Restaurant (dishwasher)
Lectron Products (light industrial, assembled door chimes)
East Wind Community (egalitarian socialist commune, primarily made hammocks)
Bush Manufacturing (greasy tool and die shop, only lasted one month)
Big Boy (short order cook)
The Frame Place (matting and framing artwork)
Macomb Community College (worked in the college's publications department)
Applied Graphics Technologies (pre-press and photo retouching. My first good paying job)
Macomb Community College (part-time art instructor)
Eidos Group, Inc. (advertising agency, now semi-defunct)
I've also done freelance artwork for various clients.
Originally posted by rwingettI have worked with animals alot. I have mucked out stalls, trained horses, waitressed, sheared goats and sheep, worked in a feed store, tutored, and generally worked my butt off!
This is meant to compliment the 9 to 5 thread, but instead of just your current job it would be interesting to see the variety of jobs people have held in their whole career.
I got my first job at 15 years old, in 1978, working part-time at Baskin Robbins. Since then I've worked at (in order):
Valeria's Restaurant (dishwasher)
Lectron Products (lig ...[text shortened]... sing agency, now semi-defunct)
I've also done freelance artwork for various clients.
Dishwasher, busboy, and line cook at a family restaurant in the Midwest.
Cashier at Ben and Jerry's
Recreational Sports referee at the College of William & Mary
Professor's Assistant in the Computer Science Department at W&M
Software Engineering Intern at the Jefferson Lab (formerly known as CEBAF)
Graduate Research Assistant in engineering at NASA Langley
Research Associate in software security for various D.C. agencies
Full-time pimp
Cribs
Columbia Basin Racquet Club (Tennis Instructor)
UW Intramural Athletics (Tennis Instructor)
Suzzallo Library (book shelver)
Cafe Minnie's 24 hr. diner (graveyard busser and then waiter)
Blu Water Bistro (busser)
Americorps VISTA (service learning coordinator)
Teach for America (taught ethics & ecology)
Hoyt's Pub (bartender)
UW Phil Dept. (teaching assistant)
UW Robinson Center (ethics instructor)
Originally posted by bbarrDo you no longer do bartending?
Columbia Basin Racquet Club (Tennis Instructor)
UW Intramural Athletics (Tennis Instructor)
Suzzallo Library (book shelver)
Cafe Minnie's 24 hr. diner (graveyard busser and then waiter)
Blu Water Bistro (busser)
Americorps VISTA (service learning coordinator)
Teach for America (taught ethics & ecology)
Hoyt's Pub (bartender)
UW Phil Dept. (teaching assistant)
UW Robinson Center (ethics instructor)
Originally posted by rwingettNo, I'm not bartending anymore. The Robinson Center tossed a couple summer teaching gigs my way, and next year I'll be able to teach philosophy courses independently during the summer. I appear to have finally broken out of the service industry. 🙂
Do you no longer do bartending?
market stall selling poultry
pan washer in restaraunt
quality control op
barwork at Man Airport
" " " several pubs
waitressing
Avon Lady??!! cringe
support assistant in school
video shop assistant
voluntary work at self advocacy org...and finally...
my newest job : admin/support for advocacy org
Originally posted by CribsI think William and Mary should invite you back to do the commencement speech at graduation. If that should ever happen, can you give us an idea of what you would talk about to inspire new graduates.
Dishwasher, busboy, and line cook at a family restaurant in the Midwest.
Cashier at Ben and Jerry's
Recreational Sports referee at the College of William & Mary
Professor's Assistant in the Computer Science Department at W&M
Software Engineering Intern at the Jefferson Lab (formerly known as CEBAF)
Graduate Research Assistant in engineering at NASA Lang ...[text shortened]... ey
Research Associate in software security for various D.C. agencies
Full-time pimp
Cribs
Originally posted by kirksey957Yo, if wuz gonna give a commencement speech, I'd pick a more needy
I think William and Mary should invite you back to do the commencement speech at graduation. If that should ever happen, can you give us an idea of what you would talk about to inspire new graduates.
place, know what I'm sayin'?
Cribs
Never liked to be tied down, so I've had a helluva lot of part time jobs.
Alpha Cement (Part time) Maintenance tasks, controller, despatch clerk
Medley House (Part time) Waiter and later barman
Dalmarrik Services and Supplies (Part time, contract basis) Electrical and electronic contract work
Burger King (Little stint there to help finance my vacation in London) Made, well, bacon doubles and fries 😛
University of Pretoria Computer Science department (Full time) Teaching assitant
Alpha Cement (Full time) Web and systems administrator
Centaur Information Technology (Full time) Web and systems development
Now run my own IT development business...
Originally posted by kirksey957Shoot, everybody could use a lil' bit mo' pimpin' in they life, if
I have a feeling they need what you got. Know what I'm sayin'?
that's what ya gettin' at. Maybe when I retire from tha game,
I'll start doin' guest appearances, like Bill Clinton, but fo'
now, I be pimpin' full time.
Cribs
I've spent a large part of my adult life in University.
However:
Paperboy 😉
Fruit and Veg stall in a local supermarket.
Galley slave in a shoe polish and candle factory.
Dogsbody for my father in various dirty factories.
"Technician" in an insurance "data centre" (probably the worst place...).
Post-Doc researcher in Montreal, Canada.
Post-Doc in Sheffield, England (current).
Not too interesting, but my wife once worked in a mill, which was great because I never got tired of asking her "Trouble at t'mill?" when she got in from work 🙂
Well, here goes, it's probably not complete though. These jobs for one or two weeks during school holidays:
Paper boy (got fired)
Stock filler in a super market (got fired)
Stock filler in another super market (got fired)
Guided psychiatric patients in work shop
Worked in a fibre glass factory (worst job I've ever had)
Worked hoovering dust on top of the incinerators of the Rotterdam waste desposal plant.
Worked in a cocktail bar, serving cocktails (want a recipe?)
Worked cleaning out potato resin in a chip factory (got fired after 2 two hours because I was hungover and puked up. It was a horrendous smell...the chip factory, not my puke).
Then during and after college:
Camp america (working with kids in camps in the US for 4 months)
Eurocacamp (working with children near Paris for 4 months)
Worked measuring land and height differences for 2 weeks. I was stuck in a open air sewer near London.
Various pub jobs in England
Worked in a toy shop for 9 months
Worked on a kibbutz in Israel for 3 months
Worked in a youth hostel at the dead sea for 2 months (got fired)
Went back to the kibbutz for 3 months
Worked in a rubber and silicon factory for 6 months
Have been working with the Dutch refugee organisation for the last 6.5 years (3 official warnings).
I would like to point out that I've never been fired for not working hard or good. I have always been fired for verbalisms. (except once when I pushed a boss down a flight of stairs...but technically he had already fired me by then).