how many/what jobs have you had?

[Beaker]

McDonald's- grill cook & morning set-up(cleaning fryer grease, etc.)
Santa's Village- costume character(Billy the Beaver) I also operated rides occasionally
Polar Dome Ice Arena- worked in hockey pro shop, skate sharpener, Zamboni Driver.
Santa's Village- Custodial Mgr.
Cole Marionettes- Puppeteer - 9 month gig, one "season" during the school year, going school to school.
Zayre Dept. Store- Floater, 'Asst to the Asst. Mgr'-(i.e. whatever needed doing)
Concrete labourer- worked on earlier reconstruction of Soldier Field, chicago.

off to college...
University of IL animal labs- cage cleaner, animal feeder & euthanizer
Royal Landscaping- summer job
Zayre Dept Store.- Store Detective

after a couple years of college, a "temporary break" back to the real world.

1st National Bank of Elgin- collector/repo man.
Zayre Dept. Store- store detective(part time while at the bank)
Sherman Productions- puppeteer at Jolly Roger Amusement Park in Ocean City Md. one summer season.
Union Concrete Labourer- modernization project at Sewage treatment plant
Marshall Field's- store detective(part time while labouring)
after a year and a half in the concrete & shit, I took a 'break' to the Big Island, and worked as a "cleaner"(separating out the bud) in the Puna district for a month or so. about 6 months on the island total, then back to mainland reality.
Non-Union Ironworker- cash job, about 8-9 months.
Union Concrete Labourer- at another sewage treatment plant modernization project.
St.Charles Country Club- valet (part time while labouring)
St.Charles Country Club-waiter/wait captain(after being laid off when construction job ended) 2 year gig.
Meadow Club- waiter
Concrete Labourer- chicago, several high-rise projects over several years...left due to back trouble.
United Airlines- International Telephone Reservationist -about a year
Thomas Cook- Corporate travel agent assigned to Rotary International Account onsite office. couple years.
Rosenbluth Travel- R.R. Donnelly account. 6-7 months, left for more money
Carlson/Wagonlit Travel- Arthur Andersen International account(s), about a year...

Retired at age 38 with progressive spinal disease.

How many is that?

26?

[TlalocW]

1. Let's see...

I sold Olympic Cards door to door to earn prizes as a kid.
Dad made my brother and me mow yards for a job in middle school.
All throughout high school I was a paper boy getting up at 3 in the morning (and fortunately back to bed at 4 - small town).
I tried being a janitor's assistant at the high school when I was a freshman but didn't like it and quit after two weeks.

Off to college. Fortunately, I had a full scholastic scholarship that paid for everything.
I still worked as a tutor for the university as well as on my own for high school students and was a teacher's assistant at some of the local high schools (math classes).
I was an assistant secretary in the foreign languages department for a semester.
I also sold vaccuum cleaners by appointment my last year there (really good ones too - I bought one later on) and would have been the top seller in the state if everyone who I got to sign up had had their credit application go through. Alas.
I also worked at two different McDonalds for 3 weeks each - once during school (felt my grades were on the verge of suffering) and once during summer before I headed off to take my last Spanish class in Mexico.

Off to grad school.
I was a teacher assistant in the math department.
When I switched departments because they lied to me, I got a job as a programmer in town.
I was also the interim Hispanic and Vietnamese Student Services Coordinator at the university for 3 months while they looked for a replacement for the guy who resigned. That was at the request of a lot of the Hispanic students, which was a compliment for a honky like me.

Into the corporate world.
Programmer in some ancient scripting languages at the first company I worked for.
Coldfusion programmer at the second company I worked for, who laid me off back in September.

Since I've been in layoff lala-land, I've worked temporary jobs as
A concession stand manager at the state fair.
Seasonal Halloween help at the local magic/costume store in town (I'm their all time gorilla suit salesperson I'm proud to report).
Tech support over the phone (had to quit that job because I couldn't hack staying up to 2 am on the shift they had me on).
Freelance website/database programming.

And since July 4 of 2003, I've had my own entertainment side business where I twist balloons, do magic, or juggle at restaurants, corporate events, or private parties. I just finished a run at the local Fuddruckers Gourmet Hamburgers for the July 4th weekend.

So that's 18 or so. I'm 32.

TlalocW

[bookfreak]

2. Let's see if I can recall them all

Worked in some advertisment flyer place where I put the ads together in baggies (my first job at 14)
Worked in a laundry
Worked in a fast food restaurant
Went back to the laundry because the restaurant wouldn't give me enough hours
Worked in a bookstore and went to college
Went to work with the developmentally disabled full-time while still going to school
Picked up a part-time job in a convenience store for a few months in the meantime
Later picked up a second full-time job with the homeless (had quit school due to financial reasons) then got laid off because the shelter closed
Went to manage a small book store until it went under
Went to work full-time in another book store while still working full-time with the developmentally disabled
Moved to another state and got a job with another agency serving the developmentally disabled. Finished my BS in the meantime.
Picked up a second full-time job with the mentally ill

So that would make...11.