List All The Jobs You've Ever Had In Your Life (I'll start)

[THUNDER HANDS]

1. Cleaned the mens locker room at a public pool.
2. Worked customer service at Office Max.
3. Worked as a cashier at Record Town (now FYE).
4. Worked as floor guy at Office Depot.
5. Worked at a model train store.
6. Worked at the Discovery Channel store.
7. Stringer for the Baltimore Sun covering pro lacrosse.
8. Wrote for a pro-wrestling website (was actually paid).
9. Did the Monday Night Wars column for Pro Wrestling Illustrated.
10. General Assignment reporter for small-town newspaper.
11. Copyedited instruction manuals for copy machines and printers.
12. Data entry for a hospital neonatal unit.

You?

[Longgrain]

1. My first job...

Was at in a bar at the age of twelve... (True, don't ask)

My second job was at sixteen, shelfing books at a library...

pretty much set the tone for the rest of my life thus far...

[tridim]

2. 1. Koolade stand

2. Gymnastics coach for kids in the neighborhood
3. Paper boy
4. Pizza delivery boy
5. Assistant manager at pizza place
6. Line cook at Applebees
7. Cook at a high-end restaurant
8. Architectural model builder
9. Architect
10. Ran and ISP (in the modem days)
11. Help desk at a software company
12. Web/software developer at the same company
13. Web developer in NYC
14. Web developer again in NYC
15. Web developer in Denver (peak salary here)
16. Web developer again in Denver (salary falls drastically)
17. Current job, Web/Software developer (salary in the crapper)
18. Now I feel like I want to build a Ted Kazinski shack in the woods, or maybe I could go back to the Koolade stand job. I'd probably make more money.

[CornField]

3. Paid jobs

Hauling Hay
Morning Milking
Babysitting
Car Detailing
Kentucky Fried Chicken -- before it became KFC :)
Cashier at a home improvement place
Coach for flag and rifle squads
Pizza delivery
Night office janitor
Freelance writer
First gig as a general assignment reporter
Sent to the education beat
Took over the police beat
Then managing editor
Network Administrator for an ISP
Network Administrator for a wholesale company
Then managing editor again
Self-employed (full-time since 1998)

[ohiosmith]

4. Mine are:

Shined shoes
Sold newspapers
Door/door candy and sundries sales
Sold magazines door/door
Franchise Manager for Look Magazine in Louisville
Did TV commercials for Seyfert Potato Chips
Professional dancer
Actor
Shoe salesman for Knapp in Cleveland
Assistant Manager for Kinney Shoes in LA.
Managed Agnew Surpass shoe stores in and around Vancouver, BC.
Property Manager for Trizec Equities, Vancouver and Los Angeles
Total Quality Trainer for Trizec, CA.
Career Transition Trainer LA and LV
VP and GM Career Management consulting firm, Las Vegas

[hollywood926]

5. Geeez...ok

ice cream shop (bresler's 33 flavors!)
janitor at mall (eastland - columbus, oh)
united states navy (postal clerk!)
bored city employee

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

6. Here's mine

1. Answering Service Clerk (before pagers)
2. Receptionist
3. Line Cook
4. Bill collector for the US Dept of Education (if you defaulted on student loans, I may know you)
5. Accounts Receivable for a major photography supply manufacturer
6. Software Support/Trainer
7. Data Analyst - IT
8. Business Analyst - IT

[Left Is Write]

7. Okay.

Excluding babysitting/daycare jobs I had as a teenager:


1. Hardee's. No, we didn't have Monster Thickburgers back then. It was 1983. I quit after a month.

2. Clerical worker for phone book company. This was a little rinky dinky phone book place trying to compete with the Northwestern Bell Yellow Pages (again, a long time ago, 1983-84). This other girl and I had to take sections of the NBYP and make a file card for each business that advertised there, so the sales people from our company could call on them and get them to advertise with us. It was very tedious work, and we often wound up with writer's cramp.

3. Clerical/support staff/later "assistant technical librarian" for a major computer manufacturer/DoD contractor whose name changed five times during my seven years there. During my tenure there, I also worked for a home care staffing company for a year - night job - while saving money for school.

4. Radio disk jockey/news reporter

5. Radio disk jockey/music director

6. Underwriter for specialty insurance agency - I worked exclusively with tanning salons, but the agency also did other high-risk insurance like daycares, snowmobiles, motorcycles, ATVs, and some other stuff

7. I worked very very briefly for my FIL's wireless communications company before I quit fulltime work to stay home with my kids.

[no name no slogan]

12. Hardee's

That's funny, I was the assistant manager of one back in 1992 (during First Bush Recession™). I only lasted two months, but I bet our experiences were very similar. :dunce:

[Left Is Write]

20. Well -

my experience was that working for this particular Hardee's was a sort of teenage hell. (It was the spring of my junior year in high school.)

The manager was a lecherous drunkard who spent most of his time at the bar & restaurant next door getting liquored up when he was supposed to be working.

The assistant manager was a nineteen-year-old Nazi In Training.

At one point, they came up with the idea to give a dime raise to anyone who volunteered for exclusive drive-thru duty. I hated working drive-thru, so I didn't sign up. The dime an hour wasn't worth it to me. They kept putting me on drive-thru ANYWAY. When I complained, Nazi In Training just said, "But you're good at it." Okay, so give me the damn dime! I didn't get the dime.

The last straw was when I had requested off the last day of school. I'm quite sure I wasn't the only person who requested off - it was the last day of school, after all! - but I requested it before the schedule was made for that week. Nazi In Training put me on the schedule anyway, as a closer, because of that damn drive-thru. So I quit. NIT said, "You can't quit!" I said, "Watch me."

Yes, it was immature, but hey, I was a kid. It's the only time in my life I ever quit without notice, but it really was a "last straw" kind of deal.

One week later I got a cushy summer job watching the neighbors two children two and a half days a week while she worked.

[China_cat]

8. Uh...

babysitter
knife thrower's target
snake handler
stripper
ticket seller
boss canvas handler
b drinker
stripper
games operator
lab assistant in a cosmetology school
private cook
lab assistant at a dye plant
line operator in a leather cleaning plant
stripper
residential aide at a home for girls
aide in a retirement home
owned my own ceramic business
owner and operator of 3 Harpies Ltd.

Some of these are out of order and I'm sure I missed a few.

Edited to add:

Electro girl
blade box girl
spidora and several other illusions

[trof]

28. A carnie!

Cool.
;-)

[China_cat]

33. Twas very

A shame that today's carny life is so different. No freak shows, few single-o's, no girl shows, no revues.

[Placebo]

9. I've never had a job in my life.

And I'm a freshman in college.

[THUNDER HANDS]

13. its okay

I had only worked one by the time I got to college. The locker room cleaner.

Great job, if you like looking at the peni of old men all day and smelling the stunk funk of old junk.

[Placebo]

Umm...

EW.

"Stunk funk of old junk." lol :puke:

[JohnKleeb]

19. what kind of sick weirdo are you

I am a year younger than you and Ive been employed three times.
1. Summer Intern, FAA at Dulles Airport
2. Parcel Pickup, Giant Food
3. Summer Intern, FAA again

[Placebo]

21. Why should I work?

The money from the parents is still flowing in.

[JohnKleeb]

37. god you're kidding me

"why should I work?"
Do I even have to say why? First off, it's something to do, second off, you can't always depend on mom and dad, third off, you can use it on resumes and applications. Oh and thanks for making me feel like my mom's dad.

[Nikia]

39. If I hadn't needed the money, I wouldn't have worked

Alright, I didn't really need the money for my first two jobs. Those were both during some rather stressful times of my life where I needed to spend as much time away from my mother and evil stepfather as possible. Other than that, I didn't work during high school despite the fact that we were poor because I was suppose to be doing well in high school, athletics, and extracurricular activites in order to get scholarships. We were also very aware that with need based aid it is better not to work unless you really are going to save all that money for college. There was also the fact that I had moved in with my dad with my mother two hours away who complained enough when I missed visitation due to my meets.
In college, I would have really preferred not to work, like many of my classmates. I was overly busy with vasity sports, a sorority, a couple clubs, and my classes, for which the average student at my college studied over 20 hours per week for. I also had trouble having time to maintain all my friendships from my freshman year once I started dating my husband.
None of my jobs seemed to matter at all as far as my resume went. When I list them all on my applications, I think that it works against me. None of the jobs are particularly helpful to what I am doing now nor do I think that they helped me get my first career track job.
On the otherhand, I think that it is a virtue to be financially independent as soon as possible. I was would have probably worked during the summers too because it is a lot of time. On the otherhand, maybe I would have looked into some summer programs or something.

[kranich]

10. Fun

1. Pumped gas as a boat dock (15)
2. Bagged groceries (16-18)
3. Made Pizzas (18-22)
4. The Army (22-26)
5. IS Consultant (26-36)
6. I can't explain my current job it has no equal in the relevant world but involves research technology (36 to present)

[no name no slogan]

11. Here goes...

1) Telemarketer for home improvement company
2) Telemarketer for lawn care company
3) Collections for lawn care company
4) Telemarketer for insulation company
5) Telemarketer/Collections for lawn care company (again-- it was seasonal employment)

6) Section editor for college newspaper.
7) Political fundraiser (phone and canvassing)
8) Section editor for TWO sections of college newspaper, plus feature columnist and editorial writer
9) Telemarketer for company that produced crappy merchandise sold at over-inflated prices on credit plans that would pass as usury in the Bible.
11) College newspaper (again)
12) Summer job as factory worker at hi-tech company
13) College newspaper (again)
14) Cellarman in a popular London UK, Pub (The London Weekly Standards' 1990 'Pub of the Year', in fact).
15) Full-time 'supplemental' factory worker at hi-tech company (after college graduation in 1991, during the first Bush recession).
16) Assistant manager at fast-food restaurant (two months)
17) Temp in financial industry
18) Insurance/Annuity processor for insurance/investments company
19) Systems/Business analyst for insurance/investments company
20) Securities Rep for insurance/investments company
21) Freelance web designer/developer
22) Webmaster/Web Developer for small software development company (a 'dot com' if you will).
23) Webmaster for a state government human services agency (largest agency in the state).

And I'm only 35. At this rate I'll have 50 jobs by the time I retire.

[suka]

14. ok. let's see

I'm afraid I'll be embarrassed with all people who are such hard workers, but here goes:

1. Lifeguard Miami Beach - 17 Y/o (only summer)
2. Autopsy assisstant - 19 y/o, PT while in school for pre-med
3. Autopsy asst and embalmer- 21y/o PT
4. Coroner's investigator- 23 y/o FT while in med school
5. Crime scene tech- last 2 years of med school
6. MD - First physician job - Emergency Room Physician - Haifa, Israel(very cool job)
7. MD - psychiatry - Florida - current job

Boring huh?

[motely36]

15. Hmmm...let's see

Convenient Store Cashier
Food Service Worker (College)
Food Service Assistant Mananger (Right out of College at my alma mater)
Instructor at a sheltered workshop for retarded adults
Sold Men's suits at JC Penney
Cashier at an outlet store
Vault teller
Help desk / Computer Operator
EDI Programmer/Analyst (current)
Plus I worked many years part time as the Secretary at my church.

[Worst Username Ever]

16. goodness

1) Food Service at Target, then
2) Maintenance at same Target
3) Valet at Pepitos's Mexican Foods
4) Landscape labor
5) U of MN Data Entry
6) U of MN Phone Bank
7) U of MN admissions tour guide
8) U of MN campus security
9) Armed Security
10) Urinalysis Tech
11) Correctional Officer
12) Corporate Recruiter
13) 401 (K) administrator
14) Loan Officer
15) Investment Sales Rep
16) Compliance Officer (current)
17) Auto Parts Delivery guy (current, part-time)

I'm only 27, BTW. This included paid jobs only, volunteer is like another 5 or 6.

[Medium Baby Jesus]

17. I'll Try

Paper boy

HVAC Install/Repair

Ceramic Mold Maker

Machinist

CNC Programmer

Missile Launcher Designer

Nuclear Reactor Vessel Repair Engineer

Medical Device Engineer

Thats a list of fields but there was more than one job for most of the occupations.

[LiberalEsto]

18. job list

lemonade and used comic book peddler
baby sitter
sales clerk in stationary store
sales clerk in bakery
mother's helper
writer, newspaper column for local paper
college dining hall worker
college library aide
classified ad manager, college paper
assistant to college dean
ice cream truck driver
sales clerk at hippie boutique
department store sales clerk
summer newspaper intern
car rental clerk at airport
quality inspector at pharmaceutical factory
waitress
sales clerk, eyeglass store
newspaper delivery
telephone sales
news editor of small newspaper
newspaper reporter at bigger paper
newspaper reporter at bigger paper
newspaper reporter at big paper (Newark Star-Ledger)
mom
part-time newspaper reporter
presenter of child safety workshops at schools
writer for energy-related trade magazines
proofreader
writer of brochures and conference materials

[11 Bravo]

22. Here ya go.

1. Paper boy
2. Door-to-door doughnut sales
3. Welder
4. Light weapons infantryman, U.S. Army
5. GS-4 Engineering Aide, Naval Air Rework Facility, Coronado, CA
6. Elementary school teacher (for the last 31 years)
I left out all the student years as I wasn't being paid, so, even though I busted my ass, I guess I can't really consider any of that a "job".

[nini]

23. mine

microfilm sorter - that was a fun one :eyes:
KMART cashier
Ward clerk in a hospital
US Postal Clerk
Tutor for the Learning Disabled
Programmer
Software Dev. Manager

[parasim]

24. here's me.

1) paperboy
2) worked in my dad's grocery store
3) orderly in an elder's home
4) cartographer
5) sign painter
6) tree trimmer
7) busboy
8) short order cook
9) purser on ferry boat at mackinac island
10) extra in the movie Somewhere in Time
11) portrait artist
12) orderly in a hospital's mental ward
13) graphic and packaging designer
14) managed the lawn and garden dept. at a hardware store
15) managed the housewares dept of same hardware store
16) composition artist in advertising dept of a department store
17) stereo salesman
18) videographer/sound designer/animator/ interface designer (CD-ROMs, kiosks, websites, etc)
19) computer interface/ product designer (medical devices, automobile navigation systems, consumer electonics, general aviation cockpit design (currently)

oh yeah... on edit

20) radio disc jockey
21) dad

[trof]

25. Bet I have the longest list.

Grammar & High school:
1. mowed lawns
2. grocery bag boy
3. grocery stock clerk and bag boy
4. mowed lawns
5. grocery produce clerk
6. ass't produce mgr.
7. mowed lawns
8. light assembly small (backyard) factory worker
9. trampoline center instructor/safety spotter (a 60s fad)
10. ad agency gofer

College:
11. office supply clerk (nepotism, my cousin owned the place)
12. artist's model
13. gofer, newspaper
14. ad sales, newspaper
15. business page editor (glorified ad sales with a title)
16. warehouse worker, wholesale hardware
17. inventory control/purchasing agent, wholesale hardware
18. hired killer (fighter pilot, ANG)
19. bartender

Real Life:
20. cub reporter, major metro daily
21. advertising manager, office furniture mfgr.
22. instrument & multi-engine flight instructor, U.S. Army.
23. commercial pilot, TWA
24. ad sales/photographer/reporter small weekly newspaper
25. commercial pilot, TWA
26. real estate sales/property management/appraisal and co-owner of "figure salon"
27. commercial pilot, TWA
28. FAA air traffic control simulator operator and instructor
29. commercial pilot, TWA
30. commercial pilot, NCA (Nippon Cargo Airlines)
31. writer/author

On edit: oh hell, I forgot lifeguard (Myrtle beach, 1963) and baby-sitter (circa late 50s?)

[trof]

34. Is there a prize? Did I win?

Just asking.
;-)

[Abelman]

26. Okay

Elephant Ear stand attendant
Backline cook at fast food joint
Cook at slow food joint.
Backline cook at same fast food joint.
State Park Ranger
College newspaper cartoonist/writer
Food Service employee
Resident Adviser
Camp Counselor
Residential Adviser
Camp Counselor

[eoberhauser]

27. Ooh Fun! Here Goes

Burger King
Arbys
Papa Johns Pizza
Burger King (different location!)
Meijer (big superstore like Target, but with full grocery)
Blockbuster
Meijer (different location)
Banana Republic
La Rosa's Pizza
Walden Pond's Golf Course
Quality Gold (National Fine Jewelry Distributor)
The Tape Company (magnetic media, digital media)

I'm 27, currently my boyfriend and I own a Screenprinting and Embroidery business - after both the companies we worked for bit the dust. It was worth all those crappy jobs (all of which I loved) to get to where I am now.

Erin

[guitar man]

29. here goes,

hopefully in order:

>Tending livestock, fixing fences and anything else one might do on a farm

>Dishwasher

>Shoveling/hosing livestock manure out of the semi-trailers that hauled stock

>Military Service-USMC

>Yard hand/truck washer for trucking company

>Small engine mechanic

>Stripper/platemaker for offset printing

>Sandblaster/painter for offshore drilling rigs

>Industrial equipment mechanic(bobcats, backhoes, dozers etc.)

>Stripper/platemaker for offset printing (again!)

>Small engine mechanic (again!)

>Plate burner/fitter building large oilfield heat exchangers

>Full-time guitarist/vocalist (finally!)

>Studio engineer/producer

2000-present, Television Master Control Engineer, back to musical pursuits on a part-time basis (damn the luck!)

[Sympleesmshn]

30. Covering Pro Lax?

that had to be fun!

[Nikia]

31. It seems like I've had too many jobs

1.Paper carrier
2.Cashier at a grocery store
3.File clerk
4. Candy grinder (For Blizzards, Flurries) at a party supply warehouse
5. College athlete recruiting assistant
6. College dining hall worker including salad bar and dining room attendent and dish room
7. Machine operator at a plastics factory
8. Desk clerk
9. Order puller
10. Fast food worker
11. Quality assurance tech at a cheese factory
12. R&D laboratory assistant at a consumer products company
13. Quality assurance specialist at a different cheese factory
I am only 26 years old and am looking for a different job. Would anyone like to hire me?

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

32. I may have left a few out- don't remember them all!

1. Baled hay
2. Shovelled sheep shit
3. Picked up and cleaned lost golf balls from golf course then sold them to the pro shop
4. Ran hydraulic press line at rubber products factory (only 16 at the time)
5. United States Air Force
6. Apprentice optician
7. Tomato/bean cannery worker (various positions from menial to tool room to forklift driver to carton packer)
8. Bicycle assembly line braze welder
9. Tig welder
10. Reach truck/picker/forklift driver (assembly line parts warehouse)
11. Production paint mixer
12. Steel Worker Union rep (technically not a paying job, but it's cool to list!)
13. Grass cutter
14. Landscaper (all phases, including design and installation)
15. Plant material purchaser/inspector
16. Dump truck driver
17. Irrigation system troubleshooter/designer/installer
18. Computer repair geek (sole proprietor- my current occupation)

[NMDemDist2]

35. OMFG do you thing I have nothing to do for the rest of the week?

good grief

needless to say I can't even remember them all, much less list them

[Runcible Spoon]

36. from earliest to most recent, with ages

1. picking rocks from neighbor's lawn (IT SUCKED!)age 8
2. lawn mowing, cattail pulling(yes! it WAS a service in demand in my neighborhood!) age 11
3. mucking stalls, cleaning tack for rich people (not exactly paid; my horse got free board and I got free lessons) age 12-15
4. training horses, barn manager for rich idiot age 16-17
5. work in chocolate store (best job I ever had, but shit pay) age 18
6. server at Friendly's (horrible job, abusive customers!) age 19-21
7. wrangler at Freeper ranch in Colorado (I quit after a week; we were going to have Ted fucking NUGENT as a visitor; I couldn't deal with the bosses, who were ex-DEA agents-NIGHTMARE JOB!!! Plus the horses were scrawny, abused, and neglected) age 22
8. museum internship (pretty cool until the day I dropped a traty full of ceramics...felt like SHIT!) age 23
9. office drudge in various positions for EVIL TEMP AGENCY! (hard to find employment these days in the summer months!) age 24
10. Present: housesitting, petsitting (good job, doesn;t pay a lot, but pleasant) -present

[davsand]

38. Oh lord. I change jobs like most folks change underwear.

I have forgotten some on here:

Walked beans
Avon lady
Food line in a buffet (beverage girl)
Dept store clerk
Stage manager for college theatre
Cleaned aprtments
Movie theater concession sales
Arbys (ran a Hobart slicer!)
Bartending
Licensed Employment Counselor
Bartender in private club
Bar manager
Food and bar manager
Catering sales and management
Maitre de
Dining room manager at a country club
Bookstore clerk
Headhunter
Bookstore manager
Bookstore buyer
Publisher representative
Kelly Girl
Bookkeeper
Admin assist for legal program
Licensed real estate appraiser
Political office
Media consultant/graphic designer
Political office