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most of us are probably tied down to a full time/career work day, but looking back, what are some of the previous jobs you have held?
My upbringing is pretty standard with no exciting money makers in my past, but from 15 or so, I have...
Swept warehouses
Filed sample wigs for Hair Club for Men
Worked at local pizza place, Papa Ginos
Spent 4 years at wendys
In the middle of that, I worked a summer at a movie theater. (Batman Forever was the big one that summer and I saw it, maybe 20 times
Worked for Putnam Investments doing data entry and account processing. This was actually great. It was on my college campus, in 1996, making $12 an hour and set your own schedule. Life was good.
Worked for Reuters doing software automation right out of college
Now my current job of 12 years in finance software design.
I think a thread was put up a long while ago about what people here do currently, but just curious what other jobs people held.
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I'm still in my shit-job phase. Still have a year left in college so working towards a decent and steady job is a goal.
The first job I ever had was working as a bus boy for a local restaurant in my town. No longer in business. My first day on the job, the training day, I show up, and as expected, hardly anyone knew I even got hired. THey take me in the back and the current bus boy working that day starts showing me things in the kitchen and as we walk in the cooks are shooting out the back door with a BB gun. I had no idea what was going on until the cook points to the bus boy training me and says "Go fetch it". He then proceeds to pick up this dead bird, whirl it around in the back, and come back in and continue showing me the ropes.
It was a shit job.
Worked at White Castle for a year, that sucked. Drive-thru f*cking blows, but it gave me an appreciation and patience for people working those shit jobs.
I quit working at White Castle because my boss wouldn't give me 5 days off in the summer. She was an a$$hole about it (had been working just under full time to make up for the slack of our new hires being utter shit and I never asked for days off) so I just quit because I wanted to go on a small tour with the band I was in at the time. Was totally worth it, but then I was jobless for about 6 months :)
Other small shit jobs. Now I deliver the pizzas for Beggars Pizza in the south burbs of Chicago. It's great, I eat tons of free pizza, and read books while waiting for pizzas to come up.
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Started working when I was 14 doing data entry for the company my mom works for. It's a company that owns a bunch of restaurants and hotels so I basically was putting in customer info so they could figure out the best way to advertise.
After that I had a bunch including multiple stints with 2 jobs at once and a stint with 3 jobs at once:
- Worked at a local indoor sports complex
- Worked retail for 6 years in the lawn and garden section (local general store chain called Anderson's)
- Delivered Pizza
- Worked at UPS midnights loading trailers
- Worked at a 10 minute oil change place (the frickin' worst)
- Auto mechanic
- Service Advisor at a GM Dealer
- Managed a few automotive shops
(changed careers and went back to school)
- HVAC and refrigeration technician
I recently acquired a job as "building engineer" at the largest high rise Toledo Ohio has to offer. It's basically a fancy way of saying I maintain, replace or build anything to keep the building going and the tenants happy.
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blowjobs.
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I got my first job washing dishes at 14 and have been steadily employed since. Is it almost time to retire?
- Dish washer.
- Fry cook.
- Pizza cook.
- Pizza delivery.
- Janitor at science building in college.
- Train conductor at Dollywood.
- Prep cook at fancy restaurant.
- Desk jockey at college library.
- Supervisor at college library.
- Data entry for a bank.
- AAA phone sales.
- Trading assistant for CLOs at a bank.
- Customer service manager for commercial banking.
- Credit analyst for commercial banking.
- International relationship manager for commercial banking.
Pretty much the only thing in common with all the jobs is they sucked. I gotta win the lottery.
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Prior to my current racket, I've done telemarketing and did pickup/delivery for a electronics repair shop. The latter was a good workout, lugging heavy CRTs and projectors through people's houses.
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Newspaper delivery boy (5 years - started in 8th grade)
Worked at a pizza place running the ovens (1 summer while still delivering papers)
Schnucks bakery (1 summer while still delivering papers)
Ace Hardware (paint dept manager / customer service manager ~ 4 years)
Sears Hardware (tool sales ~ 3 years)
Private Accounting - 11 years
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Worked at a potato packing factory for every summer between 16-18.
At that job did: cardboard box making, pulling rocks and non potatoes out of belt feed factory work, weighed trucks, did MOS Dos stuff, got hit on by "Blake the flake".
After high school
worked for a local fire and alarm company as a helper. Basicly I preped the vehicle for the day and installed and tested the fire systems of local business and schools. Wasn't selected to be a tech so I left.
Then I worked at a local public library while in college.
Then after dropping out of college I joined the Army a few months after 9/11.
Was a medic for 8 years.
After that I worked for a EMS come at as a NREMT-I until graduating with my masters degree.
Worked for the state of Texas as a Rehabilitstion Counselor with DARS for three years.
Now I do the same job but for the VA and just completed my one year probation.
Not to interesting job resume.
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In high school:
Piggly Wiggly stocker
Worked in the finishing room at Basset furniture.
College:
Computer lab tech
Retail sales at The Limited
Retail sales at American Eagle
Post College:
Operations Manager KMart
Systems Engineer for BlueCross Blue Shield
I must say that the finishing room job sucked the worst. Repetitive labor, working a fast assembly line in 115 degree heat.
Retail in college was very rewarding. I scored a ridiculous amount of leg working those jobs.
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Been working in one form or other for nearly the past 20 years. I'm 33 now.
Delivered papers when I was about 13. Worked in an ex service mans club from about 14-17 collecting glasses and washing up. Then some retail shop work. When I was 18 I was a pool lifeguard. That was the worst job I ever did. 90% time was cleaning. Pulling women's hair out of drains. I've had my current G man job since I was 19.
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- First job in junior high school was taking care of llamas, believe it or not. Don't piss them off, or they will seriously bull's eye you from 30 feet with pink spit that doesn't wash out.
- Did landscaping over the summer in high school and college. In many ways, the most satisfying job I've ever had. Wake up at the crack of dawn and start work at 6:00 AM, sit outside all day and create things with your hands that people will look at and enjoy for years, stop working at 2:00 or 3:00, and eat like a lumberjack.
- Did the night shift at the front desk of a Holiday Inn Express after college while saving money to move to Japan. Ask me about building experimental burgers out of continental breakfast items in the dead of night while listening to chiptunes and keeping an eye out for insane religious nomads.
- Taught English at yer typical Eikaiwa places in Japan. Suffice to say, I'll never trust a large corporation again.
- Did freelance translating and freelance English teaching. It was wonderful. Met tons of interesting people and got a wide variety of translation jobs. Trouble is, it's hard to renew a labor visa on freelance work, and so...
- One of my private students hired me full-time at his company. I'm the only foreigner working at arguably the top cram-school in Kyushu. The hours are too long and the working days are too many, though, so I think about trying to freelance-translate again. Since I'm married now, visa renewals are no longer a problem. With a kid on the way, though, I need that stable income...
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Ask me about building experimental burgers out of continental breakfast items in the dead of night while listening to chiptunes and keeping an eye out for insane religious nomads.
Okay, let's hear it. :mrgreen:
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1- sacked groceries at local grocery store.
2 - picked orders at a local warehouse in Texas and this more than anything motivated me to finish college. A hot warehouse in Texas summer is torture.
3- Worked in an auto body shop doing tear down and repairs.
4- Post college until now I have been a software developer. Not in the game industry but in the corporate world. Would have loved to work on games but looking back I think I did the right thing. The game industry is too volatile and insane work hours with no job security.
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- Train conductor at Dollywood.
LOL! Not all jobs suck.
Except maybe Arkhan's previous job.
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Let's see...paper boy, janitor at old folks home, Pizza Hut (still love pizza), Hot and Now (been a vegitarian ever since), Video Watch (later purchased by Hollywood Video), Electronics Botique (still hate gamers, and that was before podcasting).
Hmm...a brick factory line worker, which is pretty friggn physical for sure, and at an injection plastic facility. I worked in the "tech center" at Staples fixing computers and such. I was a digital graphics tech for some time for a place that makes stuff like the SPAM museum and the Basketball Hall of Fame. Then I switched to automotive stuff. Jiffy Lube. A very small indie shop in rural Michigan (probably my most satisfying job, but sadly helping people who need it most doesn't pay), Honda dealerships, and then I moved to the corporate testing sector having worked for a number of big name companies in that world. Still there. The car thing has been the last 12 years or so.
I've also been a DJ at a roller rink, an installer of office furniture, landscaping (the least satisfying job I've had). I spent some time folding stuff at two different printing presses, working the On Star call center, and some random IT jobs like trying to physically locate for replacement hundreds of dumb terminals in massive massive factories. That one was a real detective situation since those terminals can go without support for decades meaning that while you could see them on the network actually pysically locating them was sometimes much much harder.
I left out the more embarrassing stuff.
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I worked a lot of short or one-time jobs as a kid. I cleaned up a yard of shingles for a roofing company, loaded clay pigeons in a hot tiny room, washed windows for a large clothing store.
Delivered newspapers for a couple years.
Worked a few evenings a week alone at a bowling alley in my mid-teens. Bought a lot of Turbo games during that time.
Worked for a crab fishing company for a while. Went out on one trip on short notice. It was only a day and a half and I was only paid a fraction of what the guy I filled in for would have received, but it was over $1300. I planned on buying a 3DO with SSFIIT, but got a Saturn instead, thanks to the surprise early launch.
After hours stock at a department store.
Worked several retail jobs including a store that sold videos before it was commonplace (was a front for a major distributor). A collectibles store. A music/video store (was a front for a major distributor).
Did a little bit of animation work, but it was soul killing and didn't come close to minimum wage.
Worked at a veneer mill.
I've been working at a dry ice shop which is now more of a plant for 14 years.
I don't get paid directly, but I help my wife and her friends/colleagues who are biologists regularly. I often help feed baby turtles and clean their tubs, catch adults in the wild. Similar work with frogs. Cut down invasive plants and help with restoration projects. All kinds of random stuff.
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Newspaper Delivery (11 years)
Louis & Clark Drug Store cashier (5 years)
Burger King cashier (1 summer)
Western New England College Food service (2 years)
Just Fun arcade attendant (6 years)
Cyberstation arcade attendant (6 years)
Showcase Cinemas/Rave Cinemas usher (5 years)
Ice Imports sales rep (1 year)
Prima Electro North America LLC shipping & receiving (10 years)
The arcades, cinema job, and working at a college cafeteria were the best!
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I started as a paperboy which lasted about ~4 weeks as the boredom couldn't be tolerated and I didn't like having to knock random doors to ask for money as an additional duty, having to also solicit for subscriptions in other words...
Moved up to bus boy at a local restaurant for awhile, and then to my uncle's banquet halls out in the suburbs which lasted for most of High School as a weekend job. Kept my pockets plenty full for the arcades and NES rentals. ;)
Somewhere in between this time at 16-17 years old, I worked for my friend's parents doing construction jobs, demolishing old plaster walls to insulate and replace with drywall, install new electrical outlets, and did new ceiling fan installations. I was sent to his grandparents house for additional freelance work there... Changing 1950's 2-prong outlets to standard 3-prongs for the whole house, new lighting bathroom systems, etc. Mostly, I liked the ceiling fan installation work.
A bit before starting at my university, I worked more freelance for a resale shop fixing mechanical failures for their VCRs. Very intermittent, but I used to hang out there all the time so it was a what-the-hell deal since I was handy.
During my university days, I applied for computer lab manager for the IT staff which consisted of random tech support/troubleshooting for anyone using their computers, helping losers finish their programming assignments (sometimes being nice enough to do the whole thing for the beggars), fetching print-outs, maintaining printers, etc. I started in the Mac lab as I had experience on Mac machines from High School, but that Mac room was so barely used, it eventually got phased out as a separate idea as most PCs were operating under Windows, etc. They switched to having a few Apple machines out with everything else.
After graduation, I started working for a software development consulting firm which had 2 main clients, a financial company I did work for, and a bank directory publisher. I primarily relied on Installshield, Visual Basic 6, Active X, server-side scripting, etc. there given the nature of what they needed/did.
After that, I got a full-time job with the bank directory I mentioned above under the title "software engineer." Real hectic, chaotic job, I did so many things in Visual Basic, VC on occasion, Installshield, server-side JavaScript, Java, Perl, etc. Not a very well organized company, but paid well for the time I guess. That was where I learned most of what allowed for me to eventually do fan translation projects. You had to be a jack of all trades and master of some, but I think that place and formula was a recipe for psychological burnout... :/ I ran into a former co-worker not that long ago who quit, and he says he's perfectly happy working at Walmart now with a loss in pay/salary... I guess that says it all right there!
Years later I wound up in temp construction jobs, framing/drywall installation, then working with a freelance garage mechanic which while I appreciate the mechanic skills I gained, I wouldn't want to do it full time, etc. I liked being able to fix my own car for a while thanks to that, things like total brake system replacement, swapping out an alternator, the gas tank even, and whatever electrical issues, etc.
I had a brief stint back into software development having been hired as a consultant, my 3rd job in IT before the auto mechanic freelance detour, it was PHP website edit/maintenance.
In between all of that, I've always been a landlord/rental apt manager since 17/18 years old (I took over most renter/landlord duties about then) thanks to my dad getting lucky and buying the apartment property he was once renting from. I didn't normally mention this as a job because I could handle it part-time on weekends (tasks like replacing a ruptured water heater, fixing the furnace, changing locks when renters requested it, etc) or inbetween schooling/full-time external jobs, but yeah, it's a family business essentially I was born into.
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Man how many people here were paper boys? Seems like the majority.
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Man how many people here were paper boys? Seems like the majority.
We used to joke that "paper boy" was offensive. We preferred the term "paper distribution engineer."
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We used to joke that "paper boy" was offensive. We preferred the term "paper distribution engineer."
Yeah, that's a good one, like "garbage man" rewritten to "sanitation engineer" to provide more "respectable" connotations/associations with the job. ;)
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Paperboy is the only job you can have legally at that age so it's not surprising we've all done it. It's a great way for the newspaper company to get your parents pay for other people's newspaper subscriptions when you can't collect. A truely industrial revolution scam that lasted probably a century. When my younger brother did it there was no collection aspect but they did have something even worse; the fake newspaper (even more ads than a normal paper!) they give for free to everyone in the hood that isn't a subscriber of the "real" paper. This amounts to having to deliver 6x and much shit but nobody actually reads these or does anything but throw them in the trash.
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Paperboy is the only job you can have legally at that age so it's not surprising we've all done it. It's a great way for the newspaper company to get your parents pay for other people's newspaper subscriptions when you can't collect. A truely industrial revolution scam that lasted probably a century. When my younger brother did it there was no collection aspect but they did have something even worse; the fake newspaper (even more ads than a normal paper!) they give for free to everyone in the hood that isn't a subscriber of the "real" paper. This amounts to having to deliver 6x and much shit but nobody actually reads these or does anything but throw them in the trash.
That was pretty much it for me. Before I was 16, I cut grass in the summer time, but the paper route gave me money all year long. Fortunately for me, they were phasing out the collection method, and I only had half a dozen customers to collect from and only one of which was difficult to get money out of. However, if they didn't pay, it was on me. My parents weren't bailing me out of that.
Although, to be fair, my Dad bailed me out of one big paper boy problem. I had a customer once tell me that the paper I delivered left a newspaper print on his white storm door. He wanted me to replace his storm door..........REPLACE HIS STORM DOOR. The guy even came to my house to confront my Dad. After a short conversation and a few choice words, the guy never spoke to me ever again (a good thing).
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I never was a paper boy but I got to play tons of free arcades at the local 7-11 because paper boys would frequent them and always had extra quarters from what they had collected. I remember they always had 3 cabinets and would change them. Feel bad for my kids those were good times in the 80s killing time reading comics and playing arcades.
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Man how many people here were paper boys? Seems like the majority.
We used to joke that "paper boy" was offensive. We preferred the term "paper distribution engineer."
Silly me. I forgot feminist might not like my mysoginy I meant paper "person" not paper "boy".
Wait wait wait your version is better lol.
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Right, that is the other effect of those rewrites, to gender-neutralize the position title. "Garbageman" to "sanitation engineer" achieves both more "respectable" connotations/associations with the job and eliminates the use of "man" (short for hu-man) which apparently can no longer simply represent both genders as it does for most Indo-European languages.
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Paperboy is the only job you can have legally at that age so it's not surprising we've all done it. It's a great way for the newspaper company to get your parents pay for other people's newspaper subscriptions when you can't collect. A truely industrial revolution scam that lasted probably a century. When my younger brother did it there was no collection aspect but they did have something even worse; the fake newspaper (even more ads than a normal paper!) they give for free to everyone in the hood that isn't a subscriber of the "real" paper. This amounts to having to deliver 6x and much shit but nobody actually reads these or does anything but throw them in the trash.
That was pretty much it for me. Before I was 16, I cut grass in the summer time, but the paper route gave me money all year long. Fortunately for me, they were phasing out the collection method, and I only had half a dozen customers to collect from and only one of which was difficult to get money out of. However, if they didn't pay, it was on me. My parents weren't bailing me out of that.
Although, to be fair, my Dad bailed me out of one big paper boy problem. I had a customer once tell me that the paper I delivered left a newspaper print on his white storm door. He wanted me to replace his storm door..........REPLACE HIS STORM DOOR. The guy even came to my house to confront my Dad. After a short conversation and a few choice words, the guy never spoke to me ever again (a good thing).
That's another thing. Most of the people who subscribed on my block were total a$$holes, basically just hoping to read something cool Reagan did that day. Real uptight f*cks, the kind that would want a new door because it had newsprint on it. Ted Knight would play them in the movie version of my life.
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I've had a number of shit and awesome jobs:
Lemonade stand as a kiddo. A friend's dad worked at the local candy factory so we also sold candy he would get at cost and made really good money for only being about 10 years old. Saved that cash like mofo so I could buy my own TV and eventually a Sega Genesis.
Landscaping, Mowing, Snow removal for local people as a kid. Crap around the neighborhood but there were lots of older folks so they were always looking for help.
City Park District as laborer, also helped me build the connections to set up a really cool Eagle Scout project I did.
Sam Goody as a retail minion for a couple years in High School. The pay was bad but the people and discounts were great and I loved it.
Roofing with my father-in-law while my wife and I were still dating. Did this during college sometimes and it paid well and I got a chance to hang out and get to know my FiL really well which was pretty cool. Also made me 100% sure that I wanted to finish my degree and get a job where I was not outside all the time.
IT Intern at a manufacturing plant in my hometown during most of college. This was my first real taste of the corporate world and I had some awesome to mentors during that time to navigate not only the job but also the social tact you need when people act like idiots and/or children.
A "marketing intern" for the local Papa John's pizza franchise. Basically it was a glorified title for setting up jobs to go around and hang ads on people's doors. I recruited from a single location to get the employees that wanted a break and we would pile in my car and canvas neighborhoods with these things. Also parking lots; I was that guy you hate who puts crap under your windsheild wiper. It was fun and I got as much pizza as I wanted, plus I could hand out free pizza cards to people.
I was a resident advisor in college for 2.5 years as well. It was a pain in the ass many times but it was also awesome as well. Got to meet a ton of different folks and I'd like to think no one really hated me, but I did confiscate beer a lot from people who weren't smart enough to drink with the door shut and then get drunk for free. Woot. After I graduated I helped the director a bit with administrative stuff before leaving campus.
Worked doing IT and web development for a family company in Chicagoland. It was a solid "first job out of school" but the pay was low for living in the suburbs and the only thing that made it worthwhile is I only paid $500 a month for room/utilities in a house owned but the CEO/president. I lived with 3 other guys in the house, all of which were originally from India, and being a a pastey caucasion it was an awesome cultural experience for me. Eventually my fiance got a job out of state and I worked remotely for awhile but got laid off during the recession times. (CEO was heavily leveraged in real estate and got boned when the market crashed).
Now I do web development and systems integration for a multinational corp. Fun stuff, great coworkers and amazing benefits. Who knows what the future holds.
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Ask me about building experimental burgers out of continental breakfast items in the dead of night while listening to chiptunes and keeping an eye out for insane religious nomads.
Okay, let's hear it. :mrgreen:
Ah, I can still taste the old Express Burger.
Basically, it was a bagel sliced in half with several small, cut up sausage patties in the middle. Seasoning included pancake syrup (apply it thinly) or, if you feel like riding on the wild side, a cranberry bagel, which was much better than you'd expect.
Of course, it has to be washed down with a half-pint of chocolate milk. :mrgreen:
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Worked at local pizza place, Papa Ginos
Best pizza in the northeast, hands down!
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- Train conductor at Dollywood.
LOL! Not all jobs suck.
Except maybe Arkhan's previous job.
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I was going to PM Arkhan and see if he was still in the business...
But I guess Dollywood wasnt too bad actually, about as easy of a job you could ever have. Also, they were building a new roller coaster and each day a conductor needed to watch the crossing near the construction site. This meant once a week every 30 minutes I had to wave to a train full of people for 30 seconds, but I basically was paid to play Gameboy Advance all day.
Based on everyone's extensive employment history, I would say our drive to play plenty of games was highly beneficial to producing a productive society.
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Newspaper Delivery (11 years)
Louis & Clark Drug Store cashier (5 years)
Burger King cashier (1 summer)
Western New England College Food service (2 years)
Just Fun arcade attendant (6 years)
Cyberstation arcade attendant (6 years)
Showcase Cinemas/Rave Cinemas usher (5 years)
Ice Imports sales rep (1 year)
Prima Electro North America LLC shipping & receiving (10 years)
The arcades, cinema job, and working at a college cafeteria were the best!
Damn! How old are you lol
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I've had a number of shit and awesome jobs:
Lemonade stand as a kiddo. A friend's dad worked at the local candy factory so we also sold candy he would get at cost and made really good money for only being about 10 years old. Saved that cash like mofo so I could buy my own TV and eventually a Sega Genesis.
Landscaping, Mowing, Snow removal for local people as a kid. Crap around the neighborhood but there were lots of older folks so they were always looking for help.
City Park District as laborer, also helped me build the connections to set up a really cool Eagle Scout project I did.
Sam Goody as a retail minion for a couple years in High School. The pay was bad but the people and discounts were great and I loved it.
Roofing with my father-in-law while my wife and I were still dating. Did this during college sometimes and it paid well and I got a chance to hang out and get to know my FiL really well which was pretty cool. Also made me 100% sure that I wanted to finish my degree and get a job where I was not outside all the time.
IT Intern at a manufacturing plant in my hometown during most of college. This was my first real taste of the corporate world and I had some awesome to mentors during that time to navigate not only the job but also the social tact you need when people act like idiots and/or children.
A "marketing intern" for the local Papa John's pizza franchise. Basically it was a glorified title for setting up jobs to go around and hang ads on people's doors. I recruited from a single location to get the employees that wanted a break and we would pile in my car and canvas neighborhoods with these things. Also parking lots; I was that guy you hate who puts crap under your windsheild wiper. It was fun and I got as much pizza as I wanted, plus I could hand out free pizza cards to people.
I was a resident advisor in college for 2.5 years as well. It was a pain in the ass many times but it was also awesome as well. Got to meet a ton of different folks and I'd like to think no one really hated me, but I did confiscate beer a lot from people who weren't smart enough to drink with the door shut and then get drunk for free. Woot. After I graduated I helped the director a bit with administrative stuff before leaving campus.
Worked doing IT and web development for a family company in Chicagoland. It was a solid "first job out of school" but the pay was low for living in the suburbs and the only thing that made it worthwhile is I only paid $500 a month for room/utilities in a house owned but the CEO/president. I lived with 3 other guys in the house, all of which were originally from India, and being a a pastey caucasion it was an awesome cultural experience for me. Eventually my fiance got a job out of state and I worked remotely for awhile but got laid off during the recession times. (CEO was heavily leveraged in real estate and got boned when the market crashed).
Now I do web development and systems integration for a multinational corp. Fun stuff, great coworkers and amazing benefits. Who knows what the future holds.
Can we get the abridged version lol[emoji3]
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Can we get the abridged version lol[emoji3]
Just read the first line of each paragraph ;)
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Newspaper Delivery (11 years)
Louis & Clark Drug Store cashier (5 years)
Burger King cashier (1 summer)
Western New England College Food service (2 years)
Just Fun arcade attendant (6 years)
Cyberstation arcade attendant (6 years)
Showcase Cinemas/Rave Cinemas usher (5 years)
Ice Imports sales rep (1 year)
Prima Electro North America LLC shipping & receiving (10 years)
The arcades, cinema job, and working at a college cafeteria were the best!
Damn! How old are you lol
I'm 41 but I've had multiple jobs at the same time for the past 20 years.
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During high school I worked at Kohl's Department store unloading trucks.
During college I managed a Panera Bread.
After college I was a bank manager.
Then became a police officer, joined the SWAT team and have been doing that ever since.
I am a volunteer EMT at the local fire department as well.
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During high school I worked at Kohl's Department store unloading trucks.
During college I managed a Panera Bread.
After college I was a bank manager.
Then became a police officer, joined the SWAT team and have been doing that ever since.
I am a volunteer EMT at the local fire department as well.
Since I played quite a bit of Police Quest back in the day, I am fairly certain I too am qualified for SWAT, which is pretty bad ass.
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Uh-oh, a new cop among us... ;)
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Who here does useful work? That would be an interesting question. I mostly spend my days helping to over engineer SUVs nobody needs, so sure isn't me. A lot of software and finance stuff. Any farmers or nurses or anything like that?
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During high school I worked at Kohl's Department store unloading trucks.
During college I managed a Panera Bread.
After college I was a bank manager.
Then became a police officer, joined the SWAT team and have been doing that ever since.
I am a volunteer EMT at the local fire department as well.
Cool. Let's have a work exchange. I have a residential population of 13,500 plus about 25% in tourist and workers in roughly a square mile. My equipment is a bicycle, a tin of pepper spray and a stick. No, you won't get a vehicle or a firearm but you can have my wife that nearly bankrupted me for free!
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Who here does useful work? That would be an interesting question. I mostly spend my days helping to over engineer SUVs nobody needs, so sure isn't me. A lot of software and finance stuff. Any farmers or nurses or anything like that?
I like to think I do "useful work". However, that is very subjective.
If you asked one Veteran whome denied enligbility to pay for him to obtain a second Masters degree through a work readiness program I am "a paper pusher".
Granted he appealed my decision only to be told by the next person up the food chain that his having a bachelors and masters degree in business management is "a highly marketable filed" and would not exasperate his disability conditions.
Last I heard he submitted for a congressional to appeal that as well.
Maybe. Crazy thought here. He should just get a job?
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So...what do you do? Deny grants to vets? I couldn't tell but no, that isn't useful work. I meant like fruit picking or garbage man.
Nothing, NOTHING, ultimately, is more important that taking out the trash.
People who work on the roof of the wiring of your house when you're too dumb.
People who run the kidney dialysis machine.
People who empty your septic tank.
Retirement home employees.
The guy that grows your weed.
These are useful jobs.
Jobs that are not useful:
VGA graders
Insurance adjusters
Anything in advertising
Security guard of a gated community
Red Bull bottling plant line worker
Anything to do with gambling, lotto, or any dumb shit like it.
See what I'm saying? When you genuinly need some serious shit taken care of in a proper way right now, those people.