Job's/profession's

[growalot]

LOL...Pygmy I left my biggest job out...Mom..That gave me a 4H leader volunteer position...Candy striped in Highland hospital...doing menus and in the lab,separating plasma from blood cells.I got some scary stories on that one! also hand delivered penny savers...I use to have several jobs at once...I do enjoy working and learning

Edited March 8, 2015 by growalot

[philoshop]

One's life experience is the foundation for their perception of the world. Limits on the former will always result in limits on the latter.

[hunter49]

Glow, is there anything you haven't done ?  You are one busy person!

Edited March 9, 2015 by hunter49

[Zem18]

I did Restaurant and kitchen gigs throughout high school and college. Then I worked for a food service distributor for 12yrs and worked up into management. Position was eliminated in 2006 and I was hired as an Assistant Manager in a dry grocery warehouse. They sold in 2010 and now I am the Warehouse Manager for a local screen printing and embroidery company.

[BizCT]

Camp counselor, hardware store, produce dept at grocery store, bartender, plumbing, warehouse work, nightclub promoter, drug dealer, landscaping, accounting, finance, etc.

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[sampotter]

Drug dealer and camp counselor at the same time?

[jjb4900]

dishwasher, dockbuilder and  maintenance mechanic for 10 years before landing my current job from which I can retire from in 10 weeks.....that's from the US Postal Service.

Edited March 9, 2015 by jjb4900

[ELMER J. FUDD]

This thread could get interesting real quick.

Christmas tree salesman, paper boy, bakery clerk, sandwich artist, pizza delivery guy x3, supermarket cashier, gatekeeper/ collector at a local lake, telemarketer, fryer cook, restaurant exhaust vent maintenance, deli worker, Lube tech, auto mechanic, dispatcher for a cable company, youth counselor at a group home, nightclub promoter, DJ, barback, security once, carpenter, flooring mechanic, building maintenance mechanic, Glazier, estimator, project manager, department head.

[DeerDuck]

Does Man-whore or gigilo count as work????

[BizCT]

Drug dealer and camp counselor at the same time?

No, a few years apart

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[growalot]

DeerDuck...I suppose only if you were good at it..Lol..I actually know two guys that moved to Florida and made a good living doing just that.

[Paula]

Does Man-whore or gigilo count as work????

 

Absolutely! As long as you have money coming in. 

[rotorooter23]

Construction Laborer, Fish and Wildlife Tech w NYSDEC, Microbiologist, and now an Engineer. (Not the Train Type)

[Fehyd643]

Army Eod, Medically retired, 2yr college degree (IT), 4 yr Degree (Bus. Mngmnt), Hotel overnight manager (Hyatt), Car sales, Database engineer, digital media manager.

 

Currently looking: Resume available upon request.  

[Fehyd643]

Oh, taught at various dojo's (mostly weapons and self defense) off and on for 20+ years.  Too old and broken now.

[Single_shot]

While in school I worked for a local farmer and at the high school on the CETA program (painting, cleaning desks, buffing floors etc.) then went in the Army. From there I worked as a dish washer, gas station attendant, worked for a company that pulled up old track and bundled railroad ties (rough azz job that was) then worked for a nursery planting seedlings by the thousands, worked in a 3 different sewing factories as a presser, 3 different security jobs of which 1 was armed,  worked for Mack Trucks parts dept., worked as a machinest in various locations, picked up/delivered cars/vans for a rental company, sold Kirby vacs door to door (LOL) , mason labor, framing labor, worked for a large local tire care company (Jack Williams Tire) for 6 1/2 years as an over the road commercial tire service tech which included loader/backhoe/gradeall etc tires, then to my current job of 22years as a ready-mix driver. May have forgotten a couple in there but, basically tried different things at an early stage just to keep the $ flowing.Oh and lets not forget, raised 3 spawn and happily married for 32 years  

[mmkay]

Teenage years = life guard / lawn mowing / busboy / waiter / food prep/ farm work/ construction

 

College years = 50+ hours a week construction and night school (earned three college degrees this way)

 

Early career - probation officer

 

Late twenties to present (20+ yrs) – database admin / statistician / landlord....current Sr. Director of DB Marketing for fortune 100 company

 

 

Fyi – I never hire anyone that didn’t have a paying job by the age of 15.  If they said their first job was after high school,they never get a call back

[Lawdwaz]

All you people with many, MANY multiple jobs..........how many times were you FIRED from a job? 

 

I don't really want to know, just still amazed at the amount of things some of you have done. 

 

 

[Single_shot]

All you people with many, MANY multiple jobs..........how many times were you FIRED from a job? 

 

I don't really want to know, just still amazed at the amount of things some of you have done. 

 I was never fired, but 2 of the local machine shops "let me go" because they hired under false pretense.....back then the labor laws were lax. A company would hire you, work your butt off and when the Gov't contract was completed, they would "let you go"  with some made up reason like " we don't see that you have enough exp to remain with us here so we need to let you go. Well I had enough exp to work there for 2 years and you had no complaints and even gave me raises, soooo?

[mmkay]

never fired.  many times I had 3 or more jobs going at the same time. 

[phade]

All you people with many, MANY multiple jobs..........how many times were you FIRED from a job? 

 

I don't really want to know, just still amazed at the amount of things some of you have done. 

 

Never been fired, and I had to think about it if that was true, which is weird. I have however put in my two week notice and received counter offers a time or two. While it is an advantageous situation, I personally don't enjoy it because I am burning a bridge. Burning bridges is a forced/learned skill for me; not something that comes naturally and is a weakness in my skill set.

 

Anyone can be replaced is my mindset though; that might be why I am worth a penny or two.

 

Interesting note on the jigalo comments - When I lived in VA, I had a neighbor who owned a Viper, a Corvette, a nice Abelmarle 24' with Yanmars, and he was 23ish. Never could figure out how he came into money like that despite having wealthy parents. He wasn't from the area and had just got out of the Navy after a few year stint. Turns out he started a male escort business. Not my kind of interest, but he earned some serious money. His father was a successful financial advisor and after buying the cars/boats, he started investing heavily into a diversified portfolio. Last I heard he moved to Florida and pretty much stopped working by the age of 30, and bought a nice house on the water in Ft. Lauderdale.

[Elmo]

Absolutely! As long as you have money coming in. 

 

Man, was I dumb!  For years I was doing the job for free!

[hunter49]

  I had a friend who worked in a pickle factory but got caught putting his wiener in the pickle slicer & they both got fired!

[Elmo]

Forgot to list one job...for which I did get fired from...technically speaking.  Was a sale associate at a major retail clothing store during college.  I decided to stay there over the summer afterwards instead of going back home.  Never missed a day.  I asked for a week of during Christmas break so I can head home to visit family and my boss told me I couldn't because Christmas was their busiest time of the year.  Understandable.  Two weeks later, another sale associate who we all thought was a slacker and a brown noser asked for an was granted the week off during Christmas.  I said screw this and took that week off on my own.  When I came back to hand in my name badge, the manager obviously fired me.  Problem was he said it before I could utter "I quit" so technically, I was fired.

[Northsox65]

I worked Construction and Bailed Hay in HS, then went in the Military for 21 yrs working on the A-10 Warthog, Tank Killer, then Retired for the frist time at 40 yrs young, now I work for the Federal Govt as an Accountant, still have about 12 more yrs before I can retire for good and then live the "good" life!