What Jobs Have You Had?

[AU24K]

What are some of the jobs you've had? Favorite? Least favorite? Unusual job?
When I was a teenager, the carnival came to town and I landed a job running the "claw cranes". Been a printer, police officer(military), retail store manager, electrician, maintenance director at hospitals and nursing homes, lumberjack, construction worker, kitchen manager at a college sorority and currently own a locksmith business.
Scott

 

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[mojjax]

The best job I ever had was Elver Dipping . The baby eels were going for $3.50 a pound . I would make an average of $500.00 a night . One good night I made $837.00 .

Not only it was good money , it was fun too !

 

[Monty]

I've worked ever since I was 13. My first job was working in a soda shop owned by a neighbor. I dipped ice cream and made sodas and malts and shakes and made hot dogs. At the time a one dip cone was five cents, two dips was ten cents, a sundae was twenty cents , a malt or shake a quarter and a hot dog 15 cents. A bottle of pop was 6 cents, a bag of chips a nickel. My salary was 50 cents an hour. Anyting I ate came out of my check. I usually worked for nothing after the decuctions!

Second job wa a sack boy and stocker in a super market when I was 16. One dollar an hour plus tips. Super market customers are lousy tippers too!

Worked one summer my Senior year in an all night gas station in a small town in west Texas. Met all kinds of weird people, made a dollar an hour and worked 7 days a week. Rough necked for a couple of weeks until they found out I wasn't 18 yet. Toughest job of my life. Went back to the super market when school started.

Demonstrated and sold vacuum cleaners on appointment basis after graduation from high school. Sold a vacuum to a family with dirt floors! Had to go reposses it when the credit failed. Found the kids beating each other over the head with the parts when I finally rounded up all the pieces!

Joined the Air Force for 4 years when the vacuum cleaner business didn't work out. Spent time in west Texas, Libya North Africa, and finally discharged in Orlando, Florida. Grew up a little and it was good for me. Went in during Cuban Crisis and got out During Vietnam. All the bases where I was stationed are closed now. Wonder if I had anything to do with it?

Tulsa, Ok Police Dept. 21 1/2 years. Went to school on the GI bill while working full time with the PD and got my degrees in Police Science and Psychology. Retired with the rank of Sergeant in 1988 and took a second career Job with the City at another position.

Manager of Code Enformcement for the City of Tulsa, Ok for ten years. Retired again with a disability from an accident I had involving an accidental fall and a broken back.

Retired with 100% disability in 1998 and here I sit doing what I can when I can.

Managed to raise 2 boys and a girl and how have six grandkids to keep me busy. Married for nearly 39 years to a really wonderful woman and wouldn't trade place with anyone else! Monty

 

[ianSF]

Library helper & book shelver
Restaurant Prep Cook
Organic Produce Stand Worker
Prep Cook again, and Chef
Logistics Analyst for Trucking Company
Temp
Bank Relationship Manager
Fixed Income Portfolio Manager
Unemployed
Temp, again
Paralegal

 

[G.I.B.]

Paperboy bike route.

Soda fountain sub sandwich maker.

Boilermaker USN

Husband

Shipyard lagging/insulation labor

Police officer, then onto deputy sheriff 25 years.

(Helicopter/airplane pilot for the sheriffs office
Rescue scuba diver
Marine patrol
Detective
U/C Narc
blah blah blah)

International security work, numerous foreign countries.

Author

Grandpa

Finder of poptops

Drinker of Corona whilst sitting on a fat slow sailboat listening to Jimmy Buffett and watching sunsets.

 

[Smee]

Donut cook
burger flipper
Form Carpenter for CECO
School Bus Driver (Yep, drove the cheesewagon)
OTR Truck Driver
News Paper Delivery (Rural Route, no bicycle)
Repo Man / Skiptracer / Computer Tech / Antique Furniture Repairman (sometimes all four in the same day for my current employer)
Website Design / Graphics Design Artist (self employment)

 

[Digginman]

Paper Boy, Soldier (US Army), Security Guard, Landscaper, Machinist (I loved doing this), Trashman, Quality Manager of a Circuit Board Company (don't really like this, but it pays well).

DM

 

[Noodle]

Probably the most interesting was a development researcher. Ever heard of that? It's a job that you get when you can't make it in the field your degree is in. I didn't have a degree at the time, so I just worked for the losers. Another name for it is "fund-raiser," but you don't exactly do any fund-raising.

A development researcher has unlimited access to a college graduate's information and knows where to look to get it. There are software packages just for this, Lexus-Nexus being one of them. Colleges and universities want to know how much their graduates are worth so they can tap them for donations. The higher the degree, the more info is available. This happened to be at a law school, so my job was to find out who were successful lawyers and who were REALLY successful lawyers. Property. Divorces. Awards. Settlements. Jury awards. Fun stuff.

Court records, county records (property), news reports, etc. I really enjoyed it.

Then I relocated and had to settle for something drabber, but still fun. But the researcher was the most fun. A "gossip" job.

Noodle

 

[Yarrum]

Deli Worker
Barista
Farmer
Pawnbroker

The only one I really liked was farming. Didn't like the isolation though.

 

[LaKASkill]

I work in Casino Surveillance- prior to that I worked in Security. When I was younger I was a pipe fitter and welder, thank god I have a my desk job these days.

 

[Monty]

Since I don't have a clue what a Buon Complanno is, I'll take that as a compliment! And mucho nachos and frejolos to you too Sir Fartsalot! Monty

 

[PBK]

I tried most of the usual jobs for kids, everything from picking strawberries to peddling stuff around our small town. Tried one or two unusual ones, too: collecting and selling fossils, helping set and run trotlines (Do not post that old joke! ), etc.

I got my first real job at 16, working for several years as a radio announcer. In my spare time I also hung out at a couple of local newspapers, getting a crash course in ink-and-grease journalism.

After college I taught high school English, and occasionally speech and journalism. During that period I began freelancing on the side, and that proved to be my undoing.

For over 25 years now I've worked as an editorial consultant, "a truly challenging and rewarding profession" which occasionally pays almost as much as picking strawberries.

Some people never learn.

 

[diggummup]

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[vibes]

In high school I was a supermarket cashier.
Summer after graduaton I was the lifeguard at the Breakers Hotel in Myrtle Beach, sold suntan oil and at night I worked for Ripley's Believe It Or Not...some nights I was the genie in the bottle, other nights operating the mechanical bull
Then I moved to Houston, waited tables and also worked as a club DJ on weekends.
After a year of that I FINALLY got my big break and recorded a song, made a music video and nominated for a Texas Music Award in 1984.

Went back to school after 3-4 years of being in the music biz. This was in Tulsa ,OK...and worked part-time on the America's Shopping Channel. After graduating I embarked on a career in advertising and worked for radio and TV stations schleppin' :30's and :60's. After YEARS of that bidness I decided that I wanted to do someting that I've always wanted to do-- so-- took a HUGE pay cut and plopped my arse in front of a radio microphone--and I'm still at it with a bit of voiceover work thrown into the mix as well. (anyone in Augusta, GA?). I love my job

I also do mosaic work on the side--from the shards I find while bottle digging and/or metal detecting.

The End

 

[BLACKFOOT]

paper boy, hay hauling foreman when 16 years old , fireman in navy, BOUNCER IN HOUSE OF ILL REPUTE IN NOGALES SONORA,miner silver an uranium,copper,core driller, heavy equipment operator,mechanic,truck owner- operator,i think that is all
oops forgot gunsmithing..

 

[truckinbutch]

Farmer , cow milker ; starting at age 6 .
Swamper on a horse logging job working for my grandfather .
Strawberry picker on the home 2 acre patch at $.05 per quart .
By 10 was also sneaking off to the local Company Store to be a Cafe Fighter for nickles and dimes .
Construction work was next , laboring with a pick and shovel , along with still farming .
Teen years were taken up with farming , logging , horsebreaking ,and hauling bootleg whiskey .
Underground mining , farming ,logging , horsebreaking , and being a gun guard at high stakes card games along with being married and making 4 children took up the next 20 years .
Spent the next 20 yrs as a sailor of the concrete seas haluing heavy haul and oversize . Two and one
half million miles without a moving violation or chargeable accident driving an 18 to 50 wheeler .
Currently back to farming , woodworking , and doing my absolute best to corrupt 5 (as of today) grandchildren .
Doing an admirable job of corrupting those grangchildren ; if I might add .....

 

[G.I.B.]

Since I don't have a clue what a Buon Complanno is, I'll take that as a compliment!

Monty, I was thinking that it, figuring your age, means 'Someone who complains about bunions'.


Now I'm just confused with all the other explanations...

 

[G.I.B.]

After a year of that I FINALLY got my big break and recorded a song, made a music video and nominated for a Texas Music Award in 1984.

Hey Vibes, is the song still available? I bet lots of folks here would like to hear you sing!

With luck the video is on YouTube perhaps?

 

[kenley]

Load Coca Cola trucks @ 12yrs (some rich people bought a whole case of Cokes at a time for $1.25
Grocery store stocker and bagger @ 13 ( $3.00 for 8 hr. shift)
Caddy from 12 to 17
Tool dresser and tubing hand(oil patch) 14 to 17 ( $1.40 hr)
U.S.M.C. 18-22
Bulldozer/crane operator/truck driver 18 to 67
My carpet cleaning buiness since 1994
Most interesting: Test driver for UNIROYAL
Longest streach: Halliburton (14 yrs)
Most fun: Testing fishing lures for money

 

[mastereagle22]

Very boring stuff but I will list it anyway:
AGE
12 - bought a second-hand lawnmower and cut grass made $400.00 June - September
13 - cut grass June - September $1100.00 made that summer
14 - Again cut grass and my Aunt that owned a restaurant started teaching me how to cook. $1500 in lawn mowing that year.
15 - Short order cook, did this until 17
16 - Part time Radar Operator training Instructor for State of Missouri
17 - US Army Reserves
18 - three factory jobs from January until April ( I hated factory work) then switched to roofing. Tear-off and clean up and mule for bundle of shingles up any ladder also dug ditches by hand at this time for a sewer company...
19 - BEST job EVER!!!! Dominos Pizza Delivery Guy. I LOVED THIS JOB!!!!
I also worked weekends at the local State Mental Hospital while going to LPN School, I attended school full-time and then worked 20 hours on Saturday and Sunday usually
19 - Graduated from LPN school.
21 - Started doing computer repair and maintenance work in off-time. First actual paying computer job
23 - Started my first "Official" computer service and repair company. Earned my AA in Nursing, RN
26 - Administrator of Home Health office for 1 year
27 - RN and PC repair
28 - Earned BSN worked as RN in ICU and did PC repair and network installs
32 - Decided didn't want to be nurse any more went to school for Computers and Networking. First year back worked as student worker in the Industrial Technology Department
33 - Intern in the Telecommunications Dept at the local State University Graduated with BS Degree in Industrial Technology with Emphasis on Computer and Electronic Technologies.
Opened first store-front PC repair and Networking shop. Kept this open for two years
35 - continued as RN and began doing some Legal Chart review jobs
Currently working as RN, doing computer work on side, networking, cable installs, phone installs, Consulting on Medical Malpractice suits by providing chart reviews etc. I don't have any trouble filling the hours.......

Sorry so boring.