what jobs have you had in the past?

[TheClash603]

-  Train conductor at Dollywood.

LOL!  Not all jobs suck.


Except maybe Arkhan's previous job.
8====D~~~~~ O=

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.

[Zero_Gamer]

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

[Zero_Gamer]

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]

[xelement5x]

Can we get the abridged version lol[emoji3]

Just read the first line of each paragraph

[hoobs88]

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.

[ConsoleGeek]

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.

[TheClash603]

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.

[NightWolve]

Uh-oh, a new cop among us...

[SignOfZeta]

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?

[wildfruit]

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!

[Medic_wheat]

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? 

[SignOfZeta]

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.