what jobs have you had in the past?

[bob]

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.

[jtucci31]

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.

[Desh]

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. 

[Arkhan]

blowjobs.

[TheClash603]

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.

[Necromancer]

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.

[TDIRunner]

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

[Medic_wheat]

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.

[Zero_Gamer]

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.

[wildfruit]

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.

[SamIAm]

- 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...

[Necromancer]

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. 

[ginoscope]

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.

[geise]

-  Train conductor at Dollywood.

LOL!  Not all jobs suck.


Except maybe Arkhan's previous job.
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[SignOfZeta]

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.