Different jobs..

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Occupations have been discussed on here alot....what various jobs have you had over the years. Did you have a favorite one? If you have a short minute, add some details...

From youngest to oldest::: Paperboy, grass-cutter, Italian ice scopper, Cashier at Wendys, Telemarketer, helper for contractor, customer service, insurance sales, financial service sales, satallite dish sales, window sales, furniture delivery, encyclopedia dish sales, worked in a brewary on an assembly line, worked in a deoderant factory on an assembly line, warehouse work, printing and promotional marketing sales, monument sales ...My favorites were being a paperboy not many kids had over 10K in the bank by age 15..least favorite..telemarketing..since 95% of the people you call are less than appreciative about the fantastic deal you are going them to educate them about..Working at Big Hole brewery in Montana was sick..I got to take home all the low fills..JEA!!!!

 

[OldsnowboarderME]

paperboy, blueberry picker, supermarket bag boy/stocker, electrician's mate navy, photocopier repair, pier construction laborer, plywood mill electrician, cardboard box factory worker, waste water treatment plant electrician, nuclear electrical maintenance technician, computer technician, nuclear instrumentation & controls technician. The navy was a lot of fun for me. Probably would have stayed in if I hadn't gotten married. She hated military life. I will admit I didn't enjoy leaving her either.

 

[Riverskier]

Restaurant busboy/dishwasher, grocery bagger/cashier, bakery (mostly retail sales), pizza delivery driver, discount book retailer, beer delivery helper, beer delivery driver, accounting for large finance company, recordkeeper/ assistant team leader for retirement TPA firm, pension administrator- in that order.

Probably liked driving a beer truck the best. Hard on the body though (bringing kegs up and down stairs), irregular and sometimes extremely long hours, and not much career potential. Switched to the financial world after college, hoping for more career development and opportunites. Not thrilled with my current occupation though.

 

[Trekchick]

I've been a dishwasher, waitress, records transcriber at a college office, truck driver(still have my CDL with a tanker endorsement), and the most interesting of all, Porta Jon Pumper.
At the moment, and for the past several years, I manage the office for a family owned business.

I do not recommend that you work with your spouse, but somehow we make it work.

 

[Beetlenut]

Lots-O-jobs! Janitor at a machine shop, Fry cook, Columbia bicycle assembly line worker, Greens Keeper, Asst. Mgr at a Wallpaper store, Sold Hawaiian Tropic suntan lotion on Daytona Beach, Pool Cleaner, Package Store, Heating and Air conditioning, Helicopter Mechanic, Cable Converter tech, and Software Engineer.

 

[Geoff]

Hmmm....

I was the neighborhood lawn mowing tycoon until I was 17

Lifeguard & swimming instructor for 5 years at a private beach. Other than raking seaweed after big storms, I'd like that job for life.

Ski shop employee. Drilling. Tunes. Rentals. A little bit of filling in selling skis on the shop floor.

Every other job has been telecom-oriented high tech. The usual progression of somebody following the individual contributor track rather than the "become a manager" track. Junior Software Engineer. Software Engineer. Senior Software Engineer. Principal Software Engineer. Consulting Engineer. Chief Architect. I've had a VP title a couple of times when I was doing customer-facing things.

I spent a couple of years doing international business development in the late-1990's from one of the companies where I was on the founding team and sold it to a bigger fish. I had an office in New Hampshire and another in Belgium. That was huge fun being paid to travel the world on a generous expense account to talk to people. I probably only "really" worked 8 or 10 hours per week since that was before you could get good internet connectivity on the road. Lots of golf in Ireland. I was told in the Munich Haufbrauhaus that I drank like a German. Hong Kong was really cool. I landed plenty of business so nobody cared that I was skiing in the Alps or doing French wine tours.

 

[tarponhead]

As a kid cut grass in summer, shovel walks in the winter
As a teenager caddy at local golfcourse
As a older teen drive a forklift in a cheese factory
Through college I cooked
Post college was a biochemist for 17 years prior to moving on
Now am a medical writer in big pharma, love the flexability (read can work in bunny slippers from home....)

 

[Hawkshot99]

Started mowing grass at age 10, and still going strong.
Skate guard at local hockey rink for open skating
Worked at a haunted hayride/mansion scaring people
Part time ski tech/ sales at ski shop
Manager of ski shop
Delivery man for the furniture portion of the ski shop, will be a manager again when my store reopens.

 

[mondeo]

At 15, washed dishes. Awful, disgusting.
16-freshman year of college (on breaks), stocked shelves at a supermarket
Also at 16, roadie every once in a while for a jazz band (big band, depending on the gig up to 16 piece + singer.)
Sanded doors and other odd jobs summer after freshman year, then on breaks thereafter.
Co-oped as an engineer after sophmore year in college
Research after junior year.
Engineer since college, and probably for the rest of my life.

 

[gorgonzola]

turkey farm laborer, mowed grass/zoysia grass planter, porter dunkin dognutz, stockboy/sales/security retial clothing store, landscaping/construction laborer, busboy/waiter, architectural draftsman, intern architect, designer/project architect, landlord, husband, father, construction project manager

 

[ctenidae]

Video store clerk, tobacco picker, florist, waiter, busboy, bartender, host, cook, dishwasher, expiditer, manager, general manager, writer, lighting director, light monkey, retail manager, Accounts Receivabo Ho, payroll clerk, Accoutns Receivabo Ho II, Accounting Supervisor, Hedge Fund Accountant, Investment Analyst, Investor Relations

 

[andyzee]

Good thread:

Kielbasa Skin Cutter (serious), Jewlers helper, machine operator in wire fabrication company, machinst, cnc machinst, tool and die maker, PC Field Tech, IT Help Desk for two insurance companies, Network System Engineer, MS Exhange Admin, Windows Network Admin, NOCC Implementer/Manager, Internet Security Engineer.

 

[ctenidae]

Kielbasa Skin Cutter to Internet Security Engineer, in 13 easy steps.

I'm trying to draw parrallels between teh two jobs, because they'd be funny, but I'm having a hard time.

 

[ccskier]

Not too many: busboy/dishwasher, camp counselor, cash register attendant, landscape construction, bellboy/waitstaff, barback, house building, insurance sales.

 

[billski]

my favorite job was the one that defined my destiny.
Worked in an electronics factory one summer, soldering wires onto switches. After two days of it, I stopped and asked all the rotund middle-aged women how they could stand doing the same thing year after year.

The biggest, most rotund of them all responded, "sonny, after a couple of weeks, your mind goes blank!" and continued soldering away.

That set in motion to a plan to have a thinking-person's jobs.

Best worst job I ever had :smash:

 

[andyzee]

Kielbasa Skin Cutter to Internet Security Engineer, in 13 easy steps.

I'm trying to draw parrallels between teh two jobs, because they'd be funny, but I'm having a hard time.

Obviously this was over a long period of time, the first one was when I was 16. That was a tough job, give a 16yr old a knife and some booze, lot of drinking at that job, and all of the sudden the kielbasa skins turn into blood sausage.

Now for your link, you can't see how a knife handler and security would go hand in hand?

 

[gorgonzola]

Good thread:

Kielbasa Skin Cutter (serious), Jewlers helper

you were a moyle?

 

[ctenidae]

Good thread:

Kielbasa Skin Cutter (serious), Jewlers helper

you were a moyle?

That was the other direction I was considering.

 

[RootDKJ]

Fun thread

snow shoveler, audio mic mixer for school board meetings, lifeguard / swim instructor (2 different community pools, an apartment building, Seton Hall, YMCA, Spa 23), municipal court records clerk, , gas station attendant, EMT, retail sales clerk, Customer Service / Sales, QA clerk, IT Coordinator, Controller Operator Engineer, Digital Video Engineer, Engineering Operations Manger, Regional Video Engineering Manager.

The last 7 are all at the same company. Best job ever was lifeguarding. Worst was being an EMT, the company I worked for was so cheap, we would have to steal medical supplies out of the ER's.

Gig I have now is the best I've had with my company, as I can totally disconnect from my work once I leave the office for the day.

 

[OldsnowboarderME]

I forgot to mention chicken house cleaner ..