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Jobs you have had? - Page 2
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I'll pick out a couple and add in a bit a colour behind them (slightly different theme - I know) First job - selling fabric on a market stall ('Oh yes love, electric blue is really in this year, and that silky finish suits you'). Minus points - the wages, having to wear three layers of thermal long johns during winter. Plus points - I can fold anything, having to 'come out of my shell' (you can't be shy when you are haggling over the price of velveteen off-cuts), being part of the market community (top people). Worst job - making containers and packaging for cosmetics and fragrance (oh the irony). It was a factory job over one summer. You sat on an assembly line putting plastic screw tops into gold caps, for eight hours a day, on split shifts, plus overtime. Minus points - the smell of hot glue all day, the sense that your brain was melting (I turned up in week one with a novella to read in my lunch break, by week ten I was staring at the wall), the mixed feelings - you knew that you would back to the balm of college within weeks, the others workers had been there years and stayed sane and cheerful. Best job - it's not felt like it this week but, my current job. I'm a law lecturer at a university. When I was a student I mentioned to my personal tutor that I was considering the academic life and all he said was 'It's civilised, you'd like it'. After dealing with the bureaucracy and the bullsh*t, I have to remind myself that my job mainly involves reading and writing about subjects that I have chosen because I'm very interested in them, and then trying to pass on some of that interest to my students - mustn't grumble. Sorry this is 'off-style' - I like back stories Answer: -volunteer at a local nursing home during high school -volunteer as an usher and various other capacities at my church, which I still do -assistant to the director of undergraduate admissions while in college -bookseller at one of my local chain bookstores for six years -student Answer: Carnival booth operator Cook Accountant Bartender Cagefighter Answer: So far, my only true job has been a photographer for Anderson University in Anderson, Indiana during my brief stint there. It was a fun job, but there were a lot of other conflicts in my university life, so I had to leave both the job and AU early. This past fall, I was close to volunteering for a candidate for the U.S. House. However, I could never get ahold of the people running the campaign, and not surprisingly, the candidate I wanted to volunteer for lost. (As the discussion of politics isn't allowed here, I won't name names.) However, I just applied a few days ago for a part-time fragrance sales job at Macy's. This is my third time applying for this job (the first one was in June 2006 when the store was still L.S. Ayres, and the second one was in November 2006). I hope that I get it this time... as they say, "the third time's the charm". Answer: early on: changed tires at my dad's tire shop high school/college: besides restaurant jobs, worked in record shops, a paint factory for a few months, and the coolest job ever: working for a think tank that claimed as affiliates the likes of Ralph Abraham, Rianne Eisler, Morris Berman, Bill Viola, William Irwin Thompson, James Lovelock, and others I can't think of. post college: technical manager for a hi-end audio manufacturer; did some freelance design and modification of audio equipment; front-end web programmer currently: quality assurance engineer for the web commerce site of a 750 billion USD home furnishings company. basically means i get paid to a) write code that tests other code; b) bitch and moan about stuff that doesn't work. future: healthcare. not sure what exactly, but sonography would be a nice marriage of my sound and medicine interests.... Answer: From most recent down; Neuropsychologist Post Doctoral Fellow Crisis Outreach Clinician Psychology Intern Psychotherapist Grad Student Research Assistant Mental Health Specialist Hardee's Supervisor Hotel Bellhop Golf Course Greenskeeper Dishwasher Office Cleaner Perfume Factory Worker (Halston! I used to get factory seconds for 10% of cost!) Porter for a landscaping retailer Vegetable Picker for a farm market Answer: A Public Servant for most of my life, but recently we were reclassified as public employees. Renato Answer: werewolf - doesn't pay well--but excellent fringe benefits accountant for a resort software company accountant for the founder of a major credit card..this one was priceless!! studio musician - guitar yacht club manager restaurant manager-twice...once was NOT enough hospital technician supermarket worker Answer: Let's see....from the age of 8 I have been: - Child labor for my parents and their friends, yardwork, painting, general crap they didn't want to do. Thanks dad! - Stall mucker at a polo club. 1 day. Thanks for that one dad! - Roofer in FL in the summer. Again, thanks dad! - Fast food cook then manager. I blame myself for this one. - Production worker in a high tech manufacturing plant. - Computer lab technical support. - Systems Analyst/Programmer - Project Manager - Performance Consultant - Procurement associate now a procurement category manager with staff. - who knows what I'll do next.... ....Note: I give my dad grief over the crappy jobs I had in my youth...but I'd like to believe it was purely intended to show me how good I actually had it and how bad things could be. It got me to go to school and not settle with being unhappy at what I do....so, Thanks dad! Answer: cleaning and sweeping a laundry delivering and picking up laundry auto mechanic printer photographer darkroom added to photography printing some more customer service for printer middle management for printer desktop publishing web design and maintenance photo retoucher retired on disability at 50 Copyright ? 2006 - 2007 www.thankhealth.com Privacy Policy
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