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What type of jobs have you had? - 9/18/2009 4:20:29 PM
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truthrevealed
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Okay, fess up  How many jobs have you had in your lifetime? What is the craziest position you've held? Which job did you love? Which job makes you look back and say-----"I can't believe I worked there!"
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RE: What type of jobs have you had? - 9/18/2009 7:08:32 PM
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It's been a varied journey:
- checker at Sav-On
- accounts payable and receivable at a metal fabrication plant
- preschool teacher at two churches
- warehouseman at a medical supply store
- warehouse manager at a disc brake remanufacturer
- production control at an electromagnetic relay company
- guitar player at a church
- institutional research analyst at a private university
The common thread running through most of these is supplying needed resources to others so that they can do their jobs better.
Guitar player probably meets the I-can't-believe-they-paid-me criterion.
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RE: What type of jobs have you had? - 9/18/2009 7:43:43 PM
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ta_mosquito
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McDonald's
Airport security (pre-9/11)
Tutor
College telemarketer (calling prospective students)
Packer (packed orders to ship)
Admin assistant/clerical of various kinds
Reservations call-center person for National Car Rental
I don't really regret any of my jobs.
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RE: What type of jobs have you had? - 9/19/2009 2:40:02 PM
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blessedinnyc
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I was a counselor at a boy scout camp up in Wisconsin for a summer several years ago. It was my first full-time job.
It was crazy. Work would start at 7 AM and end at 9 PM every night and involve everything from pulling drowning kids out of the water to helping put together a huge 30 ft. fire that we'd do at the end of some weeks.
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RE: What type of jobs have you had? - 9/19/2009 3:10:06 PM
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Kaidyn
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Lawn Care
Moving
Started my own E-bay business
Roofing
Pro Wrestling
Pro Wrestling would have to be my favorite, it was something that I wanted to do since I was 5.
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RE: What type of jobs have you had? - 9/19/2009 3:47:30 PM
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eaglelady11
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Ice-Cream Scooper: my first job was scooping ice cream at Mountain Delights ice cream store in the mall. To this day, I never want another milkshake as long as I live.
Secretary and Administrative Assistant: I temped a lot; mostly at Disney in Orlando. Some places I didn't like, but I got into the parks and gained some valuable experience. At the time, I thought life was going to be one big party but was immature and realized it was real work. but getting into the theme parks was great.
other temp jobs: I hated them. I wanted to do more and be more and was often put in a back room inputting data into a computer. So people treat temps like dirt, but then again, we teach people how to treat us.
Marketing Assistant: for a community college in Orlando. Nice boss, nice work, nice pay. I got bored and wanted to grow though. But I should have stayed with the company.
Marketing Assistant: for an executive search company in Los Angeles. Did background checks on people, put together marketing materials and set up appointments and travel arrangements. Doing the background check on people was very enlightening, especially on an executive level. Not only did we ask about professionalism, but how the person got along with others, how they handled conflict, etc.. I learned a lot from that one and the boss was cool.
Assistant to Tax Attorney: nice job and nice people. double-checked tax returns for accuracy, set up appointments and it was in a beautiful, trendy part of town.
Museum Store Sales Associate: sold jewelry, art and merchandise. Boring, but met nice people who looked at some of my artwork and I got displayed, and it was in a nice part of town.
Executive Assistant at a major university: Did not get along with the boss. She was micro-managing and a know-it-all, and I didn't respond well to her authority. We had different work styles. I'll leave it at that. to tell you the truth, she reminded me of my mother and I didn't respond to her authority and got insubordinate.
It's ironic you should ask this question, because this morning I was thinking what a great life I have now and how all the past experiences have brought me here and it all turned out okay.
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RE: What type of jobs have you had? - 9/20/2009 10:48:11 AM
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truthrevealed
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Interesting list....keep 'em coming
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RE: What type of jobs have you had? - 9/20/2009 10:52:08 AM
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Taco Bell
McDonalds
Hardees
Hospital Cafeteria
Non-profit health agency
Hotel Clerk
Post office
Factory
place similar to "UPS"
Financial Services
Library
Airline Reservations
The oddest of the bunch?!? In college I worked as a telemarketer. We sold Rodeo tickets for disadvantaged children 
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RE: What type of jobs have you had? - 9/20/2009 5:40:33 PM
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prolifepj
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Hmmmm let' see:
Babysitter
Nanny
Sonic Drive-in Car Hop
Campground admin/bookkepper
Hotel front desk clerk--mgr
Stylist/reflexologist (some of which I still do on the side for fun)
Executive admin
Government finance
Pro-life lobbyist for a non-profit org
Decorating for a dept store/bookkeeping
Admin-slave
Worship leader
Scheduling coordinator
--can't believe people paid me for lobbying
Craziest job? car hop- I had entirely too much fun there! No roller skates for me tho....
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RE: What type of jobs have you had? - 9/20/2009 10:14:04 PM
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creationtalk
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Waitress
Dish washer
Cook's assistant
Pizza delivery
Drove a tractor in the hay fields
Engineer--designing engineering systems for television and radio stations
Lab Assistant--physics and astronomy
Tutor--math, physics, chemistry
Grader (assistant to instructor)--physics and astronomy classes
Research Assistant--Interstellar Medium, High-Energy Density Materials (aka rocket fuels)
Research Physicist--underwater acoustic propagation and acoustic/sediment interactions
Operations Analysis
University instructor--math, physics, chemistry
Course development--acoustics
My favorite jobs have been working in the hay fields, teaching and course development, research and operations analysis.
I don't have any jobs I regret.
Edit: Just remembered one job I did regret. I worked for about 3 hours "scheduling appointments" for a vacuum sales company. It was making cold calls out of the phone book trying to get people to sign up... When I quit I told them I thought the hiring practices were unethical (I was hired as a "management trainee") and that I thought their calling practices were unethical as well--we were required to get certain information from the people that led to a determination of income...and if they didn't have enough income, we were supposed to schedule the appointment anyway, but the sales person would not go....I pointed out that many of these "lower income" people would one day have higher incomes...and would not purchase from that company because of the bad treatment when they had low incomes.
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RE: What type of jobs have you had? - 9/20/2009 10:51:35 PM
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My first "official" job was kinda cool - projectionist at a dinner/movie theater when I was 17. Folks could order dinner before the show and then eat during the movie. The only downside of being a projectionist is having to watch all the rotten movies, too.
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RE: What type of jobs have you had? - 9/21/2009 10:57:39 AM
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BelleWeather
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Selling fruit, vegetables, eggs and chickens from Granny's stall
Worked in a second-run movie theatre
Sold cosmetics for MAC--it still astonishes me how much money I made selling mascara
Teaching ballroom and Latin dance since I was 16
Performing ballroom and Latin dance routines in professional competitions, clubs, restaurants, parties and on stage since I was 14
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What type of jobs have you had? - 9/21/2009 12:23:58 PM
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PinkCarnations
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Home daycare assistant when I was 16.
Church daycare director when I was 17.
Hotel maid when I was 18.
Home daycare assistant when I was 19.
(Took a break to be a SAHM until I was 25)
McDonald's when I was 25.
Newspaper advertising when I was 25-32. (3 different newspapers in three different states.)
(Back to SAHM until I was 38)
Wal  Mart from ages 38-42.
Wendy's when I was 42.
UPS when I was 42-44.
Back to being a SAHM for about 9 months now.
I don't think I regret any of them. Some of them were great and others were horrible though. Wal Mart was the worst. Working for the newspapers was the most fun.
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RE: What type of jobs have you had? - 9/21/2009 3:11:27 PM
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Auben
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babysitting
paper delivery
maid in a motel
Little Caesars
plastics factory
packaging factory
car parts factory
office cleaning
newspaper (printing/packaging section)
data entry
customer service for a health insurance company
office temp
ordering for a large food processing plant
ESL teacher for Berlitz
scheduler/ran office
Berlitz method trainer
middle school sub
English teacher
freelance editor
Mom
My worst job was cold calling people for a 'charity' magic show. They paid cash under the table and the manager's family lived in the office. I quit the first day.
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RE: What type of jobs have you had? - 9/21/2009 5:18:09 PM
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bzirk
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10-15 -- sold watermelons in the summer and firewood in the winter with my dad
13 and up - babysitting (definitely my first "real job")
16-17 - selling tools at Sears (I think the manager was shocked that I actually knew what such things as torque wrenches, flaring tools and radial arm saws were and had used them LOL!)
17-18 - pharmacy tech
18-19 - back to Sears to sell appliances
18-22 - sold vitamins on the side
19-22 - legal assistant during the week; also did a stint at the county courthouse
19-20 - leasing condos on the weekends
20 - waitressed one summer. that was enough to put a fire under me to get my education. As much as I like people, I HATED being a waitress.
20-21 - driving dead head cars for car rental agencies -- mostly on weekends. although I did take off one week of school to spend in California. My parents about had a cow.
22-23 - legal assistant for a pretty large law firm; worked mostly with stock and bond issues.
23-33 - worked in technical support at IBM
31-39 - CEO of a nursing service
39-50 - ran a cleaning service
47-50 - school bus driver; if I had all the money in the world and could pick exactly what I want to do for a living, I would be driving a school bus in the mountains of Colorado. :D
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RE: What type of jobs have you had? - 9/29/2009 7:17:31 PM
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kohls356
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17-21 I was a cashier at a grocery store
21-21 cashier for about 6 months at a home improvement store
21-25 bank teller
25-38 SAHM
38-now working retail
I guess out of the paying jobs I liked working at the bank the most, but working overnight at the store works better with our schedule.
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RE: What type of jobs have you had? - 10/7/2009 7:51:23 AM
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keithyhuntington
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lets see:
-sonic car hop
-sonic kitchen cook
-garfield line cook (its like AppleBees)
-Wal-Mart tire & lube grease monkey
-wal-MART photo lab person
-wal-mart cashier
-Rides Opperator at Six Flags Fiesta Texas
-Sprint tech support (worst job out of the bunch)
-Cricket phone customer service rep
-Harrah's Hotel & Casino reservation booking specialist (awesome!)
-Prayer Cousilor at local undisclosed ministry
man. i need to get a career. =(
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RE: What type of jobs have you had? - 10/7/2009 6:08:16 PM
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mrlucky8ball
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I've had everything from a waiter to software development position.
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RE: What type of jobs have you had? - 10/8/2009 6:58:37 PM
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thethinker
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Waitressing (1st job ever when I was 15/16), lots of part-time/seasonal checkout girl work, which I always have enjoyed, meeting lots of different people (student & fill-in job) & supervisory, (as got older & more experienced) clerical work, factory work, apple budding (!), telesales (briefly), personal driver (self-employed), lots of fun, but too many hours. Would love to be a social commentator, be involved in politics/ social work, as I want 2 improve the world around me within the context of the Christian faith...
I have a degree in Religion, which I got 15 years ago, so am keeping my 'hand in' the Christian scene locally, until I am able to get involved properly...
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RE: What type of jobs have you had? - 10/8/2009 9:40:57 PM
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SaraChristine
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12-17 Babysat for family, friends, and people in the church
15-16 Waitress at an awful pizza place
16-18 Worked at the Family Christian Store
17 East of Chicago
18-19 Monster Tan
19-20 Receptionist/Assistant at a dentist office
20 Work at the Licensing department for the Teaching division at my college
20 Waitress/Hostess at an Italian restaurant
17-20 Full time college student. (does it count if I don't make any money?)
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RE: What type of jobs have you had? - 10/9/2009 4:13:47 PM
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Dish washer
Pet feeder
Bed pan jockey
Needle sticker
Classroom tyrant
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RE: What type of jobs have you had? - 10/9/2009 4:21:43 PM
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12-18 babysitter
18-24Worked at a shelter for kids, when home from college
during college, worked at a domestic violence shelter, and tutored
25 - case manager for kids in foster care
26 - advocate in a domestic violence shelter
27 - headstart
28- 29 migrant headstart
30 - ritzy private childcare center
31 teacher in public school, special ed. prek.
32 - tutoring, masters college, looking for a full time job.
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