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14 May 2007

What jobs have you held? [More:]

Include volunteer positions too, if you wish.

I've variously worked as a grocery bagger/cashier/deli clerk, hospital junior volunteer (candy-striper) coordinator, public-library book shelver, tutor, substitute K-12 teacher, receptionist, administrative assistant, editor, technical writer, cataloger and reference librarian. What about you?
paperboy, raincoat factory worker, busboy, grocery stocker, video store clerk, proofreader, telemarketer, bread factory worker, baker's helper, bookstore clerk, computer salesman, data entry clerk (plus a lot of bizarre temp jobs like counting 475 pair of thong underwear in a Pequeña Habana clothing store).
posted by jonmc 14 May | 14:57
hrm.

In chronological order:
convenience store cashier, grocery store stockroom person, tutor for high schoolers, camp counselor (at SCIENCE! camp) TA for med students, poisons information officer, lecturer, research scientist.
posted by gaspode 14 May | 14:57
Jesus. I've 1)Cleaned carpets; 2)Worked in a couple of different restaurants, rising to Restaurant Manager (woohoo!!!!) and 3) worked for a food distributor, doing jobs ranging from cleaning restrooms to driving a hilo to doing website and database design.

Oh, and when I was a kid, I worked on a mechanical raspberry picker for a summer. I have never worked as many hours a week as I did at that job.
posted by deadcowdan 14 May | 14:57
Oh yeah, summer jobs. There was the great hardware store stocktake. Yes, I counted nails. Thousands and thousands of nails. I've also picked berries, been a housecleaner, done data entry and been a gardener.
posted by gaspode 14 May | 14:59
Babysitter, cashier, ear piercer, audio book shelver, order processor, face painter, balloon animal maker, merch booth support, parade crowd control, envelope stuffer, data monkey, music promotions intern, conference speaker, practice test timer, cat sitter, superhero.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 14 May | 14:59
house painter, landscaper, baseball player, vintage clothing reseller, tennis pro, baseball coach, musician, band manager, investment banker, software developer, project manager, entrepreneur, middle manager, soulless suit.
posted by psmealey 14 May | 14:59
Dickee Dee ice cream vendor, Grocery cashier, cashier and customer service rep for Canadian Tire, waitress (3 days - found out I have no short term memory - transferred to next job), hotel cafeteria/kitchen lackey (no short term memory needed here), summer research assistant, professional lab monkey/phd student, teaching assistant for two different courses and 7 project students.
posted by LunaticFringe 14 May | 15:00
office clerk, grocery store cashier, research lab bitch (biophysics), research lab assistant (neurobio), TA, web dork

and various one time only volunteer dealies.
posted by stynxno 14 May | 15:04
First job was at McDonald's -- breakfast shift in the next town. It sucked. Then I worked at the Mazda plant in town, moving unairconditioned cars from one big field to another so they could have their AC installed. In college I worked for a guy who owned a bait and tackle shop. He hired me to do clerical stuff, but when I saw the boxes and boxes of unopened mail he wanted me to go through, i told thim there was no way. So he put me to work counting worms into styrofoam cups.

Later in college, I worked in photo labs and as a gate attendant for a botanical garden. Got a job interning/writing for a magazine after graduation, then ended up being their business manager/web monkey. Left that job to be a researcher at a nonprofit. Quit that one, worked as a researcher/writer for the Texas House of Reps. Moved to CA and worked a shitty editing job at the university for a while, now doing freelance writing full time.
posted by mudpuppie 14 May | 15:09
Disk jockey (radio and club), ENG-EFP director at a TV station, cinematographer, Trainer for an NGO, stock broker, software sales support engineer, and College prof. I have also owned a few businesses: DJ service, book store, call centre, Internet service provider and a software company. Also, sideline jobs like scrap metal trader and photographer.
posted by arse_hat 14 May | 15:12
My first job was also at McDonald's (people made fun of me because I was a vegetarian). Then I was: a concierge, night auditor, receptionist, insurance biller, jazz librarian, rock'n'roll star, architectural designer, and voice teacher. Oh, and my favorite job: copy geek.
posted by Specklet 14 May | 15:14
In no particular order, deli clerk, countergirl at fudge shoppe, french bakery, gourmet to go place and health food store juice bar, dishwasher, waitress, prep cook, model, maker of tourist gewgaws including shell boxes and porcelain earrings, framer, secretary, girl friday, PA, gallery assistant, band manager, music scheduler, receptionist, volunteer coordinator, school programs assistant, coordinator of children's and family programs, communications manager, PR flack, data entry clerk, student teacher, office manager, housewife and welfare mother.
posted by mygothlaundry 14 May | 15:18
Produce stand stockboy, curio dealer's apprentice, liquor store clerk, carpenter, landscaper, library aide, opera pit orchestra violinist, rock and roll rhythm guitarist, dishwasher, dairymaid, chicken farmer, avocado picker, cotton harvester, olive picker and briner, ostrich handler, sous-chef, groundskeeper, exterminator's assistant, plastics factory worker, toy assembler, night watchman, Japanese junior high school English teacher, Japanese junior high school basketball coach, business English teacher in Japan, web and print designer, retail assistant manager, pet store animal caretaker, commercial and film production assistant, location scout, file clerk, theatrical dresser, stagehand, personal assistant to the CEO, investment banker.
posted by Hugh Janus 14 May | 15:20
shoe salesboy, pool supply store worker, internet tech support, web programmer, doorguy at a bar, music promoter, campus IT tech support, 35mm projectionist, freelance writer. in that order.
posted by nitsuj 14 May | 15:22
I worked at a fireworks tent, taco bell, Six Flags, Ramada, Wal-mart, and did landscaping before i graduated from high school...

i worked at a transgenic research lab, NAPA Auto parts, a vegetarian restaurant, a library, a bookstore, and delivered sandwiches while i went to university...

in the gypsy years, i picked fruit, worked at a movie theatre, took kids from country clubs on horseback rides, bartended, cooked at various places, made pizzas like a madman, was a distributor of various substances, was a receptionist for a law firm, a commercial real estate firm in LA, and a television rebroadcaster that specialized in mexican tv, an arcade, and various random things that somehow kept me from starving...
posted by Schyler523 14 May | 15:23
Tutor (both kids and high schoolers), non-union radiology clerk, lab bitch, grader for undergraduate math courses, desk attendant for rec. center, engineer.
posted by muddgirl 14 May | 15:25
I believe these are all the official job titles: library page (twice), bookstore sales clerk, law library assistant, researcher/fact checker, document editor, office manager, document editor again, writer/editor, publications specialist, legal proofreader, plus short-term stints as an education researcher, library assistant, and catalog proofreader.
posted by JanetLand 14 May | 15:28
I've worked in fast food (every non-management position at a mcdonalds), cleaned computers for a school district, worked as a zoner/customer service at a Target, worked as an electronics Level II at Target, helped students use audio and video equipment in college, bookseller, freelance city guide writer, videographer for a public access channel, bookseller, marketing associate and volunteer language tutor.
posted by drezdn 14 May | 15:40
(reverse chrono)database programmer, freelance writer, database programmer again, admin assistant for textile art, tech company flunky, call center flunky, hall director, RA, paint crew kid, dollar store clerk, night-shift janitor at a nuclear power plant.

(I wrote a short article about that last one)
posted by cobra! 14 May | 15:44
* Day camp counselor for a nature camp for elementary school kids

* Intern for corporate software-training consultants, where I made many copies and got to be the guinea pig when the consultants wanted to practice teaching the software. This was in eighth grade and is more or less where I learned to use computers, and was doubly awesome because it was a woman-owned and -run office. I went back during the summer before college and did some editing work for them, too.

* Waited tables at two different places.

* Sales clerk at a department store. Hated it. Quit after three months or so by leaving a voicemail and then never showing up again.

* Cashier at a garden store. An un-air-conditioned garden store. In Atlanta. Over the summer. While I had the flu or pink eye or some godawful disease. I think I lasted two weeks, and that was another fly-by quitting (though I did that one in person), mainly because the supervisor was a total bitch.

* Assistant at the ichthyology lab at my college's Museum of Comparative Zoology. I got to move (dead) fish from old jars into new jars and fill up the new jars with rubbing alcohol. My hands constantly smelled like rubbing alcohol, but I loved the job. It was fun going to a museum every day, and getting to go "behind the scenes," and getting to see all sorts of different fish.

* General office help -- mostly newsletter writing -- for my campus's Jewish Studies center.

* Editor for travel guides

* Tourguide in Venice

* Communications/content person for a website for Americans living overseas.

* Various copywriting & editing jobs, both full-time and freelance

* Volunteer jobs (mostly extremely short-term) as a cashier, grants writer, and hospice-patient companion.
posted by occhiblu 14 May | 15:46
Official employment? I had a few summer jobs doing web stuff. And then I got a job... doing web stuff.

I have also earned money playing the organ for various church services.
posted by chrismear 14 May | 15:48
Boy, you guys get around.

Busboy, garden center grunt, math/science tutor for mentally handicapped students, lineman at my local airport, machine shop teaching assistant, engineering co-op (jet engines), and now engineer (avionics).

There might be more, but I forget now.
posted by backseatpilot 14 May | 15:53
Oh yeah! I worked in a kennel for a summer, too.
posted by backseatpilot 14 May | 15:54
Because I'm older than dirt, I've had far too many jobs to list.
posted by essexjan 14 May | 15:58
In chronological order:

-Breaking, lugging asphalt (summer)
-Short order waiter at Tio's Mexican restaurant (four years)
-Beer server/security at Ann Arbor Summer Festival (Five weeks each for three years, concurrent with Mexican job)
-Back Room pizza delivery (six weeks, concurrent with Mexican job)
-Liberty Street Video store clerk (six months)
-Kinko's 3rd shift clerk (two years)
-Marco's Pizza delivery (one year, on and off)
-People's Food Co-Op shift manager (three months)
-Current Magazine office coordinator to staff writer/columnist (five years)
-HTML troubleshooting and data transfer for Michigan Poverty Law Center (three months, concurrent with Current)
-Web designer/writer for Cousin's Vinyl (six months, concurrent with Current and Echo jobs)
-Eastern Echo opinions editor (one year, overlapping with Current).
-Handful of freelance writing work (two years)

Trying to make that all fit on a résumé? Priceless.

posted by klangklangston 14 May | 16:01
Grew up working in my dad's ice cream store. Then, a recreation leader, swim teacher pool manager for LAUSD, lifeguard at a camp, painted houses, landscaping grunt work for a city, substitute teacher, tree planter, carpenter, school maintenance worker, safety and health person.
posted by danf 14 May | 16:03
Oh yeah, and lighting tech for local theater (five months), counselor at Christian camp (I know! I taught photography for three weeks), drug dealer (pot, one year), and have been doing under-the-table landscaping for my neighbor's business for about three years. $12 an hour, free and clear, yo!
posted by klangklangston 14 May | 16:05
Cashier at pizza place (think Sbarro only local), Macy's salesperson, Express salesperson, adiministrative assistant x 3, radio salesperson, editor/reporter/photographer/non-ad copy layout for a small community paper, girl friday and public educator for a hospice.

Volunteer: girl scout leader, hospice-patient companion, grant writer.

posted by Luminous Phenomena 14 May | 16:10
concessionist (at a movie theater), cashier (at two different clothing stores, plus a couple of restaurants), accounting assistant (work-study job), office assistant (another work-study job), library assistant (still another work-study job!), college dj, subsidiary rights/marketing assistant (publishing), research assistant, teacher, tutor, photography studio manager, art gallery manager, marketing copywriter/proofreader, education content developer/editor, freelance writer, freelance editor/proofreader, and (finally!) book editor.
posted by scody 14 May | 16:14
oh, and forgot I forgot waitress (restaurant and cocktail) and bartender.
posted by scody 14 May | 16:15
Jobs I received payment for:

Babysitting for families, babysitting for a NEH-grant literacy program, library page, clerk in a shoe store, research assistant, lab monitor in my college communications lab, spreadsheet monkey/tech guru/Jill-of-all-trades (full-time, part-time, and now contract).

Jobs I didn't get paid for (much more interesting):
Answering phones for public radio fund drives, working cameras for public TV fund drives, DJ on my high school radio station (smooth jazz, blech), shelver-of-books and doer-of-other-miscellany at the public library (4 years, all summer), Irish step dance teacher, assistant ballet teacher, TA for my broadcast media class, parent-wrangler for school supply bagging (at the ripe old age of 11) and probably a lot of other things that I'm forgetting.
posted by Fuzzbean 14 May | 16:22
Kid: babysitter, flyer distributor, house-sitter.

As an adult:

S&L (worked there for 15 years): doc typist, receptionist, credit clerk, doc prep, doc quality control, loan processor, admin, loan processor (again) and loan underwriter. I also worked part-time as a cashier at Mervyn's during the second loan processor position.

Commercial bank (worked there for 1 year): doc prep and customer service.

Temping (for two years after move to Canada): envelope stuffer, receptionist, mail room clerk, doc prep, data entry, help desk flunky.

Volunteer: stuff for Boy Scouts when I was still a kid (my younger bro was a Scout), SPCA (walked dogs, petted cats).
posted by deborah 14 May | 16:32
neighborhood grass mower (summer job)
pizza delivery guy
PR/media guy for small-town parks & rec dept.
DJ at radio station
production manager at (the same) radio station

At 23, I went to CNN, where I've filled 7 different roles over the last almost 18 years, the longest being my 9-year stint editing for the (late lamented) science/environment unit.

Concurrent to CNN, I also did a three-year stint writing a weekly music column for Atlanta's gay/lesbian paper.
posted by BoringPostcards 14 May | 16:36
This is gonna make me feel old.

Chronologically:

Papergirl, babysitter, box office clerk at old-school theatre, library page, bookstore clerk, camp counselor, cold line cook, waitress (1), library page again (different library) overnight desk clerk at daily paper, then listings entry, then editorial assistant, then Today in History columnist, then features writer, then reporter. Then transferred to full-time college and had to leave the paper. Therefore library page again, camp counselor, camp administrative staff, watiress (2), arts educator, musician, busker, environmental educator, ropes course facilitator, waitress (3), primary grades teacher, museum intern, museum educator, sailor, rowing instructor, sea chantey singer, exhibit designer, tour guide, researcher, copyeditor, waitress (4), museum program manager, museum program director, and now finally director of education, occasional freelance writer, and insane volunteer for 4 NPOs (radio, Slow Food, camp alumni, local education boat).
posted by Miko 14 May | 16:42
A lot of those were more concurrent than chronological. Most of my life I've had two jobs, the labor of love and the paying gig. That's why all the waitressing. Can I get anything else for you today?
posted by Miko 14 May | 16:43
Gas station attendent, Teacher's aid, Pizza cook, store clerk, Electronics Tech in the Navy, store display artist, Nanny, software UI design, freelance graphic design, software testing.
posted by doctor_negative 14 May | 17:13
Steve, on a cold and lonely Silicon Valley night. All we had was each other, but that was enough.
posted by Eideteker 14 May | 17:19
bagel baker, office boy, lighting tech, technical director, waiter, office manager, bike messenger, bookstore clerk, college food service (shift work & manager), RA, janitor, raft guide, whitewater kayak instructor, cook, video store clerk, legal proofreader, bookstore manager, clinical social worker.
posted by omiewise 14 May | 17:33
photo processor, darkroom technician
scene shop carpenter, electrician
light board operator
lighting design intern
messenger
stage manager, lighting designer
bookstore: cashier, buyer, manager, webmaster
whatever it is I do now - broadly, web dev
posted by expialidocious 14 May | 17:44
Dogsbody in a bronze foundry:
Scraped and painted a huge fire escape, scraped and chipped wax from lost wax cast molds. Comic foil for a bunch of dudes who drank their lunch.

Deli guy:
Make sandwiches, spit in sandwiches of assholes. Sent to the basement to fill cups with ice, drank a cup of icy Snapple iced tea for every cup I filled. Got fired.

Babbysitter: I was really good at this.

Doorman: Nightshift, elevator operator, porter. Many summers, many years, also for a long stint when I got out of college. Too many stories to relate here. One story: I had a standing date to wrestle this crazy dude at around 3 am as he made his way back from the clubs to Grand Central Station (I was mostly a doorman on lower Park Ave in New York City). We wrestled two or three times a week, we were about even. He often cried a little after we wrestled.

RA: Yup.

Tour Guide/Office of Admissions goon: This was a broad job/personality mismatch.

Bookstore Clerk: I got paid in books, it was a crazy used bookstore.

Bar back: I qualified for this job by explaining that while I had no formal experience I really enjoyed drinking.

Temp: Various, including working registration at many conventions at the Javits center. If you attended a convention at the Javits center during the summer of '98 I most likely called you an asshole under my breath.

Post-production coordinator/apprentice avid editor.

Production manager/sales operations- Internet advertising. I was depressingly good at this job.

Warehouse guy/shipping clerk/researcher/computer guy for a real douche of a rare book dealer.

Book Publicist: I am a terrible publicist.

Sales operations/Office manager/Book editor/Handyman/IT department/Web site guy and now I do all that plus I am the accountant and business manager for a small publishing company.

Oh, also my dad used to pay me a quarter for every fly I killed in the house.
posted by Divine_Wino 14 May | 18:20
I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn, and a king.
posted by kirkaracha 14 May | 18:26
Hmm...mall food court hander-out of flee chikin telliyaki samples, music camp counselor, accompanist, university office drudge, university nerd camp teaching assistant, engineering lab peon, industrial research intern, university web peon, horticulture lab peon, furniture shop webdesign/photographer peon, grad school teaching assistant, soon-to-be department web peon and possibly music tutor.
posted by casarkos 14 May | 18:53
I totally forgot being a carnie in my gypsy years and telemarketing(one shift) while i was at university...
posted by Schyler523 14 May | 18:55
All the ones that I remember:
- Office cleaner
- Programmer
- Gas pump operator for the sheriff's department
- Pizza guy (at four or five different shops)
- HVAC installer
- Motel Night Clerk
- Apartment building maintenance
- House painter
- Technical support for a paint company
- Software Engineer/QA guy
posted by octothorpe 14 May | 18:58
I've held a lot of different jobs over the years, but the one that people ask me about is my trainspotting gig. Back in the day Stockholm Transport employed quite a few of us and our job was (mainly) to stand on platforms and count people getting off and boarding the commuter trains. Then we'd make a note of when the trains arrived at the station and when they left.
Some days we worked the subway, estimating the number of passengers in each car as they sped by. As they tend to go pretty fast we had no time to write down the numbers, so we said them into a tape recorder. Yeah, we looked kind of silly. We had no uniforms either, so you got questions each and every day.
Once every few months we rode buses from their first to their last stop and made get off/boarding notes for each stop.
Then you could get these weird assignments, like counting the cars at certain parking lots. My brother - who got me the gig, bless him - once had to film entrance doors for a whole day.
All in all, a not very demanding line of work. The only part that I disliked was counting people passing turnstiles, that got real boring after a while. Just you and a counter in your hand, for eight hours, click-click-clickety-click. Yes, dull. And some outdoor stations got real cold in wintertime.

Always when I explained what I did for a living, people questioned the human part. "Couldn't they replace you with photocells or something?" Ah, but we were trained to answer that no machine could ever replace the human eye; say a person walked through a turnstile, then changed her mind and left the station only to return a few seconds later. Then we'd only count her once!

Nowadays I'm a music journalist.
posted by soundofsuburbia 14 May | 19:12
in chronological order:

telemarketing (at 14), grocery store cashier, telemarketer, office task guy/warehouse worker/minor assembly at a company with some amusing Mormons, Holiday Inn airport van driver, pharmacy tech (three weeks), Lexus new car washer/detailer, telemarketer, fancy resort valet, internship at stock brokerage, RobinsonMay (one week), intern at venture capital firm, investment banking analyst, private equity associate, analyst at commercial real estate developer in Phoenix (2.5 months--here be crazy people). And finally: unemployed!

Damn, that's a lot of jobs.
posted by mullacc 14 May | 19:30
I'm sure people will be tired before they get here, but here's a list with some ommisions, I am sure:
1) McDonald's, briefly
2) High end jewelry store
3) gas station pump jockey
4) Local city, which included: lawn mowing, various and sundry grunt work, leaning on the occasional shovel, GRAVE DIGGER (perhaps the one thing in commmon with Rod Stewart)
5) Nice guys/bad band road manager
6) Helped get an indie record label off the ground
7) Learned how to operate/mastered a three headed electronic embroidery machine.
8) Guy who puts computers on desks
9) Guy who tells other people how to put computers on desks
10) Guy who takes care of and supports the infrastructure of a pile of computers on desks.
posted by richat 14 May | 19:40
Busser (busgirl?), horseback riding instructor, horse trainer, rider, groom, administrative assistant to a bunch of environmental engineers, kiddie equestrian day camp leader/manager, family law firm secretary, barn manager, health food store clerk, Jamba Juice smoothie slopper, house cleaner, babysitter, house & pet sitter (no, seriously, as a -job-), artist (yes, paid), slave laborer, waitress, equine hair-stylist.

And I'm 23. Hmm.
posted by po 14 May | 20:01
paperboy
lawn mower
violin maker
research programmer
student consultant
software engineer
teacher/it/technology coordinator
software architect
posted by plinth 14 May | 20:31
Okay, this may be the shortest list yet...Papergirl, babysitter, supermarket worker: ( bagger, cashier, head cashier), teacher assistant, more supermarket working: ( health and beauty aids clerk, department manager, deli clerk, meat wrapper).
posted by redvixen 14 May | 20:58
Haha. I forgot working security as the radio dispatch of our local neighborhood watch for $6 an hour, and the week I spent working for the Dems as a canvasser, which sucked so much that I called in sick forever.
posted by klangklangston 14 May | 21:04
Babysitter, sandwich maker, waitress, bowling alley concession worker, cashier, ice cream shop worker. Salesperson in a surf shop called Big Kahuna. The owner killed his partner, so that was the end of that. Insurance office data entry, filer. Fresh-squeezed lemonade maker. Nurses aide, registered nurse.
posted by LoriFLA 14 May | 21:10
lawn mover, grocery store boy, chinese food delivery, building/wiring robots, programming robots, web geek, book buyer/seller, ESL teacher, ComputerClass teacher, motorcycle messenger, yo mama, climbing gym instructor, system administrator, clothing inspector, chalkbag maker, deli sammich maker, and loaf.
posted by ybb 14 May | 22:11
Caddy, painter, accounting clerk, computer operator, computer programmer, system administrator, computer analyst, capacity planner, PC repair, retail electronics sales, retail sporting goods manager.
posted by netbros 14 May | 22:37
I've been working at least full time, with the exception of some disability time in my late 40s, and family time in the last couple of years, since I was 14, which is now about 43 years. Through all of my 20s, I had 2 full time jobs, and some times, weekend jobs, too. The great things about working 2 or 3 jobs at a time, is that the money rolls in and you don't have time or inclination to spend it, and you can build experience way past your years. That is counterbalanced by the realizations that you aren't likely to stay married doing that, and that you come to think 4 hours sleep is a lot. In my 30s and early 40s, I traveled a lot for business. The year I was 39, I earned 290,000 frequent flyer miles, on the top 6 airlines I flew (that was ridiculous, but anything can get to seem normal when you do it all the time), and 2 weeks of that year, I had the company Gulfstream with 3 other people, and we did another 25,000 miles in that. At an average speed of 500 mph, I spent the equivalent of 15+ working weeks airborne, that year, although it was more like 6 weeks, calendar time, since a lot of it was long haul international travel. The following year, I tried keeping apartments on 3 continents, and while it saves some wear and tear on luggage, it's like not living anywhere, really.

Eh, anyway. I can't complain. Here's what I've made money doing:

Short order cook, lifeguard, farm work (haying, harvesting, tending cattle), stagehand, concert booker, tutor, print shop tech, warehouse worker, book salesman, political organizer, sewing machine repairman, stereo salesman, auto body repair and paint, auto mechanic, industrial electrician, broadcast engineer, slum lord (I had some cold water shotgun rental houses with a brother-in-law), machine repair technician, liquor store clerk, welder, machinist, mold maker, industrial plant maintenance supervisor, partner and chief engineer in an FM radio station (a predecessor to this station, on the same frequency and license area), recording studio engineer (in a studio owned by Shelby Singleton), electronics technician, Western bootmaker and production manager, industrial machinery sales manager, chemical/adhesives sales manager, women's shoe manufacturing executive, national machinery sales manager, trade show and advertising manager, engineering manager in a machinery company, partner in a successor machinery company (after an LBO), entrepeneur in computerized production control systems, private firm director, international machinery sales, serialized inventory and configuration manager, convenience store partner, international packaging and physical test consultation, ERP systems manager for an American subsidiary of a German company, and lately, specialized database consulting and private client business consulting.

In the realm of unpaid or honorarium work, I've also served as a member of several advisory boards for private firms, as an officer for 2 non-profit corporations, as a regional volunteer and fund raiser for an industry charitable organization, and as an event organizer for some service club events.

And here and there, I've won a few poker games, lost a few bets on horse races, and bought and sold some stocks and bonds, and real estate. And written some magazine articles, sold a few photographs, and done some technical writing. But who's counting?
posted by paulsc 14 May | 23:37
I've done... questionable things.
posted by bmarkey 14 May | 23:48
Event security worker, crossing guard, facilities set-up crew, A/V chair, editor, newswriter, Web developer, political intern, record company intern, movie reviewer, marketing assistant, assistant manager of a movie theater (I can thread a projector), bank documents clerk, retail sales associate, computer lab assistant, and my current job.
posted by halonine 15 May | 03:12
Babysitter, dishwasher, KFC cook and counter girl, tutor, donut-slinger before age 21. After age 21, a number of editorial jobs.
posted by Orange Swan 15 May | 09:40
Chronological Order:
Taught pre-ballet to 4 y.o.s
was paid a couple times for ballet performances
office grunt (filing/copying)
waiter: breakfast place
waiter: japanese place
milkman
furniture refinisher/painter
receptionist
lots of unpaid fabulousness and my time is currently occupied by school...
posted by bobobox 15 May | 09:59
Paperboy, washing up in a restaurant, weekends in local indie record shop (RIP), bar manager, restaurant manager, web twat in a shitty, small (now dead) company, customer service advisor in a call centre, intranet developer...
posted by TheDonF 15 May | 17:16
Paid jobs: paperboy, milkman, grocery bagger, boat detailer, boatbuilder, receptionist, admin assistant, marketing manager, IT manager, principal, quality systems auditor (current).

Unpaid jobs: various administration work for sports clubs/associations, planning and management of motorsport events, educational consultation, director of sports training organisation (current).

*yawn*
posted by dg 15 May | 18:42
I've had approximately 50,000 jobs. Please allow me to list them all for you:

reference librarian, newspaper editor, college a/v person, 2nd shift security guard, data entry, T/A, copy editor, bookstore clerk (got fired), secretary, oil factory q/a, nighttime office cleaner, mover, cellphone battery assembly line worker, teacher, web monkey, spot welder

I'll do anything to keep me in beer money.
posted by Otis 16 May | 10:53
Worked the cash register at a shitty hardware store.
Office Bitch at city hall
Dish washer at The Greenwood Inn, a local restaurant.
Currently: Janitor at St. Sebastian's Church. Woo!
posted by CitrusFreak12 16 May | 13:30
In completely random order:

Pizza box packager, web developer, tech support, network administrator, audio engineer, window manufacturer, machine operator, set designer, technical director, office cleaner, computer sales.

I'm sure I'm forgetting a bunch.
posted by jjb 17 May | 13:44
As best as I can remember:

-Babysitter (off and on ages 12-18)
-Telemarketer (age 13)
-Movie theater (tickets, concessions, usher)
-music store assistant
-Tutor to elementary school kids
-Elementary school library assistant
-Waitress (did not last long)
-Used book store
-Grocery store cashier
-University book store clerk
-SAT tutor
-Department store cashier + customer service
-3 years at college paper, including 1 term as Editor-in-Chief
-DJ for campus radio
-Building supervisor (glorified security guard)
-operations manager for educational facility
-temp
-nonprofit volunteer coordinator
-nonprofit development coordinator
-website coordinator
-more development stuff

posted by SassHat 20 May | 08:38
Three point update, stat! || Time for Whalewatching

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