What jobs have you held in your life?

[Woodznutz]

For me,

Yard work for neighbors.
Snow shoveling for neighbors.
Paper route (walking).
Clerk in luggage shop.
Busboy at steakhouse.
Shipping clerk at woman's clothing store.
Carry out and stockboy at supermarket (part time).

After high school.
Grocery and produce clerk (full time).
Became supermarket (retail) meatcutter.
Country motor paper route (part time job).
Seasonal landscape work, back to meat cutting in the fall.
Seasonal tree trimmer, back to meat cutting in the fall.
Meatcutter in processing/freezer plant.
Apartment building manager (present job).

 

[Concerned American]

For me,

Yard work for neighbors.
Snow shoveling for neighbors.
Paper route (walking).
Clerk in luggage shop.
Busboy at steakhouse.
Shipping clerk at woman's clothing store.
Carry out and stockboy at supermarket.

After high school.
Grocery and produce clerk.
Became supermarket (retail) meatcutter.
Country paper route (part time job).
Seasonal landscape work, back to meat cutting in the fall.
Seasonal tree trimmer, back to meat cutting in the fall.
Meatcutter in processing/freezer plant.
Apartment building manager (present job).

Yard Work
Newspaper Sales--individual
Busboy
Burger Flipper

After High School
Journalist
RV Mfg.
Ordinance Mfg. Production hot steel fab/machining
Machinist
Food Processing Machine mfg., installation, maintenance and repair
Millwright
Industrial Maintenance Planner

 

[Thinker101]

For me,

Yard work for neighbors.
Snow shoveling for neighbors.
Paper route (walking).
Clerk in luggage shop.
Busboy at steakhouse.
Shipping clerk at woman's clothing store.
Carry out and stockboy at supermarket (part time).

After high school.
Grocery and produce clerk (full time).
Became supermarket (retail) meatcutter.
Country motor paper route (part time job).
Seasonal landscape work, back to meat cutting in the fall.
Seasonal tree trimmer, back to meat cutting in the fall.
Meatcutter in processing/freezer plant.
Apartment building manager (present job).

Geez, let me see if I can remember.

Newspaper delivery
Carwash
Theatre chain accountant
Theatre usher
Back to Carwash
Computer programmer

 

[DGS49]

paper boy,
pinsetter in a bowling alley,
assistant shipper (loading and unloading trucks),
telephone collector for Sears,
Army soldier - personnel specialist,
security guard/night watchman,
retail manager,
Federal bureaucrat (Department of Defense),
contract specialist for many companies,
Attorney.

After retirement, drove cars for an auto auction, and drove a bus, hauling senior citizens on various errands. At 75 they wouldn't let me do that any more - good decision on their part.

Now I golf, bowl, cycle, work out, hike, go to church, and take naps.

…which I'm late for now.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Paperboy
trash clean up in summer 2 years
I dropped out of school and went in the army
I got out after 6 months
Summer intern at state park
dishwasher
store clerk part time
Sears catalog salesclerk
National Guard Washington State
US Marine Corps
Warehouseman
dry cleaning presser.

permanently retired due to disability at 42

 

[Concerned American]

paper boy,
pinsetter in a bowling alley,
assistant shipper (loading and unloading trucks),
telephone collector for Sears,
Army soldier - personnel specialist,
security guard/night watchman,
retail manager,
Federal bureaucrat (Department of Defense),
contract specialist for many companies,
Attorney.

After retirement, drove cars for an auto auction, and drove a bus, hauling senior citizens on various errands. At 75 they wouldn't let me do that any more - good decision on their part.

Now I golf, bowl, cycle, work out, hike, go to church, and take naps.

…which I'm late for now.

Wow, were you a pinsetter prior to automated pin setters? Is it true that you had to dodge errant bowling balls?

 

[lg325]

From a small boy everything from picking in the fields to collecting copper and aluminum and soda bottles from side of the road and trash piles. Starting at 12 y.o. working on residential construction doing any thing needed as they needed me. Grease, oil and fuel man for heavy equipment for the job sites my father worked. After highschool fulltime agricuture work from fieldto packinhouse to worm farm.Starting 1980 I had my used pick up truck work trailer and tools and worked in all phases of residenttial construction until 1996 and worked for the city of orlando in property mainenance, crew leader for 170 acre park. On the side made good money doing small construction jobs for some residential contractors and handy man jobs. I had certifications in landscaping construction and horticulture plus soil erosian and storm water work. Also certifications as firefighter and emergency medical tech. I was put on the hiring list for those but was only hired for a year for a rural dept. Fought ten fires and when the county took over I was replaced .

 

[Manonthestreet]

did the yard work routine when we were still in school. graduated to fast food and Security at a paper plant. Ended up in transportation field pushing a rig around town for the last 40 yrs plus

 

[Cellblock2429]

For me,

Yard work for neighbors.
Snow shoveling for neighbors.
Paper route (walking).
Clerk in luggage shop.
Busboy at steakhouse.
Shipping clerk at woman's clothing store.
Carry out and stockboy at supermarket (part time).

After high school.
Grocery and produce clerk (full time).
Became supermarket (retail) meatcutter.
Country motor paper route (part time job).
Seasonal landscape work, back to meat cutting in the fall.
Seasonal tree trimmer, back to meat cutting in the fall.
Meatcutter in processing/freezer plant.
Apartment building manager (present job).

/----/ Starting in 1965:
Jr High
Paper assembler, graveyard shift, Greenville News. Lasted one day. I was let go because I was a year too young to work.
High School
Repaired and rebuilt Kirby and Electrolux Vacuums
College
Camp counselor
Clerk at Sears
Runner for a foreign car repair shop
Moved to Long Island.
Bartender at three different college pubs.
Worked in Art Department at a defense contractor.
Prepared camera ready art for Ad Agencies (more than I can recall)
Sales Rep for a Manufacturers Rep company
Sales rep for a commercial cleaning company
Sale rep for a pharmaceutical company.
Sales rep for a food manufacturer
Sales rep for another pharmaceutical company
Sales rep for four different legal publishing companies
Retirement
Sales rep for a credit card processor, commercial printer, and a sign company.
Now I trade stock options for myself.

 

[Manonthestreet]

forgot janitoring in a private school to pay the tuition

 

[MarathonMike]

First job shoveling driveways at 11 years old
Paper Route
Summer job construction helper mixing mortar, carrying bricks etc.
Bagger at a base commissary
Math tutor Community College
Electronics assembler Co-op
Engineering career in circuit design, software and systems

Now retired I play golf, write and perform music. I do random volunteer jobs
and help my widow neighbor with stuff she needs done.

 

[luiza]

Munchers will tell you their whole tedious life story .

Those that decline have other considerations .
Likely they either failed and are embarrassed , or are obliged to talk with discretion .
Suffice to say that I spent considerable time in the Baltics , Ukraine and Russia .
With a sprinkling of north Africa .

 

[lg325]

From a small boy everything from picking in the fields to collecting copper and aluminum and soda bottles from side of the road and trash piles. Starting at 12 y.o. working on residential construction doing any thing needed as they needed me. Grease, oil and fuel man for heavy equipment for the job sites my father worked. After highschool fulltime agricuture work from fieldto packinhouse to worm farm.Starting 1980 I had my used pick up truck work trailer and tools and worked in all phases of residenttial construction until 1996 and worked for the city of orlando in property mainenance, crew leader for 170 acre park. On the side made good money doing small construction jobs for some residential contractors and handy man jobs. I had certifications in landscaping construction and horticulture plus soil erosian and storm water work. Also certifications as firefighter and emergency medical tech. I was put on the hiring list for those but was only hired for a year for a rural dept. Fought ten fires and when the county took over I was replaced .

Just to add according to my teachers writer is the profession best for me.