What jobs have you held in your life?

Paper route by bike at around 13.

Stock boy in a department store after high school.

Clerk/stock boy in a liquor store.

Navy aviation electronics technician.

Technical writer.

Engineer.

Retired.
 
The weird thing was when I disabled out at DuPont due to a on the job back injury I healed up enough to go back to VDOC so I called DuPont HQ and told them about it and they didn't care.

Full retirement pay is what we settled on when I left and DuPont was good to it word even though I was working again.

It's not as much as you might think but enough to where I did not bother transferring when VDOC shut down the prison I was working at as I got full retirement there.
 
A common theme seen in this thread is starting to work at a young age. Do kids work anymore? I have to admit mine did not until they were over 18.
Of all the kids I grew up with very few worked. That said there were very few jobs to be had back then. I had several jobs passed on to me by others as they got other (better?) jobs. My busboy job and the shipping clerk job were handed on to me by a friend. Another friend encouraged me to apply at the supermarket where I eventually became a meatcutter. Still the best job I ever had.
 
Farm worker
Electronics Technician, US Navy
College student, in Navy Reserve and NROTC, worked a grocery store and security guard for Gator Bowl
Commissioned officer, United States Navy, Surface Warfare
Car salesman for two Ford dealerships
Insurance agent
Substitute teacher
Employee benefits representative and instructor for AT&T
Public school teacher for 21 years
Volunteer role player for US Army MOUT site.
Army Virtual Recruiting Center representative and shift supervisor
Retired due to disability at age 61 (liver transplant)
 
Bus boy dishwasher age 15
Bass player in rock band
Commercial Photographer in NY
Photo lab Tech.
Owner of two retail pet stores tropical fish specialty
Insurance sales rose to senior partner in a large agency master general agent also sold securities Series 6
Went back to college got a BS in recreation therapy worked in 4 mental hospitals as adjunctive therapist
Discovered my birth family at age 52 never knew my mother and father I was in a foster home
Writer published my memoir
Earned MS degree in Counseling psychology
Was State rep for the American adoption Congress President of Adoption Forum in Phila
Expert witness in NJ and PA legislatures on adoption law.
Published many research papers on adoption and pioneered therapeutic interventions for infant and child trauma
8 years in private practice therapist
Retired then recruited to be senior head soccer coach for Super Soccer stars United
 
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Of all the kids I grew up with very few worked. That said there were very few jobs to be had back then. I had several jobs passed on to me by others as they got other (better?) jobs. My busboy job and the shipping clerk job were handed on to me by a friend. Another friend encouraged me to apply at the supermarket where I eventually became a meatcutter. Still the best job I ever had.
My wife's sister's 1st husband grew-up next to a slaughter house. Never went to school and cut meat there for years. They took advantage of him because he was not literate.

They got divorced and his next wife, who was a teacher, taught him to read and write and he got his GED at 35.

He got a job as a meat cutter at Safeway and held that job till he retired.
 
My wife's sister's 1st husband grew-up next to a slaughter house. Never went to school and cut meat there for years. They took advantage of him because he was not literate.

They got divorced and his next wife, who was a teacher, taught him to read and write and he got his GED at 35.

He got a job as a meat cutter at Safeway and held that job till he retired.
Meat cutting used to be a pretty good paying job, now not so much. Large processing/packaging plants and cheap labor have ruined the retail meat cutting trade.
 
Just curious. Did anyone here ever sell the weekly national newspaper GRIT? It was published out of Harrisburg, PA IIRC. They cost 15 cents and a dime was returned to the publisher while the paperboy retained a nickle. I sold it for a couple years in my early teens.
 
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Just curious. Did anyone here ever sell the weekly national newspaper GRIT? It was published out of Harrisburg, PA IIRC. They cost 15 cents and a dime was returned to the publisher while the paperboy retained a nickle. I sold it for a couple years in my early teens.
I sure did. (11 yrs old)

But mine was a short run, so I didn't list it.
 
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).
I mowed lawns, had 2 paper routes as a kid. As an Adult, worked for the phone company, got fired, worked as a Journeyman pile driver but then Dad informed me, I must tell the Union I was over 21 to join the union. The union to this day still has me down as older than I am. Oh, worked for several gas station owners, after high school, .... opened my race shop while still in the pile drivers' union, got drafted, got home from Germany and worked again as a pile driver, Was a foreman on some jobs there. Pile driving had problems. Work was not guaranteed for 12 months. Worked for food manufacturing firms when out of a job driving piling. Worked at a GM factory, when laid off. Got sick of the laying off and used my other skills set opening a machine shop. Under bid a major job and the firm took many months to pay me. Still had to either lay off my guys or use their benefits to keep them working. Did not work well at all. Shut down the machine shop. Trained to be a real estate salesman and got a license. 2 years after, took the Brokers test and got the license. Managed for a Broker, his office since he worked full time for the Lawrence national lab in Livermore, Ca. We got into a conflict after I took a little production firm to a prosperous firm, giving me around 5 grand profit per month in the 1960s. Also I got a large commission in addition with his paying me to manage. Our conflict is he got greedy and decided to pay me commission, plus management fees was too much so in the end I opened my first Real Estate office and did a few limited appraisals for more income. Later leased another office for sales and was contacted by a lender to get my appraisal license since then the license was needed. That worked me into a full-time appraisal office. Learned of the high profits lenders made, so since my state license approve it had 2 loan offices with loan agents. Made a good living. But appraisals as a job should be done full time. I notified the lenders I quit appraising. Stayed selling real estate and lending until I retired. Enjoying retirement so much.
 
Both my daughters did. One worked at Wally world and the others first job was a Kkwik Trip gas station
 
Paper route by bike at around 13.

Stock boy in a department store after high school.

Clerk/stock boy in a liquor store.

Navy aviation electronics technician.

Technical writer.

Engineer.

Retired.
I thought about trying to be a technical writer here in my retirement.

Now with AI, I bet a lot of companies think they can eliminate the position.

No doubt AI will **** it all up though.
 
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