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Poll: How many jobs have you had?
Ok, it's not a real poll but....
How many jobs have you had, what are the "stranger" jobs you've had?
I need some entertainment while I eat my penne ala vodka.
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Re: Poll: How many jobs have you had?
1. Movie Theater
2. Restaurant
3. Sport Chalet
4. Surf Shop
5. Restaurant
6. Insurance Sales
1. Retail in the jewelry and lingerie section. (yes they were combined in this store...weird, and I was only 15...even weirder)
2. Phone polls--best highschool job ever..I made about $9.00/hour, which was a lot back in the early 90's.
3. nanny for 5 boys
4. daycare while in college
5. elderly day care...yes a day place for people who need someone to watch their old folks while they were at work.
6. Chuck E Cheese (one day)
7. Beer tours for Anheuser busch (still in college here)
8. Lab--doing QA (first "career")
9. current job....consultant.
3 with 2 internships - nothing exciting.
In high school i worked for the rec center and helped coach all the sports - t-ball, volleyball, soccer. i was also a score keeper. it was the best job.
in college I worked at the campus work out facility. hot, sweaty guys working out and girl dressed to the hilt to work out - it was always interesting.
i'm still at the same job out of college. it's a job and i'm very thankful for it.
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Ethan {1.11.10} & Malia {12.28.06}
Ohh let me answer:
13ish - Pizzaria - 3 days
12-15 summers at an insurance office in the City filing and getting coffee in midtown, being followed back to the office by pimps who wanted a child prostitute
15-19 Phone Operator in a limo comp - somewhere in between I worked for a departmnent store for one day.
19 Receptionist at a travel office
20-21 Consulting firm receptionist where I got a HUGE bump in salary to work for the CEO
21 on, here where I am now as an "executive" assistant.
1. working at Bingo (selling tips, food, etc.)
2. McDonald's
3. Small market
4. Grocery Store
5. Home Health Agency
6. Bank & Target (I still work at both)
I've had some odd ones, and some boring ones
Through high school and college I worked at the Erie Zoo as a zoo keeper. It was the best job ever, if it paid more than $4.25/hour I'd still be there. I took care of all the animals, did shows, camel rides, etc. It was so much fun.
After I graduated I sold cemetery plots door to door, for 100% commission. IT SUCKED. I only stayed there 3 months until I could find something with a base salary.
Then I sold newsletter subscriptions for an assload of money, where people could get the info from trade magazines for free. That sucked, but it was a good company. I left after 6 months b/c I moved out of town to be closer to DH (then bf.)
Then I sold laboratory supplies and chemicals for 3 years- got laid off in 2003.
I've been a headhunter with the same co since 2003.
So....... 5 jobs! 4 real jobs, but I conveniently leave the cemetery thing off my resume.
Matthew James 1/11/07
2. Restaurant Hostess
3. Fast Food
4. Western Store
5. Answering Service
6. Research Farm
7. Doctor's Receptionist
8. Meter Reader
9. Chiropractic Assistant
10. Substitute Teacher
Let's see...
McDonald's, clerk at a convenience store, piano teacher, mystery shopper, bank teller, writer/editor (2 different jobs), public affairs specialist,(3 different jobs) speechwriter (2 different jobs), analyst.
So 13 jobs.
I've had a LOT of jobs. I lost count when I got to 10.
Some of the stranger ones:
1. I worked at an amusement park for two summers. I worked on two different roller coasters.
2. I worked on several archaeological excavations in Greece. I have lots of stories from those that I don't have time to go into at the moment.
3. I worked for the Sierra Club going door to door trying to get donations for awhile. Man, did I ever suck at that job.
Alex (11/14/06) and Nate (5/25/10)
"Want what you have, do what you can, be who you are." - Rev. Forrest Church
1) Dairy Queen
2) "Mother's Helper" (glorified babysitter)
3) Video store (complete with "adult" room)
4) Pharmacy tech
5) QI/QA in Pharmacy Administration (after grad school)
6) QI for a hospital (currently)
Nothing too entertaining, sorry.
This is going to be long...lol
1. paper girl.
2. Clam Shack
3. Wal-Mart
4. Designs, by Levi Strauss
5. Service Merchandise
6. A 2nd hand botique
7. Coffee Shop
8. Waitress at Applebee's, Greek family owned place, Italian joint, P.F. Changs, 5 start place
9. Sheriff Sale Paralegal
10. Litigation Paralegal
11. Paralegal for national Retailer (current)
random babysitting jobs, house cleaner, dog walker, Ann Taylor Loft, and I am sure there are more that I just don't remember.
I have had a lot of jobs.
- babysitter
- teller/checkout at a pharmacy
- data entry
- bartender, server and cocktail waitress at Russo's
- cage dancer (I am not kidding)
- Nine West (yes, and with the 40% discount, my $$$ went to shoes)
- office assistant
- assistant editor, associate editor, managing editor
1. Babysitting - I did this all through high school. Had some crazy kids I watched.
2. Worked at a tennis center - worked with some crazy people.
3. Worked as an assistant in a finance department for 2 summers in college - it was really good money and super easy, but I worked with these morbidly obese ladies. It kept me on a diet. And they'd eat at the Hometown Buffet every day. And would ask me to join them. I always declined and would eat my salad or sandwich, whatever I brought. They always told me I'd waste away, lol.
4. Worked at Ann Taylor/Ann Taylor Loft two summers in college
5. Worked at an after school program in college for 2-3 semesters. The kids were insane.
6. Clerked for a judge in law school. The best story I have from that was the divorce/custody case we had between a 16 year old and an 18 year old. I kid you not. They had a kid together and the 16 year old mom also had a kid at 14 with someone else. The grandma of the child in question in the divorce case was 30. She had had the wife/mother at 14. The great-grandma was 44. No lie. She'd had the grandma of the child in question at 14. It was disturbing.
1. Cleaned house while in HS
2. Worked 2 summers at the beach, jr year and after graduation, at a resort in Myrtle Beach
3. Retail in a bridal shop in college
4. Retail in clothing store (Cato)
5. Customer Service for newspaper
6. My job now in staffing, been here 8 years
I have counted 8 in my 10 years in the workforce, counting the 2 months I temped while job hunting after 9/11 ;P
I live in the DC area and job hopped a lot early on. I worked on Capitol Hill when I first got here - the year after I was a White House intern for a summer (didn't count that, but people usually think that is funny and/or cool) I then worked for a Speakers Bureau where I met and/or talked to some VERY interesting people - Powell, Carville, Stephanopolous, Terry Bradshaw, Joe Theissman, Mary Lou Retton, etc.
I'm currently working part-time for a friend of mine (old roomie) who used to work for Mark Penn, the pollster Hillary had to fire ;P She had the joy of working for Penn during the impeachment - she was in the office until 4 am most nights the last half of 1998
After 5 years there, she'd had enough and decided to be self-employed. She does market research, but mostly corporate clients - the political stuff is ridiculously stressful.
I forgot my favorite part of the divorce case - the husband supported the family by working at Steak n Shake and the wife accused him of blowing his paycheck on marijuana.
Oh god, the whole thing was hilarious and sad all at the same time.
1. Worked as a cashier at a sporting goods store for 2 yrs in HS
2. Worked as a nanny all throughout college
3. Camp counselor over the summers while in college - awesome job, easy money
4.Taught 3rd grade in the inner city for 4 years after graduating colege
5. Became a nanny after DD was born, did that for about 15 months
6. SAHM
Liam is 5!
1. Fast food restaurant
2. Shoe Store
3. Hardware Store
4. Retail Outlet
1. golf caddy
2. worked at an animal hospital as a vet assitant (actually I did this all through HS and college and even after college - at 3 different clinics) one of my most favorite jobs
3. department store
4. drug store
5. pharmacy tech at a hospital
6. telemarketing - I actually had 2 different telemarketing jobs - one I sold insurance over the phone (actually I got the people to want to buy it and then I'd pass the call to a licensed agent to make the sale). The other was selling carpet cleaning over the phone. It was the worst job I ever had. I was given a page from the phone book and had to make calls. I received more complaints about the compnay and only lasted 1 week before I was canned (happily) - I didn't make enough sales - no kidding I couldn't sell a product that had so many complaints. It sucked.
7. fundraising
8. lab technician for pharmaceutical company
9. Regulatory for pharm company
10. currently QA for pharm compnay
Sound factory in the city? You go girl! Those dancers are hot in the clubs. Well most of them, some of them shouldn't be in day light.
Twilo, OMG haven't heard that name in forever!
I went to Limelight for my 16th Bday! lol
You are hot girl!