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[Kathianne]

Ok, very early this morning, yeah even earlier than now, some bot was looking at an old archived thread. Reading through it was interesting, so I thought I'd repost with update. On the old thread, some of those still around included: Jim, Abbey, dmp, and Noir that I remember. Some interesting posts by Emmet, Manu, and 5 String Jeff.

I thought we might learn more about some newer members?



I saw this topic in my readings, thought it might be fun to see all the 'jobs' we've held. For some of us, very long, others may well be short, due to ages.

1. Paper route for local grocery-I was 8 and did it for 2 years. Got paid a penny a paper, 200 papers, twice a week.

2. Sold Christmas cards door to door, with a friend. Saw the ad in the back of a comic book, I think was probably when we were 9 or 10.

3. Took orders for homebaked bread, after making 10 loaves, we were bored, kept the money. (not something I'd list). :laugh2: PS, same friend was with me as the Christmas cards.

4. First 'real job'-waitress 14-16

5. Customer service Sear's remodeling-16-17. (Still waitressing too!)

6. Overlapping with the two above, worked in car wash one summer. Only girl and I got good tips! Hot & sticky though. Only physical labor job, until I worked in grocery story.

7. 17-21 College years, Kroch's & Brentano's, bookseller. Eventually became juvenile book buyer for the store I worked in.

8. 21-25 Illinois Bell/SBC divestiture specialist/commercial communications consultant.

9. 25-39 Full-time mom. Well also did lots of volunteer work, picked up my real estate license, waitressed for a bit. Went back to Kroch's & Brentano's a couple times, went back for temporary consult with SBC/AT&T to help with some MSA stuff. From 36-37 full-time student. Picked up teaching credentials.

10. Picked up insurance producer license. 39-41 full time at State Farm; also part-time at grocery in meat cutters union; also teaching night school classes for at-risk high school students. Averaged about 78 hours work a week, not counting paper grading. :eek:

11. 43-44 Full-time substituting, still working grocery, part-time insurance writing for Allstate agent, still teaching night classes.

12. 44- Full time teaching, (with benefits). Sometimes part-time work in bank, Talbot's, Penny's, tutoring.



Adding on:

13. Back to substitute teaching. I've picked up some new skills along the way.

14. Weirdly back in retail weekends only during the school year, but getting me through summers with increased
hours. Last month sold more of the 'push' products than anyone else in store! Got a 'bonus,' LOL! Will keep
me in cigs for a week. ;) Not too bad though, I had to take 4 days off last month, due to son's wedding.

15. Writing ad copy as individual contractor online. The pay is terrible, but sort of cool finding ads with copy I've
written. Adds about $100 a month, get paid by # of words. I could make more by requests, but it's too time
consuming, even with the additional rate per word.

[jimnyc]

Good find! I'm too lazy to look for the old thread. I should try and remember all my jobs again and see if I get it right! LOL

[tailfins]

1. Cut grass and collected scrap metal from age 9
2. Bought a few hundred dollars of Mexican artisan items such as jewelry and key chains to sell on the sidewalk back home at age 10.
3. At 15, I worked at a chicken place and lasted two months before getting fired
4. At 16, worked at McDonald's and lasted 6 months before getting fired
5. At 17, worked at a full service gas station. I was able to keep the job only after my old man threatened to arrest classmates impeding doing my job.
6. At 18-19, I drove a star route US mail delivery truck. http://postalmuseum.si.edu/starroute/sr_02.html
7. In my early 20s, I delivered pizza.
8. At 22-24 After finishing University I passed three Society of Actuary Examinations and worked as an Actuarial Analyst in Boston. I learned Portuguese from the restaurant where I ate lunch after figuring out that learning Portuguese as a good way to get dates. I discovered that the fourth exam and above was insurance procedure and had nothing to do with math, so I lost interest in being an Actuary.
9. When I was 26 The Boston economy collapsed and I moved to Atlanta to live cheap and well off using my Massachusetts Unemployment claim.
10. When I was 27-28, I worked for an Brazilian Import-Export company in Miami. My boss gave keys to the office so I could study programming courses at night.
11. When I was 29-35, I moved back to Missouri where I was raised and worked organizing data for businesses, usually in Microsoft Access. I got referral business that noticed how well I wrote in VBA and I started writing full scale Visual Basic Programs. I got married to a Brazilian I met online that spoke no English who lived in Nebraska with her parents. We moved to Atlanta because my family did not receive her well and accused her of marrying for a green card. This marked the end of my relationship with most of my family. She was overjoyed to get away from the prejudice she saw almost every time she left South Omaha. To this day, that prejudice serves as an aversion to her learning English.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Omaha,_Nebraska

In less than 10 years, South Omaha had become a regional stockyards and meat packing center, drawing thousands of immigrant workers, mostly from southern and eastern Europe.
South Omaha was annexed by Omaha on June 20, 1915. At that time it was 6.4 mi² and had 40,000 residents.[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Omaha,_Nebraska#cite_note-1) In 1947 there were 15,000 people working in meatpacking, but structural changes to the industry in the 1960s cost the city 10,000 jobs. Dale Carnegie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Carnegie)'s first job out of college was working for Armour & Company (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armour_%26_Company) as their South Omaha sales representative.[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Omaha,_Nebraska#cite_note-2)
Cultural diversity South Omaha was, and continues to be, culturally diverse. Many residents are descended from the Irish, Polish, Czech, Lithuanian, Italian, and Latino immigrants who made up the original workforce in the meatpacking industry. In recent decades, South Omaha has seen an influx of Hispanic and Sudanese populations.



12. When I got to Atlanta, I was introduced to Automated Software Quality Assurance, Performance/Load Testing with some software engineering. I have worked for about 20 companies since. First in Atlanta, then Florida, then New England plus one gig in NJ.

[jimnyc]

1- Outside of allowance, at like 11 or 12 I started mowing neighbors lawns. (also shoveling snow in winter)
2- Had a "job" taking out a woman's garbage (true story)
3- Various paper routes
4- Worked rolling/baking bagels
5- Roy Rogers
5a- forgot, delivery driver & tire repairs for large tire distributor
5b- forgot another, pump jockey at Mobil gas station
6- Route Driver (van)
7- Computer tech at small medical billing company
8- Computer tech at medium billing company who swallowed smaller company
9- Computer tech at Sony
10- Computer tech, Network admin at huge law firm
11- Computer tech at Motts, then Snapple and then Cadbury Schweppes

I'm probably forgetting some, or maybe out of order.

[aboutime]

Ok, very early this morning, yeah even earlier than now, some bot was looking at an old archived thread. Reading through it was interesting, so I thought I'd repost with update. On the old thread, some of those still around included: Jim, Abbey, dmp, and Noir that I remember. Some interesting posts by Emmet, Manu, and 5 String Jeff.

I thought we might learn more about some newer members?




Adding on:

13. Back to substitute teaching. I've picked up some new skills along the way.

14. Weirdly back in retail weekends only during the school year, but getting me through summers with increased
hours. Last month sold more of the 'push' products than anyone else in store! Got a 'bonus,' LOL! Will keep
me in cigs for a week. ;) Not too bad though, I had to take 4 days off last month, due to son's wedding.

15. Writing ad copy as individual contractor online. The pay is terrible, but sort of cool finding ads with copy I've
written. Adds about $100 a month, get paid by # of words. I could make more by requests, but it's too time
consuming, even with the additional rate per word.


Kathianne. No disrespect intended here. Quite an interesting list you must be very proud of.
However. :) Do you realize the Can of Worms you opened?
Namely. One member whom most of us have singled-out as "THE ME, and I" poster????
Too late now.

By the way. I wouldn't dare try to offer my resume' here. Too many would declare that my more than 60 years
was all fabricated. As I have experienced many times before, at other locations.
Sometimes it's best to just remain quiet.

[WiccanLiberal]

Hmm, good thread topic.
-worked for my allowance from the time I was very little. Laundry, dishes, cleaning, yardwork, etc
-volunteer at the local VA from middle school to high school
-clerking filing during the summer at my Dad's job while in high school
-Student clerk job to make money for books and fees not covered by scholarship while in college
-Been a nurse for thirty plus years now and it's all I have done since I got my degree

[tailfins]

Kathianne. No disrespect intended here. Quite an interesting list you must be very proud of.
However. :) Do you realize the Can of Worms you opened?
Namely. One member whom most of us have singled-out as "THE ME, and I" poster????
Too late now.

By the way. I wouldn't dare try to offer my resume' here. Too many would declare that my more than 60 years
was all fabricated. As I have experienced many times before, at other locations.
Sometimes it's best to just remain quiet.

So what jobs DID you have in the penitentiary?

[aboutime]

So what jobs DID you have in the penitentiary?


I made sure to wear a condom around you. It would prevent your Tooth Decay.

[Robert A Whit]

Good idea Kathianne. I wish Tailfins had not shown me the one whiney post; however he did.

I first want to thank you for bringing this up and I learned from the first posters.

1.As a pre pub boy, sold junk from comic book ads and did some lawn mowing.
2. Chopped Cotton as a 5th grader.
4. Newspaper routes; got fired for missing homes.
5. Various gas station jobs cleaning up the garages, etc.
6. Carpenter putting interior walls into new brick homes for an uncle.
7. He then had me work for his franchise muffler business.
8. Gas station job back home.
9. Pabco Linoleum factory
10. Pacific Bell phone company
11. Raymond International construction / Gerwick Pomeroy Construction
12. Self owned auto racing business
13. Self owned machine shop
14. Real Estate salesman
16. Real Estate Broker
17 Real Estate Appraiser *employeed about a dozen appraisers or staff*
18. Real Estate loan business owner.

I did a few short term jobs to make ends meet while in construction work.

I also spent 2 years in the Army about the time I owned the auto racing shop.

[Marcus Aurelius]

Good idea Kathianne. I wish Tailfins had not shown me the one whiney post; however he did.

I first want to thank you for bringing this up and I learned from the first posters.

1.As a pre pub boy, sold junk from comic book ads and did some lawn mowing.
2. Chopped Cotton as a 5th grader.
4. Newspaper routes; got fired for missing homes.
5. Various gas station jobs cleaning up the garages, etc.
6. Carpenter putting interior walls into new brick homes for an uncle.
7. He then had me work for his franchise muffler business.
8. Gas station job back home.
9. Pabco Linoleum factory
10. Pacific Bell phone company
11. Raymond International construction / Gerwick Pomeroy Construction
12. Self owned auto racing business
13. Self owned machine shop
14. Real Estate salesman
16. Real Estate Broker
17 Real Estate Appraiser *employeed about a dozen appraisers or staff*
18. Real Estate loan business owner.

I did a few short term jobs to make ends meet while in construction work.

I also spent 2 years in the Army about the time I owned the auto racing shop.

I don't see 'expert pilot' on the list... why not?

[logroller]

17-19 Worked for a furniture retailer for the first three summers out of high school, college during the year.
19-21 worked for a packing house, driving a forklift, learned Spanish.
21 tried my hand at selling office equipment, learned doctors are not friendly to sales.
21- 26 express courier, learned that my family is more important than my job
26- 31 landscape contractor. Learned how to sell and satisfy customers, ride the economic wave, as well as the multitude of tax benefits of self employment, cashed it all in for a bigger house.
31- 35 homemaker and went back to college, learned that dryin clothes on a laundry line is zen-like.
35 regional planner, learned that I like the private sector better.

[PostmodernProphet]

1-18 Grew up on a farm....earliest job I remember was hosing down the floor of the milk shed and carrying milk from the barn to the house for breakfast......progressed from there to gathering eggs, feeding the cows, throwing slops to the pigs......moved on to driving the tractor for the simplest of jobs around age 8....by the time I was 18 I had to do everything my dad did....
the summer between my junior and senior year I got a job working with my high school, painting lockers....waxing floors....that sort of thing.....
18-22 the summer after I graduated I worked in a fiberglass factory rolling wet fiberglass into molds making canoes.....
the summer after my freshman year in college I worked as a camp counselor....
the summer after my sophomore year I got a job welding in a local factory.....did that for the next two summers as well...
23-24 during the summers I worked at two different law offices as an intern.....the first year I worked on a case defending a land fill against a law suit from people trying to block it......the second defending a realtor who was being sued because a person he was trying to sell a house for refused to sell to a black couple.....it was at that point I decided to specialize in real estate law.....
while attending law school I also drove school bus.....it worked out very well with my classes and two days a week I was able to drive field trips and sporting events at night.....standby time I could sit in the bus and study while earning $2.40 an hour.......This paid for my law school education and I graduated with only a $5k debt.....
25-infinity started working for a lawyer, lasted for about a year.....when I took the job I had asked at what point I might consider being a partner.....he gave me a schedule based on billings.......I reached that point in only eleven months.....when I informed him, he fired me.....started my own office and have paid all my bills on time ever since.....

During that time I also started four other businesses......two I have sold, two I still run.....

When I sold the two businesses I used my spare time to get a Masters in Theology......