What was/is your occupation?

[heyyou]

worked in family business
couple of years in Army
gas station at $.36 per gallon, $1.25 per hour
then $3.75 an hour for entry level at Mega-corp
FIREd 30 years later

 

[Dreamer]

Waitress
Cashier
Gas Station Attendant
Warehouse
Typing Clerk for Civilian Personnel
BVS Clerk
Material Maintenance Clerk
Claims Development Clerk
Service Representative
Data Review Technician
Claims Representative
Early Retiree

Probably forgot a few too.

 

[FinanceDude]

Bartender
Bar manager
French Chef
Telephone Sales - AAA
Small Business Benfit Plans salesman
Finance Manager - Auto
New Car Manager - Auto
General Sales Manager - Auto
Financial Advisor

Some short-term jobs not listed...........

 

[bbbamI]

Yep, looks like we do have enough for a calendar!

Since TA did such a good job with the recipe book, maybe he would be interested in publishing the calendar as well!

 

[flipstress]

Let’s see... I was the:
-Market Researcher, who at this first job forgot to enclose the survey forms with the letters to target respondents
-Student Tutor, who was so absent-minded that she’d forget tutoring sessions
-Student Computer Programmer, who was paid minimum wage but enjoyed churning COBOL programs
-Financial Analyst, who hated doing the budgets and instead enjoyed the backup A/P function of writing collection letters and making collection calls
-EDP Auditor, who got fired from being so dejected after being dumped by her boyfriend
-COBOL/IMS programmer, who dreamt of learning CICS and DB2
-COBOL/VSAM/CICS programmer, who didn’t really get the hang of CICS
-COBOL/IMS/DB2 programmer, who loved working with DB2
-IT Consultant, who loved paid bench time but (alas!) got laid off after the Y2K boom
-IT Business System Analyst, who kept taking client/server and web classes but was kept working mostly on legacy systems

Now I am an:
-IT Specialist, who’s ironically really a generalist, knowing a little of a lot, enough to be dangerous

 

[Sarah in SC]

Okay with all the smart folks!

In family business (a tea farm):
Tea planting, processing, packaging, product design, sales, promotions, delivery (but never got to drive the harvester, darn it!)

Non-profit operations manager
Warehouse Manager, chandlery (sailing)
Customer Service Manager
Web development/Marketing Manager
Financial planning firm office manager & CFP candidate

Most fun I ever had was getting to work alongside my dad during the great (but hard) 12 years in the tea business. I learned a lot about how to get along with people from him, and have spent all the years since trying to put it into practice!

Sarah

 

[Rich_by_the_Bay]

In family business (a tea farm):
Tea planting, processing, packaging, product design, sales, promotions, delivery (but never got to drive the harvester, darn it!)

Sarah,

From the time I met you at Astro's place, I imagined you as a wildly successful CFP, eventually buying back a small tea farm, collecting a bunch of animals just for fun, with your DH indulgently smiling the whole while.

 

[Gumby]

I love tea. I have always thought that it would be great to live in a converted tea warehouse just for the smell.

 

[lowflyer]

Gee, I guess I'm a little late on all this, but:

Chef
HR Manager
Facilities Manager
Flight Instructor
Pilot

 

[bssc]

I don't think that our crack security forces would notice something like that. I noticed that at least one of them parks in the handicaped spot so I know that they are not behind hired for their physical prowess. The cynical side of me says that they are there to be the human tripwire, similiar to the Armored Cavalry regiments during the Cold War.

 

[Fireup2020]

Lifeguard/Swim Instructor (14-18)
USN Welder/Hull Technician/locksmith (18-23)
Student/Mechanical Engineering Pipsqueak in a M/E firm (24-26)
Industrial Oven Designer/Sales (26-29)
P/T gymnastics coach (30)
Naval Reserve Recruiter (29-35)
Veterans Employment Counselor (36-pres) 13 more years to ER! LOVE my job!
....also a Naval Reservist whenever not on active duty - 17 more mos to go!!!

 

[Sarah in SC]

Sarah, From the time I met you at Astro's place, I imagined you as a wildly successful CFP, eventually buying back a small tea farm, collecting a bunch of animals just for fun, with your DH indulgently smiling the whole while.

Rich is so awesomely polite--he's not saying that I talk a lot while my DH patiently waits his turn to talk that never comes! I hope for all of your prognostications to come true! But add to that the boat of DH's dreams!

And Gumby--the tea warehouse smells great, but the tea processing area is 100% humidity and about 100 degrees! Not so great.

Sarah

 

[cute fuzzy bunny]

Didnt think I had any this old, but here I am in my first suit and in my first real job, I'm guessing around 18ish and I just got an award for selling over $1M worth of vaxes!

Bad suit, bad haircut

 

[laurence]

Whoa, check out those ears!

Hey congratulations on selling 2 Vaxes!

 

[cute fuzzy bunny]

It was three! And the proper plural is "Vaxen".

Let me say it first:

"At least his head got bigger to fit the ears..." :

I was on the "mountain dew and hostess cherry pies" diet at the time. Somehow skinny as a rail.

 

[laurence]

To be a teenager again. See how chicken I am, you won't see a picture of me at that age!

 

[cute fuzzy bunny]

Huh. You look like a teenager to me NOW...

Anyone under 30 looks like they're 12 to me. How the heck did THAT happen?

 

[bow-tie]

Dishwasher
Corn Detassler
Corn Detassling inspector
Financial Analyst (with a brief - very brief - stint as an insurance salesman)

 

[John Tuttle]

Corn Detassler
Corn Detassling inspector

I knew even before looking at your profile you had to be from Iowa.

My teenage jobs (besides working on the family dairy farm) were catching chickens and following the wheat harvest from Texas to Montana. Cutting wheat was fun and interesting, catching chickens was not.

 

[bow-tie]

I knew even before looking at your profile you had to be from Iowa.

My teenage jobs (besides working on the family dairy farm) were catching chickens and following the wheat harvest from Texas to Montana. Cutting wheat was fun and interesting, catching chickens was not.

Yep.... nothing like stading in seven foot tall corn on a blistering hot Iowa afternoon. Builds character!!!!

I have friend of mine who really wants to follow the wheat harvest. Sounds very interesting to me, but I don't know enough about it. Sounds like a lot of seat time in a combine.

 

[laurence]

Didnt think I had any this old, but here I am in my first suit and in my first real job, I'm guessing around 18ish and I just got an award for selling over $1M worth of vaxes!

Bad suit, bad haircut

Just to be fair, the reason you were able to retire ten years before I will be able to is because while you were doing the above, this is me at that age...

Yes, that is generic kona coffee booze straight.

 

[cute fuzzy bunny]

Yep, you still look exactly the same. Hairs shorter, thats about it.

 

[Martha]

Dishwasher
Corn Detassler
Corn Detassling inspector
Financial Analyst (with a brief - very brief - stint as an insurance salesman)

Yep.... nothing like stading in seven foot tall corn on a blistering hot Iowa afternoon. Builds character!!!!

I have friend of mine who really wants to follow the wheat harvest. Sounds very interesting to me, but I don't know enough about it. Sounds like a lot of seat time in a combine.

My first "job" (no pay) was picking and candling eggs.I will never forget the smell of chicken sh!t.

 

[John Tuttle]

My first "job" (no pay) was picking and candling eggs. I will never forget the smell of chicken sh!t.

Ah yes, I can smell it now. It will clear your sinus like nothing else I know. If you had caught the chickens, you could enjoy the smell of chicken sh*t on your hands all the next day in school. NOTHING could get rid of it.

 

[justin]

My first "job" (no pay) was picking and candling eggs. I will never forget the smell of chicken sh!t.

I don't know what "candling" eggs is, but I worked in a chicken house every summer when I was a kid picking up eggs and crating them at my grandparent's farm. Mmmm... chicken sh1t! Twice a week, my grandpa would scrape the sh1t pits and we'd go out in the manure truck and fertilize some "organic" fields. Sometimes he would let me drive!

Little did I know that all my early experience dealing with sh1t as a kid would prepare me for a future career in the corporate world...