What was/is your occupation?

[yelnad]

babysitter
fast food
work study (filed papers and answered phones)
orientation assistant
supermarket cashier
graduate assistant
retail sales
residence hall director
academic advisor
international programs coordinator
next job: mom

 

[haha]

next job: mom

Congrats!

Ha

 

[CRABBY JERRY]

No millionaire truck drivers here?

 

[MooreBonds]

Occupations (in chronological order) :

4th-8th grade: mowing lawns at my dad's office
One solitary hot summer day, 5th grade: Kool-aid stand
5th grade-Freshman year of college: caddying
Freshman year college-5th year: Estimator/project manager/assistant secretary/tech guru, dad's construction company
Freshman year college-5th year: guinea pig for variety of psych/business experiments (not only was it fun, but they pay you in cash as well! )
After college-present day: Estimator/project manager/occasional secretary assistant/Chief Technology Officer (despite three people taking their own initiative on tech to fiddle around with things despite no knowledge of computer or networking software/hardware), dad's construction company
Future estimated 'fun' occupation, 2008 (hopefully when I'm FI): assistant to financial adviser @ Bank of America or Commerce (where I might do a little bit of research or paperwork shuffling - basically, a finance-related job, low stress, make $40k/year for a few years, then fully FIRE myself...unless the market tanks between now and then).

 

[Spanky]

plastic flower assembler
toy assembler
elementary student
house cleaner
junior high student
bus boy
dish washer
paper boy
high school student
gas station attendant
hamburger cook
pizza delivery boy
parking lot attendant
avionics specialist in the USAF
stock room clerk
college student
hardware design engineer
firmware engineer
graduate engineering student
husband
competitive analysis analyst (spy)
graduate business student
product marketing manager (target of ridicule & dots)
father
software engineer
project lead
FIRE planner
?

 

[bbbamI]

If you're not retired, you should certainly be tired by now!

 

[laurence]

plastic flower assembler
toy assembler
elementary student
house cleaner
junior high student
bus boy
dish washer
paper boy
high school student
gas station attendant
hamburger cook
pizza delivery boy
parking lot attendant
avionics specialist in the USAF
stock room clerk
college student
hardware design engineer
firmware engineer
graduate engineering student
husband
competitive analysis analyst (spy)
graduate business student
product marketing manager (target of ridicule & dots)
father
software engineer
project lead
FIRE planner
?

Hey Mon, you da hardest workin' family from the west indies! What a list, mon!

 

[Nords]

Hey Mon, you da hardest workin' family from the west indies! What a list, mon!

I guess it's time to search for the first couple seasons of "In Living Color" and "Saturday Night Live" on DVD. And the "Blues Brothers" movie.

Gotta make sure our kid's properly educated before she leaves the nest. Three-quarters of my interspousal vocabulary comes from these scripts.

I can only imagine our kid's reaction to seeing Jim Carrey, Damon Wayans, Jennifer Lopez, Steve Martin, Bill Murray, Dan Ackroyd, and everyone else as we used to know them.

 

[JDARNELL]

plastic flower assembler

One year in college over a two week school break I had a job folding towels. I think the pay was so much per 100. Anyway after a couple of hours I told the owner that he had convinced me I didn't want to work over the break and to just keep what I had earned as payment for the lesson.

Tomcat98

 

[Khan]

You folks are bringing up memories.

Back in Summer of '70, I worked in a Christmas tree factory.

My job was to pick up branches from the conveyor belt and dip the ends into a dye sponge (color related to size) and put them back down on the conveyor belt.

I swear, once or twice I fell asleep and it didn't interfere with my duties.

 

[Spanky]

One year in college over a two week school break I had a job folding towels. I think the pay was so much per 100. Anyway after a couple of hours I told the owner that he had convinced me I didn't want to work over the break and to just keep what I had earned as payment for the lesson.

Tomcat98

Pay was low back then in Hong Kong. We got paid by the number assembled. The economy back then (in the 60s) was mostly dependent on exports of plastic toys and flowers.

 

[bbbamI]

I've noticed that a few old threads have been brought back to life. So...I just wondered if the newbies would like to contribute.

 

[calmloki]

Country kid, cattle. Bean and strawberry picker, cotton candy & soft drink hawking at parades and rodeos for school clothes money, ranch work gratis 'cause i was a family member.
gas pump jockey
janitor
automatic screw machine operator
deck tech, USN
sonar tech, USN
rental equipment repair/loading/delivery/whatever
Telephone prewire installer,repairman, Santa Fe NM Mountain Bell
cannery worker
"custom compost compiler" for a mushroom farm's research dept.
mushroom grower
GM mechanic
VW mechanic
import auto repair co-owner/mechanic
rental property owner, toilet repairman.

 

[travelover]

Paperboy
Lawn / small equipment mechanic
Zinc die caster
Mechanical Engineer
PowerPoint Lackey (management)
House husband

 

[smileydog]

Electronics Technician, Systems Engineer, Technical Sales Engineer

 

[toofrugalformycat]

Thanks for reviving this thread! It's fun to know more about you regular posters!

Bean picker
Produce gleaner & typist (on a manual typewriter!)
Bug picker (involves microscope, intertidal sediment, invertebrates, lots of formaldehyde)
Lab assistant for college computer classes
Scientific seiner crew, Columbia River
Fisheries Observer, OR/WA coast and Bering Sea on Russian ships in the late '70s
More bug picking
Fisheries Aide (Crab sampler, San Francisco Bay)
Lead programmer, turnkey car sales finance computer system (in the first Silicon Valley boom)
Programmer/analyst, satellite telemetry (the Blue Cube)
Woods hippy in Alaska wilderness (but too food-oriented to starve to death like McCandless)
Analyst/Programmer, Fish and Game (Despite the title I wasn't analyzing the programmers although we needed it) for the last 15 years of my "career"
Traveler
Same Analst/Programmer job shared 6/mo per year
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[Getting short]

Can't believe that there's another 'bug picker' in the group! I've been a:

Chicken fryer (KFC)
Telephone information operator
Office grunt
Postal worker
Meat cutter
Seasonal technician (bugs, fungi & trees)
Bug researcher

 

[Keopele]

Maintenence Clerk at grocery store, aka... cart boy
Rodman on survey crew
Catering ops
Inside Sales Rep
Part-time bass player
Inventory Analyst
Sr. CPFR Analyst
LeanSixSigma BlackBelt
19 more years of workin for the man.....

 

[Lakedog]

marina flunky
cannery worker
forestry tech
forest research tech
forester
forest planner
logging engineer
fire management officer
will retire end of March 2008

 

[FinallyRetired]

Mechanical engineering technician
Air Force officer
Aerospace engineer
Sailing bum

 

[NotSoonEnough]

Years in parenthesis...

Paper Boy (2)
Lot Boy at KFC (1)
Farm Laborer (3)
Stock Boy at KMart (2)
Delivery Truck Driver at local lumber yard (3)
Lineman at a municipal electric utility (3)
Industrial Electrician (1)
College Student (5)
Software Developer (15)

 

[Maurice]

As a kid:

Stock boy
Shoe salesman
Convenience store clerk
Clerk in produce department
Cart pick up at K-Mart (lasted 1 week)
Answered phones at Dominos
Math tutor

Post College:

Management Consultant, big 6 firm, eventually rising to partner
Investment Bank, in charge of risk systems for derivatives trading

 

[Gumby]

sonar tech, USN

Submarine or target?

 

[calmloki]

Submarine or target?

active. Fear the mighty hedgehog! Then again on nuke cruiser Long Beach.

 

[Babeebloos]

File clerk
Gift wrapper
Dimestore salesperson
Information Operator - "Directory Assistance..."
Stock Transfer Agent
TWA Int'l Flight Attendant - "Coffee?" and "Bubb-Eye"
Faux Painter/Muralist
Interior Decorator

Now I'm semi-retired and will remain a Portrait painter and sculptor until I can't breathe anymore....