What was/is your occupation?

[harley]

I slaved away at some of those jobs for weeks!

Some of them were simultaneous, like being in a band and having day jobs too. Same with beekeeping. Not a full time job. And I still haven't figured out what I want to do when I grow up.

 

[Rambler]

lawn mower
orchard farm hand
berry picker
chicken cook
dishwasher
janitor
line boy (in a cafeteria)
dairy hand (poop scooper & feeder for the calf operation)
cafeteria cook
sales (bus. services)
branch mgr
marketing mgr
training mgr
sales support mgr
strategic planning mgr
strategy director
FP&A director
M&A director
operations VP
country ceo
multi-country (regional) ceo

The first 9 are during youth and college daze. The last 12 are in the same megacorp, about 25 years. In those 25 years I have had 14 bosses, 7 in the first 18 years and 7 in the last 7 years.

R

 

[Rambler]

...oh, I thought I would add, that my "preoccupation" is FIRE....

R

 

[bbbamI]

 

[FIREd]

Logger
Farm hand
Industrial grinder and cutter operator
Activity specialist at summer camps
Bank teller
Industrial ink mixer
Environmental analysis technician
DNA synthesis and purification technician
Scientist (nanotechnology)

 

[Westernskies]

paper delivery boy
babysitter
dishwasher
lawn care
hotel maid
blueprint machine operator
farm laborer
short-order cook
gas station attendant
mattress factory

---worked thru college as:
construction laborer
furniture restoration technician
delivery truck driver
repossession specialist
tow truck driver
carpenter
warehouse laborer
dorm night clerk
mechanic
bicycle sales and service
dredge operator
auto body technician
house painter

---professional career:
Estimator
Designer/Draftsman
Project Manager
Sales Engineer
International Sales
Divisional Sales Manager
Product Manager
Divisional Vice President
Corporate Vice President

---aspire to be:
Retired.

 

[aaronc879]

bagger/stocker in grocery store(1yr)
pizza delivery driver(1yr)
sales in sporting goods store(1yr)
early morning truck loader UPS(1yr)
forklift driver(3yrs)
slitting machine operator(6yrs...)

 

[FinanceDude]

I am who they thought I was.........

 

[Westernskies]

I am who they thought I was.........

in your dreams...

 

[JOHNNIE36]

Paper delivery boy
Lawnmower
Shoe shine boy
Factory flunkie
College-Mechanical Engineering '54-'59
Automotive Tool Designer
Design Supervisor
Various engineering assignments
Superintendent-Manufacturing Engineering
Various manufacturing assignments
Project Manager
Retirement-1988
Real estate sales/golfer (both part time)
FIRE
Household flunkie/golfer (both part time)

 

[Dawg52]

Pimping.

 

[FinanceDude]

Pimping.

Actually, I was thinking you were a beertaster for Anheuser-Busch.......

 

[Dawg52]

Actually, I was thinking you were a beertaster for Anheuser-Busch.......

Did that when I was working my way through college.

 

[Westernskies]

Pimping.

yeah, dawg, and remember, you provided us this photo to prove it!

 

[WhoDaresWins]

occupations

From first to current: public library page, university reference librarian, Army Corps of Engineers district librarian(Norfolk, VA), stay at home Mom, insurance claims processing in a surgical practice, long term living licensing coordinator.

 

[Nords]

Pet care/childcare/snow shoveler/lawnmowing entrepreneur
Golf course-- starter, ditch digger, greens maintenance
USNA midshipman
Research assistant at Naval Research Lab
Nuclear engineering student
Submarine chemistry/radiological controls officer
Submarine auxiliaries officer and damage control assistant (in charge of recovering from damage, not causing it)
Submarine communicator, all three jobs on a ballistic missile submarine
Naval Postgraduate School student (Weapons engineering)
Weapons Officer on an attack submarine (you veterans understand how unusual it is to pull down this sort of assignment after that sort of training)
Submarine staff-- exercises & current ops
Training command (battlegroup submarines & over-the-horizon targeting) in San Diego
Training command (submarine engineering & damage control) in Pearl Harbor
ER!

 

[Orchidflower]

Thank you for pulling this up as I have been wondering what this post was called, and wanted to see it again. Great minds think alike and all that.
Dawg54 is one purty lady...I'm jealous.

 

[Steve O]

Well it's a rainy day here so what the heck...

Paperboy-that sucked

Mowed lawns-sucked

Bagger at the grocery store-Sucked

Cashier at an very cool old gas station-was cool but the pay sucked

Car wash guy that dried of cars for tips-sucked

Chicago hot dog stand-the food was good but it sucked

Mechanic-Im good but I hate fixing other peoples cars and they are some crooked bastards-sucked

Roofer-sucked

Industrial Blacksmith- I actually enjoyed this when I was young but the 19 years of hard labor took it's toll on my body and in the end it started to suck...

It did pay very good though, FIRED for now

Work SUCKS

Now Im a part time Ass model, but I do get tired of being treated like a piece of meat by the so called ladies

 

[Westernskies]

Now Im a part time Ass model

Dawg could probably put you under contract ...

 

[bbbamI]

Oh Steve O....ohhhhhh!

 

[MichaelB]

Things I was employed at for more than a few weeks.

Paperboy
Waiter
Food server
Dishwasher
Dorm RA
Camp counselor
Fork Lift Driver
Machine Operator (steel mill)
House painter
Assistant Professor
Tutor (college)
Ghost writer (college papers)

Then, in the corporate world

Sales Rep
Lots of manager jobs (in sales, marketing, and finance)
Controller
Sales Manager
Project Manager
General Manager
Business Unit Exec

The ones that made the biggest impact on my life were paper boy, dishwasher, writing papers in college and business exec.

Since I left the corporate world I’ve been even busier... and it definitely has been more fun

 

[freebird5825]

Sidewalk snow shoveler with brothers doing heavy w*rk
Newspaper folder with brothers
Babysitter
General house and yard helper to elderly next door neighbors (free)
Mother's helper and housecleaner, 3 years, HS
Jack-in-the-Box taco girl, 2 months, HS
State food service at live-in large scale institution, 1 year, HS
Physics Lab Assistant, College W*rkStudy Program, 3 years
Vacuum cleaner/lawnmower/automotive mechanic, 3 summers
Book warehouse flunkie and sorter/packer - worse j*b I ever had
Small engine mechanic
Part time all dept cashier for department store
Substitute teacher, off and on for 1 year
Clerk, hardware/paint, 1 year
Computer programmer, scientific apps, 3 years
VAX System manager, lab data acquisition, 5 years
Engineer (1/2 lab rat, 1/2 contracts manager), 18 years
Full-time goof off, 2 years

 

[Kabekew]

Air traffic controller
Games programmer
Software business owner

 

[Dawg52]

Dawg could probably put you under contract ...

Yeah, might as well get paid for it.

 

[hakuna matata]

High School and college:
Janitor
Grocery Stocker
Construction Flagger
Newspaper ad inserter
Burglar Alarm monitor

Professional:
Architect for the last 25 years
5 more years to go
FIRE
and then continue to practice Architecture (but on my terms) until the money is all gone