What was/is your occupation?

[truenorth418]

Paid jobs:

Kitchen help, senior citizens home
Fence/house painter
Summer counselor, center for mentally challenged
PR intern
Dishwasher, college cafeteria
Radio announcer
Assistant buyer, department store
Data entry clerk
Market research intern, pharmaceutical company
Marketing executive, pharma, nutrition, consumer goods (22 years)

 

[F4mandolin]

Too many na- na's.....I was a teacher. Glad to stop. Wish I could make money golfing......

 

[JBmadera]

First half of my career: accountant, controller, CFO.

Second half of my career: hi tech professional services, hi tech business development

And ya, too bad I cannot make money golfing......

 

[jerome len]

paperboy, musician, shoe clerk, ad sales, small business owner, coach, overall primarily sales and sales management......I've had a rewarding and enjoyable career!

Now....... I want to spend what I've saved....on myself and my family.

 

[Gatordoc50]

Caddy
Lawn Mower
Bellhop
Pizza Maker
Oil Refinery Laborer
Insurance Sales
Dog Track dog handler
Paperboy
Restaurant help
Dentist
Realtor

 

[scrinch]

Been a geologist so long I can hardly remember pumping gas and selling shoes when I was a kid.

 

[Ozstache]

Brickies labourer
Red Rooster kitchen hand
Radio techician
Avionics technician
Avionics software engineer
Logistics manager
International liaison officer
Senior project manager
After ERing next month, dog walker, maybe.

 

[LazyErik]

Mowed lawns
Lifeguarded
Machinist
Professional Student (JD, MBA, working on another masters)
Lawyer
Quickly becoming an apple and peach grower-hobby

 

[MRG]

Couple of yard jobs then my first career.
My late Brother and I had a sawmill/logging operation we built from the ground up. Literally we didn't have money to buy lumber for the floor and stood on 8x8 beams balancing to cut a flitch then get it back on the carriage to saw edges on it. That became the first piece of floor.

We bought the timber, cut it, skidded it out, hauled to our partial mill, and sawed it, added more on the mill. Yes I was a lumberjack too.
Later I became a lumber inspector, then a log buyer(beware of log buyers).

Around 26 I got tired of the school of hard knocks. Worked my full time job in the mill and went to a trade school for programming at night. While exhausting got an entry level assembly programming job at Megacorp, had many jobs at Megacorp, but didn't leave for 29 years till ER.

MRG

 

[rwdflynavy]

Grocery Bagger
Office worker
Lifeguard
Bookstore cashier
Hotel bellboy/page (on campus hotel)
Navy Helicopter Pilot

 

[tomc5179]

Part time grease monkey in high school
Machinist (first real job)
Garage Door installer / repairman
Acoustical ceiling / walls contractor

 

[LitGal]

Should Be a Fun Walk Down Memory Lane.....

During Jr. High and High School:
Grape Cutter
Cherry Picker
Babysitter
House Cleaner
Lawn Mower
Leaf Raker
Mulch Bed Weeder
House Painter

College:
Cafeteria Server
Bookstore Clerk
Clerk at Sears
Hospital Kitchen Worker
Warehouse Stock Puller
Teacher at Girls Club

After BA:
High School Teacher
Cheerleader/Songleader Coach
Literary Magazine Adviser
Department Chair

Grad School:
Teaching Assistant
Summer School Teacher in Upward Bound

After MA:
Part-Time College Instructor
Speed Reading Teacher
High School Teacher
Accreditation Coordinator
Accreditation Visiting Committee
New Teacher Mentor
Department Chair
Academic Challenge Coach
University Student Teaching Supervisor

Now:
New Teacher Mentor (A couple days a month)

 

[HillCountry]

in the order of how much money is made -

electronic designer
domainer
landlord
assistant professor

 

[EllisWyatt]

What a long, strange road it's been

High School:
Security Guard

College:
Security Guard
Prep Chef
Managed Wildlife Sanctuary

Post College:
Roughneck
Well Specialist

Graduate School:
TA
Exploration Geologist (Uranium)

Post Graduate School:
Petroleum Geoscientist

Now:
Manager of Kittens

 

[aja8888]

Early years:

Paper boy
Pinsetter - bowling alley
Snow shoveler/grass cutter
House painter
Part time on a garbage truck

Mid years:

Mechanical draftsman (before CAD)
USAF: Nuclear Missile Launch Specialist
Roadside billboard labor (took them down, moved them, re-installed sign structures)
Kitchen help - officer's club

Later years:

Industrial Engineer
Project engineer
Plant Superintendent
Plant Manager
Corporate Staff Engineer

Really later years:

Self employed engineering consultant
Same as above but getting very tired.......

 

[Al in Ohio]

Enginerd

 

[z-d-g]

STUDENT
Record store sales - minimum wage
Delivery driver - tip minimum wage
Deli meat slicer - minimum wage
Record store clerk - barely above minimum wage
Delivery driver - $10/hr
Bartender - $8/hr plus tips

POST GRAD
Restaurant owner - $22k a year
Accountant - $31k a year
Financial advisor intern - $27k a year
Owner of small consulting firm - $80k a year
Owner of nationwide consulting firm - $650k a year
Retired at 35 (now 37) - $72k a year and loving it

 

[chris2008]

Former inhouse counsel in IT industry - ER in September 13 at 55.

DH: former high school teacher - ER in September 13 at 61.
We did not suffer in our jobs and are loving ER.

 

[Unpaintedhuffhines]

Bus boy
Room service delivery guy
Waiter
Elevator operator on high rise building construction (worst job ever)
Field engineer
Calligrapher
Data entry clerk
Programmer (assembly language - yech)
Junior sales rep
Professional services Principal
Sales Manager
Sales Executive

 

[RitaR551]

Farm worker: tractor, manual, etc.
College: cleaning crew
Post college: Print shop for Illinois State Senate, Federal Crop Insurance (clerical)
Mom
Bakery
Aviary
Home School Mom
Post-Mom: custom sewing
Church Secretary

and now, blissfully, retired!

 

[kcowan]

Post Graduate School:
Petroleum Geoscientist

Now:
Manager of Kittens

I hate it when people puff up their resumes like this. Those of us with cats know that management is just wishful thinking. How about: Provider for Kittens?

 

[brett]

Yah. I used to tell people that I was a glorified babysitter, adult daycare supervisor, or that my job was to take all of the responsibility but have very little of the authority.

 

[aja8888]

I hate it when people puff up their resumes like this. Those of us with cats know that management is just wishful thinking. How about: Provider for Kittens?

Around here, the dog has an owner and the cat has staff.

 

[padlin00]

Auto Body
Air Force, computers
Computers/Electronics Tech
Supervisor, Technical Support

 

[NanoSour]

Caddie
Dishwasher
Busboy
Computer Ops
BSEE Student
Engineer
Pilot
FIRE'd