What Jobs have you all held ?

[fatter]

I just think its interesting to hear stories, especially from old timers on the different jobs they have held. I will start it off

8 -10 years old we would pick fruit and go door to door selling it, as well as collect copper from dump and sell to scrap yard.
11-14 cut grass, shovel driveways, Trapline
15-16 worked on a dairy farm, sclafanis pizza, vegetable farm
16-19 jc penney sporting goods and hardware, dishwasher at wedding hall, Hot shop on the nys thruway as a short order cook.

19-39 20 years in the USAF security flying with C_5's around the world, Then as a truck mechanic, lots of part time gigs in security one working with rotweillers guarding cars at the newburgh auto auction, also ac moore stocking.

after retiring, worked as an apple inspector for nys AG dept in Marlboro ny. delivery driver for paychex(contract) also picking up medical specimens in Schenectady ,Poughkeepsie and rockland county and shipping the out at stewart airport.

My last ten years have been at Lowes, as well as a side income in domaining.

I am sure I forgot about some jobs
Joe T

 

[briguy]

Jobs..
professional gambler (failed miserably)
professional gigolo (failed miserably)
wannabe Rock Star (failed miserably)

Seriously been in the construction field since I was 14 with a lot of hands on experience in a variety of trades.

Basically (time line approximate)
14-16 years old peeling logs/running chainsaw for a log home builder
16-26 Bricklayer helper then apprentice <roofer/carpenter in between jobs and trade school during off season
27 -32 main carpenter for local contractor <went bankrupt and bought out company and assets
32 - present been running my own "construction" company, still "hands on"

also landlord, part time webmaster (since 1999), Stock market investor, and of course a domainer.

Best job = full time father!

Great topic for a thread!

 

[enlytend]

I was a slacker when I was under 18 - unless you count the first, last and only time I babysat - lol!
College years and a little after - P/T retail jobs - cashier / sales, private guitar instructor, occasional music gigs, wrote salsa band arrangements...
Then decided the starving artist thing wasn't for me so I switched gears, retrained, and landed in corporate IT:
Programmer, programmer / analyst, systems analyst, project leader...
Got tired of putting up with peoples' sh*t and retreated to the hardware side for a while ...
Sys admin (unix/ linux), sr sys admin, lead sys admin, sr infosec analyst
THEN came a layoff merger, 9/11 and the tech crash. Would have stayed in security but didn't have enough on my resume in that field to get past recruiters in a demanding tech market and I'd had enough of the sys admin thing, so I reinvented again...
Freelance webmaster / web developer, did some dog training too during the lean years... and goose control (that was more my dog working than me, I just took him there and managed his finances .)
Learned digital marketing on my own with my own affiliate sites,then moved on to client, then agency...
Currently SEO/SEM specialist for a well established agency, managing assorted business accounts.

 

[briguy]

wrote salsa band arrangements...

Wow, first time that I heard that you can make some cash arranging music for salsa bands!

guess what I am listening too now..

 

[enlytend]

Wow, first time that I heard that you can make some cash arranging music for salsa bands!

guess what I am listening too now..

Cool! It was for a local area band, wasn't a long term thing, but I was a music major who knew enough that I could arrange and write charts for a horn section.

 

[fatter]

Forgot I worked in construction with my uncle in summer of 76, and as a rodman for one of my other uncles any time I had free time in the last 30 years, My mom and dad never gave us any money when we were younger so we always found ways to make a buck.

 

[fatter]

man I am getting old, forgot one summer bailing hay in 90 degree weather, sweating and itching, while throwing hay bails onto a trailer, One summer when I was 11 my father paid my 2 brothers and I, 100.00 to dig a trench 3 feet deep and 2 feet wide, 200 yards long trench to divert a stream around our small pond , so he could have dozers come in and dig a large pond. The guy with the backhoe was going to charge 100.00 so he asked if we wanted to do it. It took us most of the summer, then he said we needed to use the money to get our cats fixed, and shots. Times sure have changed
joe T