What's your profession?

Part-time computer lab assistant while in college.

Freelance voice-over narrator for commercials and promotional CDs (not anymore, though)

Full time: Software engineer

Taught swimming lessons in highschool. For the past 20 years I've been a x-ray technologist.

Ok - I´m bored my [paid] career so far:

process worker
wood machinist [2nd class]
tray service
bar man
door man
snooker room attendant
waiter
kitchen hand
research assistant
shelver
librarian
IT user support
systems librarian
web dude (db programming mostly ASP)
db and web maintenance

So much experience in A2K. It's interesting seeing people's backgrounds

High-school:
Pizza delivery guy - Domino's, Little Ceasar's, Roma Pizza, Guido's Pizza
Janitor - Base Exchange
Ice-cream scooper - Friendly's
Domino's ass't manager - well, Domino's

College:
Lab tech - Bio student
pizza delivery guy - little Ceasars
Boy Scout summer-camp counselor - Envorimental/Conservation director 3 years
shelf stocker - convience store in the dorms
deli guy - eatery on campus
cashier - Cumberland Farms
carpenter - help an artist next door rebuild his house

post college:
High School Biology teacher - 5 years, became disillusioned with parents
Helpdesk guy - got married, needed a job
Network/Systems administrator (current) - liked computers as they don't talk back
Dad

Oh, Lord. This would take me an hour.

Back later.

Elementary & High School
Paper delivery boy
Grocery store clerk

Naval Academy & Career as a Naval Aviator
Graduate school in Engineering
Test Pilot School
Nuclear Power Training
Command of Nuclear-powered ships

Business career managing units in various engineering and construction firms including decomissioning and cleanup of former nuclear weapons manufactuuring plants, as well as engineering and environmental consulting companies.

Dad and recently grandfather

An oldie revived! I was reading along and trying to figure out if I was crazy thinking Reyn had retired some time ago.

High School - McDonalds

College - Dad's Secretary at horse sales, McDonalds, Dorm Cafeteria, bagger at Safeway grocery store, University Hospital unit clerk.

(Decided not to use my Spec. Ed teacher training and moved to NC. )

Adult - Shoe Store Manager, Retail Furniture Store Assist. Manager, Paralegal, Wife, Mother, Self-Emplyed Event Planner and currently Director of Activities (event planner/ clubhouse manager) for large community.

Junior High School:
babysitter
arts & crafts/sold projects to classmates

High School:
waitress at diner
fast food restaurant worker
ladies' retail clothing salesperson
switchboard operator

College:
campus postal clerk
library assistant
public elementary school tutor
secretary at plastics manufacturer
ladies' retail clothing salesperson
custom frame shop - sales clerk & framer
jeans store - manager

Post-College:
church secretary
design editor for quarterly magazine
traditional wife & homemaker (*worst job ever)
art supply store clerk
church secretary (different church)
receptionist/switchboard operator
administrative secretary for oil & gas company
secretary to VP of architectural firm
administrative assistant (full-time temporary agency, various companies)
partner/small advertising agency
copy typist and production assistant/major advertising agency
freelance graphic designer
freelance writer
neighborhood association board member/newsletter editor/spokesperson
small business association board member/media spokesperson/event planner
assistant director/non-profit agency
non-profit board member (several boards)

Current:
freelance public relations consultant
high school journalism teacher
art museum - docent intern
non-profit board member
wife
mom

damn. I seem to have had a pretty boring life.

Yup, an oldie, but goodie. Some of you folks have had interesting work lives.

Yes, squinney, I retired 1 May 2006. Haven't "worked" a day since just after Christmas last year.

Maybe it just means you can hold a job!

1. Worked the apricot sheds, picked cotton, cut grapes.
2. Payed to do yard work.
3. Payed by the school to work in the cafeteria.
4. Built houses with my grandfather, brother and three uncles.
5. Worked a car wash.
6. Three years on a Navy destroyer.
7. Hitch hiked and rode trains - went to Manpower in each new town and was hired full time by some of the companies (chemical plant in Kansas City, Schraft food worker and laundry man in NY, etc).
8. Machine shop for a month
9. Back to building houses.
10. Wrote first story - rejected.
11. Building apartment complexes.
12. Started a roofing company.
13. Became a maintenance man.
14. Wrote more stories and several poems.

Retiring in less than two years.

An interesting work life, Edgar. We all wish you well approaching retirement.

I guess I missed this the first time around:

Pre-school teacher (3 yrs)
High school biology and math teacher (2 yrs)
program planner for the State waste management authority (2 yrs)
environmental inspector for State environmental agency (1 yr)
environmental consutant for an engineering firm (11 yrs)
back to the State doing environmental inspections again (4 yrs)

I don't know if I can remember all the jobs I've done but I think I'll give it a shot just for fun...

-Bagger and cart pusher at the local grocery store
-Assistant cook at a sports bar
-Burgerking
-Assistant manager at a convenience store
-Assistant horseback director at a camp
-Horseback director at a camp
-Camp counselor
-Mail sorter
-Delivery driver
-Car detailer
-Truck (semi) detailer
-Parts runner
-Waitress
-Cashier
-Janitor
-Had my own house cleaning business
-Put siding on houses
-Maintenace assistant
-Data entry
-Receptionist
-Unit/Clinical secretary
-Service Associate at hospital
-Optical Imaging Tech at hospital

And then finally I found my passion...

Working with youths which I have been doing for the last six years.

Ok... I know it's a long list... Errrr... when I was younger I thought jobs were disposable. I really did. I usually worked two to three jobs at a time so whenever someone pissed me off I could just quit. By the time I was 21 years old I had worked at 23 different jobs. It took being unemployed for six months and the fact that even McDonalds wouldn't hire me for me to realize that it was time for a change. I went back to school, got my diploma, and in the process of that my dad talked a friend of his into hiring me as a Janitor. I slowly worked my way up in life and built enough confidence to believe I was capable of more than I was allowing myself to do.

Now... 15 years later... I'm finally going back to school to get a degree in social work.

Ahem...

I think I might be a late bloomer.

1)Babysitter
2)Counter help at an ice cream store
3)Retail clothing store help
4)Camp Counselor
5)Typist
6)College Cafeteria worker
7)House cleaner
8)Day Care worker
9)Motel room cleaner
10)Receptionist at Fred Astaire Dance Studio (some stories I could tell from this job!)
11)Residential housemom for emergency placement at home for kids who were removed from their homes due to abuse
12)public school teacher - special services (grades 4-6)
13)Assistant case manager for social/educational agency that provided therapies for preschoolers with developmental disabilities
14)Resident Director of homeless shelter for pregnant women and their children
15)Public School Teacher (special services highschool and adult literacy and numeracy)

The first ten jobs were before I graduated from college - I worked at different things pretty much all the way through school- whatever I could find to do to make money.

The last five are what I've done as a career - more where my interests and passions lie.