Careers you have had in your lifetime...

[loquere]

Mountain.

 

[oggbashan]

Early ones:

Programme deliverer for Movie theatre.

Waste paper and glass bottle collector for recycling.

Newspaper Boy; Newspaper Marker-upper and Newspaper Boy Manager.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Museum guide
High school science/mathematics competitions (some had money prizes - small change by grown-up standards, but my pocket money was like $1/week so contests were a big part of my childhood income)
Tutoring HS kids
Undergrad student
(coulda been roped into Amway or some such, had the good sense to say no)
Doctoral student
Psych and pharmacology test subject (paid to receive electric shocks and get my eyeballs prodded)
Researcher/patent monkey
Unemployed
Technical editor
Researcher (different fields) + research team manager
Smut author (a few bucks here and there)

Still doing the last three. Would love to give more detail, but some of that would be a bit too identifiable.

Edit: oh, I forgot, author for a role-playing company (mostly paid in kind, occasionally money).

 

[hoo_hoo_boo]

student, cleaner, gardener, boot maker, wheat bag stacker (at a silo, each bag 60 kg), hedge trimmer (the highest paid job), shearer, clerk, fruit picker, Die caster(making things from molten aluminium alloy), galley boy on a ship, cook, psych nurse, man hole cover cleaner, painter, dish washer, nurse- psych, med, card, paed, surg, rehab,- artist, gardener, nurseryman, farmer- still going and more I can't think of.

 

[loquere]

Santa Claus

 

[oggbashan]

Santa Claus

I still get asked to do that.

 

[barefootgirl69]

Babysitter
Clerk at the Court House
Clerk, Detective's Division, Police Dept.
Nanny
Personal Assistant to a writer
College Student
Single Mom
Office administrator, Medical Office
Office Clerk, Dept. of the Navy
Office Clerk/Secretary/Office Administrator, US Army
Army wife
College graduate
Legal Assistant
Mommy four more times
Homeschool teacher
Small business co-owner (admin/accounting/headaches)
Virtual Assistant to several lawyers and other businesses

 

[LWulf]

• Newspaper boy 3 yrs (after school)
• office janitor 2 yrs (after school)
• office clerk (summer)
• library assistant (after school)
• school records assistant (after school)
• inventory clerk/company snitch - was used unwittingly complicit in flushing out the Controller did $5 million in fraud, who was a friend's mom. That was fun, thanks mom! - (summer)
• office clerk - (summer)

(Then I graduated High School)

• Security officer (1 year) tandem with ->
• gas pump attendant (back in the day when there was still full service stations) (2 years)
• Work site clean up crew (1 year)
• assistant designer to the chief engineer (2 years)
• mapper/clerk gas engineering (1 year)
• mapper all systems (1 year) Tandem with->
• LERO officer (Local Emergency Response Organization) (basically I gave people a Karen Silkwood)
• convenience store clerk (1 year)
• convenience store clerk overnight (2 years) tandem with ->
• Joiner Designer (love working 80 hours and only getting paid for 40) - 10 yrs
• machine shop draftsman/quality control (1 year)
• kitchen installer (seasonal - 2 years)
• fast food worker
• Fast food manager (woohoo! love working 120 hour weeks and only getting paid for 40!) 2 yrs
• assistant butcher (grocery store)
• Cashier
• kitchen designer (7 years)
• design manager (2 years) tandem with ->
• Measurer (2 years)
• independent measurer
• kitchen designer/lead man (1 year)
• kitchen designer (1 year)
• warehouse worker/dock loader
• taxicab driver (4 years) tandem with ->
• 3D modeller (3 years)
• door to door security salesman (5 weeks heh I think that's the shortest full time job I ever had)
• Independent designer/remodeler - in season, out of season, various odd jobs

... I'm sure I missed a couple or three...

 

[Handley_Page]

Radio mechanic
Salesman
Cable TV engineer
Technical Author
Calibration Tech

 

[PaigeMcAbee]

Grocery store clerk/checker
School Librarian (college job)
Bank Teller
Church Pianist
Hotel Controller
Hospital CFO