How many jobs have you had?

Include actual paycheck jobs from high school onward.

I've had grocery store, moving company, grocery store (one week), liquor store, newspaper, construction company, concrete finisher, hog barn builder, newspaper, newspaper, newspaper, construction, newspaper, newspaper, Pearson Education scoring, freelance editing (Demand), Census Bureau, freelance magazine writing and crossing guard.

That makes 20. In 42 years. I'm either well-rounded or full of fail. Or both.

 

I'm picturing a crossing guard with a glitter shirt.

 

My jobs:

Front desk at a gym
employee at Little Caesar's
seasonal work at HoneyBaked Ham
Greeter at Waffle House
Part-timer at Herald-Leader
secretary at an equine insurance adjuster's office
Writer/desker
writer/desker
desker
writer/desker

 

Caddy (1996-2003, 2006-2009)
Gap employee (1998-2003, 2006-2007)
Intramural sports official (2000-2003)
College newspaper assistant editor/editor (2000-2003)
Bouncer (I worked like three times in college)
Sports department intern (2002-2003)
Golf shop employee (2006-2008)
Sports reporter (2007-current)

 

From 1996 until now:

Babysitter, McDonalds cashier, sports stringer, news intern, Suncoast Video sales clerk, ZIP sorter (graveyard shift!), sports editor, sports writer, sports writer, sports editor, sports desker, business desker/firefighter

 

Since 1976:
Clerk in father's pawn shop
Usher at Dodger Stadium
Delivery driver for pharmacy
Sports reporter
Sports reporter -- new paper
Sports editor
City editor
Managing editor
Copy editor -- different paper
Editor -- Back to old paper
Asst metro editor -- same paper, new owner
Editor -- different paper
Copy editor -- different paper
Community news editor
News reporter
Also spent six season stringing hockey for SportsTicker

 

Jobs dating back roughly 24 years (I think I started working at 10):

Paper Route
Landscaping
Silverware polisher/dishwasher
Taco Bell
Little League baseball/softball umpire
telemarketer in college (lasted one month)
merchandizer/cashier CVS
Four years at college newspaper (reporter/sports reporter/sports editor)
two years at college radio station (producer/broadcaster for football and basketball)
Three years as resident assistant in college (paid for room and board)
stringer for Associated Press
paid intern in sports for small daily
paid intern in sports for small weekly
content editor for now-defunct sports web site called Wall Street Sports
freelance writer for magazine
writer/reporter for NFL team publication and web site
sports reporter/columnist for mid-size daily
town reporter for small weekly
sports information director for DIII school
writer/public information officer at university

 

Shit, I forgot three others: part-time FM radio DJ; busboy (cash only, please); and glamor-shots type photographer. How I forgot the one that took me to places like Rock Springs, Wyo., Minot, N.D. and Brainerd, Minn. (Paul Bunyan's cock lump, he wheezed) is beyond me.

So, to recap: 23 in 42 years, and I stayed at one of them for six years.

If I included all the jobs I had as a kid (mostly farm-related), I'd have more than 30. Christ, now I feel old.

 

Whoa, this might take awhile:

HS/College era:
Taco Bell
High school intern at local TV station for sports
DJ at Christian Rock radio station, was assistant GM by senior year of high school
College DJ, executive staff member
sports reporter for local TV station
News Director of college TV station
Sports Director of Public Radio station
DJ at a bar/club/pub...whatever you want to call it
Sub maker at local sub shop
ID checker at college's athletic building
sound engineer for church and missionary that converted English sermons into Arabic

Professional career:
Show host/DJ for radio station in Ohio
General Assig. reporter for TV station in Michigan
Sports for hometown daily
Game Day Operations grunt for OHL hockey team
Assistant GM for radio station in Michigan
Production Assistant for TV station in Michigan, got Sports Anchor job there later
DJ/show host for radio station in Mich., also did sports pxp
Sports Editor for weekly newspaper in Mich.
Beat writer for daily newspaper in Indiana, promoted to Night News Editor
DJ/show host for radio station in Indiana
Sports paginator/copy editor in Ohio

 

Theatre concessionaire at the hometown bijou
Summer maintenance for hometown park board
Summer maintenance for hometown school district, three summers
Christmas stockboy/delivery boy at hometown girlfriend's father's liquor store
Amusment park mascot
Car parker for my college athetic events
Intramural referee at my college
Intramural timekeeper at college
Manual scoreboard operator at my college's old baseball field
Production-line worker, food equipment company while in college
Paperboy for the dorms at my college
Kitchen helper at local private school near my college
Construction worker on library project at my college
Full-time newspaper reporter/desker, 34.5 years
Free-lance writer (magazine/other papers)
And my current job

 

From 1996 forward:
Farm hand
Construction
Sports editor, then news editor at same joint
Desker
Managing editor
Desker (at much larger joint)
Army