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How many jobs have you had?

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by joe, May 13, 2011.

  1. EagleMorph

    EagleMorph Member

    I'm 25, and have had the following gigs, in order:
    - Worked in a greenhouse connected to a flower shop for a summer, maintaining the plants. Glorified gardener, I guess.
    - Call-center
    - Landscaper
    - High school on-air intern at local college radio station
    - Various college related reporter/anchor/newsperson gigs
    - Intern at local radio station
    - Intern for PR/Marketing company
    - Research assistant for marketing company
    - Retail
    - Newspaper/web writer
     
  2. BYH

    BYH Active Member

    Junior high/high school:
    Paper route
    Mowing lawns
    Stockboy/whipping boy at A&P (awful)
    Runner KMart (awful, awful, awful)
    Stringer at local newspaper (which I continued through all of the following gigs)

    College:
    Variety of little maintenance gigs at my best friend's Dad's factory (only lasted a couple weeks, he had no work)
    Supervisor at a Teen Center in town (yeah that's a great idea--me, presiding over a bunch of at-risk kids)
    Stocking shelves at local car dealership (great summer gig, was by myself in the back room listening to Boyz II Men's "End of the Road" every 90 minutes and pining for my ex)
    Assistant track coach
    Working in a newspaper mailroom (as awful as it sounds)
    Spraypainting garbage cans (even worse, what a shitty way to spend my last summer in college)
    Stringer at another paper in the chain

    My career
    Full-time preps writer at local paper
    Magazine editor/writer
    Website editor/writer (two at the same time TWSS--best few months of my life)
    Full-time preps writer at the shittiest weekly paper in the world
    Full-time preps/colleges writer at a far better weekly paper
    Magazine editor/writer

    Since my career flat-lined:
    Internet marketing guru (snort)

    Only 19? I'm sure I've had more that I've buried so deep in the recesses of my mind that only expensive therapy will retrieve them. Also not counting a bunch of very steady freelance gigs.
     
  3. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    Lawn mowing
    Paper route
    Late-night grocery stocker
    Pizza cook
    Gas jockey/mechanic trainee/wrecker driver
    Gas jockey/convenience store cashier
    7-11 night clerk
    Auto parts store runner
    Occasional fill-in DJ/ general gofer at a radio station *
    City rec baseball/softball coach
    Grade school basketball coach
    Junior high football coach

    Sports stringer for metro daily
    SE for 6-day daily
    ME for 5-day daily
    ASE for midsize daily
    Editor for regional weekly edition
    SE for 7 day daily
    SE for 6 day daily
    Writer/designer for 7 day daily


    * - I was paid in free records and all the semi-fresh pizza I wanted to eat so that probably doesn't qualify as a "paycheck job."
     
  4. Brad Guire

    Brad Guire Member

    Youth league baseball concession stand (cashier, cook)
    Sbarro pizza (cashier, cook)
    Papa's College Custard (cashier, cook)
    Randall Publishing (phone survey)
    Decatur Daily (part-time online editor, summer)
    Tuscaloosa News (part-time online editor)
    Some weeky shopper (page designer)
    University of Alabama (a pity job my professor gave me)
    Papa John's Pizza (cashier, cook)
    Times-News (reporter, designer ... and my first and only post-college graduation job)
     
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