Right now I am a regional sales director for an Electronic component company (small micro chips). We currently have the same rule about seeing someone in a suit in the building. Beofre this I was a Nightclub manager. I dealt with all kinds of stuff...shootings, drugs, mafia, drunks, hookers, pimps, stabbings. It was great job. I also worked in a pharmacy, I acted in dinner theater, I waited Tables and I was a Life insurance underwriter.

This is a great post .

When you sit down to reflect on your life, and all you can come up with is 'taking care of kids' - is that compassion, or dull?
I worked at a day care starting at 15, then I worked at another daycare, then baskin robbins, then hey what do you know another day care center. I was there til I was 21, then became a nanny for 6 yrs. Married, had my own baby(s), now I run a day care out of my home, really it's more of one huge playdate, and then of course we have Tarjey-and yes, I do get a discount.

I work 20 hours a week as an attorney for child welfare.

Wow, all my jobs ever? In high school I was a yogurt store clerk, camp counselor, worked at a kids toy store for a while, and babysat after school. (I'm noticing a kid theme).

In college on summer breaks I worked in law firm, first for the library and then for the file room.

In law school I was a law clerk in a prosecutors office and for a defense attorney. (I didn't last real long for the defense attorney, thats just never been me).

After law school I was a law clerk for a judge, and then went where I am now. I contracted after Michael was born and then went back to the office 20 hours a week.

Let's see, my mom owned a restaurant when I was younger and someone called in sick one day. So I waited tables. I started when I was 12. I quit when I turned 22. Many, many different places in between, but they all are really the same. Then I was a file clerk. I can't even come close to relaying how boring that job was. Half the day, I filed things. The other half, I pulled files out for people. Then someone went on maternity leave and I took a night position in the computer room printing stuff. It was better, but working nights sucks. So I applied for a job with the state, and collected taxes for a while. Now I write java applications. That is, I write them whenever my boss notices me and gives me something to do. It isn't all that often.

I've been a nanny, a daycare worker, retail and fast food cashier, a receptionist, and admin assistant, a program associate. In the 17 years that I've been working I've only had three full time jobs but a half-dozen part time jobs. Just a brief history.

As for what I do now: I'm a program monitor at a children's non-profit in Maryland. The org gets funding from the state and it is passed along to community programs. I oversee several vendors to ensure that the money is being spent correctly and that state guidelines are being met. That's the official desc. Along the way, on a daily basis, I help put out fires, try to keep children in their homes by thinking creatively and collaborating with child-serving agencies. it's hard sometimes (often) to see/hear how unequipped some families are to care for their children but it's really good knowing that, on the fortunate days, we have the funds to get them help. Sometimes the help needed is to take the child away and place him/her in a foster or group home but it's always done with the hope that the family can be reunited at a later point, when everyone is much better able to cope.

I find the work to be really frustrating and draining and depressing at times but I honestly can't imagine not working for a children's non-profit. I'll continue to do that for as long as I'm able.

I'm currently an instructional technologist for a community college and support pretty much the entire distance learning program.

Prior to this I did a lot of babysitting, worked for a couple of summers for my dad in his recycling center (disgusting work), spent 2 years in college working in the library and the other 2 making web sites for classes, spent a summer during that time answering phones, taking reservations, and cleaning for a rafting company, worked for 2 years for Duke University in IT Publications, and then for 2 years at Virginia Tech on a grant that involved a lot of web development and traveling to rural communities.

I am firmly entrenched in academia. Not always great for the pay, but fabulous benefits!

Job one - Ice cream flunkie at a Mom & Pop shop in Westerly, RI. I was working under the table because I was too young to work more than a few hours a week, but I was the only person they hired.
Job two - Dryer at a car wash. Laid off after I refused to wear a bikini (BTW, I was 16)
Job three - Waitress at a Chinese restaurant. That was where I realized that I wasn't cut out for the food service industry in any form.
Job four - Bookseller at Waldenbooks.
Job five - Tech support/Customer Service/Assistant Webmaster at small ISP, which has since been sucked into a corporate monster.
Job six - Graphics Tech at a simulation company.
Job seven through twelve-billion - Contract work at multiple places doing web and graphic design. Right now, I'm doing a six-month contract at what I refer to as Big Ol' News.

Oh lord, I've had far too many jobs in my (still, relatively) young life. But you asked. Don't say you weren't warned...

In high school I babysat and worked in a used bookstore. I loved that job as it was totally unsupervised, you could read the books as long as you put them back, and most nights it was so dead I could do homework or talk on the phone. Best job ever. At least for a 16-year-old bookworm.

From there I was a theatre camp counsellor for two summers, a housekeeper at a retreat centre for a summer, I organized the local symphony's sheet music collection and created a database for said collection, worked as a Retail peeon at (in order)Eddie Bauer, AdditionElle, HMV (also, a most excellent job when you're in your early 20s and have no direction other than to hang out with your boyfriend and bum around europe. I miss those days...), Sears (for two weeks), and Cotton Ginny. And then back at HMV again. I also worked as an office assistant in the employment services office of my college, as the assistant to the orientation coordinator at the same college, editor of the college newspaper, weekend reporter/photographer for a small community newspaper, web assistant for the department of international affairs, Reporter/Photographer for local community newspaper, Resume Reviewer and now, finally, Communications Officer for the Government of Canada.

Whew... no wonder i'm getting bored at work these days. I've been here longer than I've worked anywhere else, aside from HMV!

Afte college, I started working in a big financial company in the compliance area. I didn't enjoy it, but did well there even though I had a psychology degree and no business/financial experience. I was there for a few years and then "lost" my job because I worked in the World Trade Center. I was obviously a very lucky girl and was alive and because of that and my "second chance" at life, decided to never work somewhere again that didn't interest me. From there I became a Mary Kay sales consultant, a daycare provider, a temp worker, and got fired from a tanning salon. After about 2 years of financial hardship, I am now back in the boring, compliance field...after realizing that even people who get a second chance at life still need a steady paycheck!

I'm a joker, a smoker, and a midnight toker.

Just kidding. I'm a former SAH-MILF, now I'm an accountant, though still a MILF.

At least that's what my husband tells me.

Right now I work as a Benefits Manager for a company. But secretly I am longing to be a stay at home mom or work less so I can see the boy more. He is so fun and I feel like I am missing it.

I started working at age 14 for an amusement park that was down the street from my house. It was the best. Then on to many many other jobs and finally found myself in insurance / benefits / HR - so that is where I am now. Kind of boring, I know! But boy did I love that amusement park job - good times.

Currently, I'm in advertisng - I build ads for our local daily newspaper, as well as put together (through to printing the negatives) the entire classified section of said paper every day. Plus lots of other random duties throughout the week. Well - that's what I do when I'm not lounging around the house recovering from surgery, anyway.

As for how many jobs I've held - who knows? Somewhere between five and ten, probably closer to ten. But I'll soon be "celebrating" (???) my 10th anniversary at the newspaper very soon. Ugh!

Amy :)

I'm a smidge older than you and have had a few more jobs/careers, but let's see if I can pare it down:
During high school there was the babysitting and the working as a "kindercamp" counselor. In college, I worked as a bank teller. After college, I started as marketing assistant in a small publishing company (lots of answering phones with a little actual copy writing, editing, and market research), then I went to law school, worked as a legal intern defending small time criminals for a while and realized that it would break me (heart, spirit) sooner than later; decided to go in another direction. Worked as a development officer (glorified fundraiser) for a hospital for several years until the demon boss drove me to daily tears, therapy and anti-depressants. Ultimately found my way to my current role as a student affairs administrator at a large private university in a major New England city, which I absolutely love. I work with students and parents to resolve complex administrative problems, especially those that arise in the midst of their personal and family crises that affect a student's ability to stay or succeed in school. It's been a circuitous path that doesn't make a huge amount of sense unless you know me and the things that matter to me, but it works for me -- and has for the past 8 years.

Well at night I am a piano player in a whore house and substitute john/client. My day job is a web guy for a university that has a strange color resemblance to this blog. Before that I worked for that Queer-Eye furniture company on the "pier", preceeded by a stint with the world's most evil insurance company All somthing or other, and before a city in Texas and before the company that owns Chili's - which is the most messed up company I know - and before that I was birthed in the mother ship of Microsoft. I met Paul Allen and had about a 15 minute conversation with him once. Tres cool. Before that you will have to read my college post.

I make that chicken with Italian dressing and I think you are the best MILF we all know and love.

~Jef

I have worked for two different companies. First one, a travel agency where I was a travel consellor for almost 6 years. Great times, I got to see a bit of the world and meet my husband. Then I felt I needed a change and left the travel business and went to an electronics manufacturing company. I have been here seven years and started in the sales/marketing department. Then I was transfered, unvoluntarily (if that is a word)to the admin/finance department. Suffered, I mean, worked there a couple of years and begged for a transfer to any other department they could find a place for me. I got in and now work for the Director of Manufacturing and like it way better than anything else I have worked on here.

First job was working on the family dairy farm. Second job was at Burger King summers from my senior year of high school through my junior year of college. Then I was a cashier at a farm/garden supply store. After that was a brief stint as secretary at the local Jewish Community Center. Then I spent 4 years as a reporter for the small hometown newspaper. Then I spent 2 years as a reporter for the local Gannett-owned large newspaper. Burned out and went back to work on the family farm for 3 years while my kids were little. Then back to the Gannett paper for 2 years. And now I have been a business reporter for a business journal (almost every city/regional has some similar form of business journal) for a little over a year and a half and love it.

The first job was McDonald's right after high school. I worked there for 3 weeks on the morning shift. Hated it. Abandoned it and started college early instead (2nd summer session). My mom picked up my last pay check for me and dropped of my uniform.

In college, I was an "Engineering Student Leader", which meant I got to lead freshman through all these little labs and grade papers. Also, I worked for a catering company. I LOVED catering. But, I often got looks when I was joining in and dancing with guests at the weddings that we worked at. During the college summers I always had a summer internship with Union Carbide, then BP Amoco, then ExxonMobil. I met my husband at Union Carbide, so that was worth it, I guess. And I found out that I didn't want to be an engineer by the time I did the ExxonMobil gig.

First job out of college was at a business management consulting firm (one of the Big 5 - also the one that happened to change their name just before Aurther Andersen went under with the whole Enron thing). I hated it. I quit after 2 years and went to work for a training consulting firm. They laid me off after 2.5 weeks (I was secretly thrilled). Then I did contract training work, tutored online, and subtituted in 2 school districts for 6 months. Then I landed my current job. Today is my 3 year anniversary here. I was hired as Training Specialist and now am the Lead Trainer in IT at an Urban Commuter University (I learned that term in a meeting yesterday). Oh, and I'm Jayla's mom - my oh, so much more important job.

I too am a SAHM MILF.
My first job was at a bagel store and my last job was in human resources for a food brokerage.
In between? Some crappy jobs I hated.

I currently work in the Corporate Affairs department at a large telecommunications company. I manage Athletic sponsorship and community television programming. I finally have my dream job after a million others. Life is good.

I'm an electrical engineer by training although I do mostly application develpment (aka programming) for control applications and systems integration. To simplify: you know the show How It's Made on the Discovery Channel? You know how they tell you the machines are all controlled by computers and how the operator uses a little touchscreen to control the machines? I write all those programs and design how the connections are made between the machines and the computers. I also write programs to collect information from these small computers and store it and report it to the "mucky mucks".

Make sense? Yeah, me neither.

I'm nearly 26 and have had around thirty jobs, due to moving around during art school and holding 2-3 jobs at once, taking on temp jobs, etc. Never been fired, though. These included housekeeping for a motel, taking care of disabled people, retail, retail, retail, waitressing, working at a soil lab, running a program for teens. Mostly, though, I've been a framer.

For the last 1.6 years I've worked at a gallery, custom framing art and selling and doing frame designs and a myriad of other things. This is the third framing place I've been at. And I am a painter. I'm hopefully in the framing/gallery business for the long haul, since I love it. And I'll be an artist forever.

I worked at Dairy Queen when I was 17 for all of 3 weeks before I got fired for rolling my eyes @ the 20 year old ass. manager. After I turned 18, I got my real estate license, and have been in that field ever since (6.5 yrs) - listing, showing, managing rentals. I took awhile off after the youngest was born. Ok, ok, I took 3 years off & I just went back last month. But only part-time & low stress, which means I handle everyone's paperwork b/c papers cannot yell at you and demand that you fix the unfixable :)

Right now I'm a SAHM, until at least April and hopefully September. Now I'm crying. I posted about this yesterday here:http://www.muchmorethanamom.com/?p=440

I'm an early literacy teacher with huge ass student loans.

Before that I only had a Psychology degree and I worked with teen boys with FAS who were primarily sex offenders. One if now in jail for murdering a colleague, so I quit and went back for my B.Ed. At least most 6 year olds don't want to kill me.

Before that? Sold shoes in a mall, worked at McDonalds (shut up) and was a junior lifeguard.

Best job ever - Mommy. Why doesn't it come with a pension and benefits?

Ok, let's start at the beginning!

1. First job was a cashier at Winn-Dixie. From there I went to part-time bookkeepper/cashier.

2. College work-study job in the budget office. It was awful and horrible and cold and boring and the people were mean and there was a hideous painting on the wall that was so ugly it was totally worthy of the budget office.

3. Switched college work-study job to the library at the circulation desk. LOVED the library, stayed there until I graduated.

4. I worked as a waitress at California Pizza Kitchen for a very short time in my first and only summer home from college and I was very bad at it and the managers were all alcoholics.

5. Left CPK and needed a short term job before going back to college, so I worked fountain at Sonic where my sister was nmanager. She was really mean and bitchy to me and sometimes I would cry secretly because she treated me so badly.

6. Second summer in college I worked the library in the morning and evenings at the South Street Seaport at a coffee/pastry place that is now closed. I was paid under the table in cash and was the only American working there. The owner was a cheapskate asshole who tried to get out of paying me by saying I stole money, which ws a total lie and I called him on it and he broke down and paid me. Then I quit. (He did this a lot to people...said they stole money and fired them so he didn't have to pay them. They were illegal immigrants so were scared and never fought him)

7. I worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the retal desks in all the different secions. I LOVED the Met. And I know where all the bathrooms are.

8. Worked at the Body Shop at the same time and after the Met. Oh, I was still working at the college library too. I did at one point go to school full time and have three jobs at the same time. I was exhausted. I loved the Body Shop very much but a new girl came in and was stealing and she blamed it on me. Ten dollars. The Regional manager called me into the office and did all these fear and threat tactics and I cried and denied all charges. (I cry when I am angry) She went through her whole book of threats and I never backed down so she said she was sorry, but I was so mad and offended I quit.

9. I had $20 to my name my last year in college and I had to eat which meant I had to work. The library wasn't giving enough hours. I took a job at a market research firm called SRBI and did cold-calling interviewing for research studies. It was degrading and awful and horrble and consescending and they treated us like garbage. They stopped treating my like garbage after a while becasue I am smart and they respeted that. I will never ever hang up on an interview phone call. I stayed there over the frst summer out of college, but becasue I was paying rent by this time I needed more $$.

10. So...I looked in the paper and found a job that was a sales-ey job in midtown. It smelled suspicious from the begining but IA said I'd give it a week. The folks at SRBI were sorry to see me go, becasue I had very high stats, and said come back anytime. So this was low-risk. It was a fax spamming company that sent out faxes and my job was to take incoming calls from people responding to the spam. The commission $$ was supposed to be good and I earned a lot of it but they never paid me any of it, saying the first week was a training week and I wasn't getting paid. I worked 8-6 every day for a week, got lots of commissions, and they tried to give me $40. For the whole week. I said no. They gave me a check for $70, and I wanted nothing more to do with them so I left.

11. I signed up with a temp agency and got a position with a company called Shareholder Cmmunications in the financial district. My desk was by a huge window that overlooked the water and the Statue of Liberty. I used to watch the sun set behind the statue every day. t was great. I did very well there and they hired me on full-time, but I took a pay cut becasue the temp agency had been paying me previously. they had kept me on at a hgher rate than everyone else, so whle all the others who were going permaenent were getting a raise, I was getting a cut. I stayed because I needed to work. I did very well and got so bored I literally cried. And they weren't payng me enough.

12. I then went over to a certain disount brokerage firm on Wall Street as a customer service rep. got my series 7 stockbroker license an

13. moved into handling trade disputes. I did that for a little over a year, then

14. I went into my first training position. (Still at the brokerage firm) I loved training and learned a lot, then got promoted in the same company...

15. ...to an Instructional Designer. I did very well there and stayed for three more years. I ended up on all Street actually doing what I studied in art school. Who would have thought.
After 6 years with the brokerage firm, the company got bought and I was offered a position with the new company. I accepted (and mourned not getting a severance package!!) and immediately started looking for another job.

Oh yeah, this was when I just had a baby and my husband bailed.

16. Which brings me to where I am now. I work as an elearning developer for the financial markets software for the largest global news company in the world. My desk directly faces the building where the New Year's ball drops from in Times Square every year. It's pretty cool. I like my job and I am good at what I do.

17. I'm a mom. I'm a mom at the same time that I'm everything else. I do not get paid for being a mom, actually it's a rather expensive occupation to have. I do not know much about being a mom, but I learn stuff every day. Sometimes I want to stay home, and I sort-of do get to experience that on weekends and days off. It's nice. But going to work could be a lot worse and I'm one of the lucky single moms who has a good job and doesn't have to deal with an ex, and I have deep gratitude for that every day.

De-lurking.....

My first job at 16 was Long John Silvers. I came home with great left overs, but I stank something horrible.

The I worked in all kinds of retail stores in various malls. Eventually made assistant manager and manager for some stores.

I was a waitress at TGIFridays...I really, really sucked at being a waitress.

Then on to a shoe store....great discounts and first picks.

Then I was a stay at home mom for 13 years. My daughter is now a junior in college and my son a senior in high school.

I am currently an administrative assistant to Director of Programs in Defense and Aerospace. I really love this job and the people. I am also lucky to work for a great boss. This is my actual "grown up" job.

This was fun, thanks for a nice break in my day!

Currently I'm a research associate for a non-profit health research firm. I love it completely and the people I work with are wonderful. I do policy research and program evaluation. It's basically like grad school every day, but without being graded and being paid instead of hemorraging money to the University.

Before this I was an intern here (until I finished up my Masters) and I've also been a waitress, a barista. My least favorite job was as a retirement benefits specialist, which was basically just a fancy name for a person who answers calls from angry or confused (often both) retirees about their benefits, or lack thereof. I was hired in right before they changed insurance companies for all their retirees and so there were a lot of angry calls. I got tired of being sworn at by little old ladies pretty quickly. The best part of the job though was the old men who were embarrassed to be calling about problems with their ED prescriptions (v!agra, etc.).

I'll play on this one!

1st job was at 15 years old at a local grocery store chain, bagging groceries. Moved up to Customer Service clerk within a year and then to night Manager/Bookkeeper a year after that. Worked there for 7 years! They closed all of the stores then, but I had two other jobs at the time so I was good.

One was as a receptionist in an animal hospital. My absolute favorite job by far. I loved the people I worked with and the cutesey animals kept me busy.

The other job was as an Executive Assistant (= secretary to the Director) at a non-profit animal shelter, the oldest in the nation. It was great, but I wanted to adopt all of the puppies and school was taking up too much of my time to continue working there.

Quit both of those 4 years ago to work for a small CPA firm, where I am today. Finished my degree in 2004 and I'm slowly advancing my way up here; now I'm the Office Manager and a Staff Accountant.

Wish I could be a SAHM... or at least a WAHM. When I have this baby in August, I plan to work from home for 3 months because with my first baby I could only stay home from work with her for 5 weeks because I had her in the beginning of tax season. Our daycare situation was different back then (mother-in-law was able to watch her all day and today we use an in-home daycare) so it wasn't too bad, but accountants aren't as busy in the summer so I'm taking some time off!

I read both of your sites every day and I totally envy you for being able to stay home and raise Mia. I try my hardest to be a good mommy to my baby (almost 2 years old!) but I only see her for 1.5 hours every day. Luckily her daddy gets home earlier than I do so she's not at a sitter the whole time, but I miss her this time of year!

I've worked at a golf course (my fav job ever...cuz I got to eat all the concessions for free!!), as a waitress, as a cashier, and in a medical office doing many things. I'm currently a SAHM, but I do payroll for the medical office every 2 weeks. I plan to start homeschooling in a couple months, thus ensuring that I will NEVER have to return to work (atleast until both kids have graduated).

I have had a long line of jobs. Everything from doing makeovers for Macy's in the cosmetics dept., to tasting coffee for Folgers. Most of my jobs, however, have been in science. Before I left the work force in the mid-90's to finish my graduate degree, I investigated medical device failures and possible scientific fraud.

I got my PhD in Biochemistry, and I went into research science in infectious disease. Unfortunatly, Katrina wiped out my research program, and I had to start my career over. Now I am a contract pharmaceutical developer. I take new drugs through the FDA approval process. Which means my job is a lot of handholding, interrupted by wild adventures with bodily fluids. It's a lot like being a Mom.

This is too weird, we have too much in common!
My first job was a cashier at Food Lion. It sucked, royally. But I was in highschool and it made extra speding money.

My second job was a cashier/retail associate at Cracker Barrel. I loved it because I was in college and nothing but college kids were there with me. I met some of my best friends workig that job. I worked there for 3 years while I was in college.

My third job was working as a teacher at a learning center. Basically, it was a daycare, but By God don't call it that because the owners would get their panties in a wad. Then I had Aeralyn, and now I'm a SAHM. The best job ever.

Once she goes to school, I'm going to finish my degree in Early Childhood Education, and then I will be an elementary school teacher.

I work in Corporate Services for one of the agencies of the Ministry of Tourism. Lots of financial stuff and data reporting. I actually I love my job so no complaints from me. No blogging/reading blogs at work though unfortunately!

Ok! Here is goes there have been alot of them and i am only 27 (well if you don't tell anyone ill be 28 in a month yikes!)
Any who... high school i always held 2 jobs, since 14, busgirl, file clerk at an insurance company, waitress, cashier at a small grocery store, book keeper for a very small trucking company. Then i decided i wanted to live and work at a horse ranch for a few years after school. That was the most fun ever and i wish i could go back, but little to no money and it gets very cold in the winter on a mountain in northern PA.
Ok so where was i (you said you wanted to know!) From there me and a ranch buddy started a door to door sales business, roses! it was fun, no real boss was pretty cool. Then i thought gee i am 20 years old i should grow up already and i got a job at MetLife and followed Daddy's lead in financial planning. Hopped around in that field for about 4 years traveled alot specialied in differant areas of financial planning. Then i found that to be dull and boring and started delivering pizza! waitressing etc... u get the idea, then i went back to school and got a BFA. I worked at an arcitectual Iron company designing decorative and restoration iron casts along with their website, then i worked at a Tech company in the facilities department laying out the building diagrams and excape routes (oh what fun). And now my favorate.... I work for an investment company (real estate and development) and i get to do all the marketing, graphic/web/design and i still do some CAD on the side.
Well you asked for it so i delivered, and just so you know i left the more mundane things out like selling cars ha! I think I am settling down a bit, i have had this last job now for 1.5 years and just got a riase how cool is that!

Today, I'm a travel agent who owns my owns company. Prior to this I've done my time in retail, worked for media companies in inventory and ultimately web analytics for a really large internet company. Then I chucked it all to own my little piece of the world.

In high school I worked for three years at an ice cream stand. It was fun, but I couldn't eat ice cream the whole time. (Did you know that ice cream has a smell? It does.)

In college I worked at the library, which I loved.

After college I thought I wanted to work in publishing, so I did an editorial assistant gig for about three years. Some parts of it I loved (editing, seeing a project from beginning to end, layout and design) and some parts I hated (dealing with cranky authors, office politics). So I decided that maybe that library job in college wa a hint, and I went to library school.

Got a couple of temporary library gigs after that, but the "massive librarian retirement" that they kept promising never appeared and the pay was crap. (The work, however, was fabulous.)

I was hired on at a nonprofit as their grants writer and did that for a year or so before moving over to the other side. Now I work at a foundation and give away money. I love working with small community organizations, helping them turn their ideas into reality. It's a good job, but more bureaucratic than you'd think and some days I think the endless evaluations and paperwork will kill me.

I miss editorial work, so I'm doing some freelance writing to keep my hand in.

I always felt like I had a meandering career path, but from the comments before me, I can see that this is normal. Very normal.

I'm a stay-at-home-mom now. Before that I was an assistant at a very small law firm. HATED it. Before that I was a college student.

Wow, my life story would be very short.

Hmmmm, well I like lists so I will make one for you:
1.Fry technician at local fast food joint.
2.Receptionist at my university
3.Manager of client services for food bank agency.
4.Supervisor of Public Housing unit projects.
5.SAHM/baby incubator

I have had so many...

age 14-17, waitress in my small town
Hardee's (for about 2 weeks)
retail
daycare (3 places)
copy clerk (3 places)
admin assistant (everywhere, worked for a temp agency)
barista
I-HOP waitress
accounting clerk (again, all over)
landfill gatehouse supervisor (really)
currently, retirement analyst

I'm the Executive Director of e-Business Development for a company that publishes newsletters. I love that my title tells people nothing about what I do. In fact there are people who work for my company who don't know what I do. But basically, my team's mission is to figure out how to do new stuff to help grow our business, specifically on the Internet, but in other ways too. It's a pretty cool job. We also get handed all the weird projects that don't fit anywhere else.

I've also worked as a circulation assistant and then circulation manager for a magazine (a very conservative magazine, so you can imagine how well I fit in there), managed a bookstore, was a park ranger (yes, I do still have the hat), and held any number of boring office temp jobs. One of them was at the Department of Energy, where I wasn't even allowed to go the bathroom by myself until they completed my background check, but that is about as interesting as it got.

embarrasingly, i've had very few jobs.

right now i work at scholastic canada. in the education department. writing and editing kids books. it's a great job

(speaking of which...where's my manuscript??!! hee.)

i've been here on and off for years. since before i had emily.

before that i worked at a place called ketubah ketubah. basically i ran the office around there. not very exciting.

I have 2 full tiem jobs in addition to full-time mama to 1 and mooo-ooom to another.
I am a traffic manager - I watch cameras all over the road and have my minions listen to the pd/fire radios and planes and car who report accidents, traffic and disableds to me. I send out help to diabled/crashes and report everything to the local news media, update a traffic website in real-time and I post publically all the construction for South NJ. I am leaving on 2/9 to become a WAHM and go to school in the fall.
My other job is a fund raiser for non-profits. You start (or have) a non-profit and you need money? I tell you how, help you out, and only take a fee (no percentage). The people I sell to love me, make huge amounts of money because of me, and my clients rarely stray. Whenever I offer my services for free I am berated and ignored. It's very strange.
I dont run walk-a-thons or sell things- I raise endowment money and operating money and buliding-fund money in the millions. I also offer advice on grants and alternate-funding options, business advice for the struggling non-profit, and maximizing stratigies.
I make so much money doing this it's sickening. On the upside - the very few times I have not fufilled my goals for my client I have refunded their money.
As far as previous jobs - I have had over 40 so I re-posted and slightly tweaked a post I did before my son was born about all my jobs.
I have no idea how to trackback.

My current job is my most boring and highest paying ever. I am an administrative assistant for a property management company. Basically, we lease, pay bills, collect rent, and coordinate services for medical office buildings.

Previously I have worked with developmentally disabled adults in group homes, tested people's pool water at a pool and supply store, made sandwiches at Subway, was a receptionist at a Doctor's office, and a bagger/cashier/stocker at a tiny grocery store.

Hostess in a mexican restaurant, complete with fiesta uniform of brightly colored ruffly blouse and skirt.

Cashier in a grocery store (tom thumb/randall's), then service manager, then cash office/courtesy booth bitch. Did this from junior year in high school all through college

Recruiter for a corporate travel company

HR stuff for a private holding company

HR stuff for a law firm in New York - worst job of my life up to that point

HR stuff for the company that owned the Casual Corner stores, plus Brooks Brothers, Adrienne Vittadini and Carolee jewelry in Connecticut

HR stuff for a technology company

Nanny to my nephew for three months

HR stuff for corrupt physician management company - this one wins for overall worst job ever

HR stuff for same technology company as before

And now, like you said, MILF! Oh wait, I also do online moderation for a firm out of the UK, which is only financially worth it because I get paid in British pounds and right now the pound kicks the dollar's behind. And it keeps me off the streets.

wow poeple have had some interesting jobs...nothing fantastic for me. I got in some trouble when I was 15...got caught shoplifting and had to get a job to help pay for my trouble.
1. cashier at Arthur Treachers, it was a fish and chips sort of fast food. It was in out local mall.
2/3. A hostess at Olgas resturant then turned waitress. Again it was in the mall.
4. A cashier at Sears, again in the mall. I had trouble leaving the mall, maybe I should add mall rat at a job.
5. Was the stupidest job ever...it was a greenhouse. I hated it, it didn't last long.
6/7. Started as a hostess at Bob Evans resturant and then turned waitress. This was my longest job at 4 years. I worked my way through college as a single mom. The tips were great.
8. and were I am now is at a health insurance company. I work in the Client Service area as a rep and assist people on the phones...yup I am the person that gets yelled at by all the angry people about their healthcare. please be nice to me....

Teenager jobs: McDonalds, Kernel's Popcorn, Fabric store, old folks' home.

Big Girl Jobs: I've been a secretary for fifteen years for various industries - accounting, cemetery, construction, mortgage financing.

Concurrent Full-time and Favourite Job: Mom of three.

Video store clerk (we watched porn when the store was empty), bank teller, secretary, student clerk, admin assistant, continuing education coordinator, and last paying job was office manager/paralegal. The last job is what did me in - it was small firm and the partners split and sued each other. They went through mediation twice, failed, and finally went to court. At the beginning of the trial the judge was so disgusted at them (it really was appalling) that he told them they were the reasons lawyers had a bad name. In the end it was my testimony that decided the case, but after all that I had to get away from them, so I quit to recover. Then we moved across the country, then we got pregnant, so now here I am Professional Baby Wrangler.

The only career job that I've ever worked is a Firefighter, more specifically an Engineer (the guy that drives the fire truck). I've been doing that for almost 10 years (holy crap, that's a decade). I work 48 hours on then get 4 days off and I get month of vacation time every year. I love it...But I might be considering a career change.

Before that I worked all over the place; bus driver, ski shops, forest service, blah, blah, blah.

1- janitor at my high school. (Shut up!)

2- wendys (for a week to pay for books in college)

3- researcher for newspaper at college

4- worked at a convenient store (nice way to use my degree? I don't think so.

5- worked for a essential oil company (shut up, it was awesome! Steven Segal had his own line!)

6- current job...work in construction management. (Who knew a history degree would lead to construction? Not me, but it's a good gig.)

Theatre* box office babe (think, "Enjoy the Show!")
PR for a regional theatre (think, "No No, I really do enjoy driving you around Mrs. Cunningham, er I mean Mrs. Ross" and "boy, licking envelopes is fantastic!")
Managing Director of an Alternative Theatre (think, "Dammit, I don't care if the roof is leaking again, get a mop and OPEN THE HOUSE!")
Mom (think... wait, you know that gig)
Manager of regional theatre box office (think, "Enjoy the Show!" but with more money and benefits and having to fire people and attend too many meetings)
Mom again (see above, but with twice as many kids)
The End

Sounds like a thrilling existence, no?

* all of these are live theatre, not the movie type

Im currently a systems administrator for a large public school district. In the past I have had the following jobs:

logger
oil rig worker
busboy
prep cook
cook
tech support
web developer
software developer

I am a helpdesk technician at a state university. Basically students, faculty and staff call into our call center if they are having issues with technology on campus...and I try to solve what I can over the phone and if I can't I dispatch a technician...

Currently I work for a computer supplies company, since you can't make any money where I live acting or singing, which are the only things I'm actually trained to do.

I have previously worked in: veterinary office management, arts administration and box office for opera/ballet/performing arts center, floral design, fast food, retail clothing, radio, university library, softball field concession stand, convenience store, outdoor theatre, karaoke bar (as host)--am I leaving anything out? I hope not--that seems like plenty!

Well I don't have a whole bunch of jobs under my belt- I'm 24. My first job was as an ice-cream jerk (I guess, just bridging the gap from soda-jerk) at TCBY. That didn't last long. Apparently they don't like it when you have whipped cream battles while closing up the store.

After that I took various manual labor jobs over the summers during high school. I didn't work during the school year - wasn't allowed. I mostly worked for our local Pepsi distributor. I started out riding shotgun on a delivery truck (the kind with lots of garage doors on the side, not the 18-wheeler that backs up to a loading dock) and busting my ass for 12+ hours a day in the blistering heat delivering soda. (If I could do it over again, I would have chosen a bread or chip company... their products are a lot lighter!) Once I turned 18 I could drive a company vehicle and I moved up in the ranks and got a returning seasonal position where they gave me the keys to a GEO METRO and I got up before the sun to meet those 18 wheelers at the loading docks in superfresh/food lion/giant/etc, and put 2-10 palettes of product on the shelves at every store. Much more work, not much more money.

My senior year in high school I got an office job at the same Pepsi distributor. Mostly filling copiers with paper and other useless crap that nobody wants to do. But it afforded me craploads of down time, so I ended up learning Cold Fusion from the tech guys and found my way on to the development team. I did lots of fun stuff from there on out.

In college I got an internship with Perdue Farms (the chicken company) and did development on all of their archaic hardware (mainframes, etc) for about 2 years. I jumped ship just in time, because not long after I left they downsized IT quite a bit and I'm almost sure I would have gone. It's a shame because there's a lot of things that modern technology could do to improve that business but they are too scared/ignorant to embrace it. The "business" people - who deal with chickens or sales - have this vision of a bunch of computer nerds sitting in the office all day playing video games and ping pong (I asked)... they have no idea how much work we do (is "did" more apropos now that I don't work there?) to make their jobs easier. All they know is the scales aren't working - they don't know that the XML files that the scales run on are corrupt. Jerkwads.

And that brings us to today. I work for ETech, a technology consulting company based out of West Chester, PA. I do the work behind dynamic (database-driven) websites. I'm no website designer... but I love the part that I do. I love it so much that I spend countless hours tinkering with shit on my own site and the wife wonders how I can spend the entire day in front of the computer at work, and then come home and do the same thing.

1. In H.S. worked at two different bakeries where I learned to decorate cakes and hate donuts.

2. In college I worked Fast Food, then as a Shed Girl, and then as a Student Fundraiser for academic scholarships at my alma mater. During the summers I worked various temp jobs which included one long 2 month-er at a Gov't agency which basically involved playing poker all day after I finished the 5 minutes of work they gave me. (Gotta love those government jobs!)

3. Had an internship my last summer at college at an engineering company's marketing firm.

4. Graduated college and attempted to use my degree by teaching English at an alternative high school.

5. Got over the teaching bug quickly and then worked for years in accounting and then marketing at a large oil company.

6. SAH-MILF!--who wonders if she'll ever re-enter the out-of-home work force again!

I mowed lawns in high school. Then I worked at Burger King for a bit. And I waitressed at Bonanza. I assembled, soldered, and shipped circuit boards for a small company owned by a friend of my father's when I was in college--summers only. I interned at 2 vet clinics. Straight out of college I was hired by the university that I had attended as a histologist at the veterinary diagnostic laboratory on an extended campus, and here I am. I'll probably stay, too. The pay isn't awesome but the benefits are, and when my kids get old enough they can go to college for nearly free. For extra cash I've tutored high school students in biology and english, and more recently I've been doing some freelance photography work.

Okay, I'll play too!

My first job was at McDonald's during my Grade11 year. My 3 best friends also worked there. There were times when the McVan would pick us up at school so we could work an hour during the big rush and get a free meal. It was cool.

Then we moved. My dad got me a job at the bank doing data input for the issue of a savings bond. Woo. Good money, long hours. 3 weeks total.

I really didn't work much more til I got to my last year of university. I worked at Shoppers Drug Mart as a pharmacy technician/student.

My first job after graduating was in a wee town in Manitoba (pop400) as the pharmacist. It was a good job - people were very patient with me being a new grad. I learned a lot and after two years, I moved to Regina to work for Shoppers again.

After 2 years there, I moved to New Brunswick, and I'm still working for Shoppers.

1) Children's ski school instructor
2) Cashier for gift boutique
3) Cashier/sales for office supply store
4) University field trip bus driver
5) Respite care worker
6) Children's photographer
7) Sales at shoe boutique
8) Manager at nicer shoe boutique
9) Human Resources assistant
10) GPS Surveyor
11) Paint counter girl at Home Depot
12) Assistant to the President of a coke company
13) Technical editor for a geotechnical engineering group

Wow. it's weird to write them all down.

So, you must be one of the 4 Americans that knows about the wickedness of the Campbells (I am one). We done did some evil mean stuff to the MacDonalds too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glencoe_massacre

Every once in awhile I will mention that my ancestors were scoundrels but usually no one has any idea what I'm talking about.

I've never had any interesting jobs. I was a nnay right before having my wee one two years ago. That was as close to job training as I think you can get for being a full-time SAHM.

My first paying job was helping my dad on the farm. He would pay us to "walk beans," which basically means that we'd walk through the soybean fields and cut down or pull the weeds in between the rows to help increase our yields. I babysat for neighbor kids and was a nanny for a summer. After that I worked at a fast food restaurant. When I got tired of flipping burgers it was on to Target where I worked in the Domestics department (towels, sheets, other linens) - plus there was a 10% discount! Next, I worked various positions at a hotel for a few years, then I was a bartender at a sports bar and had an accounting internship at a medical school. After college I worked for a small CPA firm and now I work for a large financial services company as an internal auditor.

Wow, I didn't realize I had held so many different jobs!

My career, in a nutshell:

From age 16-18, day care aide/day camp counselor with some summer stints at Mcdonald's to supplement the cash flow. I had a group of senior citizens who came in every morning after daily Mass to get their breakfast and coffee, and they were all so sad to see me leave for college. It was very sweet.

College: Various on campus jobs including office assistant at the student union, ID office clerk, audio-visual technician (ask me about the time I met the Smothers Brother, or the time the road crew for Joe Diffie tried to hit on all of us, or...I should shut up now), Fine Arts Department house manager/box office manager, and Biology Department office assistant with a focus on the teacher training field experience courses. Also during the college years there was a summer of camp counselor (overnight camp this time) and McDonald's.

During student teaching semester and after graduation I worked as a substitute teacher and as a floater at Hecht's.

I got a teaching job (3rd grade) and supplemented that with another retail job (Chico's clothing store) during the year I was planning the wedding. The first year I was married I taught middle school and worked at The Body Shop on weekends. Then I quit the Body Shop job and sold Tupperware. Then I quit teaching because I'm not very good at it.

I worked as a Tupperware lady/substitute teacher/administrative support temp for the IT department at my mom's company for a few months, then got a full time receptionist/accounting clerk position at the same company. Then I had a baby and quit selling Tupperware, but stayed at the same company, but they transferred me to being a receptionist/admin assistant in the department where the boss was so difficult that the temp agencies wouldn't send anyone to work for him. I lasted a year with him.

When Princess was 16 months old, I moved to a non-profit organization and worked as a departmental secretary. A few months after I came back from maternity leave with Hoss the VP of the division I worked for offerred me a promotion to come be his assistant. I stayed with him for four years, then got a promotion to work with the Executive Office, supporting our organization's Board. And that's where I am now. Which is a fancy way of saying that I went from being the secretary for a bunch of people, to being the secretary to one guy who was the boss of boss of all those people, to being the secretary to the group that is the boss of everyone.

This is too interesting not to delurk and join in.

In high school, I worked as a runner for my hometown newspaper. In college, worked at a Hallmark; then, got my first "real" job as a reporter for a large newspaper outside of Nashville. A few years later, my husband and I moved back to the city where we went to college, and I got a job as a crime and courts reporter for a regional newspaper, a job that led a 30-day stint as an embedded reporter in Iraq. Then last year, I took a job as the PR person for a large public university law school. The job includes better hours, free college courses, etc., but I must confess I miss the excitement and the long hours of reporting! :)

Thanks for the break from work! It's a great topic.

Wow...what a variety:
-At 13-I used to create a Children's Page for a bilingual Spanish newspaper "La Página de los Niños".
-At 15-I started babysitting.
-At 16-I worked at a convenience (Convenient) store.
-During college I worked at Erie Dining Hall (ewww!) as a Student Leader, dishwasher, server, prep person, or runner depending on the day. I also worked at Convenient during breaks. (I also donned a sexy red apron at the store and black apron at the dining hall with stylin' mesh baseball cap)
-A few summers I worked at a Six Flags theme park in a pizza stand as a manager. (yucko! summer + pizza stand = hot & sweaty) And also undercover as a Loss Prevention Agent.
-for about 5 summers I worked at a summer school/camp as an art teacher & videography teacher and afternoon crafts instructor. Pretty cool! Class sizes were a max of 7 kids.
-I worked as a substitute teacher for a year and a half. (sucked big time! Especially middle school age! I totally know where you are coming from there)
-I was a teaching assistant for a year during grad school and supervised pre-student teachers.
-I worked 3 years as a high school art teacher. Had it's positives and negatives.
-Currently a SAHM. By far the most rewarding but also has its positives and negatives.

My dream job? To be able to work full time on something art related (painting, drawing, ceramics, sewing). Maybe once the kid starts school.

First of all, I love this post and I may steal it for my blog although I know I won't have nearly the comments that you do. Just a warning, I may plagerize! :)

First Job: TWELVE years old, my first and only sibling came along and i was the build in babysitter. Being the oldest kid in the neighborhood and seeing as how my brother survived me, I got lots for calls for the other kiddos and this lasted until I left for college. Also, my church was at the end of the street and that brought in the business too. It was cozy for a 12 year old.

SIXTEEN: Tutoring and teaching cheer camps. I got pd 6/hr per kid to tutor math for upward bound. I tutored two girls at the same time and made 12/hr. Sweet!! Cheer camps were a lump sum a couple saturdays per year.

EIGHTEEN: moved to college. taught gymnatics daily, about 15 classes per week. would teach camps one saturday every couple of months. Also got a gig doing special routins and camps for cheer squads in the area thru the same company. I babysat on the side for a couple who knew a couple that I'd babysat for when I lived at home.

NINETEEN:Constant babysitting than anything, only teaching gym camps, couple hours a week btw classes in the dean's office of the college of comm, basically just to suck up to all the faculty and staff. Hey, it worked!

By TWENTY I was a full fledged nanny loved every minute of it and kept that gig until a year after graduation.

TWENTY THREEish I became the Adv Coordinator for PTC, the largest retailer in the oil industry. That job sucked. The company was fine. My boss had serious personal and emotional issues and well...we won't talk about the others.

After that it's my current gig as Adv Extrordinaire for a large media conglomerate that rhymes with fripps. Hopefully they keep me a while because there are a few positions i wouldn't mind moving too. I plan on being here until my hubby gets his MBA and we possibly have to move.

During my college years I had a variety of internships that changed every 9mo-1yr so including all of that:

Account Exec for PR Agency: Concepts
Marketing and Development for Art Museum
Marketing and Development for 2nd Harvest Food Bank
Marketing and Internship Mgr: Citadel Broadcasting, radio media conglomerate
Director of Development for DM, part of ETCH and Children's Miracle Networks.

I teach and do some research. Counting babysitting and tutoring over the course of many, many years as two total jobs, I have had 7 jobs altogether at the ripe old age of 33.

I work as procurement associate in the engineering department of the manufacturing plant of a company that makes little diamond shaped blue pills :), which in turn make men and women of an older age group very happy indeed.
Not quite sure how i got the job and if you've seen the news lately, not quite sure how much longer I will have this job.

At present I am a CPA and I work as an accounting consultant for a really cool company that I love.

Here is how I got here:
1. Temp job after junior year of HS. I worked for an agency in Texas that did licensing (including wrestlers, we found Hulk Hogan's docs!).
2. I worked as a cashier/pizza maker/delivery gal for Mr. Gatti's Pizza (dial 459-2222 and get a Mr Gatti's Pizza delivered to yooooou)
3. I worked for Motorola for 3 years of college. This was awesome, they paid for most of my education.
4. Another temp job after graduating from college. This is what gave me the $100 I moved to CA with.
5. Temp job in CA was with Dreyer's Ice Cream. Thank god I only worked here a week. I took microfilm pictures of delivery receipts and they called this an accounting job. Yeah right.
6. Contractor at Sony Electronics as a project assistant for various television studio/JumboTron/Broadcast facilities. My name was/is on a plaque on a trailer that was built for doing remote sports broadcasts.
7. I got a job with a sole proprietor CPA and this is where I got my experience that led to my licensing.
8. Got a job with an awesome accounting consulting firm. Because I dealt mainly with small businesses at my CPA firm, I was mainly working on start ups.
9. Took a job with Kaleidescape. They were my client for 2 years prior to taking the permanent job. I worked a LOT of hours.
10. Back to awesome consulting firm. They welcomed me back with open arms and I can't believe I ever left them. I am back to 40 hour work weeks. Hooray!

I'm the Director of Administration for a consulting firm, and also, looking for a new job, which is a fulltime job in itself! I've been doing this for ten years.

I waited tables at Macaroni Grill for two years before this job, and still have nightmares.

Before that, I managed a Blockbuster Video store for two years, and THAT was the worst job I ever had. It stressed me to the point of contracting Eppstein-Barre Syndrome (which is a miserable condition, and my boss was MAD because I had to miss work for a week. Over Christmas. I was in bed SUFFERING, jerk!)

Before that, I had the greatest job EVER: I worked for Six Flags for four years as a rides foreman (I know a LOT about how roller coasters work), and then for two years as an internal security officer, which kind of sucked because I busted people for employee theft, but a little cool because I got to use handcuffs and do undercover surveillance.

And in high school, I worked at a vet, cleaning up dog poo.

Hmm. Let's see:

Job 1: Working concession at the local movie theater, then moving up to box cashier and assistant manager. Kept that one all the way through college, I would work when I went home for the summer and Christmas. Started dating my husband during that time, he was one of the managers.

Job 2: Driving buses at college. Had to get my commercial driver's license (lots of training), but the money and hours were good.

Job 3: First job out of college, a teller at a credit union. Stayed there for a year, then left to be a SAHM. Which, I guess, would be:

Job 4: SAHM. Did this until my son was 11 months old, then decided I wanted to go back to work. (We had moved back to our home state during this time.)

Job 5: Admissions office receptionist at a tiny little college in a tiny (TINY) little town. The people were nice, but the job was incredibly boring. My major (really, only) job responsibility was just answering the phone. Seeing as I hate talking on the phone this was not really my thing. I only stayed for about 7 months, then we moved again.

Job 6 (current): I am in university research administration. Basically, I help researchers at a major university put together their grant proposals. Budgeting, reading the sponsor guidelines, that sort of thing. It is hard to explain, but I've been here almost 3 years and I love it!!

In former lives I have 1) Sold Electronic Componets (like capicitors and resistors), 2) leaseed apartements, c) been a sales assistant at a brokerage firm, fish) sold 403(b), 5) worked in record stores 6) sold airline tickets g) been a receptionist for a sound and light company.

I could go on, but even I am getting bored.

Growing up I was always a babysitter - in the summers, weekends, evenings whenever. In college I worked in a conservation lab at the university library repairing books (actually much more fun than it sounds) and now I am an architect. I work for a very little firm and we do custom residential. I did commercial buildings for a while, but houses are where it's at!

About my current job - I should clarify that I haven't been looking for a job for ten years, but have been a D of A for ten years. I've only been looking for a job since December.

Job 1: neighborhood babysitter, which I started doing when I was 12, and continued doing sporadically even when I was on break in college.

Job 2: flunky at our local library (age 14-17). I put away the books, realphabetized the kids' picturebook section, and occasionally put together messages for our local public access cable station, but was never, ever allowed to check out books using the then-spiffy new computer system. Grr.

Job 3: (HATEHATEHATEHATE) Caller for a certain now-defunct women's college (age 18). Yes, I had to try to raise money for a college that EVERYONE KNEW only existed in name only. The only good part about this job was that I got to call some pretty neat famous people.

Job 4: Teacher and director of an English-as-a-Second-Language program for refugee teenagers (age 19-20).

Job 5: Research assistant for a guy writing a book (age 20).

Job 6: Research analyst for a group that studied health policy for a certain deadly disease. (ages 21-25). First, and only, real job where I got W2s AND health benefits!!!

Job 7: Tutor for a national test-prep service. (BTW, getting this job is the ONLY use I've ever had out of my good SAT scores, other than getting into college, of course.)

Job 8: PhD student. (ages 26 - ???)

Wow. Except for senior year of college, I've been working continuously for a long time, and at the most menial jobs you can imagine. I'm not sure that I wanted to know this about myself.

Currently, I'm a SharePoint admin (although SharePoint wench is more to my liking), with sides of Process Enforcement and General IT Shiznit. I work for a big ol' consulting company (but I think you already know that).

The job before this was as a Windows admin in a different state for the same big ol' consulting company.

Previous to that, I was a product manager for a wee little company in Cleveland that was heavy into e-publishing. I helped retailers set up e-bookstores. The pay sucked, but the technology was interesting, the people were cool, and I still kind of miss that job sometimes.

Prior to that I was a TA for the intro programming course, and my kids loved me. Previous to that I did a 6-month stint as a waitress in a Mediterranean restaurant near campus, which... never again. Miraculously, I can still eat hummus and would totally eat at said restaurant. The job before that was as a student programmer for campus services, and before that was my first semester as a TA for the intro programming course. The semester before that I was a research flunky in the nursing school, which meant that I spent 15 hours each week traipsing about campus copying various journal articles for the faculty. That job was kind of cool - I got to explore the scary tunnels under University Hospitals and the completely-frightening, climate-controlled, argon-ready basement of the medical school library which was poorly lit and smelled like old books. My very first college job, which was the semester before that, was as a library assistant in the main campus library. I mostly reshelved books, but I got to play with the electronic stacks which was way fun. I still sort of want to go back to school and be a professional librarian, but don't because I'm a big giant chicken.

Also during college I spent a month over Christmas break selling shoes in a department store one year. It wasn't a great job, but it wasn't horrible either.

During high school, I spent most of my time employed at the local movie theatre, doing everything from cleaning theatres to running the projector. The projection job? Best. Job. Ever. Seriously. Prior to that I worked for 2 months washing dishes at a local pizza place (never, ever, EVER again. Ew), and the two summers before that I spent working at the local dairy-queen knock-off, which was also way fun.

You know, that might have been easier to follow had I not gone in reverse-chronological order. Oops.

I am a project manager in an the IT division of a large financial corporation. Fun stuff I tell ya! I love programmers!! :)

I'm and HR Manager for a company that is a household name in sporting goods.

I've been in HR for 17 years.
Other jobs I've had:
professional bridal seamstress
cook at a nursing home
grocery store checker
motel room maid

I am a voice coach and singing teacher.

and before that ... dude, you don't want to know. I've had so many jobs, even I can't remember what's what.

Right now I'm a Project Manager at a technology institute at a university. I've been here 1.5 years.

Before that I was an administrator on the University's central campus (3 years).

Before that I was a Box Office and Rentals Manager at a non-profit theatre.

Before THAT, I worked for the profit portion of a non-profit doing marketing and distribution/sales of theatre productions on compact disk (kind of like audiobooks).

Before that was college. :)

How are you actually going to get thru all these comments?

Job 1 - Worked for a caterer at 15 1/2. When I realized that I was just going to smell like tenderloin tips and scrap vats of mashed potatoes all night, I quit.

Job 2 - Dairy Queen. Loved the job, loved the people I worked with. The owner also didn't believe that high school seniors should work on Fridays...we should go to games and on dates and such. Loved him!

Job 3 - Cub Foods in Milwaukee. While in college. Went to alot of drinking parties with those folks. And visited with Grateful Dead Deadheads. Wow. Eye-opening.

Job 4 - Back home in summer and worked at a little mall store. The Sock Market. It sucked. The boss sucked. I hated every sock moment.

Job 5 - Real job. Medical technologist. I draw blood, I run lab tests. I've worked in three different places in this field. My all time favorite was in oncology and I spent 11 years with the same group.

Job 6 - All along for the past 12 years, mommy. The best and the worst job. Now I am doing it mostly full-time, and I am thrilled. But poor.

Job 1 - Evening Daycare so the moms could excersize upstairs
Job 2 - Popcorn scooper at the movie theatres
Job 3 - Coffee Barista extordinaire
Job 4 - Camp Counsellor
Job 5 - Childrens Theatre Teacher
Job 6 - Actress,
Job 7 - Sold my soul and worked for Corporate america for three years.
Job 8 - 1 month to go on the sahm gig - and finally getting back into the theatre and vocal jobs, even though the pay is non existant, My soul was just worth way to much.

1. Data entry Operator(and its boring as hell),
2. CNA at a nursing home working the graveyard shift(was pregnant and co-workers wouldn't let me work so I got off easily)
4. Dairy Queen cashier- free food ane ice cream(loved it)
5. Toys R US cashier during christmas season
6. Taco Bell cashier (for two years during high school)
7. Hospital volunteer for four hours a day
8. Church nursery worker every 3rdsunday
9. summer program at church for two years

Condensed version.

Teens - babysitting, housekeeping, shoe store, record store (I liked that one), Woolworth's ribbon and gift wrap counter (me? - what were they thinking?), and a very brief stint as a waitress.

I realized I needed more skills so I took business courses at San Francisco State and Golden Gate University while working and raising kids. No degree but it got me away from flipping burgers and making tuna sandwiches.

I've worked for several temp agencies doing many different things. I've been a bookkeeper, a statistical typist, anything that needed done in an office I could do but I never admitted to knowing shorthand. I worked in the office of a box factory for almost 8 years. I could do everything in the office and did. I can tell you more than you ever want to know about a corrugated container.

When I came back to San Francisco in the late 70's, I worked temp once again for a little while. My last temp job turned into 15 years at the oldest and largest private insurance brokerage in the country. Unfortunately it's no longer in existence. I started as general clerical, typing, bookkeeping, etc. graduated to claims, became the self taught department computer whiz when computers came in (long before Windows), and ended up as a broker. All of it was working in marine insurance (vessels at sea, their cargo, crew injuries, etc). I loved the first 13 years, hated the last two (I never wanted the brokerage part), and retired at 55.

Since then, you know. I have a brand new career with the great-grandchildren.

I've also held a lot of jobs- from Mrs. Field's Cookies to Hospital Intern (the high school kind- not the real doctor kind). Now, I'm a partner in a law firm and also a WAHM as I leave the office every day when school gets out and juggle kids and work on the go the rest of the day. I never get to sleep as I have to catch up on work every night when they go to sleep but its worth it to me to spend the time with my 3 kids. I'm the mom at (school) pick up in a suit, totally brain dead and wishing she could remember the other parents' names.

Taco Bell for 2 years while husband was in college, Starbucks for 5 weeks this past Nov-Dec(crappy training) Stay at home Mommy for 13 years! And thats it.

Oh, the jobs I've held. Mom pimped me out to babysit starting at 9 years old. NINE! Would you leave Mia w/ a 9 year old? Jeebus. I started a "real" job (after school & weekends) at 13 and remained gainfully employed until I quit my high power career job in 2002. Then I worked at a very upscale bridal salon which was one of the first times my job was really FUN. Now my job is SAHM which I LOVE. I'm working on the MILF part - my baby is only 4 1/2 mos. and I haven't reached MILF status yet. Maybe when my boobs aren't leaky and as big as my head I'll feel more MILF-y. ha.

~day camp counselor
~library student worker (college)
~theater usher
~retail assistant manager
~environmental educator
~movie projectionist
~lab technician
~vet receptionist
~paper pusher (current)

I'm sure I've forgotten something. But this has to be good enough.

My first job was at Winn Dixie *grocery store*. I was in HS, and I worked there for about 7 years. lol. :) I started as a sacker.. that lasted about 6 months before they promoted me to cashi