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Sparrowhawk
10-23-02, 01:42 PM
Just wondering about how many different jobs, occupations or interesting hobbies we have on board?


http://www.lgc.com/resources/careers_resized.jpg

I retired 10 years ago, hoping to go into another occupation, but I didn't find the job market receptive to a 43 year old with some limited skills and to tell you the truth I'm not used to taking orders or working in certain environments.


I was just wondering what types of Jobs interesting or not, from gigolo, street walking or any other jobs we may have had.

Here is my list, from my teenage year to present;

Yard work went from door to door hiring myself out to mow yawns.

Dish washer and bus boy at a restaurant.

Janitor at a drug store.

Farm labor, worked irrigating field, picking cotton, grapes, peaches, vegetables.

Auto shop

Auto Paint shop

Auto dealer, cleaning new for sale cars

Marine Corps

7-11 Store Clerk

Burns detective Agency

Deputy Sheriff ~

World Book Encyclopedia Salesman, Learned from selling them, that I would never starve. Anybody want to buy a good set? LOL

Photographer, sold pictures to UPI

Artist ~ sold some painted art work to blind people that liked my work lol

Police Officer

Personal Security officer for Academy Awards, Movie Stars, sports, music, business events.

Printer, publisher.

Christian Minister

Went back to school ~ obtained my MA degree so became a profession student for four years been a bum since then.

Counselor for abuse and family problems

Thats it.... Unless I can think of otehr jobs I've held or done that are interesting.

Sparrowhawk
10-23-02, 01:56 PM
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CAS3
10-23-02, 02:05 PM
It must be pick on CAS day!
JOBS SINCE HIGH SCHOOL:
dishwasher
waitress
caterer
insurance agency receptionist/file clerk
nanny
camp counselor
lifeguard
law firm receptionist/gofer
cook
bank teller
USMC
deli/meat center worker...no comments cook
restaurant manager, cook, waitress, accountant
special education
mental retardation worker
national service officer for AMVETS
Chief of Claims AMVETS

OH Does having three children count as a job?

Sparrowhawk
10-23-02, 02:22 PM
Your Cheerleading days back at High school

LMAO


http://rock103.com/crew/vids/cheerleader.wmv

Sophora
10-23-02, 03:22 PM
LETS SEE...
Baby sutting
Navy Mess hall - slinging slop on the line, busing tables, scullery
waitress
bartender
rent-a-cop
landscaper
state slave :D

ecomsg68
10-23-02, 03:24 PM
It's gone somthing like this ....

snot nose kid
snot nose kid paper boy
immature teenage dishwasher
somewhat mature teenage newspaper truck driver
US MARINE :marine:
Unemployed
HUSBAND & FATHER
15 years 'off and on' as a professional college student
Quality Control Inspector
Quality Control Technician
Materials Sourceing Engineer
Quality Assurance Engineer
Mechanical Design Engineer
Professional Unemployed Engineer
Unemployed Engineer
Snot Nosed Immature Unemployed Engineer with an attitude!

Now my friend and wife of 30 years tells me I can have a job if we move to China :chinese:

... and I say "no I've already been in that part of the world and I can't say I enjoyed myself to 'muchly'" :thumbdown

wrbones
10-23-02, 04:14 PM
Farm labor (Baled hay all four years thru high school summer vacation)

Janitor ( Junior college work study)

USMC (HeloHydPneuMech)

Unemployed biker, 'cept fer bartending

Sawmill labor,

Farm labor

Construction worker

landscape labor

Telemarketing (I only lasted two weeks)

janitor

My own landscape business

General aviation production supervisor

Apartment manager

Hotel manager

service manager appliances

dishwasher, baker, cook, chef's apprentice

thedrifter
10-23-02, 07:21 PM
While I was a Big Bad A$$ Teenage:
1. Had Paper route-Got fired, didn't like my attitude
2. Salesman-Hated it, but money was good
3. Joined Marine Corps Reserve-spent my senior yr in HS in reserve

While on Active duty, had a few part time jobs.
1. Bartender-Loved it but got transfered
2. Umpire for Little League-Actually got paid to do it
3. Retail Sales-Snot nose kid was boss, so I quit
4. Enrollment Clerk for YMCA-Fun and easy job

After I got out of Corps.
1. Ran Newspaper stand in Center City(Philly)-met Ellie here
2. While going to school-worked for school-easy money, little work
3. Customer Service Engineer-Biomedical Equipment
4. Customer Service Enginner-Anti Shop Lifting Security Equipment
5. Service Technician-Industrical Electrical/Electronic Service
6. Top Moderator for leatherneck.com-Jerry keeps saying check is in the mail

Sempers,

Roger

USMC-FO
10-23-02, 08:01 PM
This is interesting, so here goes....

Paper boy
Grocery bag boy
Landscaper's flunky and "gofer"
Housepainter
Marine (Arty: 105 gun crew, Fire Control, FO)
Student--durning which I was:
Waiter
Truck driver
Research assistant
Grad student
Sales. College Publisher
Developmental Editor
Textbook Acquisations Editor
General Publisher, Senior Editor
Editor in Chief
Fired and unemployed Hmmmmm oh well S*** happens
Print salesman
Senior Account Exec. (Fancy name for sales shlep AKA Willie Loman)

Of course husband 2x (NEVER AGAIN) 3x dad (Can't do that again ! No more live ammo !!)

And of course long time pain in the ass--that's more an avocation than a job per se.

Two most important things I've been: Dad and Marine !!

Semper Fi !!

USMC0311
10-23-02, 08:06 PM
36, two of'em was over 2 years.
enough experience in differient fields to exist till I die.
I'd retire If I could find a woman to take care of me!

I know wtf U all thinkin..with my attitude I'll be workin forever maybe I'll get sum ViAgRa and be a horror:banana: catch me if U can

fabboss
10-23-02, 08:43 PM
Well looks like a varied lot of experince.

Pin Setter (Bowling Alley)
delivered newspapers
ice cream maker (pre-fast food joints)
soda jerk, crowell/rexall drug store fountain

Marine :marine:

circulation district manager (newspaper)
granite polisher (So could carve the stone)
copy machine sales
college student
c-store owner / operator

quality technician
metal fabrication supervisor
wood fabrication supervisor
metal fabrication supervisor

hardest job unemployment line looking for job:banana:

jryanjack
10-23-02, 08:58 PM
Grocery Store Clerk

US Marine (the best job I've Had)

Hotel Clerk
Hotel Asst Manager
Hotel Manager

Staffing Firm Operations Manager

Retail District HR Manager

HR Generalist for a Pharmaceutical Company

ecomsg68
10-23-02, 09:12 PM
"hardest job unemployment line looking for job"

Sure is the truth about that unemployment line, I've never seen it this bad! Then again I think 'my 55 years of youth' isn't helping anything!

:devious: :mad:

SHOOTER1
10-23-02, 09:22 PM
MARINE,62-66, BoilerMaker-Welder, Landscaper, Seattle Police Mounted Patrol, Army Special Forces-Heavy Weapons, Bartender , Warehouseman, Rent A Cop, Corrections Officer , Presently Heavy Equip. Op for county. More, but I dont count those lasting for a year or less.

wrbones
10-23-02, 11:13 PM
I got ya beat, bro! I've had 39 jobs! I ain't got the attitude! It's the rest of those jerks!. LMAO.

Funny....I never had the chance to work for another Marine! The Marines I had the chance to work with were, as always, some of the best.

Barrio_rat
10-24-02, 01:29 AM
age 12-17;
Summer time: mowed lawns. Winter time; shovelled snow. Baby sitter.

Senior year (we moved to a place that didn't have snow and wasn't too many people with large lawns);
Served food at the school caffeteria. Umpired womens fast pitch softball (I got paid to watch girls run around in tight uniforms!)

After Senior year;
USMC
Aviation Ordnance Munitions Equipment Repair Technition (don't that sound fancy?)
While in the USMC: I level Avi Ord, Training NCO/Office Poge (I could type 60 wpm), IMRL Clerk, Production Control, Sunday School Teacher.

College and gas station attendant (yes, in Oregon we work - no self serve, the attendant does it), gas station assistant manager. Also did a short - very short - stint serving at the college caffeteria, it sucked and I quit.

Correctional Officer.

USMC0311
10-24-02, 01:45 AM
Originally posted by wrbones
I got ya beat, bro! I've had 39 jobs! I ain't got the attitude! It's the rest of those jerks!. LMAO.

Funny....I never had the chance to work for another Marine! The Marines I had the chance to work with were, as always, some of the best.

I think I was lookin for sum kinda of camaraderie Bones. between them ****ers dowin me and other Viet Vets I never found a place in society..Things bout VN Vets mellowed out a bit by 1980, but I already hada rep and I was content in being away from the ****in civilians..I made my rack and I ain't goin back..was a long road with lotsa forks. I know what I know and I'm gonna do what I do. I miss the camaraderie I had with my Brother Marines. The Corps is the Best Time I have ever had and Vietnam Bros is the best Family I've ever had...

Once, Always and Forever MARINE

P.S. Bones..I got 3 part-time jobs now whenever I can get the work I paint, wash dishes and turna wrench..Hell Bro. I do wtf it takes to eat and pay rent.I'm sure my Job #'s will stabilize now though..most muthers don't **** with me no more..I'm not as hostile as I was...plus mosta the peacenics are hiding out now.
nota target rich environment no more.

firstsgtmike
10-24-02, 06:58 AM
I started this when I first saw the post, ten minutes after it was posted, so many hours ago. Each comma, in THIS post, represents a long period of time of remembering long forgotten people, places, and events. For this, I am eternally grateful. Thank you.

Sold raffle tickets, punch cards, greeting cards (Christmas & Easter), flowers for Mother's Day, flags for Memorial Day, and ice cream. Errand boy, delivery boy with a homemade wagon.

Delivered newspapers, ran a baseball pool, hustled pool, picked radishes on a truck farm. Delivered cars of dubious registry across the state line. Numbers runner, crapgame lookout, stache.

Turned 16, left home. Busboy, room service waiter, waiter, cocktail waiter, bartender, poker player, pimp, gigalo, pool hustler, bookmaker, emcee, comic, card dealer.

Turned 21. USMC. Communicator, Instructor, Recruiter. (Also taxi driver, bartender, personal development facilitator, pool hustler, and poker player.)

Retired USMC. Restaurant manager, (six months). Real estate sales, brokerage, management and investor. Investment counselor, seminar author & presenter. R.E. investment program writer/developer and presenter.

Packed it in at 58 in 1995. Since then, father of 4 boys. Present occupation: full time mentor, role model, teller of tales, and weaver of dreams. My "income" from my present occupation approaches a million dollars a day. Bill Gates, eat your heart out.

Semper Fi,
And a sincere wish that ALL of my brothers become as "rich" (by THEIR definition) as I am.

Red Dragon
10-24-02, 11:19 AM
BEEN A RED DRAGON ALL MY LIFE.

The Red Dragon

Sparrowhawk
10-24-02, 04:20 PM
This post would bring to mind.

At first I started to read what others have experienced, a lifetime of memories that are precious.

When the Drifter wrote he had once held a paper route, I had forgotten about my paper route.

I sold Grit newspaper. The paper was not a home-published newspaper. I applied to sell it by sending in a request with the amount of papers I wanted to sell to a mail in location, from a coupon I had cut out of a comic book.

I had to solicit my own clients, and once a week I would get the papers in mail in the type of format that USA Today uses. I believe I sold the papers for 15 cents and kept 5 cents for every paper sold. I was young then, 8-10 years of age.

http://www.grit.com/who.html

firstsgtmike, mentioning in your post about selling raffle tickets brought back some memories. One day when the Rodeo was in town a VFW represernatative was there selling those plastic poppies they always sell.

They asked me to help sell them, and I volunteer to do so right there at the rodeo site. They gave me a can where people would donate what ever they wanted, by putting the money into the can. I remember collecting a good sum, and enjoying it, but when I went to look for the men that gave me the job, he had packed up all his gear, table, etc, and was gone. What was a young man to do?

Well I didn't know anything about the VFW but I knew I had all this money in the can and no one to give it to. It never entered my mind to try to find the local VFW representative, as we didn’t have a VFW post in our city.

Well I gave away the rest of the poppies and spend the rest of the day having a good time at the rodeo.

wrbones
10-24-02, 07:08 PM
Sparrowhawk, one of my little brothers and I sold the Grit newpaper as well. I used to like gettin the baseball mitts and prizes ya got fer sellin 'em. The town didn't have three hundred houses in it and we sold a 125 papers a week! It went up to a quarter before we quit selling it. some of our customers gave us cash bonuses and pies and cakes on holidays! I think I was ten years old when I first started selling it! We mowed yards and such, too.

JAMarine
10-24-02, 07:27 PM
Damn, Haveing to Search the ole Brain Cells for this.

* Weed Hoe'r in a Pumkin Field No Comments From Anyone on the Hoe Part
* Sacker at the local PX
* Sacker and Stockkid at the local Grocery
* BellHop and Clerk at the local Hotel
* Civie Policeman in Amarillo, TX
* United States Marine Corps
* Security Specialist at American Smelting and Refining
* Quality Control at American Smelting and Refining
* Suit Salesman at Penney's (WTF I ever did this for I've got no idea)
* Quality Inspector at Vought Aerospace and Defense in Grand Prarie, TX
* Quality Inspector at Boeing Military Aircraft
* Quality Control at BP Chemicals Advanced Composites Division
* Quality Supervisor at Cieba Aircrafts Division
* Quality Engineer at NW Composites in Smokey Pt., WA
* General Mangager for Accurate Metal Products, Kent, WA
* Quality Specialist at Boeing Commercial Division

I guess I'm just a Quality guy...........

Ready2Rumble
10-24-02, 09:32 PM
Pre USMC

Hostess Bob Evans restaurant

USMC

Veterinary Technician
US. Postal Service - Letter Carrier


At present I'm looking for a Monday thru Friday daylight hours kinda job. Low stress!!

virwar
10-24-02, 11:28 PM
My list is pretty short:
School
Mow lawns
Mow some more lawns
Still in school
USMCR
Still in school
USPS- Letter Carrier
:lick:

mrbsox
10-25-02, 09:02 AM
Post Corps jobs.......

Les'see... what have I done for the last 22 years ???

Went to work sweeping floor and changing oil for $3.75 Hr. at a local Goodyear franchise. Brakes, alignment, tune ups, etc... learned most of the what to do.

Buick Dealership; spent a year learning WHY to do it, and the family almost starved.

Independant Garages; became pretty well known for electrical work, and engine performance. Did computers, rebuilds, fuel injection, emissions, carburetors.....

Instructor, NADC; 6 years teaching somebody else what, where, and why. Some of the best years I can remember.

Bounced for a couple of years, Service Mgr, Reconditioning Mgr, Inspector, Service Adviser. We'll call this 'Free Lancing' time

Back to training.... helping a company open a chain of Auto parts stores. Training new employees. Found myself Managing a store for awhile, Company sold, still Managing a store but didn't like the New Company.

Back to training..... Now, working for M.C.I.I. (not the phone). Motor Coach Industries... The #1 BUS Mfg. in North American. Technical Trainer and Writer.

The things I learned in the Corps, is part of what got me here. Pride in my work, attention to detail, neat appearance AT ALL TIMES, :D I wouldn't be happily Married, if my lifes choices hadn't led me to where I am today. The MAIN choice, that made the difference.....

:marine: :marine:

Sempers

Terry

Barndog
10-25-02, 11:13 AM
Oboy, this outta be good.... I have that same issue Bones does..... don't take much crap to begin with.

mowed lawns
hoe'd garden's (had our own 1-2 acre garden (crazy ass step-Dad with drunken ideas)
carpenter (operate my own carpentry business now finally)
worked on farms
Stuckey's
cut and split/sold firewood
painted
pumped gas
mechanic
Marine - grunt, then Huey mech/crew
Fed Civil Service Technician - Huey and OH-58 Mechanic
Army National Guard
Prison Guard
College Student
bouncer
cook
waiter
worked at Krogers (boy, you wanna talk about sucked...)
bicycle mechanic (actually liked doing this - got in good shape while doing it also - just the pay wasn't so hot)
Mgr at specialty sporting goods store

I've tried to give up carpentry a number of times, in order to save whats left of my back. When yer 6 '6 and 270 ish, foremen in my industry think one thing : human forklift. I finally got smart 3 years ago, and using the principles I learned in the Marines, I began my own business. I've made some mistakes, some have cost a good deal of money. I'm not broke, the bills are paid, the wife is happy - and I have an a$$hole for a boss. LOL
I started this business with knowledge and a few tools, and a 1989 Suburban. Now I've got a client base of over 100 and growing, booked a month in advance, can always use tools LOL..... a new truck - I've had up to 5 guys working for me at any given time this year. That was so I could keep getting and bidding more work, so they could keep busy, and I could keep running 6-7 days a week. And, except for 1 - they're all former military guys. The work ethic they possess gets them a good wage.
But the nice thing is : I can take time off anytime I want too. I turn down work whenever I don't want to do it - for whatever reason. They're MY rules.

Semper FI