What jobs have you held through out life.

[JaggedEdge]

Thanks to everyone who has shared. A lot of you have very diverse work experience. It is very interessting. I have also gotten some ideas for my next job... I can't wash dishes much longer or I may hit one of my managers.

[thebeancounter41]

Dishwasher....busboy....waiter....prep cook...line cook...half dozen sales jobs....telemarketing for about 3 months...Limo driver...cab driver...pizza delivery for dominos and pizza hut...ice cream man....inventory taker for Walmart.Currently handling online sales for a an established company.

[deftdrummer]

In order from highschool till now:

1) mcdonalds (worked all aspects, management, toilet cleaning etc. shit job)
2) little ceasars pizza station inside a k-mart (actually pretty cool ate free all the time got paid shitty
3) admissions clerk & PBX operator at an adventist hospital (kinda weird in a repressive sort of way)
4) ER registration clerk + outpatient clinic for a different out of town hospital
5) emergency dispatcher for ambulances and air ambulance at the same hospital (currently)

[birdgirl73]

I love this thread! I just noticed my husband answered it earlier. So I'll do the same. Here they are, pretty much in order:

Paper route
Babysitter
Lifeguard at municipal swimming pool
Waitress at Mexican restaurant
Swimming instructor and lifeguard trainer at municipal swimming pool
Hostess/cashier at restaurant
Waitress and fill-in bartender at a pub
Emergency medical technician at a state hospital
Paramedic for a fire department
Paid section editor's position on college newspaper
Store clerk at a glasses/sunglasses store
Feature reporter/stringer for small local papers
High school English and journalism teacher
News and features reporter for large metropolitan paper
Marketing-advertising copywriter for a large technology corporation
Senior executive speechwriter for large technology corporation
Medical student (I'm unpaid but am receiving an allowance from money we saved when I was working full-time)

Being a mother is a huge job, albeit an unpaid one, and I've done that for the last 21 years, too, counting pregnancy.

[PatrickHenry]

Great thread! I don't want to talk about my current position for privacy reasons, but when I was a kid I was a grocery bagger and a department store loading dock worker!

Let me tell you, those first jobs suck!!

Interesting to see a medical doctor on here (a cardiologist at that)! I'm impressed!

[birdgirl73]

Interesting to see a medical doctor on here (a cardiologist at that)! I'm impressed!

That's my husband, and he's a great guy and mostly joined because of me. He's at work right now, but he'd feel it important to note that he's not a cannabis user but instead an advocate. I'm the same way. We got interested in the topic last year when my older sister was going through chemotherapy for cancer. He's a strong believer in its legatlization for medical use, as am I, but is convinced smoked cannabis isn't good for heart health.

[PatrickHenry]

That's my husband, and he's a great guy and mostly joined because of me. He's at work right now, but he'd feel it important to note that he's not a cannabis user but instead an advocate. I'm the same way. We got interested in the topic last year when my older sister was going through chemotherapy for cancer. He's a strong believer in its legatlization for medical use, as am I, but is convinced smoked cannabis isn't good for heart health.

That's great, I love to hear about educated folks joining the movement. I'm working on another kind of doctorate, a juris doctorate.

I vaporize!

[birdgirl73]

Good for you! I earned a J.D., too, believe it or not. Between my teaching and writing days. But the truth was it was simply another form of grad school for me after all was said and done. I had absolutely no interest in practicing law and seemed to lack the ability to bully in the necessary way. The whole legal world really intimidated me. I graduated (SMU). Sat for the bar. Never practiced a day in my life. Never looked back. What I've always really been interested in is medicine. I might have made an OK judge or mediator. The one thing it did come in handy for was in writing when dealing with intellectual property/copyright matters.

When do you graduate??? What sort of law do you plan to practice? Always glad to see other educated folks here, too. We have many of those, and it can't help but be beneficial to this cause. Glad to hear you take the healthy vape route, too!

[Dutch Pimp]

combat medic-'67-'69
student-'70-'74..(I wanted to be a teacher)
foundry supervisor-'74-'07..(7 different places, I am a teacher of this art)

[PatrickHenry]

Good for you! I earned a J.D., too, believe it or not. Between my teaching and writing days. But the truth was it was simply another form of grad school for me after all was said and done. I had absolutely no interest in practicing law and seemed to lack the ability to bully in the necessary way. The whole legal world really intimidated me. I graduated (SMU). Sat for the bar. Never practiced a day in my life. Never looked back. What I've always really been interested in is medicine. I might have made an OK judge or mediator. The one thing it did come in handy for was in writing when dealing with intellectual property/copyright matters.

When do you graduate??? What sort of law do you plan to practice? Always glad to see other educated folks here, too. We have many of those, and it can't help but be beneficial to this cause. Glad to hear you take the healthy vape route, too!

I'm a 1L. I'd really like to become a public defender but I'm not sure how that will pan out. Those positions are highly coveted despite the low pay and long hours.

Other than that, I'm not really sure. I really don't want to do the Big Law thing, but am more interested in providing affordable legal services to people who really need it.

After 3 years of hell I'm surprised you didn't have any desire to practice!