What jobs have you had?

land_shark3 · Post by **land_shark3** » September 1, 2005 3:22 pm

I know we have some DirecTV people and a few FedEx people on BN. However there are some jobs that people have had that come as quite a shock (e.g. "running a p*** site"). If you can remember them, what jobs have you had that may or may not shock people?

Bag boy @ Country Club
Legal research/paralegal
Construction (home and commercial)
College admissions recruiter
Gas station attendant
Headhunter/recruiter
Super Target "Team Member"
Subscription Sales Manager @ legal newspaper
Manufacturer's representative ~ current

buffettbride · Post by **buffettbride** » September 1, 2005 3:27 pm

In chronological order:

Hostess with the mostest (smoking or non?)
Denny's waitress (green smocks with ruffles ARE pretty)
Dancin' nekked on table tops (coffee, tea, or me?)
Corporate trainer (who was the teacher's pet)
Mom (no pay, but bennies are great)
Technical communications specialist (great pay, but the bennies sukk)
Wife (you do the math)

thegoatgod · Post by **thegoatgod** » September 1, 2005 3:29 pm

hmm lets start at the begining

5 years as a afterschool/summer camp/ counselor
life guard
ran concession stand for the cities public youth basketball league
loaded trucks and stocked drinks at stores for sundrop
had my own car washing company
telemarketing for the u. of north alabama
3rd shift night manager of a beer and lotto store
sold and rented out p***, along with other movies at movie gallery
cook at a bar and grill

CaptainP · Post by **CaptainP** » September 1, 2005 3:31 pm

Janitor for the Burlington Standard Press (where my dad worked)
Paperboy for Milwaukee Sentinel
Dishwasher at Americana Lake Geneva Resort...6 years, eventually ran the kitchen.
Lab Assistant for Geography Department at Carroll College
Clerk/Stockboy for Bits'n'Pieces, a health-food co-op.
Waiter for Sizzler...promoted to management
Cook/Waiter for Bakers Square
Manager for Ground Round (at different times: Service Mgr, Bar Mgr, Kitchen Mgr, and General Manager)
Manager for Charcoal Grill & Rotisserie
Manager for Cheeseburger In Paradise! Current!

CaptainP · Post by **CaptainP** » September 1, 2005 3:32 pm

buffettbride wrote: Dancin' nekked on table tops (coffee, tea, or me?)

Well no wonder you were nekkid....look at those panties!

CaptainP · Post by **CaptainP** » September 1, 2005 3:32 pm

thegoatgod wrote: sold and rented out p***, along with other movies at movie gallery

Who cares about the other movies?

rednekkPH · Post by **rednekkPH** » September 1, 2005 3:36 pm

CaptainP wrote: Bits'n'Pieces, a health-food co-op.

Sounds more like a hot dog factory

LIPH · Post by **LIPH** » September 1, 2005 3:38 pm

supermarket clerk
bank slut (7 different banks in 11 1/2 years as loan collector, management trainee, assistant branch manager, branch manager, installment loan officer, credit manager in auto finance division)
intern in DA's office
temporary attorney (for 2 1/2 years at one firm

)
staff attorney

sy · Post by sy » September 1, 2005 4:03 pm

land_shark3 wrote:I know we have some DirecTV people and a few FedEx people on BN. However there are some jobs that people have had that come as quite a shock (e.g. "running a p*** site"). If you can remember them, what jobs have you had that may or may not shock people?

Does that really come as a surprise to anyone? the domain was whippinggirl.com

Owned over in Finland now I believe.

Let's see, I have been...

cake decorator
p*** site owner/administrator
web/graphics designer
Microsoft trainer
Photoshop teacher
book store manager
systems and security engineer (what I do now)
seamstress/embroiderer/jeweler (what I do now)

CaptainP · Post by **CaptainP** » September 1, 2005 4:05 pm

From p*** site admin to seamstress.....interesting career path.....

LIPH · Post by **LIPH** » September 1, 2005 4:06 pm

CaptainP wrote:From p*** site admin to seamstress.....interesting career path.....

probably had a lot of raincoats to repair

buffettbride · Post by **buffettbride** » September 1, 2005 4:06 pm

LIPH wrote:
CaptainP wrote:From p*** site admin to seamstress.....interesting career path.....
probably had a lot of raincoats to repair

i don't thing those kinds of raincoats are reusable.

creeky · Post by **creeky** » September 1, 2005 4:07 pm

Hmmm .. hope there is a lot of space - my list is LONG

McDonalds - two weeks - got fired when I was 15

Public Servant for last 25 years, now a team leader for same Dept I started with - only moved sections once ...

(told you it was long list)

land_shark3 · Post by **land_shark3** » September 1, 2005 4:10 pm

creeky wrote:Hmmm .. hope there is a lot of space - my list is LONG

McDonalds - two weeks - got fired when I was 15

Public Servant for last 25 years, now a team leader for same Dept I started with - only moved sections once ...

(told you it was long list)

Wow, congratulations on remembering all those.

land_shark3 · Post by **land_shark3** » September 1, 2005 4:11 pm

sy wrote:Does that really come as a surprise to anyone?

cake decorator
p*** site owner

In a word... YES.

creeky · Post by **creeky** » September 1, 2005 4:12 pm

land_shark3 wrote:
creeky wrote:Hmmm .. hope there is a lot of space - my list is LONG

McDonalds - two weeks - got fired when I was 15

Public Servant for last 25 years, now a team leader for same Dept I started with - only moved sections once ...

(told you it was long list)
Wow, congratulations on remembering all those.

Thankyou .. however, it is obvious I did this at 6.00am, because I forgot Army Reserve (Artillery) for 10 years

land_shark3 · Post by **land_shark3** » September 1, 2005 4:14 pm

creeky wrote:
land_shark3 wrote:
creeky wrote:Hmmm .. hope there is a lot of space - my list is LONG

McDonalds - two weeks - got fired when I was 15

Public Servant for last 25 years, now a team leader for same Dept I started with - only moved sections once ...

(told you it was long list)
Wow, congratulations on remembering all those.
Thankyou .. however, it is obvious I did this at 6.00am, because I forgot Army Reserve (Artillery) for 10 years

That's ok. It was only 33% of your total number of jobs. I can see how that could be an oversight.

Lightning Bolt · Post by **Lightning Bolt** » September 1, 2005 4:16 pm

Car Dealership lot boy
Blueprint operator/delivery
Pizza delivery driver
Airbrush artist
Darkroom/Stat Cameraman
Graphics Production Artist
Graphic Arts Dept. Manager
Sign Contractor/Designer
Environmental Graphic Designer

Cubbie's Girl · Post by **Cubbie's Girl** » September 1, 2005 4:16 pm

Bussed tables when I was 14
Waitress at a hotel restaurant through high school
Concessions manager, then assisstant general manager for six different minor league baseball clubs (I like to move around a lot)
Tutor at a college ("You need help with what kind of math?")
Counter girl at a deli ("mayo, mustard or sprays?")(while I was in college)

Currently a teacher in a parochial school (middle school kids) and a new Target team member

The Lost Manatee · Post by **The Lost Manatee** » September 1, 2005 4:31 pm

In order, if I can remember them all.

Paper boy
Janitor in my best friend dad's bar (we were 11 at the time and got paid 5 bucks to mob the floor, all the soda we could drink, all the pool we wanted to shoot and all the money that we found on the floor.
Hay Hauler
Yard service
Dishwasher
Busboy
Waiter
Cook
Doorman at a movie theater
Manager of a different theater
Delivery guy for a rental firm
Battery/tire guy at Sears
Ranch hand
Hamburger flipper
Archeologist
Retail sales
Investment sales
Travel
Insurance
Real Estate
Car Salesman
Travel Manager
Game Designer
Sales Trainer
Travel Manager

I think that's all of them.

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