Former Careers

[Mr Gently Benevolent]

Former careers you had before your current one and were you sad or glad that you gave them up.
I tried my hand farming before fishing, glad I gave it up, the sheep and I did not get on as well as I had hoped. :lol:

[hank]

Former careers you had before your current one and were you sad or glad that you gave them up.
I tried my hand farming before fishing, glad I gave it up, the sheep and I did not get on as well as I had hoped. :lol:

Loan Officer at a bank. One word to describe it: SUX!

I got so tired of Muzak and meetings where we talked about savings accounts that I could have puked, in fact I did puke!

hank

[Haiw]

Former high school slacker.

[Apogee]

Former Lifeguard gone SCUBA instructor

[MolliG]

Same as Haiw; former secondary school slacker, hardly ever went but came out very good. :)

(OT) USMA_SCUBA: You get my e-mail?

[cut]

my previous jobs

english teacher, farmer, barrister's clerk, postman (sorting office), office runabout

[Trigger]

Warehouse worker, Sailor, Piano Mover (woohoo!), Bug Killa, Driver, Graphic Designer.

[California Joe]

Kitchen boy at a girls summer camp
Roofer
Screen Printer
Illustrator
Cop
Visual Information Specialist
Yeah, that about covers it.

[Innoxx]

I worked at a head shop. Then I got fired because I slacked off. Imagine that.

[Jack Mehoff]

Pimp
Hired killer
Pimp

[farmgirl]

babysitter (yeah.... going waaaaay back for that one)
lifeguard
teacher of swimming lessons
waitress
Assistant Manager Pizza Hut
Men's residence hall director at a college
Intramural director (same college)
data entry for a sporting goods company
distribution manager for the Kansas City Star (in Pittsburg, Ks)
sales (furniture, electronics and appliances)
teacher
grant coordinator



yeah.... I've had a few jobs.... I loved lifeguarding and teaching swimming lessons... that was my first clue that teaching might be for me. I talked myself out of it, because I thought I wanted to make more money than that..... silly me! :)

I loved my sales job, not because I liked sales that much, but because John was my store manager, and I got to work with him every day. I was good at it, and I made really good money, so that helped too. :)
I made a lot of money in sales. The last year I sold furniture, I didn't even work the entire year, and I made nearly 3 times what I'll make teaching this year. However, I wouldn't go back. I love teaching. It's not going to make a difference to anyone what kind of a sofa I sold them, but if I can make a difference in some kids' lives.... that means everything to me.

*wipes away tear* ;) Seriously... I do think what I am doing is really important, and I love going to work every single day. Who could ask for more than that???? woot

[Haiw]

You forgot 'mom'.

[Kriz]

You forgot 'mom'.
Yeah taht's a full time 24/7 job all year round and you don't get paid for it in the traditional way of speaking.

[farmgirl]

You forgot 'mom'.


:hug: You're soooo right! That's my favorite job!!! :D (most of the time) ;)

[caspermeister]

MCAD/CAD/CAM/CAE programmer (supervisor)
It had been good. Paid me enough to go back school: Becoming Dental Hygienist. Now I'm gunning on my third job: DENTIST. Going back to school next September.. ay... ya... ya..... 4 more years of reading, working on weekend, eating Kraft dinner....... etc. All for the good future ;)

[Midtown]

Bagboy (first job)
Cook
Overnight Stocker
I worked parties at Radisson Hotels - made 20+ $ an hour
Now Web Design/Multimedia.

[wulfstan]

Paperboy
Dishwasher at Beefeater
Agricultural warehouse worker (assembling and packing chicken feeders!)
Lending assistant at a bank (cancelling ppl's cards and bouncing cheques - i was evil)
Games Tester...

[Jack Mehoff]

You forgot 'mom'.


:hug: You're soooo right! That's my favorite job!!! :D (most of the time) ;)

Send in your resume and application, i'll hook you up.

[budanski]

During the summers, helped out parents on the shrimpboats. (Not bad money for a kid at age 12)

During High School, worked at my brothers 3 convienent stores. (Hard work and bad pay due to family status)

First job outside family businesses was during college as a waiter at the Mariott's Fairfield Inn Restaurants. Got fired working at Bennigans for telling a church group to F*ck off!

During Art School, got a job as a layout artist for a sign company then got offered as a typesetter at a small print shop.

Got hired after graduation at an ad agency. After a few years, worked as interface designer (My first big project where I got to take lead: designed the Conoco website ) for an internet company.

Takes three years off from work to travel.

Jumps back into work with a gig at HP as an art director. Got tired of the "one brand" scene and gets hired as a senior art director at a small agency.

Freelances (occasionally when I'm in the mood) to do storyboards for TV ads and did I mentioned I used to run guns up to NY state for the Tongs? ;)

[farmgirl]

You forgot 'mom'.


:hug: You're soooo right! That's my favorite job!!! :D (most of the time) ;)

Send in your resume and application, i'll hook you up.


I don't really want to have any more kids, Jack..... I plan to just practice from now on...... ;)

[Marmot1]

Driver/messanger /Poland/
Lifeguard /Tamiment PA & Poland/
Cook /Pocono Moutanis PA/
Carpenter /China Town & Skookie in Chicago,Il/
Salesman (Tents, Paraglides, Body armours :lol:(for yugoslavian forces), parachutes /Poland/)
Painter (Yeah my favorite job!!! Once a time I painted America's Earliest Law School building . est. in 1776) /in Litchfield, Connecticut/
Truck Driver /east coast US/ :lol: used to drive Nissan truck...
Translator /Poland/
Surveyer help. /Poland/
Gambler rofl /Atlantic city/ actualy I'v lost more than I earned :-)
part time Pimp /Poland/ Well you know if you know girls... (sorry jack you are not only pimp here :lol: )
Media monitoring agency (OCR. news gatering,etc.)
Main Statistic Office worker (data gathering and analyse)
+ some work for town hall in my city durring high school.
Now... TOP SECRET ;) I can tell but then I have to kill you...

[Nawlins]

Full-time student...


I don't quite miss it yet. Give it time.

[USMarine3521]

athletic trainer (actually I still am) :D

[Flagg]

Fish Filleter
Golf Caddy
Dishwasher
Grocery store worker
Lifeguard
Landscaper
Expeditor
Production Planner
Operations Manager
Director of Operations

Then I worked for the founder of a major internet based company(one of the big ones that lived through the carnage)

And finally I emigrated here and bought/started a number of businesses that I still own.

[Dennis G]

I first started working with my father’s construction company. When I lived in Olean NY I worked at Erie Builders(Same name as the city that I live in now but Erie builders is in NY). Most of my time now is split between McKees Rocks Firm (Erie branch--West PA) and the Association of International Private Investigators and Bodyguards and the Special Response Corporation. I think I told you guy this when we had the Do you have a job thread.

[Uncle Sam]

Done everything from A-Z...Best job was Limo driver, got it right after ETS-ing. Made excellent money and got to see alot of drunk naked chicks :D. And of course being in the Army was enlightning...Right now, I'm an Owner, CEO - President. woot

[James]

When I was starting college (early 1990s) I worked in the kitchen of my dorm, earning $3.26 an hour... ;)
Later I worked at the undergraduate library.
USMC.
Full time student.
Ocean Export rep for a freight forwarding company.
Defense Contractor.

Who knows what will be next...