Just curious about the types of jobs you have all had?

Well my history is by far the most boring. I have always had an 8 to 5 desk job in some area of Sales. I most likely won't ever try anything different because I really like what I do!

My teenage jobs included working at fast food places (whose didn't?) and a daycare center. The daycare center made me realize just how much I wanted kids and just how much I really did NOT want kids. If that makes sense.

Originally Posted by fwan

ive worked twice at the same restaurant

and i guarantee you they wont ask me to work there every again

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You crack me up!

In high school I worked in fast food for a very short time. Then went to retail. I must be crazy, I stayed at KMart for 10 years, the longest I have stayed at any job. Then I moved on to work at a couple of banks, hated it - I am not a salesman(woman) which is what they seem to want a teller to be. Then I did accounts payable at a prosthetic/orthotic office. Currently I am an independent abstractor, hope to be able to stick with this the rest of my life. I am self employed, I do title searches on properties. I work a couple of hours a day and make way more than I ever could working 40 hrs. a week in an office. I am SPOILED.

Hmm,
I have worked at a greenhouse watering trees all day Helllloooo sunburn!
At a luggage store, answering the phone for the cable company...
For almost a year I was Manager at Ruckers (kids fun center place) which for a while made me swear off having kids forever!
After that I had the best job ever! I was a kennel assistant at one of the vet clinics for almost a year until my car accident and I couldn't do the work anymore
Then I worked in the post office, and now I am a cashier and can't see that lasting very much longer!

I was spoiled. My first job was a summer job was when I was in college, I worked at Burger King. They never did train me on the grille, even though everyone was supposed to be trained there, but sent me straight to taking orders. It was actually a lot of fun with the people I worked with.

Then I worked at a book bindery, making covers for rebound books. Worked there because my best friend in college was working there. That was actually a lot of fun too.

Then I worked a summer at a Christian publisher, coalating boxes of toys basically. They had kits they sold for Sunday Schools and Summer Bible Schools that had all kinds of toys and interactive activites, and we put the kits together. I still have some of the extra toys (we were allowed to take what we wanted of extra inventory after we had made the requisite number of boxes), and have found they make great kitty toys. That job was a lot of fun too.

Then I was a high school English/Spanish teacher for a year and a half. I can't say that was fun. It was just the wrong place for me to be at that time in my life.

Then I moved into admin. assistant positions. The first was at a construction company (general and mechanical contractor). I LOVED that job! The guys were so much fun to work with. Then I worked with a real estate appraisal firm. Hated it. The people there were so uptight and horrible. No appreciation to anyone below their status. And now I'm with a mechanical engineering firm...and I LOVE it again! They really appreciate what I bring to the job, I'm able to be creative in some aspects. It's all about the people I'm working with though. I liked the duties of the second job, but was miserable. I'm not so keen on answering phones which I do now, but I love the job because of who I work with.

I think it's all about making the best of any situation. If you go into it with a bad attitude, it will suck. Sometimes a "bad" job can be great because of who you work with and what you make of it. Sometimes a "cushy" job can suck because of people who make it their purpose in life to ruin someone else's day.

Well, I've done the usual babysitting. Then I worked for a little while taking pizza orders and for a very short time at Country Style (Donut shop). But I taught swimming lessons for seven years, which was my longest job to date (hey, I'm only 22!). It was great, because I got a lot of experience working with special needs kids (when you've got seniority, the boss trusts you with the ones that need extra attention) AND got regular exercise while getting paid for it!

not counting the kid jobs... my first REAL job was as a reservationist at Braniff International Airlines... i was the person who answered the phone when you called the number in the book! i stayed in that industry for 15 years. after Braniff folded, i became a travel agent - basically the same thing. then i went back to college, got my degree, & became a special ed teacher. that's what i do now.

I have not had a very wide array of jobs.

I worked most of High School at the local Target. I was so skeptical of the job, and though I would hate it. I was a cashier for awhile, and then did returns. Turned out I loved the people I worked with there. And I met my current boyfriend who I plan to marry in the next 2 years, so it wasn't so bad after all.

I spent two summers working in daycare. NEVER AGAIN! It made me almost want to switch my career path mid - college.

I spent another two summers interning for an energy contracting company that works with the Department of Energy in Wash. DC.

Now I am currently a Kindergarten Teacher in the local public school system. I am not sure how long I'll survive in a classroom. I plan to go back to school next fall to get certified to be a school Computer/Technology Specialist.

My first job was selling cider and doughnuts at the NYS Fair...then while in high school, I was a cashier at a local grocery store. Once in college, more interesting job opportunities landed my way, such as canning green beans for Libby's at their factory in my college town which was one of the worst jobs of my life...people not used to this kind of work would quit after a couple of hours or a couple of days - in a day when folks did not just quit jobs at the drop of a hat. I stayed 6 weeks, including one hellish stretch of 3 weeks without a day off as we were filling a government contract order (as I recall that was the explanation).
I did home health care while living in Colorado( as well as waiting tables in NY, CO and LA), and finally ended up going for a second college degree, working in a local nursing home while getting my RN.
I spent a year on a medical-surgical floor, and finally got a job where I wanted, on a high risk l&d unit where I spent 13 years.
Once I married and moved, I retired from nursing, did some fun retail in a cat collectibles shop, and now own my own business - the most fun job to date

Favorite jobs along the way - home health care - in CO I got to live 2 days of the week in the home of a wonderful couple, she had been a WWII nurse, he was a water color artist, and I loved caring for her/them, they lived up in the mountains...it was a sweet job.

I have only worked three places so far. My first job was a photographer at Sears Portrait Studio. Then onto The Goddard School - a private preschool. Let me tell you, after working there for almost 2 years.. I will **never** send my children to preschool. No way!!

And now I work as a veterinary technician at Hamilton Veterinary Hospital. Which is a lot of fun. (most of the time)

Starting working when I was 14

1. KFC. Very fun when I was that age.
2. Stuffed Pizza
3. Round Table Pizza
4. A law firm where my mom worked. I helped to file.
5. United States Navy. I served onboard the USS Kitty Hawk for two years as an intelligence specialist. Very exciting, but out of 5500 people onboard there were only 200 girls!!!! Not fun!!
6. When I got out of the Navy, I worked for Cupertino Electric as an Admin in the field, then moved into the office as an electrical estimator and then as a project engineer. I now work for the same company, but in the accounting department. I think I'll stay here for awhile.....

My first job was that of the hostess at Red Lobster......you know the one who called "Jones, party of 5 your table is ready." I hated that job. I was only there for a few months.

Then I got a sweet job when I was 17 working at a surf shop on the beach. (I grew up in Florida) Talk about a dream job for a teenage girl! Our shop was where ALL the cute boys stopped to get their surfing supplies before they went to the beach. I usually wore a bikini top, shorts, and flip-flops to work.

Once I graduated high school, I moved up here to Tennessee. I worked at Service Merchandise at the corporate headquarters. I started in micrographics which basically consisted of me throwing documents into a scanner and turning them into microfilm. I then moved to merchandising and soon became an assistant buyer in the floor care and personal care department. That was a lot of fun! The sales people would always bring me free samples of hair dryers and curling irons! I was there for 4 years.

After I got married, I decided to go into sales since I enjoyed the sales people I dealt with as an asst. buyer. I was in sales for 12 years.....first as a salesperson, then team leader, major acount rep, and then on to sales manager.

I always wanted to go to nursing school though, but my husband wouldn't let me while we were married. I made more money than he did and he said we couldn't do without my income. So after I divorced him, I went back to school fulltime. I quit my job and decided to devote all my energy to getting my degree. I put an ad in the newspaper and cleaned houses on the days I didn't go to school, just to have some money coming in to support my two daughters.

I've now been a registered nurse for about 3 years and I love it! I work on a medicine/oncology floor at a very large teaching hospital. We get the sickest of the sick in the region. People are flown into our hospital from all over. I'm planning to transfer to the cardiac ICU in the next few weeks to gain more experience.

In college I was a forms programmer, math and computer lab assistant, TA, with a brief foray into grocery checker person and book store clerk... ah the days of working 3 jobs and taking classes full time. Gotta love them!

Last year the big nasty company I worked for outsourced my job! The bad part was, they also outsourced ME. I was suddenly supposed to be working for this company based in Bangelore. I thought about 10 minutes, then said "I don't think so", took my severance and started at a much smaller local firm.

Right now i'm a software consultant and the project I helped put together the bid for got approved Its good to know what one will be working on the next 90 days.

Originally Posted by KittyKook

My first job was that of the hostess at Red Lobster......you know the one who called "Jones, party of 5 your table is ready." I hated that job. I was only there for a few months.

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HA! LIke Robin, my very frist job (I lied and said I was 16) was a Hostess at the Chesapeake Bay Seafood House in Maryland, where I grew up. I lasted for 5 month and got fired for giving tablescrap food to a homeles woman who came in from the cold and asked only for a muffin. BOY THAT MADE AN IMPRESSION ON ME WITH COLDHEARTED MANAGEMENT!

Fast forward: one of the jobs I had as an adult which I truly loved, was teaching English and History every Friday night to the Lifers (life w/o parole inmates) at our state maximum security prison.

My very first job was scooping ice cream at a fast fried food joint on a lake. Then I went to a grocery store and was a cashier... then went to work in the bakery doing doughnuts and eventually decorating cakes. I am now a nurse. I first worked in rehab then the nursing home. I currently have a resume in at the on post hospial. So I'm a stay at home wife until that comes through.

From about age 21 till 30, I was a female Automotive Refinishing Technician! (I painted cars)
I was into cars since I was a little tomboy, & just wanted to learn how to do custom work, & ended up more in the production mode, making a living. I worked at a few dealerships in the area, & an independent shop or two, & made pretty good money. We worked on commission, getting paid for each car we did, & alot of the guys made more "hours" than I did, but I didn't like to rush the cars out, took a little more time at it, & rarely had any comebacks. The manager would send the picky customers cars to me, he knew I would do a good job. I got out of it because I moved to California & couldn't afford to buy sprayguns that would comply with air quality standards, & just never got back into it when I came back to Florida. It was a grind, one car after another, & is bad for your health, unless you want to wear a spacesuit in 98 degree heat & 98% humidity! I still miss it, sometimes I feel like it is the only trade I know, that I am really good at, it gave me an identity like nothing else ever did.

My first job was a sales girl at a funky clothing store when I was 16. I hated the job but loved the clothes! Then I was a personalization artist for a gift shop. I hated my boss! She was so ugly to me. That lasted 3 months. When I left there I felt like a free woman. Then I worked as a sales girl in a interior decorating store and I stayed there for a couple of years. I loved the people there and they were so good about working around my school hours. Then I went off to college where I became a full time student for a few years, graduated and got married. I looked for a job for nearly a year and even worked as a temp in a mortgage company. That was a nightmare. I worked there for a month with the most catty women you have ever met, it was awful. Then I got my first real job as a graphic designer for a print company. It's wonderful! I love, love, love my co-workers. They are like my 2nd family. Later on this year I'm hoping to start work as a full-time mom. We'll see!

I can honestly say, I've NEVER had a bad job! I baby sat until I was 18. While in nursing school I was a nursing assistant and then I became a nurse. As far as nursing goes well there is a lot of "crap" in that job, if you get my drift, but even that does not bother me. I can deal with any type of bodily fluid, no problem. One of the oddest thing I've done in nursing was "leech therapy" yeah, you read that right. Leeches are still used, to improve blood circulation after extensive plastic surgery. The patients I had that we used the leeches on had surgery to remove deep skin cancers, the leeches helped the new skin flaps heal. I'd be the first to volunteer in leech cases, most of the nurses at first where too squeemish...I thought it was cool!

Hmm,

Lets see I started working at 13 First Job was at Burger King, moved on to work for Osco Drug, then Caldors. Worked as a bank clerk out of highschool for a year. Then went to work for a law firm, which was pretty interesting. Then went to work for the City at the Police Department, (where I met my husband). Then after that was a Mom, took some time off. Worked for a Dental Insurance Company for awhile and Now am an Administrative Assistant for a Physical Therapy Practice. So you could say I have done a little of this and a little of that.

Well this is a fun reply to think about as I havn't thought of this in years. My worst job was working for a slimy Vet, I am sure yo uhave all met of those. I worked at the kennles and my training week I looked after this pot-belly pig named jethrow. The family moved and left him behind and he was sweet. My first day alone, the vet came in first thing and I heard this squealing, it was awful....he was putting jethrow to sleep and didn't tell me. It took him a half an hour to die and then he left him there all day untill he was done at the clinic. It was so sad. Needless to day I didn't work for him long and had a party when his practice closed.

My favorite job was working at the landfil lol. Yes the city dump. I got to run big machines and find neat stuff and resue lots and lots of kitties.....yes so many cruel people would drop their unwanted pets at the dump.