What in the world have you done?!

[blueerica]

It was brought up in Sooo...

And it makes sense to explore the odd jobs we've had.

While I haven't washed dead people, nor have I sold non-existent gold - I've had a few jobs that don't exactly make a straight line on any grid.

Things I've Done (in semi-chronological order):

I was a fishing and lures expert. <cough>
Made pizza and sammiches.
Worked at a salon that specialized in high-end hairpieces
Worked at a hostess in Newport when it was super chi-chi to be there.
Worked at 24 Hour Fitness (5 years.. what the?)
Was a Dental Assistant (What? 5 years? How old am I?)
Worked for Peets (and loved it! Well, most of it.)
Freelance writer (that's right...)

Please, I know I'm actually not that interesting.. tell me you gold-sellers, body washers and miscellany out there.. WHAT DO YOU DO? And what have you done?

[RStar]

Propigated and sold plants from my High School greenhouse (yes, I had permission!)

Mowed Lawns

Slung burgers at McD's (My job had a name "lay the meat")

Purchased plants for the garden Dept. at the city of Industry K Mart

Sold House plants for a small plant Store

Had my own business renting and maintaing plants in offices

Had a yard maintenance buisness

Was the "Head Compounder" for a cosmetic maunufacturer

Am now working for the cosmetic manufacturer as a formulating chemist (worked there 26 years)

Currently work a website business www.StarTownGifts.com

A few twists, but for the most part not too remarkable.:rolleyes:

Now I'm depressed......;)

[Alex]

Jobs I've been paid for, in chronological order:

1. bookkeeping for an industrial sewing machine repair company (8th grade)
2. paper route (9th-10th grade)
3. public library page (11th-12th grade)
4. intramural activities instructor at a middle school (11th-12th grade)
5. Classroom assistant for a 2nd-3rd grade class for children with behavior problems (freshman year of college)
6. Night circulation clerk, Suzzallo Library Serials Department, University of Washington (final three years of college)
7. Bookkeeping for SeaGrant program at the University of Hawaii (first year of grad school).
8. Photograph archivist for some renal hospital in Hawaii (can't remember it's name).
9. Reference clerk, Science and Technology Department, Hamilton Library, University of Hawaii (second year of grad school).
10. Data entry and development of Library Aquaculture Workstation, a white and gray paper repository for Pacific Rim agriculturists (concurrent with previous).
11. Various temp jobs.
12. Administrative assistant in Community Lending Division, part of the Real Estate group, at Wells Fargo.
13. Integration Project Manager for wholesale banking portal in the Wholesale Group at Wells Fargo.
14. Front End Producer for wholesale banking portal in the Wholesale Group at Wells Fargo.
15. CEO of a small internet company.
16. Functional design for online banking products at a company I won't name.

Nothing very exciting. But I still have the streak alive of never having worked in food services nor had a job requiring I wear a name tag. If all goes well that'll be true when I die as well.

[lizziebith]

While the dead-washing is probably most unusual, here's the job list:
summer camp counselor
car wash cashier
cafeteria slave (at college #1)
restaurant management (how?)
yogurt pumper
birthday party hostess
licorice pizza slinger
data analyst/lab technician for environmental testing lab (yeah, that was a jump)
dead-person washer (at a "home")
made recordings of Shakespeare for blind college kids, and administered tests on same for same
barista
data controller and supervisor of records for state university (another weird leap)
research assistant
teaching assistant
teaching credential analyst
lecturer in linguistics
artist management
executive assistant at movie studio (another weird tangent)
currently writing a docutainment project

I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. I also do freelance doodles. I'm all about the twists, I guess.

[Morrigoon]

Catering assistant in a dinner theatre
Concessions at the Hollywood Bowl
Jewelry cart in the mall
Ice skating rink (skateguard, cashier, mopping out sweaty locker rooms)
Bookkeeping
Airline ticketing agent/gate agent
Airline ramp agent (you know, the baggage people with the flashlights, that sucked)
Restaurant hostess
Airline crew scheduler (keeping an entire airline's planes (18) fully and legally staffed during irregular operations
Disneyland "spoon"
Disneyland character hostess
Disneyland attractions
Receptionist (as a temp, did an admin position in the cardiology department of Hoag Hospital, FWIW. That sucked too)


[i]edit: oh yeah, Life Insurance Salesman

[wendybeth]

Gas station attendant
Fast food slave
Waitress
Motel housekeeping
Motel night manager
Hairdresser (over 21 years now)

Looking over that list, it's no wonder I identify with people in the service industry. Hard work.

[wendybeth]

Also wanted to add- if we get to comparing weird stories, the night manager one has provided me with a great many.:D

[lizziebith]

Another fun tangent is how many of these actually end up on our resumes/CVs! In my case, about 5 do...

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

Ah, fun stuff...

- Dishwasher
- Toy Store clerk
- Cleaned a Bakery (That explains the llbs)
- Cleaned Fed Ex vans
- Carpet Cleaner
- Stocked shelves at Robinsons
- Various Movie theatre position
- Projectionist (18 years - oy!)
- Stuffed envelopes for JD Power
- Video Store Manager
- Ride Ops at Universal Studios Back to the Future
- Cleaned Pools
- Published artist
- Published writer
- Published editor
- worked at a pool store where I put clorine and acid into bottles
- Lots of office stuff
- Movie extra
- FBI Agent (Movie)
- Greesy Fat Boy (TV show)
- Dinasour scientist (Tv Show)
- Jewish Defence Terrorist (TV Show)
- Reporter (TV Show)
- Football player (Movie)
- Astronaut (Movie)
- Airport Secuirty (Movie)
- Football Coach (TV show)
- NASA Commander (TV SHow)
- Undercover Cop (TV Show)
- Laugh tracks for sitcoms

[Mousey Girl]

I have done most retail type posistions.
Fast Food Crew Leader
Retail Sales
Ran box office a drive-inn
Back to original fast food place
plant technician for private company who stocked builder's Emporium
am/pm slave
peer tutor at college
private convience store slave
place fliers on cars (lasted less than a week-had to quit, too easy to toss flyers and lie about work done)
concession worker at convention center
flower tech at Conroy's
back to retail (Fashion Bug)
Fastrip slave
back to retail (Gottschalks)
retail asst manager (Petries Plus)
Toys R Us slave
back to retail managment (Sizez Unlimited)
MOM!!!!
CSR for Satan's Biggest Corporation
Customer Service Specialist for wholesale card company (psycho owner)
Event Coordinator (fancy way of saying party rental person)

Through college and beyond it was not uncommon for me to have 2-3 jobs at once.
My most rewarding job is being Nick's mom (except when he is a very angry boy and does something reallllllllllly bad~even though I understand why he did it, it doesn't make it right).
The jobs I enjoyed the most were working the convience stores. I loved seeing the same people every day.
I truly enjoy helping people, and just wish that SBC hadn't taken the service out in favor of sales, or I would still be there.

[Strangler Lewis]

Yogurt slinger.
Dinner theatre stagehand.
Costumed character (car dealerships, charity events) for trademark infringing events company.
Construction at theatre.
Campus work study jobs.
Temp-warehouse
Temp-office
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Extra in "Howard the Duck"
Proofreader of Yellow Pages ads
Temp
Secretary and copywriter at LA Marathon
Temp
Waiter at Beverly Hills Hamburger Hamlet
Copywriter at Music-and-messages-on-hold company.
Lawyer

Plus, various part time labor jobs here and there. The worst was breaking down a circus. Backbreaking work, and if you left early you wouldn't get paid.

[ozron]

Let's start at the zoo...
-Food service lead worker
-Retail spervisor
-Admissions cashier
-Receptionist
-Zoomer driver
-Railroad Stationmaster
-Thrill ride operator
-Lorikeet host
-Concert VIP Coordinator

Elsewhere...
-Record store assistant manager
-Limo driver
-Free-lance writer
-Music editor
-Title insurance researcher

Onstage...
-Opera chorister for eighteen years. I portayed a wide array of characters, from soldiers, courtiers, clergymen, servants, and peasants both happy and downtrodden.
-Actor. Among others I've been the keeper of an asylum, a famous riverboat performer, a mad sea captain, the ghost of Prince Albert, an Argentinian tango singer, a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition, the King of England, a vampiric Count of Transylvania, and a British dialectitian.
-I've been a guest soloist with a few choirs and orchestras.

Oh yeah...once upon a time I was a music teacher.

ron

[Motorboat Cruiser]

Shipping/receiving at a billiards warehouse.
Newspaper delivery (two days)
Studio musician and producer
Soundtrack composer for corporate videos
Telemarketer
computer chip programmer
Web designer
Quality tester for phone systems
ISO 9000 auditor
Quality Manager (yes, there is a theme here)
Owner of business that programs integrated circuits
gigging musician
Freelance writer and editor

[Kevy Baby]

I'll skip the boring ones (which is, well, most of them in my case)

Petroleum Transfer Engineer
Mobile DJ
Radio DJ and Manager (college radio - don't be impressed)
Nightclub DJ

[Ghoulish Delight]

I think the only odd one worth noting that I've had is data entry at a pap processing lab.

[SacTown Chronic]

The worst job I ever had was pumping out toilet holding tanks on rental houseboats. The first day the boss handed me a pair of pliers but wouldn't tell me anything beyond "you'll see" when I asked what they were for.

Ladies, when the sign says no sanitary napkins in the toilet....there's a damn good reason. I want to throw up just thinking about it.

[Stan4dSteph]

I have been paid to be:

- Summer intern at a civil engineering firm
- Summer intern at a manufacturing facility that made boxes for film
- Food service worker at college (known as a "Hasher")
- Research assistant on indoor air quality (grad school)
- Tutor at Score! learning center
- Environmental engineer

[Snowflake]

Lawn Mower Slave - ages 8-16
Paper Route - ages 8-12 (thanks Mom, she worked for the Mercury News and helped me get the job, first girl in the neighborhood)
Babysitter Service - ages 9-14
McD's Company Store (very restricted, but good people)
McD's Franchise in a mall (more freedom, but a lousy boss)
Maxell - making blank cassettte tapes (noisy and miserable job and it's a surprise to me how many blank cassettes actually worked after seeing how poorly they were made) 2 months (never on any resume)
Macy's Sales Assistant 1.5 years
Safeway - Courtesy Clerk then store bookeeper 5 years
Tower Records (which overlapped with Safeway for a few years until I moved to SF) 10 years total (most fun job I ever had, was classical and later fine tuned to opera buyer, opened a couple of stores and always thought the yearly inventory counting sessions to be a archaic but weirdly fun episode, especially when the counts in some rows were wildly off and the management began to really stress)
IP Law - Foreign Department Secretary was the start, where I began to learn my trade that is now a 20 year career that varied from foreign-based trademark paralegal, client practice liason and legal secretary in patent prosecution. 20 years! I thank every day my first boss, a crazy Swiss/Italian lady who was the head of the Foreign Dept. and fought to hire me, the person with absolutely no experience. By doing so, she gave me an opportunity to work at a job where I can plant my butt in any city in the US and get a job, and a decent paying one at that.

The only stuff on my resume now is the last 10 years of my career in IP law.

Okay, WB, tell us some stories!

[Prudence]

Library page
Dessert counter/espresso slave
Counter wench at Mrs. Fields, the company whose cookies I will never eat again.
Dishwasher for one day, possibly the longest in my life.
School photo assistant (best revenge ever! Oh, your student ID card photo isn't cute enough? Tough.)
"Off-campus library assistant" (In the dark ages, before most universities developed significant e-journal collections - people getting degrees at off-site locations (mostly teachers getting their required masters degrees) would fax in requests for journal articles and I would fax copies to the extension program office for them to pick up, order their ILLs, mail books to them, etc...)
Plastic widget assembler/job coach for the developmentally disabled (at a plant where they had jobs appropriate to their skills, and the rest of us filled in the other jobs as needed and helped out the "special employees", as we were supposed to call them.)
Receptionist in some kind of annoying business that now I can't even remember what it was.
Data entry for a mental health HMO office that managed the local Medicaid money.
Secretary senior/Administrative assistant/Assistant to the Chair at the nursing school.
Budget flunky (current)
LSAT tutor (also current)
Perpetual student (also also current)

Nothing particularly exciting.

[Kevy Baby]

Plastic widget assembler/job coach for the developmentally disabled (at a plant where they had jobs appropriate to their skills, and the rest of us filled in the other jobs as needed and helped out the "special employees", as we were supposed to call them.)You should swap stories with Susan. She also was a job coach. One of her former charges still calls her once in a while.

[Not Afraid]

I've had a lot of jobs.

First job - Baskin Robbins. Which led to various and sundry retail management (clothing stores, record stores).

Non Existant Gold Bullion company receptionist

Paste-up artist in Visual Design at Mattel Toys

Student

Waitress at 40 Carrots

Special Events Manager (10 years)
Marketing manager for small company which died 2 months after I started
So Cal Marketing manager for very large company
marketing manager for asshole
Pet Sitter
Marketing consultant for Pet Sitting company and small business owner.


The best stories come from pet sitting. I wish I enjoyed writing.

[Ghoulish Delight]

marketing manager for assholeHey, I know him! Which, of course, brings to mind my stint as "Bottom rung in pyramid scheme insurance agency for asshole."

[Alex]

D'oh. I left off the one people seem to consider most interesting:

Quality Assurance Technician at a Kodiak, Alaska, salmon cannery.

[blueerica]

Oh yeah, I forgot my foray into the bottom rung of a pyramid scheme health and nutrition company filled with assholes.

Of course, I got most of my money back the first time around, and apparently someone who lost more and his lawyer friend let me hitch a ride to recover most of the rest of what I as owed. Which was surprising. Most class-action suits never seem to get as much back as was lost due to lawyer fees, etc... Whatever.

[Snowflake]

I forgot, I also did time working for a movie theatre that showed only old movies (natch). How could I forget that? Ben-Hur 7 days in a row......

[Strangler Lewis]

I forgot my one paid gig as an actor in Berkeley.

Also my brief stint going door to sell tickets and raise funds for a local track meet to benefit Olympic hopefuls that apparently was not going to occur. I knew I didn't have to go back to work the next day when I watched the place being busted on the local news.

[Ghoulish Delight]

I might as well complete my short list.

Cat sitting/lawn mowing for out of town neighbors (highly lucrative)
Babysitting
Computer lab admin at a high school (actual job, not as a student)
Testing at small independent computer cert company
The pap thing
Assistant systems admin for an insurance broker
Test engineer for world wide computing services company
The insurance thing
Test engineer for large-in-our-niche server hardware manufacturer (current)

[Ponine]

Wow.... Many of you have had such incredible jobs.... things I've never heard of!

The things I've been paid to do.......


Christmas Caroler as part of a quartet nightly in front of a small gift store. (for three seasons) Who in turn hired us to deliever gift baskets to homebound folks and sing to them during the day.

**Lets just say that I was a frequently used, paid soloist, and theater performer from 1985 to 1994 when I quit.

Ran the employee cafeteria, and a popcorn wagon at the zoo.

Waitress: Bob's Big Boy, Allies.

College cafeteria breakfast slave. (I havent really liked eating eggs or pancakes since)

College bookstore slave.
Live in assitance for a disabled woman with children. Cook/clean/tutor etc
Daily assistant for visually impared woman.

Food service cast member

Entertainment cast member
Bakery Assistant / Cake decorator

School bus driver

Chocolatier : retail and manufacturing
Retail computer salesperson
Administrative assistant
Clerical Support
Payroll Tech




Not paid:

Volunteer coordinater/General event lackey - GLBT Center
Dept head - Comic con
commitee planner - Cherry Creek arts Festival
Archery instructor for children
Art instructor for children

[AllyOops!]

Let's see if I can remember..

*Holy Cross Hospital Volunteer- Radiology & Nuclear Medicine Dept. (I wanted so much to be a candy striper but you know, those outfits don't exist anymore. :( ;) )
*Disneyland Culinary Hostess Cast Member- Main Street
*Disneyland Adventureland Guest Control- The Very Merry Christmas Parade & Party Gras!
*Disneyland Main Street Guest Control - The Candlelight Ceremony & um, another daytime parade
*Disneyland Hotel Merchandise Hostess
*Model- Seventeen Magazine, Esprit & Betsy Johnson Fashion Shows
*Sunsations Tanning Salon
*Zuma Tan Tanning Salon
*Nordstroms (worst EVER! Although I loved being surrounded by all of the clothes & shoes!)
*Post Production Receptionist (BEST ever!)
*Media Co. Receptionist
*Investment & Real Estate Company (Hard Money Loans)

Now, I'm an office manager at my current job & handle all accounting. I absolutely love it! :)

[€uroMeinke]

I worked 1 day for Arthur Treachers Fish & Chips

Assembled medical kits for kidney patients - Where I learned how to shoot hypodermic needles using a syringe as a blow gun (I hope my Kidneys never give out)

Food service jobs at Knott's including bussing at the Chicken Dinner Restaurant, Scooping ice cream, and my favorite - running the popcorn cart.

Dishwalla at College

Phone Solicitor for a shady timeshare (my worst job ever)

Various "Records Management" related jobs which have included consulting, supervising a warehouse operation and an electronic imaging operation, project managment - but more interestingly it allows me to claim to work in a nuclear power plant, have had an FBI background check, and get periodic letters from the NRC detailing my radiation exposure history.

Volunteerwise - I mostly have done stuff for arts organizations, including being a founding member of a political action committee for defending public funding of the arts (NEA 4, et. al.)

[Gemini Cricket]

McDonalds cashier and cook
Clerk for the Honolulu Police Dept
Clerk for the Dept. of Transportation in Hawaii
Clerk for the Honolulu Board of Water Supply (I stayed for 2 hours)
Hired by a friend to build a house in Mammoth Mountain
Film and Video Lab Clerk at Chapman University
Video Dept Manager at the Wherehouse
Production Assistant for Sunset Gower Studios
Stock Vault Clerk for a post production house
Client Rep for the same post house
Post Production Coordinator for Dreamworks
Box Office Cashier for a movie theatre chain in Hawaii
Custom Framer
Bank teller for Bank of Hawaii
Teller for Univ of HI Credit Union
Personal Assistant at a Consulting Firm
Sales Staff Supervisor for The Monterey Bay Aquarium
Development Assistant for The Monterey Bay Aquarium
Development Assistant for St. Francis House Homeless Shelter in Boston
Development Assistant for GLAD in Boston
Staff Supervisor for a Borders Bookstore
Post Production Coordinator at current job
Post Production Supervisor at current job

I've also volunteered at 7 theatres in my lifetime and was in about 15 to 20 theatre productions.

*whew!*

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Babysitting - I had no allowance, but I had a good amount of frequent customers in the small Orthodox Jewish community of the west San Fernando Valley. It was the only upside to having no one my age in said small Orthodox Jewish community.

I helped organize a pile of books for a new Jewish day school's library.

Answered phones at a custom hot rod place. Their claim to fame was that they built the hot rod used on Tim Allen's Home Improvement. Worked there for 2 months or so - pay was a joke.

Worked two days for a shady telemarketer. Showed up on day three and they were gone without a trace. All commission, didn't make a dime.

Worked one day at a wannabe Claire's Boutique at the mall. Quit.

Discovery Zone, a now-defunct take on Chuck E Cheese (emphasis on play zones, not video games). I loved the kids, disliked the parents, was enslaved by management. Quit after 2 or 3 months, which felt like a year. They begged me to stay.

Filing insurance papers, then filing insurance papers.

Temped one summer at a pill factory, doing filing/phones.

Elementary school librarian

Clerk at public library

Not much variety, and I always knew when a job was merely transitory.

[Disneykat]

I worked at Carl's Jr....hated it
worked at Aaron Bros Art Marts. Yep I was one of those people who sold you frames at the one cent frame sale

sold pogs at MainPlace mall

was a medical assistant for yrs

a dental assistant

worked 5 yrs as a medical records tech

worked in a mammography center in Laguna Hills

became (and still am) a youth minister in the Catholic Church (I volunteered in YM for 11 yrs before taking it on full time)

[AllyOops!]

Boy, I must have a case of the memory gaps. I'm forgetting some jobs! :(
Disneyat's post about working at the Main Place Mall triggered my memory!

I also worked at:

The Record Shop (Main Place Mall)- So much fun! One day, the drummer for a known Glam band at the time came in and asked me out! His pick-up routine was actually going to get his CD, and pointing out his picture on the back cover. I cannot believe that even worked on me. :(

Music Plus (Northridge) - I did this while in college and didn't really have fun at all. However, I worked with a guy who was a drummer (what was it with drummers?) in a struggling garage glam band & we ended up dating. He had long, curly big hair, tight leather pants & those billowy pirate blouses that all of the hair banders wore at the time. Haha! I thought he was so dreamy. He looked like Kip Winger & all. :D

By the way, this was back when glam was still popular. Not, like, last week. ;) :p

Edited To Add: Does Music Plus or any of these places exist anymore? I haven't seen an actual record store in ages besides Tower Records, which was on the brink of bankruptcy a few years ago! I remember the Music Plus in Northridge became a Blockbuster music store which quickly went out of business. At Music Plus, we were located next to CSUN, so it was always an endless parade of frat boys asking to rent Faces Of Death which, hello, we didn't carry. My favorite video that we rented? Frankenhooker. :D Of course, I rented it. I suggest you do, too. It's the story of a crazed scientist who loses his girlfriend in a tragic LAWN MOWER accident. He decides to reconstruct her, but only her head is salvageable. So, in order to collect other body parts, he lures hookers into his motel room, and gives them SUPER CRACK (yes, you read right) to smoke. The crack is so powerful it causes the hookers to explode, thus giving him the needed body parts. Good golly, that movie SUCKED!

[Kevy Baby]

Does Music Plus or any of these places exist anymore? I haven't seen an actual record store in ages besides Tower Records, which was on the brink of bankruptcy a few years ago!Tower Records went out of business a few months ago. We discussed it here (http://www.loungeoftomorrow.com/LoT/showthread.php?t=4503).

Music Plus is long gone. I think The Wherehouse is the closest you can find to a "Music Store" chain remaining, but I suspect they have more sales with movies than music (or at least comparable). If you want to purchase a CD from a bricks and mortar store, Borders, B & N, and Best Buy are probably some of your better sources for a "chain" store. There are a lot of other places as well (Wal Mart, Target, etc.)

I am sure there are still a few remaining stand-alone stores, but that will vary by geographic region.

[mousepod]

*Model- Seventeen Magazine, Esprit & Betsy Johnson Fashion Shows

What Betsey Johnson shows? My life changed as a result of some Betsey Johnson shows...

[AllyOops!]

Heehee! :D

You know, I wish I could even remember. It was a long, long, long time ago. I remember the Esprit one like it was yesterday for some reason! And I modeled in that one ages before Betsy Johnson. All I remember is that it was in Los Angeles. I remember combing through the wardrobe and being so excited to be wearing the clothing, and a little nervous to wear others. :blush: However, it wasn't like a gigantic New York show or the ones you see during Fashion Week (One reason? I'm too short-I'm almost at the 5'7 mark).

I forgot that I once did a modeling assignment for Vidal Sassoon. My hair was long & almost platinum blonde, and they chopped it to my shoulders and dyed it fire engine red. People either loved it or hated it, but I loved it! I thought it was more exciting being a redhead! :)

I was offered a modeling job when I worked in Hollywood as a receptionist. I wish I would have taken it, but I was too nervous at the time! I was supposed to be covered in silver body paint, in a silver bikini, in rollerskates. I had visions of Buddy Ebson, the original Tin Man, nearly dying from silver paint. Plus, I have to be honest, modeling was not my bag. I wanted to be a writer or journalist more then anything. Plus, I was really young & a little too insecure. In my mind, I'd always be thinking, people must look at me and be like, "yeah, right". I look in the mirror and see a trillion flaws!

I wish I could remember more. However, now I'm old hag. :p

[mousepod]

Gotcha... my memories were of the NY shows.

When I get along to posting my jobs to this thread (a little too close to home now with my current job search), you'll see that I was the Music Supervisor for several Betsey fashion shows back in the day. I worked directly with the person who designed all the stuff for the runway shows - and then I married her.

[cirquelover]

I don't think I've done anything exciting but here goes...

Picking fruit when I was a teen, strawberries, blueberries and cherries(did you know snakes live in trees!! I found out the hard way!

Babysitting, teen years

Maid and front desk help

Telemarketer, I lasted two days

Bakery worker

Bowling alley- had to run everything alone

Fire watch at a mill, carried around 200ft hoses

Target

Small plastics firm making the tabletop displays and folding boards for Sears

Warehouse worker

Auditor/inventory control

Catering at many points in my life

Now I'm just a mom, wife, school teacher and any other misc title that comes my way

[Alex]

My first wife was named after Betsey Johnson.

[Kevy Baby]

Target

Does this mean you were a target - like people would shoot at you or something?!?

[Kevy Baby]

My first wife was named after Betsey Johnson.Am I the only one who mis-read this the first time and was confused (thinking he was talking about his current wife)>

[Alex]

Probably.

[Ponine]

Am I the only one who mis-read this the first time and was confused (thinking he was talking about his current wife)>

I read it right and sat here and thought... wow... I didnt know that.
Then I wondered who the heck Betsey Johnson was

[Kevy Baby]

I read it right and sat here and thought... wow... I didnt know that.
Then I wondered who the heck Betsey Johnson wasI wondered the same thing. Found this (http://www.betseyjohnson.com/). Who is that fugly thing on the opening page?!?

Probably.I gotta stop taking lunch so late - the ol' blood sugar peeks and valleys ain't good for the brain.

[Capt Jack]

I wondered the same thing. Found this (http://www.betseyjohnson.com/). Who is that fugly thing on the opening page?!?

I gotta stop taking lunch so late - the ol' blood sugar peeks and valleys ain't good for the brain.

oh good lord. I shoulda never clicked on that.

as far as the blood sugar, I just think of it as a little "Tower of Terror" for the mind.

[Alex]

That is Betsey Johnson. I wonder if, at 60+ she still does a cartwheel at at the end of shows.

My ex was named after her because of the clothes, not the looks.

[Gemini Cricket]

Oh, I just remembered a few more:

Adult Books Bookmobile Driver
Official Vomit Mopper for Lindsay Lohan
Toll Booth Operator Fluffer
Hole Punch Replacer for Official US Gov't Documents
Executive Old Magazine Supplier for Doctors' Offices
Starbucks Barista Handwriting Analyst
Used Gum Recycler - Sidewalk and Under Diner Tables Division





:D

[Capt Jack]

Oh, I just remembered a few more:

Official Vomit Mopper for Lindsay Lohan
:D

so, a lot of overtime in that job, huh?

[DreadPirateRoberts]

so, a lot of overtime in that job, huh?

and better than mopping up after the bookmobile

[Kevy Baby]

That is Betsey Johnson. I wonder if, at 60+ she still does a cartwheel at at the end of shows.Okay... not in bad shape for a 60 year-old, but kinda scary looking none-the-less.

[Mousey Girl]

That is Betsey Johnson. I wonder if, at 60+ she still does a cartwheel at at the end of shows.

My ex was named after her because of the clothes, not the looks.

She is on at least one episode of America's Next Top Model each season. She is still cartwheeling.

[cirquelover]

Does this mean you were a target - like people would shoot at you or something?!?

Sorry no, just the Target retail store.

[BarTopDancer]

Blockbuster Video - lasted 3 months. Management thought it was a good idea to have us stay till 3am cleaning then return at 7am to open.
Longs Drugs
Baskin Robbins
Target cashier (The store Kevy)
Manager/Barista at a coffee cart
Front Office Manager for the Student Activities Office at Golden West College
Assistant to the Dean of Social Sciences at GWC
Baskin Robbins Manager
Doing AP data entry for the company that runs Boomers and Raging Waters. (I don't recommend getting on any mechanical rides at Boomers). I landed that job when I completed a temp assignment that should have taken 3 months in 2 weeks.
Client Services Rep for a local search engine
Data management for the same company
Currently Tech Support for a global relocation comapany

[Ponine]

So I'm at a wedding this past weekend, and happened to remember a job I didnt post.

At the ripe age of 17 I was hired for a local music video for a band doing a cover of Pretty Woman.
I had to walk across the set with a very small dog.


In the end I think I walked across the set 40 times. And walk might not be the best way to say it.

[katiesue]

I somehow missed this before -
Hardware Store (window displays were my speciality)
Lumber Yard/Hardware Store
Alpha Beta - Courtesy Clerk
Bonsu/MacAmerica - Receptionist
Jon Douglas Real Estate - Receptionist
JC Penney Television Home Shopping - Receptionist
Activision - various ending in Assistant to the Chairman
SunAmerica - Assistant Marketing Department
HNC - Assistant
Currently - internet/healthcare company - Executive Assistant

[BarTopDancer]

Not sure how I forgot these.

Courtesy clerk at Albertsons; then I worked in the deli and bakery for awhile.
Staff at YMCA summer camp
Janitor

[Not Afraid]

I forgot all of the "pretty" jobs.

Model, commercial actress, beauty pageant queen. Yeah, I'd prefer these stay out of my resume.

[Ponine]

I forgot all of the "pretty" jobs.

Model, commercial actress, beauty pageant queen. Yeah, I'd prefer these stay out of my resume.

I frankly would too, but I know SOME people would have been wounded to not know about that one. :p

[Gn2Dlnd]

Checking into the thread tardy, which is how I lost most of these jobs...

Let's start at the very beginning:

Dishwasher/Busser: Sizzler, Food Factory, Alpiner (in the Tyler Mall May Co., job also included baking soda bread) 3 yrs :meh:

Phone solicitor 3 months :(

Disneyland Custodial Host 1 1/2 yrs :D

Golf Cart maintenance 1 yr :cool:

Stockroom at At-Ease Clothing store in Westwood 9 months :)

Clerk at Intellitoys in the Beverly Center, and Joys & Toys on Melrose 4 yrs :)

Doorman at Odyssey1 dance club, fave quote, "No readmission." 2 yrs ? :cool:

Croissant bakery slave 3 months :(

Background performer (dozens of films, mostly bad) forever :meh:

Laugher (on The Nanny) 2 seasons :rolleyes:

Clerk at All American Boy Clothing in WeHo 9 years :meh:

Clerk at VideoWest in WeHo 4 years :cool:

Harry Shearer's on-air assistant 9 years (unpaid) :cool: :D :confused: :eek: :mad:

Ran the mailroom at KCRW 1 1/2 yr :mad:

Voice-Mail Monitor for telephone dating service 2 yrs :(

Cater waiter 16 yrs :tired:

Mailroom at Provident Financial Management 3 yrs :rolleyes:

Stage Actor for occasional stipend 30 yrs :snap:

President and CEO of Spring River Farm, makers of ThinKrisps® 4 yrs :snap: :D :snap:

I must be really old.

[LSPoorEeyorick]

Cashier at McDonald's (and there's very little I'll eat there now) - through high school
Cashier at terrific deli, Zingermann's - one summer in college
Administrative Intern and Assistant Director for The Phoenix Theater, a small professional theater company - one summer in college
Education intern and theater teacher at The Shakespeare Theater of Washington DC - one summer in college
Producer/Director of university Shakespeare company - two years
Telemarketer - one month during one summer in college
Lane Bryant salesperson - two months during one summer in college
Office Professional and Technical Editor for Dow Chemical R&D department - 8 months after college
Temp in a post-production filing room - my first month in LA
Data Entry temp for a major insurance fatcat - my second through sixth moths in LA
Theatre intern and stage manager for a small educational Shakespeare company - four months
Communications Liaison for an insurance negotiation firm (on-site representative at the fatcat insurance company I worked for as a temp) - three miserable years
Freelance writer and editor for online media advertising company - five months
Production Associate, then Associate Producer for online media advertising company - eleven months
Content manager/editor/writer for online media advertising company's offshoot project - eleven months
Unpaid spec screenwriter - I've been dancing on my first one for a year. I'm hoping to finish it up this year and start another.

[CoasterMatt]

I can now say that I've been paid to beat up children (for a student film)

[Kevy Baby]

I can now say that I've been paid to beat up children (for a student film)So you are finally getting paid to do what you've already been doing all these years? :D