What in the world have you done?!

[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.