Comments on: Working hard for your money…

By: Julie H

Julie H — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:55:08 +0000

Babysitter
Summer Temp job at Engineering Firm (most boring)
Medical Supply Delivery (in college…lots of fun learning the back roads)
Server/Front Line @ Quincy’s Steakhouse (Hated this job)
Cashier/Team Leader @ Sports Authority
Bank Teller/Member Service Rep/Manager (for 5 years)
Avon Rep
Premier Jewlery Rep
Online Baby Clothing Entreprenuer
Church Nursery Director
Currently PT Nutrition Student (1 year to go!)
~~The hardest job but most loved—-> MOM!

By: k8

k8 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:50:20 +0000

I was a youth director with the ELCA for 10 years. It was the hardest work I’ve ever done in my life. And as you probably know, I didn’t get paid much. I’m not sorry for those years, but they left me wanting and burnt and sad in the end. I work for a surgeon now who repairs cleft lips and palates. It is wonderfully rewarding but not near as life changing as being a youth director was.

By: Sarah Flores

Sarah Flores — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:32:34 +0000

1) Worked at a sleep away summer camp all through high school (3 summers)
2) US ARMY!! (4 years)
3) Office Manager (2 years)
4) IT Manager (12 years)

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:51:59 +0000

Babysitting/Part-time nanny (12 yrs-20 yrs)
Food service at a deli/bakery (15 yrs-18yrs)
Auditorium event staff (16 yrs-22 yrs)
Math and Science Tutor (15 yrs-20 yrs)
Real estate office summer general intern (19 yrs)
Environmental Chemistry Researcher (19-22 yrs)
High school Biology and Algebra I teacher (21-22 yrs)
Graphic Designer–Self-Employed (19 yrs-present)
Admin Assistant at a foundation (22 yrs-present)

Right now I work for a University’s foundation and I am going to art school working on my degree in visual communications and graphic design. Working full-time and going to school nearly full-time is exhausting, but it’s totally worth it at the end of the day to finally know that this is what I want to do with my life. And to answer any odd looks at the list, I used to study chemical engineering and chemistry.

By: tasha roe

tasha roe — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:32:16 +0000

great list of jobs! builds lots of character.
12 - 14 babysitting for neighbors
14 - landscape crew over summer
15 - more babysitting & more landscaping over the summer
16 - 18 busser, garden center help, & tennis instructor
18 - 20 delivery driver at a florist, more garden center help & associate at the gap
21 - 22 recruiter for a headhunter & worked part time over the holidays at a toy store
had a few babies and stayed home.
24 - worked as a server at chili’s part time
had another baby and am still at home working on my bachelor’s

By: matt m.

matt m. — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:01:59 +0000

My wierdest jobs were my first and my last. My first was as a score keeper at The Hoinke Classic which is a huge bowling tournament at Western Bowl that lasted 11 months a year and was before there were automatic score keepers. I had to get up early on Saturday morning and try to stay awake while I watched mediocre bowlers trying to win a million dollars. I would burn my hand on the projector bulb to keep awake!

Between then and now I did a bunch of stuff which inluded a stint with Sportservice like Ryan where I got fired for selling beer to a 25 year old man and not carding him (long story). My current job came along when P&G was offering buyouts (paying people to quit) and we had a baby on the way so I took the money and ran. Now I am a stay at home dad for my 2 and 1 year olds. In addition I play music (adding to the strangeness) and fix cars and build furniture to make a few bucks. Who knows what my next job will be but most likely something self-employed.

By: Becky @ Farmgirl Pai

Becky @ Farmgirl Pai — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:21:19 +0000

Babysitting, walked beans, cashier at True Value Hardware, cashier at Wal-Mart, sales associate at Von Maur (department store), chiropractic assistant, temp work, dispatcher for heating and a/c, worked at Archer Daniels Midland–don’t remember title, nanny for 9 month old, mailroom Staley manufacturing, full-time student, Occupational therapy assistant…got pregnant…never worked outside the home again! Best job ever has been the one that doesn’t pay a dime. So grateful to have been able to stay at home with my girls. What a blessing:)

By: Sherri

Sherri — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:59:43 +0000

Baby sitting, selling candy to friends and neighbors, as a soda shop cook and bar hop, waitressing, bartending, as a switchboard operator (tells you how old I really am, right?), as a data entry clerk, as a admin. assistant, catering, as an engineering associate, as a supervisor of linemen at a power company, as a contract management person at the same power company, maybe the one that serves you guys!

By: FerociousFluffy

FerociousFluffy — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:57:00 +0000

I started out by having some stands that sold crafts and/or rocks LOL. When I was 14 I went to work for the Christmas tree farm in town. My jobs was to go at these tree’s with a machete and shape them into perfect triangle Christmas trees. I was all of 98 pounds with a huge machete.
After that I mowed lawns for my dad and answered phones at his business. I also worked at the concession stand of the movie theater in our rural town.
When I turned 18, I started working for the community mental health center in town, teaching emotionally disturbed kids life skills.
While I was in college, I worked at a battered woman’s shelter, in the daycare. I worked with people who were homeless or about to be homeless to help them get back on their feet (paid in stipend)
I also worked as the resource and referral person for the state’s subsidized daycare program. I was the office manager for the BSU student newspaper for a year and also worked as a psych. tech. at the local hospital that year. After graduating I have worked in home health, with the elderly, in an inpatient psychiatric facility and with the police doing crisis intervention. Whew. Makes me tired just thinking about.

By: Liz C

Liz C — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:00:26 +0000

Babysitting.

Walgreens. (3 years)

Tele-marketing (2 months)

Waitress at a diner (2 months)

Night supervisor at Blimpie (1 year i think?)

Bank-teller (six months)

Pier 1 (3 months)

McAlisters Deli (6 months - great job)

Typist (temp agency job) (3 months)

Subway (1.5 months)

Church secretary (one year)

Barista at The Midnight Rooster in Hartsville, SC (1.5 years)

Barista at 13th St. Coffee Co. (2 years)

Coffee Buyer for Whole Foods Market Omaha (1 year)

Assistant Specialty Team Leader (2 years)

THEN I QUIT WORKING FOR FOUR WHOLE MONTHS OR ELSE I WAS GOING TO LOSE MY MIND. (and I took a three-week trip to Philadelphia, NYC, and Montreal at the end of it)

Then I finally started college for the first time ever, as a full-time student at the ripe ol’ age of 28. Then…

Barista at Caffe Driade (1 year)

Regular Team Member at Whole Foods Market Chapel Hill (1 year)

I left some stuff out, and a few of those jobs I had at the same time as other ones.

Right now I’m trying to keep a decent outlook about school so that I realize the whole point is so I can get out of retail and actually accomplish something.

By: Pam P

Pam P — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:41:50 +0000

hippies and Christians don’t mix…hmmm, I really had never considered that lol

By: Martha

Martha — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:41:30 +0000

I worked as a beer wench for the Texas Rennaisance Festival. As a christian, it was really awkward as most people there were hippies. But it was by far the coolest job ever. Where else can a 16 year old hike up her boobs practically tossing them out and say, “Gday my handsome lad, you look like the mouth is parch. I have just thy item to wet thou whistle and make ye quiver.” Okay now that I wrote that, what was my mother thinking???

By: Heaven Gregg

Heaven Gregg — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:47:46 +0000

I started babysitting when I was ten. I look at ten year olds now and can’t believe people let me do that when I was so young! I babysat until I was 16 when I started working at my grandmother’s store-Riley’s General Store and Deli. I worked in the deli; ran the cash register; made lattes; scooped icecream; ordered all the beer, wine and juices; and helped with scheduling all over the course of 6 years. I always had a job there when I came home for Christmas and summer breaks from college. While I was in college I earned some extra money by calling alumni and parents of students to fund raise. It was awesome (NOT) to call recent grads who detailed how much they owed in student loans and why they couldn’t donate anything or talk to parents who were forking out 20 grand a year for their kids school and ask them to donate more. When I was 22 I worked for a local retail clothing store and became the asst. mgr. At 23 I got my first (and so far last) waitressing/catering job. At the same time I worked for a coffee shop slinging espresso and for a local clothing/shoe store. The next year I became the retail manager for a little store on the beach and did that for a year and half until I got tired of the general manager and his misogynistic attitude and quit because I was sure I would be able to find another job just like that. I didn’t. 3 months later, at 26, I got a job at a home care agency in the office and after 6 months became the home care supervisor. At that time I knew I hated my job and wanted to work somewhere else. I was there for another 5 years until I got hired at my current job which I love! I’ve been there over 3 years and I am very happy, it is such a blessing to do something I like, with co-workers I like and a wonderful, wonderful boss. I know God had me in that job I hated in order to prepare me for a job I love.

By: Brooke Elizabeth

Brooke Elizabeth — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:16:56 +0000

Not nearly as much as you but to list them:
1) veterinary assistant
2) babysitter
3) laborer in a an above ground mine…I shoveled lots of rock
4) cashier at a grocery store
5) intern at an Olympic Speed Skating Rink
6) event coordinator for two major venues
7) sales person for a radio station
claims adjuster for an auto insurance company

whew I think thats it.

By: Pam P

Pam P — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:38:15 +0000

ahhh…the list. I have grown to hate the list, but at the same time I did figure out what I was supposed to do with my life (at least for now lol)
Renaissance Woman

1. Babysitter

2. Summer Camp Counselor

3. Resort Housekeeping

4. Director of Summer Camp Counselors

5. Pizza Maker

6. Thrift Shop salesperson

7. Restaurant Hostess

8. Hair Salon Front Desk manager

9. Cocktail Waitress

10. Different Hair Salon Front Desk manager

11. Bartender

12. Operator/Order taker for a national gun/ammunition catalog (I wore a headset)

13. Customer Service rep for a national gun/ammunition catalog

14. Bartender

15. Senior Buyer of Remington & Winchester ammunition for a national gun/ammunition catalog

(They discovered I had a brain and was subsequently promoted to my own office with a door within 3 weeks of being hired. Week one: $5/hour. Week 2: $8/hour. Week 3: $40k per year with benefits.)

16. Temp Data Entry for a hospital

17. Waitress

18. Customer Service rep for an ambulance company

19. Bartender

20. Summer Camp Drama Instructor

21. Drama Instructor for Boys & Girls Club

22. Regional trainer for Boys & Girls Club

23. Summer Camp Director

24. Waitress

25. Front of House Restaurant Manager

26. Marketing & Promotions director for Summer Theatre

27. Different Restaurant Waitress

28. Front of House Restaurant Manager

29. Catering Sales Manager

30. Catering Director

31. Retail Sales & Service Director

32. General Manager