What jobs did you have before your current career.

[shorepatrol 1,737]

Lol cmon

[Super Cubs 132]

little bit of everything at a grocery store sack, carts, stock, clean

fruit processing clerk for a ice cream company

[penultimatestraw 473]

Dry cleaner, assembling clothes, cashier

Marketing research, in-person interviews

Stock person Toys R US
Hotel setting up banquet rooms
Waiter
Research assistant
Ran a research clinic
Consultant
Hospitalist

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

Opening and closing swimming pools

Grocery bagger

Sales associate (Brookstone)

TCBY vendor

Waiter at Cracker Barrel

Office flunky at a chiropractic office

Collection attorney

Assistant general counsel

Sales clerk (Exxon)

Adjunct professor

Restaurant manager (Waffle House)

Foreign English teacher

[Frozenbeernuts 1,652]

Worked in a warehouse assembling various electronic devices

Telemarketer

Fast food joint

Worked in college admissions office

Worked in college gym

Roofing

Grocery store as bagger, cashier then stocker overnight

Union pipefitter

[drobeski 3,061]

Shoveling at local housing authority

White Hen pantry

Apprentice electrician at textile factory eventually becoming technical supervisor of staff of 10.

Self employed electrician specializing in industrial automation but did everything.

Divorced - back to textile factory while still doing side stuff.

Back to self employed doing massive solar panel installs had a crew of 6.

Got smoked 50k by GC.

Current - electrical and instrumentation project mgr for co that makes large and small high purity OEM biotech equipment.

Itching to go work for myself again with current employees as main customer.

[nzoner 936]

70's

Cutting weeds out of bean fields

Cleaning parking lot at DQ

Dishwasher

Cook

 

'82-'88

Advertising sales rep (San Diego)

Trash hauler

Sales rep for Professional Sales Trainers(Minneapolis)

Sales manager for a local paper

 

'89 on

Opened a little deli in downtown

Mobile DJ business

Opened direct mail advertising business ('91)

Opened Pyro Joe's Fireworks ('10)

 

2017 sold direct mail advertising business

 

 

[vuduchile 1,941]

Pizza delivery

Construction

Welding

Janitor

Rebuilding motors

Hauling Hay

Pecan Farm

Clothing sales

Clothing store Brooks Brothers Mgr, DM, RM

Niketown GM

Recruiter

Recruiting/HR consulting mgr

Flipping houses

Design and Installation Mgr for Home Depot

General Contractor

Flooring Store Owner

[edjr 5,564]

Lol cmon

 

[patweisers44 697]

Paper Route

Stocked shelves then worked the Liquor Counter at a local drugstore

Bartender (my favorite job by a long shot)

Mailroom at a natural gas pipeline company

Sales/Marketing at a natural gas pipeline company

Commodities Trader

[posty 2,296]

Never had a job until I got of college and then have been a software developer the past 25 years...

[jerryskids 5,199]

Pre-college:

Paper route

Take-out pizza place (did everything, one-person shop)

Cleanup at mobile home mfg plant

 

College:

Bookbinder

Swimming pool attendant

Engineering at high voltage research lab

Summer jobs at Pocono racetrack, county engineers, water company, and semiconductor plant

 

Post-college:

Engineer at semiconductor company

Field engineer for engineering SW company (which sold to people who design IT equipment )

SW sales for same company

Laid off, tried a few things like that HR consulting/analysis stuff some of you might remember

Engineer at aerospace company

Now I'm back in sales for engineering SW

[Reality 2,710]

High School:

Wendy's

 

College:

Best Buy

Arcade w/Batting Cages & Basketball courts attendant

 

Career:

Department store Desktop/Network IT monkey - Remote (few years)

Healthcare IT (lots of years)