I Confess Here's What I've Done!

[Mr. BAW]

In the past, I've been connected to the following jobs! No explanations or apologies!!!

Liquor store box boy
Car wash -worked 1 month, too wet for me!
Early A.M. delivery for L.A. Times
Police officer
Night-time auditor for Days' Inn hotel - lasted 6 hours (take this job and shove it!)
Truck driver - local deliveries
Private security for upscale Marina Del Rey apartment complex
Private investigator



How about you????

 

[U2zoogirl]

You've been in a lot of jobs.... like homer simpson

Private investigator?? How is that like??

 

[BAW]

From my first job up until today:

Telemarketer
Door to door perfume sales
Babysitter
Receptionist for a private investigator
Office Manager for a private investigator
Secretary to a tax preparer
Assistant to 2 incredibly anal real estate brokers
Small business owner

 

[Mr. BAW]

You've been in a lot of jobs.... like homer simpson

Private investigator?? How is that like??

(Answers U2Zoogirl while hiding behind bushes) - its not what you think! I do defense work - I defend the big muckety mucks, their insurance carriers and policyholders...

I stay away from that private stealth type of case where it involves divorce and cheating - or "finding a lost love" because those persons routinely can't afford to pay the bill!

People call and ask if I would "follow my spouse, I think he/she is cheating! I usually remind them that if they think they're cheating, they probably are and for them to save their money for an attorney...other than that, it pays the bills rather nicely!

I met BAW at a PI firm where she was actually MY BOSS! ha! ha! ha! Now, I'm HER BOSS!!!

so how about you???? what have you done?

 

[~LadyLemon~]

Heh.

*First job was at Pizza Hut--worked there for four months until I developed an extremely serious case of mono and never went back when I finally recovered the next year

*I worked at my uncle's upholstering shop the summer before going to college

*All five years at college I worked at my campus library

*Summer break after frosh year of college I worked at a photo store for a month and a half until I got really drunk at a party, broke my ankle, then had to have numerous surgeries on it (screws put in, etc.)

*1st job after college--I was an advertising sales rep at a local newspaper until the place suddenly shut down

Jesus, most of my jobs have ended disastrously....

 

[Mr. BAW]

Heh.

*First job was at Pizza Hut--worked there for four months until I developed an extremely serious case of mono and never went back when I finally recovered the next year

...

One of my Pizza Restaurant cases (no names please!) was a girl who thought she could extricate a piece of cheese from the automatic grater...stuck in her hand and came out with three fewer fingers! Ouch!

She won a partial settlement due to no training! despite the fact that there were labels all over that unit! NO PUT 'A YOU FINGERS IN DER!!!!

Its true, its damn true!!!

 

[~LadyLemon~]

Oh wow, that's nasty

 

[Mr. BAW]

In the past, I've been connected to the following jobs! No explanations or apologies!!!

Liquor store box boy
Car wash -worked 1 month, too wet for me!
Early A.M. delivery for L.A. Times
Police officer
Night-time auditor for Days' Inn hotel - lasted 6 hours (take this job and shove it!)
Truck driver - local deliveries
Private security for upscale Marina Del Rey apartment complex
Private investigator



How about you????

In all the excitement, I've forgotten about two summer jobs which I was admittedly (underage) between my jr. and sr. years in high school!

Insert after liquor store box boy- Summer of '67 -assembler at mobile home manufacturer (went wild with staple gun 'cause that's all that hold those things together!)

Insert (Summer of '68) Forklift operator at steel plant -

Multi-talented, multi-occupational.....!!!

And I still haven't found what I'm looking for!!!

 

[~LadyLemon~]

Mr. BAW you've left out that stint of being a male escort!

 

[Mr. BAW]

Mr. BAW you've left out that stint of being a male escort!

 

[LarryMullen's POPAngel]

OK, let's see...

- Dog washer at a dog groomer's summer before my senior year of high school, which lasted all of three weeks because the woman was a royal bitch and wouldn't let me know when I was scheduled until a few hours before

- Cashier at a large retail drug store, right after high school which lasted about 8 months

- Cashier at the service counter of a grocery store for a year, before I decided I needed to "get serious" and start making more $$

- Hallmark for a summer, right after leaving the grocery store - guess I wasn't as serious as originally thought

- Document processor (i.e; paper-pusher), my first go-round with the company that I'm currently at now, 8 months

- Temped for 3 years, got loads of good office experience

- Administrator at a marketing company, was there 7 months before I so famously was "laid-off"

 

[Doozer61]

Ice cream scooper
Insurance Office Receptionist
Insurance Office Manager
Insurance Solicitor
Clerk Typist - Health Department, Lead Program
Clerk Typist - Health Department, Water Program
Public Health Associate -Health Department

Ask Mr BAW how many places he has lived....

 

[Mr. BAW]

Ask Mr BAW how many places he has lived....

That's another confession for another place and time....see, I'm moving again!!!

 

[ABEL]

i'm 34 years old and i've only had two jobs!

-graphic designer/ad layout for phone books (2 years)
-graphic designer/typesetter (10 years)

 

[bluephisto]

1. Babysitter. I incited the children to do awful things like "burning crayons time" and "the jumping contest". Lol.

2. Waitress - got fired.

3. Pizza Maker - quit on a whim

4. Wal*mart cashier. LMFAO. I WOULDN'T do the f*cking walmart cheer and thought all the happy faces were a bit fucking creepy so they stuck me out in the clearance center at the dead end of the mall with all the other shit they couldn't get rid of. HA. I used to play in wheelchairs and flirt with the security guards.

5. Sales clerk at a fancy dress shop. The boss hated me and I have NO clue why. Quit before I was fired.

6. Waitress in a POSH french place. Came down with Mono and was FIRED for it. Whaaaa? Assholes.

7. Waitress in a coffee shop downtown where all the bankers came to chain smoke. The air was BLUE, and a homeless guy asked me to marry him every single day. *sigh*

7a) (too lazy to change all the numbers) Worked in a department store. ALL i did ALL day was put away clothes. No talking. Just hanging. Hanging hanging hanging. BORING.

8. Waitress in a nicer restaurant. Eventually got to manage the place. They trusted me there. LMAO.

9. Babysitter again. No crayon burning.

10. Waitress - fired for NO fucking good reason either. *grumble* I was so mad I threw my shoes.

11. Receptionist at a spa. It was owned by a husband and wife team, the wife thought her husband had a crush on me and fired me when I got seriously ill. What a NICE woman. *SIGH*

12. Dog walker. So far my favorite job. Puppies are much better than people.

13. Store Clerk. - where I am today. It's not bad but I need mo' money.

 

[MrBrau1]

Cashier at small market.
Pizza delivery boy for Dominos.
Unloaded trucks at mall.
Carpenter's Assistant.
Ninja.
Marketing Asistant for Marketing Company.
Associate Manager for Publishing Company.
Product Manager for Publishing Company.

 

[Bonochick]

Baby-sitter
Shoe store clerk
Dollar store clerk
Womens clothing store clerk
Hotel maid
Computer lab assistant
Student computer technician
7-Eleven clerk
Insurance agent

Now I'm back to doing the womens clothing thing...but still searching for something full-time and of more interest to me.

 

[nbcrusader]

Baby sitter
Grocery Store Clerk
Computer Store Sales Assistant
Law Clerk
Attorney
In-House Counsel

 

[zoney!]

Is the confession "I've had too many jobs"?

for being as young as I am............

Lawn Maintenance specialist
Paper delivery expert
Factory piece-mail assembler
Pharmacy cashier/stock boy
Retail sales person (two different stores for same large chain)
Express Mail Clerk (for a large NY Wall Street Firm)
Political Campaign volunteer
Night Security fella (Residence Hall)
Telemarketing Fundraiser (lasted a week)
Resident Assistant (a.k.a. RA)
Newspaper Reporter/Editor (This makes me an expert on EVERYTHING)
Freelance reporter/photographer
Wait staff assistant (Buca Di Beppo)
Event staff line chef (Buca Di Beppo)
Marketing and Promotions Clerk/Coordinator/Manager (three different companies)
Public Relations Coordinator
Sports Announcer/Score keeper (HS and college games)
Mascot/costume charachter actor
Head Coach - boys lacrosse (HS)
Head Coach - mens lacrosse (college club)
PT Arena Ticket Sales (Go Wild!)
PT Ticket taker (go Illini)
Airline Ramp Agent/Coordinator
Customer Service Manager
Son
Brother
Friend!

I am virtually unhirable!

 

[meegannie]

baby-sitter
Burger King (ONE day of training then I quit because it was so awful and I was offered a temping job )
customer service/gift registry/receptionist person in a jewelry/retail store
general filing, data entry, and whatever else I was told to do for a mortgage company
temp. receptionist at a few places
KY Commission on Women internship
US Senate internship
US House internship
Staff assistant for a Member of Congress
-then legislative correspondent
-then legislative assistant

This is why I'm not qualified to do any real work and nowhere will hire me now.

 

[Salome]

accountant

 

[Salome]

well, I did some summer jobs delivering newspapers
and working in a bakery

that was even more boring than accountancy though

 

[LarryMullen's POPAngel]

I forgot to add Pizza Maker, senior year of high school.


It was truly horrible, so I must have blocked it out.

 

[Bonochick]

Re: Is the confession "I've had too many jobs"?

Mascot/costume charachter actor

I wanna see pictures!!!!

 

[Mr. BAW]

Re: Is the confession "I've had too many jobs"?

for being as young as I am............

Political Campaign volunteer
Wait staff assistant (Buca Di Beppo)
Event staff line chef (Buca Di Beppo)
Mascot/costume charachter actor
Friend!




#1 - What party and did you candidate win?
#2 - I'll take a Lemon Chicken, Caesar saled with extra anchovies and a tall house Chianti
#3 - Same
#4 - Name that character and yes, we all want pics (promising not to laugh!)
#5 - Whose????






Be my friend zoney!

 

[Mr. BAW]

4. Wal*mart cashier. LMFAO. I WOULDN'T do the f*cking walmart cheer and thought all the happy faces were a bit fucking creepy so they stuck me out in the clearance center at the dead end of the mall with all the other shit they couldn't get rid of. HA. I used to play in wheelchairs and flirt with the security guards.

There had to be wheelchair races! And I know security had to be involved in that as well!!

 

[zoney!]

Re: Re: Is the confession "I've had too many jobs"?

#1 - What party and did you candidate win?

I have volunteered for candidates in both parties! The three campaigns I put the MOST time into (my dad, a president and a mayor that is now a Senator) won their election when I volunteered.

#2 - I'll take a Lemon Chicken, Caesar saled with extra anchovies and a tall house Chianti
#3 - Same

I worked at the restaurant when there were only two locations, and it was just called "Buca" - I will ALWAYS love the place. Have you ever had their Chicken Saltimboca? take the lemon chicken, add melted prscuitto and artichoke hearts!

#4 - Name that character and yes, we all want pics (promising not to laugh!)

hmmm, I wonder if I can remember my full resume:
Tommy the Tomcat (College mascot

)
Butthead (Beavis and Butthead)
Stimpy (Ren and Stimpy)
Barney Rubble
Tom (Tom and Jerry...I made my sister play Jerry)
Sonic the Hedgehog
Johnny Bravo
Cowerdly Lion (Wizard of Oz)
Bugs Bunny
I know I am forgetting at least one more. I also had the honor
coordinating a visit from Mickey and Minnie and being an "escort" for a handful of other charachters (Powerpuff Girls, etc.) that I couldn't fit into. There are PLENTY of pictures out there...but you would NEVER know it was me

#5 - Whose???????????

Not anyone around here!!!

 

[beli]

1. Telex Operator (what a well inspired career path that was )
2. Blueprint Tracer (ditto previous comment)
3. Fulltime manual cheeseslicer at a Mexican resturant (cut the cheese with a piece of wire )
4. Assistant to a Tax Agent ie my Mum
5. Facilitator of an Amnesty International group.
6. Dole Blugging Bum or as we preferred to be called a "Government Sponsored Camping Team"
7. In tandum with 6. above, Protestor eg Free Nelson Mandela, Stop the Bloody Whaling, Save the Malaysian Rainforests, No Nukes, etc, etc.
8. Database operator ? processed donations for Oxfam on an XT
9. Teaching CADD people how to use accounting software
10. Sales assistant in a jeans store. Had to demonstrate hypercolour tshirts by pointing a hairdryer at ?em AND screaming, in an enticing manner, over the hairdryer noise to the passing shopping centre 'clientele'. (hyper colour t shirts = comment 1)
11. Hostess at an African restaurant
12. Office Coordinator/Volunteer Coordinator at Oxfam
13. Administrative Assistant ? General Safety & Gene Technology Safety
14. Insurance Officer
15. Ballot counter at various elections.
16. Administrative Assistant - Radiation Safety & Fire Safety (It is prolly more gramatically correct to write 'Radiation & Fire Safety' but I thought that looked kind of creepy )

And yes, how did I get from a peace, love, save the planet youngster to a woman living in the suburbs with a husband, 1.5 children, a Ford Falcon and a job dealing with radioactive substances?

 

[JessicaAnn]

Hallmark card stocker
Temp Agency--various clerical assignments
Office Assistant for Marquette's Social & Cultural Sciences Dept.
Insurance Company (Corporate Communications Intern, Corporate Projects Coordinator)
Professional Medical Association (Public Relations Specialist, Public Relations Manager)
Account executive at a Public Relatiosn Agency

 

[Angela Harlem]

Um. I am ashamed, but somewhat relieved I am not the only one with a colourful work history:

*during school, crappy retail jobs (up to 3 at a time at one point)
*left school early to become a hairdresser (realised I was making the biggest mistake of my life before too long and went back to finish school)
*finished school and went into the lucrative and completely plastic world of advertising, studying and picking up industry experience (see: hairdressing, quit before making another huge mistake)
*after thinking there had to be something better out there, I went into welfare. Years spent in a wonderful job at Barnardos working with kids with moderate intellectual disabilities.
*eventual management change pushed me into institutionalised care I would not wish this on my worst enemy. Finally the govt realised the same and shut it down.
*worked in woolies, while feeling totally directionless, correction being totally directionless
*data analyst in an Intl market research job through a friend and I spent what I never realised at the time were probably the best working days of my life.
*quit full time work and temped for 2 years. WHY DID I QUIT AC NIELSEN AGAIN?????
*quit temping and thought I'd try AC N's biggest Aussie competitor, Ha. Long story in this one, but turned out to be a big mistake again. Finally quit to have a baby and am now....waiting for the freeze to be lifted on a new job as a correctional services officer. In the interim I am hopefully going to work in the CBA doing either debt consolidation or loan processing. Not sure which yet.