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Q: What jobs have you had?
The topic came up yesterday and I'm sure there's some interesting ones to read about.
If you're game, share.
lots of 'em
one of the best was when my buddy and I ran a little boat cleaning/repair service down at a port city in South Texas. we are talking private recreational craft here, focusing on in-water hull cleaning and whatever basic mechanical maintenance was needed, prop replacement, rudder repair, hull repair, all the things that they needed/wanted done but were pissed about paying high-dollar to pull their vessel out of the water for we would do in-water.
fun in the sun, decent $ too...
Why me? I'm watching teli whole day....
My first job was to repair blocked septic tanks. This involved a lot of digging by hand and wading through human shit all day. It was a crap job and i only lasted a month.
Coincidentally, my girlfriend broke up with me around the same time.
Stiggs:
Did she break up with you because you were taking your work home with you?
;-)iWolf:
She said it was her, not me but i stunk of shit 24/7. What a shallow bitch. P.S. she's really fat now with five kids from 4 different fathers. :-)
icnif77:
I up-voted your discussion. I hope, I won't smell sewage whole day....
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Timber yard labourer
lottery ticket seller
bar man
QC inspector
assembly worker making slot machines
I've had hand ones and blow ones but never had a hard one. 
High School--worked in a pharmacy. It was a running joke in my class that I sold drugs for minimum wage. Looking back, I think it was too much responsibility for a 16 year old on her first job (when I screwed up, pharmacists told me that I could have killed someone), but I learned a LOT about the way the medical system, big pharma, the law, and drug combinations work.
Uni--whatever fed me. The American uni system is unbelievably expensive. I gophered for professors. I tutored Latin for 50 bucks an hour--not bad for a language everyone says will earn you no cash. Waitressing and bar tending is still the highest-grossing income I have to date. I love the American tipped service system...we should never change it.
Post uni--marketing research, with an emphasis on popular reactions to different sound combinations in brand-names. Of course, waitressing and bar tending on the side paid more than the job I got with my pricy uni degree. So, I decided to put my uni degree to work, move to china, and learn the language. I I would rather work for restaurants in the US again than another Chinese employer...shallow,greedy, honorless, inept morons. This country deserves to have an esl market overrun by lazy white clowns who don't even know what a phoneme is. Qualified people who tolerate Chinese employers are maschosists.
lots of 'em
one of the best was when my buddy and I ran a little boat cleaning/repair service down at a port city in South Texas. we are talking private recreational craft here, focusing on in-water hull cleaning and whatever basic mechanical maintenance was needed, prop replacement, rudder repair, hull repair, all the things that they needed/wanted done but were pissed about paying high-dollar to pull their vessel out of the water for we would do in-water.
fun in the sun, decent $ too...
I dropped out of University after one month and I was working at Burger King at the time. Later, I upgraded to delivering pizzas. My first desk job was tech support for a phone service carrier. After I was fired, I started my own computer consulting firm (this was back when Windows was only version 3.0 ) When it failed, I started a house painting business with my friends. We earned enough money to start a software firm and earned big money during the year 2000 "crisis". I worked for Ford Motor Company as a millwright. I quit that job after 12 years to open the design firm, designing smarthomes and media rooms with a friend. This was my true love. Thanks for giving me a chance to stroll down memory lane.
Worked in a second-hand (thrift) store. Did stock at K-mart. 3 years working at the local amusement park. Pizza Hut cook. Percussion Instructor. English language tutor. Actor. United States Military. Then I came to PRC
Great post! Here are the jobs I've had in China:
- Firework Explosion Victim Test Dummy
- Smog Test Dummy
- NSA Test Dummy
- Anti-Foreigner Test Dummy
- CIA Test Dummy
- Test Dummy for Taxi Drivers
- MSS Test Dummy
- Rectal Prolapse Test Dummy
- Oral Prolapse Test Dummy
- Human Experimentation Subject
- Paranoid Schizophrenic
I've, as they say, been around. Failed businesses brought me to China and into the happiest marriage I could ever have imagined.
As for jobs, in roughly chronological order... supermarket, sales, nursing - all areas, but mainly theatre, mental, military. For 3 years I was the post mortem go-to-guy at my country hospital. I can tell you, I've cut up more than my fair share of stiffs. In the end it was my mate's suicide that told me to hang up that particular gig. His PM was the last one I ever did.
When I was in my mid 20s I used to do a song and dance routine in restaurants dressed only in an overcoat and red panties with a rose between my teeth for Hen's nights.
There's been bar work in amongst it too. Used to have responsibility for my own bar in a big club and on those nights I used to get really pissed. When all the lights used to go out during the nightly Ode it was possible to get about 10 nips and a schooner down the hatch in the darkness. That wouldn't be possible nowadays, what with all the electronic poker machines that can't be turned off.
Ahh yes...the old days...here's to em!
