Can you list all the jobs you've had?

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I was going to write a long book of a post giving my job history, but here's the short version.

Dishwasher [twice]
Tree nursery worker
Worked at Subway [very briefly.]
Poultry plant worker [ditto]
office worker at a church
telemarketer
door to door salesperson
tutor for elementary school kids
convenience store clerk
security guard [briefest job of all!]


Worked at the Post Office [ seven years, longest job to date, and most spectrum friendly depending on the job.]
Bookseller at Borders
customer service rep for a teleconferencing company
data entry clerk in health care
accounting clerk/bookkeeper
tax accountant at major accounting firm [did not work out!]

Best jobs were the Post Office [at times] and the data entry clerk job. I did okay at the bookseller job but hated working the register. The Post Office had difficult hours and it was obvious even 9-10 years ago that they were not going to be around long enough for me to get to retirement.

Most of the other jobs I worked generally a few days-few weeks, sometimes a few months. A couple of them I quit after the first day. Unfortunately over the past nine years I have not held a job for longer than a year, and have been unemployed for the last 26 months.

My list is puny xD

17 mo KFC
8 yr babysit
6 mo volunteer

My first paid gig was when I was about 12 or so.
There was a market in town, and in one of the stalls a guy was selling Rubik's cubes. The ones he had were really good - real quality build. So smooth... I asked if I could have one for free if I could solve it in less than a minute, but he said no. In stead, he said that if I could consistently solve it in less than two minutes, he would hire me for three days.
So I was paid 50 NOK per hour to just sit there until someone would say that "that's impossible. Nobody can do that.", and then he'd say "If this kid can do it in two minutes, will you buy one?".
So my first job ever was to demonstrate that Rubik's Cube wasn't impossible to solve.

Since then I've done too many things to list all of them.
Some:
Sound engineer, lights engineer, stage hand, service engineer on ships and now technical instructor for ship crews.

15 - 18 Book sorter and general shop grunt at a friend of the family's used book shop
18 - 19 Grounds crew at my college (working the trash truck, pulling weeds, digging holes)
19 - 24 Assorted theater crew work (stage management, lighting, sets etc)
22 - 30 Film projectionist (Started as an assistant, ended up supervising 3 multiplexes)
30 - 40 Motion control camera operator (Shooting video of stills for TV documentaries)
37 - 38 Commercial Photographer (Shooting for books and magazines)
40 - 46 (Present) Motion Graphics designer and animator (Lots of computer work some photography)

Worked in a park - summer youth program
lumber mill - delivered lumber
Carpenter - built a couple of houses
Saw mill - stacked lumber
Grocery store - cleaned the store, packed grocery bags
Construction - made concrete barriers
construction in a state park - PCC crew
RAX - sandwich restaurant
Construction - built more houses
Grocery store - stocked shelves at night - went to college days
Construction Manufacturing - made replacement windows
Drilling rig roughneck
Construction - tower crew
Construction - steel buildings
Construction - water filtering project
Construction - built Walmart Distribution Center ( DC )
Walmart - 3rd person hired, first person fired in the DC
Construction - built more steel buildings
Construction - built transmitter buildings for 911 transmitters
Beer Distributor - delivered beer
Beer Distributor - Fleet Manager
Manufacturing - built PM compaction presses
Beer Distributor - Fleet Manager until it burned down.
Heat Treater - laborer
Powder Metals - ran compaction presses, sizers, molders, ovens
Construction - built cement building for Plywood factory
Construction - poured concrete foundations
Construction - built buildings
Coal mine - Tipple Foreman
Greenhouse - laborer
Junkyard - laborer
Machine shop - Machinist
Machine Shop - Machinist
Machine Shop - Machinist
Field Service Technician - replaced electric meters - did One Call - gas / water etc.
Laborer Crew - Flood Control Project
Machine shop - Machinist
Machine Shop - Machinist
Tire Shop - laborer
Automotive - Race Team Owner
Laborer - Pine Tree Plantation
Carpenter - built Lowes stores
Carpenter - Clarion U of PA
Machine Shop - Machinist
Carpenter - built mansions
Tower Crew - built Cell towers
Electronics - built motor drives - Siemens
Construction crew - remodeled Lowes Stores
Machine Shop - made grenade launchers
Laborer - Cemetery - cut grass, dug graves
Probably a bunch more that I have either forgot or repressed so deep back in my mind I won't remember until I drive past it and remember working there.

Age 16- Babysitting
Age 16 - The Buzz (coffehouse)
Age 18 - Cutco (sold knives)
Age 21 - Dishroom at my college
Age 21 - Internship with Public Works - updated addresses on a map
Age 22 - Direct care for two adolescent boys with autism
Age 23- Direct care in a facility for adults with developmental delays
Age 24-27 - Direct care for teenage girls in a Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility.
Age 26-27- Internship at community mental health center - doing intake assessments, psych testing, and therapy
Age 27- Job from internship - intake assessments
Age 28 - Case manager in child welfare

10 jobs in over 10 years, including adolescence.

ah! somebody else who sold cutco knives. i suspect you were a lot more successful than i was, i couldn't sell a single box to anybody including my own family who told me how stupid i was to even try selling knives. i ended up even poorer afterwards. that was my last stop before the army. it's damned hard to make a living.

Babysitter
Tutor
Clothing store "meet & greeter" - never again; they propped me up on heels and paid me to wander mindlessly through the store
Bookstore clerk
Coffee & Tea wholesaler / barista - currently

-KFC
-Electronics Retail Store.
-Grocery Deli
-Home Improvement store.
-Oil-well company making screens for oil (temp work)/when laid off I went across the street and did secretarial work in the office (temp also).
-Appliance installs.
-Carpenter for ..
*Nuclear Plant (fun stuff when your standing on top of a nuclear cooling tower with water running down them)...
*Intel (computer chips)
*Highway Work.
*A job for Army Core Engineers.
*High Rise Condo's.

And some more temp jobs. I'm probably in the middle of a transition again at the moment.

Cook, then "Dining room" at a McDonald's for 3 months - sacked for being too slow
Checkout slave for a Coles supermarket for 4 years - quit because shifts were being cut because I was way too expensive (why pay me $15 when they could pay a 15-year-old $8)
Night sorter at Australia Post for 3 months - hopefully, they will extend my contract, but was 2 letters/minute below KPIs at 9 month review (but I had a crappy week that week), so I might see if I can negotiate getting into a different role.

File Clerk at Sylvan during highschool (2 yrs)
Undergraduate Researcher during College (2 yrs)
Courtesy Clerk at Safeway (7 months so far)
Volunteer Intern in a lab at the local medical school (almost 2 months so far)

My lab work has not been paid but it was for the experience. Most lab work within colleges under the PhD level is not paid.

Its quite interesting that so many people here have had jobs that require social skills. For my job at Safeway which I suck at, I would've had my ass fired if it hadn't been for a job coach. And my position is not even that socially demanding.

I see a pattern here..... to which I fit a bit...

Let's see... starting in the early 90s... smaller companies I'll just list the job title/industry...

Also, 10 years worth of going to college is shoved in between several of these jobs.

Stop-N-Go cashier (bought out later by Diamond Shamrock)
PC Tech at a local community college
Taco Bell
Whataburger
Taco Bell #2 (each taco bell was quit/new hire at new location not a transfer)
Taco Bell #3
Taco Bell #4
PC "Depot" Tech (warranty repair center for dell/hp/ibm/toshiba)
Taco Bell #5
Bank Mailroom
Credit Profile Maintenance Specialist @ one of the 3 big credit agencies (basically data entry).
Marketing Trainee @ central office for one of the nation's largest supermarket parent companies.
Inventory Control @ multi-million sq foot warehouse. My job was to make space for incoming freight with 99% full capacity.
Parking rental cars @ the airport
Freight Billing for Central Freight
Assembly line @ Compaq
Chevron cashier.
Freight Billing for Central Freight
Substitute Teacher
Inbound call center ProFlowers (seasonal)
Substitute Teacher
Spanish Teacher / TAKS Assistant / Substitute @ a different district
Retail picture framing sales/production
T-Mobile Tier 2 PDA Tech Support
Retail picture framing management

Most of these I quit. I was fired from my first job @ Stop-N-Go, a few assignments simply ran out of work, a couple I lost due to conflicts with the employment agency and clients when I was working through temp agencies.

My last job I was fired after an upper management change, for a reason that they had no evidence of so I am for the FIRST TIME collecting unemployment...

Looking for new work currently. Honestly I would get back into computers, but I "don't have enough experience" despite being an very strong enthusiast and having had a number of jobs working with computers. I probably should have studied computers in college instead of liberal arts. I think I would have been much more successful.