Can you list all the jobs you've had?

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Grey literature scanner/general office worker for US Embassy Brussels
Library then Tech Help Desk at college
Lots of restaurant and cashiering jobs

Someone has to hire me as a baker soon or I'll go nuts.

A stockboy at a grocery store.
A farmhand (mostly throwing hay)

Construction jobs Iv done - Stainless steel siding, framing, piledriving, and deck sub-framing

Currently manufacturing and repairing furniture for a warehouse.

Ive loved each job Iv had

January 2008-November 2008: Car wash attendant
I was constantly sick while I had this job, but fortunately I got another job before they hired a new full-time caretaker and the previous full-time caretaker moved into my position.

September 2008-current: Professional crew
In other words, I set up and break down sets and stages for concerts and festivals. I haven't had any shifts for a while, but not for lack of offers. It's just the shifts I've been offered haven't been convenient.

October 2009-current: Console operator
In other words, I'm behind the counter at a petrol station. This is my "main" job that I'm using to support myself as I'm progressing through university.

Lifeguard 3 summers
Head Lifeguard (Managed 2 outdoor parks)
Short-order cook in a bagel shop
Waitressing
Expediter at Applebee's
Promoted to Fry/Expo Trainer
Garde manger (cold station) at fancy but little restaurant
Day Manager of small deli/grocery store
Home contracting assistant
Self-employed home improvement contractor
1 month! as a canvasser for Kerry Presidential campaign. (I sucked royally at this)
Floral, and then Produce Team member for Whole Foods
Apprentice Cabinetmaker/woodworker
Value Added Tax auditor, Audit Manager (This was my longest job- 4years)
Some things about this job were perfect for me. Lived in an everchanging hotel room, booked all my own travel, paperwork is pretty soothing to me, didn't have to be chummy with anyone, limited social interaction.
Assistant caretaker at a spiritual retreat center
Made money doing random fix-it chores for people/friends (this is when I was pretty much living out of my car)
Worked in a deli at a large heath food/supermarket
Promoted to Production Baker at same store
QUIT! that nightmare recently.
Housekeeper for a semi-disabled children's author
Promoted very recently to technical/web support and editor for same author.

travel agency admin- a few months
sandwich factory worker, then promoted to head of kitchen - a year or so
secretary/receptionist - a few months, boss was sexually harassing me
sandwich factory worker - a few months
translator - on and off 20 years
baker's apprentice - 3 days
filing clerk for Price Waterhouse, and then got promoted to head of filing dept -3 years
left PW to study computer science, moved in with mother for one summer, suffered nervous breakdown due to all kinds of noises, I hadn't slept well for a whole month and mother was refusing to move because "she didnt believe me".
re-entered the work force a year later, back at PW as a temp. they didn't like me anymore, they didn't renew my contract.
started own business, teaching Reiki and doing treatments -3 years
receptionist at beauty salon - 8 months
paper delivery - 8 months
cleaner - 4 years
door staff -2 years
reiki treatments - on and off
private chef - 3 months, seasonal work
auctions of vintage photos on ebay- best job I ever had, 2 years
cleaner-2 months and still going

'81-'81 dishwasher
'81-'85 cook
'85-'88 Army, helicopter mech
'88-'89 construction, new framing, additions and remodeling
.....next 4 w/ same company
'89-'92 pipe fitter/fabricator, tuber, instrumentation & rigging
'92-'00 gearing, wiring
'00-'03 assembly,test, gearing, wiring (different type of machine)
'03-'08 pipe fitter/fabricator, tuber, instrumentation & rigging
'08-'11 unemployed >>illegally terminated due to disability & still fighting
'11-'11 arcade game assembly [worked just one day] (realized I couldn't stand and had a medical problem)

'12-back to looking real soon OR reinstated in the job I held for 19+yrs

Air Force Reserves - discharged for being put on antidepressants
kitchenware warehouseperson
community college and university math tutor
inventory taker (one day)
college library assistant
painter
research assistant at my university
online math tutor (mostly high school level)
freelance writer
phone book deliveryperson
enumerator for U.S. Census
research intern

In a grocery stores packing what the customer bought
technical support for a telecom (Videotron)
Current : Computer operator in a warehouse datacenter

gosh, lucky you that sounds like the job for me, if they had OJT.

My list is small compared to some of you...

RagShop
Pinnacle Graphic Design
Elcam Printing Service
Dollar Tree
Walmart
ACMoore
/unemployed

Very short list for me:

- summer jobs (clerk, computer programmer) -- 5 summers
- military (USAF, SAC, ICBMs) -- almost 3 years
- computer programmer, etc. -- 37+ years

(as you might surmise, I'm old)

hiya and welcome to our neat little club
i wish i coulda done like you and settled into a nice comfortable [and well-paid] niche in an area of expertise.

Fascinating to see the diversity of everyone's employment experiences ~

I've had a zillion. A few of them have been fairly long-term, though ~~:


13-17 Babysitter (looking back, from my current perspective of having raised a few kids, I was dangerously unqualified to care for children as a teenager ~ but no one noticed ~ I guess. They kept calling me to watch their kids again & again. This paid 50 cents an hour).
16 McDonald's cashier ~ lasted for a few months; came in to look at the schedule after being out sick a few days, and my name wasn't on it
17 Teacher's assistant in a middle school math department ~ just grading papers for the most part
17 Secretary ~ sat all day in an office, usually alone, answering phone calls (rare) and typing the same letter over and over and over again (100s of times): a personal invitation to a conference at which my two bosses were going to present their great new idea to all the attendees. There was no duplicating device available at the time to make copies of the invitation that would not be obvious low-quality copies. [Their great idea did eventually catch on, in a very big way; however, the company I worked for had gone bankrupt years earlier.]
18 Bakery clerk in a stiff pink polyester dress
18 Joined the military
22 Civilian employee of the military
22 Back in the military
25 Deli clerk (very sporadic)
25 Secretary in a big corporation
29 Promoted to something, I forget the title, but although it paid so much more, it was a bad fit: I was bored by not enough of what I considered to be "work" i.e. tangible paperwork; too many meetings ~ oh, well
30 Diner waitress/ retail clerk/ waitress in more expensive restaurant/ landscaper/ retail clerk in different store/ etc. ~ all part-time, "filler" jobs
31 Civil service office position
33 Homemaker
37 Signmaker's assistant
36 Printshop
39 Bank teller
40 Secretary
41 School bus driver
41 Civil service office position
44 Homemaker
46 Temporary secretary
46 Seasonal cashier
46 Civil service office position
51 Disability "Retirement"


And I've been "retired" for a few years now. (I considered saying "homemaker" but currently I don't meet even my own very loose standards of keeping a household in order.)

Unfortunately, "retirement" occurred when I was financially unprepared to retire, so I'm trying to figure out what's next. I don't see how this is going to work out unless I do, because I have less money coming in than I need, and my expenses are fairly low.

I was lucky to get my first summer job in 1966, since it led to the permanent job at the same company. I was also very lucky to get a job with a computer company that is still around 46 years later.

griffiths carpet-about 3 weeks in 2000
big bear grocery- end of october to may of 2001
carnival foods- 1 night of night stock in 2004
janitor- 5 months, 1 day a week for an hour or two at a church
research for a churchs youth program-2007-2009, though never more than maybe 5 hours a week, and to be fair I took alot of time off to come home to ohio, from new york as i couldnt really handle being away from people i knew for very long.
ponderosa- 3 days in 2010 when i moved back to ohio from new york.

about 3 years total since 2000, give or take a month.

your timing was also excellent, to be born in the right generational wave when things were still humming here in america. timing counts for as much as talent. as a matter of fact, good timing is itself a talent.