How many paying jobs have you had?
07-19-2016, 06:13 AM
#12
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Sun City West, AZ
Posts: 1,265
Babysitting
Garment factory
I.D. Photographer (college campus job)
Made money in college by doing alterations and making choir dresses
Hancock Fabrics
Habilitation Technician at State Institution for mentally disabled
Group Home Manager for mentally disabled
Teacher aide
Teacher intern
Special Ed teacher
Babysitting for disabled adults at my home or theirs
I also sewed for people during all my years of working
RETIRED! Woohoo!
Costume designer and maker for a school
Substitute teacher whenever I feel like it.
GRANDMA!
Garment factory
I.D. Photographer (college campus job)
Made money in college by doing alterations and making choir dresses
Hancock Fabrics
Habilitation Technician at State Institution for mentally disabled
Group Home Manager for mentally disabled
Teacher aide
Teacher intern
Special Ed teacher
Babysitting for disabled adults at my home or theirs
I also sewed for people during all my years of working
RETIRED! Woohoo!
Costume designer and maker for a school
Substitute teacher whenever I feel like it.
GRANDMA!
07-19-2016, 03:28 PM
#13
Super Member
Join Date: May 2012
Location: Central Wisconsin
Posts: 4,391
Pea canning factory.
Baby sitting.
Hospital floor girl (Did meal trays, bed pans, nurishments and some cleaning).
On Room School Teacher
Farm Wife and everything that involves.
Tupperware consultant.
Creative Memories consultant.
Census taker.
K-6 Music teacher.
Sub teacher for Exceptional Ed 3 year olds through grade 12.
Ad sales person for plat book.
Landlady.
Piano teacher.
Quilt class teacher.
I still get paid (a little) for teaching at the one room school museum. I enjoyed most of them immensely.
Baby sitting.
Hospital floor girl (Did meal trays, bed pans, nurishments and some cleaning).
On Room School Teacher
Farm Wife and everything that involves.
Tupperware consultant.
Creative Memories consultant.
Census taker.
K-6 Music teacher.
Sub teacher for Exceptional Ed 3 year olds through grade 12.
Ad sales person for plat book.
Landlady.
Piano teacher.
Quilt class teacher.
I still get paid (a little) for teaching at the one room school museum. I enjoyed most of them immensely.
07-20-2016, 08:31 AM
#15
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Posts: 1,789
well started working at 14, now 63. Started out as a grocery clerk at 14, hairdresser(manager), mower and baker. 4 jobs in nearly 50 years, guess that's not too bad. Along with these jobs I did clothing repair, alterations, custom sewing and farm labor.
07-20-2016, 11:07 AM
#17
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Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Central Texas
Posts: 1,310
Started out baby sitting at 12
The worked at Holiday in Cleaning rooms
Went to beauty school and worked for a year as a cosmetologist
Worked at NCR soldering pc cards (when banks were just starting to go to computers); got laid off
Worked in bookkeeping and as a teller in a bank
Became a mom (and like others no pay but lots of memories- still accumulating those)
Worked at a flying club as clerk
Worked in a canning company canning coke products
Worked at H&R block a couple years during tax season
Teachers aid in Massachusetts
Worked in a nursery in Hawaii shipping plants all over the world
Tele-communications operator
Worked as a receptionist for EDS for 7 years til the contract ran out and gave the jobs to civil servants
Worked for a bookkeeping company doing taxes for one tax season
Then as a secretary for a less than stellar auto mechanic
And finally decided retirement sounded better all the time
and have taught clogging (more fun than a job though) for the past 16 years
So that is 16 jobs? over the past 54 years? Might have missed one or two in there too.
The worked at Holiday in Cleaning rooms
Went to beauty school and worked for a year as a cosmetologist
Worked at NCR soldering pc cards (when banks were just starting to go to computers); got laid off
Worked in bookkeeping and as a teller in a bank
Became a mom (and like others no pay but lots of memories- still accumulating those)
Worked at a flying club as clerk
Worked in a canning company canning coke products
Worked at H&R block a couple years during tax season
Teachers aid in Massachusetts
Worked in a nursery in Hawaii shipping plants all over the world
Tele-communications operator
Worked as a receptionist for EDS for 7 years til the contract ran out and gave the jobs to civil servants
Worked for a bookkeeping company doing taxes for one tax season
Then as a secretary for a less than stellar auto mechanic
And finally decided retirement sounded better all the time
and have taught clogging (more fun than a job though) for the past 16 years
So that is 16 jobs? over the past 54 years? Might have missed one or two in there too.
07-20-2016, 02:06 PM
#18
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Vermont
Posts: 2,315
at 8 I had a candy route in the country on my bicycle,
-11 I hand mowed cemetery and clipped stones,
-17 car hop in DC
-17 baby sat DC & Hawaii and in a CHINESE dairy Queen (we all quit on a huge sale day because they were not paying what the mall required
-I sold Stanley home products in Hawaii, I was a governess for three years and served meals to guests as well as the family
-Was an industrial buyer in Ohio
-A buyer in an international farm catalog sales firm, went in direct sales in Rubbermqid, placed 5th in nation,
-Did Avon and toy parties simultaneously
-Was an investigative reporter and did it independently. Wrote articles for local papers free lance
-Got my real estate license as an agent then opened an office as a broker representing buyers when it first started
-cashiered in drug store and grocery and did maintenace
I am sure I have forgotten several.
Told my kids to take any job that came up because you never knew when you woule need that knowledge!!
-11 I hand mowed cemetery and clipped stones,
-17 car hop in DC
-17 baby sat DC & Hawaii and in a CHINESE dairy Queen (we all quit on a huge sale day because they were not paying what the mall required
-I sold Stanley home products in Hawaii, I was a governess for three years and served meals to guests as well as the family
-Was an industrial buyer in Ohio
-A buyer in an international farm catalog sales firm, went in direct sales in Rubbermqid, placed 5th in nation,
-Did Avon and toy parties simultaneously
-Was an investigative reporter and did it independently. Wrote articles for local papers free lance
-Got my real estate license as an agent then opened an office as a broker representing buyers when it first started
-cashiered in drug store and grocery and did maintenace
I am sure I have forgotten several.
Told my kids to take any job that came up because you never knew when you woule need that knowledge!!
Last edited by jetayre; 07-20-2016 at 02:07 PM. Reason: spelling
07-20-2016, 03:14 PM
#19
Super Member
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Tn
Posts: 8,808
My first job was babysitting at 9 years
shovelled snow
more babysitting 5 to 7 days a week thru high school
waited tables (yuck)
waitress for a year.
Office work at a A/C whse for 3 years
loved being a stay at home mom for 3 years
Doing my part when DH went on strike and put out an application for a frozen food company. Been there for 36 years doing office work
looking forward to retirement in a couple years
shovelled snow
more babysitting 5 to 7 days a week thru high school
waited tables (yuck)
waitress for a year.
Office work at a A/C whse for 3 years
loved being a stay at home mom for 3 years
Doing my part when DH went on strike and put out an application for a frozen food company. Been there for 36 years doing office work
looking forward to retirement in a couple years
07-20-2016, 03:43 PM
#20
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Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Corpus Christi, Tx.
Posts: 16,105
At 13 I helped my dad clean a bakery on SAturday evening after closed. got tired of donuts really quick
Telephone (toll) operator at switchboard processed all kinds of calls. Went to beauty school while doing this.
Worked at a couple salons for awhile then back at phone I a/p department and got fired.
Did hair on weekends while at phone company. Did hair also on the deceased at funeral home. Got used to it with exception of children. continued doing hair til moved to Texas. Worked at WAlmart, hated it. Back to hair til 2006 when got my real estate license. When I got my renewal for hair license, I tore it up and never looked back. Now I just cut DH dogs and my own. Worked at a lot of different salons and luckily clientele followed.
Telephone (toll) operator at switchboard processed all kinds of calls. Went to beauty school while doing this.
Worked at a couple salons for awhile then back at phone I a/p department and got fired.
Did hair on weekends while at phone company. Did hair also on the deceased at funeral home. Got used to it with exception of children. continued doing hair til moved to Texas. Worked at WAlmart, hated it. Back to hair til 2006 when got my real estate license. When I got my renewal for hair license, I tore it up and never looked back. Now I just cut DH dogs and my own. Worked at a lot of different salons and luckily clientele followed.
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