What jobs have you done as. . . (page 2)

Namaste

First job was at McDonald's - mom had to drive me to it. It was great, got me out of the house on weekends.
Office Clerk at travel agency - boring beyond belief, I didn't do a great job, not sure why they kept me
Sales person at young men's clothing store - more about this later
Video store clerk for 1 shift - the owner hired me, the manager thought I couldn't handle the job so I was fired. I think she just didn't want competition!
Went back to clothing store to beg for job back. Stayed with them for 12 years working up to District Manager position.
Went insane and thought I should go to where the need was great so I spent 6 months working at Dairy Queen and some knockoff Walmart type store so I could help support my pioneer friend (eventually became a card carrying pioneer myself)
Came back home, worked part time for clothing store (see above) in different part time jobs, sunk into horrible depression and could no longer support myself (living with parents at 26 after giving up my apartment and job to go "pioneering")
Got myself together and worked as a temp for a company that made the sound systems and such for airplanes - had a power mad, first-time manager that was sleeping with the boss...she made life just peachy.
At the same time as the job above, worked part-time at Waldenbooks to make extra money - my second favorite job. Easy, fun, and they had books!
My last fulltime job before leaving to stay home with my son - Executive Assistant for a VP at a staffing company for 5 years. Favorite job, liked my boss a lot (yay for strong women! I learned a lot from her that I could never have learned from any JW woman), had a great time with my coworkers.
My last but still kind of doing job - Yoga instructor for beginning yoga. I do private classes at companies and through the local parks & rec department. Wait, I take it back...THIS is my favorite job :)

bigdreaux

namaste, there's actually a knock-off wal-mart store? lol

Locutus of Borg

WOW Lady Lee. . you sure know how to baseline folks. .

Let's see, at 53 yrs old, this is a trip down memory lane . . . . . this starts in 1971 . .

1: right out of dropping out of HS in Stratford, Ontario . . worked in a furniture factory doing upholstery and working in the wood shop

2: Worked at the Marlette manufactured housing factory in Stratford, Ont.

moved back to Concord, NH in the states

3: pumped gas at my (ex) FIL's gas station in NH for about 6 mos , he was a good man

4: worked in a printing factory for about 6 mos.

5: worked as a machinist at various jobs until 1980

6: went to college for two years and got an AAS Electrical Engineering

LEFT THE THE CULT THE FIRST TIME . . . got a divorce

7: worked in a semiconductor /capacitor mfg plant

8: worked as a field engineer in the telecom industry

9: got laid off, worked as a machinist for a few months (1985ish)

10: worked in the process controls (SCADA) industry for a few years, traveled around the world and saw none of it . . .

got laid off again and moved to CNY, got remarrried to the most wonderful woman in the world (NOT in the LIE) , WENT BACK TO THE FRIGGIN' KULT . .WTF was I THINKING!!! (its a long, long story)

Central NY . . .

11: 1991ish . . .worked on the line in a sweat shop factory making auto parts, hey I got to all the sales meetings!!!!

12: Started my own carpet cleaning/floor refinishing business, it was the theocratically acceptable thing to do!!!

13: Used the income from the carpet/floor biz (worked 2 days a week, made a ton of dough) to start a small global design/mfg business

14: Designed and manufactured Giant Scale R/C airplanes for the competition and high end sport markets (see "small global design/mfg business" in item 13 above)

starting to realize going back to the kult was a big, big mistake . . .

15: 1995 . . . NAFTA is kicking my ass, I have exact copies of my A/C designs coming into America from Mexico retailing for less than my cost of production . . yeah . . . I have patents . . . but they don't mean anything unless I can afford $250K to enforce them, thanks Bill. Still clinging desperately to the kult . .

16: small global design/mfg business failing, back to work in some really down and dirty mfg production line jobs .. . but!!! they were Borg approved . . .

17: Bailed out of the small global blah blah . . .

18: Bailed out of the fucking kult also (for the SECOND time)

19: 1996ish . . . . Worked in Aviation Maintenance, I actually enjoyed this period, I love airplanes . . . working on them and getting paid???? life is sweet.

20: Aviation Maintenance Facility I worked for went belly up . . . . went back to school (at 46 years of age: Graduated in 2003 Summa Cum Laude) got a BS in Teloecommunnicaions from SUNY IT

21: Graduated in 2002, Summa Cum Laude, BS Telecommunications

23: working on a MS Mathematics

24: I have the best job in the world

yes Virginia, there is life after the Watchtower . .

BC . . if you are reading this . . Fuck You!

Hortensia

worked in high school library while in high school (yes I got paid)

worked as a typist for the California Department of Rehabilitation

nurse's aide

ward clerk in a hospital

private duty nurse's aide, mostly folks with terminal cancer

housekeeping - liked it, liked working for myself, liking making order out of chaos

massage therapist

massage teacher

administrator of a massage school

owner of a massage school

writer of massage textbooks

I do the bookkeeping for my business (quickbooks) which I find quite interesting

sparrow

1) Rooftiled for 8 years - most witness guys in my area took this up as there were quite a few tilers. Being that my father was one of the first it was a no brainer.

2) Did a stint of window cleaning

3) Did a 10 months course in IT and now am IT manager/developer for Telco. Good job but I miss the sun

Illyrian

My father-in-law gave up his $15 an hour job working for General Dynamics in Fort Worth to take a $5 an hour job building trailers in a large warehouse! The "neutrality" issue stripped his family of enough finances to keep their head above water!
This sort of thing really gets me very angry when I think about it!!

Terry, few years ago there was a case of someone here who was a Major General in the army who had only 6 moths of service left before retiring when he decided due to brainwashing that Armageddon was just around the corner and got demoted, his pay was cut to a minimum which then later served as a basis of his pension. The pathetic thing about it was that he couldn't leave the army and those 6 months served as clerk, a deskman dressed in military uniform doing military papers. Which according to watchtower makes no difference.

Paralipomenon

1. Newspaper carrier
2. Fast food, flipping burgers. Due to a special law, they were allowed to pay me half minimum wage. I lasted less than a month.
3. Pumping gas. It was a pain. My employers (a husband/wife couple) used their employees like slave labor, getting them to mow their lawn and clean up after them. I never did any of that, and despite their vindictive nature didn't fire me.
4. Took a pilot business course as part of my last year of high school. Taught me accounting and word processing.
5. Credit manager at a car dealership. Fun job at first, but I was grossly underpaid for the position I was in. Eventually I got tired of seeing scam people rack up debt and habitually file for bankruptcy while others that could have benefited from the bankruptcy act sacrificed their standard of living to honor their debt.
6. Back to school to become a programmer
7. Office stationary delivery after school
8. Computer sales after school
9. Migrated to corporate computer sales upon graduating. Had fun and it allowed me to network nicely
10. First programming job

I love programming and have a definite knack for it, but if I could have gone to University, I would have liked to have become a Psychologist.

Flowerpetal

Just out of high school, stuffed envelopes for a local PBS TV station for the summer, then I....

worked at a bank as a mortgage clerk

steno at a farm supply company

steno at a bank

secretary in a mental health facility in different departments

office manager in hubby's business

sent out on steno assignments for a temporary agency

for a summer, screened in patios and windows

" " construction clean up

cleaned houses

worked in a deli dept. at a grocery store (if I had stayed there I would have gotten killed)

worked for a call center

took a year off to decide what I wanted to be when I grew up! LOL

Now I am a licensed, massage therapist, (after going to school) and loving it!!

brinjen

Sales Assistant, Checkout Operator, PC Technician, Electronics Assembler, Groundsperson and of course, Cleaner

dedpoet

I have worked for the same UK Telecommunications company since
1974, though not always the same job. I stayed in my well paid job
all through my 8+ years as a jw.

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