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Fri Jul 17, 2015, 07:32 PMStar Member trof (46,229 posts) What have you done to earn money in your life? Here's my list.In more or less chronological order. Some of these were full time summer jobs, some after school jobs years round. Grocery store bag boy/shelf stocker (at age 15, 1956) Landscaper (OK, cut grass) Grocery produce aisle worker. Cut more grass. Ass't produce manager Cut more grass And more grass In a neighbor's garage mfg op, with glue syringe and cut clear plastic parts, assembled schedule holders for railroad cars. Trampoline instructor/spotter Artist's model (nude only from the waist up) Advertising agency gofer (and that's a whole nuther story) Gofer Tuscaloosa News (in college) Editor Tuscaloosa News West Alabama Business and Industrial Page (Photographer/reporter) Wholesale hardware company warehouse worker Same place, purchasing agent Pilot, Alabama Air National Guard My best paying job so far Reporter, Birmingham News. Advertising manager office furniture manufacturer Civilian contract instrument and multi-engine instructor for army student pilots at Ft. Rucker, AL Flight engineer, Trans World Airlines Real estate sales/management Flight engineer, Trans World Airlines (I was furloughed/laid off from TWA twice) Real estate sales. Real estate appraiser Flight engineer, Trans World Airlines Flight engineer, Nippon Cargo Airlines (My best job, ever) Area supervisor for EPA contractor during debris clean up from Hurricane Ivan (And that's a whole nuther nuther story)
Sun Jul 19, 2015, 04:20 AMchknltl (9,753 posts) 32. Soldier, cook, painter, pot grower.Didn't get wealthy on any of them, but being a pot grower for a quarter century has been the most interesting. As a grower, sometimes interesting was a good thing, sometimes it was not so good.
Sat Jul 18, 2015, 03:56 PMStar Member Tobin S. (7,780 posts) 19. I have worked at a lot of places, but only in a few lines of work.Food service from 1987 (I was fifteen when I started working) until 1990 Printer from 1990 to 1995 Machine operator from 1995 to 1996 Commercial truck driver from 1996 to present I have had probably a total of about 20 jobs in my life with over half of them being in trucking. I've been with my present employer for about 4.5 years and seem unable to escape them despite going back to school and earning my bachelor's degree.
Sun Jul 19, 2015, 06:37 AMJamaal510 (8,543 posts) 34. Finding pennies (and sometimes dimes) on the sidewalk,selling games and consoles at Game Stop, receiving financial aid, having a Public Works job when I was 17, working for Merritt College's recycling program, my dad sometimes giving me pocket change, and receiving money on birthdays and Christmases from family whenever they didn't know/couldn't afford what gifts to buy me.
Sun Jul 19, 2015, 08:11 AMmainer (8,342 posts) 37. Love these work histories!What an interesting crowd this is. But would rather not post mine.
Sun Jul 19, 2015, 06:37 AMJamaal510 (8,543 posts) 34. Finding pennies (and sometimes dimes) on the sidewalk, selling games and consoles at Game Stop, receiving financial aid, having a Public Works job when I was 17, working for Merritt College's recycling program, my dad sometimes giving me pocket change, and receiving money on birthdays and Christmases from family whenever they didn't know/couldn't afford what gifts to buy me.
To many to list...just let me say that during my working life, I never had not even one day of being unemployment.While self employed there were a few days when I had nothing to do....thank you for the unpaid vacation Jimmy carter.
