What sort of jobs have you had in the past?

Me: Food Service, Driver for elderly and disabled, Armored Car Guard, Package Handler at UPS, movie theater Box office and Concessions, Dairy/frozen manager, and now I'm in sanitation.

How about you?

My more interesting ones were teaching underprivileged kids to use technology and coaching a swim team. Starting my coding career under Bain Capital during the Great Recession was also interesting, but for all the wrong reasons.

Worked for a moving company, mostly along with ex-cons. Didn't meet my manager for 2 weeks when I started cause he was in jail for beating his wife.

Taught tae kwon do for a few years. Rather deal with criminals than kids with adhd.

Dishwasher, cook, barista, construction worker, brewer.

Not sure college counts as a job, but I spent a few years doing it and not for fun so I consider it part of my professional path.

Damn, that's nuts. Would have been in interesting time to work at any "big name" finance institution.

I worked at Wal-Mart in the Seasonal department. I also used to sell leather bags.

I first worked at a manufacturing place where I’ve built banding blocks and pallets for 5 years. And now working at a grocery store as a bagger/courtesy. Been working there for 8 years.

worked as a checker in a grocery store, delivery driver for a pizzeria, some temps jobs where I did data entry or warehouse work. worked a summer as a delivery driver for my friend's dad who owned medical supply company. did some work as a tutor for my college's engineering dept. for freshmen/sophomore students.

now i design computers

Use to work in a sausage factory.

Not the Pornhub kind, the kind where they would drop in a wet puddle and they'd quickly put them all back in the basket.

Make sure to fry them well when you get them.

I haven't had too much legit work experience. I've done odd jobs, like snow shoveling. I've helped my dad pick up the mess after a construction project. Then I've worked retail at Fred Meyers and Safeway for a brief time. Been sticking with Subway as a GM the past five years since.

The only work experience I've had is software engineering. Got a position at a research institute right out of university and then moved to a small company. I'm kind of jealous of you people trying your hands at all sorts of jobs.

My early days when I was going to school I was a chef. Used to cook seafood and shuck oysters at a bar. The oyster shucking and conversing with drunk folks was perhaps my favorite odd job I've ever had. I had to put my foot down to hold this position because other people wanted to do what I was doing. I didn't let them.

Some of my major jobs after that I've been a photographer in a variety of sections. I started out with doing a lot of BTS photography on film sets, then I got into doing fashion and catalog type stuff. I've done souvenir and event photography, and some product photography. I've taken photos of thousands and thousands of people over the years, and a wide range of different types of people. From professional models to actors and stuntmen, to every day people and their family's. I've taken portraits of people from just about every culture around the world. Photography is one of my favorite things for sure.

Also been a graphic designer for a large part as well, as well as editor. Created a variety of things with graphic design and illustration. I have done videography as well.

Done print work like magazines along with a variety of other print related work and editorials. In print I've worked with a bunch of different companies, big and small ones. It's been a great networking opportunity for me. I've done vehicle decal work and vehicle wraps as well, which was a part of my skills I accompanied in my print work. I'd make vehicle graphics and then basically install them on the vehicles. Fun but a bit nerve-wracking because I'd always fear damaging someone else's vehicle.

Not sure what I want to do next, although there was a company that almost hired me before the one that nabbed me which I currently work for. The other company I would have taken the role as a production artist doing work in comic books and entertainment. I have this one on my radar and I intend to apply to them again when I run out of steam at my current job.

I'm always orbiting around entertainment and creative-based work. My rule is to always step forward and not backwards; therefore, I'll never step into a restaurant kitchen ever again, and retail/cashier jobs are completely beneath me at this point.

I worked for a mom and pop barbecue restaurant in high school, then went into healthcare after. The hospital I worked at really discouraged me when I saw the cost vs. Billing charges they gave patients, plus you never had set hours and the pay was crap, so I transitioned to a health insurance company for better pay.

Working in health insurance as a FMLA case worker was Hell. Terribly evil corporate practices that I couldn't be a part of, so I moved out to Colorado and worked in the Marijuana industry. I was promoted to compliance officer for the MED (Marijuana Enforcement Division) to enforce regulations in the industry.

I worked there for about 7 years until I was offered a job as a Project Manager for division 10 construction contracts. They offered me six figures so I took it, and I was promoted to manager at that same company last year and currently still work there.

Flipped burgers for a couple months.

Carpet and tile install for a year or so.

One season at a summer camp in the kitchen.

A month at an inventory service.

Tig welding for a couple years.

Various warehouse jobs for some years.

My current job selling HVAC (Heating/Ventilation/Air Conditioning) for almost 20 years now.

Used to work in a thrift store. It was also technically job training so they breathe down your neck if you take a while to find another job. In addition to being owned by the church who runs our politics in this state.

Though it really doesn't help when you bring out stock, customers who frequent the store to be scalpers outright stalk you.

I can't help but think of this Family Guy gag every time I think of it.

Started bailing hay, moved to Mon Santo detassling corn, first job without a work permit was a stock boy at Kmart, went on to work in the produce department of Kroger in high school with the work program, started getting in better shape to join the military and took a job working at a construction company learning to grind, weld, and picking up various other odds and ends before joining the Marine Corps as an 0311 and getting deployed on two combat tours in Iraq. Got injured and subsequently retired on the 2nd tour in Fallujah and now I'm a stay at home dad with my boys and my wife and I are trying to grow a business.

She loves to crochet, craft, bead, knit, and make shirts. I want to make a woodwick candle business with essential oils I make at home through mad science.. lol. I want to make original scents through diffusion of plants, fruits, etc of things I find on nature walks. Something to do, will give me regular exercise, and will add more disposable income which is never a bad thing, although we already do ok with her office job and my retirement. I also plan to get a nice art tablet to help design for her projects. It's more or less to give our lives more meaning and go for it since it's low risk high reward.

Construction for approximately 8 years, retail for 2 years and currently ~10 years in law enforcement.

I've done some hard physical labor in my day - landscaping, shoveling rock, masonry, roofing - but bailing hay (assuming it's those square bales you toss up to the loft) was the absolute hardest. It doesn't feel too bad for the first few dozen, but they just keep coming. Every night I'd go to bed feeling like there was no way I'd be able to toss up the next one the following morning, but somehow I'd find a way regardless.

Thank heavens the season only lasts a few weeks. It was good money for a high school job, though.

@mattbbpl: Yep, that's the one man. Anything that doesn't kill you makes you stronger right? Builds character and all that... lol

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I've worked construction (roofing and painting) for 1.5 years, retail for 4.5 years, US Air Force for 4 years, work-study for veterans services for .5 years and I've worked in semiconductor manufacturing (technician, operations management, engineering management and manufacturing engineering) for 9.5 years.

I used to be an apprentice in electricity.

Didn't really enjoyed it so I started construction with my father, building and renovating houses.

Did that for 5 years and now I'm passing my trucking license and hopefully I'll be on the road soon.

Nice! GL

When you say college, do you mean uni?
What is freshman/sophomore?

yeah. "college" / "university" used interchangeably in the US

typically a bachelor's program in us is a 4 year program. freshman = 1st year student, sophomore = 2nd year student. usually studying core requirement and intro classes such as math/physics before getting into specific courses for chosen degree.

basically I was a math/physics tutor mostly :)

I was a counterintelligence officer in the military in the 1980s-early 90s. We used to joke that our mission was to stamp out intelligence wherever we found it. This was often aimed at our own senior officers. I was a Captain.

Sometimes the work was engaging, energizing, seemed meaningful etc. Often it was routine and relatively boring. If you take something like surveillance, the movies and TV show you a little bit right before the action. They don't show you the hours, days, weeks, etc of nothing but boredom, nor do they show you the times where nothing pans out.

One fun thing was learning offensive driving, not defensive driving. Yes that is a real thing. Practicing how to run other vehicles off the road, where to hit a stopped vehicle and at what angle as to clear a path, strategic use of running red lights or stop signs as part of escape & evasion, etc. Didn't have to do much of that in real life, but it was helpful a few times.

One thing I would say about that work is that it can blacken your soul. To this day, I occasionally recall events and images that I would prefer not to ever think about. A Major I worked for was a cold hearted and jaded human that could only see bad, even when there was nothing to see. I didn't want to be him so I left the military after 9yrs and took my career into business. That's a whole other thing though.

Worked in a grocery store part time while at school and university. Before that I delivered newspapers for about 10 months.

In some ways, delivering newspapers in the early afternoon was a perfect job. I got paid for 30-35 minutes of exercise.