What occupations have you held so far?

@ronaldinu (12422)
Malta
February 25, 2010 1:07pm CST
I left school at sixteen years of age with few O levels. I had to do summer jobs which included a waiter in various hotels and restaurants, shopkeeper (ironmonger) though I could not distinguish between a tool and another, a salesperson selling dog food in various pet stores and supermarket, doing accounts for an electrical company. I was also studying to become an SRN (nurse) where I left the course to enter university and take a teaching degree. My present job up till now is teaching. What occupations have you held so far?
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25 responses
• Philippines
25 Feb 10
during the time i was still in college i did work as part time service crew to several establishments like A&W, Dunkin' Donuts and the like. Then when i stopped college due to personal reason, i worked with Max's restaurant in their Housekeeping department. also, i tried to work as associate of seven-eleven and been a seller of water dispenser.the job that i do right now is a call center agent, specifically a tech support since i was not able to finish college and i think i do good on it. but i dream of having a business someday, or i dream of going out of my country 'coz it's seems to be that 10 years of my savings here would be accumulated in just 3-5 years of labor in other country.
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• United States
25 Feb 10
lets see..... in high school my first job was at a candy store as a cashier after that I was a prep cook at a Italian restaurant building supervisor for an office cleaning company hotel housekeeper security guard US Air Force cashier/cook for various fast food restaurants MOM and presently I am the evening manager of a grocery store
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@cyberfluf (4996)
• Netherlands
25 Feb 10
I switched educations when I was allmost 16 years old. I started working after I got my first degree even though I have worked as a housekeeper in a hotel and as a substitute day care teacher during my studies to become a teachers assistent. After my studies it was hard to find a job (the government didn't supply schools with enough money to hire any teaching assistents) so I worked in daycare for a while. Then I started higher education for a teachers degree, but it wasn't my thing. I wanted something else. Now I am in my third year (of four) of studying higher education to become a pedagogue. I study part-time and have worked in child day care, medical speciality day care and with children with speach impairment and a mental handicap aswell as deaf people.
• United States
26 Feb 10
Oh, ronaldinu, what memories you evoke! While working my way through college and graduate school, I delivered orders for a Chinese restaurant. I made chocolate candies for one of those up-scale chocolate shops. I worked in the men's department at a department store. I did the bookkeeping for an accountancy firm. I wrote for several magazines. I danced in a sort of cage in a night club (no, not one of THOSE -- very fully dressed!). I made and sold custom jewelry. I coordinated tasks for a computer company, back in the days when a computer had a whole, very large room to itself! I ghost-wrote a couple of books. I'm sure I've forgotten a few things, since I've been teaching for 42 years!
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@ronaldinu (12422)
• Malta
10 Mar 10
:very fully dressed interesting.... I did not know you were a very good dancer:)
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• United States
10 Mar 10
It's fun and great exercise! Thanks for the BR!
@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
26 Feb 10
I have been a waitress, as well as a cashier, I've been a banquet server, as well as done a bit of stocking, most recently an In Home Aide.
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25 Feb 10
After doing my GCSEs I went on to college to do my A levels. At that point in my life I wanted to work and train as a speech therapist so I needed good grades to get into university. Unfortunately I didn't work hard enough so I ended up working in a bar at 18, that was my first job. I worked for a large solicitors office as a general dog's body and tea maker, I hated it. Then I spent a couple of years in recruitment and administration. Then I got a great job as an estate agent which I absolutely loved. I then gave up my job to have a family, we moved to Spain to run our own business so now I do that (in the steel industry) and I also do a little writing here and there online and I have my own health and beauty blog.
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@Sir_bobby88 (8231)
• Singapore
30 Mar 10
I had been a promoter and Bell boy , perhaps my new job will be computer technicians.
@stvasile (7306)
• Romania
1 Mar 10
I've only finished college in 2008, got my master degree last year and now I'm doing the Ph.D., which takes 3 years. Since June 2009 I'm Assistant Researcher in a Research Center from my university. That's the only "real" job I had so far. I also helped someone translate a book in English, and it brought me some money, so I also count that as a job.
@cripfemme (7698)
• United States
27 Feb 10
I have held the following jobs for money: telemarketer (undergrad and grad schools), public speaker, writer, newsletter editor, entrepreneurial poet. Of these jobs, I hated telemarketing the most. This is not a job for someone with a speech impediment. I have various writing jobs now. I only hate the newsletter job because my boss is stupid. He never sends me material on time and sets up impossible deadlines.
@eshaan (6188)
• India
7 Mar 10
i worked as M.R. after i finished my D.pharmacy...also i used to teach children of primary classes, and did the teaching work till i got married....after getting married i have not yet entered in any occupation except for online earnings and forex...that too at home..
@ronaldinu (12422)
• Malta
7 Mar 10
Lucky you :) Would you like to go our working or do you feel fulfilled as a housewife?
@eshaan (6188)
• India
8 Mar 10
now that my kids have grown up enough...i am again thinking to start tutions at home....
@kun2349 (23381)
• Singapore
2 Mar 10
Seems like u have a wide scope in your resume huh?? haha For myself, majority of my job experiences comes from the service sectors, which includes F&B crews, baker, salesperson, marketing, office, technician, door to door sales, instructor, as well as promotor.. hehe And right now, i'm still very much into majority of them, and i'm actually rotating them around, which makes me kinda busy, especially for this year.. hehe
@hellcowboy (7374)
• United States
27 Mar 10
I have not had all that many jobs in my career,my first job was working for Comfort Built and that lasted a day because I could not stand being on my feet ten hours at a time,and then my second job was at a flower shop,but it was only two days because he only needed someone to work a weekend since his employ was out,my third job was at Arby's and that lasted a month before they fired me saying I was too slow,well I only got like three hour shifts so how did they expect me to get faster,and my latest job is Cart Pusher at Wal Mart,and I have been there almost eight months and I do not like it all that much but I am pretty good at it,and after a year I will get a raise so I am excited.
@kaylachan (71786)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
25 Feb 10
I've only had two real "paying" jobs. I worked in a laundry mat folding napkins and preparing them to go out to restruants, and then I worked for six years at Pizza Hut. I'm 26 and saddly those were the only two jobs i've had since I was 18. But, whatever I can do to pay the bills.
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• United States
26 Feb 10
Well, like you, when I was in college, I had so many jobs, I was a cashier in a supermarket, I also did telemarketing of credit cards, I also was sales associate in department stores, I did tutoring, I tell you that I had so many jobs, to be able to pay for my college tuition, those days I was studding engineering, and right now I work for a semiconductors company and I am circuit designer right now. I love my job, and I think all the sacrifices were all worth it.
@derek_a (10873)
26 Feb 10
Well I started out leaving school and going to agricultural college where I learned about farming and animal husbandry. We had around 40 acres where we used to breed ponies. I worked with my ponies for a few years, but my real love was for music - I had trained to be a piano-player since the age of around 5 or 6 years old. I then went professional as a piano player becaues my Dad sold the land and the ponies. About 12 years after that, the music business was deteriorating for musicians because they were using disco and later karioke and musicians were no longer needed. I re-trained then as a psychotherapist, another thing I was really interested in, and have done that ever since, but I am not in semi-retirement. _Derek
@junmae (1586)
• Philippines
26 Feb 10
My job right now is my very first job. I am working in a recruitment firm for a year now, I am thankful to be belonged in this company. When I was in college my mom doesn't allowed my to look for a part time job because she wants me to concentrate on my study. I envy my friends who got a job while studying and able to support there selves financially. I though working is good because you earned money from your self. But when I started working, I encountered so much pressures and almost give up but I am still here standing and struggling for my family.
@myramae19 (667)
• Philippines
26 Feb 10
here's mine... I start doing part time jobs when I was in second year college, I was 17.. first as a counter crew at jollibee, then as pharmacy assistant, I had also worked at pawnshop as a teller. Then I left school when I was in third year college,I decided to go abroad and work at the cellular factory then after that I got married I'm just a full time mom now.
@mjcookie (2271)
• Philippines
26 Feb 10
When I stopped going to college, I worked as service crew/party planner in a fast-food restaurant for barely a month because I resigned. I guess that month was one of the most miserable periods in my life because of bad management and company (coworkers). After that, I worked as gaming assistant in a convenience store for only 5 days (temporary job). There.
@pandaeyes (2065)
26 Feb 10
I also left school at 16. I had a paper round from 15 - 16 which paid for small things like school books and new sport shoes for school and the occasional bar of chocolate. My first full time job was in a big photography firm and involved me working on photographs and negatives in the art department. The second job was very similar but a smaller firm and m job was much more on the finished product rather than the negatives. I had a selling job door to door for a while. It was delivering home shopping catalogs and goods. I liked that but i was too time consuming for the income, my kids came first so I gave it up. I tried a job where you get interviews for window salesmen by calling people on the phone but I hated it and stopped after 2 days. It was too uncomfortably like being a con woman as you were encouraged to twist words around to persuade.
• Switzerland
26 Feb 10
I worked as a part time salesclerk in a department store in the Philippines (SM shoemart) while in college. After graduation, I was able to get a job as a school secretary in a Theological Seminary run by Korean Missionaries. Then I transferred to an Oleochemical company and worked there as a Marketing Assistant before I left the Philippines to live with my husband in Switzerland.