What jobs have you held?

[del]

I'm not asking for a resume or anything, I'm just curious what jobs you guys have had in the past.

I'm asking because I have a relatively short job history (I just turned 24), but I've already held some very odd jobs, and I'm wondering if this is an INTP thing.

Pizza Cook (last year of HS to first year of college)
Faculty Assistant (first & second years of college)
Research Assistant (3rd and 4th years of college)
Actuarial Intern (4th year of college)
Math Teacher overseas (lolquit internship because I hate insurance companies)
Production Worker (lolrecession -- I made granola bars for like 8 months instead of being homeless)
Production Supervisor (quickly promoted when it was apparent I was too smart to be a production worker)
Production Analyst (quickly promoted when it was apparent I was too smart to be a production supervisor -- note that these were all basically the same job, though)
Backpacking Guide/WEMT (seasonal/summer in Colorado)
Drivers' Ed Instructor (seasonal/summer)
Private Investigator (crappy job, but pays relatively well in this economy)
EMT/Paramedic (was a volunteer EMT for years, went to 'medic school part time while production worker and on)

What I'm applying for now: ER/Trauma Technician.

I'm also curious what you guys have learned from your work history.

For instance, being a math teacher in Nepal completely shattered most of my world views and is pretty much why I'm trying to go back to school to go further up in medicine (and eventually work internationally again).

Being a production worker was a good learning experience in what the working class is like. Having to work 60 hours a week of strenuous, repetitive, physically demanding and exhausting labour just to survive was eye opening, since my family did not come from that background but after a bit of shenanigans on my part (running off to Nepal), I was cut off financially, lol.

In emergency medicine you see humans at their best, and also at their very worst. That's... all I can really articulate about that.

Teaching teenagers how to drive gave me some good rapport building skills and taught me how to coach someone through a process without letting their failures and nerves revert their progress (ironically, I never learned this teaching in traditional settings).

So what about you?

 

[legwork]

For instance, being a math teacher in Nepal completely shattered most of my world views and is pretty much why I'm trying to go back to school to go further up in medicine (and eventually work internationally again).

Very interesting and I may be in the primarily phase of a similar discovery... Could you elaborate?

 

[Vrecknidj]

1980 - 1982 -- lawn mowing, paper route, window washing
1983 - 1986 -- phlebotomist, hospital lab receptionist, assistant to cytologist and pathologist
1987 - 2011 -- tutor
1989 - 1992 -- teaching assistant (graduate assistant for scholarship)
1990 - 1991 -- stockman at grocery store
1990 - 2011 -- college instructor (5 schools in the midwest of the US)
-------- 1992 -- instructor for economically disadvantaged youth
1992 - 1994 -- forklift driver, warehouse staff, pest management scout
1994 - 2010 -- educator at a summer camp
2003 - 2011 -- editor for the RPG field (WotC, Rite Publishing, others)
2005 - 2011 -- high school teacher (math, science, English, US history)
2010 - 2011 -- ethics consultant
-------- 2011 -- camp director at a summer camp
-------- 2011 -- educational assistant for at-risk teens

I think that about covers it. I know there's stuff missing. You'll note that there's a lot of overlap in the years. In any given year, I might work for 5 or 6 different employers, though there are some employers I've remained with for 15 or 20 years.

Dave

 

[shoeless]

um.

for about two weeks i was a waitress at a shitty restaurant and by the end of that two weeks it closed down because it was nasty and nobody liked it. i usually don't count that one.
february to around july i was a theatre worker/food service worker because i mostly made pizzas in a food court that doubled as a movie theatre (or really a movie theatre acting as a temporary food court), so... that was also not great.
and now i'm a retail worker for a small business that sells vitamins and herbal supplements as well as some organic food and stuff. it's aight. the owner is kind of insane though. she's like... seriously off her rocker sometimes.

anyway. that's all. i'm eighteen so i guess it's not too bad.

 

[Melllvar]

Obie's Pizza, delivery
Papa John's, in store
Yellow Pages, phone book delivery
Gannett, newspaper delivery
Construction (rehabing houses in very bad neighborhoods)
Airport business center, did fucking everything
Sierra Club, paid canvasser before the 2004 election
Mapco (gas station)
Regal Cinemas, concessions
Warehouse, grunt work

Were probably others but I can't even remember at this point.

 

[SkyWalker]

Sounds a bit like ISTP jobs what you guys mention

 

[kubikub]

My first serious job (you know, outside of bagging groceries when I was like 16) was at a independent movie theater. I worked as a floorstaff for about a year then got promoted to assistant manager, a position I held for another 2 before quitting. That was a rad job. I worked projection a lot, which is basically tinkering with machines in the dark by yourself for an entire shift. Will definitely be a fall-back if I ever get fired or anything, it was easy and fun but I didn't get paid enough.

I briefly worked at a 24-hour diner. I was temporarily working as the front cashier while they trained me to be a server. I was only given the 6pm-2am shifts, which might have been alright if I didn't have to deal with the floods of drunken idiots who would mob the place after the bar across the street closed at night. I could only take about a month or two there.

Currently I'm in the restaurant section of a grocery store that sells a shitton of vitamins and vegan food and organic stuff. I get to make myself lots of smoothies. It's a good enough job but I've only been there a few months. The customers are pretty retarded. We have those biodegradable 'plastic' cups, but we ran out of them once so I asked if it was alright if I used a cardboard coffee cups to give a customer their drink. "Are they biodegradable?" "...wat."

That's my track record. I'm 20.

er shoeless stop stealing my work history

 

[Dapper Dan]

I'm actually kind of proud of my first job. My last two years of high school I was a weekend news camera guy at the crappy local Fox station. It pretty much just covered my gas expenses, but the people and work were interesting and unique. I never really thought about it being a cool job until the subject came up during a class one time, and everyone thought it was awesome. In hindsight, it was certainly better than retail or fast-food.

Other than that, I had an IT internship the summer after my first year of college and a temp job at an MRE packaging plant the other two summers. I consider that a fairly interesting spread for a 22-year-old.

 

[Melllvar]

Sounds a bit like ISTP jobs what you guys mention

Yes, I guess that proves it. I certainly wanted to have all these jobs and loved every minute of them while I was doing them. Why study physics when you can be working at a warehouse or a gas station? Every child's dream career.

 

[downsowf]

High School:

soccer referee
baseball umpire
camp counselor in the summers (reason why I never want kids)

College:

interned at insurance company during summers
tutor in introductory level history classes during the school year

Post College:

variable annuities "specialist"
event marketing
worked at a gym putting weights back on the rack (my "John Galt period")

Law School:
Clerk for a judge
Clerk for a law firm

 

[Reverse Transcriptase]

Summer 2006 -- Research Intern at a Recruiting firm. (I pretty much used the internet to track down commercial loan officers & what banks they're working for.)
Summer 2007 -- Delivery guy at Round Table Pizza
Summer 2008 -- Weird research guy at a Real Estate Brokerage firm. It involved sleuthing & driving.
June 2009 -> Dec 2009 -- SO UNEMPLOYED
Dec 2009 -> Feb 2010 -- Research Associate at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (fuck yeah I'm using my college degree! and then I get fired)
April -> May 2010 -- US Census Worker
May 2010 -> Feb 2011 -- Data Entry & phone work & mild tech support for other data entry folks.
Feb 2011 -> current -- Software Developer at a website design & development studio! And it's killer.

 

[shoeless]

er shoeless stop stealing my work history

lawl. i bagged groceries too, i just forgot to mention it. didn't last long. horrible job, and we were only allowed to work for tips.

 

[xbox]

Bookstore.
Events planning usher person.
Library page. Not sure why they called us pages.
Sales Associate.
Sales Associate.
Sales Associate.

Currently jobless, HIRE ME. Actually I might get a job next week, fingers crossed.

 

[Dapper Dan]

Feb 2011 -> current -- Software Developer at a website design & development studio! And it's killer.

Jealous. This is where I want to be, but if it doesn't happen by November, I'll have to pick something else up to start paying off loans.

 

[lucky12]

2006: Tim Hortons until August. I was so fast at making sandwiches,bagels,soup orders that they allowed me to do that as a permanent position. They asked me a few times to 'let other people' do it, but i never did (maybe i secretly sucked and i had no idea?). hehe

June 2006- September 2008: sales clerk/pharmacy tech at a pharmacy (no college degree, was allowed to count pills out though) I became a supervisor at 17 and made good wages. Great boss, new boss came and I left. Did a few supervisor stints at different stores within the chain after I quit though, a very strange thing.

August 2008-Sept 2009, April 2011-current: Sportchek (sports store) hired me as a bike mechanic/skate sharpener/ski, snowboard waxer, sharpener, assembler, etc. I had no experience but became very good, I still work there now on my spare time.

April 2010-present: Construction, as a tradesman assistant. Mostly lifting bricks, mixing mortar, setting up scaffolding. Did a few demo jobs where I broke up a foundation, broke out door ways in the basement through cement walls, all the heavy shit. Very minimal carpentry. They loved using me for digging, I was a hole wizard. They use me now as a free agent, call me when they need me.

April 2011: Helped build a huge dock for a feller i know

May 2011-August 2011(Contract): Worked as a mechanic/operator/janitor/landscaper at a large school campus.

September 2011-Current: telephone surveyor for elections. working from home and i choose my shifts, its good to keep while going through school.

1990 here, i'm 21.