Get out of bed, get a hammer and a nail

[slipjig3]

The job hunt continues! And in that light, just for the heckuvit:

[Poll #1634299]

Comments

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

To clarify, I wasn't quite a telemarketer. I took calls -- for three years at a call center where customers added time to phone cards and cell phones, and a brief temp job before that doing a survey. (I did that for two days in 1997. I should've run out of the office screaming after Day 1.)

I was also a de facto TA for a couple of college classes, so I've talked to 30-odd college students at a time (and made worthwhile points, I hope). I also was a projectionist at college.

[celtic_maenad]

I had to substitute some things, and I had multiple duties in one job that I split out for this poll. To summarize: I've been a dogwalker, waitstaff, dinner theater entertainer, engraver & keymaker at a subsidiary of Things Remembered, CAD drone (electrical), kennel attendant at an animal shelter, print-shop assistant, bookstore clerk/barista/manager, and am now an assistant for a veterinary internist.

Some of those were part time jobs held within the same time frame. Heh. Not exactly your average path. But it got me here, and despite my venting complaints, I pretty much like 'here'. :)

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

I delivered flowers for a while. That was kinda cool, because except for funerals, people are almost always delighted to get flowers.

[gows.livejournal.com]

Ones that I didn't check, but technically have been, if only for a very short/occasional while:

Cook: I worked the grill for my boyfriend's cafe for a month when he first got it, and I've done occasional prep cook work for his catering business off and on.

Copy editor: a few freelance gigs here and there.

Exotic dancer: spun fire topless with a porn star in a strip joint over a period of three nights. Came away with $600 from her, a hefty bar tab or two cleared (a patron picked up the tab for several of us my second night, all because I stood and talked history and literature with him for maybe 15 minutes while I had no shirt on), and various tips from dancers and patrons.

. . . all in all, I think I made more in that three-day period than I have as a copy editor. *snerk*

[gows.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I guess I've been a cashier, too--working the farmers' market, etc. for said catering business (pastries, breakfast burritos, etc.).

[cypherindigo.livejournal.com]

I worked as a substitute teacher at various points in my life.
I spent 2 years working in a Ford Dealership as a Cashier and Warrantee clerk.
I temped one summer and worked in a warehouse, where I was allergic to the air.
I worked as a sales associate at Bon-Ton and at K-Mart.
I was a technical writer for a computer company. I wrote the UserManual for the WIC program in Georgia, that was used in the late 1990's.
I am not coordinated enough to be a waitress.

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

A year teaching in Germany as part of my degree course, two summers working at the local library, and I set up my own webdesign business, a decade ago, but health prevented me from making a go of it.

I also worked for one week in a factory *shudder*

No exotic dancing but a photographer offered studio time to Forest in return for me posing nude for her... :)

[norda.livejournal.com]

In addition to what I've ticky-boxed, I was a repossessions agent for seven years.

I've paid my tithe to Hell.

[firebirdgrrl.livejournal.com]

I was also a PSO (phone sex operator)for a year and a half and then for about eight months years later between gigs.
It's sort of telemarketing except they call you (or the dispatcher who then sends them to you.) Oh, the stories I could tell...

[rubian77.livejournal.com]

I wasn't technically a librarian, but I worked at the Penn State library's Inter-library loan department.

And I was a waitress for one day - volunteer at the local American Legion, while my dad made the eggs to order, I delivered them to the tables (the rest was buffet fare) and got to keep all the tips.


I guess the other job didn't pan out?

[icarusfallen8.livejournal.com]

So, curious which you think would be a worse job - Your old operator job, or answering 911 calls?

[malefica-v.livejournal.com]

I wasn't a classroom teacher, but I spent 14 years wrangling grade-school kids. Before that I was a latchkey teacher & summer camp counselor. I've been paid to sit for photographers. I've been paid to be nice to gentlemen on the phone. I've worked in pet stores as a clerk and as a bookkeeper. I've been paid to sit in a classroom for the federal government but I didn't go on to the career for which they were training me. These days, I'm paid to sort the entrails of an outdated financial record system and make it give up its secrets while ticking along in good health.

[malefica-v.livejournal.com]

Oh, and how could I forget the summer of three jobs? All day at summer camp, most nights at the fast food place, and weekends were spent testing computer chips by pouring them into testing machines and discarding or retesting the rejects? UGH.