High School 1990 - Sacker at Gerlands Food Fair on Uvalde & Wallisville 1991 - Dishwasher/Busby at Black Eyed Pea in the day, then Hastings Music at San Jacinto Mall at night College 1991-1995 - Delivery Driver at Mr. Gatti's Pizza in Huntsville 1994 - Silverwings Ballroom (skating rink in Huntsville) This job was fun, but they closed 1994 - intern - KTRK Channel 13 - fun, but no pay..they wanted me to stay after the internship was done..but I needed money 1995 - 1998 - EVN, Educational Video Network - Produced Educational Videos for Middle & High Schools 1998 - 2007 - Jeff Watts Productions - Producer/Editor of various sports TV shows, including High School Xtra, Big 12 Showcase, Dallas Cowboys Weekly, The Rangers Report (Texas Rangers Baseball show) and other sports related broadcasts 2007 - present - Daystar Television Network - Associate Producer at the 2nd largest and fastest growing Christian TV Network in the world.
I had an unpaid job like that in college - it was me playing my upright bass and a few other musicians that got to go to the modern dance classes. We were asked to play different types of music and the dancers would "move" to whatever we played. Let's just say I learned how to make some really greasy, sexy grooves on the bass that semester. I even got a few dates out of it.
*Some overlap due to summer part-time and full-time sharing 1993 - 1995 Video Store clerk - U.S. Video Express (most of you from the Heights will 'memmer this) 1994 - 1995 Crawford Elementary School Instructional Aide (basically jack-of-all trades, clerk, teacher aide, etc.) 1993 - 1996 Summer internship at UH Engineering with Dr. Paskuz ---- Following are all in the current work place: 1994 - 1998 Computer Lab assistant (summers only) 1995 - 2010 Lab Assistant, Technology Learning assistant, User Support technician, Web Technical Specialist, Web & Server Technical Programmer, Web & Unix Administrator bold denotes PART TIME WHAT? No latex salesman experience?!?!?
Don't remember the name. Don't remember anyone I worked with, actually but I probably would've remembered a drummer. This was a few summers in the early 90's. Awesome. My favorite story about this "job" is one day I showed up a few minutes late and all the girls were sitting around in a circle rubbing each other's backs and then rotating to the next person. The instructor said "Oh, I forgot to call and tell you....today is massage day (or something to that effect) and we don't need you. But if you want, you can hang around and get in the circle!" So for the next hour, I got to give and receive back-rubs from every chick in the entire class. That was a day I won't soon forget. Did I mention that I still got paid for it? :grin:
I had like 10 job throughout college. Did landscaping, dinning room dish wishing, computer help desk, library, lab assistant, professor research assistant. The library job was most memorable for a wrong reason. I was first asked to do stack checking. Now stack check is not a job for human, it's a torture. You go through rows after rows books and to see if they are out of orders in call numbers. I did that for about two days, then decided that I will check for 20 minutes and take a nap for the rest. Awesome naps for about several months, until one day the big butt lady caught me in one of the study rooms I was hiding and sleeping. She didn't wake me up, but just stood there. At the begining, I though it was just a dream. Ok, they didn't fire me. They sent me to repair broken book bindings next. I freaking hate it. All library jobs are tortures.
Summer 2010: Law firm Summer and winter of 2008-2009: Non-profit global and public policy think tank Summer of 2007: Different bulge bracket investment bank Summer of 2006: Bulge bracket investment bank Summer of 2003-2005: State Department
The one in 5th Ward? I did some tutoring for kids there when I was in high school. The church I went to at the time was across the street from there.
When I was 13 I worked at the ice cream store at Sharpstown Mall. At 15 worked as a telemarketer for the Texas State Troopers Association. Worked there all through high school and a little into college. At 19 started waiting tables at Panchos Mexican Buffet. At 21 I joined a band in the Brenham area and then another in the same area that I played with until I was about 28. Then I worked at Dueling Piano Bars, Crocodile Rocks on 6th Street in Austin and then Pat O'Briens in San Antonio. For the last 5 years I've been working at Pete's Dueling Piano bar here in Austin. In addition to all of this I've been going to school off and on for the last 18 years.
Apples and oranges IMO. Both require many hours per week (~90+ average) and they both pay well. In law, I find more time to myself whether in an office where either I'm researching (or spending time on CF) or with a client at lunch, and just working on briefs, etc. In banking, I worked on spreadsheet after spreadsheet, pitch books after pitch books. No social life or interactions. I lived at the office it seems. In the end, I prefer law.
Cinemark Inc. Concessionist CVS Pharmacy- Tech Univ of Texas freshmen mentor (starting this year) If luck goes my way, might be a Undergrad TA for research for UT... hopefully I'll find out soon :grin:
