Popcorn place leaflet delivery guy/sucker (mostly the sucker) - 1 day Po Folks - Busboy (got fired for popping a waitress on the butt with a towel. The waitress didn't care, but some fat guy claimed water got on his empty plate and wanted his entire meal paid for. My manager reminded me of Dennis on Fast Times at Ridgmont High. ~ 3 months Kmart - Sales clerk in Automotive - Got canned for giving the customers the wrong part of the credit card receipt. I didn't know it. It took them 6 weeks to figure it out. I was 16 and they treated it like I was a hardened criminal. - 6 weeks Kentucky Fried Chicken - I couldn't afford to keep replacing my shoes, but the leftovers I got to bring home were incredible - 2 months Godfather's Pizza - This is where I met my soon to be ex-wife. I had fun working at this place and still think their pizzas are da bomb. I used to drink the beer on those slow Sundays. Things changed for the worst when they moved me from the West Montgomery store to FM1960. The manager of that store was an absolute tool, who later got fired for embezzlement. I quit during the Big Topper promo in 1986 and left that a-hole by himself to make 20 orders (around 30 pizzas). He deserved it. Trust me. - 1.5 years. VCA Teletronics - QC tech mostly. I got paid to watch videos ranging from p*rn to Mormon training and Metro Dade homicide. I learned alot. The last 2 months I worked in the VCR repair. The Mormons decided to dupe their own videos, so my lucky butt was let go - 14 months. Compaq/HP - 19 years (current) - I have doen just about everything here. I'm a Project Manager in training at the moment, but was a developer for the previous 5 years.
Hmm, nice original topic... High school Sold magazine subscriptions for the Sierra Club (Summer 93) McDonalds slave (1994-96) College Eckerd Drugs (1996-97) The Southwestern Company (Summer 97) - Sold books door-to-door Morehouse Financial Aid Office (Summer 97) - work study Morehouse Business Department (Fall 1997) - work study Texas Tech Fundraising Dept (Spring 98) - begged alums for money Texas Tech office of something (Spring 98) - work study Racetrac (Summer 98) Morehouse Business Department (1998-00) - work study Business Mgmt Firm in ATL (1998-99) - Intern...helped account for funds for Usher, Outkast and P.Diddy (GREAT COLLEGE JOB) Big 5 Accounting Firm (Summer 99) - Intern Morehouse Yearbook (1999-00) - Business/Office manager for the yearbook Enron (Summer 2000) - Intern UT Dean of Students Office (2000-01) - organized the Running of the Horns race Grown Up Big 5 Accounting Firm (2001-02) Big 4 Accounting Firm (2002-04) Regional Accounting Firm (2004-06) Private Real Estate Service Organization (2006) National Investment Brokerage Firm (2007)
High School - pizza parlor, phone sales, delivery driver for pharmacy College - UT Alumni Association mailroom, hearing test research subject, guitar lesson instructor Post-College - IT gigs w/investment firms, real estate companies & non-profits
Fun thread. Kroger - Houston (Louetta and Kuykhendahl) -- cashier, video jerk, front end manager jerk UT Austin - Jester dorms - convenient store worker US Marine Corps Reserves (if you count that as a job) - infantry unit, mortars Intel - corp finance - San Francisco Gap Inc. - corp finance / marketing - San Francisco Schoastic Book Clubs - database marketing - New York Freelance writer (movie reviews, bar reviews, celeb interviews, dating junk, etc) - New York Nightlife Editor/Writer - Clubplanet.com - New York
bass player, band beach bum drug dealer construction homebuilder missionary chemical plant pastor hr manager/pastor
Sacker - Brookshire Brothers - Katy (I was 15 at the time, I worked there with RM95's sister) Sacker - Safeway - Fry Road Delivery Driver - Pizza Palace - Mason Road Ceiling Fan Assembly - Ceiling Fans Unlimited Night Clerk - Texaco - Mason Road Asst. Manager - Red Cross Shoes - Memorial City Mall Asst. Manager - Snappy Car Rental - Gessner Delivery Driver then Digital Prepress Operator - Image Output - Houston Night Manager then Day Shift Manager - Image Output Freelance Graphic Design - Houston Art Director/Production Manager - Pegasus Design - Houston (10 years) Art Director - Pennebaker Design (3 years) Senior Production Artist/Print Production Manger - Origin Design (Current)
Let’s do this by decades & location: 70’s: Okinawa -Bireley’s Drink: sold soda & popcorn @ HS football games (.50 a hr) -US Army (dependent): Tore down duece and a halfs and built skids 70’s: Michigan -Yankee’s Department Store: clerk -American Steel: press operator -G.R.E.A.T.: Grand Rapids Eats & Treats: waiter -US Army: Company Clerk -Musician: Turban, Crossroads, Basement Blues Band, HAZ 80’s: Texas-El Campo - Haliburton: Pump Truck driver - Hard Times: Bartender 80’s: Texas-Houston - The Beer Garten: Bartender - The Parlour: Bartender 80’s: Shreveport, LA - El Chico’s: Bartender 80’s: El Campo - some cheap hotel: night clerk - Greek Brothers Oyster Bar & Saloon: Bartender - Louie Louie’s (bar-owner) 80’s: Dallas - Chevron: clerk - Qwest Communications: Site Monitor 90’s: Memphis - Qwest Communications: Terminal Tech - Genegraphics: Graphic Tech (print service bureau) 90’s: Atlanta - Data Slide: Graphic Tech (print service bureau) 90’s: Dallas - Frito-Lay: PowerPoint Specialist 90’s: San Antonio - The Scooter Store: Graphic Artist 2000: San Antonio/Denton - Satori Designs (own graphic business) - International Insights: PowerPoint Specialist/Graphic Artist/Photographer ok, ok, so I'm old and took a lot of time trying to figure out what the hell I'm suppose to do.....(sigh) Of course, while I was hitchhiking around the USofA in the 70's and 80's, I had lots of jobs in the food industry. RR
i knew there was at least one i'd forgotten -- and it's (somewhat) current! VICE Magazine (Austin - distribution/party planner)
Junior High Worked at my parents business and depending on the time of year, it was either a pumpkin patch, Christmas tree farm or a petting zoo.. I think I did that when I was in 6th grade till I was almost out of 8th grade High School 1. Cut the same 8 lawns after school or on the weekends all during high school (hard job, but I loved it) 2. KB Toys Town and Country Mall 3. Local Dry cleaner (medium starch and heavy starch are the same thing BTW) 4. Construction for about 6 months off and on 5. Julian’s Katy Mills Mall (waiter>doorman>game tech) 6. GH Bass Katy Mills Mall (Sales) College 1. Applebee’s waiter (I won’t eat at one now, too many bad memories) 2. Brooks Brothers (summer job back home in sales) 3. University Tower PC support 4. University Tower resident advisor After having so many jobs I hated doing, I'm very grateful for my current job in the IT field that I got lucky enough to land out of college..
HS: Fuddruckers - cashier, expeditor, cook, pseudo-waiter College: Art teacher - JCC Summer Art Camp Asst to Curator and Asst to preparator at a small art museum Texas Art Supply - 2 DAYS! Post-college/grad school (some overlap): Asst Director, art gallery reasearch & teaching assistant Curatorial Assistant, NGA, D.C. Object Conservation Adjunct Instructor lady of leisure
High School - Randalls - sacker. I was fired because the manager didn't believe that I wanted this as a career. Kroger - sacker - got caught steeling Target - stocker, cust. serv., cashier College - Some car wash in San Antonio - lasted 1 day Soccer Haus Professional trainer of youth soccer teams - favorite job...got paid about $1000 cash per team per month Woodlans Raquetball Club - front desk Doc's Deli - this was my Dad's place...closed after 1 year Greek Tony's Pizza - 4 years as a driver Bass Outlet store in Conroe - met my wife here. Post-college Litigation Asst. at small downtown Austin firm Concept Services - Restaurant equip. dealer account manager...from 7-5-2000 to 4-9-2007...still waiting on an answer as to why I was let go.
Greg D'Avignon was my little league coach and Ryan and I were on the same team several times. They have the greasiest pizza anywhere but man did I have some great times in there growing up. I know he had our team banner (the big red Bills one) up in the store for a long time. My dad and Greg used to go drinking at Molly's all the time too.
I think the interest at that crap that they sell at those Rent to Own places is worse than credit card interest. Usually, it's not even quality merchandise.
Ha, I got hired at the one on 1960. I went home, thought about it, and decided not to show up for my first day of work. Sounds like I did the right thing.
Paperboy - 3 yrs --(back in the day when we actually had to go door to door and collect payments) Hardee's - 2 yrs It jobs: York Bank - 5 yrs York International - 10 months (Fortune 500 -- air conditioners etc....) Book-of-the-Month Club - 13 yrs ($1 books) Capital Blue Cross - 2 yrs Armstrong World Industries (ceiling/flooring) - 3 yrs and counting I also currently work every other weekend at the Lehman Center which is a crisis shelter for kids from birth to age 6 who find themselves in situations little kids shouldn't be in. but this is my favorite job ever!!!!
This should be fun: HEB - Cashier/Sacker - 2 months Casa Ole - Waiter - 1 month Deer Park ISD - Summer Maintenance Worker - 3 weeks Teksystems - Lots and lots of various IT Contracts - 4 years ConocoPhillips - Systems Admin - 3 years Stewart Title - Systems Admin - Present
LOL I too got suckered into selling Cutco door to door (only those bastards disguised it in the mass letter as a "business opportunity to Vector) Also sacked for Krogers Sold Womens Shoes at JC Penney Worked as a Ramp agent for Continental for 5 years Now I run my own Aviation Security Business in Latin America
Baskin Robbins 1981 Camp Counselor 1982 Burger King 1983 Astroworld (cook, cashier, manager) 1984-1985 Pantera's Pizza (driver) 1986 Chevron Geosciences (computer room) 1986-1987 American General (print shop) 1988 Tex-Cal Inventory Service 1989 Intern (court) 1990 Law Clerk to a Judge 1991-1993 Private Law Practice 1993-1994 ISP Sysadmin 1993-1994 Law Clerk to a Judge 1995-present
