age 14 Corpus Christi: Used Car Lot. Worked with illegal aliens for less than min wage. Owner later busted for selling heroin. 15 Corpus Christi: Pizza Hut 17 Corpus Christi: Phoenix Tel-Data (dad's company, fixing phones, pulling cable) 19 Huntsville: Stop N Go (a few months) 19 Huntsville: Programmer for SHSU 22 Austin: A whole lot of nothing. Never found a job. 22 Houston: (after graduating) Perot Systems (laid off when the office closed) 23 Los Angeles: UCLA -- Webmaster 24 Los Angeles: Freelanced in IT, kept doing on the side after, also did street vending between jobs and on the side when I had them. 25 Los Angeles:Edmunds.com (early employee...did everything, left as a Unix Sys Admin) 31 Columbus, GA: Intern at the Springer Opera House 31 Tel Aviv: Musician, dilatante, graduate student (MA), illegal crap jobs for cash 32 Tel Aviv: Contractor for diamonds.net: journalist/some IT (still a student and musician)
hollywood movies 16 (now 20) - deer park-pasadena dennys - spencer highway cadillac bar and grill - kemah einsteins bros bagels - drag in austin ipg advertising - houston (door to door) pizza hut - deer park berlitz school - prague border grill - spencer highway the mckinely village -denali alaska pappas seafood - i45 marios pizza - pasadena boulevard jazz on the town hostel - midtown manhattan george o'neils steakhouse - midtown manhattan magpies pizza - tucson golden sickle hostel - prague www.vicesisters.com - prague accurate air systems - houston 24/7 plumbing - tucson USA Hostels - Los Angeles Woodmen Nissan - Colorado Springs Withrow Painting - Kennebunkport maine AutoEurope - Portland maine Prostitute handler - Richmond Virginia Currently Unemployed back in Houston Im sure theres others but I forget as I drink alot
I "interviewed", but my mom steered me straight. High school: Eckerd - cashier College and post-college for way too long: Traders Village: office Now: CenterPoint Energy: technical writer
Hey undercover hiring manager, how 'bout a Social Security Number and current home address thread, too? -but alas, my ego compels me.... Kroger - Sacker (2 months, it's odd to be 17, in high school, have no allowance or car, and still know you can do a lot better for yourself than mopping the women's bathroom, hauling carts for tips or receiving the occasional "smushed bread" diatribe) SWT Honors Summer Math Camp - Senior Counselor (6 wks) UH Office of Graduate and Research Studies - Office Assistant (Was told I'd be learning and updating a database, ended up moving boxes and shredding paper for 2-3 months, worst job I ever had) UT Houston Health Science Center - Summer Accounting Intern (8 wks) Howard Frazier Barker Elliot - Financial Analyst Intern (13 very rewarding and fufilling months with the smartest, most interesting twenty- and thirtysomethings I've ever known, was pretty heartbroken when I realized I wouldn't get a full-time position) Merrill Lynch - Sales Intern (2 very humbling, unpaid months of cold-calling at the Galleria Financial Center) Walgreen - Retail Management Trainee (easiest interview in the midst of my my soul-crushing senior year job search, two-and-a-half weeks until I got a better job, but was fully prepared to make a career of it after college) -Now I'm at an energy company that was once a division of a really big energy corporation, but was sold to another corp in the Midwest, and I moved with the job. 2nd generation energy industry (grew up in Baytown), but not nearly as fond of calculus or chemistry as my late engineer Dad.
Sacker at Randalls Sales Assistant at Riviana Foods (summer internship) Clerk at Litton Mortgage (summer intership) Waiter, various, college Reeve, various Vanderbilt dorms Bartender Part time rat lab tech at Vandy hospital IQ/Personality Tester, Alief ISD IT, Apache Oil and Gas Computer Store Manager/Marketing/Buyer Energy Analyst Gas Scheduler Natgas Trader Energy Consultant Natgas Trader
Michael's, stocker, 6 weeks Compusa, cashier, 1.5 yrs Everyone's Internet, tech support, 3 yrs Gelb Consulting (market research), IT summer intern After college Diverse Networks, network analyst, 1.5 yrs Northrop Grumman/Unocal, network admin, 1yr ABB Lummus, network admin, 4 months JPMorgan, system analyst, 8 months Current place, network engineer
15-16 Wiping down cars at a car wash in KCMO 16-17 Loading trucks at EFD in KCMO 17-18 Computer Operator at UFS in Des Moines 18-19 Iowa State Whiskey Chugging Champ and overall great card player and Frisbee golfer 19-20 Inman Construction in Des Moines 20-21 KMart in Des Moines 21 Montgomery Ward in Houston (I lasted all of 1 day – back to school special in boys wear) 21 Waiter in Houston (I forgot the place but I lasted 1 month before I quit. It was next to Sam’s Place (before it was a strip club). On my very last night, I told the owner to stay off my back or he’d be wearing this vest and finishing the tables.) 21-25 University of Houston during the day and UPS at night 25-30 Programmer at University of Texas Health Science Center – School of Public Health 30-37 Programmer at Texas Commerce Bank 37-now Programmer at Unum
i've known Dennis for about 15 years. how do you know him? edit: uh-oh...maybe i shouldn't be admitting this . . . ?
In no particular order: Burger flipper at Wendy's and Burger King (1 shift only - Nasa Rd. 1) Gas station Attendant Pottery Barn - Webster Lowes Movie Theatre - Webster DJ for college dances/ Entertainment committee - 3 years DJ/Entertainment for Upward Bound Program 3 summers. Small Video Stores - One in Friendswood & One in Tunnel Downtown Overhire for ESPN baseball at the Dome 6 or 7 games Actor in 4 or 5 tv commercials - (Remember the San Jac "So where you gonna go?" ads? - I was in a few of those - my voice was in all of them) I did several gigs with a company that took Historical/Education shows to grade school kids in HISD. Did tech for some acted in others. Did one voice over for ADV films (some obscure anime series) Kellsey Seabold - front desk (Worst Job Ever) Trammell Crow - Facilities Management Overhire for Alley Theatre - Striking and Setting up Shows Alley Theatre Sound Tech - 4 years Started and ran my own non-profit theatre - 5 years Lighting Design firm 5 years Use my sound equipment to help Houston Public Library hold special events. (Get to meet Power Dancers tomorrow!) Stay at Home Dad - 5 months and counting
Sacker - Randall's Batting Cage Attendant - Memorial City Mall Cash Control - Memorial City Mall Copy writer for ads directed to teens - Memorial City Mall Information Booth - Memorial City Mall Marketing & PR Intern - Houston Chronicle Marketing Director - Benchmark Communications Judicial Intern - First Court of Appeals Attorney - shared a practice with two partners since 2000.
In order.. EZ Pawn ( sales and loan rep, it was hilarious the kinda **** people will pawn) - 3 months... Probably the 2nd worst job I ever had, I was 18 Wing Stop (droppin wings in oil...good times) - 8 months.. Not as bad a job as you would think. Houston Eyecare Clinic (i did so many things here.. doctors assistant, optician, filing, verifying, billing, everything short of giving an exam) - 1year 2 months... best job I've had but too much work for little pay Forever Living Products (Clerk..normal clerk crap) - 1 year... it was ok until the new management came HP - 1 day ( i kid you not) ... horrible grunt work. Telecheck (bill collector) - 3 months.. Worst job ever.. i collected on bounced checks to Wal-mart, so you can imagine the kinda people I had to deal with. Bancomer (customer service) - 3 months... temp position and my first real office job Marketing Agent for a Mortgage Company (pointless stupid job) - 4 months...boring ass job. Quisqueyana (2nd best job, Anti-Money Laundering Compliance Analyst - 4 months... job I was just laid off from i am now 22.
Oh Lord, haven't thought about some of this stuff in awhile, and using the criteria that if I got paid, it's a job: pre-16: yardwork for about 10 different houses in the 'hood - mow, pull weeds, spread mulch, plant plants, trim limbs, all that stuff; summers I did ranch work: built fence and a billion other little things. H.S, '92-93: Hungry's (Memorial & Kirkwood) - waiter & delivery guy, awesome job, huge walk-in beer cooler we could raid after closing; Roofing & cabinet work in the summers. Man that sucked. College Summers: Comerica Bank - Credit Dept. Assistant; Asst. in the Energy Lending Group Since College: Asst. Comptroller at a real estate firm IT Consultant: automated financial systems & a bunch o' other stuff (Thank you Y2K! Ka-Ching!) Project Manager & eventually CFO for a real estate investment & construction firm; Self employed real estate manager/investor; Bartender/Waiter/Sushi chef: Tamarindo, Costa Rica; Self employed real estate manager/consultant; Ranch Foreman: Blanco County, Texas; Contract employee for CPA firm (current); English teacher: Mar del Plata, Argentina (June).
Junior High The Rat Trap, Stuttgart, Germany (1 summer) - Basically we kept the base clean...mowing, sweeping, painting, etc. Burger King, Stuttgart, Germany (1 summer) - Register, fries, burger board...I pretty much did it all. High School Burger King, Littleton, CO (1 year) - Did it all Burger King, Highlands Ranch, CO (2 years) - Did it all. My last year I was a Crew Leader as well. After High School Quiznos, El Paso, TX (1 year) - Crew Leader, but basically worked nights during the week. Burger King, Abilene, TX (2 months) - Crew Leader, left because they wouldn't let me work morning like I wanted. Wendy's, Abilene, TX (2.5 years) - Started off as the "maintenance opener" but after being there for about a year I was made a manager. Olive Garden, Lewisville, TX (6.25 years) - Started off as a server, after a year I both served and bartended, and for the past year I've been only bartending with a little training thrown in as well.
