Working on it
As seen here:
Just list all the jobs you’ve had in your life, in order. Don’t bust your brain: no durations or details are necessary, and feel free to omit anything that you feel might tend to incriminate you. I’m just curious. And when you’re done, tag another five bloggers you’re curious about.
Nice to know that blogdom, at least, still pays heed to the Fifth Amendment.
That said, I’ve done all of the following:
- Newspaper carrier
- Fast-food drone, including burger-griller and taco tucker
- Personnel clerk
- Infantryman [more or less contemporaneous with "personnel clerk"]
- Inventory specialist
- Accounts-receivable clerk
- Customer-service specialist
- Tape librarian
- Accounts-payable clerk
- Destroyer of used equipment
- Telephone order-taker
- Server operator
- Website backend management [recently contemporaneous with "server operator"]
I need hardly point out that I was better at some of these than at others. And the order is not always precisely chronological: for one thing, I had two stints at “newspaper carrier,” roughly nine years apart.
My belated Christmas/on-time Boxing Day present: I’m not gonna tag you.
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Tatyana »
26 December 2008 · 3:51 pm
Are those supposed to be jobs they paid you – in actual money- or other means of compensation qualifyable, too? Then I should add cooking, cleaning and knitting sweaters for my family.
“Destroyer of used equipment”…sounds dreamy.
CGHill »
26 December 2008 · 4:05 pm
All these positions involved actual paychecks.
The Destroyer job was temporary, but amusing: old cable boxes removed from service were to be rendered unusable, lest someone figure out how to get them back into service without paying. We took them to a local auto-salvage joint, and as old rusting hulks of cars were sent to the shredder, we filled up their seats with cable boxes.
Kay Dennison »
26 December 2008 · 4:18 pm
This could be fun! If I try it, I’ll let you know. On the other hand there are jobs that I’ve had that I don’t even want to think about.
Tatyana »
26 December 2008 · 5:40 pm
Oh no, Mr.Destroyer, I imagined something a bit more SF: warehouse of unserviceable robots…compact alien missions, fit inside luggage locker at a railroad station…Chaz The Transformer armed with flamethrower against rows of packaged bacteriological weapons…
Tape Librarian sound intriguing, too. Was it in strategically placed Intelligence Headquarters, deep in OK wilderness?
CGHill »
27 December 2008 · 11:58 am
I can assure you, Headquarters evinced not the slightest quantity of Intelligence.
The library was in transition in those days: ancient 10½-inch reels in one section, then-new IBM 3480 cartridge tapes, which looked suspiciously like 8-tracks, in another. One of my tasks was to evaluate scratch tapes for quality: tapes that no longer passed muster at 6250 cpi were retested to see if they could do the job at 1600. We didn’t have a testing facility for the cartridges: either they worked or they failed, and usually when they failed it was because the little plastic piece on the loader ripped away from the tape itself. I fixed more of these than I’d rather remember. The cartridges had serious density — 38000 cpi — but throughput was never all that impressive.
The Anger of Compassion »
27 December 2008 · 11:37 pm
Workin’ on the chain gang?…
Got this from Charles at dustbury, and, like him, my Festivus/Christmas/Boxing Day present (to fellow bloggers, if no one else) is that I’m not tagging anyone. So, without further ado, I present jobs that I’ve held:…
BPD in OKC »
27 December 2008 · 11:53 pm
…taco tucker sounds so dirty…
hehe
BatesLine »
28 December 2008 · 9:56 am
The jobs meme…
My paying gigs, in roughly chronological order:…
Bounded Rationality »
31 December 2008 · 10:23 am
My Jobs Meme…
I wasn’t going to do this, but this “transmission” is inherited from Michael Bates, Bobby Holt, and Mr. Hill who runs the Dustbury blog. …