Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho, It's Off to Work We Go

Erik Bates | April 18, 2004
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Melissa Erin | April 18, 2004
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Denise Sawicki | April 18, 2004
I didn't have a job until college, at which point I worked for a series of different physics professors doing anything from making photocopies to sticking a cyllinder full of glass beads into a hydraulic press to sitting around in front of a computer doing virtually nothing. The glass beads thing was during my brief stint in graduate school. After quitting grad school my first job was as a dog-walker. I did that for a few months and then moved back to Fargo and became a computer programmer.

Nadine Russell | April 18, 2004
I've held some strange jobs. The list is sort of long. I've been working since I was 16.
High school - Arena staff (supervise ice skating, move hockey nets, etc)
Laborer in iron ore mine
Tourist information center worker/tour guide
Computer lab worker
New media project slave (aka coffee girl)
Brief stint filling in lemming holes in graves in a cemetery (creepiest job held)
Flash developer
Tim Hortons coffee girl
Outgoing call center
Cashier
Cash supervisor
Home Decor associate
Graphic Designer.
I think I've done a little bit of everything.

Steve West | April 19, 2004
My first job was also in my first semester of college where I was a math tutor.
Followed by:
Dark room film developer
Lab assistant at Department of Agriculture - Human studies in the Carbohydrate lab. (Freeze-drying fecal samples a specialty, I might note)
Audiologist
Broiler cook
Book store cashier
Corporate concierge
Counselor for mentally retarded adults at a vocational rehabilitation center.
Currently the senior check processor at a credit union.

Jackie Mason | April 19, 2004
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Jackie Mason | April 19, 2004
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Anna Gregoline | April 19, 2004
* Library page through high school
* Promoted to Desk Clerk in college, worked in the summer/winter when I went home
* Lame sociology department page job in college
* Out of college - Lawyer's Helper Monkey for an immigration office, fired from that
* Now working for another law firm in the records department

Scott Hardie | April 21, 2004
I am shocked and disgusted that you would use a derogatory term like "ho" in the title of this discussion, Erik.

Melissa Erin | April 21, 2004
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Erik Bates | April 21, 2004
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Scott Hardie | April 21, 2004
Sorry Anna, had to say it. Forgive me? =)

I've worked at two insurance agencies, four Taco Bells, a comic book store, a college newspaper, a Target, a real estate office, and a Steak N Shake. Gee, I wonder why I can't seem to get my career going?

Kris Weberg | April 21, 2004
Worked at a gorcery store and a phoen survey center in highs chool during summers, then during summers from college worked at Sears, and later Blockbuster.

I had a one-term token job as a professor's generic assistant/page, but that barely counts. Currently working at Starbucks, but will be paid more to go to grad school starting in Fall.

Anthony Lewis | April 23, 2004
Let's see:

Fourmen Baggage Co. - JFK Airport (High school)
Coast Guard Hdqtrs - Washington DC (July-September '86)
Balmar Printing - Arlington, VA (November '86-Nov. '88)
Central Blueprint Co. - Great Neck, NY (December '88 -April 93)
NYC Transit - (April '93-current)

All-in-all..total time between jobs: six weeks. I've been blessed.

Anna Gregoline | April 23, 2004
I wasn't mad at you, but I didn't really think it was funny. Who likes being poked fun at when they were earlier dead serious?