What Jobs did you have while growing up?

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What kind of jobs you have while growing up , If you can remember the ages per job you had in your past to present.


At 14 I start my first job at Burger King, worked there for couple years.

At 19 I worked at American Dental Center Inc. in the office "billing dept."

At 22 I worked at a Resturant called Roman Holiday it's a pizza shop and sandwiches.

At 22 I worked for my dad and still do in the present.;)
 
Age 13-14 delivering daily newspapers door-to-door

Age 14-15 babysitting

Age 16-18 housekeeping college dorms

Age 18-19 movie theater: concession stand, ticket sales, usher, substitute assistant manager
 
Opps... I forgot to add that I also worked at a Day Care "Little Feets" at the age of 25 for two years.
 
At age of 16 Burger King
At age of 17-18 was in Beauty School ( Hair Salon )
At age of 18 Roman Holiday Restuarant
At age of 22-32 Babysitter off and on
At age of 22-now Ribs cook-off (off and on)
 
Oops, I didn't notice the "...to present" part of the question. Here's the rest:

age 19-26 active duty Navy, Journalist

age 26-44 Naval Reserve, Journalist, then Radioman, then Journalist again; attending college

age 33-35 newspaper typesetter, freelance reporter

age 42-45 helping hubby with his business

age 45-47 housekeeping and kitchen work at Christian school (earning tuition money for interpreter training degree); attending college ITP

age 48-present sign language interpreter
 
Geez, I cannot keep track of ages anyway...

1st job: Making public appearances
( at civic clubs for school fundraising )
2nd job: Selling cookies/candies for school fundraising
3rd job: Steak n Shake kitchen helper
4th job: Saks Fifth Avenue department store Gift Wrap/cashier
5th job: Computer Operator for Xerox Corp
6th job: Computer Programmer
( for an office supply mail order company )
7th job: Computer Programmer for a huge corporation
8th job: Data Entry temporary job for Healthcare industry
9th job: IT support person
( implementing Internet communications channel
for Researchers and Engineers )
10th job: Web Research & Strategy
(reporting to Corporate VP)

Editorial Note: I still teach sign language (Part-time)
for public schools continuing adult education
programs once in awhile so I forgot to include this
 
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My first job was babysitting on and off. Then I got a job at my church to babysit 4-8 kids every Wed. night while the adults had choir practice. I did that all 4 years of high school.

My senior year of high school I was a busy bee! I was dually enrolled (still in high school while taking college classes), and worked 3 jobs: still worked for church Wednesday nights, worked for a consignment shop part time while being a journalist/photographer for a very small local newspaper. I didnt do all that because I had to, it was cuz I wanted to lol.

I worked at Subway the summer after my freshman year. The summer after my sophmore year I babysat cuz I put off looking for a real job til too late so I just took a babysitting job. The summer after my junior year (last year), I worked as a camp counselor for a camp for people with disabilities (we did have a few deaf campers). Now that I have graduated, I have my first true job that I have always wanted: teaching special education. There are no deaf students there but maybe one day in the future I will go back to my old elementary and middle school where there are deaf students.
 
age 14 to 16 babysit

age 16 to 17 worked at small store called paws in ISD (illinois school for the deaf)

age 17 to 18 worked at YMCA front desk and snack bar..

current to be college student.. has no time to work...
 
16-18 at Minneapolis Air Force National Guard (summer job)
15-18 Target
18-20 Prize Co. (a warehouse for fund-raising program)
18-19 Pizza hut delivery
19-20.. Target
20- present Walmart
22-present home based business
24-present.. home mortgage, life insurance advisor

There's some more jobs.. but its temporary for a few months or weeks...
 
15-17 Housekeeping at doctor clinic
17 summer job cleaning tables at mexican restaurant
19-22 Housekeeping at manufacturing company
23-26 File Clerk/Data Entry at bank
26-30 Data Entry clerk/Data Processing at different doctor clinic
30-35 Account Payable clerk at insurance company
35-37 promoted to Senior Account Payable Coordinator
37-42 Vocational Skills Specialist and Independent Living Skills Coordinator for the deaf
present: Teach ASL1
 
From 11 to 17 years old:
Work at "The Green Man Pub/resturant" during school and college holiday to earn my own pocket money and support myself with anything what I want.

List of my age what I doing in The Green Man pub/resturant:

11 to 15 years old: help in the kitchen for resturant and morning cleaning before the pub open, of course help them with wedding preparation in resturant.

15-17 years old: help to pick emply glasses from customers table and wash the glasses. Sometimes I serve the drink for them. The customers are friendly and know I'm deaf. The pub owner & his family is like family to me. I look mature for my age which everyone thought I'm over 18 years old that's time I was 15 years old. lol

I left college and unemployment for 3 months and still work for The Green Man until I got a full time job to work for Police Criminal Unit when I was 17 years old until I'm married and move away to Germany when I was 22 years old. I do work for The Green Man Pub sometimes when they need my help for wedding, christening, any occassion preparation sometimes to 22 years old.

I love them very much and it's mixed feeling to give them farewell before I married and left to live in Germany. Our last visited to them during summer holiday 2000 and was told that the pub owner & his family sell their pub and move away. :tears: I thought about them sometimes because they are such loving people and know my family background.

I got job and work for US army caserne in Germany since January 1986 and still work until...................???????????
 
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Age 14 to 17, Jewlery Factory only during school vacation

Age 17 to 19, People Saving Bank

Age 19 to 20, Tutor and sign language at Winsted Community College

Age 21, Teacher assisant at Hong Kong School for the Deaf for six months.

Age 21-22, Connecticut Trust Bank, processing check
Age 21-22, Overnight Residental Advisor at American School for the Deaf

Age 22 to 26, Internal Revune Service in Hartford, CT

Age 26 to NOW, US Army Soldier and Biological Chemical Center

Evening job Now: Human Service at the Deaf Outreach Program

Hopefully, I can retire from the Federal Government when I will become 55 years old. :smoking:

I am tired of work work work rest of my life. :(
 
Liebling:-))) said:
From 11 to 17 years old:
Work at "The Green Man Pub/resturant" during school and college holiday to earn my own pocket money and support myself with anything what I want.

List of my age what I doing in The Green Man pub/resturant:

11 to 15 years old: help in the kitchen for resturant and morning cleaning before the pub open, of course help them with wedding preparation in resturant.

I love them very much and it's mixed feeling to give them farewell before I married and left to live in Germany. Our last visited to them during summer holiday 2000 and was told that the pub owner & his family sell their pub and move away. :tears: I thought about them sometimes because they are such loving people and know my family background.
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Where were you resident before Germany? America ?? Where the Green Man pub resturant is??
 
Sabrina said:
Where were you resident before Germany? America ?? Where the Green Man pub resturant is??
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London.

The Green Man Pub resturant is between Hendon and Colindale, North West London.
 
I worked as a Teenage Correspondent for the Staten Island Advance when I was 14-15.

16-17, I worked for Friendly's Restaurant. I was a hostess and seated people, as well as dealt with some ice cream, etc...needless to say, I think I gained a little weight while working for them...LOL.

I did odd babysitting jobs...

I worked also as a bowling alley manager for a little less than a year...the alley closed down due to budgetary issues within the army post - and I had my son...so I never went back.

Working for Toys R Us now - been there since 2002, and still dealing with toys. :)

Also working a second evening job at Molyn Enterprises. They deal with supplying goods to schools and other organizations for fund-raising sales, holiday fairs, etc...
 
11yrold to present:: Nanny for my niece (I have been her nanny since she born. She was my first "babysit" gig at age 11 when she was four months old... POOR ME, I was soo inexperienced and contained no knowledge why a baby cried constantly!) whenever she is in the town (three months straight annually) with no paid wages. I only got paid if my niece got her friends coming over to play so their parents paid me... because they were not my relatives ;)

16yrold::: teacher's assistant for American Sign Language class at my highschool for $2.35 per hour... that was three years ago. NOT even a minimum wage!

17yrold to present::: hauler, petsitter, housemaid (intensely last summer and HATED it... but money was good).

(IN THE FUTURE)19yrold::: internship with SDSU/UCSD for a deaf group who advocates medical students to learn ASL and understand deaf cultures to ensure medical care for them.

Most of those jobs are not on payroll so I dont exactly have any REAL job experience especially in a workplace from 9 to 4.
 
14- p/t off-book paid summer job at an office
16-17 or 18- p/t stock clerk at a supermarket
20-present- f/t general office works at a payroll company. reports, investigations and payrolls.
 
I couldn't remember the ages but.. in order

1) Delivering newspapers door to door during in middle school - high school (included babysitting too)
2) Teacher's aide during Junior & Senior in High School to tutor students in math, history, governments/politics and biology classes
3) Construction (right after HS graudation)
4) Trainer at health club (my fav job)
5) One-to-one specialist with special kids at deaf schools (three different states and included counselor at dorm for one year as full-time job, yes two full-time jobs at same time. hence why only one year, it killed me faster than I thought)
6) Landscaping during only summers as odd jobs or part-time jobs (two summers when my job as specialist position is closed for summer)
7) Teaching ASL for interpreters at deaf school & college as part-time jobs
8) Current job: IT Specialist

9?) Possible new job: Political Analyst for newspaper, I filled up the application and interviewed twice included showed my works... the interviewer was saying that it is more likely that I will get a job. I like IT Specialist position (very flexible) but I think political Analyst is more fun for me, well for a while. To be honest with you, I am bit tired with paper works, I miss the labor/phyiscal works. I want to save the paper works for doctor position in the future... I probably will apply at Target as stock boy for part-time job so I can focus on college & exam bit more rather than full time job at big corporation as IT specialist. Not decide yet. College is far important than my current job but money talks.
 
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91: Ad/Central of America
92: Ad/Central of America, Krogers
93: Krogers
94: Krogers, Texas Instruments, Fujitsu, Microtech, Domino's Pizza
95: Domino's Pizza, Blockbuster Video
96: Blockbuster Video
97: Blockbuster Video
98: Blockbuster Video, AT&T Wireless HQ
99: Blockbuster Video, AT&T Wireless, JcPenney HQ, NTID Office of the Dean
00: NTID Office of the Dean
01: NTID Office of the Dean, Blockbuster Video
02: n/a
03: NTID Student Congress
04: NTID Student Congress, Student Life Team
 
Oh boy.

Lets see...not sure about ages but its pretty much in order.

8-23: Worked at Grandpa's Farm, Graham County, KS during summer vacations

High School: McDonald's Restaurant and Doubletree Arabian Farm during school months

College: Kelly Temporary Services, Otis Brown Stables, and USU Dairy Farm during school months

Edison Brothers, Data Entry Department

Data Solutions Systems, Data Entry Department

Plaza Dental, Office Clerk

PAI, Data Entry Department

Delta Dental, Data Entry Department

Commerical Coverage, Inc., Insurance Clerk

Insurance Overload Systems and Today's Temporary Services, Office Clerk/Data Entry

39-present: Washington Group International, Inc., Senior Administrative Clerk

I know there are more jobs than this, but this is pretty much the major jobs Ive had.

And in between, still going to college. Am in college part time right now. Boy, am I tired!
 
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