What Glorious Jobs Did You Have Growing Up?

candyliquor35m
candyliquor35m Posts: 2,267
edited April 2008 in The Clubhouse
1. Mowed lawns for 2 summers
2. Fry cook, dishwasher, pot scrubber, potato peeler, pop bottle sorter in a restaurant for 2 years
3. Pumped gas, fixed tires, changed oil, changed belts, hoses etc, washed waxed and detailed cars at gas stations for 4 years.
4. Detassled corn for a day or 2.
5. Bailed hay for a day or 2.
6. Clerk typist at a insurance co. for a summer.
7. Projectionist and usher at a movie theater for 3 years (college).
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  • janmike
    janmike Posts: 6,146
    edited March 2008
    Way too many to mentioned.
    Michael ;)
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited March 2008
    Worked for a dentist most of high school; had some part time gigs in construction too, mostly working with my girlfriend's dad in his HVAC business (horrid).
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited March 2008
    Before 16, we would shovel snow (we built/welded a shovel and fitted it to my friends riding lawn mower), cut grass, made planters out of logs for sale at a local hardware store, etc.

    1. Good 'ol Mickey D's (ages 16-19)
    2. Gas station manager (Missouri Terminal Oil, Co.) (ages 19-20)
    3. US Army (age 20-36)
    4. Dept of defense (age 36-current) (since 1997)
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  • Bamadude
    Bamadude Posts: 245
    edited March 2008
    I bagged groceries when I was 16. Got tired of that pretty quick and started detailing cars on the go out of my trunk. It was pretty decent money while in high school at 30 bucks a pop since it usually took two hours per car and I worked my own hours. I'd recommend it to any teen.
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,842
    edited March 2008
    First job was at 16, I was summer camp staff running a rifle range.
    Got a part time job as a store clerk in the Farmer's Market
    Went back to summer camp staff as one of the camp rangers at 17
    Got a job in a department store as a stock clerk. Also did work for a friend installing high end home entertainment systems
    Went back to summer camp staff as the rifle range director when I was 18.
    Finished up the summer working with one of my old scout master's roofing company
    Went back to the store clerk job part time and went to school full-time. Also worked for a friend baking bagels.
    Got a part time job as a counter clerk at Pep Boys and also did some stints in the garage while working a co-op job at Lockheed Martin at the same time and going to classes.
    Quit Pep Boys and went to a part time position at Lockheed and finished classes at school.
    Graduated and went full time at Lockheed. Been here ever since.
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  • lightman1
    lightman1 Posts: 10,794
    edited March 2008
    Chicken and biscuits at Bojangles. Took three years to get the grease smell off of me.
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 28,776
    edited March 2008
    Age 12-16

    Worked construction with my Dad, framing and general help.

    Age 17 to now - Music Store, Department Manager.
    - Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
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  • BaggedLancer
    BaggedLancer Posts: 6,371
    edited March 2008
    Walmart and 1-800-got-junk
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  • DRC
    DRC Posts: 9
    edited March 2008
    1 paper route
    2 mowed lawns
    3 puller/scorekeeper at trap range
    4 valet car parker at casino
    all good times but I wouldn't want to do it over.
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  • NotaSuv
    NotaSuv Posts: 3,860
    edited March 2008
    Man Ho going on 27 years now ,also have dabbled in putting caps on speakers
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  • cambir
    cambir Posts: 1,046
    edited March 2008
    Weeding/Landscaping for a few years

    Washed cars for a rental agency for 2 years

    And for one horrible day as a temp (4 hours to be exact), I stood on a 30-foot-high platform near the roof of a warehouse and watched apple chunks fly by me at 20 miles an hour while I tried to pick out the leaves and stems. Thanks Tree Top...that was fun. :eek:
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  • Deadof_knight
    Deadof_knight Posts: 980
    edited March 2008
    Lets see here

    1. Paper boy
    2. Hauling hay Summers from 14 till 20
    2.5 1 day working for the city as a trash man (NOPE not FOR ME !!!! )
    3. Sonic drive inn
    4. Mc Donalds
    5. Pizza hut Assistant manager 2 stores sametime
    6. Goodyear Tire Operator 6 yrs
    7. Goodyear Tire Maintenance 4 yrs
    8. Temple Inland Electrician 1 yr
    9. Kefischer 2 yrs
    10. Lbb High Voltage Electrician 1yr during a layoff
    11. Kefischer 4yrs
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  • sb_caribou
    sb_caribou Posts: 32
    edited March 2008
    another start at McD's here from 16 to 17.
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  • shadowofnight
    shadowofnight Posts: 2,735
    edited March 2008
    Carpenter ( High rise buildings in LA...one duty we all shared was the installation and removal of the OUTSIDE service elevators...fun then...wouldnt do it now for any amount of money )

    Strip club bouncer ( That worked its way into a stint as a bodyguard for a while )

    Custom PC builds and networking

    Gunsmith

    Then after all those fun jobs went high tech and never looked back.....glad they make 4x bunny suits :D
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited March 2008
    I was a fluffer in the **** industry.
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  • shadowofnight
    shadowofnight Posts: 2,735
    edited March 2008
    dorokusai wrote: »
    I was a fluffer in the **** industry.

    Look at it this way, at least you didnt have to take the *****.....most of the time ;)
    The first rule of Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club
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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited March 2008
    I can't add to this thread....yet. I'm still growing up.

    I may grow old...but I'll never grow up. No fun in that.

    Chuck
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,734
    edited March 2008
    Grave digger. Can I dig one for you?
    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

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  • TroyD
    TroyD Posts: 13,085
    edited March 2008
    Before I was the Thumbprint Killer, I killed a LOT of people, in a LOT of different ways.
    I plan for the future. - F1Nut
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  • cubdog
    cubdog Posts: 835
    edited March 2008
    I worked in a mental institution. I fit right in.

    cubdog
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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    edited March 2008
    World famous big game hunter.
    Talent scout for the White Sox.
    Emperor.
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  • cubdog
    cubdog Posts: 835
    edited March 2008
    George Grand wrote: »
    Talent scout for the White Sox.

    That explains alot.

    cubdog
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,136
    edited March 2008
    Professional contradictor!
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  • avelanchefan
    avelanchefan Posts: 2,401
    edited March 2008
    Before 16 I helped my dad in a meat department at a local grocery store. Froze my **** off all day and I hated it.

    Most of my high school I pulled Trap at a local shooting club. Greatest job ever. Sit, Push a button, get some sun.

    Worked at UPS to put me through college.
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  • reeltrouble1
    reeltrouble1 Posts: 9,312
    edited March 2008
    I made little things out of bigger things, still do.
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  • reeltrouble1
    reeltrouble1 Posts: 9,312
    edited March 2008
    George Grand wrote: »
    World famous big game hunter.
    Talent scout for the White Sox.
    Emperor.

    Of course you did not mention the time you spent being King before being Emperor, I suppose that is a given though.

    Was it your decision to trade Rocky Colavito.....
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  • petrym
    petrym Posts: 1,912
    edited March 2008
    First job was a dishwasher at The Golden Bear restaurant… for one day, not my thang.
    Then I worked at Palwaukee airport for a few months washing little airplanes and pumping gas.
    Then a few months at General Fire Extinguisher, then 21 years in the Air Force, now I work for myself doing small-business and home-network consulting.
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  • huggies
    huggies Posts: 150
    edited April 2008
    reeltrouble1 wrote: »
    I made little things out of bigger things, still do.

    So, you made mountains out of molehills...... ? :) Oops, I misread your post..... Or maybe you typed it in wrong...


    My dad had his own logging company that he ran with my Uncle. Me and my two cousins were the slave labor. Hard **** work and 12+ hr work days, almost always 6-7 days a week.
    Worked a multitude of jobs while going to avionics school, gas station, dishwasher, bowling alley.....
    Age 21-37, United Airlines
    Currently GE, maintaining/repairing xray equipment.
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  • Danny Tse
    Danny Tse Posts: 5,206
    edited April 2008
    Telemarketer for insurance agent
    Telemarketer for vacation timeshares
    Customer service/stock at Payless ShoeSource

    then car rental agent at Oakland Int'l airport, where I get to deal with people who left sex toys in their rental cars (now you know why some of the seats are soiled), drug dealers paying in "warm and moist" small bills ***yuck***, and Bruce Hornsby.
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  • mule
    mule Posts: 282
    edited April 2008
    First real job was dishwashing at a seafood returant. I think I was 14 or 15, I got paid $20 cash for working 4pm to 9pm.

    I have a very vivid memory of walking into the salad prep/ dishwashing room and seeing this guy who was 35 at the time in the corner, trying to hide, this made me curious so I looked around his side and he had a large needle in his arm, he was pulling blood from his vein and pushing it back in, probably 5 or 6 times. When he was hurting he would shoot ice water just to get the sensation in his veins. Working that job I was exposed to some really intense people, one guys dad actually went to jail for being a serial killer.

    Jeeze, I am still amazed at some of the memories I have, sometimes I look at my nephews and they look so young and I remember all the stuff I was exposed to at the same age, crazy.
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