Where you worked then?

[dervish]

It occurred to me the other day that I've done a fair few different jobs in my time, especially as a temp. Some friends of mine have been in the same job since leaving college. I know that I couldn't do that, I like variety!

Since leaving college I've been...

Paperboy, (but you would get your paper two days late)
Shop assistant in a off-licence
Assistant manager in a supermarket
Forecourt attendant
Care worker
Box stomper
Data inputer
Admin assistant
Washer-upper
Brick-maker
Yardman
Kitchen assistant
Sandwich maker
General office monkey

And I'm currently a filing bod and a dinner-lady!

So what jobs have you had in the past?

 

[marty21]

shop assistant
bank clerk
pizza hut waiter
washer upper
theatre porter (hospital)
telesales canvasser
vdu inputter
housing benefit officer
housing officer
support worker
estate manager
project officer
project manager

and to be continued as i leave here in 2 weeks with no current job to go to...

 

[LDR]

Barman
Brickcleaner
Budget and Technical Support Officer
Cleaner
Computer Salesman
Data Inputter
Database Developer
Hardware Engineer
House Husband
Information Systems Manager
Pizza Chef
Systems Support Officer

There may be more but these are the ones that I remember.

 

[veracity]

In the last decade I have been:
dental receptionist (god that was awful)
elections assistant - local council
data inputter - local council
elections assistant again
secretary at company which was busted by the fraud squad (strangely this does not appear on my cv)
typist for social services
secretary/residential lettings coordinator
office manager

 

[Cloo]

Not much really

A few professional singing roles as a kid
Two weeks as a receptionist (got through a novel every day) at a business enterprise training place
A few weeks as a general assistant at the Poetry Society (good fun)
Assistant in a house lived in by people with severe Autistic Spectrum Disorders
Editorial Assistant (health and social care books)
Editorial Assistant (health professional journal)
Project editor (newsletters and ring-binder education publications)

 

[Wyn]

Taxi driver
Chambermaid
Short order cook
Barmaid
Receptionist
Data Inputter
Cleaner
Door to door sales
Foreign language student host
Fruit packer
Leafleter
Stall holder
Factory worker
Print shop worker
Mother
Housing Caseworker
Project co-ordinator

I’ve also done voluntary work on a city farm, for a sailing club and a housing advice project.

 

[Voley]

Car-Park Attendant
Potato Picker
Gardener
Labourer
Barman
Housing Officer
Contracts Officer for a Housing Department
Customer Services Officer in Housing again
Project Manager - again, Housing
About to start as general office-wallah in Civil Service on Monday.

Looks like there's a few of us housing bods here.

<edit to add: I was a Homelessness Officer for about 6 months, too. Still trying to blot that one out of my memory.>

 

[Groucho]

Paper Boy
Volunteer work for LEPRA
Shop assistant
Furniture removals
Dole
Filing at the Woman's Royal Army Corps
Dole again
Civil Service
Trade Union rep in the Civil Service
ZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

 

[Hellsbells]

Papergirl
Bike shop assistant
Kennel hand
receptionist in an estate agents
Waitress
Teacher of english to Japanese children
Cleaner
Betterware sales person
Till monkey at M&S
Balloon seller
Complaints handler at Thameslink Rail
Admin/receptionist in secondary school
Admin assistant at Social Services
PA at London Council
Erm - whatever it is that I do now. Don't know that's worthy of a title since I'm never given any work to do. Surfer of the internet I guess!

 

[Bonfirelight]

Labourer
Painter
various temp rubbish
Factory worker
Forecourt attendant
Office monkey
Office Manager
Managing Director
Lawyer
Doctor
Professional Footballer
Prime Minister
Astronout

 

[red rose]

And I'm currently a filing bod and a dinner-lady!

Now thats a mental image

Considering I'm only 17....

Childminder
Checkout monkey
Shelf stacker
Warehouse dogsbody
Cleaner

 

[tobyjug]

I had to start earning money from the age of ten due to poverty in my family.
I used to do farm work, car washing and odd jobs.
I did a five year engineering apprentice from age 17, and still kept doing the farm work and odd jobs because of the shit pay.
After apprenticeship 2 years as machine tool setter operator in a small engineering sub contractors.(Still doing farmwork and off jobs)
Two years as the original self employed white van man.(Still doing farmwork and odd jobs)
Five years as a self employed long distance lorry driver. (Still doing farmwork and odd jobs)
Got married.
Went back into engineering retrained as CNC programmer/setter/operator. (Five years, still doing odd jobs and farm work)
Moved to Cornwall. Worked for firearms dealer/gunsmith for two years.
Numerous engineering jobs and lifeboat helper until I became disabled in November 1990.

 

[kea]

assistant chef
freelance news journalist (while doing my postgrad journalism course - and yes i did actually earn £ out of it!)
news reporter
feature writer
feature writer again
errr ... that's it!

 

[J77]

While at school:

13 y/o Paper round
14 y/o Cleaning jobs, and worked in a burger place for a few weeks.
15-18 y/o Labourer

Then went to uni - did Labouring during hols.

Now: Research Fellow.

 

[jd]

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[Thumper Browne]

Paper Boy
Luggage Porter
Estate Labourer
Butcher
Administrative Assistant
Credit Risk Underwriter
Software Test Engineer

 

[Epona]

Stablehand (v. casual basis, cash in hand)
Lab technician (at a tannery)
Shop assistant
Civil Servant
Dolescum
Receptionist/Switchboard Operator (London Buses)
Dolescum again
Collections Development Officer (at a university institute)
Dolescum yet again
Civil Servant (temping)

 

[madshadow]

Runner (TV crew)
Wardrobe assistant
Painter / decorator
Pizza delivery boy
Curry delivery man
Courrier
Bartender
Bar manager
Full time queue dodger for ticket canvassers ("Sunset Boulevard" at The Srand in 1993) - £20 a go (6-8 queues a day, 20-30 mins per queue, still the best paid job i ever had)... good old days.
Freelance photographer
Cloakroom attendant
Office assistant
Office manager
Accounts assistant
PA/PR
Event manager
Office block manager

currently unemployed... any jobs going?

 

[Belushi]

Trainee Carpenter
Factory Worker
Dole Dosser
Factory Worker
Barman
Telesales
Local Government Worker
Doorman
Student Dosser
Office Administrator
Admissions Officer

 

[kyser_soze]

Legal:
Paper boy
Barman
Checkout assistant
Customer Services manager
Twilight Forecout manager
Abbatoir dogsbody
Warehouse worker
Bricky
Lettings Agent (lasted 4 days before leaving)
Van courier/delivery person
'Advice Facilitator' on an Essex Council roads helpline thing
Media sales rep
Media planner/buyer
Company director

Illegal/grey
Computer software pirate (nearly got expelled from school for using the tape duplication and colour photocopier for copying the tapes and inlays (this was speccy/C64 era)
Reseller of nearly new porn mags to kids in lower years at school
Drug dealer

 

[MarkMark]

yts trainee printer
yoghurt potter
plant potter
car seatbelt clip maker
person who packs boxes of "stallion cream" (tm) - a hard-on enhancement product
cabbage weeder
screwing tops onto head n shoulders
denture tablet maker
person who screws spouts onto kettles
person who joins couloured wires to eachother
person who sets up wire machine
person who programs machine to cut wires
person who figures out curcuit diagrams
electronics fail / qa assistant
electronics testing & faffing with disc drives
statistical bod (computer hardware qc)
sign language interpreter
computer programmer
software design

 

[Major Tom]

paper boy
temporary postman
jelly squirter in pork pie factory
engineering technician
failures assistant (statistics)
Asset Performance Improvement Engineer
Part time Eco-warrior
National Census Canvasser
Voluntary bar work for Workers Beer Company
System Improvement Engineer

 

[_pH_]

Landscape Gardener
Gardener at Royal Parks
Groundsman at Sports ground
Head Gardener/Estate and Woodland Manager
Forestry worker/arborist
Garden centre plant buyer
Landscape designer/project manager

As you can see, very varied

Oh, and the odd bit of bar work here and there

 

[bfg]

Ice cream man (fiddle job)
gardener (fiddle job)
model (sideline)
barman (skeggy embassy centre)
fairground bloke (fiddle job) (sort of - I sat in the booth of the magic mirrors reading a book all day)
lifeguard at the local baths (saved no lives at all)
van driver (fiddle job)(delivered bread locally and seaside rock nationally)
bus driver
table cleaner at Butlitz (stupid hat and dickie bow - lasted 1 morning)
youth worker
fitness instructor
shop owner
shop assistant
vegetable grader (fiddle job)( for 1 hour, you only get a limited amount of job satisfaction examining cauliflowers)
activity leader
cook (fiddle job)(in restaurants, always avoid well-done steak, fish and vegetarian dishes)
some horrible security job paying fuck-all which actually meant watching the TV, drinking tea and smoking fags. This led to.....
dole office (both sides of the counter). Gradually gave me more than a passing interest in anarchy
counsellor
window cleaner (fiddle job/sideline)(to be honest I held the ladder while someone else cleaned the window)
'public relations' for some shite bar in Tenerife
grape picker
film extra (the heroic football film classic that was 'when saturday comes' and some beer advert)
Connexions PA at the mo (til another vegetable grader job comes along)

 

[maomao]

Fitter's mate
Tree worker
Bricklayer
Bicycle Mechanic
Barman
Courier
Taxi Controller
Telephonist
Teacher
Marketing manager(!)
Quality control supervisor
Courier controller.

 

[dlx1]

Bejams
Tesco
Laber - Plasters mate
College C&G Plasting / Bricklaying
Plaster
College - Graphic Design
Hardwear Support / Tradfloor Support For Trader Cu#ts

Trying to get a better job (Graphic)

Edit: forgot Turky kill Xmas time when not at school

 

[SubZeroCat]

Childminder
French teacher
London Zoo survey question asker (err its late..)
Barmaid

 

[dlx1]

^ working at the zoo

 

[SubZeroCat]

^ working at the zoo

Innit, felt right at home with the tigers and lions

 

[80sHair Revival]

Dogsbody at an independent general store that lasted a month.
"Security assistant" on a video van.
Morrisons - 2 stints, Oven Fresh and Deli.
Rists/Leoni - local Stokie wire assembly factory
Sainsbury's
P/T Lecturer
PHD Student (not a job I know, but it pays better than all the others).