Your First Seven Jobs

[Eleven]

So this has been going around on Twitter and I thought it might be fun here.

 

Here are mine:

 

Paperboy

Stock clerk (grocery)

Singer

Camp counselor

Stock clerk (bookstore)

Carnie

Warehouse picker

 

 

[Weave]

Paperboy

Worked at a McDonalds

Design release technician at a DOD company

Manufacturing technician

R&D technician

Product validation supervisor

R&D Test Engineer

 

I had a streak runnin early on of 6 for 6 of interviews that resulted in a job offer.

 

 

Carnie..... Small hands. I see that now. :p

Edited August 7, 2016 by We've

[Eleven]

Paperboy

Worked at a McDonalds

Design release technician at a DOD company

Manufacturing technician

R&D technician

Product validation supervisor

R&D Test Engineer

 

I had a streak runnin early on of 6 for 6 of interviews that resulted in a job offer.

 

 

Carnie..... Small hands. I see that now. :P

 

Hey, I'm not Trump!  

 

I ran games booths at Fantasy Island for like 2 weeks.  I couldn't stand taking money from little kids.

[SwampD]

Why do I always feel like these thing are just mining for security question answers?

 

 

"The name of your first dog and the street you grew up on is a your stripper name",… yeah, right.

[Weave]

Hey, I'm not Trump!

 

I ran games booths at Fantasy Island for like 2 weeks. I couldn't stand taking money from little kids.

Would you have preferred "smells like cabbage"?

[Sabel79]

1. Computer Assembler (taking parts out of boxes and jamming them together)

2. Electrical Tester in a ceramic capacitor factory

3. Streets Division menial laborer (every summer during college)

4. Beef Cutter in a well-known WNY beef-themed restaurant (for a month one summer, concurrent with 3 above)

5. Res. Life "Safety Monitor" at SBU (did more homework than monitoring anything)

6. Long-Term Substitute Teacher (never again)

7. Credit Union office manager (I consider this to be my first grown-up job)

[blugold43]

1. dishwasher

2. stock boy (grocery)

3. gas pipeline installation/maintenence

4. omelet chef

5. bartender

6. cab driver

7. teacher

[WildCard]

1) Can counting

2) Software developer

 

Only ever had 2 jobs. Kept the first one for 7 years

[Brawndo]

1. Paperboy

2. Bus Detailer

3. Pharmacy Tech

4. Nurses Aide

5. RN

6. Nurse Practitioner

7. Doc

[inkman]

1) Wegmans Produce Clerk (7 years through HS & College)

2) Burger King (concurrent with Wegmans) less than one year during college

3) Business Manager "The Leader" at SUNY Fredonia (I think I was paid a $20 a week stipend) 2 semesters

4) Dishwasher at campus dining facility (one semester)

5) Party City Management Trainee (few months)

6) J&J Newsstand Manager (six years)

7) Manufacturing (I've had several jobs at the same company, currently Quality Manager) 17 years and counting

 

 

There were several jobs I had for a VERY limited amount of time I did not include.  These were the main ones.

[SwampD]

1) Wegmans Produce Clerk (7 years through HS & College)

2) Burger King (concurrent with Wegmans) less than one year during college

3) Business Manager "The Leader" at SUNY Fredonia (I think I was paid a $20 a week stipend) 2 semesters

4) Dishwasher at campus dining facility (one semester)

5) Party City Management Trainee (few months)

6) J&J Newsstand Manager (six years)

7) Manufacturing (I've had several jobs at the same company, currently Quality Manager) 17 years and counting

 

 

There were several jobs I had for a VERY limited amount of time I did not include.  These were the main ones.

A fellow Fredonian!!

[Hoss]

1. Sports intern at small town paper (paid and actually wrote, so I consider it a job)

2. Sports retail store

3. Teller and loan officer at bank (first post-college job)

4. Local news (behind the scenes)

[TrueBlueGED]

1) Paper boy

2) Stock clerk (grocery)

3) Teaching assistant

4) College instructor

5) Landscaping on the side throughout

6) Hopefully something different soon.

7) No really, hopefully something new.

[sodbuster]

1. Boy scout summer camp counselor (7 summers, best paying job I've had so far)

2. Dishwasher

3. Trim Carpenter

[darksabre]

1. Picasso's Pizza cook

2. Ulbrich's tree farm laborer

3. Lancaster Building and Grounds laborer

4. RIT telefund

5. Kayex Corp. - various jobs for years. Warehousing, shipping/receiving, manufacturing process engineer

6. Salzmann Group - Warehouse/shipping

7. LiDestri - Food manufacturing/QC

[Eleven]

1. Picasso's Pizza cook

2. Ulbrich's tree farm laborer

3. Lancaster Building and Grounds laborer

4. RIT telefund

5. Kayex Corp. - various jobs for years. Warehousing, shipping/receiving, manufacturing process engineer

6. Salzmann Group - Warehouse/shipping

7. LiDestri - Food manufacturing/QC

 

Tree farm laborer would have been #8 on my list.  Backbreaking work, that.

[darksabre]

Tree farm laborer would have been #8 on my list. Backbreaking work, that.

Absolutely. Being covered in sap and running away from bees made for an interesting summer. I liked that job despite all that though. It was nice being outside.

[SwampD]

Absolutely. Being covered in sap and running away from bees made for an interesting summer. I liked that job despite all that though. It was nice being outside.

I really enjoyed my three summers as a garbage man for the same reason.

[Claude_Verret]

Landscaping

Dishwasher

Village of Hamburg DPW / Erie county Fair

Furniture manufacturing

Cook / barback/ bartender

Med tech

Bartender

[3putt]

Paper Boy (Courrier and BEN)

Janitor at our church

Masonry helper

Roofer

Sheet metal loader at Trico

Sponge Cutter at OCelO

Bartender

[SabresBaltimore]

I've actually only had 8 jobs, although my current job (Software Engineer) has been with 3 different companies including my college internship. I've only had one job I truly hated (Whiting roll-up door), although some of them I'd probably have hated a lot more if I was still doing them now. My current job is the best I've had (luckily) but I really look back on the 2 years I spent at Schoellkopf fondly. Sadly it didn't pay enough to cover my expenses so I had to give it up for full time at Timmy Ho's when I turned 16. I knew some guys who worked there for years though.

 

1. Took coats for parties at a Knights of Columbus

2. Counselor at Camp Schoellkopf

3. Tim Hortons

4. PC Repair

5. Summer Work crew at Whiting Rollup Door (this job makes me appreciate pretty much every other job I've ever had)

6. Temp Worker/Data Entry

7. Web Development

[deluca67]

1) Teds

2) steam hammer-smith trainee  

3) convenient store clerk

4) Wise potato chip delivery

5) US customs broker - clerk

6) factory - materials management dept

7) auto finance industry   

[SabresBaltimore]

1. Boy scout summer camp counselor (7 summers, best paying job I've had so far)

2. Dishwasher

3. Trim Carpenter

Schoellkopf?

[jsb]

Paperboy

Bricklayer Helper

Coke Oven Laborer

Machinist

Tool Sharpener at a Tool & Die Shop

Electronic Technician

Biomedical Engineer

[qwksndmonster]

Computer Salesman at Best Buy

Dishwasher

Medical Assistant

 

Currently on the hunt for job #4.   The two jobs I've already interviewed for are caretaking for people with developmental disabilities and being a guitar/amp salesman.