QOTD 4/17

minionlover

How many jobs have you had?  What was your first one?

ktelizabeth86

Full time jobs . . . I've had four.

First I was a bank teller. I started there part time while I was finishing school and then went to full time once I graduated.

Then I moved about 2 hours away and became an administrative assitant at a veterinary office.

Eight months later I moved back home and became a legal secretary. Like the work, hated my boss, hated the place I worked. Hated, hated, hated it. Boss smoked in the office, he was a horrible, mean, obnoxious man . . .

I looked for another job for the next 2 years while suffering at that law office and then found the job where I currently work. Now I'm the court recorder at the Circuit Court in my county. I work literally 100 feet away from that law office and have not stepped a foot back in there since I left. Yay! Lol.

mpjf1001

Starting from when I was 16-17 and in Highschool, i worked at Shoprite (grocery store), then when i went away to college, i worked at Price Chopper (grocery store), then i worked at DSW while in college and while getting my Masters.
Then I became a substitute teacher after I graduated.
My first real full time job was working in a middle school as a guidance counselor for a little over 3 years before I became unemployed=(

nitecheese

My first job was as a swim coach at a summer camp.

My second job was as a reading tutor while in college.

My third (and maybe final?) job is as a high school English teacher.  I also tutor part-time in the summer. 

achiduck

I've had 4 full time jobs - Two reception, one reception/accounting and now I'm just in accounting/HR.

I worked at McDonalds when I was 16 (worst 5 months of my life) and have had many many baby-sitting jobs growing up.

Oops.. 5 full time jobs. Forgot the summer that I was a camp counsellor.

trawas01

First Job (that wasn't babysitting): I was a secretary at an real estate appraisal office from my freshmen year of high school through senior year.

College: I worked as a lab tech for a while in the bio department. I worked as a teacher's assistant in a 1st grade classroom and then as an assistant in a daycare center.

After college: I worked in an aquarium for a while. This is still my favorite and if I could have made decent money with a bachelors degree I would have stayed. I miss the penguins. I also worked as an organic chemist for the military in research and development.

Now: I'm a full time graduate student in biology. I teach undergraduates, I do a crap load of research on honey bees and I take classes. I also work longer hours then I did at any of my other much higher paying jobs. I keep trying to tell myself that the phd is worth it...

mana8503

First job that wasn't babysitting:

* Aftercare at YMCA @ 16
* Then server/waitress at a retirement community @17
* During college I worked at a grocery store - bakery then deli then cashier then Customer Service
* Paid internship at a pasta factory doing six sigma stuff (aka found the standard deviation of cheese...)
* Math nerd for DoD

ivedonethisb4

4. Waffle House from 20042011 basically Ruby Tuesday for about a year and a half I worked both. Macon State Prison which is a max security male prison I was a storekeeper for about 8 months I hated the environment obviously! And now where I'm at PharmaCentra. A call center and I hate it now. I've been there like 8 months...

snuff9861

-Gr 12-2nd year of University- worked at a Greek Restaurant

-Over one summer worked at a grocery store on top of ^ this job

-2nd year-graduation: worked at a fine dining restaurant

-Moved to Korea for 6 months and taught English

-Got my current job at a call centre, worked full time for 18 months then moved to part-time when I went back to school. Hate it so much, but it pays the bills and they're super-flexible because of my school schedule.

DanaOcNy

my first real job (after babysitting) was McDonalds.  Then I moved onto a snack stand in the mall & asst manager of Things Remembered.

In college I worked in two different Daycare centers.

I have been at my current job (Audiologist) since graduating 8 years ago.  During this time I have also worked at Michaels craft store as a Wilton Cake Decorating instructor. 

lehc723

Full-time jobs, only two, but if you're counting ANYTHING where I had to apply, interview, and was paid (so basically everything past babysitting, ha), then eight. First, I was the receptionist at my church the summer after I graduated from high school. It was incredibly boring and was long enough ago that they didn't have Internet or anything so they just let me read at the front desk for most of the day.

pockysquirrel

My very first job, which I had for 5 consecutive summers, was as a counselor at the Girl Scout camp I'd been going to since I was a kid. I didn't work a lot in college because my program was so demanding, but I did some very parttime work building sets for the theatre department and doing phone surveys. Later I picked up work at both my internship sites, monitoring supervised visitation at one and providing child care for parents attending a parenting class at the other. When I finally finished school, my first 'grownup' job was as a therapist for teens in a group home. That job was TOUGH and I left after 18 months. The job I left for was my dream job. I was a school social worker in an elementary program for kids with mental health and behavioral problems. Then the state came in and told them to cut the number of students in the program...and the staff accordingly. Since I had only been there 7 months and had no seniority, I was laid off. I managed to find a job at an adult mental health clinic pretty quickly after that, and I've been there almost 3 years. Right now I do diagnostic evaluations and new patient orientation.

KmuJmg

My first job was an algebra tutor. I don't know how I got that gig. I hate math (which is why I went to law school).

I went on to do workstudy for the Dean at my college. Then I waited tables for a year after college. Then I got a legal secretary job while in law school and now I am a prosecutor and I worked part time at Ann Taylor until last year because I LOVED that 50% discount. SO....five jobs total.

aimee58

I've had 4 total (other than babysitting). I worked at a bakery for 2 years in high school, Express clothing store for 2 years in college, Old Navy for a year, and my current full time teaching job. I'm in my fifth year at the same high school.

kd1986

I'm on my 4th job ever, and I'm 25.  My first job was at Limited Too when I was 15.  I've been at my current job for 7 years though, I started when I was 18!! 

MicMikeM

My very first job was as a retail clerk/cashier at a store called Venture out in the Chicago suburbs.  It basically was just like working at Target.  I worked there for about a year, then worked at a Kindercare as a teacher's assistant for about a year also.  I started going to junior college then and was doing terrible in school, so my dad said get better grades or get a job and brought home an application from United Airlines.

So, long story short, I've been working at United since then - will be 24 years in July! Eek.

While I was on furlough a few years back I worked at Dollar/Thrifty rental cars, so I have had 4 full time jobs in the last 26 years.

BrittneyRN

I worked at a grocery store fir 7 years. I quit one time to work at DQ for 6 months, but then came back. I worked customer service there until I got my nursing degree. When I first became a nurse, I worked at a nursing home for 4 months. Now I'm an RN on a critical care unit.

aimeek420

I didn't work during undergrad and grad school except when I was not taking classes (i.e. May-August)

First job - cashiering at our hometown farmer's market. I did that every summer from 10th grade through under grad.

Second job - one summer working as a summer camp counselor

Third job - two summers working as a mentor at a leadership summer program for at-risk kiddos

Current job - school psychologist working in a large urban PreK-8th grade building. 

thatjess

Ok here goes :-)

15-17- Greenhouse in the summer and grocery store year round. Also for about 7 months at the end of that I work at a vet clinic also.

18-19 Gymboree and Insurance agency both part time.

19-now Insurance. Im now an agent though and full time.

pengy16

my first job was at a summer camp. second job was at a toy store. then was an internship for web design. i got my first real job after i got my BA working for the company that builds the Wirefly, Best Buy Mobile, etc websites. I loved the job but I was only there 4 months since it was kinda an inbetween job while i waited out my processing for current job with DoD. I have been in my current job for 4 years now doing web development.

kimm260

I started working (AKA was forced to get a job by my parents) at 14.  I worked as a bus girl at big ski resort during the winters until I was about 19. Then I worked in the deli at the ski resort on the weekends throughout college and on college breaks until I graduated at 23.  I also worked the resorts summer festivals for most of those years as well.

The summer that i was 16 I was a chambermaid at a Hotel for Hasidic Jews. I HATED that job.

Throughout undergrad I worked as a substitute at a day care center.  When I graduated I got a full time job there as a teaching assistant.  I did that for 2 years or so.  During my grad school I picked up a part time job at the Dollar Store for a few months and Subway for 2 weekends- I quit very quickly because the boss was a crazy b!tch (as in expecting me to be able to close by myself - meaning cash out the register and take inventory after being showed 1 time, then yelling at me when something was done wrong)

I worked for a year and a half as a 1st grade teacher in VA and now I am a lead teacher at a head start center.  This will NOT be my last job.