Comments on: What Does Your Job History Look Like?

By: ElleX

ElleX — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 18:22:23 +0000

Sales clerk at clothing store
Work/study in college – Resident Hall Assistant
Sales Associate @ Macy’s
Work/study in college – Assist in the Admissions office
Avon sales (bust)
Receptionist in HR dept.
Water Purfication sales – lasted one presentation – LOL
Sales Associate @ Rich’s department store
Relief District Manager for Newspaper
Third Key Manager @ a modular clothing store
Receptionist (through temp service) @ outside play gym company
Receptionist (through temp service) @ sales company
Receptionist (through temp service) @ Insurance company
Cashier at Bi-Lo (part-time)
Receptionist @ another insurance company
Underwriter trainee @ insurance company
Underwriter assistant @ insurance carrier (when previous company closed)
Cashier @ Harris-Teeter (part-time)
Technical Assist @ P&C insurance carrier
Avon salesperson (bust)
Pre-Paid Legal Sales Associate
Cashier @ Eckerd Drug (part-time)
Senior Underwriting Assistant @ a P&C insurance carrier
Took 3 months off – effectively unemployed
Underwriter assistant – P&C insurance carrier
Photographer assistant – GREAT part-time job
Credit Repair MLM – was talked into it – couldn’t bear to sell this to anyone
Business Analyst @ insurance carrier
Home based Travel Agent (Self Employed) – best job ever until my illness
Service Representative @ Financial Services company

Wow…it didn’t seem like so many until I started writing them down.

By: Jeremy Johnson

Jeremy Johnson — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:59:06 +0000

Edit: I met the guy in college, not high school, who I helped do his drop shipping website.
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By: Jeremy Johnson

Jeremy Johnson — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:56:10 +0000

Let’s see, from what I can first remember to now

* Assistant to my dad, cleaning his rental properties (childhood).
* Data entry for library cards (post high school, college) – the biggest challenge with this job was staying awake while I did it.
* Teacher’s assistant at the college I was going to – this one was fun! I got to go around the room and answer students questions and solve their problems.
* Web developer (post college) – the sole developer for a company called knowligent.com – not jsut the developer – the server admin, designer, programmer, customer support, database admin, etc… – thankfully a less involved job came along
* Web tester – Worked at a credit card processing company and wrote automated tests, but it got too mundane for me and I moved on again.
* Content engineer – My first stint at Ancestry.com – great company, I helped manage the information for their many databases. I had a side gig with a guy I meant in high school helping him with his drop shipping supplier website. It paid me about $5,000 monthly, and I think he saw my cut as getting too high, lol, and he created a startup which I left Ancestry to do.
* Startup (shall not be named ) – A year of doing website development here with a company that simply crashed and burned due to greed, corruption, leadership issues, the standard startup thorns.
* Back at Ancestry.com doing web development – and that’s where I am now working full time. It’s a great flexible job and I really like the people I work with!

I’ve spent most of my career in a cube in front of a computer… No wonder I want to try something different on my own, not related to web development But it certainly helps that my day job pays well and the people there rock.
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By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:42:10 +0000

@ Sindy – Wow, that’s quite a list. It would be interesting to hear more about your current business experience and how you got started with ergotrans patient transfer harness.
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By: Sindy

Sindy — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:11:37 +0000

I’m 51 so I had to really think back…… Many years were spent as Mom with other jobs around that.

Babysitting at age 13 after school and as a live-in during the summer
Fast Food – McD (lasted 4 weeks)
Dishwasher, Janitor in HS
Door to door sales (I was nearly attacked by a wolf)
Library Assistant in HS and College
Door to door sales of Encyclopedias (I was terrible at this!)
Home Economics Sewing Lab Assistant in College
Recreation Therapy Aide at Saint Helena Hospital
Nursing Home night person – - (age 18 and the only one working all night –
- – laundry and kitchen duties – only lasted 3 nights)
Pattern Dept Attendant for fabric store
At Home Mom (18 years- 3 kidlets – now 21 to 28)
S/E – Wake Creations – Custom Sewing
Teacher – sewing lessons though fabric store
Home Economics HS Teacher – 1 year ***
Tupperware Sales – not good at it
Teacher – Pfaff sewing machines & serger use
S/E – Kozy Kid – Custom Infant Car Seat Covers, Clovis CA
Kids Bedding and Room Décor
S/E – independent Prototype work for others
Substitute Teacher
Disability Assistant to child with Autism
School Librarian
In-Home Child Care (there’s not mine)
2000 Census – door to door work again
Partylite Candle Sales – evenings – again not so good
Service of Emergency Call Systems – for Seniors’ and Disabled
Licensed Life Insurance, LTC Ins & Securities with Primerica
State of CA – EDD
Caregiver for parents
S/E – owner Decker Design Company
Created Ergotrans Patient Transfer Harness – at it for 13 yrs now

*** The HS teaching job – I was hired the night school started, did not know where my classroom was the next morning, the office staff thought that I was a lost student when I asked where my classroom was. – My daughter was 18 mos when I started and I went through 9 different babysitters for her in those 9 months. It was not worth the stress to stay with that job.
Sindy´s last blog ..Ergotrans patient transfer into a vehicle with slide board

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:41:47 +0000

From Egg McMuffin maker to finance professional, quite the shift!

Ironically enough the male escort thing crossed my mind, only for a moment, do I need a pimp for something like that? haha
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By: Financial Samurai

Financial Samurai — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:28:50 +0000

Nothing wrong with paying the bills! Heck, I recommend Ryan start a manly escort service in HAwaii due to all the wealthy folks out there, but he hasn’t responded

Just saying, I knew there was something to your voice! Wait, maybe I spoke to you before… oops, just outed myself.
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By: Money Funk

Money Funk — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:52:59 +0000

FS: it paid the bills.
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By: Financial Samurai

Financial Samurai — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:55:07 +0000

Guess I really only had one job before my career if we exclude internships, and that was being the best egg McMuffin maker at McDonald’s during high school!

I knew it Money Funk… about the 3rd job on your list!
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By: Money Funk

Money Funk — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:31:06 +0000

Oh Thriftygal, sorry to hear you were a victim of the pyramid scheme. And Evan, why did you quit the stock boy job? Isn’t it happiness over $? LOL.
Let’s see if I can reaccount:

Sales Clerk for Fabric King
Cashier for Pizza place on Haight St., San Francisco
Phone S*x operator
Cocktail Waitress
Exotic dancer
Cashier Carl’s Jr.
Manager for KayBee Toys
Bagel Maker
Admin Assistant
Pathology Lab Assistant (loved this job but pay was too low)
Data Entry Clerk
Clinical Research Associate

Wow, guess I grew up. LOL. Wonder what the future holds. CEO of my fortune 500 company.
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