What Have You Done?

[Steeven]

I may have posted this before over the the Comic Forums, but I find it interesting to see all the various things people have done in their lives through the different jobs they've had.

OK, here goes.

I've delivered newspapers.

I've babysat children.

I've mowed lawns.

I've flipped burgers.

I've created sub sandwiches.

I've bussed tables.

I've washed dishes

I've delivered mail.

I've sold comics.

I've ran paper through a machine that was a small part of the process of creating junk mail.

I've delivered pizzas.

I've created medical tubing.

I've answered questions over the phone about Federal Student Aid.

I've supervised employees.

I've created employee schedules.

I've forecasted staffing needs.

I've entered hundreds of orders for garage doors.

I've coordinated the installation of hundreds of garage doors.

I've helped people over the phone put up their garage doors.

I've trained employees.

I've created training manuals.

What have you done?

I've processed film.

I've printed pictures.

I've ran a register at a drug store.

I've faced product on shelves.

[JordanFromJersey]

Worked at a day camp

Helped out at a farmer's market

Was a toll collector

Worked retail

And chiefly: I've been a student.

[BillETM]

Let's see;

Sold Doughnuts

Camp Councilor

Camp Commissioner

Shooting Sports Directer

Sales associate for toys

Sales associate for Video Games

Site Supervisor

Warehouse Manager

DPW

[Steeven]

[Ghostworld]

Worked in a fish & chip shop (yuk!)
Sales assistant in a clothing store
High school teaching assistant
Cleaner (not in the 'Leon' sense though :p)
Till monkey in Borders.
College Student.

[RedRight88]

I've been studying to take the North Dakota Insurance broker's exam.

[rrwerner]

My first job was working the "Win a Goldfish" booth at a carnival. That's right, for my first job, I was a Carnie!!!

I've made pizzas. Sold a pizza to Eddie Money once.
I've done the books at the pizza place.
I've bartended at the pizza place. We carded Eddie Money's wife.

I was a graphic artist for 20 years.
Managed and Supervised there too.

I've planted trees.
I've done pool maintenance.
I was a security guard.
I use to be a cart boy, er, courtesy clerk for Gemco (pre-Target like company)

Pro Bono work....
I've done photography. Newspapers. Books. The San Diego Comic-Con. Had some work published in Roy Thomas' ALTER EGO once.
I've done cartooning and illustration. Had a piece published in the first volume of COMIC BOOK ARTIST by Twomorrows about Jack Kirby.
I've Djed. It doesn't pay but it helps to get one laid (take note, comic fans!)

Currently a caregiver.

[Melville's Fist]

Carpet Salesman
Home and Bedding Sales Associate
Radio Station Phone Answering Boy
Dog Poo Cleaner-Upper
Unpaid Intern
Chicken Slaughterer
Grave Digger
Bread and Pastry Baker
Indentured Servant for Boston Market
Underground / High School / College Newspaper Editor-in-Chief
Freelance Writer
Resident Assistant
Middle School Teacher
(Future) Kid's Book Author

[kilg%re]

Went to Holland for a judo competition in '84
worked in my parents food shop
compeated in the british national Kickboxing championships
Worked in a scrap meatal yard
Run the stock room for GAP on the Kings road in Chelsea
worked on the film premeire's of: Harry potter and the goblet of fire, Cold mountain (got to meet prince Charles) and Hot Fuzz
spent a weekend with Billy Boyd from the LoTR films filmimg promo's for STAR channel
Trained with Andy and Justo in KFM before Batman begins
Got to see the Bat-pod before most other poeple Thanks to a good friend taken too soon (R.I.P Conway)
Set up my own Martial Arts class with the Blessing of my Instructor
Started learing Doce Pares with Grand Master Danny Gubba

[GeekyWhiteGuy]

As far as things I've done for money? Ok....lets just stick with the jobs I've had in order of appearance

-Delivered news papers (first job. I think I was like...10)
-High school science lab assistant (I worked for my science teacher. I ended up w/ a 114% in that class by the end of the year.
-Grocery store
• bagger (double suck)
• cashier (suck)
• build displays (actually a fun high school job)
-Telemarketing (I worked this job for 3 days until the tig bitty chick who sat next to me quit. Then I was out)
-Took hotel reservations (I spent most of my time here reading comics & drawing)
-Retail dude in a record store (I was never cool enough for this job)
-Bindery (my first ever job in a print shop...putting books together)
-Sculptor (I worked w/ a crew or artists to carve, sculpt & paint all the rocks and environments in the Desert Dome at the Omaha Henry Doorly Zoo (go to www.omahazoo.com to see the Dome and what's in it)
-Chemical sprayer guy for a lawn company (Oh god this job sucked ass)
-Warehouse manager (this was a fun, unsupervised position for a 20 year old to have)
-Graphic Designer (Ahhh....the "career" finally sets in)
-Power Washer (weekends gig where I sprayed the filth off of garbage tucks & derailed trains. great money...but totally disgusting)
-Office Manager (basically an organizer for a terribly unorganized video production company)
-Retail dude at a now closed comic book store (work'n for trade baby!!)
-Free Lance graphic design (I actually hate freelance design. People suck)
-Cook (I <3 food)
-Bar-back (another suck ass job but at least it payed good & was at a big dance club with lots of scantily clad 21-25 year old women)
-Graphics Department Supervisor (basically just means that when shix goes wrong...you're the first person they yell at) (oh...also means you work a LOT of OT)
-Flatter (getting paid to work in the comic book business rules! Even if it is in the trenches of flatting)

Wow...that's a lot. For the record...I've had the (full time) job I have now for 4 years. and the job before that was over 3.

[Dezreavey]

[The Crippled Avenger]

I've had two jobs in My life and both have been in kitchens

Very sad.

[yodajones]

settle in I'm old...
Dishwasher
Pizza and Dough Maker
Steakhouse Broiler man
Paid picket sign holder
Plasma donator
Fund raiser for Greenpeace
Night Watchman
Newspaper reporter
Worked two summers cooking in a salmon cannery in Ketchikan Alaska
Line Cook
Prep Cook
Expo
Sous Chef
Executive Chef
Kitchen Manager
now I have worked my way up to Owner/Head Chef which is the hardest job I have ever had.

[Arthur Ratnik]

Made pizza,bar food, Mexican food for 15 years, vegetarian food,wraps,sandwiches, soup, you name it
Fed the Spice Girls on Saturday, The Grateful Dead on Sunday (catering to the stars)
Sold vintage clothes
Waited/bussed tables
Tended bar in a tenured professor's lounge
Dug quartz crystals to sell to new agers
Sold antiques and collectables on e-bay
Swept streets
Every kind of conceivable kind of yard work
Mixed masonry "mud" on a construction site
Mailroom delivery in a huge bank
Bike courier
Guest lecturer at Rochester Institute Of Technology
Columnist for Austin TX newspaper Whoopsy
Dishwasher (best job ever)
Bailing hay, farm work (involving being up to my knees in cow shit!)
Radio DJ
House painting, roofing
Sweating copper pipe
Cleaning toilets at a pagan festival
Ice cream man
Toured in a band (worst, lowest paying job ever)
Tearing down carnival rides
Doorman/bouncer at bar (the job I sucked at the most)

I'm sure I'll be adding more as I think of them. Someday, if I ever get PAID to do it, I'd like to add podcasting to that list

[bigraj]

Hung sheetrock
Joined the Navy, lived in Japan
Hung sheetrock
washed dishes
became office manager of a small nursing home, where I've been the last 8+ years

[Poozer71]

McDonald's,
Taco Bell,
Long John Silvers,
Prep Cook for a Steakhouse,
Meijer Superstore Hardware Dept.,
Little Caesar's & papa John's Pizza Maker & Delivery,
Boston Market Chicken Slasher,
Danny's Foods Grocery Bag Boy,
Temp Monkey working in an auto parts manufacturing company,
Graphic Artist for 10 years for a newspaper and a classified freebie,
Prep Cook for a local coffee shop

[Hair-Metal Hero]

Systems Operations Monitor
Security/Maintenance for a retirement/assisted living facility
Substitute Teacher
Billing Coordinator

[Trusty Mutsi]

This is just what we've been paid to do, right?

Stuffed envelopes at my mom's job.

Taco Bell (cash register, food prep)

Street magician at the Rennaisance Festival.

Worked for the city during the summer being a park groundsperson, painting public bathrooms, tree trimming, and weed wacking.

Caricature artist for parties.

School paper comic strip.

Drove mentally challenged people around in a van.

Chipped 50lb slabs of frozen beef at a meat plant.

Designed and separated t-shirts.

Producer for a video game.

Comic book artist, letterer, and colorist.

[Johnny M]

I'll stick with paying jobs

Auto parts store stock boy
One Hour Photo chemical mixer
Pizzeria dishwasher
Pizzeria sandwich maker
Fork lift driver in warehouse
Modell's sporting goods floor guy
Sports Authority floor guy
landscaper
Bartender - most fun
Bookie - best paying- least legal
High School football coach
High school baseball coach*
High school Special Ed teacher
High School football video guy*
High school sporting events security and staff work*
Teacher in correctional facility*
Night school teacher*
Private tutor for GED exam*
Summer baseball coach*
Summer baseball camp co owner*
Winter baseball clinic co owner*

*current
I think that's it...

[FleaBeard]

- Bakery Clerk at my best friend's family business
- Dishwasher at Denny's
- Worked at my Uncle's backyard sawmill cutting lumber and making picnic tables.
- Started as a Bus Boy and ended up pretty much running the kitchen at a local seafood restaurant.
- IT Geek.

And I count being a volunteer with Boy Scouts of America as a second job.