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What age did you start working and list your jobs.

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DnetMHZ

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I started at 16 if i remember correctly

1. Worked at an ACME supermarket (Deli, stocking shelves, register)
2. moved to the deli at a Foodtown when my ACME shut down.
3. Bowling alley mechanic

SCHOOL

4. Network Systems Engineer
5. IT manager (Current)

how about everyone else?
DnetMHZ
 
hmmm... started at 15.


1. Teachers assistant (afterschool, graded papers and such)
2. Lifeguard at a HighSchool and Golds Gym
3. Lifeguard at College
4. Lifeguard at a State Park
5. Math Tutor at College
6. Recreation Staff Member at a resort
7. Math Tutor at a Training Clinic
8. Computer Administrator (current)

future: Grad school->professor (hopefully!)
 
Did Paper routes on and off for about 3 years around age 13-15
when I hit 16, thats when the fun began.

~Mad Mikes Supervideo!
Stayed there for 3 years, obtained Manager status.

~BlockBuster Video
Stayed there for 3 summer months during college

~back to Mad Mikes
Blockbuster sucks. Dont work there. stayed there for winter and summer months over the next year.

~Academic Computing @ Marist College
Graphic Design for a college year

~IBM
IBM sucks. Dont work there. (dont feel like telling my story) Stayed there for a year on a CO-OP.

~College Activities @ Marist College
Technician for a college year.

~Current Job (not tellin the Company yet)
been here about 1.5 years. started after graduating college.

 
14 and worked at a grocery store for 5yrs part time. Had a couple of 2nd jobs while working at the grocery store. Ended up quitting and moving into retail and later started working at a PC Repair shop as a 2nd job. Now working in the I/T industry for a large corporation.
 
Started working at 17
1) Power Station (thermal plant operator at a steam, gas and coal plant)
2) Trained as a chef, worked in various resturants etc.
3) Started working on a helpdesk then went onto tech support.
4) Contract all and any of the above.
 
im 16........ the only real steady jobs I had were telemarketing.
last month of this summer I worked selling newspapers on the phone for about a month, i got fired, could not work M-F on school days anways and the people there were bastards.
now working as telemarketer selling Cable modem access...... mostly for charter cable. but since the @home thing has settle getting back to @home. great job, on a good day make 15$ an hour.
 

AGES: JOB
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12-16: Janitor at Dentist Office
16-19: McDonalds (won scholarship for free tuition to Univ. of TN)
18-25: Ticket Office (similar to TicketMaster)
20-21: Digital Media Graffix (CGI programmer)
22-24: DJ for Radio Station
24-25: Programmer for IO Channel (web stuff; ASP, MySQL mainly)
25- Present: Web Developer for Mortgage Company
 


<< working as telemarketer selling Cable modem access >>



Do they set ya up with a free cable modem at least?
 
Let's see...

I started when I was 16 y/o

1. Room Service Guy @ Ramada Inn
2. Burger King - Drive-Thru anyone??
3. WJET-TV - Web Design
4. Reed Manufacturing - Web Design - AS400 to NT MRP Migration
5. Network Engineer
6. Tier 3 Support
7. Provisioning Engineer

All this and I am 24 ;-)
 
i started when i was like 10 years old at my parents shoe shop...there's nothing like working for parents and gettig no pay and spending my weekends there
 
Started at 17 as a flower delivery van driver.

1) See Above.
2) 19 years old: worked for Woodward Academy's Alumni Association and developed their Centennial Web site.
3) 19 yeard old: worked for the USA-South marketing office for Lufthansa German Airlines.
4) 20 years old: worked for Delta Air Lines e-Business department. I was the marketing research coordinator.
5) 21 years old: worked for CAMotion, Inc. and developed their Web site and did basic IT and marketing work.
 
Started when I was 12 (summer work)

1) Picking blueberries (Woohoo, $45 a week! At 12 years old it seemed like a lot of money.) (2 summers)
2) College library PC assistant ($6.00 an hour, age 14, several terms)
3) "Courtesy clerk" ($5.25 an hour bagging groceries, blech. Age 15, one summer.)
4) College A/V department assistant, produced internal & external web pages for PCC, helped roll out first web delivered classes (WebCT) ($6.50 an hour, age 15/16, several terms)
5) Overnight @ Target (Throwing freight, $7.50 an hour, 9 months when I was 16/17)
6) Technical support (Started when I was 17 making $11.04 an hour, currently making somewhere around $14, stupid company hasn't put my raises through yet. Currently 19, been here 2 years & 12 days... But who's counting.)

Viper GTS
 
i started when i was like 10 years old at my parents shoe shop...there's nothing like working for parents and gettig no pay and spending my weekends there

Yeah, I know that feeling. My parents own a printing workshop, and Ive had to help ever since. Not been working for anyone else except for my industrial attachment. So its kind of sucky that now I have to look for a real job and don't really know how its like.
 
13 worked in a pizza shop... helped clean up and slice up pizzas, etc. Was under the table, more for fun than anything.

17 worked in a slaughtering house (cows).

19 tutored ESL and up to grade 10 math to inmates

20 lead hand of a digital imaging company that was staffed by inmates (turned shelves full of hard copy court documents into digital form for storage on CDs)

22 porn store

... pretty much everything was just for the experience. Aside from the digital imaging, i never worked longer than 6 months.

 
[EDIT]Whoops, Viper reminded me, when I was 12 I picked strawberries for $.50 a pound.

13 - detassling corn fields during the summer. Did that for a season.
14-16 labored for my father mixing concrete and moving bricks and blocks
16-18 worked at a movie theatre
18-19 worked as night operator at credit union while in college
19-22 worked at a fairly large corporation doing third shift tech support for HP-UX systems in hospitals
22-present - work as computer guy for a company that has franchise rights to Arby's and Krispy Kreme restaurants
 
Started at 13 with the paper route

At 18, worked part time at the local supermarket to put myself through university
At 19, PC support job with oil research company
At 22, Tech support job at games company
At 23 to present, Tech support at a university
 
16-18 Started off working at Beach Place selling incense and beaded necklaces.
18-19 Working at the pharmacy lab in school, mixing chemicals and stuff...

And that's all for now 😀
 
18 - Blockbuster Video
19 - OptiCom, Inc. (Software consultant, worked there 2 years)
21 - Planet, Inc. (Production company, Edited reels for their directors)
21 - Superior Assembly (Editorial Company, Worked as a runner)
22 - Freelance editing (Did part of a children's video and a promo video)
22 - Institute for Creative Technologies (Part of USC, I'm a project assistant on one of their many graphics research projects)

^That's my current job.
 


<< 22 - Freelance editing (Did part of a children's video and a promo video) >>



Ohhhh, promo video...had to reread that that one 😱

🙂
 

16-18 Lifeguard
18-19 Cliff Diver at Canada's Wonderland
20-22 Sponge Diver in the Bahamas
23-24 Apprentice Helicopter Pilot.
24-26 Helicopter Pilot (Bush Pilot)
26-27 Giant Robot (evil)
28-present : Network Admin

 
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