I worked at a Petro-Canada gas station for three years, with a brief break in the middle, when I worked at a heart specialist's office.
During my first work term at uni, I lived at a l'Arche home. I woke people up in the morning, did morning routines, cleaned the house, hung out before dinner, unless I was cooking, cleaned up afterwards, hung out some more, helped people to bed. And on the weekends we did other fun stuff. And most importantly, I became friends with the people I lived with. I enjoyed the experience so much that I went back the next work term for another go. I learned about Alzheimer's, fibre, various methods of cleaning unsavoury things out of the carpet, gastronomy feeding, and all sorts of fun things.
Then that summer, while I was in school, (I have a weird scedule) I worked in the residence office where I lived.
And for the last three months I have been an "Outdoor Education Programmer," also known as Camp Counsellor. And that was a challenge. I would far rather have been back at l'Arche. But it was a good place to be. Getting paid to play games with kids isn't the worst job out there. Actually, it's pretty darn good.
Next work term I am hoping to get a job as an EA at my home school board. Could be good...
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I worked as a Network Administrator's assistant at a car dealership in High School.
Now I'm in college, and my job pays slightly better. My actual title is "Retail Surge Representative", but I'm basically just a merchandiser for a sales and marketing company.
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Didn't work through high school, excpet babysitting for friends & family.
First three years of university, I was an adminstrative assistant at the Department my mother works at. Yes, very nepotistic. But it turned out I was a better admin assistant than the other (also nepotistic) appointment - I can actually type, and operate a photocopier.
The work was incredibly boring, but I got paid amazingly well for what I was doing, and the hours were pretty flexible.
This year I've been a part time clerk in a law firm, specialising in insurance law. It's better work in that its actually relevant to my degree, but it's not the kind of law I want to end up in (it's a commercial firm. Enough said). Also, the pay is much worse.
On the upside, I do get to check hatrack from work.
But today is my last day at this job before I move interstate - so after this, who knows. Hopefully something law related.
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This is fun - I'm glad I am not the only person to have worked six million different jobs before the age of 30!
Just as a side note - mostly to Jon who is weeping hysterically in a corner - I worked with an actual gigilo (from Portland) - and he also said the little old ladies were frightening . . . but they paid well. Posts: 5609 | Registered: Jan 2003
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I didn't work in high school, but i definately made up for lost job experience once I got into college
my resume looks something like this: Phone Jack (2 weeks) - called poor college alumni and asked them for donations Resident Assistant- 1 1/2 years During the summer- I made pizzas in the school cafeteria Assistant Hall Director- 1 semester Bookstore clerk- 4 weeks Receptionist at nursing home- 1 week- they didn't ask me to come back after I dropped a resident's dog Computer Tech for Bank of America- 6 months Cake Decorator for Albertson's- 4 months *** took a break from life for 18 months**** Exercise equipment tester- 2 weeks Phone surveys- 2 weeks HUD Rebate getter backer- 3 months Student Assistant- 1 semester- collge of AG- scanned photos in a tiny room and IM'd my friend... or he just came over and talked to me for four hours while I worked. Student Assistant- 1 summer- USDA Bee Laboratoy- filed bees and arranged the journal library Exercise Equipment Tester- 4 months- ran on a treadmill for four hours 4-H After School Liaison-10 months- Best job I had ever! I loved it! I played with kids, talked to teachers and surfed the internet Sewing teacher- 10 months- taught 5 ten year old girls to sew.
Grand Total: 16 jobs!
And after all that.... I finally have a real job! [B][/B]
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High School : One summer I was a gopher on construction sites working for my girlfriend’s father. Sadly, that was the most money I have ever made. More because I was dating the boss’s daughter than because I was much help on a construction site. (Why did I break up with her?)
For the rest of high school I worked at Kaybee Toy Store in the pitiful little mall in my hometown. Not nearly as much fun as it would be if it were nearly as much fun as it sounds.
College: Teacher’s Assistant Waiter Daycare Director Tile Layer Waiter again All of these led up to the job that I loved so much I stayed there for seven years. I was a house parent at a group home for emotionally disturbed boys who were in state custody because of abuse. After I graduated, I became the director of the group home. Still my favorite job ever, except for the one I have now which is the job I always wanted and never thought I could get. I am the artistic director for a fledgling, though successful professional theater company . Dang I’m lucky.
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I should clarify... dead bees. But yep- I pinned them and put them in drawers by family then alphabetically by genus and species. Tens of thousands of bees- some are really pretty- the orchid bee is my favoritePosts: 862 | Registered: Oct 2003
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Let's see: 1 summer as an IT monkey at the County hospital, 3 summers of manual labor. I got a job at school in my Junior year of college as a Helpdesk monkey.
Jenny G -- I also de-tassled corn -- forgot about that job. I don't know why I have always loved the jobs that let me work outside in the unbearable heat of summer, with my fair skin & freckles...
FG (who now sits in a cubicle in a windowless building.. )
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Hey Black Mage... you know how many people have cared about my IB diploma in the 5 years since I got it? Zero! Didn't matter at college, getting jobs, zilch. No one's ever heard of it. Doesn't that suck? They made it out to be this amazing thing that would open all these doors blah blah blah....
It was a great education, though, and that pays off every day.
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So Ayelar, would you say that the education you got was an amazing thing that opens up a lot of doors? Posts: 968 | Registered: Sep 2003
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AP credit was similarly disappointing. Well, maybe not similarly, because I still got something out of it. But my 25 hours of credit only got me out of four classes (13 total credits). The other 12 hours of credit was fluff elective credit that got me nothing but the chance to register for classes a few days earlier. Stupid wasted art portfolio . . . Posts: 276 | Registered: Feb 2003
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I had almost fifty hours of AP credit, and it got me out of a grand total of TWO classes! Two!
That's because I got minors in the subjects, which means I never needed to take Bio 101 because I started with 121. Psychology didn't help with anything. The only one that was remotely useful was my English test, and that got me out of English 101 and one survery literature course.
Still worth it - fun classes, though. *misses school*
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Farmgirl - NOT detassling. Hand pollinating for a seed company, developing new hybrids. My dad is a corn breeder.
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I spent my summers in long term temp assignments. In high school I worked briefly at Dart Drug, but decided it was too hard to get to without a car. I'd also totally freak out if my cash drawer was short. Another example of how my life would have been different if I'd know about my anxiety disorder sooner in life. But it came in handy working as an office clerk. I really like filing and stuff like that.
Edit: that reminds me, there used to be a bulletin of bad credit card numbers I had to check whenever someone used one. Of course, fewer people used them back then...
quote: Hey Black Mage... you know how many people have cared about my IB diploma in the 5 years since I got it? Zero! Didn't matter at college, getting jobs, zilch. No one's ever heard of it.
(this is the blood draining from my face)
Are you serious? Really serious?
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High School: -One year I was a janitor at an elementary school.
College: -Building assistant or something -Then office assistant for the same department
Then all at the same time: -Teaching assistant (for the same department) -I actually got paid to play my clarinet for a few musicals -And I was a computer lab "consultant" ("You need headphones? I need your student id..") (...for the same department...)
Then computer support
Then I quit graduate school and got a better computer support job, but in a different department! So I am still at school, but working...
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Black Mage- It's true about the IB being obscure. I have one friend who got one 17 years ago, and that is the only thing I have heard about it. But then, I'm a pretty illustrious loser. And it's relatively likely I'll work in Human Resources someday, in which case I would know what it was. But I may never work HR for the kind of job you would want (such as industrial painting contractor).
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Welcome human_2.0! I see you've just started posting! We already have someone named Human here, so you might want to consider choosing another name. Anyway, welcome to hatrack! Posts: 968 | Registered: Sep 2003
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Lots of siting. Babysitting, dogsitting, catsitting. You know, it's surprising how little actual sitting is involved in these jobs. Posts: 2149 | Registered: Aug 2000
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Well, I guess if you don't mind everyone thinking of you as the next version of our 16 year old friend Jonathan ... ... ...
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If by "what jobs did ya'll do in high school and college" you mean "what jobs are you doing in high school," I just got hired as a CSR (Customer Service Representative, which is a cashier, phone answerer, box folder - all the boring stuff) at Domino's Pizza. They won't let me deliver or even get near the oven 'til I'm 18, though. Stupid, but I guess it's an Arizona State law.
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the best job I had in college was working as a tour guide for 3 years. For two weeks (all I could stand) I had the absolute worst job in the world: I worked over the Christmas break at the college sewage treatment plant shovelling dried raw sewage from drying vats the size of swimming pools on to the back of a truck for use as fertiliser. What with the 4 inch cockroaches scuttling around on the surface around the used tampon applicators that had been flushed, it was one long gross-out! Not to mention the smell. The vats were contiguous, separated by no more than two feet of walk space, along which we pushed wheel barrows and stood on, shovelling it precariously into the barrows. The end came the morning I just decided I wasn't going in to work, and stayed in bed. That was the day after one of my workmates fell into a vat that wasn't fully dried out!!! Beat that job!!
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