Really simple, what kinds of jobs have you had over the years? My list: (in no particular order)

Pizza delivery driver
3D modeller
Website designer
Graphics designer
Radio DJ
Door-to-door salesman
Fast-foot restaurant employee
Projectionist
Concessionist
Usher/doorman
Ditch-digger
Strip club bouncer
Book store supervisor
Convenience store clerk
Writer
Editor
Restaurant greeter
Bus-boy
Waiter
Soldier
Home Depot cashier
Computer upgrades technician
Y2K/IT specialist
Doughnut baker
Studio technician/audio engineer
Butler at a bed-and-breakfast

And I think that's about it for me. What about you?

Retail Sales
General temping including
- folding cardboard boxes
- cafeteria work
- editing
- typing/data-entry
- archiving
- translating
- secretarial work
- cleaning
- DJ (once)
Seamstress (apprenticeship)
Research Secretary
IT-employee including
- system administration
- web development
- web editor
- webmaster
Librarian
New Media Manager (quit after 3 months - I hate Sharepoint)
Project Manager
Information Specialist
Mother (since I got paid maternity leave, I guess it's a paid gig)

Before Age 14:
- picked rocks
- fed chickens
- babysat
- daycare worker
After Age 14:
Retail Sales at
- a gift/photo finishing/framing shop
- a bakery
- a video rental place
- a clothing store
Customer Service Rep for a call center
- fixed printers for 7 months
- fixed desktops for 5 months
and now i'm back to retail, at the bookstore.

quote:

Originally posted by Fashionpolice:
I hate Sharepoint

I share your pain. For a time I was responsible for tending to the Sharepoint website for my battalion. Suck suck suck.

Side note: I forgot to mention working for BlockBuster Video. Now that I think about it, I'm sure there's other stuff I've forgotten, too. Just can't remember it all. Is that bad?

I had initially posted babysitting (forced at age 10 to babysit for my mother's friend's kids - age 5, 3, and 2 1-year old twins at the fabulous rate of 50cents/hour) but the automatic backspace function on my touch pad ate my post.

Baseball umpire
General help for a small sports store
Camp counselor
Pizza delivery man
English teacher
Small business owner
Web designer

Babysitting
File clerk in a doctor's office
Sandwich shop
Waitress
Cocktail waitress
Bartender
College radio DJ
Traduction/rédaction/copywriting for a friend's microbusiness
Help desk at a major medical insuror
Legal secretary
Microbusiness of my own for editing/copywriting/proofreading
Just had my 14th anniversary as senior admin at an engineering firm

I'd tell you, but I'd have to kill you.

blueberry picker
laundry worker
confectionery cooker
library assistant

I try to avoid work.

quote:

Originally posted by Pigkilla:
I'd tell you, but I'd have to kill you.

You're so embarrassed about what you had to do for a living?

bulb farm worker
roadie
catwalk model
army medic (military service)
army radar operator (military service)
musician/studio technician/audio engineer
data monkey/receptionist for insurance agency
A&R/band manager for management agency
music teacher
shepherd (one week)
illustrator/designer/painter
webdesigner
soccer dad

I always knew you were too sexy for your shirt, Gringo.

Most excellent thread idea!

Builder's labourer
Lumberyard worker
Cleaner
Lab assistant
Trainee anesthetic technician
Kitchenhand
Seller of paintings door-to-door
Insurance salesman (for a week)
Fruit picker
High school teacher
Tutor
Admissions officer
Web developer
Teacher educator
Author

I'm sure there's more I've forgotten.

In order:

-worked in a machine shop doing various menial jobs (I was 15)
-cashier/stockboy at a healthfood store
-retail clerk record store
-retail clerk book store
-pulled orders/handled returns/invoice manager at a t-shirt wholesale warehouse
-package sorter at UPS
-retail clerk at a cigarette store
-customer service rep at a pager call center
-Aviation Ordnanceman in the navy
-unemployed immigrant
-mail clerk
-records clerk at a IP law firm

A very short list:

- ice cream bike operator
- submarine sandwich assembly and sales
- computer programmer & data entry
- software engineer

Basically, I started in software when I was in high school, shortly after I started looking for a job, and I stayed there.

fast food flunkie
grocery store bagger/flunkie (Learned a lot from this job actually. Most importantly: 1) How to mop like a motherfuckin' pro, since I used to mop the entire, very large supermarket about five times a week, and 2) How to cheerfully ignore asinine regulations without getting fired)
warehouse hand
early morning stocker
retail flunkie
fitness club receptionist
fitness club membership salesman (hahahahaha!)
research assistant
inter-library loan clerk
teaching assistant
investigator
and other weird stuff after that

white & yellow pages deliverer (2 days)
weed whacker
high school play sound designer/engineer/composer (3 weeks, was not in high school)
sound design/music and programmer for startup game developer
writer
viral video maker + web marketer
webmaster
2d gaming coach/teacher - grade & high school
3d virtual world gaming coach/teacher - middle & high school
3d virtual world developer/programmer
VEX and Lego robotics teacher
virtual reality integrator
neurocontrol brain-computer interface integrator / coach
(official job title nebulous, constantly changing at this point)

We had this thread a long time ago.
ok here I go from first to last.
Cashier 14 years old
Nursing Aide 15 years old
Cook at a fast food place
waitress
bartender
Sailor in the Navy Hospital corpsman/pharmacy technician
pharmacy intern
pharmacist
graduate teaching assistant (chemistry)
University Chemistry Instructor
Chemist
Back to being a Pharmacist
Poison Information Specialist
Back to being a Pharmacist
Back to being a chemist
Back to being a Pharmacist

Answered phones at the rectory
Burger King - Broiler Steamer
College Bookstore
monkey boiler
grave digger
night watchman
rv washer
College Bookstore
Bomb engineer
Electro-optic engineer
C programmer
Sys admin
Java programmer
C# programmer

"Monkey boiler" and "bomb engineer"? Geez louise. And here I thought that *I* had led an interesting life in gainful employment. That, my friend, takes the cake!