What Do You Do For Your Job / Living • Page 14

17-17 1/2: McAlister's Deli-cashier and runner/busser
17 1/2-22 1/2:Hastings Entertainment-everything except working in the Cafe/coffee shop
22 1/2-24: Pentagroup Financial-accountant/senior accountant for a debt collection agency
24-26: Chemily Management Company-Oil & Gas Accountant for a tiny company

26-current(27 1/2): Pappas Restaurants-Sales Tax accountant

 

Been working at Guitar Center for almost a year now. Happy to report I love my job.

 

I work for local government in a small-medium sized town. It paints a great picture of modern life in the UK, as we deal with people from every social class & race, as wide a range as homeless people looking for housing, to people with 'sir' in their title dropping £500,000+ on planning developments.

Everybody is a fucking idiot...

 

Work retail, you'll see this as well lol

 

Did 3 to 4 years in retail so I def. know how it can be lol - my current job's idiots are worse, but what they're complaining about matters more than material goods I was selling in that previous job so it balances out I guess. Telesales has been my worst job overall though.

 

So you moved from one to another? Why torture yourself like that? Haha

I tease I tease.

 

not quite - left retail to go to university, came back & was unemployed for 6 months, got depressed, got the telesales job, worst job ever, made redundant, unemployed another 6 months, got depressed again with vivid suicidal thoughts, then got the job I'm in now which at the very least gave me something to do. Next step.........profit?

Edit: LOL, my fucking life...

 

Glad things are at least looking up!

 

17-18: Grocery Store chain
18: Dishwasher for a fancy restaurant
19-20: Coffee shop
22-24: Pizza shop
23: Pizza shop marketing intern
24: Boardgame/puzzle shop employee

 

16: Worked at a local family fun park as an attendant. Driving range, go karts, bumper boats, all that kind of stuff. A bunch of my friends got jobs there too so it was pretty much a constant shit show haha. The shenanigans were never ending. Wanna say I worked there for about 4 months or so.

16-20: Worked summers as a lifeguard, a little bit in the off season too. Also taught swim lessons, classes anywhere from infants to 10 year olds.

16...maybe early 17: Tropical Smoothie Cafe. Only job I've ever been fired from. The franchisees were extremely religious and I think they sorta just hated me but needed staffing and once they got enough people hired they found a reason to cut me. Maybe 2-3 months long.

17: Toys 'R' Us, for the holiday season only. This was also the holiday season the Xbox 360 came out so it was a pretty crazy few months.

18: Cold Stone as a shift manager. I liked that job because I worked alone like 95% of the time. I'd always play the music just a little too loud and somehow did not gain a bunch of weight eating all the of the ice cream in sight.

18-19: Merch guy/Guitar tech. A band I was in at the time had just broken up and another band that I was longtime friends with/played a lot of shows with offered to take me out. Pretty much stayed in the states with the exception of a few dates in Canada. Lots of fun tours though and of course memories I'll never forget. This went on for the better part of a year.

19: Stopped touring to try and focus on my own music and wound up getting a job at this little grocery store that was actually a project of Walmart. It was their effort to create a "friendly neighborhood grocery store", it was called Marketside. It was mostly fucking awful but at that age you just kinda roll with the punches. Upside is that it's where I met my girlfriend, we've been together for 8 years. I worked there about 10 months and finally walked. Tried to give a two weeks notice but the manager was an asshole so I decided he wasn't worth the attempt at decency. Girlfriend quit about three months after me.

20-23: Guitar Center. Accessories department. Two of my best friends were moving to San Diego for no reason and my girlfriend and I decided to go with. I needed a job before I moved there and I literally turned in my application online, called the store to see if they received it, and then told them I'd be there the next day for an interview (a six hour drive for me). Definitely one of the more ballsy things I've done in my life -- I showed up and they had no idea what to do with me haha. I think they basically interviewed because they felt they couldn't turn me away. Anyway, I got the job. Eventually moved back to Arizona, so I transferred stores. GC had really great ups and a few shitty downs, some great years but I'm glad they finally pissed me off enough to make me leave.

23-now: Got a job as a bank teller, did that for a year and then was promoted to a personal banker position. Did that for two years. Liked the people I worked with but the job itself was soul-sucking. 7 months ago I left the branch for a position in the bank's financial crimes department, where I am now. I basically assess fraud claims and determine whether we are paying the customer or not. First job where I have zero customer interaction, which is crazy to me. I don't think it's where I want to be forever but I make decent money and my job is interesting. So we'll see.

Damn, sorry for the long post haha. Totally just took a trip down memory lane at all of your expenses!

 

17-19: Movie theater
19-24: Best Buy (worked in Media department, then Inventory/Merchandising)
24-26: Geek Squad tech support
26-29: Service Desk tech for a manufacturing company (they made data center floors, etc.)
29-30: Executive Desktop Support Specialist at University of Maryland University College (working with the Presidents office supporting him as well as Vice Presidents, Dean's, etc.)

 

I'm a producer at a web development agency. I make sure everything is running smoothly, and am allowed to work from anywhere (helloooooo tour!) so long as nothing falls through the cracks. I love my job, and am grateful every single day that my boss hasn't fired me.

Related - I've noticed a rising trend of musicians working in digital (ex. coding, web development, social media coordination, etc) to accommodate touring/have a steady stream of income. Anyone else have any experience/perspective on this?

 

Shit, are we doing our work history? Let's see if I can remember all of mine:

13-14: Secretary at Church Rectory
16-17: Cashier/Meat Slicer at a Deli
17-19: Cashier at Hardware Store
18-21: Summer Help at a Sewage Plant Lab
21-22: Intern at a County's Planning Department
21-23: Security at State Fair Meadowlands
22-23: Cashier at Yankee Candle
22: Seasonal Help at Toys R US
23-27: Guest Services at Meadowlands Racetrack
23-26: Live Nation Music Geek "Army Member"
24-26: Synner (Promo Rep) for The Syndicate
24-26: Co-Manager for Autobiography of Man
25: Jr. Account Executive at FSI Merchant Services
26-27: Founder of Behind the Barricade
26-27: Coordinator at a Law School Alumni Department

 

I've only worked at 2 places so mine is short lol

 

^Same. You guys have a ton of work experience!

19-21: McDonald's lackey -> crew trainer -> shift manager
22-25: video game programmer/software engineer

 

For me of the 5 companies I've been with 2 went out of business and no longer exist and the one before my current I got laid off due to us losing a client so kinda the same even though the company is still currently afloat

 

If we're doing history..
14-16: local pizza place, making pizza
16-21: associate/manager at Five Below (easily the worst retail chain I worked for, -10000/10, would not recommend, no idea why I kept this job so long)
18: PR for my university (in retrospect, sad I didn't stay here, but university PR is horrifically boring to me)
19: Cashier at Charlotte Russe and Journey's
20: Waitressing at Johnny Rockets
20-21: Cashier & Ops specialist at Victoria's Secret (easily the best retail chain I worked for)
21: Tutor & TA for my university's Math/Computer Science dept
21-23: Adjunct professor for the university's CS department (don't ask me how the hell I got away with teaching college classes without a Master's...I have no idea)
21-now: Web app engineering for a contracting company, and now full-time for one of its former clients

For some reason I felt like I had to have a job AT ALL TIMES while in high school and college and man, I'm glad I built a good work ethic and stuff, but I wish I had taken some time to do more creative things than stocking shelves.

 

16: Dishwasher at a Chinese place
17-19: Dunkin Donuts
20: Dishwasher at a sports bar
21: Fry Cook at a sports bar
22-24: Pizza Delivery Guy, Line Cook at a sports bar
25: Line cook at an upscale tavern
25; Sous Chef at that same upscale tavern
26: Line cook at an upscale bistro
27: Sous Chef at that same upscale bistro
27: Chef du Cuisine at that same upscale bistro

 

@mr_november

 

19-24: retail hell
25- __: distribution, but still technically retail.

I don't like where this is going.

 

During the day I go to school so I can get an English degree and teach in Japan. At night I manage a movie theatre built in the 1930's. Before this I've done a bunch of different jobs including McDonalds, Nob Hill (grocery store), a barista, and teaching little kids how to play soccer.

 

Hm, well for a history...

15-20: Supermarket cashiering and bagging
19-20: Phone calling work study to annoy alumni into sinking even more cash to the university in donations (the WORST)
20-23: Internet protocol testing for commercial routers
23-on: Software dev for basic application defect fixes and upgrades

 

20-now: Started in the bakery department of a grocery store and then moved over to the deli, where I currently reside, as the fry cook.

 

ayyyy i was front end and meat department at a grocery store for five years.

 

Just started a new full-time job as a pharmacy technician at a hospital pharmacy after months of looking for work! It's a state government job, so decent pay and good benefits. It doesn't pertain to my studies or anything, but at least it's something!