jobs you've had

[jk the sooner fan]

before you stepped in a career job, what menial jobs did you have before you were "famous"

in no particular order

i had a newspaper route, cooked pizza's, flipped burgers, worked in the deli at tom thumb, worked at a security alarm monitoring station, and during summers on the farm, i did hay hauling, wheat harvesting, ranch hand for the cows....and i worked for 4 weeks with my ex father in law on hot tar roofs (worst job EVER)

[GrapevineSooner]

Worked at Hardee's at 240 and South Penn in South OKC.
Worked at Tom Thumb Deli in Grapevine.
Worked at a telemarketer handling inbound calls for AT&T.
At same job, also placed outbound calls selling raised computer room flooring (Pretty Bad Job)

[Petro-Sooner]

Grocery store meat dept. clean up.
Roofed houses for a couple summers.

Gave me the drive to stay in school when I thought about quiting.

[Newbomb Turk]

Worked evenings for a video game distributor - answered the phone for trouble calls and cleaned video games and pinball machines. Nobody else was there and I could play free games the whole evening. Pay aside, still the best job I've ever had.

[StuIsTheMan]

Bar Back
Lift Operator
Iron Worker
F-15C Crew Chief
CAD Manager
Structural Detailer...


In that order

[King Crimson]

range boy at country club
bag room attendant at country club
record store
the Lovelight (was great for the sweet 90's alterna-chicks in summer school)
landscaping
too many kitchen jobs to mention--from dishwashing to writing menus, sometimes both. but, the latter of which were good money full-time salary in Boulder, Lake Tahoe (California side, Tahoe City), and Summit County....for a swinging lifestyle in your late 20's. but, salary=60 hours a week, on-call, and basically no days off. good times though, no money saved.

[Beef]

Paper route
Checker at a grocery store
"Cook" at Taco Bell. I wish I still had the sweet *** maroon polyester uniform.
Receptionist at a tennis club
Construction site clean-up.
Roofer
Dishwasher at Interurban.

[Hamhock]

car wash attendant was my favorite.

[Howzit]

Operated a grinder for defective pvc pipe at a pvc manufacturing plant
Pulled weeds at the state tree farm down at Goldsby
Detailed cars at Big Red (when it was on Lindsay, and I had to show up)
Loaded/Unloaded cargo aircraft at OKC airport

[Chuck Bao]

Hay hauler
Feed store delivery
Hay baling
Construction worker
Bank bookkeeper
Bank teller
Bank loan teller
Exchange teaching fellow
Stock market analyst
Head of research

[jk the sooner fan]

i always thought hauling hay was the worst job, till i worked on a hot tar roof

[royalfan5]

General Farm Work, ALCO employee, groundskeeping, college admissions worker/tour guide, college alumni suck-up, mascot, Goodyear Warehouse employee, Nebraska Tourism Promoter, Cooperative Agribusiness/Biofuels research, and model.

[Newbomb Turk]

Nebraska Tourism Promoter

we have a leader in the clubhouse for "most difficult job".

[King Crimson]

i always thought hauling hay was the worst job, till i worked on a hot tar roof

hauling hay is pretty tough. i've done it, but i never had that as an official job. my dad tells a story about he and his cousin cleaning out a grain silo in August up near Perry that i've heard enough times to think it WAS pretty bad. by today's standards they probably suffered heat stroke.

[StoopTroup]

I did meter readings and light maintenance on Pitney Bowes postal machines for about a year. What was cool was when you got the downtown Tulsa addresses. You could hit your daily quota in about 2 hours and then head to the pool then on to school. :D

[Suerreal]

Lifeguard/swim instructor

Does selling plasma count? (It's what I did most of the time I was at OU to solve the dilemma of working & having no time to party vs not working and having no money to party) My mother was mortified, but not enough to give me more money...

Nurse's aide at Central State

Chemistry grad *** for 1 semester. (long story)

- Sue

[King Crimson]

i've had some pretty weird temp jobs too. like a place that manucatured Apple 2e keyboard frames in Gunbarrel, CO. they'd let you work as many hours as you wanted. making wrist-rocket slingshots in Boulder for trumark--big Wal-mart contract. another "work all you want" temp job.

http://www.slingshots.com/

you have a young boy in your life, or just wanna be cool: this is the single coolest item ever made. the rubber band gun. you can kill flies from across the room. turn on a light switch with a shot from the sofa. no joke. the best 10 dollars ever spent. six shooter.

http://www.slingshots.com/html/rubber-band-gun.html

[StoopTroup]

I thinking making your own slingshot is more fun...

http://images.inmagine.com/168nwm/photodisc/pdos047/pdos047038.jpg

[phead903]

Stock boy in a grocery store..
Worked at a rock crusher - yes, we took big rocks and sent them through a series of crushers to make smaller rocks. As the summer help, every Friday afternoon I got to crawl inside of the crushers to change the screens - nothing like being inside a metal box on a summer afternoon in southeast Oklahoma!
Worked at an asphalt plant - laying hot ashpalt in August - you could sweat out 20 lbs a day!

Kept me going back to college in the fall!

[bluedogok]

Han's BBQ - Busboy
Grocery store - Sacker, stocker, cashier - I got fired for not showing up for work on the day of the OU-USC game/1982 even though I had my Saturdays scheduled off 2 months prior before I went off to OU, I didn't work until the next spring.
Shoe store clerk
Record store clerk
Nursery/seed store - warehouse/delivery driver
MEP firm - Summer drafting/survey intern
Art supply and reprographic store - sales
CAD Tech->Architecture (I still haven't taken the exam)

Several other part time/contract second jobs, the best one was at the Lotus dealership working car shows/auctions in my mid-20's.

[85Sooner]

Carhop at Coits on 50th
Ticket Taker, usher/ Bleacher Creature (mascot) OKC89ers
Starena icerink Skateback
Asst Trainer OKC Stars Hockey
Cloths sales Orbachs
Cloths Sales Napoleon Nash
Shoe Sales- Dillards
Bar Back Dayshift- LaRouge Gentlemens club
Oyster shucker Night Shift- Harrys oyster bar
Teller Friendly Natl Bank
Teller Capitol Federal Savings Bank
Customer Service United New Mexico Bank
Events Coordinator/Janitor First Christian Church OKC
Drummer Jewel box theater OKC
Clinical Assistant-Masters Level Therapist Betty Chase Center/Hillcrest Hosp
Masters level child therapist Meridell Achievement Center Austin TX
Home Theater design specialist Webb inc Austin Tx.

Thats about it. hey Blue dog, that Hans was great stuff! Grew up on it.

[BudSooner]

Tech support Directv
Butcher/meat department manager
Stocker
Route salesman for Eckrich(not a bad job, I never lacked for lunchmeat at the house....I got to take stuff home on occasion as promo items)
porn star
Cashier


you know, the usual stuff.

[SoonerBOI]

Dog Walker
Food Delivery (summer job)
After OU
marketing research analyst
marketing manager
International Group Division Head for our family owned brewery.

[oumartin]

from start to now
worked in pipe yard at age 15
kentucky fried chicken for 1 month
bus boy at mexican restaurant
hot tar roofs and roofed houses one summer
McDonalds
Out of high school
Worked in Chemical plant
Worked in H2S Chemical plant
Worked in Natural gas plant
Worked in H2s Chemical plant
oilfield

Yes, hot tar roofs is the suck
I saw a guy get his back burned pretty bad when the felt with hot tar on it got caught by the wind and came up and slapped him in the back. he was hysterical

[jk the sooner fan]

Carhop at Coits on 50th
Ticket Taker, usher/ Bleacher Creature (mascot) OKC89ers
Starena icerink Skateback
Asst Trainer OKC Stars Hockey
Cloths sales Orbachs
Cloths Sales Napoleon Nash
Shoe Sales- Dillards
Bar Back Dayshift- LaRouge Gentlemens club
Oyster shucker Night Shift- Harrys oyster bar
Teller Friendly Natl Bank
Teller Capitol Federal Savings Bank
Customer Service United New Mexico Bank
Events Coordinator/Janitor First Christian Church OKC
Drummer Jewel box theater OKC
Clinical Assistant-Masters Level Therapist Betty Chase Center/Hillcrest Hosp
Masters level child therapist Meridell Achievement Center Austin TX
Home Theater design specialist Webb inc Austin Tx.

Thats about it. hey Blue dog, that Hans was great stuff! Grew up on it.

did you sell cloths or clothes? ;)

i think so far you win the job hopper award

but give 1tc a chance to respond :)

[85Sooner]

did you sell cloths or clothes? ;)

i think so far you win the job hopper award

but give 1tc a chance to respond :)
Yep I seem to remember clothes:) Remember alot were seasonal or working 2 jobs at a time. have only been unemployed for 2 months since 14 years old. Plus I am old.

[King Crimson]

i'll give any guy spek who shucked oysters. if there's a better way to get stitches on your hands and see those knicle bones up close and in person..... i don't know what it is.

[soonerbrat]

i did a lot of cashiering - mazzio's, taco bueno, taco bell (for 2 weeks only..they wanted me to clean some stuff with comet and bleach and i said NO WAY);
Ratcliffe's books;
worked for my parents in their print shop
worked at TCBY, was assistant manager there
legal assistant
bank teller in the drive thru at BOA - this was my favorite job.


waited tables, hostessed & cashiered at spaghetti warehouse for about 4 years
did animal research for a pharmaceutical company

that's all i can think of for now

[AllAboutThe'O']

Worked at my hometown McDonald's whilst attending community college.
Spent two summers doing primarily office work at my hometown paper mill in between graduating from JUCO to attending my four-year institution (where I actually spent three years).
Worked in newspapers in Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas.

[usmc-sooner]

worked on my dad's farm
grocery store
labor for ODOT one summer
worked on ranch
worked at Farm CooP
Bartender (we had no bouncers so I guess I did that too. But I only broke up 2 or 3 fights) not a real rough place.

[Okla-homey]

whore house towel boy

[OUHOMER]

paperboy
delivery helper
Sonic cook
Garbage man ( this was hard work but interesting)
machinist
worked on peanut farm
worked on horse ranch
carpenter ( mostly framing)
landscaper
manufacturer ( built relief valves)
and last by not least for the past 20 yrs transportation

[SOONER STEAKER]

Swamper for an oil company, lot boy, painter,

[usmc-sooner]

fluffer

[Okla-homey]

fluffer

gay or straight?

[usmc-sooner]

gay or straight?


I needed the money so I could finish college :D

[OUHOMER]

Loaded/Unloaded cargo aircraft at OKC airport

Who did you work for MAS or evergreen or zantop??

[KsSooner]

lifeguard
road repair crew
flower shop delivery
cashier
mattress factory
roofer
yellow pages salesman
restaurant manager
aerospace - 20 years

[Widescreen]

Baskin Robbins
Tulsa Junior College registration office flunkie
Gay pron films (although I'm not actually gay)

[Soonrboy]

Grunt work at Sheffield Steel in Sand Springs (friggin HOT job)
After School program
teaching
clothes saler guy in evenings while teaching
elementary school principal

[Ike]

Computer repair dude (freelanced out of my garage as a kid)
Lawn mower kid
Student
geophysical data analyst
Grad Student (Includes teaching asst. and research asst.)
Postdoctoral researcher.

[ChickSoonerFan]

baby-sitter
cleaned apartments after people moved out - that was nasty
nanny
pharmacy tech
admin assistant
Sales for a start up printing company, cold call sales SUCK!
Aetna medical claims examiner then customer service rep
Realtor
After my divorce went back to Aetna
Now CSR supervisor/COBRA administrator for another insurance company.

I LOVE my job. Just not today.

[usmc-sooner]

I used to strip at the Red Dog

[oumartin]

oh i forgot, i did computer operations for Fuller Brush for like 1 month. they had those huge IBM reel to reel machines still. and punch cards

[Frozen Sooner]

Bus boy, bar back, pearl diver, fast food cashier, convenience store cashier, house boy, ranch hand.

[oklaclarinet]

During college I worked one summer at a day care and three others at Braum's, though it was actually at two different stores.

[olevetonahill]

Stock boy in a grocery store..
Worked at a rock crusher - yes, we took big rocks and sent them through a series of crushers to make smaller rocks. As the summer help, every Friday afternoon I got to crawl inside of the crushers to change the screens - nothing like being inside a metal box on a summer afternoon in southeast Oklahoma!
Worked at an asphalt plant - laying hot ashpalt in August - you could sweat out 20 lbs a day!

Kept me going back to college in the fall!
You was a prison guard ?

[olevetonahill]

I helped God Light the Lites , Then I helped Him out as a Dirt shoveler.
Since then Ive done about every thing else !

[crawfish]

I worked at Wright's IGA for about 6 months when I turned 15 1/2.
Braum's next to Norman High for a few months.
Skaggs Alpha Beta in Norman...as a sacker, cashier, stocker and night manager.
Steak & Ale in Moore on Western as a waiter.

Mowed lawns in my spare time.

[phead903]

I noticed that Sic'em hasn't posted in this thread yet....:D

[1stTimeCaller]

dishwasher
cook
convience store clerk
Army Reserve/Nat'l Guard
mowed-weedeated- general yard cleanup for a construction company
laid sod
marketing promotions coordinator for US Smokeless tobacco (was the best job ever as they flew me to Padre Island for spring break one year and I had to hang out with strippers/models all week
bar back for David Box's company for a few NYE parties he had
doorman at the Red Dirt

[jk the sooner fan]

i paid for my first car mowing yards.......a 77 impala that i bought from my dad......for 700 bucks

[Vaevictis]

Kroger's Deli
Computer Geekery (during Innartubes bubble)
Graduate Research Assistant

[King Crimson]

i paid for my first car mowing yards.......a 77 impala that i bought from my dad......for 700 bucks

i paid for my first car picking up range balls in the tractor.

2,500. 81 Cutlass Supreme. if God loved power steering, he'd drive that Olds.

[OCUDad]

Mowing lawns
Pump jockey at a Texaco station (back in the day when they actually had those)
Shelf stocker and part-time salesman at a shoe store
Secretary/receptionist

[OUBabe]

My first job was working in a computer lab (summer hire for military dependents)
LaFayette's/Blue Onion
The Jewel Box
a club in GA
during my PTA years (which was a fulltime job in itself)...fcrossing guard and fillin at The Windmill
and then my present jobs which are in education

[Harry Beanbag]

Grocery bagger at Foodworld
Busboy at Johnnie's Grill
Construction
Processed claims for Aetna Medicare and later on for Blue Shield of California

[Sooner Born Sooner Bred]

Babysitter
Table Setter and Hostess at Pioneer Pies-I had to wear a prairie dress.
Outbound calls customer service for Olan Mills-cold calling sucks
Inbound calls customer service for UPS
Advertising sales for OBU newspaper
Data Entry in the closed records area of the Department of Corrections-my office was at Mabel Bassett. Here I met Verna Stafford
Tutor in the Athletic Department's Writing Center

I didn't take the job, but I applied for a door-to-door knife sales job. I'm sure there was no risk there.

[Turd_Ferguson]

I used to strip at the Red DogThey do have great jalapeno cheesebugers you know.

[Turd_Ferguson]

Buck'n bales
construction
dozer operator
excavator operator
truck driver
fluffer
Cell Tower Construction