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Ass of all trades

23:39 / 07.10.02

Commercial Arts Designer
Drug Store Clerk
Painter
Rope Course Instructor
Fuel Transfer Technician (Gas Attendant)
Deli Sandwich Maker
Vacuum Salesman
Drywall Sander
Metal Door and Bathroom Fixture Installation
Grease Cleaner-Offer (for a huge machine that did who knows what)
Mail Sorter
Magazine Bundler
Chimney Sweep
Material Handler (throw rugs)
Label Machine Operator
Movie Theater Manager
Convenience Store Clerk
Liquor Warehouse/Shipping
Office Supply Store/Computer Sales
large chain Copy Center Clerk
Die Maker for shoe soles
Hand-Collator
Plant Nursery/Shipping
Meat Cutter
And now I'm production Manager in a not so large chain Copy Shop.

This idea originally sprung when Warewullf posted his Bad Anniversary and I thought of how many jobs I needed to go through to find one that I really enjoy being at. The new manager is really coming up with good ideas to make money and hopefully soon we'll see some bonuses.

So, Warewullf, Mister Disco, Meme Bug and all else currently jobless, know that I keep you in mind. Sometimes it is a struggle and the people that work with you can fuck your whole day up with a word. I do think it is better than the alternative. I think of Dane McGowan at the very beginning of volume1 issue one and I don’t think I could survive in that way.

Keep your options open.

20:14 / 09.10.02

Newspaper boy
McDonalds cook
Covenience store/deli worker
Assembly line CD packaging for Sony
CD packer for Columbia House
Editorial Assistant at publishing house
Book store clerk
Book store events planner / publicist
Waiter at Mexican restaurant
Editorial Assistant (AGAIN!) for medical journal
Electronic Editor (whatever that means) for medical journal

20:43 / 09.10.02

Telephone Tech Support monkey
IT Administrator
Web Developer/Designer

Um...

11:19 / 10.10.02

I wouldn't worry about it too much. These job things aren't all they're cracked up to be. I'm after realising I'm probably allergic to working for other people. I just blame it on an artistic temperament.
My job history:
Cleaner in a butcher's dept.(lovely)
Accountancy data inputter
Bugger King
Fuel injection technician
Graphic artist
PC sales & repair
Graphic Artist in a corporate sweatshop (fuck localisation)
Flower packer (op de carrenbouw)
Internet cafe waster

I'm quite proud of the fact that there's only been one year that I've worked through the summer in the last 6 years.

The Natural Way

12:02 / 10.10.02

Thief
Acrobat
Warrior
Ranger
Clenched Fisted Master
Prating Knave
He
A Baron
And yr Old Nan (which is a FULL TIME job, I'll have you know)

12:35 / 10.10.02

I've had quite allot of jobs for my young age, dad had me down the mines and all that.

Paper Round (Sunday!)
Tattie Picking!
Incident Admin at Hospital (Tpying reports of old ladies falling)
Argos Warehouse (and some till work)
Year 2000 Co-ordinator (same hospital)
Desktop Support (same hospital)
Call Centre Monkey
Software Support

Coming up

Hitman

Callow Knowledge

12:46 / 10.10.02

Being me

12:52 / 10.10.02

Mostly temping, but in a fair variety of places, fielding complaints about bins, working in probation & community services offices and a prison, Mayfair property agencies... currently, indentured servant.

Goodness Gracious Meme

14:30 / 10.10.02

Christ Remorse, that's an impressive list. In honour of our jobseeking friends, I'll show you mine...

Aircraft cleaner
Fast Food operative (Thank you for visiting Burger King, have a nice day)
Chambermaid
Production Line Packer (probably the worst, as parts of it involved sorting contraceptive pills whilst wearing a darth vader style hood to block out the dust from the pills.)
Electrical Assembly Operative
Bar wench x god knows how many times
Assistant Bar Manager
Waitress x etc...
Battery Maker
Receptionist
Switchboard Operator
Editorial Assistant
Production Assistant
PA
Trainee Accountant (Actually, no. This the worst. Ugh)
Admissions Administrator
Accounts Clerk
Teaching Assistant
Curator
Gallery Assistant
Gallery Manager
Annoying person who hands you fliers as you're staggering out of clubs
Cleaner

Goodness Gracious Meme

14:31 / 10.10.02

checking that list, looks like I was Born To Assist... maybe I'll check out the buttling opportunities hereabouts...

We're The Great Old Ones Now

14:41 / 10.10.02

Gracious. Chequered careers ahoy...

Reader/copy editor
Sheet metal worker
Clown
Bookshop sales assistant
Translator
Production Runner
Assistant Director
Copy Writer (I once wrote a brochure for a company making machinery for putting plastic lids on bottles. The cool thing about their machines was that they were entirely modular, you see, and you could upgrade them really easily... I got way too far into that one.)
Scriptwriter

15:11 / 10.10.02

Checking out the list above we should form an equivelant to the A-Team or something. Build complex contraptions, attach meat to them, copy them, write a manual, then serve them at the bar...

Mine:

DIY shop bod
Record flogger on a market stall
Clothes shop*
Dole monkey
Barman x ?
Industrial cleaner (fords in Dagenham, it's like Mega City 1)
Floatation tank assistant (TRUE!!!)
192 Operator (that's call centre monkey for our non-UK brethren)
Furniture mover around-er
Dodgy temping for Insurance company x 2, and others too numerous and boring to mention
Abandoned vehicle removal supervisor
Mail Order Manger for a Kitsch Furniture Company (heart shaped chair anyone?)
Grants Assesssor

sounds not-as-boring to read as it was to live through..

15:56 / 10.10.02

short-order cook
assorted fast food hell-holes
janitor
furniture mover
state parks department
supermarket produce clerk
furniture restoration
fund raising
assistant librarian
too many clerical positions to recall
data entry
market research
telephone survey (ie. professional nuissance)
more fundraising...
assistant property manager
real estate office assistant
cafe assistant manager
temp agency shuffle
office cleaning
bleah.

Anyone up for starting a new religion?