What are some of your favorite jobs/occupations you held in your life ??

I'm a part-time pro bono bicycle mechanic and barista just because.

What!. I thought you were a hugely successful internet guru who lives next door to Kelli Felix's trailer. But you deliver groceries for the H.E. Butt company. (yes, that's it's full name)

Personally I never liked having to work but miss the routine of it now I'm retired. If I had to make a choice of what I could tolerate the most it was making computer sales in a large electrical retail store. It was my dept. Back in the day you had to educate people more about them and match the computer to their needs. I had good product knowledge.

My time as a printer doing freelance assignments with different companies was also fun. I worked for an agency and went to different places each week. The best was Arthur Anderson, the now bankrupt stockbroker company. 35 hour week, not much work and a crazily subsidized canteen that sold top quality food. You could get veal and all the trimmings for a dollar fifty.

When there, I was all ready to move away to Cornwall to be with my girlfriend, start a new life. They offered me a job just before I left. over 200 pounds a 35 hour week. Crazy good for 1983.

I did have a job lined up at a bank, it was hard work and hazardous materials had to be used with no health and safety practices in place but the pay was sensational!

Had a great retirement plan as well,...20 years to life!

Worked in tourism.

I managed a video store when I was in high school. The least amount of money I ever earned, but my favorite job of all time. Comparatively, I made considerably more money than all my friends, got cool limited edition movie swag, got to watch new releases early and for free, got to discuss movies all day, and helped people find movies they'd like. That last part was like a game at which I was very good. I had customers who wouldn't rent a movie unless I gave my approval.

That was a job I would've done for free. In fact, I often did. I would come in on my off hours to pick up some movies and would end up running movies to the shelves and talking to customers for hours.

There was even talk about me opening a branch on my college campus when I went off to school. The college had brief talks with my boss and nixed the deal only to open their own and freeze me out.

For three years I was a Resort Coordinator (fancy title, bad pay) - for a large marina/campground on a lake in North Georgia. I arranged cookout and such, kept daily track of the 600+ boats docked there and the campground and cabins.



Fun part was I wore shorts to work, and putted around this beautiful lake property in my golf cart...and the people were great.

Worked as freelancer for 7 years.

When I was a kid, I sold several different things door to door. I would just buy something wholesale...and then go around selling it. And I had several small mail order businesses when I was still in school.

When I was a teenager I bought live chameleons 100 at a time, and sold then through classified ads 4 at a time. I also sold comic books through display ads in comic books. Yup. One of those ads was mine.

When I was 18, I worked one Summer as an usher in the small local theater. I made....one dollar an hour. But I got to see every movie made in 1973 several times for free.

When I was 18-20 I worked in several shops. None of it was fun.

I enjoyed working at my store, selling vacuum cleaners. It was less work than selling them in people's homes....and I got to spend the day with my wife.

My favorite? Speaking to groups, selling from the stage. Huge paydays, and I got to hang out with people who were interesting.

My favorite job was when I was a tabulating machine operator starting in 1961. I loved the challenge to see if I could do the tasks as fast as the senior operators handling punched cards. Sorting on an 083 card sorter, collating on an 087 collator, interpreting on a 557 interpreter, and processing the cards through the 403 and 407 tabulating machines. Then the company moved into the mainframe computer systems using the the 403 and 407 Tabulating machines and I became a computer operator.

Then my next favorite job was as an IDMS Database consultant for mainframe computers for over 25 years, traveling all over the country.

tbh I passer-byed till'n I figured sumthin' less stoopid.

& now here I am as natchrl princess.

Boobies out, stummicks in -- for sure we all gowin' sumplace.

Even if'n we freequerntly fall ovah all accidentyool!

Life is so balance-orientaytchyool, you gotta level out your exotic protoobrunces an' vacuumholes!

As a job coach, I had to help this particular agency's clients perform their jobs when they were hired. One guy got a dishwasher/busser job at a "restaurant". OK, a men's club with entertainment, and they served food too.

You know, bussing tables and washing dishes was much harder than I expected, took me twice as long to make sure he had a good handle on the job, and it did require frequent check ins.

Like the client said to me; "someone's got to do it".

GordonJ

P.S. Of the scores of clients I had, this was one of the few, where even his case manager, and the case supervisor felt the need to check in and see how he was doing.

I have had a LOT of jobs over the years, many within the same industry but for different companies.

taxi driving was an interesting one because you met all sorts of people, mostly friendly, but not always. I could work when I wanted and, back then, the $$ was great.


I also enjoyed my theatre days.
I did many non-professional shows, but I also got to do some film and TV and ad work (good money), and I enjoyed writing shows and touring schools.


Currently I enjoy my freelance writing and editing work, but just need a few more clients to make it worthwhile again. (I feel so out of practice after 4 months in hospital and my life completely has changed now).

I think one of the most memorable jobs I had...and still sometimes think about...

was the summer of my junior year...my senior year...and most of that summer.

We had a thing at our high school where we could work most of the day instead of going to school.

I worked at a funeral home. I started out just mowing the lawns, then after a couple weeks, the owner who was in his 80s decided I might be good to work in the funeral home itself. His son was in his 60s and wanted to retire...and the owner was looking for someone to replace him.

Looking back, it was quite a lot for a 17, 18 year old to take on.

So I did everything from death calls...picking up the body when they died...which seemed like everyone passed away between 2 and 4 in the morning...and mostly it was older people...

then helping with the embalming...which the first couple of times was eye opening to say the least.

Then greeting people at the showing and funeral...then driving the hearse for the funeral.

Was a very sobering, eye opening experience that can teach someone a whole lot about life.

At the end of my summer after graduating, I told the owner...who had offered to pay my way through mortician school...that I wasn't interested in doing this the rest of my life.

Was a great experience, but not something I thought would be exciting as a career.

Mortality is the sweetest evah levellah.

Helps if'n you can buy inta a better scheme ...

butchya CAIN'T.

So wherein lies hope?

Here is sumthin' you can always command, without immediate reward.

It is etched into the narrative of evry deathbed scene.

See bcs Uncle Bob gasped his last.

Who is here to witness this -- an' what they gotta do?

(All kindsa hierarchies of responsibility an emo gowin' on here.)

Bcs reverance is so spectacularly subjective we all universally hapless when the bell tolls.

Bob's wife an' brothahs an' sistahs see in this moment of Bob's demise so much about 'emselves as may countah any pain they feel.

Kids ain't gaht a clue.

They suckin' in stuff 'bout the planit an' figurin' PROLLY HIT LEVEL 57 TAMARA FFS WHO THIS LOSER ANYWAYS?

Perspective is all.

To be witnessed, to be remembahed, to be expanded.

How may I possibly conceive of such trooths as yr natchrl Princess?

Perpetyooly afloat in an evah-desirable gassamahscape of unfoldin' wondahs?

Hey bcs what is possible for evrywan is possible for evrywan.

So you gotta get evrywan to that place, always, with allya heart.

Othahwise the **** you dowin' zackly?

There is a good job in which you are interested. And suit you

work in digital marketing

The first year I did the street performing in Vegas though there where many times it was a drag unless it was real cold ou or raining I much preferred being out on the Vegas strip in costume making money walking around drinking beer almost all day. Talking to people from all over the world.

Then the rules changed on the strip and the money and the fun went out of it . And there was just grind. I'm more of an entertainer and the changes took away the most entertaining parts of the way I did it.

Other than that pretty much every job I had was just grind to make money. Though the fun part of the soil blending plant I worked at as a temp on an off. Was not the job it was the woman I worked with on the line. Very entertaining conversations but strictly work friends

So far, what I've been doing for the past 6 years is my all-time favorite. That's using Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision and 3D audio to develop assistive technology for persons with disability (PWDs), mainly for the blind and visually impaired, though also created tech for the deaf in 2018. Other than contributing to sectors often neglected by big brands due to small market size and challenging product dev, I enjoy working with sighted and blind people like myself all around the world, from engineers in JP and research scientists in AU and business guys in the U.S. to subject matter experts like accessibility consultants and testers ...

Another is my regular freelance consulting work since 2006 for organizations like Resources for the Blind here in PH, ICEVI in the EU and Nippon Foundation in JP. I design and facilitate week-long training programs for blind and visually impaired college students and adults on topics like using assistive tech, accessing gainful employment opportunities locally and internationally through remote options, using tech to build and run businesses and entrepreneurial ventures, among other similar objectives. These almost always end up as annual training programs. I enjoy sharing my real world, hands-on expertise to those in a situation similar to where I was during the first several months of suddenly living with blindness.

Though I also enjoyed my job as a tech content writer for a local outsourcing firm in 2005, as I managed to convince my employer to allow me to work at home a few months after working onsite. But this was the opportunity that helped me build my own business, now a 17-year old ICT marketing and multi-lingual telesales company. My employer became my first client. And through my business since late 2005, I manage to hire seniors and pros with different disabilities here in the PH.

And in 1998, I enjoyed buying and selling PC parts and peripherals, assembling PCs, setting up networks, installing OS and applications for residential users (mostly my neighbors and referrals) and small businesses (local startup non-profits, mainly). I enjoyed this so much, I continued doing this for a few customers even after I went blind.

One of my most interesting jobs was being a dispatcher for the forest service. It got really "fun and exciting" when we had live fires. The stress would probably kill me today, but I could more or less handle it at 18.

Mark

The best job I ever had was working for the Police as a Report Processor. I was the person the officers would phone after they were dispatched to a call and tell me everything that happened and I'd type up all the information and people and charges.

Laughing with the officers and being surprised every day and feeling like I was contributing to the good of society was awesome. Each day was interesting and different. It took the cake by far in my work history lol

For my sins...
Carbon fibre Composite technician in Formula 1 and Indy car racing
Aerodynamics/wind tunnel tech, same industry

Edited papers for an engineer who'd gotten a $600,000 grant from Ford to come up with what today we call CAD. Used to start at 9 AM. At about 4 PM, I'd wonder if it was time for my lunch break (which was supposed to be at 12).


Managed an 85-apartment building... Lots of interactions with people with strange (fascinating) takes on things... Oh... I sucked at the managing-a-building part. But loved it.