How Many Jobs Have You Had?

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12 years ago

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Big Rob

12 years ago

Age 10-12
Golf course caddy
Driving range attendant
Snack Shack Server(on the turn between 5th and 6th hole),
And I served beer too,( it was 1975)

Yup, It was a lot like CaddyShack

Moved to Florida in '77, Bought a moped and a '72 Chevy Impala, had to wait two years to (legally)drive it, Drove the moped to:

Dishwasher
Salad Chef
Assistant Sous Chef(crazy,prep work!)
Gas station attendant
Convenience store clerk (yup sold beer and cigarettes there too,16 yr old)
6 lawns mowed weekly for about 2 years
All the above jobs while going to school, summertime 2 or 3 jobs at once.

Don't even get me started on my jobs after High School,I could be here all night

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KimW

12 years ago

LOL, me too Big Rob, that's why I started with 5.
Out of your list we have in common :
dishwasher
lawn mowing
Gas station attendant (while they still had full service too,need your oil checked,windshield washed?)

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seasoned

12 years ago

As I recall....

1. Box Boy
2. PC Board inspector
3. Computer consultant/salesperson.(Worked for myself)
4. Programmer/supervisor for a DEC OEM that eventually switched to UNIX and Windows, at my suggestion.
5. Working for a consulting firm.

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KimW

12 years ago

I'm guessing box boy is same as bag boy at a grocery store?
If so, we share that in common.
That also reminded me I was a HBA clerk and a cash register clerk at the local grocery chain. As a matter of fact I was working as that when they went from the transition from manually imputting the price of every item by hand to using the first bar code scanners.

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seasoned

12 years ago

Originally Posted by KimW

I'm guessing box boy is same as bag boy at a grocery store?
If so, we share that in common.
That also reminded me I was a HBA clerk and a cash register clerk at the local grocery chain. As a matter of fact I was working as that when they went from the transition from manually imputting the price of every item by hand to using the first bar code scanners.

Similar! Basically, I cleaned the store, helped people, stocked the refridgerator, and helped people with their purchases.

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KimW 12 years ago

Originally Posted by seasoned

Similar! Basically, I cleaned the store, helped people, stocked the refridgerator, and helped people with their purchases.

Steve

WOW Steve, you just reminded me of another job I had,and I had completely forgotten it.
It was the first night shift work I ever did and hated it.
I was a "night porter" for Safeway.
I would show up after the store was closed and the store had only me and the night stockers in it.
I had to mop then buff the entire store before they reopened. That was a hard job.
And it also reminded me of another job, I was in Jr High I think, (very very long time ago) I was a bakery helper. I was using equipment that now would be against the law for someone my age at the time to use. I would take the frsh baked bread and run it through the slicer and bagging machine.
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waterotter

12 years ago

After formal education, I was employed by:

- The Canadian Hearing Society
- Sir Sandford Flemming College
- Board of Education

------> decided on major career change at this point ----->

- G.W. Martin Lumber Ltd. - Head Office (until they closed and sold out)

- Ontario Hydro - Regional Office

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KimW

12 years ago

Originally Posted by waterotter

After formal education, I was employed by:

- The Canadian Hearing Society
- Sir Sandford Flemming College
- Board of Education

------> decided on major career change at this point ----->

- G.W. Martin Lumber Ltd. - Head Office (until they closed and sold out)

- Ontario Hydro - Regional Office

Its the jobs before formal education we want to hear too.

But the closest I can come with sharing jobs with you is I was tech support for the DRS department for the state of Virginia for a number of years.
DRS stands for Department of Rehab Services. This encompassed every area of of people with disabilities such as DBVI ( Department of Blind and Visually Impaired) to DDHH (Department of Deaf and hard of Hearing). A life changing experience for me.

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LarryC

12 years ago

Mailroom clerk
Messenger
Street Vendor
Dishwasher
Data Entry Operator
Stock Clerk/Cashier
Counter Person at Deli

These are all considered low skill jobs. Even though I graduated from college, I never used my degree. I guess I was never destined for conventional employment.

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KimW

12 years ago

Originally Posted by LarryC

Mailroom clerk
Messenger
Street Vendor
Dishwasher
Data Entry Operator
Stock Clerk/Cashier
Counter Person at Deli

These are all considered low skill jobs. Even though I graduated from college, I never used my degree. I guess I was never destined for conventional employment.

LarryC,
The government job I was talking about in an earlier post official title was Mail Clerk,but it was for The United States Postal Service,back when mailing a letter was 25 or 29 cents when I started,can't remember which.
All new hires were called PTFs which stood for Part Time Flexible, which the only true part was the Flexible.It really meant you had to work whenever they asked or no job. When we started we were working 6 days a week sorting magazines while we learned our "scheme" which is basically the delivery routes of every carrier in the office you were going to be assigned to. In other words I had to learn if I looked at a letter with your address on it which letter carrier delivered it and could put it in the appropriate slot for his mail. Not an easy job nor very much fun, but they pay and benefits were great. During my ten years there I was every position there was in the Clerk Craft. It was also time only time I joined a union.Not only joined it but became a shop steward because of management harassment I witnessed.
But when I was a steward I was under honest union leadership, after over half my time there they elected dishonest union leaders and I quit my position. A few years after that I had enough and quit my job. Everyone was amazed because nobody quite they post office,most people stayed there until they literally died. I knew if I stayed I would have lost my sanity.

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Joseph Robinson

Banned 12 years ago

I was all over the fast food world:

Crew at McDonalds
Manager at Burger King
Quick Service Food at Disney
Crew at Chipotle
Shift Leader in a smoothie shop.

It was menial work; but I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy it. I'm definitely never going back though.

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KimW

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Joe Robinson

I was all over the fast food world:

Crew at McDonalds
Manager at Burger King
Quick Service Food at Disney
Crew at Chipotle
Shift Leader in a smoothie shop.

It was menial work; but I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy it. I'm definitely never going back though.

You and me both Joe.
Growing up my family owned two Drive ins (the kind with carhops,not the movie kind) so I grew up in that atmosphere.
I hinted at that in my first post.
But as a teen I worked at every job in a local chain named Geno's (which was a Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise) started out as clean up before opening but by the time I left I had done everything.
Never worked at BK or McDs though.
Later in life ( early 20's) I was an Assistant Manager at Hardees and in my early 30s an assitant manager at Popeyes Chicken.
I was at Popeyes for a very short time though because months after I started I got the notice that I had been accepted for a government job that I had applied for 3 years earlier.

As far as going back, Some days I do think I'd like to open a little mom and pop breakfast place....but its just a dream.

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Joseph Robinson Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by KimW

Never worked at BK or McDs though.

You definitely didn't miss much lol.

Originally Posted by KimW

As far as going back, Some days I do think I'd like to open a little mom and pop breakfast place....but its just a dream.

I wouldn't mind working in a place like that where you build up your loyal following and work in a "homey" atmosphere. These bigger restaurants are just too impersonal for me.
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MikeAmbrosio

12 years ago

Hmm...

8 - 9: paperboy (back when you had to collect the fees door to door once a week - and without parental supervision).

10 - 11: cleaned a historical pre-revolution house (the care taker was a little old lady who couldn't run the vacuum anymore) for $10 a week.

12 - 13: cut lawns when it was warm, shoveled snow when it... snowed.

14 - 16: discovered beer, pot and girls (all in the same night) and didn't work

16 - 17: bussed dishes in a diner, cleaned the kitchen of a 4 star restaurant (with my mother) every morning before school, and worked in a pizzeria on Fridays and Saturdays.

18 - 22: U.S. Navy as an Aviation Electrician. Imagine having the power to halt flight ops at the age of 20... very cool

Many more since - will post more later.

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KimW

12 years ago

Originally Posted by MikeAmbrosio

Hmm...

8 - 9: paperboy (back when you had to collect the fees door to door once a week - and without parental supervision).

Mike, yep, and your receipt was a very tiny slip you gave the customer?
At east mine was,and you had to buy your rubber bands and roll the papers yourself? And you delivered on a bicycle with the bag hanging from the handlebars?

10 - 11: cleaned a historical pre-revolution house (the care taker was a little old lady who couldn't run the vacuum anymore) for $10 a week.

There's another memory I had forgotten. I can't even come close to remembering my age,but it was after my father finally got his law degree by working full time at the FAA and going to college at night, and he and a fellow graduate went into business together.
They paid me and my older brother (who was able to drive) some small amount to come in once a week and clean and vacuum their offices.

12 - 13: cut lawns when it was warm, shoveled snow when it... snowed.

14 - 16: discovered beer, pot and girls (all in the same night) and didn't work

I was probably around 15,26 when that happened to me. But I was still working.No one would buy it for me,dammit!

16 - 17: bussed dishes in a diner, cleaned the kitchen of a 4 star restaurant (with my mother) every morning before school, and worked in a pizzeria on Fridays and Saturdays.

18 - 22: U.S. Navy as an Aviation Electrician. Imagine having the power to halt flight ops at the age of 20... very cool

Many more since - will post more later.

Anybody remember a place called Farrel's Ice Cream Parlour and Restaraunt?
I started out as the dishwasher there but by the time I left I had done every job in the place.

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SteveJohnson

12 years ago

Originally Posted by KimW

Anybody remember a place called Farrel's Ice Cream Parlour and Restaraunt?
I started out as the dishwasher there but by the time I left I had done every job in the place.

HELL YEAH!! The VOLCANO

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seasoned

12 years ago

Originally Posted by KimW

Anybody remember a place called Farrel's Ice Cream Parlour and Restaraunt?
I started out as the dishwasher there but by the time I left I had done every job in the place.

I have hypersensitive hearing. I am VERY sensitive to loud noises and certain frequencies. That was ESPECIALLY true when I was a kid. I LOVED farrels, but HATED it if anyone even dared WHISPER those two SCARY words! "Birth day". YIKES! OH THE PAIN! The normal restaurant turned into the noisiest place ANYWHERE!

I was sad to see it go though. 8-(

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KimW

12 years ago

Originally Posted by seasoned

I have hypersensitive hearing. I am VERY sensitive to loud noises and certain frequencies. That was ESPECIALLY true when I was a kid. I LOVED farrels, but HATED it if anyone even dared WHISPER those two SCARY words! "Birth day". YIKES! OH THE PAIN! The normal restaurant turned into the noisiest place ANYWHERE!

I was sad to see it go though. 8-(

Steve

Yeah, I'd feel sorry for you there Steve,
(In the loudest voice possible I would have been forced to yell):

"Ladies and Gentlemen, today under the Farrel's hat we have Steve, Steve is celebrating his birthday today!!
(Luckily that's all I remember

And we all had to wear those vests and styrofoam "straw" hats.

There are still avery few left, but a far cry from the National Chain it was..
Besides the Ice Cream that had some fantastic burgers too!
http://www.farrellsusa.com/index.php

Sorry, had to add these too.
http://www.farrellsusa.com/photo-gallery.php

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SteveJohnson

12 years ago

Originally Posted by MikeAmbrosio

Hmm...

...
14 - 16: discovered beer, pot and girls (all in the same night) and didn't work

...

Man, that's just a rite of passage

But in my time

beer was CHEAP, pot was fifteen bucks for a three-finger bag, and girls LOVED to go to keggers and skinnydip

and I had a 59 Dodge panel wagon with a hemi and a stereo. LOL

How'd I get off on this track?

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Big Rob

12 years ago

Originally Posted by SteveJohnson

Man, that's just a rite of passage

But in my time

beer was CHEAP, pot was fifteen bucks for a three-finger bag, and girls LOVED to go to keggers and skinnydip

and I had a 59 Dodge panel wagon with a hemi and a stereo. LOL

How'd I get off on this track?

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suh-ah-uh-un"
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MikeAmbrosio

12 years ago

Originally Posted by SteveJohnson

Man, that's just a rite of passage

But in my time

beer was CHEAP, pot was fifteen bucks for a three-finger bag, and girls LOVED to go to keggers and skinnydip

and I had a 59 Dodge panel wagon with a hemi and a stereo. LOL

How'd I get off on this track?

Going back to 1977 - 1982 (13 - 18 years old)...

We would get a case of Bud for about $10. When we were strapped, we would get a brand called Old German for $5 a case.

Weed was $10 for a dime bag - which garnered 10 fatties, easily.

My hair was over my eyes and ears, about collar length. I didn't see either until boot camp (bzzzzzzz...........)

All summer we hung out on the "bridge" at the end of my street - about 25 to 30 of us. Once in a while the cops would show up and say "If you're not drinking age (18 back then) we better not find you with a beer...". Then they would shut off their flashlights for 5 seconds and we put our beers on the ground. Then they would leave

Girls? I was 13 when I lost my... so was she.

We walked everywhere (before driving age). Sometimes rode a bike. Mopeds came a bit later...

We never locked our doors, left our bikes in the front yard, went rafting down the Hackensack river on home made rafts (this river had a tide since it ran to the Hudson River)...

Shoot. Anyone got a time machine handy?

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SteveJohnson

12 years ago

Originally Posted by MikeAmbrosio

Going back to 1977 - 1982 (13 - 18 years old)...

...

Shoot. Anyone got a time machine handy?

No joke. Times seemed simpler then...

I turned 18 in '77. Was a different world.

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ThomM

12 years ago

Kim you'll need to be a little more specific, which year?

I turned 18 in 71 and thanks to the war you could quit one job on Friday and start a new one Monday.
The first job I stayed at for more then 6 months wasn't till 83

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KimW

12 years ago

Originally Posted by SteveJohnson

No joke. Times seemed simpler then...

I turned 18 in '77. Was a different world.

Originally Posted by ThomM

Kim you'll need to be a little more specific, which year?

I turned 18 in 71 and thanks to the war you could quit one job on Friday and start a new one Monday.
The first job I stayed at for more then 6 months wasn't till 83

I turned 18 in 72, I can't remember it,but I must have because I was 20 in 74!

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SteveJohnson 12 years ago

Originally Posted by KimW

I turned 18 in 72, I can't remember it,but I must have because I was 20 in 74!

I can relate - my early 20s are still kind of foggy
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Big Rob

12 years ago

Originally Posted by MikeAmbrosio

Going back to 1977 - 1982 (13 - 18 years old)...

We would get a case of Bud for about $10. When we were strapped, we would get a brand called Old German for $5 a case.

Weed was $10 for a dime bag - which garnered 10 fatties, easily.

My hair was over my eyes and ears, about collar length. I didn't see either until boot camp (bzzzzzzz...........)

All summer we hung out on the "bridge" at the end of my street - about 25 to 30 of us. Once in a while the cops would show up and say "If you're not drinking age (18 back then) we better not find you with a beer...". Then they would shut off their flashlights for 5 seconds and we put our beers on the ground. Then they would leave

Girls? I was 13 when I lost my... so was she.

We walked everywhere (before driving age). Sometimes rode a bike. Mopeds came a bit later...

We never locked our doors, left our bikes in the front yard, went rafting down the Hackensack river on home made rafts (this river had a tide since it ran to the Hudson River)...

Shoot. Anyone got a time machine handy?

Ah,Memories.

I grew up just north of you, Sparkill,N.Y., Until '77 when we moved to FL.

Thats where my golf course jobs were.

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ThomM 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Big Rob

Ah,Memories.

I grew up just north of you, Sparkill,N.Y., Until '77 when we moved to FL.

Thats where my golf course jobs were.

Mine started at the Troy Country Club, in Brunswick NY.
The club house is roughly a half mile from me.
I was I think 13 and did the caddy thing.
At the time (66) I was going out twice a day carrying doubles, I made somewhere around $80 a day.
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Lloyd Buchinski

12 years ago

So I'm not the only one who has done dishes, professionally?

About 2 years after graduation I added up all the jobs I had, and it was about 33 at that point. (None of them had anything to do with the degree.)

Those were the days when they were much easier to get. I started a construction job one morning and about an hour later had a strange disagreement with a strange foreman. I wandered off the site, walked downtown and started another job that afternoon.

I think I've actually had close to a hundred different jobs, but there's a whole story behind that. A lot of them were in the same industry, security, in different cities around Canada.

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KimW

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Lloyd Buchinski

So I'm not the only one who has done dishes, professionally?

About 2 years after graduation I added up all the jobs I had, and it was about 33 at that point. (None of them had anything to do with the degree.)

Those were the days when they were much easier to get. I started a construction job one morning and about an hour later had a strange disagreement with a strange foreman. I wandered off the site, walked downtown and started another job that afternoon.

I think I've actually had close to a hundred different jobs, but there's a whole story behind that. A lot of them were in the same industry, security, in different cities around Canada.

Same here Lloyd.
At times my wife will look at me and say "Is there anything you haven't done??"

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Big Rob 12 years ago

Originally Posted by KimW

Same here Lloyd.
At times my wife will look at me and say "Is there anything you haven't done??"

Jack of all Trades, Master of None...

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SteveJohnson

12 years ago

Let's see...

These were before I graduated from high school:
0. Had a paper route, delivering ad circulars
1. First REAL job was in the laundry room at a Holiday Inn - before child labor laws

2. Drove a wheat truck for one summer
2a. Fueled airplanes when we lived at the airport my dad ran
3. Worked in a one-person camera/hi-fi store
4. Darkroom tech for small weekly newspaper - WAY before digital...

THEN,
5. Plumbing store clerk, after helping move the store to new location
5a. 4hours total on a potato packing line. There's a reason I forgot this one...BORING
6. Mechanic in small VW shop
7. YEARS on an auto parts counter
8. Short-lived stint as car salesman
9. Finance and Insurance Manager for car dealership consulting company
10. Managed a retail auto parts store
11. Layout and design on weekly newspaper - using cutting-edge Mac and QuarkXpress 1.0. Still had to print and paste-up the sheets, though

Then began my journey in self employment and business ownership. Haven't held a real 'job' since 1990.

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KimW

12 years ago

"Shoot. Anyone got a time machine handy? "

Damn, I wish Mike, I really do.

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Global warming

12 years ago

I'm too embarrassed to state them, so I'll just answer the question in the topic.

Around 15 different jobs!

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KimW

12 years ago

Dude, nothing to be embarrased about.
One I didn't mention yet was working for a garbage company for 5 years.
I started out cleaning (God that was the most disgusting job) fast food dumpster than painting them for $2.50 an hour. (this was in the mid 70s and I was desperate.
By the time I left 5 years later I was the office manager and making about $500 a week,very good pay for the times.

I quit to start buy/start my own business. a Consignment shop..... but I was ahead of my time...took about 10 years before they took off like I thought they were going to..

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sfx1971

12 years ago

1) Apprentice welder
2) Royal Navy
3) Trainee Machinist
4) Royal Navy (again)
5) Bank Clerk
6) Car salesman
7) photocopier salesman
8) Aerospace design engineer
9) Aerospace design engineer (freelance)

Not bad for 24 years since leaving school

One day I can junk number 9 and become a full time IMer

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Ryanloop

12 years ago

Mmm I've had like 5 jobs ...

1 - The first was with my father helping him on the farm
2 - In a library helping with inventory
3 - In a distribution company driving a truck
(This is already after I graduate from college)
4 - As an assistant manager in a real state company
5 - Now I'm starting my own investment company

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KimW

12 years ago

some more:
Video arcade game route
Thrift Store/Consignment Shop
Computer repair Shop
way back in my youth an plumbers assistant.... I think that lasted maybe a week
Teachers aide/intern at the college I got my degree from.

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MikeAmbrosio

12 years ago

Continuing on..

1986 - 1990: After the Navy I went to work for my father. He had a building maintenance contracting business. We had one client - UPS Corporate Headquarters. 8 buildings. Made some good money - enabled me to buy a house at 24 years old...

1990 - 1996: OEM for fluid bed dryers (pharmaceutical processing equipment). Started out as a maintenance tech, through instrumentation and controls specialist to field service rep. Got to travel a LOT for about 2 years... lotsa fun.

1996 - 2000: A small engineering firm running the service department. Still in the pharmaceutical industry. Our clients included companies like Ciba (now Novartis), Bristol Myers Squibb, Ranbaxy, Abbott Labs and more.

2000 - 2002: Merck and Company. Instrument Planner and Instrumentation Supervisor. This is where I was during 9/11. We watched a lot from the rooftops...

2002 - 2003: Novartis. Instrumentation and controls. Hated this one

2003 - 2007: Par Pharmaceutical. Instrumentation and controls supervisor. This job was my favorite in this industry. I built my shop from nothing.

2007 - Present: MikeFilsaime.com, Inc Project Manager for various projects.

Also still contract back to my old job. Right now I am installing 2 fluid beds for them.

2001 - present: internet stuff - various things. Too many to list.

That's me. Mr. Job Jumper

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KimW

12 years ago

LOL Mike, seems I should come ask you my (legal) drug questions!

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MikeAmbrosio 12 years ago

Originally Posted by KimW

LOL Mike, seems I should come ask you my (legal) drug questions!

In 22 years in the drug business I honestly know very little about them. I am an equipment and controls guy. I just happen to be in this industry because there are a lot of manufacturer's in this region.

I can tell you this...

I have seen what some of the ingredients put in to these drugs will do. For example, I have seen one ingredient melt stainless steel. Another that has explosive reaction to water, another with air. I have seen some raw product eat through roof seams of rubber roofing.

I could go on.

Keep in mind though that I see things in their BULK and RAW forms. When formulated in to drugs, the amounts of these ingredients are miniscule (usually measured in micro and milli grams).
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davide.pepe

12 years ago

now I enjoyed be

-private teacher
-baby brother
-seller of my product

but its enough busy in a day...

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Steven Wagenheim 12 years ago

Probably not many compared to a lot of people.

Here goes, in order.

Electronic Service Unlimited - File Clerk - 4 years
SLI Employment Recruiter - 1 Day
AT&T Information Systems Programmer - 2 years
Taylor Business Institute Computer Teacher - 2 years
Patterson Computer School Computer Teacher - 1 year
Bob Ciasulli Auto Group Computer Guru - 10 years
Equinox Natural Products Salesman - 1 year
White Storage Systems Analyst - 6 months
Sold Fire Extinguishers - 1 month
Put stickers on law briefs - 1 month (worst job I ever had)
Dezine Healthcare - QA Tech, Programmer - 4 years (Best job I ever had)

And my last.

As you can see, I worked for a total of 24 years in my life, more or less. I
started working at age 20. I am now 54. So for 10 years out of my life after
I got my first job, I was unemployed. That's a damn long time to be without
work, which is why I finally got fed up and went into business for myself.

My last job (1996 - 2000) was wonderful. But the company downsized and I
had a choice. Move to Pittsburgh or move to being a support tech. I tried
support but couldn't handle being on the phone all day. My voice was shot.
In fact, I developed nodes on my vocal cords and had to go for therapy to
learn to speak again.

It took me from 2000 to 2003 to finally find my footing working online.

It took me 9 years to reach a point where I could retire if I wanted to.

Wish I had done this a long time ago.
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