Before entering the "real world", what jobs did you have?

[Bobblehead]

Myself, I:

• worked on my uncle's dairy farm
• after school worked in a small electronics shop (lots of soldering, and some programming(MS Basic & Q-Basic))
• tried selling Kirby Vaccuums, then a job collating paper (bad, bad summer)
• tree-planted in NW Ont
• landscaping
• worked at a dead stock removal company
• factory job making wiring harnesses

A number of interesting experiences. (I got the stock removal job because I was the first one who didn't lose their cookies everyday).

Anyone else have any interesting summer or after school jobs?

[Cheese]

wow...such a long time ago....considering I went to work the day after I finished school and am in the same business today....

Stuff I did in the summers and for extra cash...

• Worked with my Dad stuccoing and drywalling.
• Worked as a Painter
• worked stuking bales for a farmer....ugh nasty
• Mens wear at Zellers
• as a draftsman for a Survey company
• Surveying for Sasktel staking ditchline in the boonies.
• Landscaping

I think thats about it....

[metallicat]

My first, and best job, was at a golf course. Great atmosphere, great tips, and I could play as much golf as I could handle. Awesome summbers.

[Cowperson]

A couple of summers working on my uncle's grain farm as slave labour, driving tractor or the grain truck but also spending days on end picking rocks out of the field by hand, laying sod, hammering nails, etc, etc.

On the other hand, there were also the three week all expenses paid vacations waterskiing on Okanagan Lake near Westbank . . . . I got to go on the family holidays!!!

Cowperson

[Fuzzy McGillicuddy]

My dad used to wonder if I'd ever amount to anything. I had more jobs by the time I was 25 than he had his entire life. He was a career army guy. In no particular order:

• Rink rat, Zamboni driver
• Grocery bag boy
• Gas jockey (remember when someone else would pump your gas?)
• Tire installer
• Lube jockey
• Saddledome staff (first year dome opened)
• Construction laborer
• Sheet metal apprentice
• Welder apprentice
• Dump truck driver
• Appliance delivery driver
• Warehouse shipper/receiver
• Forklift operator
• Furniture mover
• Confectionary salesman
• Car salesman
• Short order cook
• Waiter

[Reaper]

Hmm, let me see...

Before I became a gainfully employed adult who wasn't just working for the summers I had jobs like:

• picking blueberries - that lasted about half a day as the farmer wanted all the berries polished before putting them in the bucket - all for 25 cents a pound!
• working at McDonald's - Not a lot of money to be made but that job taught me what it was like to work hard. When I worked there the food wasn't top notch and it went downhill hard before I resigned fifteen years ago. I can't eat the stuff now so I imagine it runs neck and neck with dog food these days.
• Pumping gas - great outdoor job considering the polluted urban centre aspect. It was nice to be able to run around out in the sun doing full service but it blew my mind how little people know about basic things regarding their cars.
• Shipper/Receiver in a courier warehouse - Dirty, sweaty job but I ended up getting really strong from hauling packages on and off of trucks. I would go to bed exhausted every night and had some of the best sleeps of my life. At the end of the day I always felt satisfied because it was real, honest hard work that paid decently.
• Worked as a host in a restaurant - I hated this job with a passion. I didn't make tips and my hourly wage was no screaming hell either. This job also reinforced my belief that most people are *******s and don't mind treating strangers badly when they are inconvenienced by having something horrible like waiting 10 minutes for a table during a dinner rush.

[JiriHrdina]

- 2 stints of telemarketing - one for home security and another for music lessons
- Calgary Zoo as a cashier at the gates and gift shop and a little bit of work in the cafeteria. (Side note - working in the humidity of the Conservatory is horrible if your hung over)
- Independent Video store called "More Than Video". Best job ever. No customers. Just sat around and played PS and watched movies. And then they brought in a pizza oven. Fantastic! I swear I'd be working there still today if they didn't close down. You just don't quit jobs that easy.
- Rogers Video until I finished Uni.

[kermitology]

Lets see here...

• Usher/Head Usher at the Dome
• Carry out at Sunnyside Garden Centre Tree-Lot
• Usher at Stampede
• Perennial staff at Sunnyside
• Student Works Painter
• Internship with Positioning, Location, and Navigation group with the UofC Geomatics Department
• Telephone Fundraiser for KG
• Slave labour at Edwards Garden Centre
• Part-time supervisor at VHQ in Coach Hill

[troutman]

newspaper boy, babysitter

dishwasher - Chi Chis, St Huberts BBQ

line cook - St Huberts BBQ, Heritage Park

stationary/book binder

office furniture mover

house painter

clerk - Glidden paints

summer student - Mackimmie Matthews

[Calgary Flames]

I've limited my **** jobs to Superstore 1 year, before going to SAIT I did Web work from home.

[the_only_turek_fan]

-My first job was as a ride operator at Calaway Park.
-I had brief stints at Super Store and Canadian Tire.
-I had a job with Vector Canada for like 2 weeks. That job sucks. They always have posters all around the University advertising there $17.50/hr starting wage. You sign up for it, and then you find out you have to go to people's houses and try and sell them $800 knives.
-I was a summer student at Keen Engineering.
-Internship with Enmax.
-Worked as a Sales Associate for Sport Mart for about 2.5 years. They had the best discount ever. I just could not give that up.

[flambers]

- Worked at a Gas Station for quite awhile when I was in School
- Worked for Trans Alta Utilities as a summer job testing power poles. Was a great job we went all over the place had a hangover most of the time
- Worked on a Farm
- My Worst Job was picking rocks in a field. Would never do that again....

[Reaper]

Originally Posted by the_only_turek_fan

-Worked as a Sales Associate for Sport Mart for about 2.5 years. They had the best discount ever. I just could not give that up.

2 Questions:
1) What was the discount?
2) Is it the same at Sport Chek?

[socalwingfan]

- Newspaper boy
- Gas Jockey
- Line Truck Driver for Seismic crew
- Shipper/Receiver ventian blind company
- summer construction job on a Hutterite colony
- warehouse order filler

Luckily I have managed to avoid the food service industry so far...

[the_only_turek_fan]

Originally Posted by Reaper

2 Questions:
1) What was the discount?
2) Is it the same at Sport Chek?

Sport Check gives its employees a 25% discount, but there is a discount cap. I think you can only buy something like $2500 worth of stuff in one period of time.

Our discount was cost price + 10%. It was amazing to see how much they marked up there stuff.

Flames jersies are only $56.00 at cost. They charge you $99.00.

[kermitology]

Originally Posted by the_only_turek_fan

Flames jersies are only $56.00 at cost. They charge you $99.00.

Flames Red Jersey in October of 2003: $50
Lettering of that jersey when I left the dome in November of 2004: Free

Man that job had a million and one benefits. I mean...I would have exploded if they won the Cup...getting to be on the ice at the same time as the players. I died a little when they didn't.

[FireFly]

I worked in a grocery store:
bakery (bagging buns and decorating cakes)
deli
produce (for 2 days)
meat department
stock clerk/bagging groceries
cashier

then went to retail:
Cotton Ginny
Fairweather
Winners
Sears

now I'm at Telus which could be a career but I'd prefer to get a real job.

I think that's it. Pretty much customer service my whole life.

[rockstar]

Hmmm... starting with the earliest:

-Cleaning my uncle's office
-Minor hockey referee (3 years)
-Winners (blech! - You know what I'm talking about FireFly...man I hate retail!)
-Range Monkey (2 1/2 summers, driving range worker, yawn...)
-Rogers Video
-Land/Mortgage file analyst/converter
-Physical Labour at Imperial Oil (moved files/cabinets last summer when head office was moved to Cgy from TO)
-Other random records management jobs (building shelving, boxing files, random physical labour)
Right now:
-Well file analyst/converter

[Jake]

I've worked for a small landscaping business for two years and this year the guy running it is letting me take it over so I'll see how that goes. I don't think it will be that hard, my only problem I can see ahead of time will be estimating the amount of gravel/sand/soil needed for some jobs.

I also worked in a Dentist office pouring and trimming models. Never doing that again.

[rockstar]

Originally Posted by fotze

Oh, so you are the one who makes all that data CRAP!

Doesn't sound like my job description! I'm relatively new to the business of well files, care to elaborate?