Past Professions

I'm in elementary education now but I was a HR Manager and Corporate Trainer before that. I had my son and couldn't travel 75% of the time anymore so had to find something with hours more conducive to being with him while still helping support the family financially.
 
I worked in jack Nicholson one flew over the cuccko hospital structure in Oregon as a child therapist ..long after picking frog parts out of cannery green beans
 
I had lots of part time odd jobs prior to graduating college - babysitting, waitress, tutor, and typist…but I’ve pretty much been in Tech since 1978 (retired now)…first for a textile company, then grocery chain, manufacturing and finally banking.
 

As a kid, I was a lifeguard and also helped my dad with his plumbing business.

After college, I’ve had a lot of different job titles - IT Auditor, Asst Controller, ERP (Oracle) Consultant and various Supply Chain / Purchasing analyst jobs. Now I’m a Procurement Director for a college, where I’ll likely retire in the next few years. After that, I’m probably going to do some consulting, maybe become a travel agent on the side as well.

ETA: I was also a SAHD for about a year :)
 
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I'm a retired speech therapist, but before that job, I was in the army (Korean voice interceptor), then a stay at home mom, and then a legal secretary. I also taught English in Japan when I was 17-18, worked in a call center for a cruise company, and had a retail job or two, but they were shorter term jobs that I held for a year or less.
 
I'm a retired lawyer (I like to say I'm in recovery :D ). Before that I refereed intramural sports, umpired baseball, worked in a bookstore, bused tables at a steakhouse (hardest job I ever had--my back hurts just thinking about it), worked in an old-style department store (Murphy's Mart), worked as a grocery store carry-out back when such jobs as carry-outs existed, cut grass and raked leaves.
 
I'm a retired lawyer (I like to say I'm in recovery :D ). Before that I refereed intramural sports, umpired baseball, worked in a bookstore, bused tables at a steakhouse (hardest job I ever had--my back hurts just thinking about it), worked in an old-style department store (Murphy's Mart), worked as a grocery store carry-out back when such jobs as carry-outs existed, cut grass and raked leaves.
Well this explains everything... I have always valued your insights here over the last 6 years
 
Are you ready for this??? Before and after I was in the Air Force I held a number of jobs. None of which I was fired from. I just got bored with thing quickly. I think they have a special name for that now. Just a little attention deficit problem.

From the first to the last job I had that wasn't connected with family.

During High School
Pumped gas at a service station.
Stock boy at a local small grocery store
Worked the club and ball booth at a miniature golf course
Washed 18 wheeler tanker trucks for a local company
After High School during College
Worked in another service station pumping gas and light mechanical work
Drove a hospital supply van part time
Unloaded by hand, train box cars of canned and barreled auto oil products
USAF for 4 years, couldn't quit that one and also got married
Manager of a Ben Franklin Variety Store
Did typesetting and photo graphics for a local Shopping Newspaper
Also traveled every Monday morning 4am to get that newspaper printed
Became Assistant Publisher of that newspaper and General Manager of our new printing operation
Worked as a temp on an IBM chip manufacturing facility
Owned and operated (w/wife) a Level 4 Residential Nursing Home
Office Manager for a local Earth Moving Company
Worked briefly as a travel agent until the owners were arrested
Accounts Payable and Payroll accounting for multiple job sites of a large construction company
Bus Driver for a local Public Transportation Company
Field Manager for that same company.
Retirement (finally)
Moved south and drove part time shuttle bus for Enterprise Car Rental at RDU.
Then my back gave out and had to stop
Been gleefully unemployed since than all the while growing older by the minute

Someone once told me that I used a forest just to publish a Resume'. Not all, but a few overlapped each other.
 













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