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Thread #163388   Message #3897601
Posted By: Bill D
05-Jan-18 - 01:33 PM
Thread Name: BS: Your former odd jobs
Subject: RE: BS: Your former odd jobs
Besides being a 'paper boy' (during the Korean war) and being a grocery clerk during high school & college, I have
worked in a library shelving books,
sold scrap metal and 'other stuff' at a surplus store,
put up pipes & drapes & banners at fairs for a display company,
done various jobs (carpentry, painting, etc.)in the building & grounds dept. at my college,
sorted mail and proof-read Federal Register articles at the EPA,

routed incoming supplies at Beech Aircraft warehouse,
worked at an 'adult' bookstore for 3 years,
been an 'analyst' for a software company and worked in a cabinet shop for almost 5 years.

But, I can also claim that I was a genuine bean counter! I was cycle inventory person at a Stokely Van Camps cannery. I also counted the cases of peaches, corn, Gatorade...etc.

I also made $4000 in 2 years as a graduate teaching asst. in Philosophy. That was supposed to be my "career", but things, as they say, didn't work out. :>(