I've done just about everything. My first job was as a dishwasher in a small sicilian bistro, then I proceeded through the Restaurant section of the yellowpages in my hometown (Charlottesville, Virginia) until I'd graced the kitchens and floors of most area italian and greek joints.

From there, I was a live-in caretaker for an old slovenian woman, in NYC, who taught me how to curse in Slavic, which most illogically propelled me into a brief stint as a head chef in an Illinois nursing home. From there, I found my way to a trendy healthy-fast-food (yes it exists) and smoothie shop in an orlando mall, followed closely behind by a return to Virginia for grocery-cashier, Domino's pizza driver, J-Crew phone order taker, and a sprinkling of freelance webdesign. A few months later it was fuel stations and daycares in Dallas, TX, then working at the same Virginia school as my pops (Allan C.) but in a different department, babysitting expensive AV equipment.

Then it was off to Silicon Valley, this time to babysit a 24 year-old dot-com millionaire (personal assistant), then back to VA to work -for- my pops at the aforementioned college. Then *struggles to remember* ah yes, more greek restaurants, a rib joint, and off to New Orleans to work in the same damn rib joint that Id worked at in VA.

That died out quickly and led me to SoCal, and CopyMax doing the same work Id done with pops, then a long stretch of unemployment and illness, chased by a reasonable stay as the Director's assistant for a major rock-band and corporate promotions company.

Then back to Dallas where I did five months (yes, DID, as in felt-like-a-prison-sentence) as a junior designer at a low-end dot com, which I ran screaming from, and two days later stopped running when I ran smack dab into a contracted government job processing fatalities (sometimes very depressing) for the US Dept of Labor's Occupational Safety & Health Administration. I've been at OSHA for 9 months now and plan to be there til I finish school (4 years) and can meander back to Northern California to be a Kindergarten teacher.

*Takes a breath and goes to rest her over-typed fingers*