4 years as a 'Saturday' girl in a stationers, grocery stores etc
4 part time years as a bar maid -- being paid to have fun would be my definition of that
1 year as a junior reporter
2 years as a part time secretary (winters) and hostess in Southern Spain (summers) -- Torremolinos, since you ask. (I hope hostess doesn't have some conurtations here that I am not aware of -- we danced, and were charming and were bought incredibly overpriced drinks for which we received a cut......NOTHING ELSE - at least nothing else required....there may hae been others who made different choices)
1 year as a teacher of English as a second language while living in Spain (favorite student was a nun taking private lessons so she could teach her students....she was smart!)
1 year full time as a secretary (ever tried being a pair of legs and an accent behind a typewriter.....???)
1 year running the switchboard at the college were my exhusband had an internship -- living in 2 rooms in the men's dorm -- sadly, the two rooms were separated by a corridor........)
1 year working p.t. as a secretary while working on degree
2 years as a teller while earning my degree
7 years in bank management
16 in insurance
7 years (and counting...) in real estate ... this is the best one. Plan to 'retire' in about 8 years but that means moving to England for half the year (not working) and selling houses the other half year in the US.....this is fun.

Perhaps I am guilty of thread creep here but there surely is a long and healthy thread out there on things that mean one thing in the US and one in the UK. I well remember asking my ex mother in law to 'knock me up....' one morning and then ordering a dozen rubbers as part of my office supplies order waaaaaaay back when - to the hysterical amusement and shock/horror of those in hearing. And then there was the time when I asked a friend's mother if her puppy was a dog or a bitch. I can still hear the intake of breath -- in England, a female dog is a bitch AND IT IS OK TO ACTUALLY SAY THAT WORD IN THAT CONTEXT   (and of course, some bitches are bitches too)...