December 6, 2007
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Job
I was reading an article about some of the jobs that the presidential candidates had worked during their life. The article mentioned that Mike Huckabee cleaned glass windows.
Hillary Clinton “spooned the guts out of fish.” Mitt Romney worked in a sewage pipe. Fred Thompson worked in his Uncle’s drag strip. Here is the link: Link
Name a job you have worked.
Comments (106)
Hotel night audit.
good ole’ Mc D’s!
What about several jobs? Let’s see. Office translator and worker at a hospital, volunteer at YMCA, Handyman at church, Desk attendant at college dorms, Barnes and Noble floor sales, Duane Reade stock and cash register, school cafeteria worker (washing dishes, server, utensils filler) porter in a tenant building, selling hot dogs, Teachers aide in daycare center.
None of them were glamorous. And theyre the jobs I worked in high school and college. I’m still doing the college thing and hopefully will look up soon.
sweeping dust and dirt in an aircraft hanger…the job sucked
Delivered pizzas
swept floors in a auto body shop
jumped from planes and killed people
searched for chemical contamination/bad guys
trained firemen and police in WMD preparedness/decontamination
I rob banks.
I got carried away but I forgot to mention Hagen Daaz too.
Abercrombie Kids and Abercrombie and Fitch.
So I guess if I ever decided to run for president the thing against me was that I’d spend hours on end bopping to loud techno and folding clothes.
For some reason I doubt that Hillary spooned guts out of fish.
I I have done a variety of things.
Dishwasher
Dining Hall Student Supervisor
Hot wax machine worker
Medical Records/Coding Intern
Administrative Assistant
RYC – I know, they need to be able to quickly learn the ins and outs of the Michigan Mental Health code, grievance and appeals system, Fair Hearing system and recipient rights and protections system. But I also have to share an office with them, so I at least have to sorta like them.
While it’s interesting to know of the candidates’ job history, what’s more interesting is how they talk about their jobs. Of course, the whole interview with the candidates isnt’ transcribed in this article, but the highlights are. I like that Huckabee can use his job experience to make life easier for others. And YAY to McCain for being in the Navy!!!
My first job was a paper route! I kept that job for about 2 years…I think.
The one I disliked the most was in the book bindery at the University of Arkansas Printing Services. My current job is a church secretary, so when I saw the title of this post I read it as Job – the guy in the Old Testament between Esther and Psalms.
Lift operator and top shack operator.
I worked at a ski slop.
I was a librarian for a couple years, and a handyman for about a day.
I once worked as a playtester for video games in Hong Kong. It was great, I could play all these neat games that hadn’t come out yet and then get paid for it. Granted the paperwork sucked hard, but at least I was getting paid to have fun.
babysitting, omg.
Dairy farmer -in other words cow poop mover
Barista
Waitress
Showroom representative
Sales Representative
pimp.
actually, i have yet to hold a real paying job. i’m going to start one soon though maybe? bah, always too busy with school.
Selling lamps and fake flowers
A department store
Dishwasher
Assistant cook
Day care
It’s my dream to someday work at McDonalds. True story.
data entry/admin at several different companies via employment agency
Most unusual place where I did this type of work was at a funeral directors/parlour
I also worked in a charity shop for 4 a month on Saturdays for 1 hour but I was driven out but the experience sorted out the books was good.
Cleaning houses. In particular toilets. *sighs*
Babysitting kids who like throwing Mayo Clinic and dictionaries at me. Seriously. Now I work at Takko Fashion and it’s the best job I’ve ever had. I actually get paid more than 2 bucks an hour and don’t get 34984029842904823948394832201373 paged books thrown on my skull. =]]
†Cryssie♥Leah™
RYC: As a matter of fact, the gay stylist was humping my shoulder during hump day. I didn’t even make that connection until you said it…
McDonald’s!
I doubt Hilary really spooned fish. She’s an uperclass girl, never worked a day in her life.
I worked in the kennel of a veterinary hospital for three summers. It was…. good and bad. I now know how to give insulin and restrain a dog that weighs more than I do, but on the other hand, who do you think cleaned everything up? Everything from the usual yard-scooping to puddles of blood in the surgery ward.
party motivator/dancer
retail slave. I’ve sold everything from candles to fancy underthings to office supplies.
Ski instructor.
Organist.
Vocalist.
Pianist.
(Weddings…churches…)
….AND!
I’m a nanny.
Hahaha.
Woopy.
Scooping ice cream.
Volunteer tutoring 3rd-4th graders at the Boys & Girls club.
do you want my whole cv?
fast food @ a theme park
coffee
tow-truck dispatch
horse stall cleaning
coffee and more coffee
animal care overseer/management
dumptruck dispatch office girl
deli/cashier
oh nothing as glamorous as those!
I did medical transcription for a long time
I was an O.A. at the residence hall
and I once volunteered to haul tires in the cold and mud for two miles
and to wash dogs at the shelter.
data entry/review for a small law firm. one of the most boring and meaningless jobs I ever had, but hey it was money and it was easy.
Pizza maker
Demolition. Mexican labor basically.
Egg farm laborer. A good experience but kind of gross, in hindsight. Did you know they “debeak” egg laying hens so they won’t eat each other?
I’d rather spoon fish guts than work at Walmart.
I once spent a summer working for the Ohio Department of Transportation, being that chick in a orange vest and hard hat, and sometimes picking up dead deer.
I used to work at Papa John’s. I answered phones. People are stupid/
I need to change my answer. The job I hated most was waitress. I only lasted one day and I tend to block it from my memory.
Flower delivery, golf course maintenance worker, furniture mover, Christian youth worker, investment/insurance sales (this one really did not work out for me!), electronics teacher, electronic/office equipment repair, hazardous waste cleaning-up worker/salesman, sewer cleaning/inspection company general manager. How is that for variety? Yes, I have been in the sewers. It is interesting. It is not glamorous, but, as long as people eat and defecate, we have work.
Hearse driver/body transporter (ol’ Jim’s got to make it to his funeral somehow — even if he died in the wrong state…)
A telemarketer for Stanley Steemer Carpet Cleaner.
weed-eating/moving grass
stocking groceries at night at SAMS CLUB
folding clothes and stuff at ACADEMY:Sports and outdoors
Daniel (doubledb)
Target.
And Circuit City.
Woo.
changing babies’ dirty diapers and calming squalling asthmatic little boys at the same time, while directing video game zombies to get the pot off the stove so it won’t boil over and set off the smoke alarms, and telling others that they have yet to do their homework, and they have to do it before their mom gets home, which is in about two and a half minutes.
best buy
Humane Society. Twice. Once in the offic, once as a volunteer socializing with the animals.
I was a shooter girl at a strip bar for a couple of months.
I once held an insurance license. i suppose that puts me a rung or two below sewage cleaner.
Counselor at a Methodist camp. Responsible for putting kids to bed, getting them out of bed, playing with them all day, supervising, leading bible studies and other activities.
lovely daughter.
I worked at Taco Bell for 7 years. It’s not the job that’s important, it’s that I stuck with it for so long.
I worked at Kay Jewelry for short awhile while I was working at Taco Bell. The thing here is that I can handle multiple jobs and, also, that I started working here because the manager, Pat, loved my personality and begged to hire me.
I’ve been auditing the government ever since. It’s nice to know that I get to go into the various departments and help them improve!
Bagger for a company that deal with fish meal in my early teen.
Cashier. Medical research assistant. Secretary. Selling blinds and draperies. Babysitter. Environmental planner. Wife.
Tour guide, Secretary (I’ve done this a couple times), research assistant, Mad Scientist (literally- that was the name of the after school program I was a teacher for), hostess (for 3 days), Chemical Engineer (This one’s my favorite
)
First job was babysitting the neighbor kids
Made sandwiches for Seminars at Oral Roberts University
Upgraded to ORU cafeteria worker
Frozen Confection Girl
Line worker and Head line worker then Salad Cook at Furr’s
Then mommy and wife
Just realized they all revolved around food and kids….
Left out the Daycare Nursery Worker.
lawn care, lifeguard, resident assistant
Waitress(didn’t last long),Hostess, Cashier, Nurses Aide, Meat Wrapper (sounds obscene, but the roasts you buy at the grocery store are wrapped by someone, as is the ground meat, chicken etc)Insurance Agent
Sales associate at a gift store.
Daycare worker/ cleaner at a daycare.
Cashier at a grocery store.
Currently: doing virtually everything in my parents’ restaurant.
I washed poeples hair at my aunt’s salon for a couple years.
I used to get their backs soaked.
LOL
*HUGS*
My first job was at Orange Julius at the local mall (in 1976).
College Professor
I’m in the military.
Childcare
Retail *shudders*
Office Assistant
Security Dispatcher
cake decorator
Security guard at a carnival. I got to carry a Billyclub with me.
Santa set for Christmas photos
I worked maintenance for a center for the deaf and blind…..all the doors and most of the walls were made of glass……so basically I spent the summer with a bottle of windex cleaning fingerprints!!
yup.. and Ron Paul was a ob/gyn. teehee.
Soda fountain and shoe sales
I shit on someone for 150 dollars once.
Is that a job?
lifeguard
taught dance and gymnastics
drew portraits of customers at Busch Gardens
Mary Kay
cleaned dorm floors
worked as assistant secretary and canteen manager at a church camp
professor’s teaching aid at college
SAHM now… (but not forever!!!)
I call bullshit on all the above political attempts at humility. Spooned fish guts? Come on now…
Columnist/Reporter.
Corn detasseling. …I’m allergic to corn pollen. lol, that was an interesting summer.
Nothing really stands out. I grew up on a farm so I have done everything from cleaning poopy pig crates to shovelling crap to shooting and butchering cows.
But real jobs that don’t relate to the family farm….receptionist, office manager, tutor, etc.
Cleaning poopies butts..
so hypocritical. I am not going to vote for you b/c of these claims. It does mean that you know how the poor are and will help them and are less snobbish.
my jobs are boring. tutoring and clerical work in highschool.
Wow. So “cleaned windows” is pretty boring, but “cleaned glass windows” is totally intriguing.
I worked at a funeral home (got to help bury a guy once) and at a movie theater as well (threading the machines, putting together and breaking down reels, etc.).
catching flies for a forensic entomologist
pizza maker and cashier.
Hot Dog on a Stick.
Porn star.
Clerk in a store during third shift. The job sucked and the people I worked with sucked more.
I made pies at an upscale market.
i was a telemarketer for a vacume cleaner company, wendys and arbies plus my current walmart job. and i did kirklands for a week and cracker barrel for 2. plus a jaunt at toys r us for a couple months during christmas season and at tj maxx durring christmas one year. retail sucks by the way but they have the most prevelant jobs around here.
Paper route, flower shop, Arby’s, data entry, nanny, flute teacher, piano teacher, free lance musician, and now, mostly, a school music teacher. I’m glad I don’t have to do the paper route anymore.
favorite- tour guide
least favorite- I worked as intern for an outdoor theatre in a public park. They forgot to include “cleaning up homeless people’s feces” in the job description
babysitting
Teaching, translator, and secretary.
I worked at a newspaper print shop off and on for 6 years. the one shift I will always remember was when I stacked 150,000 newspapers onto pallets in 9 hours.
I inspected restaurant grease traps. It’s so nasty smelling, I think they did an episode of dirty jobs from it.
I’ve also cleaned restrooms at parks. Yuck.
Yeah right… hiliary from a rich family did that… she probably did one… ugh the pathetic attempts our politicians make to seem more human and understanding. just tell the truth.
i did landscaping/greenhouse work. i also tended to the goats
High School Art and Photography teacher.
Full time mother and homemaker.
ohhh…. I’ve babysat, petsat, done housekeeping and groundskeeping, worked in a frozen custard shop, graded papers for a teacher, been a lifeguard, taught swimming to kids with special needs, been a camp counselor and used to be a notetaker for classes… and now, I work in a dining hall, as a tutor and as a stockroom attendant for my school’s chemistry stockroom.
Respite worker
Sincerely,
T.
I worked for a while in a scented candle shop. I couldn’t smell anything for weeks afterwards…
Chipendale’s dancer.
I’ve actually done alot of work. I have even done some”gray area” jobs, that werent quite legal, but might have got me into trouble if the”wrong” people found out. I don’t do “gray area” work anymore, I’m getting too old, and it’s not as fun anymore
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My favorite work has always been with children and animals by the way, but when I was younger, certain other jobs had that”james bond” appeal.
My English teacher told us she scrubbed windows at McDonalds.
I don’t doubt it. She’s terrible at teaching English. I think she was just looking for a higher quality job where she thought she didn’t have to do anything.
I once worked at Wendy’s. The whole cleaning-the-bottom-of-the-fryer bit at the end of the day could definitely be showcased on Dirty Jobs. Yeeeccchhh.
A paper boy who had tightwads for customers.