Jobs No Longer On My Resume
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1. Radio station DJ/announcer. ("Fifty-seven W-T-L-X A-M" and "Stereo 59: Your Kind of Radio Station." And then just "Radio 59: Your Kind of Radio Station" after the whole "AM Stereo" effort kind of totally collapsed.)
2. Burger assembler, Burger King. And you know about how people say you'll never eat at a fast food restaurant again? Maybe sometimes, but this place was spotless. It was the managerial-training Burger King for the region, and everybody in there but me was a Manager Trainee(tm) and they were all totally toeing the line. You could have eaten off the floor of that place. They kept trying to get me to sign on as a manager trainee. Um, no thanks, I'd like a future with that, please.
3. Computer camp councilor. That was fun. ^_^
4. Microfiche photographer.
5. Credit Investigator. (Second National Bank.)
6. Charity telemarketer. PLEASE DON'T KILL ME, I NEEDED FOOD. And I still quit after two weeks. God, that was awful. My only good memory of it was the argument I had with one person over whether or not I was a recording. ^_^
7. Counter sales clerk at a small-engine parts store.
8. "Landscaper," which meant "chick they sent out with the weedeater into the poison ivy all day when it was 904 degrees in the shade." I hated that job with a passion.
9. Various early software jobs, including my first one, writing a custom database application in BASIC on the original IBM microcomputer, the 5100. (This predates the PC. It was old then, but they'd paid god-only-knows how much for it so they were by god going to use it, somehow. The best part of that was the printer, which had a length of required tinsel along the paper feed track, and printed - by IBM - instructions on the printer saying never to take the tinsel off while the machine was operating, as you might crash - or actually damage - the computer or printer from the static build-up which would result. Nice design.)
10. Lecturer (technically "teaching assistant," but I did everything, from course design through testing), University of Kentucky, computer science.
11. This one is actually still on resume occasionally: staff productivity software reviewer, UPTIME! The Disk Monthly. I was the only one who cared about productivity software on the Commodore 64. ^_^
12. Same with the systems management job in Davy's lab at UK, but that's because of the genetics analysis paper I got out of it. That, and it's kind of silly fun to say I worked in the laboratories of Drs. Grace and Davy Jones. ^_^
13. Running backups at the public library. Translation: being paid to do homework and watch TV. Sweet. Even if it made me late for gaming occasionally. ^_^
14. File clerk. Zzzzzzzzzz.
There are probably more but that's all I can think of right now. ^_^
welcomerain1. Radio station DJ/announcer. ("Fifty-seven W-T-L-X A-M" and "Stereo 59: Your Kind of Radio Station." And then just "Radio 59: Your Kind of Radio Station" after the whole "AM Stereo" effort kind of totally collapsed.)
2. Burger assembler, Burger King. And you know about how people say you'll never eat at a fast food restaurant again? Maybe sometimes, but this place was spotless. It was the managerial-training Burger King for the region, and everybody in there but me was a Manager Trainee(tm) and they were all totally toeing the line. You could have eaten off the floor of that place. They kept trying to get me to sign on as a manager trainee. Um, no thanks, I'd like a future with that, please.
3. Computer camp councilor. That was fun. ^_^
4. Microfiche photographer.
5. Credit Investigator. (Second National Bank.)
6. Charity telemarketer. PLEASE DON'T KILL ME, I NEEDED FOOD. And I still quit after two weeks. God, that was awful. My only good memory of it was the argument I had with one person over whether or not I was a recording. ^_^
7. Counter sales clerk at a small-engine parts store.
8. "Landscaper," which meant "chick they sent out with the weedeater into the poison ivy all day when it was 904 degrees in the shade." I hated that job with a passion.
9. Various early software jobs, including my first one, writing a custom database application in BASIC on the original IBM microcomputer, the 5100. (This predates the PC. It was old then, but they'd paid god-only-knows how much for it so they were by god going to use it, somehow. The best part of that was the printer, which had a length of required tinsel along the paper feed track, and printed - by IBM - instructions on the printer saying never to take the tinsel off while the machine was operating, as you might crash - or actually damage - the computer or printer from the static build-up which would result. Nice design.)
10. Lecturer (technically "teaching assistant," but I did everything, from course design through testing), University of Kentucky, computer science.
11. This one is actually still on resume occasionally: staff productivity software reviewer, UPTIME! The Disk Monthly. I was the only one who cared about productivity software on the Commodore 64. ^_^
12. Same with the systems management job in Davy's lab at UK, but that's because of the genetics analysis paper I got out of it. That, and it's kind of silly fun to say I worked in the laboratories of Drs. Grace and Davy Jones. ^_^
13. Running backups at the public library. Translation: being paid to do homework and watch TV. Sweet. Even if it made me late for gaming occasionally. ^_^
14. File clerk. Zzzzzzzzzz.
There are probably more but that's all I can think of right now. ^_^
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Date: 2003-02-13 03:44 am (UTC)What about "Ninety-one-point-three W-G-A-J, Franklin County's #1 non-commercial radio station?" :-)
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Date: 2003-02-13 11:05 am (UTC)Oh, And Stereo 59 was WVLK. Lexington's #1 Radio Station (tm), because they had the contract to carry the University of Kentucky's basketball games, which would earn them literally a 60 to 70 share, depending on the game. And total listenership would go up, because people would turn on the television, but turn the sound off and turn on the radio for the better commentary.
My final project for my first semester in sculpture was to build a public art proposal, complete with scale model. We were supposed to take politics into account. Mine was a gigantic basketball hoop attached to the Hyatt Regency downtown, across from the arena. The professor laughed out loud while reading the paper (which was my intent, of course - I got an A -_^) but honestly, to this day I still think I could have sold it for real.
It's just that kind of deeply, deeply boring town.
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Date: 2003-03-06 02:57 am (UTC)