what jobs have we all done in our time then ?

bluebeard

I have worked for shelter, the homeless charity

and been a painter and decorator

markc1

Well since you asked:golf shop:record shop:motor factors:warehouse:motor factors(again):plastics factory:plastics factory(again):textile mill:sainsburys warehouse:somerfield warehouse:carpet factory:haulage:street cleaner:prison officer

Not a bad haul over 34 years!Had some great(and bad!)experiences along the way!

bluebeard

wow !!!!

markc1

delboy wrote:

Newspaper boy
Fruit picker
Butchers boy
Electrical shop
Furniture shop
Tile Factory
Canning factory
Chicken Factory
Industrial Painter
Steel erector
Packed HSS drill bits
Trainee Accountant
Cost clerk for Chrysler
DIY Shop Manager
Garden Centre assistant
Civil Servant (PSA - no longer exists)
Local Government

There's more but I can't remember them at the moment

NOBODY has ever had more jobs than me!!!!!!!

hedgehog

wages clerk
order picker wholesale grocers
ambulance officer
driving instructor
bus driver
support worker social care ,only just, notice of concern due to arthur and sick leave!!
don't know how long I'll last, waiting for TKR.

bluebeard

whats a support worker social care ?

issymknight

Paper Girl
Saturday Assistant (sweeping floors)
Telephonist
Warehouse work
Joined Royal Navy
HOUSE WIFE (UNPAID)
Bar Work
MOTHER
Foster carer for 8years mainly fostering babies and toddlers Loved that wasnt really job as You didnt get paid but it has helped in my experiances.
Factory work
Index Catalogue shop Cash Manager
BECAME A SINGLE PARENT
Ware house work
Sainsbury's on checkout got brain dead with the beep beep all day.
Cashier for food court.
Remarried so HOUSE WIFE again
Had new baby so became MOTHER again.
Work for post Office have done for last 10years and during that time I developed my RA.
GRANDMOTHER ( couldnt class this as work as I love it)
Housewife and mother still even though 2 have left home it nevers ends HA HA

That was fun looking back at my employment record.

bluebeard

well done , thats fantastic

annie_mial

Mmmmm, I had to think long and hard about this........

Laundry worker
Housemaid
Librarian
Corset fitter
Legal Secretary/Solicitors Clerk - did this for 6 years until my first daughter was born and loved every minute.
Worked at or from home typing medical and pathological reports/rent collector/office cleaner while at home for 4 years with the children.
Went back to college at the age of 36 as a mature student and qualified as an optician the year I was 40.
Was made redundant after 15 years, so retrained again and became PA to the Operations Manager of an International Medical Emergency Assistance Company
Made redundant again after 11 years, so retrained again and finally - last but by no means least - Trading Standards Officer.

Annie

bluebeard

brilliant , well done all

caprica

Umm my list won't be as long as I'm a young 'un.
But still..
Waitress
Street promoter (flyering monkey!)
Front of house staff at a theatre
Lazy student...it was a full-time occupation
Milkshake bar worker! (amazing..free shakes!)
Film and television runner... getting lots of tea and coffee for actors. argh.
And currently: Freelance videographer and full time photographer

I love my job, if my hands give up on me my bosses joke we'll surgically attach a camera to my arms.lol Lets hope it doesn't get to that eh.

Best of luck finding something you want to do. Even if it's only a few hours a week, it'll make you feel sooo much better about yourself. Sitting at home can be so depressing. (unless you have kids to care for etc obviously!) xx

dorcas

chemist shop asst
nurse (mental health)
medical sales rep
housing officer
homelessness officer
social worker (child care)
social worker(generic)
housing officer (again)
registrar (great job marrying folks in the Western isles)
social work manager
children's reporter (current)

plus mum of five and voluntary work for ten years in amongst that lot.!
phew! Irisx

woodbon

My niece used to work in a Chemists shop. One day she had been sorting out the contraceptives, a woman came in and asked for some batteries, my niece replied "Would you like the Ordinary ones or the Durex ones" She never lived that down. :oops:

hedgehog

bluebeard wrote:

whats a support worker social care ?

Hi, it's highly technical so replied personally, regards, hedgehog :roll: :roll:

bluebeard

thnaks hedgehog xx

cthornley

hmm well i'm only 31 but i have been a
supermarket assistant
CAD monkey
landlady
nanny to 2 lovely little boys
location photographer in LA
Avon lady
facilities manager
architectural assistant
architect....and now i'm also associate director YAY!
I also am now doing my hardest job ever at the same time as the previous one....I'm mum to a fab but exhausting toddler!!

annebr

Well I am 40 this year and I have been:

assistant in a fruit & florists
shoe shop
kitchen porter
cleaner
checkout in supermarket
mortgages (all elements from completion to redemption)
More mortgage work but more techie
life & pensions clerk
Software Tester

13 years ago I set up my own software testing consultancy and have worked for about 15 major banks/companies

penetration/social engineering tester - basically had to gain access to a (major) company by false pretences and obtain info via systems, papers on desks & face to face meetings with staff.

Anne

valval

fruit shop
news agents
barfiller
neck linker
pet shop
large store
finnisher
presser
bar person
fruit shop
office supplies
(wife mother daughter)

annebr

annebr wrote:

Well I am 40 this year and I have been:

assistant in a fruit & florists
shoe shop
kitchen porter
cleaner
checkout in supermarket
mortgages (all elements from completion to redemption)
More mortgage work but more techie
life & pensions clerk
Software Tester

13 years ago I set up my own software testing consultancy and have worked for about 15 major banks/companies

penetration/social engineering tester - basically had to gain access to a (major) company by false pretences and obtain info via systems, papers on desks & face to face meetings with staff.

Anne

And I forgot 7 years as a barmaid in an Ex-Servicemans Club

colinone

Ice ceam boy on one of thois bikes and yes it was a long time ago.
Butchers boy
Gardner
packing box maker
fruit packer
computer operator in factory, oribiliss
security
soldier
cheff
bar man
catering manage
bingo hall manager
entertainment manager
bar man
celler man
manager pubs
steward clubs
Social worker
Salesman
wine waiter
waiter silver service
grill cheff
Worked in moss the mans shop sales
Cant tell you what this job was would have to kill you but it lasted 12 years
worked in my mums shop for a while selling wool and baby clothes
Had my own shop for a while
market stall holder 3 stalls
Had my own club
Taxi driver
Van Sales sweets and ice cream
Coal man it was a great job
bar man again
Worked in hotel doing breakfast in the days of radio caroline
Jobber in rail yard
Marks and spencer food
KRAFT chesse factory stacking palets
Body Gaurd for a very famous person no no no cant tell you
DJ
Entertainment manager
Dad
Granddad
Husband

Cant think
Colin

tanith

My list is very small...

Shop assistant in C & A , remember them? 5yrs
Mum to 3
Playgroup leader 10yrs
Printing factory 3mths
Grandma to 7
Ambulance Woman 20yrs..

I loved them all apart from the Factory

speedalong

I don't think I have had nearly as many or as wide a variety of jobs as a lot of you ... but here goes ...

I started work at age 14 - Saturday shop assistant in local supermarket
I also did a lot of babysitting
I ran a social services summer playscheme
I taught English as a foreign language to students
Teacher in mainstream and then special school
At the sametime respite carer then longterm foster carer
Voluntary work - respite care home for children with special needs, helping at a local primary school, for SCOPE (then called spastics society,) 2 years charity work in Romanian orphanage.
(This list started chronologically ... but didn't stay that way.)

Looks more when written down.

Speedalong

abfab1963

Well, I have obviously always been in a professional position!:-

A Riding Instructress
Royal Naval Reserve
Ann Summers Rep!

mmmmm

:oops:

xx

suncatcher

School work experiance iwk in supermarket
saturday girl chemist shop
yts searching for someone who actualy wanted to employ people not use em went on these placements non of em emplyed anyone we were just cheap labour here goes age concern coffee shop assistant, sandwich shop and cafe assistant, sandwich shop assistant,assistant in nursing home kitchen,sweet shop assistant, pet fish shop assistant,
left that went to collage did 706 1/2 in catering and did saturday job at a party catering place doing buffets and washing up.
when left collage worked in factory canteen
then a supermarket on till and packing shelves
got married had child did childminding 5 years
when daughter at school became a school dinner lady in kitchen
for 5 years then left that
became a qualified support care assistant looking after adults with learning and physical disabuilities
became disabled myself now dont work. now a house wife and mom to two lovely kids. i bet your all shocked :shock: :shock:

mellman01

Farm stockman, cleaner, lab assistant working in a Plutonium fuel research facility, Health Physics radiation monitor, Manipulator operator in a nuclear waste store, Plant attendant and the Assistant unit operator driving a 500MW triple expansion steam turbine, then office bod driving a PC due to my OA.

sarahw

My jobs have been

veterinary nurse
cardiographer
tutor
now learning support assistant