An usual job that you've had

I worked at the State School with mentally disabled clients. I was on the night shift and didn't have the job a long time, but it was interesting.

Others:

Coca-Cola Bottling plant, Abilene

Several restaurants, the longest stint at Gardski's Loft

Pizza delivery

Roughneck

College library

Landscaping crew

Foot Locker

American Eagle Outfitter's in Lexington, KY

I've had the same job, high school English teacher, for the last 26 years.

I worked as a prep cook/dish washer in a sorority house.

Painted radio towers, bridges and the like one summer. Two vans 4 to 6 guys all thru depressing rural Georgia Alabama and South Carolina. Each and every one of those guys was a stone drunk. If they were not climbing or painting they were drinking. Drink climb paint unclimb drink.

They thought I was nuts because I stopped after a couple of beers. Though I was odd for showering too. 4 guys totaled about 53 teeth. I did not know you could chew tobacco in your sleep until I met this group!

The boss was adept at picking the worse motel in the area- I once checked in to the 3 hour hotsheet motel across the street from his choice just to give my self an upgrade.

On the bright side there were any number of comfortable looking gals named Bobbi-Jo, Cherlynn and Peggy Sue populating those despair filled towns.

A job you really really don't want. The gee golly neat-o cool job thing wears out about 50 feet into the first climb. Never comes back but I must say some of the views were beautiful.

The 1963 segregated rual southeast was a real eye opener for this nyc kid. In the end the poverty and segregation were the things that made me bail after about a month. Finished the summer as stockboy /clerk in the corner supermarket I'm sure I was the only kid in NYC that summer who thought stocking shelves and lugging boxes of groceries up 5 flights of stairs was a fine job to have.

lived and worked in a ghost town - bodie, CA - for a summer.

took crews out in the backcountry at philmont for the boy scouts.

Not weird but fun: had a part-time job working at Cinnabon. Everyone who worked there was my age (early 20's). Every morning we made the cinnamon buns from scratch and for the rest of the day we were high on sugar (even though we didn't eat them, you get sick of them easily). It was really, really fun.

running is better wrote:

lived and worked in a ghost town - bodie, CA - for a summer.

took crews out in the backcountry at philmont for the boy scouts.

I worked at Philmont, too. Conservation staff in the backcountry. When did you work there? Sounds like you were a ranger.

HS and two years of College I worked at a Medical Research Facility. I cleaned Monkey crap! I learned very quickly to keep my mouth shut!

I once worked as Kinda a butler for really rich family in a tourist town in mexico. My job consisted of everything and anything to have the people of the house not worry about things. which consisted of cleaning floors when the "staff" was behind to flying on their private jet to go shopping to other cities. thats where i realized money does buy happiness

I was a Copy Editor at a newspaper. Now I am haunted whenever I read Letsrun.I found 6 errors in the OP's post. 51 total words-cracked the 10% error rate. Worse than most, but not in the top ten of all time.

Conundrum wrote:

Anything off beat or of interest.

One summer during my college years I (along with two other kids) were hired to reclaim an old cemetery from the 1800's that had become over grown with very thick woods and brush. Each we discovered new and interesting momuments.

crazy person wrote:

I worked at Philmont, too. Conservation staff in the backcountry. When did you work there? Sounds like you were a ranger.

ranger in 2002 and 2004, senior wilderness guide at the double H in 2007 (essentially an RT).

i loved my 4 summers working out west. gorgeous scenery and i learned that i hated driving across texas to get to mountains.

Worked for a friend in Atlanta who started a business resurfacing kitchen counters and cabinets. He would land contracts where we would go into housing projects and resurface kitchens in 30 or 40 units. Saw some rough places and rough customers.

In the summer of 1991 or '92, I taught tourists to pan for gold. A sleazy local business woman sold gold jewelry & had a small sluice setup to lure the tourists in. Fun job but lousy co-workers.

I was aware of errors but I intentionally wrote in an informal colloquial style. If I was writing formally for a newspaper, I wouldn't have 6 errors, I'd probably just have four.

Newspaperman wrote:

I was a Copy Editor at a newspaper. Now I am haunted whenever I read Letsrun.

I found 6 errors in the OP's post. 51 total words-cracked the 10% error rate. Worse than most, but not in the top ten of all time.

Conundrum wrote:

Anything off beat or of interest.

One summer during my college years I (along with two other kids) were hired to reclaim an old cemetery from the 1800's that had become over grown with very thick woods and brush. Each we discovered new and interesting momuments.

I would of done the same.

Conundrum wrote:

I was aware of errors but I intentionally wrote in an informal colloquial style.

If I was writing formally for a newspaper, I wouldn't have 6 errors, I'd probably just have four.

Newspaperman wrote:

I was a Copy Editor at a newspaper. Now I am haunted whenever I read Letsrun.

I found 6 errors in the OP's post. 51 total words-cracked the 10% error rate. Worse than most, but not in the top ten of all time.

Conundrum wrote:

If I was writing formally for a newspaper, I wouldn't have 6 errors, I'd probably just have four.

Would that have been a usual job or an unusual job?

My usual job writing probably would have been 4 errors out of 51.Give me some credit, 6 errors would have been an unusual job for me.

Kevin52 wrote:

Conundrum wrote:

If I was writing formally for a newspaper, I wouldn't have 6 errors, I'd probably just have four.

Would that have been a usual job or an unusual job?

My most usual job is serving at a restaurant. But it's great because the time goes by quickly and before you know it, you have $250-300 in tips in your pocket. After I get the 9-5, I'm definitely going to continue doing 2 weekend brunch shifts, since this place has the best brunch in the city, people reserve days in advance. 2 shifts a week is 2,000 bucks. My work experience and degree from a top-tier program should land me a day job at 80 K minimum, because bs undergrads start at 60 after graduation. I'm looking at 7K net which is livable income for the city. And I'm super excited about the $800 rent for this one apartment. Anyways...I got to go and make it happen because I'm kinda ready to move into a place ;)

I worked in a water bottling factory. All I had to do was put a cap on 5 gallon water bottles and move them onto a pallet as they came down a conveyor belt, 1 per second, for 8 hours.

I last 2 days.

It was the cleanest job I ever had. And it was the job I most hated.

Oddly enough, or maybe not so, a man had been doing the job for almost 30 years. He was autistic.

Like someone else said, jobs like these make you appreciate your college degree.

Newspaperman wrote:

I was a Copy Editor at a newspaper. Now I am haunted whenever I read Letsrun.

I found 6 errors in the OP's post. 51 total words-cracked the 10% error rate. Worse than most, but not in the top ten of all time.

Conundrum wrote:

Anything off beat or of interest.

One summer during my college years I (along with two other kids) were hired to reclaim an old cemetery from the 1800's that had become over grown with very thick woods and brush. Each we discovered new and interesting momuments.

You got six? I guess you weren't counting the title, "An usual job that you've had."