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Originally posted by parabellum:
Is it too difficult to write out the word "occupataions"? I looked at your post for some time before I figured out what you are talking about. Is it that difficult to make your subject line clear?

My apologies. Corrected.

two.

US Navy (student and then commissioned)

Manager of large-scale environmental investigation and remediation projects (example here: https://sigforum.com/eve/forums...6031561/m/4990082224)

Industrial labor
Retail warehouse
Sales office lackey
Retail
Industrial labor

Figure I got maybe one more change of direction left before I'm stuck due to age and/or income.

Machine tool repairman> machinist mechanic
Alfa Romeo mechanic
Yacht mechanic and electrician
Upper cervical chiropractor (NUCCA)

I find being an upper cervical chiropractor quite similar to being a service technician doing mechanical and electrical work. Trying to diagnose and correct a problem starting with a limited amount of information.

actually a lot

avionics tech
maintenance pilot for a repair facility
military reservist and leadership instructor
environmental consultant to the EPA
facility director for a semiconductor wafer fab

currently, director of technical services/owner of a consulting firm of 60 employees

Lead Guitar 'The American Dream' during school
US Navy out of High School 1968-1975
Banking 1975-2015
Retired 2015-∞

Mike

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Let's see:
Shit shoveler on a turkey farm in high school
Stocked grocery store shelves after that
Short order cook
State mental hospital as a CNA
Built fiberglass truck hoods for Freightliner
Built furniture casegoods (Drexel Heritage)
Shipping clerk in a warehouse for a yarn company
Built link chains (Rexnord)
Built fork lifts (Yale and Hyster)
Went back to school at 35, got a degree in photography
Worked as a freelance sports photographer
That turned into a staff job at the local newspaper as the law enforcement writer and head photographer
Now working at a 911 shift supervisor, been in the 911 game for 10 years and unless something happens I'll retire here.

Been a pretty varied career, and I've enjoyed most of it.

Sold greeting cards door to door at the age of 10.

Part time afternoon paper route fill in for friends at 11.

Morning paper route at 13.

Repaired bicycles, built them from junkyards for sale @ 14.

Gas station at 16, back in the day when it was full service and minor repairs like brakes, tire repair, battery charge.

Did the year off of college thing and still on it - don't do that!

Tried a job as a catering truck driver where I was hired to drive, but they stuck me in the freezer schlepping boxes - that lasted a day.

Did a stint as an equipment controller for a container company - K Line. I kept track of and moved containers around the continental US. Also worked the PBX during lunch.

Got a job as a driver for a radiator repair shop.

Switched to grocery and joined the union. I was a floor man - load and unload trucks, stock shelves, etc.

Found a job with a Graphic Arts Distributor fixing pre press equipment - large film processors, process cameras, plate exposure & processing and color proofing equipment.

Apple destroyed that field, so after 20 years of self employment there, I joined a Kenpo Dojo and the next 14 years were spent getting a Black Belt with various odd jobs along the way. I am a Shodan now.

Started and currently operate a retirement job as an appliance repairman. Doing quite well.

Grocery Bagger -> Produce clerk @ grocery store in high school.

Electrician -> long enough to journeyman, decide I didn't want to work quite so hard/put up with "the man" the rest of my life.

IT since about 1999, various positions as career has matured.

Excluding pre college, 2ish.

Got a degree in Construction Management which led to an estimating position with a local General Contractor.

Now I'm a Construction Estimator (Preconstruction Services) for national Real Estate Development company. Kind of the same thing but on the other side of the table.

Pre college? A flyboy for the local newspaper, busboy, general labor type stuff.

Fast Food Cook (Hardee's)
Sonarman (sts1(ss))
Professional Student
Self-employed Optometrist

Newspaper delivery boy.
Full service gas pump jockey.
USAF Security Police.
Pinkerton Guard.
Police Officer
Private Investigator.
Private Security for a medical facility.
Volunteer Special (and I feel special) Deputy.
Nuclear Medicine Courier.
Maritime Security Officer.
Hopefully done now!

Sold Grit newspaper
Hoe'd at a large vegetable farm
Worked at a Holstein farm
Busboy at a truckstop
Dishwasher at truckstop
Short order cook at truckstop
Pumped diesel fuel at truckstop
DECA student and sold shoes
Home Improvement mgr at KMart
Asst. Mgr at KMart
CRRT
RRT-Registered Respiratoty Therapist
Medically Retired

Deckhand - Working in a resort community renting boats, waverunners, marina maintenance, etc.

Tower Hand - Working on cellular communication towers troubleshooting obstruction lighting and assisting with new antenna installs.

Assistant Engineer - Mechanical, HVAC, Access Control maintenance and upgrades at an upscale downtown condominium.

CAD Operator - Computer aided drafting for civil construction company. Performing Take-Offs and As-Builts for residential and commercial projects.

Ground-Man - Worked briefly at two companies doing transmission line overhauls and new distribution installation.

Field Specialist - Working in the South Texas Oilfield doing completions work.

Field Operator - Working for the city performing new construction taps for water and sewer service and other less-than pleasant tasks.


I'm patiently waiting for the Oilfield to pick back up.

I interned in oil & gas as an engineer.

After college, was a design engineer in an unrelated field for about 1.5 years.

My internship tracked me down, and I've been in oil & gas ever since. Had a bunch of different jobs in both downstream and upstream, but it's all basically one 20+ year occupation.

Neighborhood lawn & yard work service during jr high;
Sold my own strawberries to grocery @ 12;
newspaper route one summer;
cherry farm labor;
hay farm labor;
4 1/2 years truck & passenger tire sweat hog;
couple years as warehouse asst & tire route delivery;
oiler for gyppo crane operator;
gas station jockey;
asst bar tender at country club;
underground conveyor belt operator feeding batch plant on major dam construction;
part time USPS 'sub postal asst' for 4 years;
social worker 2 states with wide range of assignments;
went back to school for DC, private practice 32 years; retired

doesn't seem like that all took over 60 years...

14-16: washed aloe leaves at an aloe product manufacturing facility.
16-18: worked at Dairy Queen doing everything.
18-19: Payless Cashaways lumber store stocker.
19-24: worked at a Mom and Pop Affiliated food store with short 6 month stint delivering milk for Borden in the middle.
24/1986: Hired at UPS.
9 years of package cars/delivery.
22 years driving semis for them.
Working there for the past 31 years, maybe 9 more to go.

I have not been unemployed since I was 14 in 1976.
I've always had a job, found one before I left another one.

After college
Land surveyor- party chief-4yrs
Corrections officer-2yrs
LEO- for the last 26, 3 more to go.

Mowed Lawns
Paper boy
Service station attendant
Drafteman
Warehouseman
Millwright Apprentice
Postal Clerk
Revenue Officer
Management Analyst
Branch Chief
Program Manager
Retiree
AAA travel
Retiree

High school - Retail sales
Marines - Security Forces/Infantry

Since then:

Retail Sales / Store management
Industrial Printing Shop
Mechanical Assembly (Military sub-contractor)
Field Service Tech (Postal contract)

6 occupational paths (Really only 5 as I did retail before AND after the Corps) in a 25 year working history...