#firstsevenjobs

cobrat
Wed, 10 Aug 2016 17:37:02 +0000

Briefly collected bottles/cans with fellow elementary school classmates(6-8 year old) for 5 cent deposits from garbage/street and accumulated ~$20-30 before our parents found out and put a stop to it because it was “too dirty” and concerns we’d be mugged for the accumulated cash redemptions. All that accumulated money bought a lot of toys, pizzas/burgers, soda, and candy.

Sold chocolate bars to raise funds for my Catholic elementary school.

Cashier/stockboy at a local stationary store (5th grade till sometime second semester of freshman year of high school).

Dishwasher at a pizzeria(5th grade. Barely lasted a day before the owner said “you’re a nice kid, but you’re breaking too many dishes to continue.”).

Part-time computer tech/instructor - (Late high school through college. Paved way into my work in the IT/computer tech profession).

SAT volunteer in afterschool program (early college)

Freelance academic tutor(College and post-college).

Census Enumerator (Brief period post college)

Substitute lecturer for a 100-200 level social science course at a community college to 2 class sections each of which consisted of 50-70 students. (Post college).