Babysitter
Keypunch operator (11th, 12th, Christmases and summers until college graduation)
College deli
Temp agency warehouse inventory
Temp agency assembly line 3rd shift
College Library
Nurse
babysitting, marketing research interviewer, retail clerk (tiny kitchen gadgets and stuff store), gameroom monitor, swimming instructor, sailboat instructor, english teacher (in china)…my god seven jobs before college ended…
Babysitter, tray carrier at a cafeteria-type restaurant, front desk worker in dorm, checker at grocery store, mystery customer for Dominos pizza, amusement park employee for one summer, intern in DC.
A lot of these are simultaneous so I’m going by start date 
Plumbing assistant/journeywoman
Photography assistant/saleswoman
Usher
Teacher’s aide/interpreter (ELL classroom)
Domestic violence advocate (crisis line and in-shelter)
Research assistant
Project manager (current)
No waitressing or in-store retail work. I was the salesperson who would be in the tent on shoot dates. My sister has been a waitress and bartender for more than half of her life though so I’ve gotten a taste of how hard restaurants are.
ETA: Oops, I completely forgot about being a nanny. The babysitting posts reminded me. But for the life of me, I can’t remember where that fit in and I can’t even remember if it I did it for one or two summers.
Babysitter
Sales Clerk
Lab technician
Sales Clerk
Lab technician
Dietary Aide
Mother
Babysitter
Tutor
Disneyland (fast food)
Retail
Computer Lab assistant
Video Store clerk (remember video stores?)
Computer Intern
So interesting! And so true that it’s amazing how much many of us did work-wise before getting out of college - often more than one job at a time, right?
Maybe good to show your kids your pre-college grad resume? Show you weren’t a slacker!!!
Nurses Aide
Pattern cutter in sewing factory
Salad girl at Hot Shoppes
Typist
Snack Bar sales and service
Ice Cream server in college dining hall
Library Clerk in college Art Library
Then a long career in statistics!
Dishwasher in a restaurant in a hotel (I was 14; it was undoubtedly illegal; we were friends of the owners)
Salesclerk in gift shop in summer resort
Receptionist in college Classics Department
Typist (at the same time as the above job – literally, the same hours) (Yeah, I double dipped)
Salesclerk in fabric store
Editorial assistant for the summer
Editor/writer for the above company
Hmmmm.
- Babysitter
- Waitress
- Resident Assistant
- Pizza maker (really...I did that)
- Graduate teaching assistant
- Tupperware salesperson (a low point in my adult life)
- Speech Pathologist (whew!)
I was also a bartender, and worked as a pharmacy assistant, and was a summer theater house manager, but I did those things to supplement my speech pathology earnings in the early years.
summer day camp counselor
programmer in college computer center
programmer and then eventually project manager in bank tech department
tech support in HS
tech support for internet eyeglass company (lasted about 2 weeks before quitting)
financial assistant at environmental non-profit
administrative assistant in HS athletic department
I have only had 7 paying jobs my entire life - interspersed with my non-paying stay at home mom job!
- VP at Building Maintenance Co (ok...so grandpa was the head custodian and I helped him).
- Arby's
- Temporary postal employee
- Receptionist
- Airline Reservations
- Back to the post office while in school for a 2nd, more practical college degree
- Nicu nurse...which I love :)
Oh god…I forgot I was a camp counselor!!
- Mowed lawns
- Asst. maintenance man at a vacation resort, which mostly consisted of being a garbage man.
- Phone solicitor selling tickets to a circus
- Canning green beans in a cannery. Later got promoted to beets.
- Painter, gardener, and general maintenance man.
- Biotech scientist of one sort or another - for 35 years now.
Newspaper delivery 13 years old
Busboy 14-16
Liquor Delivery 17-18
Security at college fitness center 18-19
Garbage man 19 year old summer
Security at college fitness center 19-20
Mailroom clerk/Factory worker 20 year old summer
Security Guard 21 year old summer
Taxpayer Service Representative Senior year of college
Between those jobs I also had short term jobs doing inventory and I assisted a major corporation by copying documents for a law suit. Those jobs were over school holidays
Babysitter
Cashier at Hardee’s
Campus dining hall
Resident Assistant in dorm
Campus bus driver
Bank teller
Editorial Assistant at university press
- Newspaper route
- Roller rink snack bar girl
- Bug picker and grinder (lab tech in Agriculture Dept lab studying fly hormones)
- Market research (doing telephone surveys)
- Waitress in a sports bar
- Newspaper copy editor and reporter (college paper)
- Press release writer (college research org)
Tutor
Student worker in dining halls
Clerical job in mailroom/supply room of insurance compamy
Waitress
Computer lab monitor
Hotel maid
Hotel desk clerk
My 2 campus jobs (dining hall and computer lab) both covered multiple school years. I also waited tables multiple times.
- Green bean and blackberry picker – paid by the quart
- Babysitter
- Breakfast shift waitress at a diner
- Kentucky Fried Chicken
- Front desk at a college newspaper
- Proctor at an chemistry computer lab
- Computer operator at a college computer lab (back when they were all mainframes)
Baby sitter
Ice cream scooper
Retail at a drug store
Waitress at a bad bar (lasted a week)
Night shift computer baby sitter (back when they were big and had to be kept cool)
Greeter in a clown suit
Parade float builder - fun, but temporary