Babysitter
Camp counselor
Receptionist
Library aide
Telephone market research analyst
College teaching assistant
Legal researcher
Junior high:
Babysitter
High school:
House cleaner
Paper girl
Nursing home kitchen aide
Food seller at special events
College:
Food service
Secretary
Lawn mower
Worked for the concessions company at a MLB stadium
Software engineer
That’s it!
Did different things for the concessions company (no selling, though) over the 6 years I worked there in high school/college.
I’ve worked for something like 14 different companies as an engineer, but they’ve all been basically the same job - writing code.
ETA: one summer when the baseball players were on strike, my parents paid me to paint the outside of the house. Not sure if that counts as a job… I had the best tan ever that year.
I’ll play. It’s kind of fun to remember how I earned money back in the day. No restaurant or retail work for me, thank you very much.
Middle school
- Chicken raiser/dresser (strangely, the dressed chickens sold better than live ones! :)) ~:> )
1a. Bean walker (the chickens paid better) - Babysitter/summer tutor
High School
3. Movie theater concessions
4. Amusement park games/supervisor (through college)
College
5. Nanny
6. Photographer’s assistant
7. University public relations office
babysitter
pool snack bar attendant
writing tutor
flutist (played in quartets at weddings etc.)
clerk/typist
middle school language arts teacher
graduate teaching assistant
Didn’t think I’d make it to seven this easily! All by the time I was 22.
dry cleaning clerk
college cafeteria (sorted dishes and uneaten food from trays; lasted one week at that)
college library
proofreader as a company moved its thousands of address files to computers (sooooo boring)
day camp counselor
editorial intern at a well-known magazine
pharmacy clerk
babysitter
paperboy
summer science intern and Navy Weapons lab (2 summers)
Burger King (only worked 3 training shifts)
grocery store (stock clerk, checker, bagger)
college library periodicals and government documents assistant (you know how libraries put newspapers on sticks-- I did that)
IBM administrative clerk (summer)
This gets me to start of junior year of college