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    1. babysitter
    2. telesales for a vacation home developer
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    1. Cotton Picker/Corn Detasseler - Seasonal
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    5. US Air Force, Law Enforcement Specialist
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    7. Corporate Security Manager
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    1) fast food
    2) I.T. work
    3) I.T work
    4) I.T work
    5) I.T. work

    ok I haven't even held 7 jobs in my life but I'm working on it, not all the I.T. work was the same of course, I could go into details. See we don't have all this ability to experiment with whatever job we want if you have to make the rent etc. - it's just not easy to survive in this world (must be nice to experiment without worry over paying bills, but I woke up again today and STILL didn't live in utopia!!!). And working was mostly strongly discouraged when I lived under my parents roof and they paid the bills (I was supposed to focus on school etc. instead - I'd have the rest of my life to work I was always told and therefore shouldn't work while I was in school).

    I suppose being born to parents who do their best for you is a sort of privilege, but is it something that should mute any achievement for the rest of your life? I'm not sure what we're supposed to do with this privilege thing except keep our vainglory to a minimum.
    well those who had difficulty childhoods will struggle with it the rest of their lives, so there is that. Vainglory to a minimum is always a good idea (unless one is already at that extreme, then maybe they need a little more), maybe it's meant to manifest in something like compassion or maybe the Buddhist loving-kindness. But the privileged have no monopoly on lacking it, ok there are studies that show poorer people ARE more generous etc.. (with what little they have), so there is something there, but you'd think oftentimes the struggle to survive if near the poverty level would overwhelm concerns for much else as well.
    Trees don't grow on money

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    1. Bean picker
    2. Telephone operator/retail sales (worked two jobs)
    3. Transmission man
    4. Communications technician
    5. Library page
    6. Central Office technician
    7. Technical editor, on-line courses

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    Quote Originally Posted by ApatheticNoMore View Post
    1) fast food
    2) I.T. work
    3) I.T work
    4) I.T work
    5) I.T. work

    ok I haven't even held 7 jobs in my life but I'm working on it, not all the I.T. work was the same of course, I could go into details. See we don't have all this ability to experiment with whatever job we want if you have to make the rent etc. - it's just not easy to survive in this world (must be nice to experiment without worry over paying bills, but I woke up again today and STILL didn't live in utopia!!!). And working was mostly strongly discouraged when I lived under my parents roof and they paid the bills (I was supposed to focus on school etc. instead - I'd have the rest of my life to work I was always told).
    Except for a few individuals like Chelsea Clinton, I don't think many get the choice of trying on various careers without worrying about making a living. I think it's more a question (in the early years especially) of scratching for what you can get.

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    1. Waitress
    2. Salad Lady (conference center in NM, 5 of us on the salad team making salad to feed 2000 twice a day, before bagged salad days)
    3. Admissions Assistant (College work-study, loved giving campus tours, always wish I'd taken the offer to stay and be an Admissions Counselor)
    4. Cave Guide
    5. Church Recreation Center Associate
    6. Bank Branch Manager
    7. Camp Registrar/Trail Coordinator

    pre #1 should be "Indentured Farm Hand" being the daughter of a farmer I learned many things. If there were jobs to do - we got it done, sometimes there was pay and sometimes there wasn't. Probably the funnest part of the job was selling Christmas Trees. I did get $1 per tree I sold, I remember that. I also got "credit" during harvest time. At 14 and in a farm truck you could, without a license, drive to the grain mill to drop a load. I'd get credit for each run to use at the Farm Store to buy special feed or equipment I needed for my horses.
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    Babysitter/Puppet Show Theater/Magic Show
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    Office boy/odd jobs/property cleaning for real estate management firm
    Construction electrician
    Quality control engineer
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    I have not had 7 employers but maybe had different jobs.

    1. Temp job for a few weeks in high school at publication distribution company.

    2. Clerk for State of Alaska in Oil and Gas Drilling section for about 6 months.

    3. IRS for 31 years. Collection (1 year), Examination (Audit, Review, Classification for about 10 years), Problem Resolution/Taxpayer Advocate (15 years), Customer Service.

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    babysitter/seasonal field worker/cannery worker
    drive-in theater snack bar
    CNA
    bank proof operator
    public health admin assistant
    office manager
    news coordinator
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    babysitter
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