You know I dug graves once. I sort of moved from that for a number of reasons… I was being promoted into the house where you sit and sell grave plots, partially cause they liked me, partially cause I was going to be fired (we bought a backhoe)…. They needed three before the backhoe. Once they had that, they only needed two and the guys had been there for decades before I came in.
I left because, beyond being one of toughest communication issues and challenging sales ideas, it felt really weird finding old sick people, establishing an empathic and heartfelt connection with them, and then try to sell them something about death.
Freaked me out. I then painted houses till I fell off a roof twice in one day.
So I worked in tech support for a bit.
I have had at least 20 or 30 real, different jobs. Radio intern, pharmacist, etc. I think I did all the radical changes young.
I have forgotten many jobs. I will update as my mind reawakens.
Jobs:
9 – stockboy in hotel bar
10- updating and maintaining computers in my pops office
12-15 – normal paper / lawn cutting stuff
13-16 – babysitting
14-17 – temp jobs:Â accounting in holistic pharmaceutical company, shipping receiving for a networking company, filing for BofA
18 – 20 – SAT sample test administrator, morning show intern on hip FM SF Bay radio station, room service attendant in 1000 room hotel, DJ at college radio station
21-22 – stockboy in pharmacy, cashier in drug store, house painter, technical support for interactive media firm, gravedigger, busboy in restaurants, dishwasher
21- 24 – bouncer, barback, bartender, server, bar manager, banquets captain, set break banquet crew, banquet manager, front desk supervisor, expeditor #1 zaggat survey restaurant, line cook, prep cook, garmanger!
24 – 26 – Niteclub General Manager in 1000 room hotel.. bar and restaurant and hip nitespot in LA
26-28 – Front Desk Manager at 380 room, FDM at 165 room.
28-30 – Consultant and Project Coordinator for the finest hospitality firm on the planet!!!!