Who, What, Where and When? August 04, 2018, 10:03:38 pm I'm new and I don't know anything about anybody on here, so I thought maybe I'd try to rectify that by asking everyone to answer 2 questions. (c'mon, please please please)1) What was your first job and the year you started it?and 2) What is your current job --- or ---- what was your last job. ?Additional info and side stories are most welcome!!! 1 Likes
Re: Who, What, Where and When. Reply #1 – August 04, 2018, 10:39:54 pm First job laminator/outfitter at Marlin Ski and Drag Boats in 1976.Last job was lead man at Boeing making wing skins. Retired 3 years ago. 2 Likes
Re: Who, What, Where and When. Reply #2 – August 04, 2018, 11:01:08 pm My first job was selling cigarettes at age 15 at Skaggs!My current job is as a physician. 4 Likes
Re: Who, What, Where and When. Reply #3 – August 04, 2018, 11:17:40 pm First job - dishwasher at The Fireside Restaurant (Westminster, CA)Current job - CFO, Mad Engine In between - CFO in Action Sports companies 3 Likes
Re: Who, What, Where and When? Reply #4 – August 04, 2018, 11:51:16 pm I'm new here, too.First job other than self-employed odd jobs: Clean up crew at a cement plant (1974).Last job (now retired): Senior Applications Developer at an Ivy.Got our first and only LD in 2003 (2003 MB). We had never driven or spent the night in an RV before we picked up our LD. We put 65,000 miles on it in the first 5 years (many long trips with 5 kids!), but only 18,000 or so in the last 10 years. We are picking up the pace again, now that I'm retired. 2 Likes
Re: Who, What, Where and When? Reply #5 – August 05, 2018, 09:11:37 am 1) What was your first job and the year you started it?Oh my ..... first job - I was born and raised on a farm. Family was dirt poor farmers in the deep south. <smile> First paying job at around age 14 or so was cleaning out septic tank outflow pipe for 10 cent a joint. Bare handed, no safety equipment after all this was the 50's. 2) What is your current job --- or ---- what was your last job. ?Last job --- Manager of Radiation Therapy Sales and Product Support for a large international company. I.E. chief cat wangler. Beleive me when I say radiation physicists are a strange and independent group. 3 Likes
Re: Who, What, Where and When? Reply #6 – August 05, 2018, 09:46:11 am Quote from: topcat69 - August 04, 2018, 11:51:16 pmI'm new here, too.First job other than self-employed odd jobs: Clean up crew at a cement plant (1974).Last job (now retired): Senior Applications Developer at an Ivy.Got our first and only LD in 2003 (2003 MB). We had never driven or spent the night in an RV before we picked up our LD. We put 65,000 miles on it in the first 5 years (many long trips with 5 kids!), but only 18,000 or so in the last 10 years. We are picking up the pace again, now that I'm retired.TOP CAT!!! Loved Top Cat!!What is an Ivy? 1 Likes
Re: Who, What, Where and When? Reply #7 – August 05, 2018, 09:49:35 am Quote from: alphpup - August 04, 2018, 11:01:08 pmMy first job was selling cigarettes at age 15 at Skaggs!My current job is as a physician. That's a classic!! I'm old enuf to remember teachers and doctors smoking on the job and picking up a pack of cigarettes for my mother, for 15 cents, at age 6. Its a wonder any of us survived!! 3 Likes
Re: Who, What, Where and When? Reply #8 – August 05, 2018, 10:17:50 am First job (which lasted only one month - couldn't stand it) Plumber's Helper - July 1965 - $1.00/hr.Last (full-time) job - Founding Chairman of an Academic unit at a University - retired age 55 2 Likes
Re: Who, What, Where and When? Reply #9 – August 05, 2018, 10:25:50 am Soda Jerk 1951-52Marine Corps '53- '60Air Force '60-'74Electronic Tech, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) '76-'94Twice Retired! 3 Likes
Re: Who, What, Where and When? Reply #10 – August 05, 2018, 10:31:27 am Great idea for a thread. First paying job for me, 15 years old at local newspaper, answering phones and filing. Last job receptionist/purchaser at a IG glass plant til the market tanked for homes. Currently "on call grandma" babysitter & elder care.In between, wife, mom, business owner, scout leader, licensed contractor, painter, DIY just about anything from wedding cakes to houses. 3 Likes
Re: Who, What, Where and When? Reply #11 – August 05, 2018, 10:37:27 am Quote from: Alice - August 04, 2018, 10:03:38 pmI'm new and I don't know anything about anybody on here, so I thought maybe I'd try to rectify that by asking everyone to answer 2 questions. (c'mon, please please please)1) What was your first job and the year you started it?and 2) What is your current job --- or ---- what was your last job. ?Additional info and side stories are most welcome!!!How do we know you are not a Russian data collector? Or maybe you work for Facebook?I work for the CIA, by the way . . . 2 Likes
Re: Who, What, Where and When? Reply #12 – August 05, 2018, 11:19:02 am 1) What was your first job and the year you started it? Paperboy for the Stars and Stripes, Wheelus AFB Libya 1965. The delivery franchise was owned by a Libyan national. I made a penny for every 3 papers delivered. At the same age my father made more at the same age during the great depression. Still I learned a lot about customer service and getting up early.2) What is your current job --- or ---- what was your last job?Find new ways to enjoy retirement. Before that worked at Dept of Justice Command Center as one of 10 Watch Officers, 1986-2011. It was a interesting time and a place. 2 Likes
Re: Who, What, Where and When? Reply #13 – August 05, 2018, 11:56:09 am Ok, I’ll bite.1st Job: Paper Boy 1964 (there is going to be one heck of a Paper Boy Reunion at the next GTG.Current/Last Job: Senior Maintenance Technician for a large commercial printing company. 3 more days to go. Plenty of other jobs in between.Next Job: Mowing the lawn, Waxing the LD and Lead Needle Counter under the pines.Kent 6 Likes
Re: Who, What, Where and When? Reply #14 – August 05, 2018, 11:57:47 am Quote from: Kent Heckethorn - August 05, 2018, 11:56:09 amOk, I’ll bite.1st Job: Paper Boy 1964 (there is going to be one heck of a Paper Boy Reunion at the next GTG.Current/Last Job: Senior Maintenance Technician for a large commercial printing company. 3 more days to go. Plenty of other jobs in between.Next Job: Mowing the lawn, Waxing the LD and Lead Needle Counter under the pines.KentCongrats, Kent! Where and when is the party going to be? 1 Likes
Re: Who, What, Where and When? Reply #15 – August 05, 2018, 12:08:04 pm First job: picking strawberries in 100 degree heat near Modesto, Ca., circa 1961. Lasted one day. Went on to halve and de-pit peaches in a dried fruit cannery. Same heat, fuzzy and bloody hands, but no stooping. Final ag job was collecting overripe melons of overwhelming stench (same heat) for their seeds. I since have had a lifelong respect for those who labor harvesting our crops. Final job: (sigh) attorney. Sooooo happy to have been retired and LDing for the last dozen years! The better half, Loni, started as a waitress and finished teaching transfusion medicine to aspiring docs and co-managing the UCLA hospital blood bank. Yup, she’s the smart one. 😉. — Jon 4 Likes
Re: Who, What, Where and When? Reply #16 – August 05, 2018, 12:21:00 pm First Job: Stockboy and clerk in liquor store - 1975, age 16 (you don't have to be 21 to sell, just to buy in CA).Current Job: Full-time Dad to 9 1/2 year old twin girls. Yeah, do the math Mike S.'06 30' TB Anniversary Edition 3 Likes
Re: Who, What, Where and When? Reply #17 – August 05, 2018, 12:36:33 pm "3 more days to go"Definitely Congratulations Kent! I know you have been waiting for this one for a long time!and yes us Paperboys are out there!I started for the Greenwich Time in 1963 at 15 cents a week per delivery family, on a bike, my route was 6 to 8 miles long but after school in rain or shine! Karen~Liam 98 ~ MB 2 Likes
Re: Who, What, Where and When? Reply #18 – August 05, 2018, 12:37:45 pm What a great thread - current/former jobs! We pick up little bits about each other as time goes on, but I am always astounded at the great minds that inhabit our little world here.I'm embarrassed to have so little to say, but apart from babysitting from age 12, my first job at 17, was as an NCR bookkeeping machine operator at a Public Accounting office. The machines were about six feet wide if you count the carriage. Seemed normal at the time. We got one of the very first Xerox machines (1961) in Miami. The installer and repairman had to come from Atlanta!Most of my work career was spent as a medical secretary at the University of Miami School of Medicine, and the last 8.5 years were at Apple Computer in Cupertino, California.I'm certainly glad not to be in the workforce today. I've been away for 25 years and not likely to be able to cope with what I read about these days.Virtual hugs,Judie <-- Sierra Vista, ArizonaAdventures of Dorrie Anne | Photographing the WestToday: Pizza? Never on Monday or Tuesday************************************** 4 Likes
Re: Who, What, Where and When? Reply #19 – August 05, 2018, 01:37:09 pm 1) 1950 (9 years old) paper route2) 1963~1967 US Air Force3) 1968~2000 Printed circuit designerenjoying retirement these days.... 3 Likes
Re: Who, What, Where and When? Reply #20 – August 05, 2018, 01:47:45 pm (there is going to be one heck of a Paper Boy Reunion)You know that "answering the phone job at the newspaper", it was to take the calls from customers who's paperboy didn't deliver to them. LOL We were an evening paper and my job was to stay late and it was specifically to be there to take those calls while doing filing for the advertising department. And while I was there we got the NEW IBM Selectric typewriters. But the paper was still hand set with lead and pictures were made from casts poured into paper board molds. I filed the molds. 3 Likes
Re: Who, What, Where and When? Reply #21 – August 05, 2018, 01:58:36 pm For Kent... I saw this at a Northeast LD meet... (it is not my rig though) 10 Likes
Re: Who, What, Where and When? Reply #22 – August 05, 2018, 02:41:09 pm First job would be at Hot Dog on a Stick (yes, with the funny hats!). That would have been 1984 or so. I swore after that I would never work food service again, a promise I managed to keep. I've done office work in various and sundry places, including being a paperwork monkey at a mortuary, and ended up getting into medical billing and collections. Which is what I did for almost 20 years. Not working right now, circumstances have allowed me to retire a little early 1 Likes
Re: Who, What, Where and When? Reply #23 – August 05, 2018, 02:42:33 pm I was also a paper boy. Worked at Dodger stadium in the ticket office in the seventies and eighties. Was a Physical Education teacher/coach from ‘71-2009. Retired. Living the dream!Dale from Downey. 2 Likes
Re: Who, What, Where and When? Reply #24 – August 05, 2018, 03:46:41 pm Quote from: Judie Ashford - August 05, 2018, 12:37:45 pmWhat a great thread - current/former jobs! We pick up little bits about each other as time goes on, but I am always astounded at the great minds that inhabit our little world here.I'm embarrassed to have so little to say, but apart from babysitting from age 12, my first job at 17, was as an NCR bookkeeping machine operator at a Public Accounting office. The machines were about six feet wide if you count the carriage. Seemed normal at the time. We got one of the very first Xerox machines (1961) in Miami. The installer and repairman had to come from Atlanta!Most of my work career was spent as a medical secretary at the University of Miami School of Medicine, and the last 8.5 years were at Apple Computer in Cupertino, California.I'm certainly glad not to be in the workforce today. I've been away for 25 years and not likely to be able to cope with what I read about these days.Virtual hugs,Judie <-- Sierra Vista, ArizonaAdventures of Dorrie Anne | Photographing the WestToday: Pizza? Never on Monday or Tuesday**************************************Hey! You were no slouch!! I'd last about 5 minutes doing medical billing then you'd find me sitting in a corner rocking back and forth and mumbling billing codes. We just won't discuss the idea of me doing anything with computers besides use them, nothing good to see there, <grin>. I definitely hear you about not being able to cope with work and the public these days.I am proud of my career in LE and I loved it 99.9% of the time, but if I had a daughter, I'd sacrifice her to the volcano gods before I let her be a police officer.
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