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The TVClubHouse: General Discussions ARCHIVES: 2005 Sep. ~ Nov.: Free Expressions...: How Many Years Have You Worked At Your Current Job? users admin

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Schoolmarm
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02-18-2001

Monday, June 13, 2005 - 6:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Schoolmarm a private message Print Post    
Almost one year at my new job as a music professor and "area head".

Six years at a similar job at a small university.

Before that, four years of grad school, where I had 5 jobs at the same time: piano teacher, church choir director, standardized testing supervisor, youth minister, and Associate Instructor (teaching one or two classes at the university). WHEW!

10.5 years of teaching public school music before that.

Been a church choir director off and on since 1976 (I was still in high school). Been an organist off and on since about 1973, when I was 12. The pastor's daughter and I used to split a service once a month. It was great preparation for me. I had the hard part at the beginning, and it was forever before I actually played the benediction.

Been a piano or organ teacher off and on since about 1977.

When I was in high school, I worked in the kitchen at the 4-H camp in the summer. Spaghetti for 300, anyone?



Marej
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09-20-2002

Monday, June 13, 2005 - 7:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Marej a private message Print Post    
Secretary at a road construction company in MN.

Tiernet
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06-07-2004

Monday, June 13, 2005 - 7:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tiernet a private message Print Post    
20 years on friday... I cant believe it!!!

Legalboxer
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11-17-2003

Monday, June 13, 2005 - 7:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Legalboxer a private message Print Post    
Well for some reason I consider this as my first real job (the legal officer at a human rights org working with 35 laureates in 21 countries) …. Although I did work at the public library at 14 for 4.15/hour (horror horror after the best year volunteering there at 13), and did a summer internship my freshmen year of college at the Naval Surface Warfare Center (working under 5 men who deigned all the cool subs), and I guess web designer for the City of Greensboro’s Finance and Transportation Depts counts in gard school since I was paid, and other minor web design jobs along the way for WAY too low a fee, grad assistant in the political science dept at UNCG, oh and the DOJ paid me at Syracuse to work on the Lockerbie trial for two years (summarizing the daily transcripts for the victims’ families), and I actually got paid to intern at Legal Aid two summers while in law school – and if you call 9800/year to be in Americorps a year a job, then that was decent since I did get to establish and run a nonprofit from scratch and how many get that experience right out of law school… but like I said, I never considered any of those real jobs…..:-)

ohhh almost forgot, i picked strawberreis at a farm when i was 5 - made a quarter a bucket but unfortunately i ate about 3 times as many buckets as i delivered to the foreman that day :-)

Urgrace
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08-19-2000

Monday, June 13, 2005 - 7:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Urgrace a private message Print Post    
Do you think War forgot painter, plumber, coach, caterer, dogwasher, and a few other jobs she handles now?

Grannyg
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05-28-2002

Monday, June 13, 2005 - 7:41 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Grannyg a private message Print Post    
In high school and college, I worked as a lifeguard at our community swimming pool for 6 years. Got married and was a full time mom until the baby started Kindergarten. I went to work at the school where the kids went, as secretary to my best friend who was the principal and was there 13 years. I have been at Hernando Elementary for 7 years in the guidance counselor office. I have raised kids all my life. lol

Twiggyish
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08-14-2000

Monday, June 13, 2005 - 7:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twiggyish a private message Print Post    
I currently teach older adults workplace readiness skills with computers. My job includes promoting, marketing, and planning, as well. I've also taught various software programs over the years at the same place. My program will soon be ending next year due to funding (grants) and I'm moving into family literacy. I truly love working with my seniors and I'll miss them. My new position will also be very rewarding. =)

Urgrace
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08-19-2000

Monday, June 13, 2005 - 7:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Urgrace a private message Print Post    
Congratulations Tiernet! Come on give us a clue at what.

Native_texan
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08-24-2004

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I have been a legal secretary for 25 years, working for 3 firms, the first being for 4-1/2 years, the second for 10 years, and then I took almost a year off. The firm I have been with now for 9 years was established in 1887 and is the oldest law firm in Dallas. I currently work in the ERISA group of our Tax section, but over theyears I have also worked in litigation, real estate, banking, bankruptcy, corporate and family law.

My first real job was at the Dairy Queen making $1.80 per hour. After high school, I did a short stint with an insurance company and hated it. I then worked for Sears for a year, and at a whopping $4.25/hr., paid rent, car payment and insurance, etc., and still had money left over to party.

Landi
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07-29-2002

Monday, June 13, 2005 - 8:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landi a private message Print Post    
i have been working since right after i was born. my mother started me modeling when i was a baby, this went on through the age of 8, until i was in a horrific car accident.

at 9 i became alice in wonderland for children's fairyland in oakland, ca. this lasted for 2 years, and by that time i had the entire book memorized. i worked every weekend during season, and children would come on to hear me recite and have their picture taken. also more modeling for rhodes department store (fairyland's biggest sponsor).

next job wasn't until 15 when i worked christmas time at macy's as a gift wrapper. i did that for the next christmas also. at 18 i worked in the junior's department, did this for 2 years.

at 21, i was a cadet for the alameda county deputy sherrif's. i had been hired because of my young looks to learn how to infiltrate high school's by going undercover to help with drug problems. i lasted until the last week of cadets. THIS WAS NOT FOR ME! but an interesting experience just the same.

then i managed gas stations/convenience marts in alamo, alameda, and concord california off and on for 3 years. i left once to become a mortgage loan processor but the service stations offered too much money to return. i met my husband in march of 1987, and left this job in july of that year.

i started with citicorp designing computer systems. FINALLY something that my education was being used for! i stayed with them until february of 1990 before holly was born.

in 1992 i went back to work designing database systems. this worked for 2 years. too far a commute with a young child.

i started at the place i've been for 11 1/2 years. i work for a family with multiple businesses. a vineyard, lavender farming, olives, a haircutting business, a business that makes liquor guns for casinos/bars, a ranch, multiple real estate developments. etc. etc. etc. i'm the person right under them. the only thing i don't do for them is sign checks. one day i'm doing spreadsheet and database work. the next i'm making hotel and airline reservations. last week i was taking leaf samples off of the grape vines for lab testing, and redesigning one of their online shopping websites. they have afforded me the luxury of working 8-5, no overtime, no weekends, and time to take off to look after my daughter as she was growing up. it's stressful, as you have to deal with every part of their lives, and sometimes are in the middle when they are arguing. i've wanted to do other things, and then they up my salary, and i can't beat that where i live.


Jasper
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09-14-2000

Monday, June 13, 2005 - 8:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jasper a private message Print Post    
20 years for me in insurance/finance with the same company for 13 years and then the past seven when I went to work solely for one broker.

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Monday, June 13, 2005 - 10:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Twenty-nine and a half years and then I retired young five years ago and have just been working at posting at the clubhouse ever since. :-)

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Monday, June 13, 2005 - 11:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
LOL Gracie, yeah I forgot those.

Tiernet
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06-07-2004

Tuesday, June 14, 2005 - 4:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tiernet a private message Print Post    
Follow up on my previous post....

Computer geek at a large transportation company with a red tail working specifically in a large complex revenue accounting system.

Can I retire yet?? Unfortunately not for a long time, but many others are....

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

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Hmm.. well I did lots of babysitting in high school and some at Berkeley, where I went at age 17. I also had a couple of work study positions with a couple of departments.

After I got married at 19 I worked for 18 months as a "Technical Computer" (engineering aide) at Philco-Ford Aeronutronic. Returned to school for the last four quarters and had a work study job during that year in the graduate dept of plant pathology.

After graduation I just had a bachelors in psych but needed a job since hubby was still to finish his BA (and then went on to MA and PhD). The jobs that required a psych major (LOL) were of some, but not great interest, but I spied a notice for Programmer Trainee for the County of Orange. It didn't require anything but highschool and then the ability to (followed by a whole list of abilities).. I thought.. heck I could do that! Took the test, beat out 399 people, got through the interview (they didn't know quite what to think.. I had the test scores and interviewed well, but had dropped the only DP class I'd started.. however, they liked my reason.. that class taught us to keypunch, which would be useful way back then, but the next thing was wiring 407 boards and I thought that wasn't quite what I wanted. Anyway I was one of 5 people hired and later they picked up 4 more.

I worked for the County DP as a trainee, then up the programmer ladder and then they created the programmer analyst position, for 4.5 years. Politics struck and the County decided to do away with what actually was a very well-run department, with excellent standards and procedures, and bring in a facilities manager. The final competitors were EDS (Electronic Data Systems), then of Dallas and then owned by H. Ross Perot.. this was scary since they didn't really consider women to be equals and had strict dress codes, stated that they out did IBM in this area. The other company was CSC, Computer Sciences Corporation, of El Segundo, CA. Fortunately, CSC won the bid and this was actually a good career move (except that I didn't make it long enough for my county retirement to vest.. that took 5 years). CSC had the contract for 7 years and I was there until the end.. titles at CSC were sort of nebulous.. I went from MTS (member of technical staff) B to A to Senior.

Then the contract was up for bids again and this time EDS won! Big underbid. Out of 52 programmers, analysts and systems people only 8 went with EDS, mostly new people or people CSC didn't want. We even snatched a couple of the best operators to get into programming. I was able to jump to a great project in Long Beach (longer drive) that was all online, realtime stuff.. hospital system being developed at and with Long Beach Memorial. I was given the oppotunity to work on Tandem minicomputers for that project. Eventually they moved that group up to El Segundo (even longer commute and it became a product called Infocare and a division called Medical Systems) I was there until the bitter end (bittersweet it was.. it was such a good system but they got out of the business. We did get to see it running at hospitals in Michigan. So that was the end of 13 years with CSC. My next job was with a part of Transamerica that did collateral protection insurance (which protects the lenders of cars, homes, manufactures homes, etc., and does nothing for the owner.. this was also on Tandem minicomputers) and I was there over 7 years.. as it went through spinoff, IPO, new company and eventual sale and move to Texas. And that is when I stopped working, not intentionally, but I was laid off just after my mom died and just before my dad died.. not a great time in my life..

Denecee
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09-05-2002

Friday, June 17, 2005 - 2:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Denecee a private message Print Post    
too long, that's how long, oh, not the question?
let's see, I graduated from college in 1991 and got this job the very day I graduated so that would be 14 yrs exactly.

Karen
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09-07-2004

Thursday, June 23, 2005 - 6:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karen a private message Print Post    
These stories are so cool!

My first job was age 14, I got a job as a 'salad girl' (in common terms, a waitress and prep cook) on a military base that was used as a summer cadet camp. I spent seven summers there, and absolutely loved every minute of it. Spent the next few years in the food service, mostly as a 1st cook / line cook, with a few serving and hostessing stints here and there.

After working two full-time, minimum wage jobs for a while -- the two jobs overlapped when it came to days off, so I ended up doing about six, eight months without a day off at all! -- I literally became quite sick and tired of it all and decided I was worth more. I'd started an applied communications (behind the scenes AV stuff - editing, proofing, page layout, etc.) program at University but was withdrawn when my mom's illness relapsed and I had to go home. I still wanted to work in media somehow, so I faxed a "I don't know much but I need someone to give me a chance" cover letter to every newspaper, ad agency, radio station, you name it in Vancouver asking for a reception position. An advertising agency bit and hired me. They laid me off on my two year anniversary.

After three months unemployed, I found a new reception position at a multi-media studio (website design, interactive CD-ROMs, roadshow presentations, etc.) After two and a half months there, they told me I was too good to be a receptionist and promoted me to Project Manager. Our new receptionist starts on Monday, and I am officially promoted. I've been there five months now. And I haven't looked back once.

Interesting that I fell into an amazing job in my chosen field without having finished my university. Hopefully I'll get back to that one day...

Max
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08-12-2000

Thursday, June 23, 2005 - 6:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Max a private message Print Post    
Karen, doesn't sound like you fell at all -- you took careful aim and fired a salvo until you hit something that worked. GOod for you! :-)

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

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My first job was right out of high school. I worked for a Traffic Consultant. We had clients that we would consolidate their freight with other clients for cheaper transportation. I worked there for 7 years right up until 2 weeks before I had my son. After that, I just couldn't part with him so I began running a daycare and have for 22 years now.

Egbok
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07-13-2000

Thursday, June 23, 2005 - 11:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Egbok a private message Print Post    
27 years as a domestic goddess.

10 years full-time non-clinical side of healthcare private practices, while plugging away at college courses.

10 years part-time in early childhood education and as public school instructional aide, while raising our three kidlets and still plugging away at college courses.

6 years full-time credentialing/re-credentialing 1,000+ physicians in a major hospital setting.

As of July 5th, 1 year full-time/exempt status* in management position as Student Coordinator for Volunteer Services Department in a major hospital setting.
(*Get paid for 40hrs/week but work 45-50hrs/week....the benefits are excellent!!)


Cablejockey
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12-27-2001

Wednesday, September 28, 2005 - 8:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cablejockey a private message Print Post    
I was listening to a radio talk show this morning. The topic was Women can't get along in the workplace. I was shocked by how many women called in to say that its true, they would rather work with men, other women stab each other in the back, are too jealous of each other, are passive aggressive in their work relationships---I was suprised. Men used to make fun of the idea of women working outside the home saying that they can't get along to be productive. Now it sounds like they were right, which is something I cant accept. I have worked for and with women who were impossible, but so were some men. I always thought it was the person's character flaws I couldnt deal with, not their sex.
What do you guys think?


Kimsue
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07-08-2005

Wednesday, September 28, 2005 - 9:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kimsue a private message Print Post    
I concur......

First job was lawn mowing when I was a teen 13 or 14. I did this all through high school. I had 6 lawns to mow every week and would do one or two a day and was paid ten dollars for each mowing. Back then (70's)for a kid to have 60 dollars a week was a lot of money.
I went to work right out of HS for the state of Washington. I worked with developmentally disabled adults teaching daily living skills and vocational training. Did this for 10 years.

Moved to Idaho and worked for the State of Idaho at the State Mental Hospital. I worked in direct care on the admissions ward. Dealt with some very Sick individuals. Did this for 6 years.

Moved to North Idaho and took few years to be home with the kids.

I went back to work at a retirement and Assisted Living Community. 3 years there, HATED THIS JOB!

Stayed home for three more years and I now work as a Greeting Card Merchandiser for American Greetings. I love this job! I set my own hours (within parameters set by the company) and can work around the kids schedules. When my son was sick and in hospital last spring they gave me a month off and didn't even flinch. Just covered my accounts with subs and when I went back to work I got back all my accounts without a problem. I have worked at this job for 3 years now and think I will do this the rest of my life. They pay is only average but the flexibility is great! It definitely works for us.

Essence
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01-12-2002

Wednesday, September 28, 2005 - 5:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Essence a private message Print Post    
I can see where that topic would hold up. I've been on my new job for 3 months. It's been one woman after another warning me about which women I can trust and which women to stay away from. It's a trip. When I first got there, the row that I sit in had so much traffic up and down it, and I finally learned that they were sizing me up... rofl. Now they are warning others against me, and that's hilarious because I don't talk to any of them.