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there's a frog in my snake oil
Nice stories y'all, and some cool jobs in there too.

Love the way you make a dump-run sound poetic OGster.

Anonymous, d'you get to delve thru a back catalogue of audio-description-for-the-blind DVDs then or what?

To be fair tho, i think froggy just won the most-ecclectic-jobs award for these three alone...

Originally Posted by chicagofrog
private teacher of Welsh in Riga, Latvia
cook in a Tibetan restaurant, Normandy, France
teacher in Martial Arts (Jiu-Jitsu, Thai-Boxing, and NHB) in Berlin, Germany
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My chequered career looks like this...

-paper boy and enemy of small yappy dogs
-'Editorial Assistant' during 2 weeks work experience at News International (publishers of The Times, The Sun and other dubious rags)
-'Admin Assistant' at a hospital in North London
-Market Researcher (you have been categorised C2...)
-'Care Assistant' (giant-diaper-changer like 2wrongs)
-English teacher to internationals (and 'psychological interventionist' teacher for 18 months at the Uni of Seville - or at least, that's what i called it)

Now...

-'Production Assistant' at a lesser-known film mag none of y'all will have heard of (tho our distribution is set to expand to include a supermarket chain soon. Yay. The fame ).

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Some little stories:

-While working on a ward in a hospital....

I got a phone call which went...
*Have you seen an old guy in a red jumper and green trousers?
*nope
*Well, if you do, don't approach him, he's dangerous.

We seemed to lose people quite regularly at that place. At one point a family turned up, with their Imam as translator, to see their husband/father. He hadn't been there for the two weeks I'd been on that ward, but the computers claimed he had. (In defence of the hospital, i blame the family a bit for not visiting for two weeks . I do really hope they found him tho).

-While working in an old people's home...

Our manager/staff-nurse was mad mad mad, and incompetent. She was the type who'd be all sweetness and light when asking advice from an old-experienced nurse about paperwork, but would then go 'Of course I know that you eejut, get back to work" when she got what she wanted.

At one of our weekly meetings she was telling us about this new patient, who had to be moved every 15 mins or so coz of her pressure sores. I could see that very patient signalling that she really needed to be moved. I interrupted the staff nurse and told her. She said "She can wait, we're in the middle of a meeting", or words to that effect, and carried on emphasising how we must be ever-attentive to that patients needs, and assist her immediately .

But hey, any job where you get your thighs grabbed on the first day can't be all that bad

While working as a Market Researcher...

-Let's just say that the worst call ever was to a guy on a list of people who'd had specialist double-glazing fitted (man did that guy like to answer questions). The best call was to a woman who described the episode of star trek currently on the tele to me, and got me up to speed on the last few progs (that's how bad that job was ).

...woa, that's enough rambling for now.
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Originally Posted by Golgot
-'Care Assistant' (giant-diaper-changer like 2wrongs)
We get no respect, money or luvin'. However of all my jobs, that was the one I did the longest. Kids make each day completely different from one day to the next. Am I right?
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Originally Posted by Golgot
Anonymous, d'you get to delve thru a back catalogue of audio-description-for-the-blind DVDs then or what?
I tried to watch some of those dvd's and it ticked me off.

This boring voice in the background telling you everything that's going on in the film. It annoyed the niceness out of me...but only for a second.
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Currently, I get paid to post here.
ha!
Ostensibly, I work for an AIDS healthcare organization, arranging funding for and processing referrals to specialists for AIDS patients who have no insurance. I also investigate to make sure they actually have no insurance - fraud is rampant in this community.

IN the past...
  • first job: age 10, my parent's restaraunt. I stood on an inverted milk crate and ran the cash register.
  • seedling transplanter in a green house (most boring job imagineable, an ape could be trained to do that job in under 5 minutes)
  • waitress in a chicken dinner restaraunt (my home town, Barberton, Ohio, is the Chicken Dinner Capital of the World. I am not kidding.)
  • jewelry salesperson in the maul
  • nanny to a rich family in Washington DC for 2 days
  • acting in children's theater. (First role: a rat grotesque in Beauty and the Beast. Later married The Beast.)
  • janitor/renovations coordinator for above theater (hadn't been cleaned properly since Vaudeville died. Pleah!)
  • floral designer
  • sold guns and sporting goods at Kmart
  • scenic artist (stage and video backdrops)
  • actress again, on and off for 15 years (longish resume, stage and on-camera, V.O.s, etc)
  • singer
  • Drive-through girl at Taco Hell
  • bookkeeper/administrative assistant in marketing firm, same in home improvement company
  • started an interactive murder mystery company (wrote, acted, did special effects, marketing) now in their 15th season, performed with 3 other companies who did the same
  • jewelry designer/maker
  • Marketing/Admissions Coordinator for a nursing home
  • life insurance salesperson (knocked on doors in Compton, Watts, etc.)


I think that's about it...
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Originally Posted by SamsoniteDelilah
sold guns and sporting goods at Kmart


Rad!



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Sam, you worked at Taco Bell?

I got into some huge trouble at a Taco Bell.



-and I once got busy in a Burger King bathroom-



Standing in the Sunlight, Laughing
Yep, I worked there during the off-season when I was doing summer stock. It's a glamorous life I lead...

You got busy... and washed your hands? <blink, blink>

What trouble did you find at Taco Bell??



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Originally Posted by Anonymous Last
-and I once got busy in a Burger King bathroom-
You go Humpty Dump.



there's a frog in my snake oil
Originally Posted by 2wrongs
We get no respect, money or luvin'. However of all my jobs, that was the one I did the longest. Kids make each day completely different from one day to the next. Am I right?
I was dealing with the older end of the nappy-needing scale. But they kept things ticking too. There was a mad old Welsh guy who spoke eight languages (and would make passes at the German nurse), an ex headmistress who was kind of lost in time and would think you were a flight-lietenant one sentence and a bus-conductor the next (once you learned to go with the flow you could really cheer her up. "Yes madam, that'll be fifty pee.... I think the shrubberies are sold next to the rubber plants... Would you excuse me, I have to go and parachute onto Belgravia [here's the soup you ordered, by the way]" etc).

A lot of sadness there too, especially as the sparky ones drifted away, but it felt good to do something for them (and **** to prolong the life of those who were in constant pain and begged to be 'let go', if they could speak at all. But there you go). It was a well-run place at least, paid for by a christian foundation to help out people with both physical and mental delapidation. The "meat-market"/conveyor-belt" variety of places i worked in briefly were much worse.

Originally Posted by Anonymous Last
I tried to watch some of those dvd's and it ticked me off.

This boring voice in the background telling you everything that's going on in the film. It annoyed the niceness out of me...but only for a second.
What, you can't switch it off? Damn. There goes all the fun out of piggy-backing on good-intentions .



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Originally Posted by SamsoniteDelilah
Yep, I worked there during the off-season when I was doing summer stock. It's a glamorous life I lead...

You got busy... and washed your hands? <blink, blink>

What trouble did you find at Taco Bell??
I always keep my hands clean!

I was flirting with this girl at the soda fountain and her boyfriend did not like it...and then trouble winked at me when it walked through the door.

I didn't even get to finish my steak soft taco.



Originally Posted by 2wrongs
You go Humpty Dump.
It's pronounced with a Umpty.



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Originally Posted by Anonymous Last
It's pronounced with a Umpty.
How 'bout we skip the formalities and I just call you Dump?



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Can I call you Jane?



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um....
sure?


Jack.



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history *is* moralizing
and where's Jill?
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You tell me, Chicagoplaya!



Wow- you've all had some extraordinary experiences. Yeah so I don't work. Don't even have a summer job. I just babysit now and then. I do have a standing offer to be an errands runner at my neighbors firm. He's a lawyer and he just built a very nice large office for his private firm. That wouldn't be so bad.
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Right. Here's my list of jobs- my HUGE list that I have compiled over the years... Grab a bag of popcorn, coz it's gonna be an epic...It's that long...

- Used to work (voluntarily) at a radio station and had my own programme.
- Worked in an engineering company handling Purchase Orders, but quit due to a big dumb blonde bitch trog woman for a supervisor.
- Am now working in a shipping container depot and raking the $$$s in...

Hmmm. Not as long as I thought it'd be...




Can I have your left over popcorn? I'm hungry.......
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Originally Posted by Chef Brian
Can I have your left over popcorn? I'm hungry.......
hei! THAT is yr job, a chef like you...
what can a chef like you prepare us for dinner with popcorn and some secret ingredients?