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Offline Flipside

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In my life I have been......
A Shop hand in an Italian Delicatessan
A Delicatessan assistant at a Supermarket.
An Avionics trainee at Farnborough Airbase
A Dropout
A labourer in a warehouse
An Administrative officer with the Metropolitan Police.
A Finance company swipe-card organiser.
A Wire salesman
A Lorry Loader in a clothing company.
And an administrator/trainee-watcher in a Training Establishment for youths.

Anyone else?

A bit spammy, but hey, it makes a change from politics :)

 

Offline aldo_14

  • Gunnery Control
  • 213
In my life I have been......
Shelf stacker (twice), Burger flipper (for 3 whole shifts before chucking it), lazy arsed student.

:D

EDIT; and a till monkey

EDIT2:  Oh, and a lab-supervisor-cum-tutor thingie, which doesn;t really count as it was for a subject which was pathetically easy and which virtually no-one turned up for (and sure as hell didn't need to ask questions over)
« Last Edit: April 16, 2004, 02:00:22 pm by 181 »

 

Offline Flipside

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In my life I have been......
LOL You probably lasted 2 1/2 shifts more than I would have ;)

 

Offline J3Vr6

  • 28
In my life I have been......
I've been:

A Kentucky Fried Chicken cook (lasted 3 days)
Door-to-door fine china/water filter/pots & pans salesman
Toy store salesperson
Pack-n-ship store salesperson
Pack-n-ship store manager
Pack-n-ship store  regional manager
Pack-n-ship store new owner trainer
Notary Public
Administrative assistant (a guy way of saying secretary)
Real estate salesperson
Mortgage broker
Associate in a Development company

And now:

Assistant Vice President, acquisitions and finance of development co., which I'm currently doing.
"I wanna drink til I'm drunk, and smoke til I'm senseless..."
-Tricky

"Hey barkeep, who's leg do I have to hump to get a dry martini around here?"
-Brian, Family Guy

 

Offline Taristin

  • Snipes
  • 213
  • BlueScalie
    • Skelkwank Shipyards
In my life I have been......
Hmm...

a sandwich artiste (;)) at a deli
a cashier at a toy store
a shipper at a skydiving equipment store until I kept shipping things to the wrong addresses :nervous:
a cashier at a supermarket, and again at another supermarket and now front end manager at the latter
a student
err... a modder to a 5 year old space combat game?
Freelance Modeler | Amateur Artist

 

Offline Kazan

  • PCS2 Wizard
  • 212
  • Soul lives in the Mountains
    • http://alliance.sourceforge.net
In my life I have been......
hmmm

detassler (1 year worker, 4 years supervisor ... it's a summer thing)
inserter (inserts adds into newspapers)
non-commission sales (sears men's)
comission sales (sears electronics)
call center caller (non profit org.. still sucked arse)
webmaster DOE Ameslab
PCS2 2.0.3 | POF CS2 wiki page | Important PCS2 Threads | PCS2 Mantis

"The Mountains are calling, and I must go" - John Muir

 

Offline vyper

  • 210
  • The Sexy Scotsman
In my life I have been......
Suit salesman at Slater Menswear (lasted 3 month)
Temporary IT contract with Uni - JISC Project (4 month)
Envelope Stuffer for uni (19 hours :lol:)
"But you live, you learn.  Unless you die.  Then you're ****ed." - aldo14

 

Offline Liberator

  • Poe's Law In Action
  • 210
In my life I have been......
a stocker/bagger at a local grocery store - 6 months - they canned me and didn't tell me
a cashier at a building supply - 18 months
a floor associate at the same building supply - 30 months - I had to be released, I would never have quit.
a grunt at a local newspaper - this lasted all of 4 days
a floor associate at K-Mart - ~90 days - they canned me and didn't tell me.
So as through a glass, and darkly
The age long strife I see
Where I fought in many guises,
Many names, but always me.

There are only 10 types of people in the world , those that understand binary and those that don't.

 

Offline Gank

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In my life I have been......
Pot washer
apple picker - 3 months in holland
Night shift in a factory
plasterers labourer

lots of other ****ty jobs that I didnt last long enough in to list

 

Offline Dark_4ce

  • GTVA comedy relief
  • 27
In my life I have been......
Alright. Here goes:

Flipping Pizzas
Flowershop Worker
Army Cook
Airplane Food Cook
TV/Film/media Teacher
Internal Mall Comercial Controller
Director for Short films/Documentaries/commercials/internal market video/fitness videos
Actor for short films/TV/commercials
Producer for short films/documentaries/commercials/internal market video/wedding videos/Fitness Videos
Editor for short films/documentaries/commercials/wedding videos/fitness videos
Games Workshop Outrider
Soundtrack mixer for fitness LIVE shows

Hmm, thats about it. :D
I have returned... Again...

 

Offline Petrarch of the VBB

  • Koala-monkey
  • 211
In my life I have been......
General assistant/slave/till monkey in some dodgy "Discount Store" - 3 months
Chamberlad at a Holiday Inn - 5 months
Lazy bastard - 16 years

 

Offline Darkage

  • CRAZY RENDER RABBIT
  • 211
In my life I have been......
Dish cleaner at a butcher- 20 months
Macanic for alarm systems- vacation job 5 weeks
KPN Repair engineer for mobile phones- 6 months
Shelf Stacker at supermarket- 18 months ( dumped  it )
Curently: Inhouse Repair Engineer. Repairing mainly monitors from Sun Micro Systems. And sun computers.
[email protected]
Returned from the dead.

 

Offline Tiara

  • Mrs. T, foo'!
  • 210
In my life I have been......
Quote
Originally posted by Gank
apple picker - 3 months in holland

You've worked in Holand? :D As an apple picker no less :p

Where?
I AM GOD! AND I SHALL SMITE THEE!



...because I can :drevil:

 

Offline ionia23

  • 26
  • "YES, I did finally see 'The Matrix' 12 years late
In my life I have been......
A garbage man
A Telemarketer
A Delivery driver
a tech support rep
a secretary
a .net developer
a sql developer
an e-commerce specialist
a musician
"Why does it want me to say my name?"

 

Offline 01010

  • 26
In my life I have been......
A dosser doing a series of meaningless and unfulfilling jobs until my place in the sun awaits me.

I would say I'm a musician, but I'm not really very good at it, yet.
« Last Edit: April 16, 2004, 03:20:28 pm by 784 »
What frequency are you getting? Is it noise or sweet sweet music? - Refused - Liberation Frequency.

 

Offline Zuljin

  • 25
  • Cake!
In my life I have been......
Hard working student: 9 years
Lazy no good student: 3 last years
lazy bastard: 18 years
Gamer: not really sure, when I discovered the glories of amiga and nes :D which would be around...13 years

(yes I know, I SHOULD get a job)

 

Offline Singh

  • Hasn't Accomplished Anything Special Or Notable
  • 211
  • Degrees of guilt.
In my life I have been......
my lifes been a bit short, so this list is naturally short :P

A JC dropout (actually, I was through the whole course, but failed at the end)
3 Months as a Customer Service Associate (Good Morning, Thank you for calling orderline, may I have you reference number please? ACK, just ACK!!)
and now 6 months as a clerk in the army :D
"Blessed be the FREDder that knows his sexps."
"Cursed be the FREDder that trusts FRED2_Open."
Dreamed of much, accomplished little. :(

 

Offline Sheepy

  • Raises Hell
  • 29
  • Mac User
In my life I have been......
A paper boy
A lackey at (plant) nursery
A Pizza Maker
A Computer Monkey for powergen
A Till Monkey for Forbuoys
A Till Monkey for Co-op
And during most of this a Graphics Student for 4 years

Things I plan to do next (academic) year

A snowboarder and part time Chalet Boy
A Bum
And back to the student Uni life at the end
Kiss my Fluffy White Ass!

 

Offline Rictor

  • Murdered by Brazilian Psychopath
  • 29
In my life I have been......
aw jeez, this is gonna be a short list

part time/volunteer/contract/something repair monkey at computer tech store
colourist for a children's book - 1 week
flyer boy and newspaper boy, but that was like 5-6 years ago

full time slacker/thinker/dreamer/gamer

 

Offline HotSnoJ

  • Knossos Online!
  • 29
    • http://josherickson.org
In my life I have been......
Paperboy
Student
Part-time plumber (well not really, I do go with my dad sometimes and sorta know some ropes. ;))
Volunteer at various things.
I have big plans, now if only I could see them through.

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