How do you make money?
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Hmm.
Radioshack Employee to Management
Call Center IT Tech at the world's worst call center (my opinion)
Cold Call Phone Sales
Financial Debt Advisor
Security Guard
Medical Transcriptionist/Office Flunkie
Remote Offfice Administrator
Freelance Ad/Advertisement Writer
Accountant -
Call center customer service (during high school)
Hotel receptionist (between high school and college)
Filing clerk and general office bitch (during college)
Receptionist at a nonprofit (after college)
Data entry at accounting office (after college)
Data entry at manufacturing office in HR dept (after college)
Legal transcriptionist (between LSAT and law school)
Appellate court screening intern (during law school)
Medical transcriptionist (between law school and passing the bar)
Associate attorney (onward) -
Forgot the more traditional ones:
- Retail, department store, usually jewelry counter (twice)
- Generic temp
- Business counter slave at CompUSA
- Costume library assistant (this wins best job, hands down, no exceptions, for me)
- Xmas elf
- Community Center Counselor
...I swear all of those really are the more traditional jobs. (No, I did not take the phone sex job, people. I did get it, but I didn't take it, I mean, just not able to keep a straight face after the bugling typo.)
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High School:
Fast food restaurant
Pharmaceuticals
Delivery driver
Specialized group activitiesBig Kid:
Construction(Refractory)
Machinist(robotic assembly and welding, quality control)
Corrections officer; sergeant(medium-to-max security facility); gen pop, seg, mental health, patrol
Collections(student loans)These Days:
Made Man. Stay-at-home dad. I get paid by taking the stress of childcare off my spouse so that she can focus on her career as a financial rock star. -
From days of yore onwards:
Outbound call center for customer satisfaction and scientific surveys
Pizza dude
Staff at a rehab school for "troubled" teens
Deli guy in a grocery store
Several factory temp jobs
Administrator for another rehab school
Classy shoe sales guy
Night security for an extended-stay hotel
Photo lab tech
Electronics department drudge
Shift supervisor at a doggie daycare
Electronics department drudge 2: the drudgening
Home Depot call center rep
USAA call center rep
Dispatch supervisor for a Medicaid patient transportation network...My resume is just fucking bazonkers.
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Babysitting
Snow shoveling
SO MUCH BABYSITTING (sidenote: Why leave an 11 year old with a baby?!)
Can collection
Odd jobs
Cleaning
Fast Food
AmeriCorps!
Video Store
Customer Service/Sales for Student Loans
Student loan consolidation
Administration
HR
LMT
HR
Sold Princess House
Worked as a presser in a dry cleaners
Cooked for peopleMan I'm forgetting things.
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Pretty much in order
-> Janitorial duties at a martial arts school <more for a break on classes than actual pay - so might not count>
-> Librarian/Library assistant
-> Bookstore operations
-> Warehouse... stuff.
-> Video store counterjockey
-> General retail counterjockey
-> General retail assistant manager
-> Photolab digital imaging manager
-> Field technican (Everything from AV setup to server/network engineering)
-> Call center
-> Business systems analyst.
-> Network security administrator -
So many replies, but no answers. Come on!
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I wasn't sure where else to put this...
...but any of you who have used Patreon, what's your experience?
I've considered starting one. I do a lot of short story / flash for school. Stuff that gets filed away either for the portfolio I'm building or to just sort of gather digital dust.
But would people actually be interested in helping support my poor ass in exchange for random written word shit?
I'm in this weird spot. If it was someone else, I'd be like 'Yes, written word has just as much validity as visual art or music and people succeed with Patreon for those all the time!' But because it's me it's like 'is my writing even worth that?'
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I've always thought about setting up a short story website and have a little patreon button if people feel like chipping in. I'd probably just fill it with NPCs and setting information that I use for my tabletop game, though.
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Mm. Before I became a lawyer, I was the following, in no particular order:
- Summer Camp Counselor.
- Assistant Summer Camp Director.
- Summer Camp Director.
- Volunteer Coordinator ... for a summer camp.
- Volunteer Coordinator ... for an outdoor science camp.
In between, I was also:
- Coffee and donut manufacturer, and part-time toilet cleaner.
- Popcorn and ticket-taking slave.
- A waiter ... just not the one hot enough for you to tip properly, which led to me getting fired because I wasn't hot enough.
- Systems and scheduling analyst for an engineering firm ... which I was totally unqualified for.
- Wal-Mart motherfucker. (You know who I'm talking about: one of those dipshits in "Seasonal.")
- Lifeguard and swim instructor.
- Summer science school instructor.
And then, I became a:
- Assistant prosecutor ... that did nothing but tax foreclosures.
- Pirate attorney, where I currently sail the high seas of litigation looking for booty.
There's a whole lot of volunteer experience in here, but I didn't get paid for it. (Duh.)
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I'd tip you!
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@mietze said in How do you make money?:
I'd tip you!
For that tip, I would do very, very bad things to you. True Blood ain't got nothing on me.
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I'm in!
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First job: McDonalds, drive-thru specialist. Yeah this is a thing. Not everyone has the chops to keep the drive-thru going. I'd periodically work the front or grill just for a change, but my go-to position was taking drive-thru orders. This job honestly defined my work ethic. It was my first real, real friends, too.
Second job: Robinsons May sales associate, women's shoes.
Third Job: Macy's sales associate, women's shoes.
Fourth Job: Macy's sales associate, men's shoes. Oh my god the sanity.
Fifth job: Tech Support.
Sixth and current job: Developer, small software company. -
Man, I feel like I have a boring employment history:
High School: Fast Food
College: Stocking Shelves at Store & College Dish Room.
Adult:
Middle School Teacher
Current:
Program Director at an Education Non-Profit - which is a fancy way to say that I do lots of stuff and get paid very little. -
Junior High/High School: I was essentially a free nanny for the lady that gave birth to me.
Summer after High School: switchboard operator in the main bakery plant for a local chain of bakeries.
College: Bakery staff in one of the retail outlets for said bakery/deli staff in a local supermarket chain.
Not-College: Phone operator at an answering service that also monitored burglar alarms for a couple of small local alarm companies. Receptionist in a salon. Cashier at a car wash that was likely mob-associated.
Not-College but after I got a clue: Optician and volunteer DJ.
Career: College radio marketing manager for Cleopatra Records/associated license-acts.
Bump in career after having to leave Hollywood: Optician. AA for an ISP that mostly was a network provider for businesses, not consumers.
Return to career after moving to Chicago: Classified ad rep for Digital Chicago Magazine. Office manager for two different web development firms. Marketing associate for Invisible Records/Underground Inc.
Now: Parent. I let my husband bring in the big bucks while I luxuriate in avoiding this year's crop of bitches on the PTA. It's a tough gig, but someone's gotta do it.
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This seems like the best spot for this...
Courses at Udemy are $10 today. There's a shit-ton of stuff there. I'm mostly looking at the programming languages, myself. Picking up one on Python and one for C#.
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I'm a professional chef. Haven't always been, but my list of work prior to professional chef is a long one and a lot less interesting.
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Mentioning Chefs makes me miss cheesegrater.
