Your career history

[Adenauer]

So, Merc Man's post on the "I'm too good to be in Telesales" thread made me wonder, it'll be interesting to see what people have done with their lives, work wise. I'll start

Deck Chair Attendant
Washer up in a hotel
Picked turnips out of the ground for a food producer
Worked in a toy shop (head of the model railway and RC Models Dept)
Did a three year management trainee course in a plastics factory, starting by cleaning the bogs and night shifts shop floor work, ending in sales (wearing a suit)
Export Manager for a plastic processing machinery company
Major Accounts Manager for a plastic processing machinery company
Product Manager for an international plastics manufacturer
European Major Accounts Manager for an automotive trim supplier
Director of a plastics manufacturer
The end

Edited by Adenauer on Thursday 15th May 11:28

Edited by Adenauer on Thursday 15th May 11:29

[krap]

Do you have a plastic fetish?

[Adenauer]

krap said:

Do you have a plastic fetish?

Is it that obvious?

[Einion Yrth]

Adenauer said:

krap said:

Do you have a plastic fetish?

Is it that obvious?

I thought it was just the way your trousers hung.

[schmalex]

Paper round
Washer upper in a restaurant
Bar man
Part time yacht broker
Professional yacht racing crew
IT Tele-sales
Sales support
IT Field sales
IT services portfolio development
IT Account manager
IT Account director
European Sales Manager for a niche IT company

Edited by schmalex on Thursday 15th May 12:08

Edited by schmalex on Thursday 1st January 17:33

[stigmundfreud]

I started high, ended up low now somewhere in the middle

[Don]

Born
Grew up
Went into IT
Its too late for me. Save yourselves!



or

Junior Programmer
Analyst Programmer
Consultant
Principal Consultant
fk it.
Company Director.
fk it.
Company Director.
Kept Man. Nice one.

[fatboy b]

Adenauer said:

....The end

So are you retired?

worst "I'm in charge of a company" thread ever.

[Plotloss]

Sainsburys Trolley Pusher
Homebase Shelf Stacker
Safeways Fruit and Veg Fondler
Waiter
Ice Cream Van Driver
Farm hand at various times in various capacities
Grill Chef
Furniture Shifter
Box Packer
Data Inputter
Car Storage Operative
Vehicle Controller
Events Executive
IT Helpdesk
Analyst/Programmer
Development Lead
Business Analyst
Consultant
Project Manager
Technical Architect
Director

[TigerK]

Electrical salesperson
Banking
Garage Attendant
Triathlete
Gym Instructor
Corporate Banking
Business manager for a nursing home business
IT (financial services)
IT (motorsport)

[crofty1984]

Shifted a load of bricks round the back of a shop for 30 quid. (Hell, it ony took 3 hours so it's taken another 5 years of education to get back to £10/hr!)

Worked in the Co-Op (great job)
Worked on a summer camp in the states (amazing)
Started degree (mechanical Engineering)
Worked in hospital kitchens
Worked in chinese restaurant (for 4 hours)
Silver service (basically slave wage and half the time you did the dishes too. And no tips)
Worked in Hospital Kitchens and the co-op
Silver service again
Coop again
Finished degree, didn't do very well
Sales and proposals engineer

[Asterix]

Office junior - Solicitors
Sales Assistant - Dixons
Soldier - British Army
Ski Instructor - British Army
Pro Musician - Signed to Sony
General Manager - Film production company
Vice President - PR,/Marketing Agency

[krap]

TigerK said:

IT (motorsport)

I'm jealous!

[TheCarpetCleaner]

Paper round
Dry Cleaner
Pizza Boy
Asst Manager of Pizza Place
Document controller (filing large oil rig diagrams for 8 hours a day - no computer, no phone, just a desk with papers to file)
Telephone Wine ordering service
Mortgage Callcentre
Mortgage Admin
Engineer dispatcher
Technical Helpdesk for Payroll processing company
Field engineer
Now self employed

[Heskey]

Cancer Research UK shop volunteer
Kids Play & Party crew member, then Team Leader
ASDA Home Shopping picker

[ofcorsa]

Newspaper boy
stacking shelves
packing bricks
Army
Betting shop manager
Telecoms Tech
Telecoms advisor

Tbh I reckon the job i enjoyed the most was stacking shelves, Though thats probably because i was 16 and met a great group of people and had a great social life, most of my current mates are people i met at that job, and were all pretty succesful in our own ways.

[Gun]

Shelf stacker in supermarket
Apprentice in construction company
Draughtsman in construction company
Self Employed.

It's no wonder this country is in the state it's in, look at all the company directors who spend all day on here

[ALawson]

Paper Boy
Warehouse person
Junior Engineer
Site Engineer
Settingout Engineer
Section Engineer
Senior Engineer
Project Engineer / Production Manager (BAA talk)

[ewenm]

While at school (to 1994):

• Paper boy
• Newsagent shop assistant

During uni (1994-1998):

• Outdoor pursuits instructor (mountain navigation and rock climbing mainly)

After uni:

• Dogsbody in accounts department at Reebok
• Junior IT consultant with PwC
• IT consultant with IBM
• Self-employed IT Contractor

Future plans - get the mortgage paid down quickly so I don't need a certain wage. Then find a job that is more fulfilling than currently (IT has its moments but is not all that fulfilling) in a nice place.

Edited by ewenm on Thursday 15th May 11:46

[Sarkmeister]

Here is mine:

Paper round (approx 160 houses)
Stock control for a specialist off licence
Operations assistant for M&S
Customer assistant for a supermarket
Fruit packer
Operations assistant in a door factory
Jam tart packer
Apple pie packer
Fridge operator in cup cake factory
Cooked meat factory oven operator
Renewable Energy Consultant for energy company
Project Manager on gas storage facility construction (for energy company)