1. Paperboy - Omaha World Herald This was a family affair when my older brother got a paper route when he was twelve. I was eight and my sister was ten and we all got to pitch in.
2. Paperboy - Northwest Shopper My first official paper route at age ten. I got a penny apiece for delivering 185 papers once a week. That's right. I Made $7.40 a month.
3. Paperboy - Benson Sun Another step up to a weekly paper. I miss the Benson Sun But I don't miss delivering it.
4. Paperboy - Omaha World Herald I took over my brother's route when he turned 16.
5. Janitor - Creighton Prep High School I was cleaning classrooms as part of a work study program.
6. Driver's Helper - Alamito Dairy I did this on weekends during my freshman year in high school. Got $24 a day. I thought I was King Shit!
7. Dock Worker - Alamito/All Star/Prairie Farms Dairy Summer job loading the retail trucks and running the ice cream freezer. Got fired when they found out I was only 15.
8. Kitchen Worker - Creighton Prep High School More work study in the Jesuit kitchen at school.
9. Laborer - Phillips Pallet Co. My first legal job outside of school. I worked six days a week. It was a rare job for the time in that when we were off from school, they would let us work as many as 54 hours a week. Jobs that had overtime were really scarce back them.
10. Bussboy - Dixie Kitchen Restaurant I did this my senior year after quitting Phillips. The pay sucked but I had a lot of fun.
11. Laborer - Phillips Pallet Co, Round 2 Back to Phillips for the summer after graduation. Did I mention overtime?
12. Counter Sales - Little King Sandwich Shop - Lincoln, NE My job when I went to school in Lincoln.
13. Fry Cook - Jay's Otter Creek Marina, Lewellen, NE Learned to be a fry cook at a resort in western Nebraska. Great experience but it didn't last very long.
14. Laborer - Phillips Pallet Co, Round 3 Whenever I needed work, Phillips would always hire me back, especially after I turned 18 and could run the machinery. Great people to work for. Didn't pay for shit, though.
15. Counter Sales - Little King Sandwich Shop Omaha, NE I went back to work for Little King and worked there for about two years before I got fired. There's a story there I won't go into now. On the day I got fired, I applied for the job I eventually got at Meylan Enterprises.
16. Floor Help - Clothing Sales at Holiday Inn I worked these clothing sales that came into town a couple times a year. They paid good but it was only three days at a time.
17. Door to Door Delivery - Magazine Subscriptions, Flyers, Samples Did this stuff with my sister and parents. It was a couple days a month and paid about $100 each time.
18. Market Research - McMaken Market Audits My mom worked for this company for years. I worked there occasionally.
19. Phillips Pallet Co, Round 4 Did I mention that these guys would always hire me back?
20. Demonstrator - Kirby Vacuum Cleaners One totally f-ed up job! I lasted three days into their training program before telling them to piss off.
21. Janitor - Jewish Community Center Worked here for two weeks. Got a letter of commendation from the President for how well I cleaned his office. But, then I got a call from Meylan Enterprises. See Ya!
22. Equipment Operator - Meylan Enterprises This was my first "Grown up" job. I traveled around the country cleaning out power plants. I made really good money and got to see a lot of the country until my boss, Wayne Meylan got killed in a plane crash. After that it wasn't that great of a job and I eventually quit.
23. Driver - K & K Transportation After Meylan, I went out as a full time over the road truck driver. I loved the driving but hated the business.
24. Shag Driver - Recycling Center This was perhaps the worst job I ever had. The company was a train wreck and the managers were assholes. I lasted two hours into my second day before I quit. That's how bad it was.
25. Counter Sales - Godfather's Pizza, 114th & Dodge, Omaha I took this job because I needed money.
26. Assistant Manager - Godfather's Pizza, 140th & Center, Omaha Got offered a job in management that was supposed to pay better than it did. I stayed about six months until I realized that my salary didn't pay minimum wage considering all the hours I was working.
27. Taxi Driver - Happy Cab Another f-ed up job. I did this for about two months.
28. Delivery Driver - Godfather's Pizza I did thid for a while to make extra money. It actually paid almost as much as management with way fewer hours.
29. Laborer - Residential Construction Co. This job didn't pay much but the guy I worked for was an old school perfectionist, so while I didn't make much money, it was like going to school. I learned so much from him. I wish I could have worked for him longer but he moved to Washington State and I wasn't interested in moving with him. Not for what he paid, anyway.
30. Driver - Sub Zero Transportation Back out on the road for a couple years. Like I said before, I loved the travelling, but I hated the business. I saved up a lot more money this time around, though.
31. Self Employed - Construction Once I quit driving, I did some construction work with a friend of mine. We made some money but he didn't like to work in the winter, so...
32. Delivery Driver - Pizza Hut I took this job for two reasons. One, they had insurance, and two, to tide myself over till we started working construction again in the spring. Fortunately, it turned into a pretty good job and I worked here for several years, until after I went back to school to learn computer programming.
33. Self Employed - Handyman and remodeling While I worked at Pizza Hut, I bought a truck and started doing remodeling and handyman jobs on the side. I did OK. The bills got paid but I never got rich.
34. Programmer/Analyst - First Data Resources Programming school paid off! I got this job just in time for the big Y2K non-event and stayed there till 2005. Unfortunately, First Data had a passion for big layoffs and I got caught up in one with 600 other people. I haven't worked IT since then.
35. Laborer - Glenwood Resource Center After an extended period of unemployment due to recession and being over 40 and looking for IT work, I took this temporary job at the State School in Glenwood.
36. Driver - Iowa Waste Systems Another crappy job driving a roll-off dumpster truck and residential trash pick-up. I got fired when I called my boss an idiot. He said, "did you just call me an idiot?" I said, "Do you need me to explain it?" I got fired a couple days later.
37. Laborer - Theis Auction House I did this for one day. Oh, my God! We went to a small house in Council Bluffs to load up an estate for auction. When we walked in, I said, "Wow, there's hardly anything here! This won't be bad at all. Two full trucks, two full trailers, and twelve hours later, we got to the walk in closet in the attic, only to find it lined with shelves FULL OF BOOKS! Holy crap! Luckily, it was on that day that I received a call from the manager at Farm Service Co. saying he wanted to hire me.
38. Operations - Farm Service Co. / Heartland Co-op When I got laid off from First Data, my wife told me since I still had my CDL, I should go apply at the local co-op since they were always looking for drivers. I told her there was no way I would ever work for a co-op. I was an analyst, a programmer, an office geek. Well, eventually I broke down and applied and got hired. And found my dream job. After a few years driving a truck, operating a chemical sprayer and such, I have worked my way into running the chemical mix plant and am happier in my job than I have ever been in any job before. I have been here fifteen years. I am just over five years away from a pension, and I live five blocks away from work. I have found my Nirvana!

Holy cow! That's a lot of different jobs for one lifetime. I know a few people who have only every had one job in their life. Some more who have only had a couple. I wonder how many there are out there that have had as many as I have.

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