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For me:
Nightclub security... Oh boy what out :D.
I’m from Canada and the worst clientele in that industry are NHL stars who think they’re above the bar rules 😭
Inventory for car dealership
Taco Bell
Satellite tv store clerk
Ice cream scooper
Grocery clerk
Call center agent
Call center supervisor
Business analyst
Painting, like houses? Or an artist?
I would have loved to sell art, but it was houses. Ladders and windy days! 😬
Yeah, marketing will do that... 🤣
You have done things Man....
Before:
After:
+1 for another Infantryman turned coder 😀
Here's an old pic of me in my jump crew days 😄 (In my above list I just lumped it in as grounds crew)
OMG yes!!!! Damn you were good at carrying poles. I remember feeling like a turtle putting the standards on my back to move them all over the ring. 😂
Do you go to shows with "horseless horse shows"?
(These are my long-hair-don't-care days)
That hair!!!!
You bet, the horseless horse shows are always WAY more entertaining than the real thing. As a kid I could jump 4+ft, as an adult I can hardly throw myself over a 3 ft jump. Lost some of my spring/everything kinda tightens up LOL
looking for first software engineering role now
then i started to backpacking thru all the south america, and had a lot of crazy jobs, and some cool jobs as:
then i came back to home, started to study development really hard (i was always studing software development, since i was 12 i think, but was always for fun), so I got the courage and started doing some freelancings, then everything has change.
now, some years later, im working as front end developer in a place which i really enjoy :)
In order
Mechanic ⚙️🔧
Do tell: what is the story for transitioning from McDonald's Team Member to IT help desk? Why IT?
I worked at McDonalds to help pay the bills, but the job was across town making things very difficult once my school schedule changed to take over the entire day.
Luckily, while I was complaining about my situation to a classmate he told me he worked in an IT department on campus and could talk to his boss about getting me a job.
I knew enough IT to get the job, since I would work on old out dated computers at home all the time. (Just like the ones on campus 😉)
The fact I got the job came down to networking, a little off-hand knowledge and luck.
That's a great combination of self learning/interest and luck. Beautiful.
I had a fair amount of odd, non-tech/non-software jobs.
High-School
College
Post-College
Mystery Shopper has got to be kind of the programming mindset! my guess. All of these things you list seem to have been preparation for development (working with people, understanding production systems [production assistant], and the creative aspects overall.
cool!
If tech does me wrong, baker/barista would be my go-to skill.
Reading through the comments, and oh dear, some seem to have held all possible jobs before getting into software. I'm jealous of the experience gained throughout those jobs. Priceless.
I, on the other hand, started with software, and transitioning into photography/videography
Oh thanks. I thought I'm the only one here, who started with software. :)
I was a cashier at a Cracker Barrel then I had a couple of ISP call center jobs.
You were Donald Duck?
🤯
Most of my jobs were summer jobs during college, which took me all over the USA and the world: