Discussion on: What jobs did you hold before you got into software?

Most of my jobs were summer jobs during college, which took me all over the USA and the world:

• Yard work for a neighbor (high school; Michigan)
• Summer camp counselor (college, between freshmen/sophomore years; Arkansas)
• Summer missionary (college, between sophomore/junior years; St. Petersburg, Russia)
• Data entry and labor for a small decorative concrete flooring business (college, between junior/senior years; Texas)
• Software dev intern for Logos Bible Software (college, between senior/super-senior years, and part-time during fall semester; Washington state)