Well...

I've been a clerk in a Trustee Dept

Run a Fish and Chip shop

Run a Video Library

Mini-cab driver

Estate Agent

Financial Consultant

Training Officer

Management Consultant

Examination and Assessment Consultant

Various sales roles

and a few others that I can't recall at the moment.

I used to nail my knob to a moving skateboard!

hmmmm it is late but the thread is intresting I'll get back to it anon.

ROG

I've done so many jobs its ridiculous.

Starting with paperboy, aged 12 or 13, working for £1 an hour in those days, illegally before 7am.

Later on, 10 years ago now, I worked as a bartender in a pub and a nightclub, later become bar manager, but having to leave when the management got wise to our scams and put cameras behind the bar to keep an eye on us.  Handy for cheap booze and girls, which was all I was interested in in those days.

I worked in a factory for a while but left after I heard I was getting paid half as much as everyone else, and then a high-powered international executive training company, where the average salary was £50k, if you included me with my £5/hr

Then I worked for a junk mail company, various random jobs while temping and accounts for a solicitors firm.  This job involved me coming in on a monday morning and sleeping at my desk until 12, which was basically in a store room with no windows and huge shelves of files.  They got wise to this and eventually I had to move on.

After that I worked for a microchip manufacturer for a few months before ending up at a wine company doing various jobs which allowed me to add alcohol to my list of habits in the 3 years I was there.  The perks were enormous and I once got £800 worth of wine for free in an afternoon by doing some swift (but not illegal) deals with my flatmate's co-workers.  It took us most of a year to drink that having a bottle or 2 every night.  Oh happy days.  But, I had to leave after 3 years cos I got itchy feet to go travelling which was a shame cos I really liked that company and I made lots of cool friends there (including RainyD).  My liver thanks me though.  The pay was good and I put together my first studio on that.

So then I went to Oz via NZ and Thailand and worked in a couple of call centres for most of 2002-2003.  Not like the sweatshops you get here, the Aussies don't know how easy they have it.

Since I came back I've worked for a barcode scanner manufacturer, a logistics company in the marketing department, a marquee rental company getting my hands dirty, a chemical laboratory, an insurance telemarketting firm (god I hated that), another telemarketing firm (I hated that too and got asked to leave for saying how sh*t it was very loudly right next to my boss), yet another telemarketing firm which had an office that looked like a set from Resident Evil with strange blood-splatters on the carpet and broken windows...just for a day in that case.  And also a large international refuse management company which was badly run we spent all day making lists of customer complaints but never had any time to do anything to sort them out.

I've managed to spend the last 2 summers unemployed, which is the best way to spend summer in my opinion.

Last year I discovered the cushy and glamourous world of reception, which involves looking smart and doing almost no work, something I excel at (well, the not working part anyway). Various placements including an Aston Martin showroom, which was quite posh.

I'm now working part-time in a day centre for old people with dementia, but they are interviewing replacements for my job now so it wont be for much longer.  Everyone asks me if I get bored sitting there without anything to do, but with the internet its just like being at home, except I get paid for surfing and the occasional free lunch.  And as the only bloke, the women are always very friendly and apologise when they interupt me listening to music when they have some work for me to do.

There are a few I missed but I think thats most of them.

paperboy (morning and evening)

then

buying clerk for a golf club factory, which was great, used to meet loads of top uk golfers etc.

then

storeman for an electronics company (got fired cos I fell asleep on a shelf while drunk from a liquid lunch)

then

temporary payroll clerk for the fire brigade (was very cool, they went on strike the day I started and I didn't do a stroke of work for the entire 3 months)

then

unemployed for ages (was too busy hitchhiking around to want a job)

then

Ministry of Defence (I won't go into it , I worked in Submarine Warfare, nuff said)

then

programmer

then

despatch rider (best job I ever had, very very hard on your motorcycle tho)

then

programmer

then

now I guess, self employed web developer/programmer , always trying to make sure there is enough work coming in

there, sounds bland, but it was mostly great fun