- USAF: communications specialist
- base switchboard operator*
- secure cordboard operator
- telecommunications specialist*
- unit education specialist*
- USAF: air operations specialist
- NOTAM editor*
- glorified filing clerk*
- toy store stocking clerk*
- toy store cashier (Halloween season: ick)*
- toy/baby goods/luggage sales flunkie*
- savings & loan credit clerk (sexist boss)*
- savings & loan processing clerk (lovely bosses)*
- bank: trust & estate real estate assistant/clerk (lovely boss)*
- bank: trust processing (lovely boss)*
- bank: trust & estate admin assistant (great boss, two so-so's and a couple of SOBs)
- accounting: medical equipment company bookkeeper (wife-beater boss)
- accounting/clerical: insurance receptionist/secretary (bigoted boss)
- real estate: property management/bookkeeper/office manager (wonderful guys)* (offered a job on what would become ET; they even offered to pay for a divorce if I'd take the job! Too bad I didn't take that offer!)
- bookkeeper/office manager ***** (yeah, 5 moves - at least- in a 7 year period; bosses mixed; got divorced and did my undergrad here which explains the 7 years in one place)
- grad student MA** (committee from hell)
- teach Western Civ etc.
- sales clerk in kitchen gadget shop (summers, holidays for three years, lovely bosses)
- secretary/file clerk, medical staff office in a hospital (good friend turned floozy)
- planner for US govt* (great boss, except for Bush1)
- PhD program 1
- France: teach phonetics/linguistics*** (psychotic bosses and two roomies, same)
- PhD program 2
- France: teach business/English/TOEFL/GMAT*** (very mixed bag)
- unemployed, then back to the kitchen shop (they weren't afraid of my education)
- PhD program 3* (The Vampire was jettisoned right after my orals; then my committee was composed entirely of angels)
- summer secretary for large multinational in their relocation office (mostly absent bosses)
- teach western civ, holocaust, world war 2, american government, international relations
- VAP, AP, AP, P!****
And somehow, I've missed at least a dozen moves. And there are ~31 showing, which gives you an idea of my life. Now, in all that mess, factor in a husband, a divorce, lots of friends, heartache, betrayal, three magnificent dogs, 4 amazing cats, and an amazingly supportive mother. Quite a ride.
I'm always astonished when my academic friends have been in the academy all their lives. And assume I have too.
8 comments:
Wow, Belle, that's an absolutely amazing list! I can't get over it - you're about the most well-rounded person I've ever known of. What a life! You should write your memoirs.
Heh, I'm surprised when people *haven't* been in the academy all their lives. But that's because I took the most boring, straightforward route to academia and haven't done anything else, and I'm always curious how other people end up choosing academia if they have actual other choices.
Wow, that's a lot of stuff! Cool.
And now I will sprinkle glee all over your blog as well: Glee! Glee! Glee!
heh heh.
Damn. That's a lot of jobs. I've been an academic since age 25, but before that, I was a number of things in the food service profession, a newspaper delivery person, a telemarketer (age 15, only job I could get) and for one memorable summer, a nanny with a traveling carnival.
Well, if it helps any, I've always pictured you as about 34 . . .
and that's a HELL of a lot of moves and an astonishingly high proportion of bad bosses.
I might have to do this as well, could be interesting.
Sis: my blog needs all the glee it can get. Sprinke away!
Notorious: nanny with a carnival? that's worth hearing! tell all.
Everybody: your turns!
Holy Cats! That's a lotta jobs - I'm interested in the "friend turned floozy" thing...
I'll put my jobs at my blog!
Good lord! I'm impressed. Now I might go compile my own list, which will be vastly less interesting, I can assure you.
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