8/20/08

My paying jobs, roughly chronologically

-Weeding the Creagars’ lawn
-Selling Christmas cards door to door. Forgot to collect advance payment so parents fronted and helped collect from customers.
-Farmhand. Haying, including turning bales to dry, gathering them, riding the top of the pile holding on to keep the pile together, getting them into the mow; herding cows; milking them by hand the night of the Great New York Blackout; driving tractors, weeding and irrigating truck farm.
-Camp counselor
-Construction. Unskilled truck driver with learners’ permit for fly by night contractor.
-Machine tender, plastic injection molding factory. Made milk crates, toothbrush handles, cool whip bowls and lids, tampon applicators (super and regular.)
-Food handler, college cafeteria
-Security guard, college dorm
-Paste-up and mechanicals artist,
Columbia University Journalism School print lab
-Guitar teacher
-Baby sitter
-Lab assistant for food chemist
-Canoe guide, northern Adirondacks
-Taxi driver, Manhattan, night line
-Cucumber picker, one day
-Foot messenger
-Diazo printer operator, blueprints
-Kodalith retoucher
-Darkroom technician
-Fish processor, freezing, storage, (currently a Teamster on honorable withdrawal)
-Musical entertainer
-Fashion model
-Leather worker making Coach knockoffs, selling at street fairs
-Carpenter/demolition worker
-Plumber's assistant
-Escort
-Composer/arranger
-Studio musician
-Prep school teacher, rock and roll and humanities
-Film and theater reviewer
-Videographer
-Film production assistant
-Script writer
-Encyclopedia designer/editor, the first Encarta
-Actor, onscreen and voiceover
-Video/media producer
-Photographer
-Video editor/motion graphics artist
-Media consultant
-Trial/Jury consultant

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