There was this performance artist we went to see a long time ago, an ex-stripper, and that was her grandma’s definition of prostitution. I’ve been thinking about the jobs I’ve had. Here’s a list of paying jobs I’ve had. It doesn’t include the things I’ve done for free, either voluntarily or by accident, many of which were cooler or more fun. I know I must have left some out, if I remember I’ll add them later.
Picking strawberries
Picking raspberries
Picking blackberries
Picking wild blackberries (ouch)
Busboy/fish & chips cook
Boxboy (bagging groceries)
Camera store sales clerk
Landscaper
Roof cleaner
Collecting and selling scrap newspaper and cardboard to recycling businesses
Raising chickens
Selling seeds door-to-door
Selling magazine subscriptions door-to-door
Recycling person at college dormitory
Bookbindery worker
Cannery worker
Digging postholes and building fences
Delivery truck driver, warehouse worker
Furniture mover
English tutor
Economics research assistant
Ticket-taker
Economics tutor
Exterminator
Newspaper copy editor/proofreader
Magazine/newspaper editor-in-chief
English teacher
Movie extra
Model
Technical writer
Writer (non-fiction)
Editor
Refugee trainer (American life skills, ironically)
Speechwriter/translator/editor/photographer/etc. (current catch-all job)
so in the scope of approving/disapproving of said work, how do they break out?
I sense a big trend starting here…
well, she was actually an ex-peepshow performer, and her method for breaking out was to switch jobs to performance artist. the performances we saw consisted of her getting naked and telling stories about working in peepshows. we saw her twice, about a year apart, and she looked ill the second time, so i’m not sure how much good her breakout was doing her.
So far I’ve been a;
graphical design assistant
cowboy waiter
ice cream salesman
kitchen staff
foreign currency negotiator
publisher’s assistant
corporate whore for DoubleClick
freelancer
and my current role as an operations monkey at a London agency
Mine include:
– fork lift truck and bulldozer operator
– waiter
– nightshift cleaner in factory
– communication management for papal visit
– marketingbobo
– website team management
– extra in various tv series
– vocals on Axelle Red album (> 1 million copies sold!)
– songwriting
– journalist for various magazines