jobs meme

[cellio]

Most recently from rani23: list all the (paying) jobs you've ever had.

cook/cashier/flunky (sub shop, not a burger joint)
proofreader
typesetter (mmm, chemical fumes! really!)
grader (sociology)
research assistant (same sociology prof)
scullery maid [1]
teaching assistant (computer science)
technical writer [2]
programmer
customer support manager (technically... [3])
web developer
musician [4]
Edit: lab rat [5]

I think that's everything, though it's possible I missed some stuff from the college days. I've never babysat, waited tables, or had a paper route.

[1] One summer I worked at an inn at Pennsic. I got a W-2 (or maybe it was a 1099) and everything! For one weekend's worth of work!

[2] First as an undergrad member of a project team, once as a student intern, and several times professionally.

[3] We didn't actually have any customers; I was supposed to create infrastructure so we'd be ready when we did. That was a small part of my job in practice, and eventually I got them to give me a more accurate job title.

[4] Yeah, I've actually been hired for a few solo gigs, again with 1099s and the whole bit.

[5] It wasn't a "job" in the conventional sense, but I made a non-trivial amount of money in college by participating in just about every paying research study that didn't involve consuming chemicals. This was especially helpful during my freshman year, when I didn't yet know that by the time you show up on campus in the fall it's too late to get most work-study jobs.

Comments

[cellio]

Hmm, I don't know. I assume that it was probably something innocuous like "temporary worker", but I'm not sure I ever even saw the W-2 directly. I was in college and still on my parents' tax return, and it would have gone to their address (my permanent address at the time).

Do they put occupation on the W-2? I don't recall. (I may or may not remember to dig out a tax file and look.)