your past jobs?
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- brandelec0
who wants to chat on msn?
i do i do
MrDinky
(Jun 22 05, 16:50)exact words of michael jackson, swear
- uberdesigner0
did you sell crack along the way, uber?
grafholic
(Jun 22 05, 16:35)no, that's what I take renumeration in
- MrDinky0
exact words of michael jackson, swear
brandelec
(Jun 22 05, 16:57)you are just jealous
- eficks0
worked parttime in mums bakery from 15-18 years old as i left school.
worked at a pizza parlour from 18-19.
worked at a small design agency from 19-21.
freelance from 21-23.
23 now and 'graphics coordinator' (whatever that means) for boeing australia
ready to migrate overseas soon I think.
- SirLawrence0
dish washer during studies
part time sales in clothes store for 3 years
part time DTP in mail order company
part time AD in small b2b agency
5 years of a combined AD and web design at ad agency, while freelancing as graphic IT consultant & support for Apple dealers. In between that I learned more interactive.
Big break in 2000, when I landed a CD position in overseas 4A agency in Shanghai. Two years of that, then two years of being the tasmanian devil in a HK 4A, before I had enough of the big-hancho agency back stabbing. Moved back to Shanghai, and freelance full time now, servicing client and agencies alike.
I'm a fart away from turning 37... sigh... 37... As in: I left school when we were still spray-glueing letrasets to blueprint paper :-P
- eficks0
SirLawrence, may i ask what's the best way to find jobs in another country? Do you just go there for a holiday and look or what?
- ourcommon0
i used to string tennis rackets
- kingjulien0
I used to slang beanpies with the Nation of Islam next to the freeway. They didn't give me a bow-tie though or one of those skull caps; instead I wore a bra on my head that I cut in half, and rocked it like a Yarmulke with a chinstrap....
- uberdesigner0
i used to string tennis rackets
ourcommon
(Jun 22 05, 17:43)
-----------------------------did you use cat gut?
- Chip0
factories, shops, bars, hotels, then an Agency in London, now Tokyo.
33 yrs old.
- mydo0
i used to stick up skittles in a skittle aley when i was 12. i got £12 for 45 mins and some chips in a basket. i think it's still probably the best job i've ever had. i'm now freelance
i'm 27.
- nessdog0
+ Toilet and office cleaner
+ Kitchen Assistant
+ Care Assistant (i.e cleaned bottoms, made beds, emptied and measured catheter bags)
+ Data Entry
+ Skateshop Sales Assistant
+ Graphic Designer for www.bnkr.co.ukI've just got a new graphic design job, starting in a few weeks.
Age 27 tomorrow. Give me beer.
- who0
synchronic swimming teacher
swimming teacher
life guard
interior decorator
web designer (for 6 years)and I am 29.....
- Short0
student - internship RTL Nederland - internship SBS Broadcasting - parttime Job SBS Broadcasting
And next thing is to try to get in to a new school....
im 21
- MX_OnD0
The worst job I ever had was with Jayne Mansfield. You know, she was a fantastic bird, you know big tits, huge bum, and everything like that, but I had the terrible job of retrieving lobsters from her bum.
- honest0
but I had the terrible job of retrieving lobsters from her bum.
MX_OnD
(Jun 23 05, 02:09)It's a cruel job, but somebody has to do it.
- kelpie0
that fackin Jayne Mansfield, wot a cant...
------------------------------couple of the worst jobs what I have done:
Cleaning (gutting) Clams 1yr- disgusting
Cleaner (hotels/schools/cooncil buildings) 2yrs- disgusting
Graphic designer 4 yrs - not disgusting
Age 28 and counting, didn't get started in design till I was 23
- vespa0
14-16: served icecream and coffee to bored suburban teenagers and pensioners.
16-17: served lobster and wine to bored rich suburban socialites.
18: did the late shift at a dodgy pool hall. willy the small ginger chef from across the road bless him would bring me hash cakes to eat and i'd do my graphic design homework whilst triad gangs stabbed each other out the front.
19: waitressed. customers were assholes. the staff were ace tho. highlights included cleaning cigarette butts out of the mens urinals after a busy sunday night. lots of ecstasy raves after/during work it was the hippy nineties that's my excuse and i'm sticking to it.
20: arrived in london! had £500, no-where to live and didn't know anyone. data entry for a month followed by first job as a photographer yay! only it was doing real estate, £3.75 per hour boo. got fired for being late and generally having a sucky attitude.
21: "desktop publishing" for 6 months, utter arse. Worked as a photographers' assistant in hoxton for 6 months - paid shit and work wasn't very creative. got fired for being "too much of an artiste, when zis is a little factorie, non?"
22: first graphic design job! started in print, they realised quite quickly i had no clue (dammit i shouldn't have skipped all those studio tech classes but graphic design was boring - the illustration lecturers were having spliffs with us and the photography lecturer was also our speed dealer, when youre a teenager your priorities are different) but managed to worm my way into mul-tye-media doing all the shit jobs no-one else wanted to do. company went bankrupt after 3 months (not my fault honest!).
22: touch-screen design. Got made redundant after a year or so because of structural changes blah blah you know what i'm talking about. as soon as i landed on the multimedia bubble it burst.
24: freelanced as a web designer for a year. decided i didn't like freelancing cos you never get to make friends with people.
25: worked as a web designer in a tiny company in the new media ghetto. didn't really like it but the creative director's wife had just been diagnosed with cancer and it would have been really shit for me to leave at the start when i wanted to. she beat her cancer tho yay.
26: got current job at bbc doing interactive tv design. having heaps of fun, even after a year! every project is different from the last which really suits my short attention span. People are nice. Sometimes it gets way too busy. Everyone is an alcoholic.
- JazX0
I thought we did this before?
Where do I begin?
BS in Physical Science
Webmaster CertificationUS Peace Corps Secondary Education Volunteer - Namibia, Southern Africa
UNESCO Contract Geoexploratory Scientist - Uis, Khorixas, Namibia
Zy Technologies Webmaster - New York, NY
Telia Finland - Web Developer/Technical Writer - Helsinki, Finland
Carnegie Mellon University - Web Developer - Pittsburgh, PA
CECity - Web/Flash Developer - Pittsburgh, PA
PNC - Corporate Project Manager/Web Developer - Pittsburgh, PA (current)
Freelance on top of that, currently maintain three sites and another one on the upkeep and there is the product I sell, Loopkit, and an upcoming one called Born-2-Loop supporting much more than just .wav files.
God, I must be forgetting something though, there is a lot of dead time in there between gigs, I'm 32.
ok Dinky?
- Dita_kz0
tescos - checkout assistant
deep pan pizza - waitress
fisher factory - gutter, packer
sweater shop - shop assistant
john lewis - toy dept shop assistant
Traffic assistant - for a print company
Artworker - for an advertising agency
project manager - for an advertising agency
receptionist - for a design agencyand now I'm 29 and working as a Traffic Manager for a worldwide print company and loving it!!! :)