This is a really cool thread, I loved reading through it.  I've said it before and I'll say it again, I LOVE the diversity! 

As for me?  I have two jobs.  First off, the boring one.  I run the clerical end of my husband's landscaping business.  Paperwork, bookkeeping, everything that doesn't involve pushing a mower, from hiring to picking up parts orders, to delivering materials to jobs, to dealing with customers....

Also, I'm a professional taster for International Flavors and Fragrances. (IFF)  Basically, I'm a human lab rat .  We taste things.  Mostly detecting intensities, and mal-flavors.  The past few months we've been working on aromatic flavor compounds that make up pasta sauce, including the essence of parsley, basil, and today garlic.  We've been tasting these flavor compounds in cold water, hot water, on pasta both cold and hot, on pasta in sauce cold and hot, and just the sauce, cold and hot.  It was wonderful, actually, till today when we did 22 samples of cold garlic water  . 

I've evaluated levels of strawberry flavor, creamy, sweet, tart, and dairy profiles for Activia, spent 5 LONG months detecting levels of oxidization in orange drink (so Tang can develop better packaging), sniffed out sulphur compounds in solutions resembling skunk beer and wine (those were difficult mornings, to say the least).  Just, all sorts of stuff, flavor compounds in salad dressings, toothpastes, sports drinks, mints, mayonaise, colas. You would be shocked at what has artifical flavorings or enhancers in it.   

My company also does a lot with scents, for air fresheners, cleaning products, just any scented products.  Before I got hired on as a pro-taster, I ran the spectrum of sniffing things, evaluating laundry soaps, scented oil things, aromatherapy scents.  I am so glad I got promoted out of that, if I had to answer one more stupid "How did that Lavender Vanilla  laundry detergent make you feel?". I would have screamed.


K, you think that job is weird?  My first job was working at a small family run pork rind factory.  Oh yeah, baby, it was my friend's mom's company, and I worked there with my friend, her siblings, and her mom.  I was the bag sealer. I could seal a whole case of bags in about 3 minutes.  They loooooved me. It was a blast, we played the radio loud, laughed, joked, and all the free pork rinds and shrimp chips you could eat!  Hey, I was 15...it was the coolest thing ever.

In between, I did a lot of deli work, some cashier jobs, and eventually catering.  I really want to own my own legit catering business.  (I cater a lot on the side, for friends and small parties, but I want to do it officially.)  I went to school as far as my AA, for education, but I decided that I really didn't want to teach anymore.  I'm gonna go back, maybe this fall to start the paralegal program, to help run the family business a little better.

I'm a student, but for the summer I'm working at Cedar Point as a Ride Operator. I work the RipCord. It's pretty fun working there, just not living there. I miss Michigan.

I got a job at everyone's favorite company... Fed Ex

I'll just be either loading or unloading trucks.  So if your package comes late don't blame me, I just load the trucks.

Service Sales Rep for an HVAC controls contractor. Techie construction stuff. Still an old boy's club on the sales side, so being a 26 year old female makes it interesting.

I'm sixteen, and I've been working at an old resort, spa, and golf club for about five months now.
I work in the resort shop, and I work in the ice cream shop & coffee bar, and hostess/room service when they need it.
It's pretty neat, I get paid well, especially for it being my first job.
I don't think I'll stay in hospitality after I'm done with this job (it closes for renovation for 2 years in May 2009) but it is a place I enjoy working at.
Lot of history in the hotel, and I meet a lot of cool people.
My sister, who is twenty, works there too, has been for a couple years now.
She supervises in the restaurant there, shes actually going to school now for hospitality.

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You all have very interesting jobs, thank you for sharing

I'm a vet assistant, trained on the job to do tech work. It's pretty awesome. I used to be an esthetician but got bored with the repetition.

I've been a teacher for 31 years. I've taught 5th and 6th grade (approx 10-12 yr olds) science for a number of years.  My main background is in Earth Science.  I also have a minor in art and have been known to teach art in the past before the 5th graders were added to our Middle School.

My very first job (back in the stone age) was babysitting.   My first real job was at age 17 working for Sears in the Customer Service Dept.  I worked for Sears all the way through college.

Wow, I've read through this page and I've seen some really interesting jobs. Keep the Jobs coming guys

I work for the DMV! LOL!! I actually love it! I work in the Testing and Investigations unit, so I dont deal with the general public. Before that I spent 11 years in the Army, so this is my first real Civilian Job!! 

I will keep the repetition going and say I am also a vet assistant that does tech work.  I have been at it now for almost 7 years I think....  maybe 6...  I tried for tech school, but my math/science grades were just not high enough.  After trying 2 times I felt I was letting people down, so I stopped trying. 

I am stuck now.  I am not sure where I should be.  I know I will not be happy where I am for life, but I don't know what I would like to do more.   

Full time, I'm a receptionist/promotions/sales/production/announcer at a small radio station.
Part time I work in a kitchen as a short order cook... its just for extra money.

I'm a summer camp director!!  I work for a non-profit youth agency.  It's extremely hard work, but I LOVE it.

In high school and college, I was a lifeguard, camp counselor, worked for an afterschool program and worked in an office for a bit.

which one??

 I work at petsmart part time, take a few classes at the local college, i am starting a job for my vet as a kennel associate and i clean three times a week for a lesson at my local riding school/ No one can ever keep track of me. I had a day off on a Saturday this weekend and i am watching my boyfriends dogs while he is away.. i didn't know what to do with myself lol.