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[urocyon]

By way of vatine, via jhaelan--I believe I will stop there :)--here is a list of jobs I have been paid to do for at least a month since I was 15.

1. House/pet-sitter (a couple of regular clients kept me in spending money through high school and my first year of university)

2. Seasonal sales and handing out samples of only vaguely foodlike products at Hickory Farms for two years. This one, and the next, convinced me that I might want to avoid sales jobs in future, because I was so scarily good at it. (Don't want to emulate a rather personal terrible example.)

3. Handing out product samples and coupons in stores (yes, I was one of those annoying people)

4. Distributing ads and delivering--occasionally helping assemble--family-purchased gift baskets to students at the local universities for one of my long-term house/pet-sitting clients.

5. Taking over the above business for a year after she moved away.

6. Research assistant on a followup study of graduates of New River Community College's instrumentation program

7. Summer job at Taco Bell (I was desperate--enough said.)

8. Research assistant in Virginia Tech's Development Office

9. General technical theatre work eventually rewarded with food and alcohol--hey, we PCHS Players were assured earlier that being fed afterward just barely counted as professional acting experience. ;)

Edit: Paying jobs I've held for less than a month include phoning people to try to convince them to take part in hospital-related focus groups (hey, it was at my aunt's request); the obligatory sporadic babysitting (wouldn't add up to a month's worth of days/evenings); a flurry or two of submitting poetry and short stories to paying markets (could fit in the main category, I suppose, considering the work/waiting-for-publication time, but seems iffy); and doing some general gardening work for a couple of older people in the neighborhood.

Comments

[caldair.livejournal.com]

When working as some sort of theatre/concert techie, particularly if you're not getting paid, having organizers pay for and bring you food can be an important element of professionalism as opposed to being a friend who can do techie stuff.

[urocyon-c.livejournal.com]

Certainly--besides making one more likely to want to do it again. ;)

[caldair.livejournal.com]

...And it makes sure that you do actually take time to eat and don't drop a speaker on someone when you unexpectedly collapse from lack of sugar or whatever it is that one lacks.