Where have you BEEN, you old fart?
Scribing at 2:32 p.m. on 2005-02-15
You ever stop to think about all the bizarre occupations you've gone through in your life as a wage slave?
Well, this applies to people that are over 15 years old, and who have had a fairly busy life employment-wise, of course. But with those qualifiers in mind, you can really end up in some interesting places to pay the bills, from what I've found.
I started my wage-slavery when I was 16 years old, and since have had .. urm .. I'm thinking! I'm thinking! .. Two vacations of note (of note equalling vacations where I was not called back to work before the official end-age of my 'vacation time' and/or vacations where I actually left the city and went somewhere I would not otherwise probably have ventured.) and have continued working, basically without respite, ever since. This is frightening and ghastly, on a number of levels.
At 16 I was working in a plastics factory. I was technically 15, but I kinda *cough* got creative and took a little artistic license with my birth date to get the manager to hire me. We made the plastic milk crates that were so popular for like, decades .. that people would steal from out behind the 7-11's and various mom-and-pop grocery stores to make bookshelves, end tables, bedframes, etc. Don't act like you don't know what I'm talking about.
We also made the heavy-duty plastic toxic waste bottles (see: bleach and other assorted liquids in those otherwise-assumed-to-be-concrete bottles) milk jugs, various and sundry car parts, whatever.
Along the way (I would never claim to be able to remember ever miscreant place I've ever worked, thank god) I've also worked in a Thoroughbred breeding stable; as a bouncer in a bar; a pump jockey-cum-manager in a high traffic gas station; a cowboy for oversized mutts in a boarding/breeding kennel; the blues/jazz buyer for a music store; a grunt monkey for a construction company; a printer/collator for a local publication; a rental coordinator for a performance venue; the director of business and administration for a church; and a lab tech.
Not in any particular order.
There are other various and sundry 'put bread on the table' types of jobs that I've worked in conjunction with the above, both concurrently and randomly. I either seem to get a job that makes me work 16 hours a day, or I have 2 (and once, three) jobs at one time.
Life's never boring, at least, right?
