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Originally Posted by Brianna
Burger Chef (not to be confused with Burger King)-lasted 1 1/2 months
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Awwww I remember the Burger Chef fondly! When I was a kid it was the only fast food close to us. (There was a McDonald's but it was wayyy over on the other side of town.) I don't remember when the Burger Chef in our town shut down--it must have been in the late 70s. Now, of course, there is one of every chain you can imagine on every other block.
Anyway. Umm 9-11 or so. Sold
Grit. I guess it was my idea initally, but my mom wouldn't let me stop after I discovered I hate talking to people. In spite of all this I managed to move a few dozen copies a week.
12-13? A former teacher & friend of my mom's did a summer day camp kind of thing at the local college. They got hold of a couple Apple ][ systems, and she got me to come in and teach the kids some computer stuff.
17 wrote some dinky education computer software for my high school. (I thought I was a computer programmer then. Blech.)
During college, worked some in the music library as circulation desk clerk/shelver/etc. Worked much more in the campus computer center as a lab assistant and senior lab assistant. (Senior meant I got to help with the scheduling and be on call one night a week to triage any catastrophes.)
During grad school I had a fellowship so I was essentially paid to go to school. The summer in between I signed up as a "Kelly Girl." My first temp job, at a Big Pharma company to fill in while they found a replacement for an administrative assistant who had transferred, ended up lasting the whole summer, which was cool. Highlights included setting up a mail merge that almost didn't work, because we had to use a form with 5 carbon copies (and I mean literally carbon copies), and we couldn't come up with a printer that would print all the way through. (We finally tracked down an old daisy wheel.)
When grad school ended, went to work doing low-level tech support at a local college. Ended up doing a bunch of other stuff, including training, managing student workers, unix sysadmin, and setting up the first gopher and web servers. After a few years of that I went on to a similar job at a smaller school. I am currently in a VP-ish position, but we are small enough that I am still hands-on.
Odd jobs: When I was in school I made some nice pocket money tutoring (mostly math, with some physics, and even German once) and typing papers for other students. I have also been paid for my clarinet playing on rare occasions--maybe 3 or 4 times total.