Jobs. Which ones have you had? What are the things you’ve done for money?
My list, in no particular order (although I’m sure I’ll come up with more):
- babysitting
- retail (store clerk and later, cashier)
- tutoring (in high school)
- knitting (I have knitted things for others and they have paid me for it)
- market research (okay so basically three or four times in university I was paid $20 to give my opinion on commercials. it was still a way of making money)
- library clerk (through university I worked evenings/ weekends at the uni. library and during the summers I worked at the local libraries here)
- summer reading club coordinator
- literacy tutor
- hotel front desk clerk and night auditor
- professional typist (not really but again, back in university, people would pay me $2/ page to type up their papers. Kept me in bar money)
- teacher
- cleaner
… okay, so that is all I can think of right now. How about you?
(post title comes from a song of my teenage years, “Things I Do For Money” by the inimitable Northern Pikes). Here’s the video:
What we do for $$… I have done babysitting, house painting, retail (glorified stock girl), typing papers, tutoring (computers, math, and GED exam prep), a caregiver for 2 elderly women, factory work, web design, desktop publishing/graphic arts, and fixing computers.