Introduce yourself with some jobs you've done apart from what you do now:
* counseled at camp and led canoe trips
* sorted invoices
* operated a 16" telescope
* ran experiments on a dye laser
(the latter sounds highly skilled but I was an undergraduate student and absolutely terrible at it)
* counseled at camp and led canoe trips
* sorted invoices
* operated a 16" telescope
* ran experiments on a dye laser
(the latter sounds highly skilled but I was an undergraduate student and absolutely terrible at it)
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Ryan Cordell
Introduce yourself with some jobs you’ve done apart from what you do now:
+ waiter at a buffet-style† steak restaurant
+ waiter at a cafe/bar
+ bookstore clerk
+ 3rd shift hotel front desk
+ many jobs at Kinkos, also including 3rd shift‡
† IOW fancy fancy
‡ I am aware it’s ironic I now run a press
+ waiter at a buffet-style† steak restaurant
+ waiter at a cafe/bar
+ bookstore clerk
+ 3rd shift hotel front desk
+ many jobs at Kinkos, also including 3rd shift‡
† IOW fancy fancy
‡ I am aware it’s ironic I now run a press
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* janitor at the local church
* sandwich artist
* line cook and later sous chef, including internationally (Dublin)
(the last one sounds way more cool / impressive than it actually was)
*Dishwashing (friendly with the Hobart)
*Art criticism (weekly city paper)
*Art museum communications ) after slinging contemporary art, you can sling anything?!?!?)
*Campaign manager (teeth cutting only; doomed not-even-purple-district congressional race)
* Clammer on LI’s Great South Bay
* Custodian
* Usher at a drive in theater
* Math tutor
* Pet sitter
* Ecology summer intern (I raised butterflies)
* Physical Oceanography summer intern (I monitored DO)
Youth soccer referee
Refurbished printers
Organized stock rooms
Software QA/QC
Senior portrait photography
Non-profit promotional videos
Also led canoe trips!
Lab-tested semiconductors
Designed a solar powered home
Built grid models
*tutored college athletes who needed to pass a basic stats course
*like you, camp counselor (for kids/adults with disabilities)
*cook, server, hostess
*Alumni asso phone banking to raise $ (was given the name of a 110 yr old grad to call 🤔)
Junior ranger with Ontario parks.
Salad girl at the Keg
Library assistant at the Queens geo library
Tutor.
Record sales assistant
Broadcaster
Newspaper mgr
Distillery promoter
Community Radio Station Manager
Maori Radio staff tainer
Community internet actiovist
International IT competition juror
PEPFAR project consultant
Conference shit stirrer (ended when I was called "thought leader")
Seagulls because they turn up, make a lot of noise, shit on everything then leave others to clean up
NOT greatly appreciated by the permanent wharfies
* counted circuit board parts
*led canoe trips and ran a camp at wildlife rehabilitation center
*paralegal on Superfund cases
*sold computers (sold someone their very 1st computer on Jan. 1, 2020)
*helped arts & culture groups explain their impact (Cultural Data Project)
* Made sandwiches at a traditional NY "luncheonette"
* Worked at a stationary/candy store
* Caterer
* Environmental Consultant
* Led Marine Bio field trips for kiddos at a field camp
* National Park Ranger
Proof reading/ editing books
English teacher/ English as a 2nd Language teacher
Worked in animation, doing animation and backgrounds
Art teacher
Art gallery guard
Mail sorter
Waitress
Babysitter
I also worked as a volunteer on human rights and literacy
-Babysitting
-Elder caregiver
-Car flipper
-Inbound order taker for music company
-Receptionist/office gopher
-Optometric assistant
-Contract administrator
*Editor/Manager of Ha-Shilth-Sa
*Managing Editor for Aboriginal Multi-Media Society
That's me going back to 1993. Currently leave taking.
*Temp work for the ACME Label Co (a bucket list job after watching years of Wile E. Coyote
*20 years working with residential juvenile delinquents
*Peace Corps in my 50s
* paperboy
* cornbread girl
* camp counselor
* waitress
* data entry operator
* natural gas forecaster
* demographer
-Server
-Bartender
-Mobil Gas/Duncan Donuts
cashier
-administrative assistant
-unpaid movie extra
- worked at several jobs in college a deli, a grocery store
- a nature camp counselor
- a substitute teacher
- waited tables at Pizzeria Uno
- a mutual fund company
- a financial services tech company
* paper girl
* waitress at Brighams
* clerk at Tower Records
* guitar teacher
* Altar girl (unpaid but ya know, it was a gig)
Book store clerk
Book store owner
Audio engineer
Account clerk
Chimney sweep
Masonry contractor
Library tech
Phlebotomist
* Delivered auto parts
* Studied birds
Volunteer Retreat Centre cleaner
Volunteered in a refuge
* assembled switch cabinets
* was a skiing instructor
* taught evening classes
* was a conference interpreter and translator
* was an Olympic Games hostess
* ran a small farmers' NGO backoffice, ...
-Lifeguard and water aerobics instructor at a senior center
-Cherry packer
-Recycling yard worker (driving forklifts is hella fun)
-Resident Advisor for unhinged but awesome freshmen
-Caseworker for a member of the UK Parliament
* painted
* planted trees
* cleaned dishes
* inspected welds
Furniture
Bansar 
No idea what that last one is!
Bartender
Barback
Cook
Maintenance Assistant
Student Union Manager
Audio Visual Tech
Janitor
Proofreader
Fitness Instructor
Camp counselor for blind and deaf kids
Cashier at UCLA student store
Drapery installation
Airport shuttle driver
Mom and Pop grocery clerk
Courier
Bar useful
Edited an academic journal
Sold sex toys