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What else have you done?

  • November 15, 2011 at 8:00 am

    #1407913

    I had no intention to work in the database world.

    Here's what I've done:

    General farm labor

    Radio DJ

    Housing construction (management)

    Animal control rescue

    TV production (lighting, cameras, sound, graphics)

    Commercial writing

    TV producer

    TV production manager

    3D film animation

    Computer phone support

    Tech support manager

    Quality control manager

    Sales operations manager

    Program manager

    Project manager

    Analyst

    Marketing data management

    Database manager

    Kind of a weird list, but when I get bored I have to try something else. :unsure:

  • November 15, 2011 at 12:46 pm

    #1408126

    Ninja's_RGR'us (11/14/2011)

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    ha, love it.

    At the very least it is a resume bullet point.

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  • November 15, 2011 at 3:31 pm

    #1408205

    calvo (11/15/2011)

    Ninja's_RGR'us (11/14/2011)

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    ha, love it.

    At the very least it is a resume bullet point.

    I tried it yesterday with a HR person. I said something like "solved ± 10 000 problems during my 8 years".

    Seems to have struck the right cords! 🙂

  • November 18, 2011 at 3:36 am

    #1409771

    Vacation jobs:

    * finance department of a hospital

    * various jobs at different warehouses. Most of the time doing heavy lifting.

    * very shortly calling people to take surveys. Annoying job, lying to people: "This will only take a few minutes." Yeah right.

    After graduation I immediately got into IT consulting:

    * barcode specialist at the government postal office

    * technical writer (most boring project so far)

    * BI consultant

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  • November 24, 2011 at 7:56 am

    #1412707

    Let’s see ‘What else I have done...’

    For Pocket Money:

    $ Part-time Sales Rep (corporate accounts) for telecom

    $ Part-time Technical Trainer (Computer Subjects)

    $ Event Organizer / Manager (Corporate Gatherings)

    $ Freelance Programmer (VB6.0 / VB.Net / SS2K / Oracle / MySQL)

    For More Money 😉

    $$ Oracle (9i / 10g) DEV / DBA

    $$ SQL (2K / 2K5 / 2K8) DEV / DBA

    $$ Database Design / Architecting (well, trying to...)

    For More n More Money (I will)...:w00t:

    $$$ don’t know...

  • November 26, 2011 at 1:24 pm

    #1413134

    handing out flyers

    advertising manager

    secretary for company president

    selling flats, land and summer houses

  • November 27, 2011 at 11:41 am

    #1413196

    BWAA-HAAA!!!! I'm doing the same things as I did before... shoveling manure in a rose garden and feeding people things they sometimes have no taste for. 😛

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  • November 27, 2011 at 3:40 pm

    #1413207

    I've worked in

    Laboratories doing Quality Assurance Work

    Laboratories doing R+D Work

    Colour matching for printing inks

    R+D for a security Printer

    Helpdesk for PC support

    Instructed in a Martial Art club

    Then after 23 years of working I started working with databases

    Still going strong 12 years later

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  • December 5, 2011 at 7:55 am

    #1416703

    Dishwasher

    Cook

    Data Entry

    Call Center Customer Service

    Tech Support

    PC Repair

    Web Developer & SQL Developer

    Application Developer & SQL Developer


    Everything is awesome!

  • December 9, 2011 at 4:44 pm

    #1419661

    My list....

    General dairy farm labor (lots of manure)

    General chicken/egg ranch labor (more manure)

    Soda jerk (as in ice cream sodas, OK?)

    Furniture mover

    More farm labor (apple orchards)

    Psychiatric hospital aide (more manure)

    EFL (English as Foreign Language) teacher (Asia and USA)

    Software help desk (still more manure)

    Application programmer (created manure)

    Software consultant (no manure, no siree, sir!)

    Data Operations Manager (managing manure).

    I think there's a pattern here. I started out just ankle deep in it, but now....?

    Rob Schripsema
    Propack, Inc.

  • December 9, 2011 at 4:50 pm

    #1419664

    Rob Schripsema (12/9/2011)

    My list....

    General dairy farm labor (lots of manure)

    General chicken/egg ranch labor (more manure)

    Soda jerk (as in ice cream sodas, OK?)

    Furniture mover

    More farm labor (apple orchards)

    Psychiatric hospital aide (more manure)

    EFL (English as Foreign Language) teacher (Asia and USA)

    Software help desk (still more manure)

    Application programmer (created manure)

    Software consultant (no manure, no siree, sir!)

    Data Operations Manager (managing manure).

    I think there's a pattern here. I started out just ankle deep in it, but now....?

    You left out using manure as fertilizer at the orchards and that some people really have a lot of manure in their house when they ask you to move them.

    IE: Friend was a mover. They did the pack job for extra money. Including the dirty plates left stacked to eyebrow level in the sink at one job... *twitch*

    I believe you've had a manure-y life there, Rob...

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