Since I'm trying to write the impossible resume for a new job this weekend, I thought I would reflect on some of the jobs I've had.
My first job was an offsider for a carpet layer at the princely sum of $20pw. This led to being a carpet salesman..oh joy. Then a factory hand at Gibsons flour mill, which afforded me my first trip to QLD. There, I had my shortest job..a tailor-out in a bench mill...I didn't go back after lunch ! Back in those days, before computers, I just went to another dole office and gave a different set of job qualifications...this time as a fully qualified cabinet maker (at 17 years..lol) I worked there 3 months before coming back to Tassie.
Back on home soil, I became a delivery driver for Canes, before heading off to the Territory, where I had one of the best jobs working at the Alice Springs Hospital, as orderly, ambulance driver, morgue attendant and security guard..it was great ! Then on to Adelaide, offsider to a lift mechanic, then darkroom assistant, processing film.
Back to Hobart, professional photographer with TVT6, decky (shark, blue-eye and cray), taxi driver, service station manager and a few more in between, which brings me up to the present years of mentoring "at-risk" youth..
In all these jobs, the hardest and yet most rewarding job I've had...was and is, ...being a parent !!
Now...to the resume..!...I've never had to fill one out....the times, they are a changing :)
I would have to agree with you there. Even though my working experience hasn't been anywhere near as extensive or varied as yours,I would say being a parent and trying to bring up good kids with manners, morals and and values has been the hardest but best job of all.
ReplyDeleteI am always really interested to hear about what jobs people have done. I'd be a great resume reader, except I'd get caught up in the stories and be terrible at picking the right person.
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