G is for Gettin' Paid
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kightp
1. Babysitting. Sucked at it. Didn't do it very often
2. Got a job briefly helping one of the guys from the ROM make casts of dinosaur bones. That lasted about one day until he made a pass at me. :-p
3. Restocking books at the school library. I think I got $1.50/hr.
4. The school board hired some of the students to revamp the school's entire inventory. I think I even got minimum wage for that.
5. Worked for SCOPE (School Community Outreach Program For the Elderly) doing errands and small jobs for elderly and disabled individuals. That was where I experienced my Scariest House In The World and Holiday in Cambodia stories.
6. Somewhere in there I turned 16. And armed with a new SS number, I got a job doing telephone surveys for a company called Canadian Facts. It was a really interesting place to work - lots of writers, actors and other people trying to make ends meet. Also lots of punks and freaks who liked having work that didn't require changing their clothes.
7. Packing and shipping for a company that made decals. Their biggest line was those things you put on the top of the windshield of your car that tell you what kind of car you're driving.
8. A factory that made life vests. Once again in the shipping department.
9. A sausage factory. My job was to go into the drying fridges and scrub the mold off of the racks of sausages with a wire brush and power house. I barely lasted a week. I couldn't eat sausage for about 10 years.
10. A doughnut shop. Lasted less than a week. Couldn't eat doughnuts for about 15 years.
11. Picking strawberries. I got paid by the basket. Lemmie tell you, if illegal immigrant labour is getting less than what we did, then they are subsisting on air. I made less than $1/hr for back-breaking work.
12. Waitressing. Which gradually progressed into bartending. For about um, 10 years? Worked in nice upscale restaurants, worked in shitholes, worked in stripjoints. Found out that the classier the place I was working, the worse the customers treated me.
13. The Pharm. I worked in a vaccine lab; with polio, measles, HIV, RSV and PIV. This is where the White Rain story happened. Stayed there for about 10 years.
14. A new media start-up. In QA. Lasted about a year before the company folded.
15. Canadian Blood Services. Broke my back.
16. LD50. Broke my brain
19. And now at the bank.
I need one more for an even 20.
What I'm listening to right this second: Supergroove
kightp1. Babysitting. Sucked at it. Didn't do it very often
2. Got a job briefly helping one of the guys from the ROM make casts of dinosaur bones. That lasted about one day until he made a pass at me. :-p
3. Restocking books at the school library. I think I got $1.50/hr.
4. The school board hired some of the students to revamp the school's entire inventory. I think I even got minimum wage for that.
5. Worked for SCOPE (School Community Outreach Program For the Elderly) doing errands and small jobs for elderly and disabled individuals. That was where I experienced my Scariest House In The World and Holiday in Cambodia stories.
6. Somewhere in there I turned 16. And armed with a new SS number, I got a job doing telephone surveys for a company called Canadian Facts. It was a really interesting place to work - lots of writers, actors and other people trying to make ends meet. Also lots of punks and freaks who liked having work that didn't require changing their clothes.
7. Packing and shipping for a company that made decals. Their biggest line was those things you put on the top of the windshield of your car that tell you what kind of car you're driving.
8. A factory that made life vests. Once again in the shipping department.
9. A sausage factory. My job was to go into the drying fridges and scrub the mold off of the racks of sausages with a wire brush and power house. I barely lasted a week. I couldn't eat sausage for about 10 years.
10. A doughnut shop. Lasted less than a week. Couldn't eat doughnuts for about 15 years.
11. Picking strawberries. I got paid by the basket. Lemmie tell you, if illegal immigrant labour is getting less than what we did, then they are subsisting on air. I made less than $1/hr for back-breaking work.
12. Waitressing. Which gradually progressed into bartending. For about um, 10 years? Worked in nice upscale restaurants, worked in shitholes, worked in stripjoints. Found out that the classier the place I was working, the worse the customers treated me.
13. The Pharm. I worked in a vaccine lab; with polio, measles, HIV, RSV and PIV. This is where the White Rain story happened. Stayed there for about 10 years.
14. A new media start-up. In QA. Lasted about a year before the company folded.
15. Canadian Blood Services. Broke my back.
16. LD50. Broke my brain
19. And now at the bank.
I need one more for an even 20.
What I'm listening to right this second: Supergroove