What was/is your seasonal employment in high school/college?

My first summer in college, I worked days as a groundskeeper for my local school district. I moonlighted as a convenience store clerk, where I spent the next four years through school until I graduated. I don't know how I managed to work 80 hours a week during the summer. I can barely suffer through 40 now.

Oh, I also forgot- 4th summer of college, I worked the day shift at a paint store when the convenience store cut my hours (they were overstaffed).

Worked there year round through high school and few years in college. Then did some house painting and landscaping.

First summer job was after 10th grade. I was a clerk at a ladies' clothing store at the local mall. Next summer, I was a lifeguard at a local college (orchestrated by my mother, who worked at that college). The summer after high school, I was a lifeguard at a local public pool. I worked off and on throughout college and went to summer school most summers, and I had a variety of jobs: cashier at a grocery store; telephone survey conductor (NOT a telemarketer!); and cashier at the Student Union grill.

I worked at Wendy's for three weeks one summer during college. All I can say is I'm glad it wasn't longer.... :yoiks:

1990 -- camp counselor: Junior Counselor
1991 -- camp counselor: Arts and Crafts specialist
1992 -- Kids R Us clerk
(graduated h.s.)
1993 -- Kids R US clerk
1994 -- Kids R Us clerk
1995 -- Kids R Us clerk
1996 -- Office temp
(graduated college)
1997 -- Office temp

Then I got the teaching gig, didn't work during the summer, got laid off, and got year-round employment.

Sad to say, my favorite job to date.

I was outside all day and absolutely loved that job. I was a one-man show and was responsible for about 1/2 dozen baseball fields. I was even presented an award for the quality of my diamond-keeping.

also welder's assistant on a pipeline repair crew,

oh, and also chemistry lab assistant (forgot that one).

Ace Hardware Store stockboy...

And while in college, I worked in the Parts department of a VW dealership for awhile.

Seriously.

So many jobs because I went to school - or not - for a long time. I once flunked organic chemistry because it was more fun to move furniture (and make money!) than it was to go to class or study.

When I was moving furniture I was hot. I was solid muscle. Women (and some guys) looked at me.

The most frustrating job I had was fixing up student housing for landlords who didn't want to spend any money. And WTF is wrong with university students who have money? I swear it was the kids who had money who were most likely to kick holes in the wall, smash toilets, or light the curtains and carpet on fire.

...I worked at a drug store in HS, then at a warehouse, then I cut the grass at a cemetery for the summer after HS then I worked for Sears, then I canvassed for MassPIRG, then I opened swimming pools, then I was a groundkeeper for a mall in the summer, then a janitor for the same mall, then groundskeeper again, then deli worker at a grocer, then overnight shift at a convenience store until I got robbed, then overnight at the drugstore again, then I graduated college.

The absolute best job for a young person, in terms of making alot of undeclared income!

And rather good for staying fit too...

I've been quickly remembering why I hate people.

then painter, construction laborer, then assistent stationary engineer.

I like caddy and engineer best.

although not at the same time...i worked there several years in a number of capacities.

in college- i cleaned animal cages and killed rabbits who had outlived their experiments.

at an ourdoor musical theater during the summer. In fact, our "season" starts Monday. :hi:

In college I was an envelope stuffer and then engineering assistant for a pump manufacturer.

support my family after my dad took off. He left my mother with a crippling house payment and a number of maxed-out credit cards.

My sister, my brother and I all took jobs to keep our heads above water. My Senior year I delivered newspapers in the morning before school, worked at McDonald's in the evening after school, and caddied at the local golf course on the weekends. Occasionally I would take odd jobs assembling furniture, doing landscaping, and pet-sitting for out-of-town friends. I remember falling asleep in class every once in a while, and waking up after the bell had dismissed the students. None of my teachers ever reproached me for this, and I suspect they knew what was going on, and didn't hassle me about it.

I'll never forget those times. The things I remember most are people from our church coming over every once in a while bearing sacks of groceries for us, and my mother bursting into tears over her dinner plate early on when things were really rough.

If any of this makes me sound like a saint, I wasn't. I behaved rottenly the whole time. My anger and despair at my dad was directed at my remaining family members, and I only made life harder for them. I really regret that.

Started off just filing patient records, but then learned some other stuff too - I'd give people their preliminary checks (which just involved pointing machines at them), and I would mark up lenses for people's glasses, or check the prescription in the finished glasses in the lab...basically anything to avoid being visible and ready for passing members of the public to ask me questions. ;)

I did that for a couple of summers from university as well, but in my last summer I signed up as an office-temp and did data-entry after two weeks the company decided that I was utterly underused and so I was turned into data-management in which I was still underused but could sit around e-mailing friends all day long. :D

Hey, if you can't join your friends for a night out because you have to go to work, have them come to you!

Tougher job than most people think, but late at night when things slowed down, great for socializing.

It's true that people will tell things to their bartender they'd never tell to their friends/spouse.

painting, landscaping, minor repairs


and member of a crew that cleaned and maintained a chain of indy gas stations. This was Summer in Phoenix. I spent the days (120 degrees) running a big scribbing machine that cleaned the asphalt and concrete and then play baseball (usually at least two games) every night. One time there was a gas price war and we raced all over town changing the prices on signs trying to stay ahead of the big chains. 49.9. :sigh:

In high school, I baled hay and did grunt labor on local ranches.

and at a Corn Dog stand at Astroworld in Houston for a couple of summers

One summer, staying on campus, I worked in the Library resorting the card catalogs. It was on disk the following year......

While at college, I worked in the dishroom of the food service when I was a freshman. Oh, the dreams.

After that, I worked paying gigs as a writer and editor at various places. It was fun.

I worked under my mom who was a lead in the finishing dept.

I also worked a lot of odd weekends and breaks for my dad, who is a self employed furniture and antique refinisher.

...also sold cookies out of a basket in full Renaissance costume at Shakespeare in the Park performances, then worked at a bedding plant nursery another summer. The dull summer was one spent as a cashier in a restaurant, two summers in a record store, but the last one was for the IRS doing a lot of filing in un-air conditioned warehouses.


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