[Shawnee123]

13 years old--local large produce farm picking strawberries and "packing" corn (for large scale distribution) It was about 3 miles from home and I could ride my bike...later moped to work.
Continued there every summer all through college.

College: cafeteria (what a fun job--we worked hard and had a blast)

Post college--

manufacturing (soldering to mil-specs, made safety/arming devices for missile systems right about the first gulf war time) testing, etc--later on supervisor/solder school teacher)

Another manufacturing QA job, testing airplane generator parts (commercial and military)

Another manufacturing job, QA Supervisor in charge of testing and calibrations for a printed circuit board maker (not the components...the boards themselves...single layer, multi-layer, flex...all kinds of complexity, commercial and military)

Another manufacturing job testing RF filters and trying not to get fried in the large amounts of electricity involved in some testing

Current job in financial aid at a college--5 years.

All through post-college jobs also worked at the popular downtown bar, and the country club...bartending, waiting tables, cooking...also bartended private parties in people's homes.

I miss the physicality of my old manufacturing jobs, but my organizational skills and love of documentation made me a prime candidate for my current job (which is a state job so have public employee bennies.)