5 jobs everyone should have

[veronica_rich]

I know Cracked.com essays are hardly definitive tomes, but the one about the 5 kinds of jobs everyone in the world should have to work over the course of a lifetime nails it. I've had close to 20 different jobs in my life, some concurrent, and they've consisted of everything from paid-under-the-table wedding catering grunt worker (don't bother coming after me, IRS; it was YEARS ago and what I made was so laughably little you wouldn't be able to tax me on it), to paralegal, to dishwashing, to scouting locations for a film commission, to investigative reporter, to fast food cook, to editor.

Oh, and babysitting. And housecleaning. And pro cake decorator. (And that was just high school.)

Just sayin', I agree.

Comments

[gobsmacked.livejournal.com]

If teaching a course counts as "having power" I guess I've done all of them:
I worked for a couple of weeks in a sit-in fast food place where I was required to clean the baseboards on my hands and knees during open hours. If I didn't do a booth because customers were sitting there eating, I got in trouble. This led to me being suspended and then quitting.
I worked for several summers at a science museum and then held a job in an art museum, all dealing with schoolkids or kids & families
I worked stuffing envelopes more than once.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Taco Bell was the worst fast food job I ever had. Too many bosses contradicting each other and absolutely no encouragement for forethought or taking responsibility outside being ordered what to do - in fact, you got penalized for it.