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My resume.

A la Wicked-Sezzy's entry listing all of her jobs, here is my official list of...

JP's JOBS!!!

(NOTE: Unlike Ms. Sezzy, I won't be adding the dates because I, in no way, can keep up with dates from ten years ago. I'll try to include length of time I worked at said locations if I can remember.)

  1. McDonald's Yes, I worked at the restaurant that has served billions. But unlike the commercial keeps saying, I wasn't lovin' it. In fact, I worked there for only a whopping fifteen minutes. I went in, learned how to clock in, got my uniform, and watched a ten-minute video on how lucky I was to be on the Micky-D team. Oh, and I got yelled at. All within fifteen minutes. About two months later, I got a check in the mail for about $1.20 (after an income tax of $0.04 was taken out by The Man). That's the extent of my fast food experience.
  2. Hide-A-Way Lake Lodge This was the little country club of the gated community of Picayune. Every day I worked, I was on my feet for at least twelve hours a day. It's the most I've ever had to stand at any job. The managers were extremely mean to everyone on staff. The entire kitchen staff up and quit one day right in the middle of dinner rush. It was awesome. I found out several years ago that working there was the closest I have ever gotten to working with the mafia, though, because the managers were later arrested for extrortion and money laundering. Pretty cool! Oh, and I worked there for about three months.
  3. WRJW Radio My first radio station. I worked there for two years solid, then off-and-on stints periodically after that, mostly just for fun. I was a DJ in the smallest room of a radio station you could imagine. It was a country radio station, and so I sat on my butt for five hours a day, listened to the radio, and perfected talking to myself for money. I loved working there, but the manager -- the fattest and meanest woman you have ever seen -- was less than ideal to work for. But the owner of the station liked me and saw potential. He was cool.
  4. WKNN -- K-99FM I graduated from small-town AM station and went down to Biloxi to work for the #1 radio station on the coast. I worked with this super-duper hotttt DJ -- whose name I can't remember -- and we actually got along really well. I met the most famous people while working at this place. I worked there for about a year.
  5. Naval Oceanographic Office I worked here for about six months on some kind of study-and-work program for students. I got mad money working as a computer clerk (basically I sat on my ass for eight hours a day and watched Jerry Springer Uncensored tapes my supervisor brought in). It was the easiest job I've ever had, and it made me realize government work wasn't all that bad.
  6. Zimmer Radio Group My first job in Columbia, Missouri, as a part-time DJ at five different radio stations. I worked here for about another year or so, putting my total on-air experience at around five years. The money at Zimmer for DJs sucked because they relied on computers to do about 75% of the radio work, so most DJs were basically part-time. I can't honestly say I loved my time at Zimmer. Too corporate for my tastes.
  7. Wal-Mart Since I was working part-time, I had to get a job at Wal-Mart and at the one below this one to help get myself established in Missouri. I first started working in hardware. We all know how much I know about hardware. But I actually started learning a few things, and my favorite thing to do was mix paint. That was so much fun for some reason! Then they moved me to electronics, where I would show people computers and sort out all of the CDs people would put in the wrong spots. I hated electronics more than hardware and longed to go back to mixing paint.
  8. One-Hour Photo Pro This was a fun job. I got to process peoples' pictures one-hour style! We were the only joint in Columbia that would process nude photos (the owner was German...), so I would keep a few here and there. There was actually a guy in Columbia who had a porno website who would process his stuff with us. He was into nasty shit, too... pooping and peeing. Not exactly erotica in my book.
  9. KMIZ -- ABC-17 My first TV job. I started doing production work. My first position was a video editor, then I was a camera operator, telepromptor operator, sound, video tape roller, and chyron creator. That was a lot of fun. I thoroughly enjoyed putting together an actual news broadcast from start to finish. Lots of job satisfaction. I did that for a while until I got the position of "Master Control Operator". In a nutshell, Master Control puts everything out onto the air: commercials, network, local syndication, local broadcasts, crawls, bugs, you name it. If you see something mess up with what's on your TV, there is a 90% chance the Master Control guy is the cause. If he isn't the cause, he is definitely freaking out. It's his job to ensure everything on TV looks perfect.
  10. KOMU -- NBC-8 My first TV job paid peanuts, so I went and worked for the only state-run network television station in the country. State benefits and all. It was great. Same work, just a lot more money. It was also at this station that I started my gig as "On-Air Chef", cooking tasty dishes periodically in front of the camera. It was a dream come true, even though it was just small-time (REALLY small-time) stuff. At the end of my work here, I had a total of almost nine years of broadcasting experience.
  11. Les Bourgeois The restaurant where I worked for fun while at KOMU. I was on my feet for many hours, and I would come home exhausted, sore, and with multiple cuts and burns on my hands. But I *LOVED* it. I had so much fun. I had never, before working there, been given so much creative freedom in my work. I was proud of everything I put out.
  12. Air Force Where I am now. It's not bad. Lots of benefits. I forecast weather for Europe when I actually work. Otherwise, I surf the net for hours at a time when "training" people. And I get a lot of time off to go parading around Europe on my whim.

    So, there ya go. That's pretty much my entire employment history of jobs I actually paid taxes. I didn't put in my personal chef job, the year I did magic shows for kids' birthday parties, and my very, very short stint as a yard detailer. That lasted all of one yard-cutting job.

    I don't like to sweat.

    1:00 a.m. - Friday, Oct. 08, 2004

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