To All the Jobs I've Held Before

I've travelled in and out their doors....You know the rest. Have you ever sat down and thought about all the jobs you've ever had? Some people have been with one company their whole lives. I don't know anyone like that, but I am on the other end of the spectrum. While the following is not a resume, it is a list, just for fun of all the places I've worked.

When I was in junior high school I mowed my grandparents' lawn. For a couple years, I would go to their farm every weekend and mow the lawn. It was a two day job. But it gave me enough experience to work for Schrock's Crafts when I was in high school. I filled mail orders. I also worked at a church camp for one summer between my freshman and sophomore years. One of the guys I worked with at the camp got a job at Noble Roman's Pizza and I followed him there just before my junior year of high school. I worked there until I graduated and went to Cincinnati for college.

My first job in college was at Deaconess Hospital. I worked in food service there. I had some unique opportunities such as watching a surgery. For the record, I didn't make it. They were scrubbing a lady's belly for a laproscopic gall bladder surgery, and that's all I saw. I started to get sick so I left. I didn't want to have to clean up chunks in the OR.

Later, I went to work at the Omni Netherland Plaza Hotel in Room Service and Night Audit. I worked there for 3 1/2 years. To date the longest I had ever held a job. I loved that place. It's a 621 room hotel in downtown Cincinnati that was built in 1929. It is one of the best examples of Art Deco architecture remaining today. Incidentally, Cincinnati's Museum Center (the former Union Terminal) is another fantastic example of this type of architecture.

I left the Omni to work for Studio Plus Hotels with the intent to move to Akron. That didn't work out, so buckle your seat belt. In the next two years I worked for Don Pablo's, Prestige Audio Visual Rental, Applebee's, Dairy Mart, and the Holiday Inn.

I then moved to Columbus to take a job with Extended Stay America. That lasted less than a year. That job holds the distinction of being the only one from which I've ever been fired. I began working at Wendy's after that. Finally, in January of 2000, I took a job with Bank One. I know that I have definitely reached corporate America because I have worked for two different companies and never moved my desk. Bank One is now Chase. Hello, hello.

While working for corporate America, there have been two occasions when I felt I needed some additional income. I worked for PRWT Services processing Child Support Checks and then CVS Pharmacy.

So, to recap, in my career over the last 18 years, I have worked for seventeen different companies in five different industries. And they say I don't have enough experience. They talk a lot, don't they?