Many jobs and lots of good experiences. 16 Sold Shoes When I was still in school 18 Secretary at Westinghouse 23 about 30 Married and wife and mother From there: More Secretarial jobs. Just under 10 yrs: Inside/Out Metals Sales (pig iron, nickel, foundry coke, magnesium and more) Electronic semiconductor inside sales office (10 yrs) Newspaper want ad sales (2 yrs or so) C/S and correspondent for Jane Fonda Exercise Videos (2 yrs or so) Admissions Assistant in Private School (just under 5 yrs) To end all my work life, FT/PT Child Care 3-4 yrs off and on) Jack of all Trades and MOST jobs have been interesting... Oh somewhere in all these I sold Toyotas for 2-3 days but bf convinced me to give it up,,,,,very hot and menopause was screaming.
My first job was a summer job after I graduated from high school, before going to college. It was at a scuzzy loan company with a scuzzy manager and scuzzy customers. I was only 17, not old enough to get "bonded". The scuzzy manager falsified my papers to get me bonded. One day we were robbed at gunpoint. Luckily, I was in the restroom the whole time primping for a date after work. I came out to excitement and police and much hoop-la. My dad made me quit immediately. None of the subsequent jobs were anywhere near that exciting.....
Hitach America in San Jose, CA And I worked in the sales office with a lot of engineers who were major techie....I was not but it was my first intro to a desktop, the Apple Mac.....oh how I resisted.... What wild times in that Silly Valley, the money thrown all over the place and divorces galore...not me I was already divorced....
Talk about Obsenities in Silly Valley https://www.npr.org/2022/11/15/1136637908/steve-jobs-auction-sandals-birkenstocks-apple
I bought semis in the mid 70s through the 80s (lived through the 74S/74LS Shottky shortage), then worked for a $500Million PC hardware/software reseller. In between that I worked for the communications division of NEC America. I wondered if our companies may have crossed paths back then, but I was buying semis from east coast resellers.