Here are all the jobs I have had, but only including those for which I received compensation or official designation. Sometimes I even managed a working wage.
This is why I've had a hard time being middle class. Though my "standing" has supported that label, the amount of labour I've performed merely to survive has me thinking that I am "working".
During public education:
- Dishwasher
- Newspaper delivery boy
- Grocery store clerk
- Chinese take-away clerk
- Bus-boy
During higher education:
- Psychology test subject (briefly)
- Applied Mathematics research assistant (one summer)
- Physics lab assistant (another summer)
- Accounting clerk (a final summer)
- Mathematics tutor
- Driver (for a car dealership)
- Concert photographer
- Newspaper reporter (entertainment)
After graduation:
- Secretary
- Receiving and shipping clerk
- Radio producer and DJ
- Print designer
- Front of house (theatre)
- Corporate trainer
- Theatre sound designer
- Live mix engineer
- Newsletter coordinator
- Party Riding Officer (for the Green Party)
- Record store clerk (at Sam the Record Man)
- Database programmer
- Chief Technology Officer
- Art gallery invigilator
- Proofreader
- Concert curator
- Max/MSP trainer
- Media coder
- Book editor and designer
- Journal editor
Currently:
- Record label owner
- University lecturer
- Director
- Editorial Board member
- Musician and performer
- Music producer
- Event photographer
- Festival organiser
Originally posted to Facebook September 2020, updated February 2025.
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