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In reply to the discussion: What have you done to earn money in your life? Here's my list. [View all]Sancho
(9,073 posts)-baby sitting, cutting grass as a teen
-selling door-to-door for Fuller Brush
-painting apartments (yuk)
-picking tobacco with immigrants on a GA farm (hot!)
-driving a school bus (actually fun, $1.85 an hour)
-summer camp counselor (more fun)
-working in a textile mill (slave labor)
-Burger King (two years in college)
-steak restaurant cook (another college job)
-occasional musician (union wages!)
-Mexican restaurant at a mall (boring)
-filing papers for a doctor's office (paid well)
-clerk at college bookstore
-photographer (darkroom days, no digital cameras)
-construction labor (planted pot in the landscaping of a new college safety office; early 70's)
-tutored college athletics (met some famous people)
-sailing instructor
-soccer coach and referee
-worked for a politician's initiative (Richard Riley, SC Governor, Sec. Ed.)
-educator at all levels (pubic schools, private, rural, urban, elementary grades through university)
-consultant/contracts/grants for government agencies/foundations