What jobs have you had? – The Daily Writing prompt inquires.
Before I graduated high school, I delivered newspapers and worked in a few kitchens and an ice cream factory. I did some drywall work for a bit.
At 18 I started in Newspapers in the Engraving department. Occasionally I’d get out to the pressroom and mailroom when they were short-handed. Next, I became the Graphics manager and then the Photo Coordinator. Then I was moved to Pre-Press Technology and Development manager and finally Systems Operations manager. This was 21 years of my life with the Times/Patuxent Publishing Newspaper group.
After that, 3 of us struck out on our own and started a weekly newspaper. I tried to learn how to sell and, that I wasn’t a salesman after a year and a half. We all wore a great number of hats being so small.
For the next 26 years, I was a Pre-Press Systems Programmer/Analyst, a System Consultant, a publishing system Team Lead for CCI, a Senior UNIX System Administrator, and a System Analyst again at The Washington Post.
Now I’m working on my passions and I don’t call that a job but it’s a fair amount of work.
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