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A few jobs

What jobs have you had? – Another prying question from the daily writing prompt.

Even though I’m a career newspaper person, I’ve had several different jobs in that field, and before that.

  • Paperboy – Delivered papers on a bike.
  • Drywall – hanging, mudding, sanding
  • Lawn boy – mow
  • Ice Cream factory – 1/2-gallon line.
  • Cook – at a couple places
  • Reproduction photographer – Engraving – platemaking – stripping
  • Pressman
  • Inserter
  • Photo Coordinator
  • Graphics Manager
  • Prepress Technology Development Manager
  • System/Prepress Manager
  • Systems Operations Manager
  • Publishing Business Partner
  • System and Engineering Programmer/Analyst
  • Publishing System Team Lead
  • Senior UNIX System Administrator.
  • Network Operations Center team lead

I’m retired now but working hard on my next career in the arts and writing.

Hopefully your job is a good one and you are soaring. Photo by Mike Hartley

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Professions

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.

A bumper sticker I can Support. Photo by Mike Hartley

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.

Wall of front pages on 9/11/2001. Photo by Mike Hartley

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