Job Title History! Let's have fun with this :-)

Alright guys, let's delve back DEEP and do a job title history. We don't need to reveal a whole lot of personal information, but I thought it would be neat to see where everyone came from and where they are now.

1. Paper Boy (As a kid)
2. Deli Worker
3. Grocery Bagger / Cart Pusher
4. Deli Worker
5. Dish Washer
6. Night Stocker
7. Hotel Front Desk
8. Program Manager Assistant
9. Help Desk Technician
10. Customer Service
11. Telecommunications Roaming Support
11.5 Vounteer PC Repair Technician
12. Cell Phone Electronic Repair Service Technician
12.5 Volunteer Network Support Technician
13. NOC Techncian I
14. NOC Technician II
15. Associate Technical Support Engineer (Telecom, Tier 3)

I had to edit mine as I forgot some items!!

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pizzaboy

1. Bag boy
2. File checker
3. Data entry clerk
4. Front desk
5. Systems support engineer
6. System support specialist
7. IT Support Technician

Tackle

Well this is easy, age included...

1. Paper boy 13-15
2. Production Table lead in warehouse 16-20
3. Assistant Network Engineer 20-21 (Current)

I'm happy to say I've never worked in the food service/retail industry!
Knock on wood I don't hit my head or something and can only flip burgers.

networker050184

Bag Boy
Army Man
Various Network Support/Engineer positions

jamesp1983

1. hardware store cashier/sales
2. customer service at circuit city
3. superfresh utility clerk
4. database admin
5. field service engineer at citizens bank
6. helpdesk at BoA.
7. desktop support analyst II
8. Network System Admin
9. LAN Admin
10. Technical Trainer
11. Implementation Specialist
12. Network Engineer

j6morris

1. Busboy
2. Movie Theatre Concessions
3. Geek Squad
4. Sales
5. Navy IT Support
6. Pharmaceutical IT Support

Aldur

Title/Age

Kitchen cabinet shop grunt - 12
(Took 2 years off and spent some time in Florida) 19-21
Kitchen cabinet shop foreman - 21
JTAC SSL/VPN support engineer - 27
JTAC IPG support engineer - 27
Resident Engineer - 28
Curriculum Developer - 29

Devilsbane

1. Sales Clerk
2. Digital Photo Specialist
3. Backroom Associate
4. Forensics lab administrator (college)
5. IT Service Desk Associate
6. IT Service Desk Senior
7. Ruler of the world (in progress)

Megadeth4168

1. Seasonal Cherry Farming (1 season)
2. Computer Support Technician (2½ years)
3. Information Systems Specialist (11 years)
4. System Administrator (Current)

bertieb

Stock Replenishment Engineer (

) - whilst at Uni
Trainee Computer and Network Technician - 19
Data Centre Operations Engineer - 20
Network Engineer - 22
MS Systems Administrator - 25
MS Technical Authority - 27
Senior Consultant - 31

Time flies when you're having fun......

Danny boy

1 - supermarket cashier
2 - factory worker
3 - labourer
3 - data entry
4 - accounts assistant
5 - admin assistant
6 - accounts payable helpdesk operator
7 - admin assistant
8 - supermarket cashier
9 - IT helpdesk operator
10 - technical support engineer

instant000

What is interesting is how many Kurt Warners are in our midst:

Bag boy.

snopes.com: Kurt Warner

Am I the only one here who went out side and cut grass for some change while growing up?

CenturionMario

1. Garbage Man
2. Assistant Librarian (Voluntary)
3. Customer Service for Computer Lab (Work Study)
4. Food Service Associate
5. Telemarketer (only lasted one hour, they let me go, not a good salesman)
6. Program seller (for the Minnesota Twins)
7. Loader/Unloader/Sorter (current)
8. Technical Support

bertieb

instant000 wrote: »

Am I the only one here who went out side and cut grass for some change while growing up?

Grass and my hayfever never mixed well. I used to clean the neighbours cars for a nominal fee when I was about 8yrs old if that counts? It only lasted one weekend and two cars though. Turns out that kitchen scouring pads were not the best tool for cleaning cars with

....... who figured?

networker050184

instant000 wrote: »

Am I the only one here who went out side and cut grass for some change while growing up?

I did that all the time, but I wouldn't really count it as a job. Quick way to make some money for a night out though!

rogue2shadow

1. Computer Sales Specialist
2. PC Technician/Computer Sales Specialist
3. Program Analyst/Technical Support Specialist
4. Network Security Analyst

alan2308

1. Ground Radio Repairman/PLRS Technician
2. Night Auditor
3. Bench Technician
4. Industrial Electronic Technician
5. Computer Consultant
6. Full Time Student (living on the GI Bill)

Slowhand

Let's see. . .

My first job was at a local place, doing some dirty work at the age of 15:
01) Car washer

Then I went on to sit and lounge by the pool for a while. . .
02) Lifeguard (Local public swimming pool)
03) Lifeguard/Swimming instructor (YMCA)
04) Acting aquatics director (YMCA)

After the YMCA screwed me out of actually taking the Aquatics Director job and refused to pay me more than the regular instructor salary while I was doing the director's job, I sold my soul:
05) Cashier (Blockbuster)
06) Sales Associate (Tiny Computers)
07) DirecTV Sales Representative (Back at Blockbuster again)

I was sick to death of video stores after a while, and went to work for 24 Hour Fitness for about two years:
0

Front Desk Receptionist
09) Fitness Counselor - Sales and personal training
10) Front Desk Receptionist - Graveyard Shift

And finally, some actual IT work at age 22:
11) A+ Technician (CompUSA)
12) Helpdesk Technician (Kaiser Permanente)
13) Systems Engineer (at a Datacenter/ISP)
14) Systems Administrator (at an IT outsourcing company)
15) Systems Engineer (at a video game studio)

And, finally, my new full-time gig:
16) Student

BroadcastStorm

Computer Lab Assistant (scholarship to support my college)
PC Technician (under the table)

Warehouse (dark days)
Flipped Burgers (dark days jack in a crack)
Best Buy (I was fixing customer's PC underground)

Helpdesk (Finally forced to forget my software programming without experience)
Desktop Support
System Administrator
System Engineer
Network Engineer
Network Security Engineer

The only think I did right was to never quit.

tbgree00

When I was 9 I taught elderly people how to turn on computers and use MS Works, Word, and Excel in exchange for a savings bond! I would also fix neighborhood PCs because no one else knew how in the late 90s.

For profit jobs
1) Grocery Packaging Specialist (bag boy)
2) Cart Security and Procurment Expert (buggy wrangler)
3) Custodial Supply Technician (night janitor)
4) Audio Visual Technician (These are real titles now)
5) Media Manager
6) Accounting Associate (book keeping)
7) System Support Specialist (helpdesk and server)

Network Administrator
9) Network Administrator

I'm not sure why I did the whole Economics thing and went into accounting. I was pretty much destined to teach old people how to beep and boop on their computers.

2E151

Hardware Associate [18]
Sheetmetal Apprentice (19)
Senior Airmen/ Satellite Communications, Wideband & Telemetry Systems(21)
Staff Sergeant/ Network Admin (23)
Tech Sergeant/ Team Chief (25)
Satellite Communications Engineer (26)
Computer Systems Analyst (26)

N2IT

Pizza delivery driver 16
Car detailer 17
After college
USDA Quality Control Specialist 21
DoD HR analyst 22
DoD HR analyst 2 24
DoD Deskside Support 25
DoD Foreign Military Munitions Analyst 27
DoD Item Manager (Asset Manager for munitions) 29
Divorced 29
Pizza driver

29
DoD Military Entrance Processing

lol 29
Property Manager and leasing Agent 30
Realtor / Sales Person (Same time I was in property management 30
Help Desk Technician 32
Service Desk Team Lead 33
Help Desk Technician Level 2 with some networking responsibilities 34
Technicial Team Lead (Essentially a supervisor) 35

That divorce will end up costing me over a million USD when it's all said and done.

jwashington1981

Intake Worker
US Navy - Sonar Technician Submarines
Student Worker MIS Department
Customer Service Representative
Computer Tech Support (current)
Network Control Technician (starts July 5)

Psoasman

Childcare worker
Fast food
Landscaping
Multi-Disciplinary Sanitation Engineer
Massage Therapist
Service Assurance Rep for Telco company - first IT job
IT Technician Level 2- current position

XiaoTech

McDonalds slave
Bagger
Stock Clerk
Dairy Clerk
Private English Tutor
" Guest" English Teacher (ESL work)

With CompTIA A+ (going to take the exam soon) and a BA, and some contacts back home, hoping my next title will be "Help Desk" in the future (two months left in Korea).

djfunz

Summer Camp Assistant
Office Clerk
Bagboy, Stocker
Busboy, Waiter
Office Clerk
Architectural (Landscape) Draftsman
Structural Engineering Draftsman
Antique Restorer
Architectural (Residential/Commercial) Draftsman
Architectural (Healthcare) Draftsman
Junior Systems Administrator

spicy ahi

1 - Grocery store Cashier - (Nepotism at its finest. My mom was the store manager so I got to skip the bag boy step)

2 - Grocery store Stock Clerk (Working for your mom sucks. Took a job at a different store, under the guise that it's closer to school)

3 -Air Force Air National Guard 2E2x1 (After thoroughly blowing my college experience and being put on academic probation for a year, joined and chose the AFSC with the longest school date available at the time. Got to my unit and started with phones, moved into circuit board repair, then got thrown in to Unix Administration since I was the youngest guy in my flight, and all the old guys wanted me to learn the new stuff while they stuck to what they knew. Jokes on them!!! They ended up having to learn the stuff anyway, but not the official Solaris training from Sun like I got. They got the dumbed down AF version. Stupidly did not pursue Solaris certification. Paying for it today.)

4 - Unix Systems Administrator (possiby the only time in history that being voluntold paid off; got my clearance upgraded from my previous full time guard job because it became a requirement, but left a month later to take this contract job. Drill weekends very uncomfortable after that.)

5 - Windows Systems Administrator (moved states, changed guard units, had a great time; contract job got cut. booo no jobs)

6 - Systems Administrator (went back to my original state, got a good job with great coworkers. Changed guard units again, loving life; I get to work with Network equipment!)

7 - Network Administrator (despite having the good job and great coworkers in the previous job, the customers were <insert long string of curse words> and found out Cisco monkeys didn't have to deal with customers; could not change jobs fast enough)

8 - Frontline Supervisor/Sr. Network Administrator (my boss quit and I was voluntold to take over; payback for the previous voluntold awesomeness, the job sucked as I became mired in supervisory unpleasantry. It really sucks having to rate your friends and figure out how to tell one of your buds he's not getting a raise or bonus cause he didn't earn it and why. Lost two good friends in the process.)

9 - Sr. Network Administrator (Left a year after I got "promoted" to take the same job with the same company at a different site sans the Supervisor work thankfully. Gained back one good friend, the sucker that got "promoted" after I left. He now understands why our one bud didn't get a raise or bonus.)

10 - Network Engineer (I am now an Army of one. There are perks to being the only IT guy, and I'll let you know when I find 'em)

Jinuyr

Pool Cleaner
PC Technician
Senior PC Technician
Corporate IT Tech Intern
Help Desk Analyst
Corporate IT Tech
Support Analyst/DBA
Cook
Cook's Helper
Pantry Cook
Master Cook
Cook
IT Manager

Mishra

I'm waiting for the post like...

Bag Boy
Clerk
Mcdonalds
Office attendent
IT Helpdesk
Systems Administrator
Infrastructure Engineer
CLASSIFIED
CLASSIFIED
CLASSIFIED

Webmaster

I've done a lot of "vacation jobs" as a teenager, like carrot/potato/flower bulb picker and "production employee" (I turned around spray cans to make sure the sticker machine put a sticker on the backside of the can - one week and I knew I'd finish school and start studying my ass off.) Loved my early morning paper route.

Now for the more relevant, I've done several short contract jobs under different titles and don't even remember all the variations they came up with (to push my hourly rate to customers) so this is the slimmed down version:

- Application Manager (desktop software manager basically, though I managed two Netware servers as well of which one I implemented at a remote location)
- Helpdesk employee (1st line and 2nd line support)
- Support desk employee (2nd line) / Desktop Admin
- Desktop/Server Admin and 2nd line support
- IT Consultant (general title at the company I was employed at and said little about what I actually did at the companies I actually did the work at)
- Netware Admin (3.12 and 4)
- Exchange Server admin
- Project Manager (large infrastructure changes involving new servers, routers/switches and often moving to larger/newer buildings)
- Exchange Consultant (actually what the name implied that time though I didn't just "advice" but usually ended up doing the implementation/migration/upgrade as well)
- Trainer/Coach (last permanent position)
- Webmaster
- Various titles I tailor to the hat I'm wearing at that moment

pram

I've only had 3.

Air Force:
1. Inflight Refueling Technician

Civilian:
2. Linux Administrator 1
3. Unix Administrator