Jobs
Terry tagged
me last week with a work meme: List all the jobs you've had in your life, in
order.
My first job was also my last, a paper carrier.
At 14 I began delivering the old Star Weekly on Monday
evenings.
At 16 I spent a summer at a slaughter house, de-shrouding sides of beef in the cooler every morning, herding hogs onto the kill floor after lunch.
Next summer Owen and I were hired to produce the local news for radio station CJOM-FM.
Then I was hired as a bookkeeper/press officer for Project Lunchbucket, under an Opportunities for Youth grant. We brought culture to the workers (a coffeehouse.)
Followed by a stint at the Community Resource Centre bookstore, again with the bookkeeping and of course, selling books.
On September 11, 1973 I started work at Chrysler, installing prop shafts at the trunk plant. I stayed with the company for 30 years. Worked in four plants: truck, van, engine, and minivan, and in every major division: body in white (metal), paint, trim, chassis, and final assembly.
As an assembly line worker I performed several hundred different operations, helping to build between 3 and 4 million vehicles. Spot welder, crank polisher, spray painter, piston pusher, masker, scheduler, name plates, hot test, keys, wiring harnesses, etc, etc. There would be a new car to work on every 45 seconds. In the engine plant it was every 20 seconds.
At the end I was doing absentee replacement, repairs, and production coordination, a straw boss.
After retirement my nephews put me to work on their paper routes, whenever they wanted a day off, until last year, when they also retired from the labour force, devoting themselves to their studies and extra-curricular activities. I am required from time to time to photograph them as they do these things, but I am no longer on their payroll.
I'm not going to tag anyone else, as this blog is almost done. But I reserve the right to take up the game down the road.
Still a couple more posts left to come. Being dragged away right now to something called a new year's celebration. This had better be some party.
At 16 I spent a summer at a slaughter house, de-shrouding sides of beef in the cooler every morning, herding hogs onto the kill floor after lunch.
Next summer Owen and I were hired to produce the local news for radio station CJOM-FM.
Then I was hired as a bookkeeper/press officer for Project Lunchbucket, under an Opportunities for Youth grant. We brought culture to the workers (a coffeehouse.)
Followed by a stint at the Community Resource Centre bookstore, again with the bookkeeping and of course, selling books.
On September 11, 1973 I started work at Chrysler, installing prop shafts at the trunk plant. I stayed with the company for 30 years. Worked in four plants: truck, van, engine, and minivan, and in every major division: body in white (metal), paint, trim, chassis, and final assembly.
As an assembly line worker I performed several hundred different operations, helping to build between 3 and 4 million vehicles. Spot welder, crank polisher, spray painter, piston pusher, masker, scheduler, name plates, hot test, keys, wiring harnesses, etc, etc. There would be a new car to work on every 45 seconds. In the engine plant it was every 20 seconds.
At the end I was doing absentee replacement, repairs, and production coordination, a straw boss.
After retirement my nephews put me to work on their paper routes, whenever they wanted a day off, until last year, when they also retired from the labour force, devoting themselves to their studies and extra-curricular activities. I am required from time to time to photograph them as they do these things, but I am no longer on their payroll.
I'm not going to tag anyone else, as this blog is almost done. But I reserve the right to take up the game down the road.
Still a couple more posts left to come. Being dragged away right now to something called a new year's celebration. This had better be some party.
Posted: Wed - December 31, 2008 at 03:31 PM
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