Other jobs...

[serenity now]

What other jobs did you have before coming to UPS?

(sorry scratch, you don't get to play)

took foods orders on a tray out to people in their cars at an old style drive-in
repaired single cylinder 4-cycle engines
short order cook (pick it up)
gopher at a USDA Harvesting & Processing research center
service rep. for a farm equipment manufacturer
front desk clerk at a motel
forklift/reachtruck operator at a huge distribution warehouse
caught newspapers coming off the printing press (fast paced)


always left on goods terms at the time of my choosing

 

[Brownslave688]

Worked for a state park. Mostly mowing.

Worked for our village.

Worked for a community college.

Made emergency brakes.

Landscaper.

Most of my jobs have been physical labor types.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Worked in the shipping department of a Christmas bulb factory during the summer while going to college.

Worked in the deli department of a grocery store while in high school.

Put gas on airplanes while in the Air Force.

Worked the graveyard shift stocking shelves in a grocery store and delivered auto parts during the day when I was a casual driver.

 

[Brownslave688]

So u pretty much got hired off the street right after the military?!?!? U know your a pretty lucky man.

 

[QKRSTKR]

I had numerous jobs while I was part time at UPS. Grocery store, painter, roofer, cut grass, last one was transit bus driver. Before UPS I worked at a bowling alley. Mostly in back as mechanic (pinchaser) fixed automatic pin spotters when they broke. That was the only job I had before UPS, I was hired when I was 18.

 

[CaliforniaPaul]

Did you put gas ON airplanes or IN airplanes???

Embalmers appentice

Laborer at C & H Suger

US Army

Nuclear Pipefitter

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

So u pretty much got hired off the street right after the military?!?!? U know your a pretty lucky man.

I was technically still in the Air Force (terminal leave) when I was hired by UPS. The DM at the time preferred hiring veterans whenever possible. This was long before hiring a vet became the right thing to do.

 

[barnyard]

I managed a dairy farm
sold binoculars and telescopes
owned my own photo studio
worked for a multi-line sales rep at sport shows in the winter (while I was PT at UPS)
demoed smokers and grills for the local hardware store at home shows and cooking demos

While I was in college I worked for the UofMn Southern Experiment Station. I was offered a FT gig when I graduated and did not take it. I am fairly certain if I had, I would still be there. A union-represented farm job. If only I knew then, what a know now. Sigh.

 

[Returntosender]

Don't embalmers make good money?

 

[Cementups]

I was a bus boy at two separate restaurants through high school. Then started at UPS a month and a half after graduation.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Don't embalmers make good money?

Usually but sometimes their clients stiff them.

 

[Bagels]

UPS was my first job. Still here 13 years later.

 

[superballs63]

during/after High School I worked at either a local carry-out shop and Subway.

After that I worked at a body shop for about 6 years, 3 of which I also worked pt at UPS.

I stay at jobs for quite a while, so this 30 year stint at UPS should be cake

 

[Anonymous 10]

Garbage man, dock worker, meat cutter, landscaper, welding apprentice Wonderbread delivery man.

 

[bbsam]

I used to deliver for UPS. I guess in a way I still do.

 

[Bubblehead]

Put gas on airplanes while in the Air Force.

You probably would have been better served putting the gas in the airplanes.

 

[bbsam]

You probably would have been better served putting the gas in the airplanes.

At least the airplanes would have been.

 

[Kis124]

Security
Mechanic
Deli
Auto parts delivery
various light industrial (including injection mold speculums) lol

 

[Jackburton]

In order since age 15, cashier, stock boy, age 18 did stocking overnight at Petsmart, moved up through the ranks to Store Manager with 5 management and 30 employees under me. Was the youngest store manager in the history of the company, did that for 5 years and on the 5th year, 1 day, left the keys in the desk and quit. Decided from that point forward I would never compromise my family, people under me, or myself in the name of corporate incompetence and greed. I would never do another salary job or be responsible for others that I had no choice to lie to or undermine their lives to get more production out of them so I could keep my job.

Applied at UPS and was asked if I was interested in starting as a PT sup, on a fast track to FT sup. Explained the above story to the hiring manager and took a pt job on reload while working pt at Target doing planograms, trying to figure out what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. FT driving job came up and gave it a shot, the rest is history.

 

[DS]

Toronto star hopper,(hop off back of truck with bundles for stores,
subway stations etc)
I worked at a plastic moulding place making cigarillo tips,
Receiver at a warehouse,Many temp jobs.
Then I got into selling records.
Alldisc,A&A records,Records on wheels...
Started to hate it,asked our ups driver Murray if
ups was hiring,that was 23 years ago.