First of all sorry for my english grammar since i am not english speaker.
I have been here for an while since i was 18, and currently i am 30. I always wondering behind of all these profiles which career or training you guys follow. My case i am traveller blogger.

Insurance claims for 40 years until made redundant two years ago, now I'm a van driver

Mechanical Engineer by training, currently unemployed /"financial derivatives trader".

Also theres a typo in your post. You meant to say you joined when you were 18, but you hit the 7 instead of the 8.

Everything and anything someone would teach me. I got really ill when I was in college so I had to drop out, and I tend to lose jobs and/or end up in the hospital whenever it kicks up again.

I've been a shop hand for a car mechanic, worked in retail, been a film projectionist, a travelling sun room salesman, a teller at a bank, an operations accountant at the same bank, a financial legal clerk, and an apprentice blacksmith.

Right now I work for a medical equipment company. I take orders for wheelchairs, hospital bed, and O2 from hospitals and work with getting health insurances to pay for it.

Research scientist and counsellor.

Chronologically... AR/AP, almost 12 years in the military in admin, office manager, operations manager (several times in my life), finance, accounting, business owner, and the occasional entrepreneur and investor. These days I am a proud housewife to a wonderful woman, and keeper of 40 beautiful acres.

I originally trained to be a furniture polisher. The company I worked for specialised in furniture dating from 1485 - 1649 covering the Tudor, Elizabethan, Jacobean and Carolian periods. Fascinating and most enjoyable. After that I went on to be a fast response medical supplies delivery driver. Loved doing that right up to me sustaining an awful back injury that left me disabled. My PC is my window on the world. You pervy lot keep me half sane! lol And you Madeline, I have watched online since you first started posting your lovely images. Wonderful to have you back among us. My one wish is that we could have met when we were younger.......

I'm a soundguy. Or was, anyway.

Started as a farm hand, then automotive mechanic, automotive machinist, telephone lineman, audio engineer, and now computer programmer & sysadmin with my own companies (mothership/vidown)

Along the way, I was also a pro musician, recording studio owner, restaurant owner, vending machine owner, operator of multiple nightclubs and concert venues, and now doing some vintage electronic repair.

I have a short attention span

I'm a patient financial counselor for cancer patients. I help them get financial assistance and explore opportunities for free medications to continue treatments. Doing this for 35 years.

That is super cool. I love learning about all of the unique, odd jobs that you never hear about.

I'm in grad school. Unfortunately there is still lots of work I can do from quarantine. If only I would do any of it.

Thank you. I never had anybody tell me I had a cool job before!

The photo is of a reproduction chair, a copy of an original antique and made from English oak. It has no modern metal fixings like screws. All the joints are mortise and tenon and pegged with oak dowels to hold them together. It was made for the company I worked for, and I did the finishing work on it for them. The chair is now back in my ownership after I found it quite by accident in an online search! Some 33 years since I did the finishing work on it. It is a Westmoreland chair, and the carving on the back is of bracken. I know the person who did the carving, and the main large panel took him three weeks to complete by hand. I used to love working on the original furniture, it is amazing and incredible just how much furniture survives from the last 5/6 hundred years. I have also done a lot of family history research and recently I learned that one of my ancestors, Ralph Margery, was an army captain for Oliver Cromwell and they knew each other, and I used to work on furniture from that period. I hope you find that as interesting as I did doing and learning about it.

I began as a wannabe photojournalist but ended up working in photo stores so I wouldn't starve to death. This is why I am now an information technology supervisor in a manufacturing plant. Photographing naked muddy ladies was a great hobby but never paid the bills.

Im a postgrad now doing a masters degree at a fuckin posho university on International Relations and Political Theory. My undergraduate was on the same thing at a far less posh uni that was happy enough to take in some wannabe bohemian communist from a poor and long forgotten pit village. God knows what ill be doing with all this but its meant to end up with some fancy job down in London so here's hoping. In the meantime ive been living off the loans the government pays me that i'll inevitably never pay off.

I'm a train planner, and before anyone starts, I worked for Southern when they were good! I can't actually say where I work these days (well who I work for, currently where I work is my flat...) due to silly media policies. Other things, well I've a piece of paper in accounting (says something when the uni course gives you depression) Other than a summer at Pringle (the knitwear folks) all my employment has been on or around trains.

My university education background is a mix of computer science and photography. I'm currently a linux admin in the corporate datacenter universe. I'm also an event promoter, throwing pair of long running annual rave type events. I do contract IT and marketing gigs from time to time as well. Then there's the whole I make cake porn thing. I don't know what I want to be when I grow up.

Professional Rheumatoid Arthritic. At least that's what the government has paid me to do since February 2003. It does not pay well (only this year my takehome is $840/month) but at least I get to make my own hours.

I have a second job as fulltime Professional YouTube commenter. That pays nothing,
but, boy, it sure feels good.

In the following order after schooling: ... delivery boy, messenger boy, golf caddy, keyboard player in a band, supermarket cashier, bank messenger, bank teller, accountant, auditor ... and then in 1991...a gamechanger. I got laid off and tried my hand at Real Estate and after being a failure as a Realtor (I lack the social skills...I don't kiss backsides) ..I decided to become a degenerate....I mean Wam Producer.

29 years and counting as a WAM Producer....I am happy now. I do not have a boss to kiss up to....and whatever mistakes and bad decisions I have made were all my own fault.

MK

Worked in an animal hospital as a kennel attendant followed by manager. Was in the army reserves at the same time for a while. Then went to school to be a Licensed Massage Therapist and that's what I am to this day. Currently not working due to 100% non essential workforce stay at home order in my state, but eventually will be back when this is all over.

I have always wondered what peoples jobs are and if there is a particular trade that attracts the messiest people! Me.........Marine engineer officer to include working on container ships, research ships and dredgers. Now senior engineer in sanitation.......posh word for sewers, sewage works and pumping stations!!

As someone who's had cancer twice and had to go through all of that crap in WHILE being poisoned for 3 months straight to kill it, thank you.


And Doctordamp, that's a really fascinating job. In the short time I spent smithing I found it was my favorite job. Nothing comes close to me like working with your hands and making something, especially artistic.

Commercial general contractor/construction management and land developer. Also martial art instructor from empty hand to firearm.

I have a few postgraduate degrees in the humanities, currently training in a field related to the application of law.

Molecular biology researcher...but these days professional housewife. Not super exciting when you're stuck home 99% of the time

Protective services aka security

I left out Professional Masturbator, Spoon & Fork Operator, Chair Moistener, & Gastropod from Sector 7G. Is it too late for me to add these to my resume?

I'm an administrative assistant.

I've been there for 14 years, which is more than 1/3 of my life.

ASE Master technician a at Mercedes Benz Dealership, Done it all, side work too on rebuilding AMG automatic transmissions too on our own dining room table . I'll never forget the day my lady said "that red fluid looks fun" lol, surprised she said that consider the awful smell, but had to tell her ATF is not something to mess with, very poisonous actually.

On another note to all here and I'm serious on this, never get sloppy or messy with any automotive fluids, it contains some nasty shit especially the ATF and brake fluids, motor oil too, no, just don't do it, ever! Trust me on this I really mean it.... There's plenty of other safer glop out there, stated towards anybody who's ever thought of such an idea. Stick with the baby oil and other gloppy stuff like we do.

I am an educated engineer, i've been into architectural consulting for car dealerships for decades, now in early retirement.

You all have such fancy jobs...makes me feel stupid saying "I stock the shelves over night at a grocery store..." but hey, nobody can knock me now, I'm in the big leagues, I'm "essential", until this all goes away, then I'm back to being a night scoundrel. Say what you will, the pay is decent, the vacation time is great, I don't really have to deal with people, get to wear what I want, and listen to music all night. It's a pretty sweet deal, but who knows how long I'll be able to do it, I see myself falling apart in 20 years, if I even make it that long...Already been at it for 13.

Prior to this I started off on a farm picking vegetables, and throwing away old flowers...

Then I worked at a pet store doing everything from cleaning cages, to unloading trucks, to running a register...

Then I made the big move to the grocery chain I work at now. Bagger, cashier, grocery clerk/bread clerk, and then night crew clerk. I stepped up as an assistant for about a year, and when I got called up to the office one night and was written up for the stupidest thing, I said "I'd like to step down now." and now I'm just a regular full timer, wasn't worth the extra dollar an hour to deal with all the extra bull of being in charge.

Architect - work a lot on community projects and historic buildings. The best bit is being up on the scaffolding with the stonemasons troubleshooting how to fix the place. Sometimes they get to do amazing sculptural carvings that'll be there for centuries until they weather away to nothing like the old ones did. I know exactly how I would design a wet/wam room but with the cost of property and living in London can't afford to things like that. A good old blowup pool does the job.