How many of you have worked low-paying, blue collar type jobs ?
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on 6/20/10 at 10:35pm
For those of you who work on Wall Street or in Consulting/Corp Dev etc now, was just curious as to how many of you worked low-paying, barely minimum wage, blue collar type jobs like landscaping, server, telemarketing, roofing etc before you got to where you are now.
Describe your experiences.





Yeah, I had to work Big 4
Yeah, I had to work Big 4 audit for a summer.
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coffeebateman wrote: Yeah, I
Yeah, I had to work Big 4 audit for a summer.
big fat LOL at that comment.
i was telemarketer for a credit card company, from junior yr in hi school to the beginning of my soph yr at college. i made a lot of money for the hrs i worked.
the funny thing is, when the financial crisis started to pick up steam, one of the first things i thought about was that job i had. i basically issued credit cards to ANYBODY who said yes over the phone, it didnt even have to be the person i was calling for. it was pretty bad...
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I worked at FINRA/NASD one
I worked at FINRA/NASD one summer... for some reason they paid $20/hr. That was pretty awesome.
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got paid 2.50/hour plus tips
got paid 2.50/hour plus tips as a waiter.
man, that's how i put myself
man, that's how i put myself through college! being a server at restaurants was a good source of income during the school year. (mainly from tips). plus, learning to deal with pain-in-the-ass customers is pretty much a good training ground for dealing with pain-in-the-ass clients.
mr1234 wrote: coffeebateman
Yeah, I had to work Big 4 audit for a summer.
big fat LOL at that comment.
i was telemarketer for a credit card company, from junior yr in hi school to the beginning of my soph yr at college. i made a lot of money for the hrs i worked.
the funny thing is, when the financial crisis started to pick up steam, one of the first things i thought about was that job i had. i basically issued credit cards to ANYBODY who said yes over the phone, it didnt even have to be the person i was calling for. it was pretty bad...
Lol, interesting story
coffeebateman wrote: Yeah, I
Yeah, I had to work Big 4 audit for a summer.
LMFAO
I sanded cars, washed dishes,
I sanded cars, washed dishes, cut grass, drove a van for a hotel and gave baseball hitting lessons to kids during high school and college..not all at one time but at some point...
few traders behind me were waiters in college..
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I picked up trash at a hotel,
I picked up trash at a hotel, served banquets, been a security guard at McDonald's and an electrical facility, worked in a summer camp, printed passports, worked as busboy in a night club and transported suicidal patients from one hospital to another.
These jobs were all amazing life lessons and I learned a lot from them. It gives you a good kick in the ass when you do these things and see how depressed people around you are - definitely gives you an extra dose of motivation. As my father once told me when I was younger "Student jobs don't allow you to see what you would like to do with your life, but they show you what you don't want to do".
Middle school: worked for a
Middle school: worked for a catering company under the table.
High school: Super Target (meat & dairy dept., transferred to internal Starbucks--super prestigious).
I'm just a SA right now. Last
I'm just a SA right now. Last summer I worked at Subway for a couple of months, one night I walked into the bathroom to clean and found some large stinking Sh!@ on the floor -_- I quit right then and there.
Worked as a removal man,
Worked as a removal man, worked on a farm, etc.
Worked every summer since age 16.
As BradZ said, amazing life lessons.
Worked in a warehouse one
Worked in a warehouse one summer. All we did was load and unload 18-wheelers with stuff for a wal-mart. I actually had it on my resume at one point and discussed it in an interview. I think the interviewer liked the fact that I did some physically demanding work.
I was in the military for 5
I was in the military for 5 years. During college I hosted, bussed tables, waited tables, worked retail (Abercrombie, lol) and worked as a harbor diver.
I look at it this way: at least my life would make a half way interesting book.
RiskyBizness wrote: I was in
I was in the military for 5 years. During college I hosted, bussed tables, waited tables, worked retail (Abercrombie, lol) and worked as a harbor diver.
I look at it this way: at least my life would make a half way interesting book.
haha I worked at Abercrombie as well
Also spent some time working as a cashier at the supermarket. Best part of being a cashier was they keep your stats (like items rung up a minute, etc). So I basically tried to up my stats for personal satisfaction. I got pissed though cause at the end of the summer they put me on cart duty for a week. Trust me, nothing can be worse than making 7/hr to push carts around in the hot August son (Again, being a smart kid - not very strong- i was able to move the carts around quickly and then chilled for a few hours before the lot as a mess again) pushing carts around.
If I ever make it big I can say I started at the very bottom.
looking for that pick-me-up to power through an all-nighter?
I worked at target and my
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CNB90 wrote: I'm just a SA
worked in university, doing
worked at my college,too. Was
beatallica wrote: worked in
landscaping
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coffeebateman: Yeah, I had to
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I wouldn't call it low wage,
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Yea I worked under the table
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