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cyclometh
King's Row
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Location: Olympia, WA
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| Larissa Gallagher wrote: | Without listing all my 'achievements', favorite to date was as a singing Christmas Tree - and parents might like to hear that I may or may not have been for a very short stint, Dorothy the Dinosaur of the Wiggles fame (damn those non-disclosures). Apparently I was too short for Wags the Dog  |
Are you kidding? That's so cool! My son loved the Wiggles (we went to see them live when he was younger) and my daughter is currently very much into them.
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Bish
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Location: Lost in the cultural wasteland of Long Island
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I can't match a military or a pilot's uniform... but here's me in my corporate one from a few years ago... sometime in the last century.
I always had trouble with ties...
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todd ellis
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Location: little egypt
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yeah - i remember - i had a tie once!
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Scott Pollak
The Gates of Troy
Joined: 01 Jun 2010
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Location: Looking out at the San Juan mountains
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Okay, I've resisted since I have to wonder how much anyone other than me cares about what I've done, but starting at age 14:
- popcorn/peanut/soda vendor at the Houston Astrodome
- dishwasher at a cafeteria
- ticket taker, usher at two different movie theatres
- gas station attendant (when gas was .32/gallon, about 1972 or so)
- waiter, bartender (in New Orleans! Talk about FUN!!)
- guitarist in band
- dj at about 6 different radio stations (New Orleans and Atlanta)
- sales clerk at music/stereo outlet (when we still sold 8-track tapes. yes. Really)
- video producer for the phone company
- freelance video producer
- realtor (briefly)
- car salesman (even briefer)
- customer service at a film processing lab
- stay-at-home dad. BEST job.
- test patient for foreign medical students. Yes. Really.
- web designer
oh, and voice dude for the past 10 years.
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Clients include Pandora, NPR Atlanta, Wells Fargo, Cisco, Humana, Publix, UPS, AT&T, HP, Xerox and more.
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naturalknight
Joined: 25 Mar 2012
Posts: 22
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
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| Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2012 9:06 am Post subject: |
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Henceforth shall I spew:
Portfolio administrator
Customer relations specialist
Project Manager
Traffic surveyer
Furniture removal
Musician (vocals, guitar)
Pastor
Web designer
Copywriter
Marketing assistant
VO amateuribob
Not nearly as long a list as some of you...dammit to hell. 
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Jeffrey Kafer
Assistant Zookeeper
Joined: 09 Dec 2006
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Location: Location, Location!
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alrighty
lemonade stand entrepreneur
paperboy
babysitter
yogurt shop worker
warehouse worker (I actually loved this job)
phone tech support for multimedia software
Quality assurance tester for said multimedia software
10 loooong years as an Xbox game tester
VO (duh)
Audiobook producer/engineer
book cover designer
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scottnilsen
King's Row
Joined: 12 Jul 2007
Posts: 1170
Location: Orange County, CA
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Paperboy
Fast food (are there still any Taco Times around? Also the Totem House down by the Locks in Seattle)
custodian
security
house painter
Christmas tree trimmer
carpet cleaner
pastor
voiceover
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Well, that and mimes.
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Kristin Lennox
Flight Attendant
Joined: 30 Apr 2011
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I didn't list all the weird entertainment-related things I've done for money, because it's all filed under "actor"... But two of the stranger jobs I've had are:
-- I ran a murder mystery entertainment business for about 6 or 7 years. Corporations hired me, and I hired the actors to attend their parties and play characters in the mystery. The mysteries were lightly scripted/mostly improv, and very fun because the party-goers weren't aware they were in a mystery -- they just thought some very strange people were at the party. Then someone died. 
-- My husband and I performed in a musical kids show at the zoo one summer. Five shows a day... and it was free to the public. We wouldn't have to do the show if no one showed up, so we would peek out at the people contemplating entering the arena five minutes before show-time and mentally will them to walk away... And yes, we did lots of shows for two or three people -- we would then personalize all the songs with their names in them...
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sirmelja
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Joined: 15 Nov 2010
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Location: Cork, Ireland
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Ok, this'll be the most boring list of them all, but here goes!
- Assistant in college's psychology department (work-study)
- College dorms cleaner (summer after freshman year; let's just say people are NASTY and leave it at that)
- Temp secretary at various NYC companies during the next 2 summers
- Child protection social worker in NYC (upper East Side and Spanish Harlem; guess which sent virtually no reports of child abuse in the course of a year? But, not because it didn't happen. Lots of fun though for this little woman walking around Harlem on my lonesome late into the night!)
- Graduate assistant in clinical psychology department (teaching undergrads the joys of intro psych and, later, research writing skills. Oy! Wrangling rats was easier)
- Secretary in real estate office
- Donated blood/plasma and served in way too many experimental studies (paid for my tuna and cracker meals during grad school)
- Clinical psychologist in a state psychiatric hospital for children and teens x 5 yrs
- Consultant clinical psychologist (i.e., paper pusher) for federal disability program ("The Job From Hell") x 5 yrs
- Escaped to Ireland 5 yrs ago to get as far as possible from the JFH and ended up in an outpatient mental health clinic for kids and their parents (guess which make me want to pull my hair out?)
- Proofreader for ebook romance publisher (unpaid but satisfies my inner grammar nazi)
- Voiceover artist x 1 year (finally, something fun!)
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Jamaican and international American/mid-Atlantic accents, but it's all just me!
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Bailey
4 Large
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
Posts: 4336
Location: Lake San Marcos... north of Connie, northwest of the Best.
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Paperboy ($8/wk).
Sporting goods store go-fer.
Retail salesperson ($1.25/hr).
Tennis shoe assembly line materials go-fer.
US Navy Photographer... no digital crap... b&w/color processing through printing... shooting everything from aircraft to dead folk.
Donated blood many times for "vampire liberty" while in the Navy.
Western Electric installer... tip/ring/sleeve... everything from mainframes to equipment upgrades.
Church custodian.
Dept. of Defense... Shop Learner... Helper General... Production Planning and Inventory Control... Commodities Manager.
TV infomercials/commercials... not bad, until you lose the look.
Government Contractor... Industrial Analyst.
Security Guard... very, very part time.
Currently watching the eagle fly over each month, delivering pension and s.s. check.
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Retired... Every day is Saturday, except Sunday.
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melissa eX
MMD
Joined: 20 Oct 2007
Posts: 2794
Location: Lower Manhattan, New Amsterdam, the original NYC
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| Quote: | | -- I ran a murder mystery entertainment business for about 6 or 7 years. Corporations hired me, and I hired the actors to attend their parties and play characters in the mystery. |
That is just awesome Kristin!
Ok here goes, I'll try to do this more or less chronologically in an attempt to remember it all. Much of it is/was concurrent. None followed any logical progession. It all just happened.
Counter girl at an upper west side (NYC) pastry shop.
Receptionist
Fabric Sorter at a clothing design company (do you know how many shades of red there are? ack!)
Manager of the Standing Order Dept at an academic publisher (I was the only one IN the Standing Order Dept. ) What was cool was at the time we were selling DaVinci's Codex Atlanticus and I still have the sales brochure.
Server at a beach bar and hotel in Southern Spain.
Crocheter of shawls sold on consignment in Spain and in the Kasbah/medina in Morocco.
Film Booker at a TV film distributor - and manager of the SouthEast Asian Dept. (you guessed it - I was the only one IN the SouthEast Asian Dept. - what is it they say? All title, no bucks?)
Coat check girl at upscale Italian Restaurant.
PR Assistant for a motion picture film distributor at the Cannes Film Festival and at the MIFED Film Market in Milan.
Production Assistant on some not so great movies in Madrid.
Extra on a Spanish TV series - that I recently found out turned out to be a huge hit - which caused the demise of the tiny fishing village in Andalucia I lived in. They now have an English language radio station. ~sigh~.
Assistant to the owner of a motion picture distribution company in Paris.
More assisting at Cannes and MIFED.
Administrative assistant to motion picture distributor in NYC.
Manager of the educational division of a TV film distributor and film sales company in Mexico City.
Documentary production assistant in Mexico City.
Video Editor, Post Production Supervisor and Assistant Director on TV programs in Mexico City.
Translator of album (you know, LP's???) liner notes for record company.
Production Coordinator and talent wrangler of annual live music show.
We get to my first dip into VO. An English narration handed to me by a friend of the Exec Producer of the TV show I was working on in Mexico because I was the only person they knew who spoke English. I'm sure it was less than stellar. They paid a lot of money tho'
Occasional work at the NYU registration desk.
Helper-outer at PBS fund drives.
Tape Op and assistant video editor at Commercial production house in NYC.
Second dip into VO - doing the translations and VO for Spanish versions of some of the English spots produced. That's when I realized the joy of getting paid twice as much for one spot as I made in a week in the tape room.
Video editor for cable production of the plays put on by Festival Latino - Shakespeare festival.
More VO
Freelance tape op/video editor.
Radio traffic reporter - first in Spanish, then in English - backwards as most of my life.
Airborne traffic reporter. I loved flying.
Co-host at some of my traffic stations - First time on stage with a radio station I was presenter of awards to artists at a sold out concert at Madison Sq. Garden. No pressure.
News anchor
Unpaid but not unappreciated member of negotiating teams, due to that pesky habit I have of saying what I think.
Continuing VO
Business anchor
Frequent Co-host of news magazine program - interviewing really interesting people.
Another first, on camera and a little bit of talkie a few words in a movie.
VO
There you have it. A loooong list. A life of serendipity. May not have made the most money or followed a particularly lucrative path for most of it but I can't remember ever being bored. Well, actually, yeah, toward the end of the traffic reporting stint. |
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Jen Gosnell
A Hundred Dozen
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Location: Portland, OR
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| Melissa wrote: | | you guessed it - I was the only one IN the SouthEast Asian Dept. - what is it they say? All title, no bucks? |
Ha, yes indeed - when I was a radio news reporter I was called the News Director of the small station I worked at, which actually meant I was the entire reporting and announcing staff as well as host of the morning news show. All for the grand salary of $10,000/year!
…well, to be fair, the owner of the radio station did occasionally contribute some [rather gossipy-sounding] "news articles" on occasion when events were simultaneously happening, sinceI couldn't be in two places at once. Those were, of course, expected to be broadcast wholesale and uncritically - ahem, as I learned after my offended, young journalistic sensibilities had led me to edit one of those gems.   
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kkuhlken
Club 300
Joined: 29 Feb 2012
Posts: 348
Location: Dallas, GA (Metro Atlanta-ish)
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| sirmelja wrote: |
- College dorms cleaner (summer after freshman year; let's just say people are NASTY and leave it at that)
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It's also amazing what they left behind! I hated move-out more than anything!
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Chuck Davis
M&M
Joined: 02 Feb 2005
Posts: 2389
Location: Where I love to be...Between the Vineyards and the Cows.
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Okay, here goes....
Stable hand (stall mucker-outer)
Farm Hand (haying)
Hospital Housekeeping (floor washer)
Auto Parts Delivery Driver
Rockband Bass Player
Disco Band Bass Player
Bartender
Newcaster/Overnight tech
AM Radio DeeJay
Schoolbus Driver
Jazz band Bass player
Rockband Bass Player
Radio Group Prod Director/Weekend fill DJ
Fulltime Touring GB band bass player/vocalist (left radio)
CHR Night Jock - (7-mid on one station/2-6 on an other - pre voice tracking days)
CHR Midday jock/music director
CHR PM Drive jock/Program director
Major market Production Director (started doing VO at that time)
(and) Rock and Country band Bass Player/Vocalist
Major market Creative Director
(and Jazz, Blues, Swing Bassist/Vocalist...still doing that one)
Fulltime VO
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KarenL
Been Here Awhile
Joined: 22 Jul 2009
Posts: 258
Location: North of San Francisco
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PB said:
| Quote: | | but luckily I look hot !!!! |
Of course - but what are you doing with your left hand?
dood ~
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