Comments on: I’ve Had 40 Jobs, What Did You Ever Do

By: Lily Rowan

Lily Rowan — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 16:34:48 +0000

@whizz_dumb All of the little pictures are PERFECT.

By: selenana

selenana — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 15:43:24 +0000

I have also had this many jobs. I agree with Jenn, above. After awhile, admitting it just starts to be a liability.

By: Koko Goldstein

Koko Goldstein — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 21:29:23 +0000

This is awesome! I love telling stories about my random childhood jobs. One time, my brother and I had a job scrubbing about 10,000 tiny plastic whales in our garage.

By: whizz_dumb

whizz_dumb — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 19:41:05 +0000

Yes! That screen shot next to Electrical Helper is that one X-files episode where Giovanni Ribisi and Jack Black are best-buds arcade goers and (spoiler alert) someone kills people with telekinetic electrical storms when they’re angry.

Also, you probably have me beat but this still makes me want to write my work history out in a similar fashion. I want this to be an on going column. For a taste, I sold speakers out of a van all over the Midwest for about 3 months.

By: melis

melis — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 18:32:48 +0000

“chalk full of nuts”

By: Logan Sachon

Logan Sachon — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 18:30:11 +0000

omg I always, always thought it was CHOCK. ajldflk

By: melis

melis — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 18:25:05 +0000

“Chocked up” may be the most endearing misspelling this side of “milk-toast.”

By: Jamie

Jamie — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 18:15:09 +0000

This is very impressive.

By: Jenn@twitter

Jenn@twitter — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:47:56 +0000

You know, I was thinking that 40 sounded almost impossible at 28, and then I realized that at 27 I’ve had 30 paying jobs, only starting at 17, so I guess that makes sense. I deleted nearly all of them from my resume a long time ago because I’ve stopped feeling like my varied experience is a good thing and started to feel like I just suck at holding down a steady job. These, at least, seem to converge on a theme… mine don’t.