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Help Desk Confessionals

I'm a systems administrator who provides tech support, data analysis, and report generation for about 300 users. No support staff. No other help. Just me.

100 things about me (Part 4 of 10)

Saturday, January 29, 2005

Jobs, Jobs and More Odd Jobs:
  • 31. First part-time job at UCLA: cashier at the book store.
  • 32. Best part-time job at UCLA: enrollment clerk at Registrar's Office - we get first dip at classes.
  • 33. Chief Registrar at UCLA when I worked there was Bill Locklear - father of one famous actress.
  • 34. Dream job when I was growing up - bus driver.
  • 35. Realized my dream when I trained to drive an MTA bus for two weeks.
  • 36. Quit bus driver training because of scheduling conflict with school.
  • 37. In my last year of grad school, I was working six part-time jobs simultaneously, for a total of 43 hours a week. Needless to say, I didn't do very well in school that year.
  • 38. Number of job I had after I left college: one. Years at current job: 15
  • 39. Worked 9 1/2 years for free as a programming intern at KOST-FM, a Los Angeles soft rock station famous for its "Love Songs on the Coast" program, which I was a part of.
  • 40. Waited tables for almost a year at a Chinese bistro. My claim to fame was pampering my customers and fast table turnaround.

Coming up next: Part 5 - Teaching Step Aerobics and What a Strange Trip it's Been

posted by Carl from L.A., 11:45 PM

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