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DJ Ricky B

DJ Ricky B

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I am about to quit my "Kiddie Job" as Rick refers to it. The next shift I work is Tuesday, and I will be giving them my 2 week notice then. After that planning on going 100% DJ moving forward. Looking at my schedule I think I am doing well enough to do so moving forward. I also just need to get out of working restaurants all together. After doing it on and off for 16 years I'm just done with it, and just need to move on.

Anyway, I was thinking about all the different jobs I have had since high school, and I realized I have actually had A LOT of jobs over the years. Probably more than I should have had. In high school alone, I had 3 jobs. Since High School I can add 13 more jobs on top of that. A total of 16 different places of work I have been employed at since 1998.

About to go into Full time DJ...I am wondering how long I will keep at it before getting another job, or if I can stick with this for the long term without having to get another job.
 
Congrats on quitting the kiddie job. Now for your question, let's see:

highschool/college
hamburger joint
gas station

after college
UAB print shop (moved to nashville)
Worked for a consulting firm
Programmer for a photo lab
12 years as a consultant
14 years (and counting) as a programmer at the State of TN (presently employed there)
Have done DJ as a sideline since 2008
 
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High School
Department store cleaning crew,
Grocery store stocker
also free farm labor for relatives

after school
Grocery Store dept head 2 years
Factory work 2 years
8 years DJ only
Hotel night auditor 1 year
Power sports Sales 2 years
Power sports store manager 5 years
Auto sales / Finance 6 years and counting

DJ since 1985
 
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High school jobs:
Mowing Lawns
Janitor
Fast food cashier / Pizza cook

College jobs:
Fast food cashier / Pizza cook
Waiter
Stocker at office supply place
Movie theater usher
SCUBA Instructor / Life Guard
Computer Draftsman

Post-college jobs:
Dance instructor
DJ
Aerospace Engineer at four different companies (defense industry / gov't contractors, laid off three times when contracts ended)
Software Engineer at three different companies (laid off two times)
Engineering Manager at my present "day job"

There is three decades of work in there...and don't they go by in a blink.
 
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Hmmm??? Haven't really thought about how many jobs I've had. I'm retired now, but I had very few jobs in my life. Here they are in chronological order...
1. Painter's Helper (family paint contractor business).
2. Auto Parts Warehouse Worker.
After Art School/College
3. USAF (10 Years) Management Analyst, Computer Programer
4. Computer Programmer (steel manufacturing), 1 year.
5. IT Consultant/Programmer Analyst, 1 year.
6. IT Manager, Chemical Manufacturing, 8 years.
7. Applications Development Manager, Cardiac Pacemaker Manufacturer, 5 years.
8. VP Information Systems, commercial ERP software development company, 7 years.
9. IT Director, State Government (2 different agencies), 14 years.
10. Domestic Slave (1 year to present)[emoji4].


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age 13, liberty tv cleaning and filing.
16, colony restaurant bus boy, appetizer cook (a year maybe)
17, minutellos italian restaurant, busboy

BISSI (security guard), a year or so
Ground Round, cook
Denny's cook
Wendy's, fast food everything

moved...before college wendys, mcdonalds, roy rogers, eat n park, Trivia Pub, friendly's, pappans, BK (1 night..that place sucked), Sunoco self serve gas station. Had several of these at the same time.
College...
Kelly temp doing office work,
Baggage Express, delivering lost luggage from the airport
Some air port car parking place for a short time. shorted paychecks from the boss...no thanks.
Graff texaco, mechanic, 2 years
Airport Toyota, Mechanic a year
Tracey's world of cycles - tech, service manager, parts sales, new unit sales - 10 years
airport lincoln mercury, car sales during the winter (bike place laid off at times)
Darlington Suzuki, tech
Coldwell Banker/Howard Hanna/ReMax - real estate sales 5 years, some full time
Airport toyota, service writer (shitty hours)
Joe's elec, electrician, foreman..no pay, so I quit
Eat N Park restaurant, 1 year cook, server, cashier
Ryan's Steakhouse, server 2 years

Photography Studio Owner, 10 years, still doing it
DJ, 3rd year
Jackson Hewitt tax Service, second year
 
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Jr High
DJ

High School
DJ
Dept. Store Clerk
Gas Station Attendant
Cook

After High School
DJ
Car Wash Manager
Car Salesman
Worked on a cleaning crew
Butcher
Full Time DJ in 1985
 
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High school: taught piano
Summer student:
Tree planted
Parks crew for the town
Summer student at sawmill

After college:
Taught guitar
Serviceman in the bush
Apprentice Insulator for contractor
Journeyman contractor for pulp mill
 
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Crap... 1 M.D.
 
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Not too many for me....

1. Hardware store/lumberyard (about 3 years)
2. Then another one (couple years)
3. Yet another one (couple years)
4. Gas Station (4 years)
5. Propane plant (a few months)
6. Verizon Wireless (13 years)
7. United Healthcare (current) (5 yrs+)
 
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Let's see if I can remember every job in order...

1. Food Shack (Fast Food) at the City Pool - Summer after 11th grade
2. SunCoast Video at the Mall - Senior Year - About 5 months
3. Dominos Pizza - Senior year - About 4 months
4. Busser for 3 months at Perkins Restaurant, then turned to Server and then a Third Key manager, and Server. Was there for 2.5 years
(I worked 5 or 6 nights over night at a Dennys...Got immediately hired due to working with an overnight server there at Perkins. They needed help bad. I only lasted 6 nights because I couldn't work all night. I figured quickly that it wasn't for me. ...Good money back then working Midnight to 6:30 am. ...I don't count it as a job though since I was there for 6 shifts
5. Star Diner - Left after 3 weeks because they weren't giving me any hours
6. Bugaboo Creek Steakhouse - Lasted 2.5 months. Terrible management there. Left due to bad management
7.King Pontiac/Buick/GMC - Car Sales - Lasted about 80 days. Tough selling cars.
8.Hamburger Hamlet - Server - Maybe 18 months
9. Mamma Lucia Restaurant - Server - 5 years.
10. Red Rock Canyon - Server - 4 months
10. EPS Printing - Administrative Assistant - 6 months
Then went 6 months DJ only
11. Holiday Inn - Server Restaurant - 11 months
Then went another 6 months DJ only
12. Gold Traders - Gold Buyer - 11 months
Then went an entire year DJ only
13. Liquor Store - 6 months as a Stock Clerk (Crappiest job I ever had)
14. Express Gold - Gold Buyer 1 year
15. Ultimate Staffing Temp Agency - Call Center Incoming calls for a Liquor Distributor - Pay not bad at $15.75 per hour, but very demanding call center with stupid rules - Won't work in a call center again
16. Doubletree Hotel - 1 year 3 months (Still on the employee roster as an on call employee)
17. Texas Roadhouse - 5 months by the time my last shift happens.

Don't know where my career is headed, but I know I don't have interest in working for Liquor Stores, Restaurants, or Call Centers moving forward. I probably won't get another job for a while because the DJ biz income is GOOD this year, and hopefully will be next year as well.
 
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Well in some sort of order starting at about 6 years old...

Paper Boy (3 routes)
Lawn care/Snow shoveling
Assistant on a delivery truck
Caterer
Kitchen Help@BK
Shipper/Receiver/Maintenance Retail
Floor Clerk retail
DJ
Taxi Driver
Taxi Dispatcher
Amway Distributor
Freight Manager Retail
Manager Taxi company
On Air Radio personality
And I'm sure I'm missing a couple of more...

I've also started owned and sold a couple of small business along the way besides
 
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Jeff Romard said:
Well in some sort of order starting at about 6 years old...

Amway Distributor


I've also started owned and sold a couple of small business along the way besides
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I was with Amway for about 10 months as an IBO. ...I was with them when they were QUIXTAR in 2006. Although the business isn't a scam, it was near impossible to get going and actually make money with. Also, what they didn't tell you is that the Rubies, Diamonds etc. ...All the guys at the top made their hundreds of thousands of dollars from the book and CD sales, and seminars. They didn't make their money with the actual business concept so to speak. After finding that out, and realizing I was blowing my money on the endeavor I quickly parted ways. The guy who recruited me tried to get me back for a while, but I am pretty certain after a while he gave up too. A lot of people were trying to make it in that business years ago...I haven't ran into anyone that is a part of it in recent years. I remember blowing my money and drinking those energy drinks all the time to get my PPV above 200 so I can get some sort of small check in the mail lol.
 
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I was in twice. Once in the early 90's and I didn't make a dime actually I lost a bit that time. The second time was the late 90's early 200o's and I did pretty well I was close to being a Direct Distributor but it's very hard to hold your network together and it's alot more than the 5-15 hours they suggest you put in to the business if you want to make any real money.

If you had an income you could live on and worked the business 40+ hours you could possibly do OK but to work a full time job to support yourself and build it is almost impossible
 
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Pre High School: paperboy and worked in a fruit/veggie market.
High School: Worked half the school day as part of a work co-op program at Vo-Tech.
Worked two drafting jobs after High School. Also when I started working for the radio station.
Started full time at the station about 1984, and was there until December 2014.
 
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Ausumm said:
Pre High School: paperboy and worked in a fruit/veggie market.
High School: Worked half the school day as part of a work co-op program at Vo-Tech.
Worked two drafting jobs after High School. Also when I started working for the radio station.
Started full time at the station about 1984, and was there until December 2014.
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Mke, I didn't know you quit at the radio station. Was it time to let go, and move on?

Also, that is amazing that you were at the same station for 30 years.
 
Ok .. back from Europe .. I'll play too ...

Pre-High School
.. Paper boy (4 yrs)
High School
.. Department Store - Marshalls - stock, women's shoes
College
.. Dominos Pizza - made 'em .. delivered them
.. Anaconda American Brass - various jobs from office to driving a ceiling crane
Post College - all in the computer industry
.. Sales
.. Systems Engineer - operating systems, programming languages
.. Application Engineer - pre-sales support for Mechanical Engineering software
.. Technical Manager
.. Bid Manager
.. Software Architect
.. Trainer
 
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Cool thread! I'll join in.

Before high school:
I had a paper route for about a year and worked evenings at a local pizza shop for 3 hours per night.

High school years :
Worked as a parking attendant for a garage. Started DJing for money, no more hobby.

After high school:
College courses at night. This lead to an opportunity to work at Merrill Lynch as summer help, then they brought me in full time. Stayed there for 11 years.

Charles Schwab opportunity came up and I remained there for 7 years. I was laid off in 2007.

Always did DJ work on the weekends from 1991-20now.

Federal Express for the last 7 years and still spinning the beats currently.
 
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