job history

[low_delta]

Here is a picture showing almost all the places I've worked.



1. After I graduated high school, I went to Job Service, and they gave me a job at the Town of Cedarburg. Road crew, basically. Spreading gravel, chopping brush, sealing cracks in pavement, things like that.

2. I worked for Creative Leather, for a few months. Stamping leather and vinyl, gluing, trimming stitches. Dull.

I applied at a temp agency, at some point. I'm not sure when, so the spot isn't numbered (it's in the upper middle, near the 6). It was Kapco, a metal stamping place. I did spot welding, grinding and sweeping, before they ran out of work for me. I was there for a couple of days.

4. I worked at a cabinet shop for four years. I was in charge of the finishing room. At the time, most of our work was for a custom van shop. I was fired because I was late every day for three years. It was in the same building as Creative Leather.

X. I worked at a place called Kleen-Test, off the map, in Port Washington. I was there for six months. We made Spiffits. One fouirth of the employees were Hmong, one fourth Mexican/Hispanic, and one fourth old white women. If you didn't speak English, there was a good chance you were shorted on your check. My last check, after I quit, was short. There was music played over the loudspeaker system in the plant, but the owner was Christian, so it was not good music. Especially at Christmas.

5. While there, I'd heard that a place near my house was hiring, so I went there. I got a job on third shift as a press operator. I trimmed plastic parts as they came out of the injection molding presses.

6. After two and a half years, I got a job in the shipping department at a different building.

7. Three and a half years later, we built a new plant in the new industrial park on the edge of town. I was a stockroom clerk/material handler there for a year or so, when I got a job in the design engineering department.

8. In early 1999, they "downsized" me. I found a job at a toolmaker in Germantown. It was a 35 minute commute. I didn't fit in there, and lasted less than a year.

7. My old boss learned I was looking for work, and offered me my old job back. I liked the job and needed the work, so I went back.


My schools are in blue.
A. Kennedy Elementary School. K-5
X. Green Tree Elementary School, in West Bend. Most of second grade.
B. John Long Middle School. 6-8
C. Grafton High School. 9-12
X. Most of the classes for my Associate Degree were taken in downtown Milwaukee.

Comments

[blonnie.livejournal.com]

neat :)

btw, what's 'hmong"?

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

It's an ethnic group from southeast Asia. Like Laotian or Cambodian. Something like that. I must admit I don't know *exactly*.

[sirreal13.livejournal.com]

Hiya, Blonnie... It's a group of Laotian people, mostly from the mountainous regions. The Hmong were instrumental in assisting CIA operations during the Vietnam War. They pretty much had to leave Laos after the fall of South Vietnam to avoid persecution by the new regime. Many of them resettled in the US, in Seattle and the Twin Cities, with the encouragement of the US government, partly in recognition for their support of the US military.

Mikhail (from the old ANArchy BBS days)

[cynnerth.livejournal.com]

I didn't know all of this. Interesting!

[banana.livejournal.com]

> I was fired because I was late every day for three years.
Sounds like you were trying to get fired. 8~)

[rivendweller.livejournal.com]

Very interesting! Thanks for posting this.

[ravenfeather.livejournal.com]

I have no idea what it would be like to live in the same state for most of one life.. much less the same city. I bet you have some tight TIGHT friendships! I could not even do this on a map of the US.. would have to have Germany in there as well.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

I still keep in contact with all my friends from high school. But only two of them still live on this map.

[ravenfeather.livejournal.com]

I think that is about normal these days. We have gone toward a highly mobile society.

There are times when I wonder what it would be like to be "from" to know a majority of the people you live around, and to have them have known you your entire life. That is like an.. alien lifestyle to me.

[seriouspaul.livejournal.com]

You should have Instant Cash do a map like this. I think he's worked like fifty jobs in the last 15 years or so. I was close to that number with like 25 or 30. I went through a phase, after I got out of the Marine Corps, where I worked a bunch of jobs just to see what I liked or didn't, and quit a lot after a few weeks.