My first job ever was in fast food in high school. Since then I've worked in a hotel as desk clerk/night auditor; I've been a car salesman; I lived on the road for a while auditing cable companies; I've tutored almost every level of academia, from teaching 5 year olds how to talk to helping lazy college kids understand physics and calculus; I was a waiter for a while then a bartender and front-end manager. My last job was as a library director and I'm currently working toward professorship. I've also done some freelance editing/writing, mainly in the realm of memoirs and essays.