meme: 5 early jobs

[jesse_the_k]

Thanks to goss, here’s a meme

Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now

I retired from paid employment in 1990, and since then I’ve been a disability rights advocate, helped herd SF con cats, and typed & read many many things on the internet.

Before that, I was…

1. Photocopy clerk & summer gofer at ETS which runs high stakes educational testing like GREs, TOEFL, and SATs
2. Data tape librarian, keypunching the journeys of 9-inch tape reels between their storage cabinets and the tape drives where student loan data was read and written
3. Ten-speed bike assembler and mechanic
4. Civil engineering drafter who insisted that fire stations needed both men’s and women’s bathrooms
5. Phototypesetter, stat camera operator, pasteup artist, and staff designer

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Thanks!

[jesse_the_k]

It was surprising how hard the civil engineers resisted. But it was 1978, and I was the first "back shop" woman they hired.

When I arrived at my interview, the manager did a double-take: I think he was expecting a male Jesse.

...a little research reveals that the fire department shows 30 people on staff, at least six of whom look like women to me.