I’ve met a lot of really cool people through teaching my Mystery Shopping classes in the Detroit area. One of which, Rose, ran a marketing and PR agency. Rose liked my outgoing personality and hired me to be a “Derby Belle” for an event she was promoting. The event was a fundraiser for people in…
Category Archives: Random Job Profiles
Random Job I’ve Done: Standardized Test Scorer
Do you remember taking standardized tests in school? I’m a horrible test taker. I think I got something like a 20 on my ACT’s. My mom wouldn’t even show me my SAT score thinking it would depress me too much. (My IQ is apparently in the high 160s, so go-figure!) I remember the test-taking days…
Random Job I’ve Done: Vacuum Cleaner Salesman
Yes, I sold vacuums. Actually, I sold A vacuum. Well, truth be told, it wasn’t a vacuum, as more of a “carpet cleaning system.” That’s right…I’m talking about Rainbows! If you haven’t heard of Rainbows by Rexair, well, you just haven’t lived. I cannot imagine going back to a traditional vacuum now that I have…
Random Job I’ve Done: Touring Puppeteer
I have no idea how Das Puppenspeil wandered into my life. I don’t even remember where I saw the ad, or who I had spoken to, to know that they were casting puppeteers. All I remember is that sometime during my second year of college, my awesome dance instructor Alice and I put together a…
Random Job I’ve Done: Teach Community Education
I have been told that I’m a natural teacher. Frankly, I think I’m a natural performer, and it’s just that the message I deliver is fairly educational. I’m a edu-tainer! In 2002 I moved back to Michigan, and was trying to figure out what I could do to make some money. I decided that I…
Random Job I’ve Done: Census Taker
During my last few months of college, I was hired to be an enumerator for the Census. Every 10 years, the Census, (a division of the US government) does a head-count of our residents, gets information on nationality, income, and family status to help better understand the needs of the population. It definitely was a…
Random Job I’ve Done: Elderly Caregiver
One of my mom’s closest friends, Debra, had a mother who suffered from dementia. It was heartbreaking to see this once-vibrant, sassy woman, lose her mental faculties. Debra and her husband still worked, and their daughter’s were off at college, so I was hired to hang out with Momma during the day. It was a…
Random Job I’ve Done: Used Book Fair Buyer
Amazon.com is taking over the world. I’ve worked at a few bookstores in my day, and it astonishes me how quickly they have started losing sales to the giant. I am guilty of this as well, but didn’t realize the full impact until I was hired for a 2-day gig at a library used-book sale….
Random Job I’ve Done: Housekeeper to the Stars
People always ask, out of the many random jobs that I have done, which are my favourites? Two immediately came to mind: Ronald McDonald’s Bodyguard, and cleaning Bill Gate’s toilets. No, I didn’t work on a cleaning crew at Microsoft. I was actually hired by the company that cleaned Bill Gates and Paul Allen’s estates. …
Random Job I’ve Done: Movie Extra
Movies and Tv shows are always looking for “regular people” to fill in background shots, making the scene feel more real. Being a movie extra is pretty easy work to get. First, though, you have to live in an area that actually has filming going on. All you need to do is find the casting…
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