Here are the jobs I have held, beginning at about 9 years old:

Babysitter (for my younger siblings; I was the oldest of five)
Babysitter for neighbors
Raspberry, blueberry, strawberry-picker (summers, ages 11-15, paid by the pound or the "flat", very hard work, now done here in the Pacific NW by migrant laborers, mostly Vietnamese, Cambodian, Hmong, Mexican people)
Restaurant busgirl (beginning at 15-1/2, the legal age for employment here)
Housecleaner (as a college student)
Volunteer worker in inner city Cincinnati, summer of 1970; I worked to get jobs for poor minority teenagers, housing, airfare, transportation and food were compensated but the work itself was volunteer work
Waitress
Cocktail server
Temp clerical worker
Field hand
Farm worker
Insurance clerk
Administrative Assistant
Legal secretary
Court reporter
Farmer's market vendor
Dollmaker
Writer
Editor
Publisher
Conference speaker
Paralegal/Legal Assistant
Mother
Homeschooler
Shepherdess
Homesteader/Small Farmer
Organic gardener
Food co-op organizer

Heart

I've also been:
- a babysitter (sometimes paid)
- Sunday school and VBS teacher (unpaid)
- I sold lottery tickets at a liquor store
- McDonalds
- Working a fried dough stand at a rodeo
- Receptionist for a vet
- Actress at a theater. Really. Decent pay even.
- Cleaning lady at a hotel (for 2 weeks! It was so gross!!!)
- Cleaning lady for a Christian publication company (unpaid)
- Missionary (decidely unpaid, and damn expensive too)
- Telemarketer (very short lived career there. Worse than cleaning nasty hotel rooms.)
- Financial aid office clerk
- Afterschool tutor (unpaid, again)
- Tutor for college students
- Teaching assistant (unpaid)
- Primary care provider at a rehab for adult men
- Receptionist at a birth center (unpaid)
- Retail manager

Editting to add that managing a household and juggling family schedules is no small job either. I recently estimated that I spend 30 hours a week doing housework, cooking, cleaning, grocery shopping and managing our budget. I don't even want to know how many hours ironing out scheduling conflicts and driving my kids places. Or other people's kids.

Sophia

Crazily, I am likely forgetting a few gigs. I can't think of a single time in my life when I had only one gig ging at a time. No doubt, I'm hardly alone in that.

babysitter
hairdresser
nusery co-ordinator
sunday school teacher
homemaker
home schooler
counselor
youth leader
refurbish items and re-sell them
gourmet tomato seller (very fun....outdoors on a tomato farm all day, could bring my 1 year old baby with me and she was the greatest advertisment...little towhead running around eating tomatoes like they were apples. We both had a great tan too.)
in home care provider for Hospice patients

Annette

babysitter
sold seeds to get a bow and some arrows
sold raffle tickets for my baseball team uniform
tutor
waitress
cashier
drug store clerk
grocery store stocker
artist
writer
alzheimers patient care
assisted a couple of female senior friends - errands, driving them to and from the doctor, cooked them meals, light housekeeping, administered medication, etc...
a very brief military career before my superiors started considering bringing me before a firing squad
martial arts instructor
clerical work
data entry
bilingual interpreter
teacher's assistant
library & computer assistant
billing clerk, accts payable & receivable, payroll
accountant
tax preparer
personnel/human resources
advertising
marketing
probation officer - county courthouse - dv division
paralegal
speaker at and for dv shelters
speaker to HUD
re-screened screens for neighbor women
wired neighbor women's cable
auto mechanic
copier repair tech
ac/dc/digital electricity and electronics tech
alarm systems tech & monitor
computer tech - hardware & software
computer operations mgr (numerous jobs)
computer builds
web site & design
domestic goddess

Dumbest job offers I ever turned down -- the UN & NASA

Longest I held a job before I got bored to tears or was fired for insubordination or by Mr. Psycho Asshole showing up and creating a scene -- a year.

Most outrageous "job offers" --

Several well-to-do businessmen wanted to pay me to be their live-in companion -- one even went to my father and asked him to talk to me and my father tried to talk me into it!

$5,000 to do a centerfold.

$2,000 a month if I'd fuck this crippled war veteran once a month -- straight sex, nothing kinky.

The run-of-the-mill offers to be a stripper, escort or kept mistress.

Um, no, I didn't take anyone up on any of these "job offers" and I wasn't polite about it. An extra thump on the head to my father for trying to sell me, even if he meant well.

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Served on the boards of various nonprofit religious organizations
Served on the boards of various nonreligous nonprofit organizations
Been a doula
Been a home birth attendant
Created and ran an organization for pregnant, nursing and young mothers

And I've also been solicited for prostitution, once by a boss who wanted to pay me to take nude pictures of me, a number of times just straight up solicited for various acts of prostitution, several times while I was working as a volunteer in the inner city that one summer, and ALL of the time when I was working as a cocktail waitress.

So those are outrageous job offers I never accepted. And, I suppose, I've tried to forget.

Heart

Longest I've ever held a paid job:

11 years editing and publishing my magazine and speaking across the country

Shortest I've ever held a paid job:

Two weeks as a cocktail waitress in a medieval type pub where you had to go up and down narrow stairs carrying trays of drinks and where the money was crap

I quit.

Fired:

I was fired once, one of my first clerical jobs. The woman I worked for got wind that I was going to school at night and wanted someone who was going to be "permanent." I was 22 or 23.

Heart

And I doubt that if you got six men in here posting, they'd have been likely to do any of the above. Women are appointed to do this kind of work under male supremacy. What's interesting is, most of us have ALSO done what is understood to be "men's" work under male supremacy.

Our appointment as second class citizens to what is understood to be "shit work" (I don't think caregiving or babysitting is shit work, but men always have, which is why it is either not compensated or is poorly compensated, and that's why women/minorities are the ones who do it) is part of what defines our experiences as women. All of us here, no matter what we were born to, even if we were white and born into a middle class professional family, did shit work. The same would not be true of men. This separates us from those born male and unites us with all women, whatever their station. It has so disturbed me the lies out there-- that because we were born white or "to privilege" we escaped certain kinds of work. No we didn't. None of us.

Heart

I wonder if childcare and care of the elderly/infirm is not *actually* shitwork though. Only undervalued and underpaid.