What jobs did you hold before you got into software?

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[Burdette Lamar]

Before:

• Paper boy.
• Bag boy, stockman.
• Infantryman.
• English instructor.
• Mathematics instructor.

After:

• Documentor.
• Applications developer.
• Libraries developer.
• Tester.
• Test automation developer.

[Scott Yeatts]

+1 for another Infantryman turned coder 😀

[Samuel ⎊]

Mechanic ⚙️🔧

[Alex Lohr]

I was musician, voice actor, martial arts trainer and furniture fitter before I started in IT.

[Yechiel Kalmenson]

• Rabbi
• Elementary School Teacher
• Tech Support

[Alan Barr]

• English Teacher in South Korea
• Apartment Complex Manager
• Janitor
• Grocery Store Stocker
• Steak House Busser
• Academic Advisor for Online University

[Sandor Dargo]

• Campaign manager
• Project coordinator
• Database Administrator

[Matthew Daly]

Insurance clerk

[Ben Halpern]

For me:

• Maintenance/janitorial
• Dish washer
• Grocery store worker
• Painter
• Grounds crew
• Nightclub security
• Callcenter agent
• Misc entrepreneurship
• Marketing director at a startup 👈 This was that first "career" job where I knew I needed the change 😄

[David Wickes]

Marketing director at a startup

Yeah, marketing will do that... 🤣

[HS]

Nightclub security... Oh boy what out :D.

[Ben Halpern]

I’m from Canada and the worst clientele in that industry are NHL stars who think they’re above the bar rules 😭

[Mohammed Samgan Khan]

You have done things Man....

[Justin Hunter]

Inventory for car dealership
Taco Bell
Satellite tv store clerk
Ice cream scooper
Grocery clerk
Call center agent
Call center supervisor
Business analyst

[Shannon Crabill]

Painting, like houses? Or an artist?

[Ben Halpern]

I would have loved to sell art, but it was houses. Ladders and windy days! 😬

[Christopher C. Johnson]

I was a cashier at a Cracker Barrel then I had a couple of ISP call center jobs.

[Felippe Regazio]

• microsoft office "teacher"
• service desk support

then i started to backpacking thru all the south america, and had a lot of crazy jobs, and some cool jobs as:

• truck cleaner
• computer support (hardware, formating, virus removals, etc)
• truck charge unloader (i dont have sure how to write it sorry)
• truck recovering (i worked with some guys who were recovering broken trucks)

then i came back to home, started to study development really hard (i was always studing software development, since i was 12 i think, but was always for fun), so I got the courage and started doing some freelancings, then everything has change.

now, some years later, im working as front end developer in a place which i really enjoy :)