What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up?

When I was a kid there was the age old question, "What do you want to be when you grow up?"

I wanted to be a school counselor, a hand model for jewelry stores, or a tap dancer. I do have a pair of tap shoes, and my grandma once taught me some tap dance steps when I was a kid, but I did not pursue to be the next Ginger Rogers. I went to college and then some more college, to the point where I thought I would be a student for the rest of my life. I am finally done with school and recently graduated with my Bachelor of Science in Business Management. Now I have my degrees and I do not really know what comes next. What is my career exactly? What DO I want to be now that I am grown up?

My dad requested for me to blog a list of all the jobs I have had in the past, I have had a WIDE variety, adding to my many talents. Here you go.

Pre-teen:

1. Babysitter for the kids at the Avon Meetings, who would come along with their moms.

2. Babysitter in general

3. House sitter- I watered the plants and feed/walked the dogs while a family was away.

High School:

4. Rock Solid Recycling Co. – I worked after school as my first official job. I rode on the side of the recycle truck through neighborhoods emptying the recycle bins, hopping on an off the truck. I also worked at the recycle yard, sorting the items into categories.

College:

5. Baskin Robbins- I scooped ice-cream, and decorated cakes.

6. Gottschalk’s Dept Store – I was a sales associate in the accessories department. I liked marking down the clearance items, to be the first to know the good prices. I enjoyed setting up the display case for the watches and helping the customers find the perfect necklace to match an outfit they had or find jewelry sets for a wedding party.

7. La Playa Mexican Restaurant – I was a cashier to take the food orders. The cash register buttons were in Spanish and I was constantly mixing up the chicken and pork options. I ended up getting fired because I just didn’t know enough Spanish to get the job right.

Then I moved to Burbank:

8. Bombay Store in the mall- I was a sales associate, and assembled the furniture to display of the sales floor.

9. IKEA Store- Cashier, Sales Associate, and then a Labeler. As a Labeler I printed out all of the sales banners for the store and ordered the supplies and pamphlets for the departments to have there sales and product information.

10. Set Decorator – internship with Disney to set decorate a promo for the Lilo N Stitch movie back when it was new. I helped set up a beach scene in the studio for the teen band to sing their hit song. The band was called A-Teens.

11. Interior Decorator- intership to redecorate an office with an interior decorator

12. Interior Decorator- self employed. I remodeled an accounting firm, and decorated two homes.

13. Temp as a receptionist for Warner Brothers Studios mainly. This was a fun job temping at the various WB offices around the studio lot. I got to walk through the fake towns to get to the cafeteria for my lunch break.

14. Temp as a file clerk for a funeral office. That was a weird job. I was filing the account bills for people who have died. The company organized the billing that follows after a person dies, like the bill for the caterer at the wake, the cremation fees, funeral bills, etc. One of my oddest jobs, so far.

Ohio:

15. Temp once again being new to the area. I temped at a phone co. doing data entry. Then for an elevator company and updated their computer program to match up with the paper work they were transitioning to go paperless on one area of the job and use the new computer program.

16. Bed Bath & Beyond- it only lasted about 2 weeks and then I quit. I didn’t like having to use the “airplane ladder” to take down stock.

17. Claire’s Accessories Store- I was an assistant manager. One of my favorite jobs of all, I became a professional ear piercer.

18. IRS- Data Transcriber, entered information from the tax forms into the computer.

Missouri:

19. Temp as a receptionist.

Now what comes next? I will hopefully start a career in the hotel industry. I would like to eventually get into the event planning side to hotels and work with the conventions and weddings. I have my Bachelor of Science in Business Management, now I just need some one to hire me! =)

I have an interview today at the Marriott Hotel, wish me luck!