This is a complete history of all the jobs I have ever had, from the first paper route to the most recent real job. If I tried to put them all on a resume, including all of the required flowery descriptions, it would be 10 pages long. But the web doesn't have restrictions on length beyond how far you will read before you get bored.

1978 - Learner News
Paper route for a local weekly newspaper. I remember delivering in hot and cold so I'm guessing this lasted about a year.

1981 - Random Babysitting Jobs
I babysat for about a year when I was 13

1985-1986 - YMCA
Lifeguard and Swim Instructor. Later on I assisted with some of the Lifeguard and First Aid training.

1985-1986 - Electric Motor Corp.
File Clerk at the company my Aunt worked for.

1986-1987- The Book Market
First retail job, first book store job, and first comany to go belly-up after I started working there.

1987-1988 - Waldenbooks
Second retail job, second bookstore. Actually, I was working at three different Waldenbooks at the same time. Although my "home" store was at the Brickyard Mall, they regularly farmed me out to two others. Waldenbooks the chain is still around but two of the stores I worked at are now closed.

1988 - Beck's Bookstore
Did two, three week stints as a check out clerk at the school book store during the beginning of the semester rush periods.

1988 - Radio Advertising Inc.
Did telemarketing for two weeks, I was selling sponsorship for public service messages. The job was ok, and the product was a worthy one. But this was before the Illinois Clean Air Act - which requires work places to be smoke free, and so the office was filled with cigarette smoke. I was getting bad headaches and had to leave.

1988-1989 - Stanton Hobby
Check out girl. Yes, I said girl. The owners did not feel that a female was capable of building and selling the model RC vehicles so all the girl jobs involved the register or paperwork. Still, it was a fun place to work, lots of toys to play with.

1989-1990 - Battle Axe Productions
Worked for my boyfriend's mother. At the time she was making an animated film and I painted backgrounds. Her studio closed when she moved across town and it hadn't yet re-opened in the new place by the time I broke up with her son. I did a web search about 6 months ago, out of curiosity, and learned that she did finally finish the film.

1990-1991 - Crown Books
Another bookstore, another dead chain. I was the second assistant manager when I attended my first Worldcon and saw amazing science fiction and fantasy art. I quit shortly thereafter to persue a carreer as an artist. Within a year the chain folded.

1991-1995 - Kemmer Enterprises
The name I used while I persued a carreer as an artist. Did ok. Not enough to live on but more than I was making full time at a retail job.

1992-1998 - JPM Productions
Octobers only. Worked my way up from generic actor in a ghoul robe to running the Mausoleum of Terror.

1994-1997 - Venture
Overnight Stocker. I absolutely loved this job, and if I could get paid to do this as much as I get as a designer, I would never leave. No customers, no money, no responsibility beyond getting this pallet of product on that shelf before the store opens. All that and you get paid for a great workout every day. Venture closed less than a year after I left.

1997 - Field Museum of Natural History
Replication Co-op. For my official description of this job look at my resume. In plain English, I helped repair some of their displays while learning casting and molding techniques. I loved working at the Field Museum. There is something really cool about working on something that will be around for 20 years and that millions of people will look at. By the way, it takes 42 hours to read every plaque and description card in the whole museum.

1998 - Daedalus Design
The name I currently use to cover any freelance work I do. Some stuff is on my resume but there is more I will add here later.

1998-1999 - Office Team
Administrative temp work. Mostly I was farmed out to a company called Coram Health Care where I did a lot of filing, xeroxing and other admin stuff. My bosses at Coram were cool and they took me to see Blue Man Group as a send off when the job ended. The company is still there but the division I worked in no longer exists.

1998-1999 - Comp-USA
Instructor. Full description in my resume.

1998-1999 - Toys R Us
Overnight Stocker, seasonal help. Actually, this seasonal job lasted 6 months.

1999-2001 - Simon Marketing
Toy Designer. Really long description in my resume. I loved working at Simon. I loved the work and the people. I loved feeling like I belonged to a family as well as part of a team. It was a very sad thing to watch Simon break up, and I believe the company is gone now.

2001 - Target
Overnight stocker, seasonal help. Translation, put boxes on shelves for Xmas.

2002 - CompUSA
Back teaching again. This time they don't have the license for any Adobe programs so I'm teaching more MS Office stuff. They also have me teaching Dreamweaver, and CorelDraw! and I seem to be the only person they have who knows how to use a Mac so I get the occasional Mac student too.