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I've been a machine technician most of my life and have been involved in the manufacture and making of many type of precision parts from prosthetic to computer.. which is not a dying talent. I've also had a customer service job in the last couple years and enjoyed it thoroughly... what I've noticed is .. Great customer service (a dying art??) is on it's way out.. as machines have been on their way in. It is a high tech, fast paced time.
posted by
yellowrose55
on May 4, 2013 at 11:31 AM
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Re: lustor
you may not have worked outside the home, but i assure you, i know you worked hard in the home! you have stories to tell too.
posted by
jeansaw
on May 4, 2013 at 10:24 AM
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Re: Paid jobs: picked strawberries for a nickel a quart,
wow pat, the stories you could tell! will have to check back in your posts!
posted by
jeansaw
on May 4, 2013 at 10:22 AM
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Re: taps
when i was a bookkeeper i had to fill in one day a week for the secretary of the president, but he was a wonderful man and he taught me so much, i have so much respect for a good secretary. i liken a secretary to a nurse, the nurse does more work than the doctor and so the secretary does all the work for the boss.
posted by
jeansaw
on May 4, 2013 at 10:19 AM
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Re: cc
now i am wishing you will write about some of these, it makes you a very interesting man now.
posted by
jeansaw
on May 4, 2013 at 10:15 AM
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Re: fsi
yes, fsi we always have to keep learning to keep up with technology, but then eventually a whole new technology comes along. like the new internet glasses. how cool is that!
posted by
jeansaw
on May 4, 2013 at 10:12 AM
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Re: annicita
the only ones of those i have not done are receptionist and house cleaner, unless you counts my own house, but then i can add factory worker and insurance adjuster and bank adjuster.
posted by
jeansaw
on May 4, 2013 at 10:09 AM
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well I didnt work at all while I was married, but the longest running job I had was customer service for the phone company but I have only been away from them a little over 4 years so I dont think much has changed, except they are outsourcing a lot of the jobs
posted by
Lanetay
on May 4, 2013 at 9:10 AM
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Paid jobs: picked strawberries for a nickel a quart,
restaurant janitor, nanny, gal Friday for a ready-mix concrete company, fountain waitress/soda-jerk, legal secretary, barmaid, copy editor, feature writer, accounts payable clerk, freight billing clerk, receptionist, magazine publisher.
posted by
Pat_B
on May 4, 2013 at 6:57 AM
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Back in the late 1950's, I worked civil service for Air Force Procurement and we had a teletype that was so big and noisy they had a special room just for it. I filled in now and then with it when our teletype operater was sick or on vacation. I thought it was a blast. The rest of the time I was the secretary for the boss of the Quality Control department.
posted by
TAPS.
on May 4, 2013 at 12:01 AM
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Rat catcher, lucky dip maker, potato net spinner, illegal tobacco plant grower, poacher, marriage counsellor,chicken surgeon, greenhouse salesman, antique dabbler, Licenced Hawker. Carer, Was a baby once and then a poor worried little boy. 
posted by
C_C_T
on May 3, 2013 at 11:45 PM
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I feel like with my job description that technology has added to the talents needed. Perhaps one day I will look back at talents that went by the way side because of things that became obsolete.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on May 3, 2013 at 8:01 PM
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oh well I have done many jobs....waitress, bookkeeping, customer service, manager, receptionist, house cleaner and now writer
posted by
Annicita
on May 3, 2013 at 6:55 PM
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