What did you do before you were the copy guy or girl?

[vincent64]

I used to be a security guard, armed at that, before I did this, worked at a Wal-Mart before that, took me all that time to find it, had a degree from local univeristy, AAS deg at that.
Been doing this 10 years now.

[mrwho]

Barman, Computer salesman, Copier tech and network support. Still fix computers for whiskey. Play in band for beer.

For a second there, I read "Batman"

[Koosie]

For a second there, I read "Batman"

I should have said bartender
I suffer from engrish.

[JVergin]

In HS worked at Dairy queen. while getting my associate degree in computer and electronics engineering, I worked in logistics at a manufacturing plant. Driving a forklift around, responsible for shipping and receiving product. After graduating I got a job working on copiers.

[prntrfxr]

customer service rep
-plastic bottles
customer call center/customer relations rep
-catalog sales/irate customer handler
cashier/schematic setup manager/assistant manager
-department store
car battery recharger
-pallets of batteries at a time including 18-wheeler batteries
shipping/receiving clerk
assistant grower/harvester
-greenhouse wholesaler
short order cook
-fastfood restaurant including curb service
inventory taker
-convenient stores

Now I do almost everything I did before for many companies, including repairing/rebuilding parts, providing tech support, training, repairing/rebuilding machines and supervising people all at one job. Work more for same money basically. Gotta love it.

[mikadonovan]

I joined the Navy at 17, and they trained me as an electronics tech. Out of the service in 1987, started with my present company in 1988.
Over the years, second jobs include convenience store clerk, Wal mart sporting goods, bartender, home PC repair, construction worker, golf course pro shop employee, and grocery store meat department slave.

[travi]

Drank myself out of school as a Physics Major at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Then receiving manager at a local toy store. The stocked groceries. That was 23 years ago.

[mjarbar]

I started out in a sister company as a goods receiving clerk for a stationery supply company, moved onto stock controller and purchasing clerk.

Moved to 2nd sister company doing the same but with office furniture which moved me onto installations as well. This ended with me having the choice of moving to the copier company of the group or being downsized.

...And so here I am 7 odd years later doing much the same as I've been doing all along but now it includes servicing / refurbing copiers, companies I.T. bod,
engineer tech support, goods receiving, stock control, goods dispatching, call control, customer tech support, copier delivery and installation, company handyman, filing clerk and I'm sure I've forgotten a few along the way...

God I need a holiday...

[herrmann]

Technician for tv sets and radios and so on; truck driver for the red cross; working on a scrapyard; working in a steel mill; assembled washing mashines and dishwashers; working as an electrician; repairing computers and finally come to rest as a copier tech and it tech.

Seems, that much of us have had a kinky way of live

[Dave10]

Had the coolest job ever. I designed toys for 8 years. I did mechanisms, electronics, mock-ups and prototyping. I also souped up early production toys for commercial shoots. I still do this stuff freelance, and I design board games, but since the company I worked for closed and I live in St. Louis where there are no other major companies, I can't do it full-time. But I love all machines and electronics and I do enjoy this.