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

[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.

[Dark Helmet]

Growing up I worked with the old man building kitchens. Went to college since i didn't want to build kitchens. Got a diploma in computer systems technology and didn't get one bite from all the resume's i put out. One guy in my class quit after a day and a half at the local Sharp dealer and told me about it. I called them up that afternoon. They were confused on how i knew about the job but gave me a shot at it.

That was 5 years ago.

[banginbishop]

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.

Are you TOM HANKS and did you appear in the film BIG?

[atwageman]

I was a fish baiter on a fishing boat for a few years. I got so good at it, that I was promoted to Master Baiter.

[HOLZ]

I was a corrections officer for 5 years or more,kinda blurred between all the b.s. I was on the road some,mainly when bad juju really hit they sent the blonde sassy irish woman out at 5'6 120 lbs i made one heck of an entrance,lol...... Gi jane babe!

[KenB]

We once had a Copier Guy who literally became a Copier Girl (sex change operation).

Needless to say, he/she wasn't kept in the same territory after the "transition" - would have made for some very befuddled customers.

[kingpd@businessprints.net]

many things

I've worked in factories, retail stores, went to college for my bachelors and started my masters. Big background in accounting/finance and taxes...still do tax returns to pay the bills and work on office equipment and mailing equipment.

[Dave10]

People often mention Big. Really was similar.

[Shadow1]

C-Band Satellite uplink operator

Computer Technician / Programmer / Tech Support / Systems Engineer / Network Engineer / Diesel Mechanic / Electrician / Plumber / Janitor / and occasionally receptionist (but I didn't have the legs for the job )

2 way Satellite Data Comm tech

Copier Tech

Spent a bit of time unemployed , and stocked a few shelves in there somewhere. I had a family to feed and would have taken any work I could get - Kinda pissed me off when Burger King wouldn't hire me.

[rthonpm]

Went from Corporate Services Co-ordinator for an investment bank (pretty much I supervised the copy centre, telephone operators, receptionists and Report Library) to being a Copier Guy.
The main thing that cinched it was I knew how to use a computer and I had fought enough with the analogue monsters in the Copy Centre that I had some idea what I was doing.

[gwaddle]

22 years as and aircraft mechanic.