In a previous life

[JJ]

Chainsaw safety researcher
Supermarket delivery packer
Barman
Design Engineer (Huret Derailleurs, remember them?  Wondered why they disappeared?)
Research Assistant (Maths/CAD)
Software Engineer (CAD)
QA Manager
Development Manager/Powerpoint Engineer/Pointy head..No end in sight

[Basil]

Paper Boy
Assistant Milk Man
Temp Postie
Apprentice at milling machine co. (fail)
<run away to london>
Porter at Covent Garden (The real Covent Garden)
Cook at Joe Lyons, The Strand
</run away to London>
Three jobs in milling Machine sales
Mature Student
2/1
TEFL
Stage Lighting Crew
Gaffer x 3
Buyer for major concert lighting co.
Sybil Serpent - HR

[Gus]

paper boy
factory worker at a rubber factory
soldier
Lab Technician at a colour pigment factory
Lab Technician at a paint factory
been working many years doing chimney insulation.
Present :
Train driver

[Jaded]

Paid jobs?

Site labourer
Team Photographer
Chambermaid
Waiter
Warehouseman
Crate builder
Factory cleaner
Lorry packer
Sales Assistant
Management Trainee
Retail Manager
Operations Manager
Small Enterprise Agency Assistant
Shopping Centre Manager
Shopping Centre Director
Web Designer
Multimedia Designer
Company Director
NHS Non-Exec

Unpaid?
Music Festival Organiser
Camaign Group Chair
Disabled Person Assistant
College Govenor
Aid committee member

[Mr Larrington]

Mine is duller than a dull thing covered in matt black Hammerite.

• horriblemarket warehouse minion (part-time)
• Babbage-Lackey in eight¹ or so incarnations

1 - ignoring internal moves, company being borged, etc. etc.

[PeteB99]

Paper boy
Hospital Porter
Van driver
Baker *
Temp Postman
Asst Warehouse manager (Furniture)**
Computer operator
Computer Programmer
Redundant
Lorry driver
Computer Programmer
DBA
?

* I unloaded loaves from Betabakes production line into lorries
** It was mainly chipboard and MDF

[gordon taylor]

Office boy
Quarry engineer trainee (dumper driver, fitter, cable puller, lackey.)
Quarry engineer
Quarry transport manager (x2)
Self employed: Locksmith, gardener
Fire service engineer
Fire service driving examiner
Fork truck after sales manager
Self employed: transport consultant, insurance sales, taxi driver
Maths teacher
Head of a maths department
Other education stuff up to "Zone Director" and Deputy Headteacher

Gap for nervous breakdown

Maths teacher

[JonBuoy]

Two weeks counting blades of grass.
Thirty odd years as a mechanical design engineer.

Sometimes I think that I should have stuck with my first choice of careers.

[Wowbagger]

Agricultural labourer
Ditto (different farm) although I did get to drive a tractor and do some chisel ploughing
Labourer in factory (1970ish - made "industrial cameras" a kind of Jurassic photocopier)
Agent for Bloody Sodding CANDIS (as it later became known)
Injection moulding operative
Taramasalata quality control executive
Teacher (boys' sec. mod. - music)
Teacher (primary - gen. subjects, boys' games & music)
Piano teacher
Civil Servant (COBOL programmer, then SSADM systems analyst, then project support)
Journalist
Teacher of chess
Male model
Beekeeper
Area Manager, Bloody Sodding CANDIS
Still teacher of chess
Pensioner

There's probably more stuff and lots of unpaid / volunteering.

Memory bubble 1: National Cycling Proficiency Instructor & Examiner.

[David Martin]

Hmm..
at various times and in various places..
Sterile supplies technician
Gardeners assistant at the royal ballet school
furniture deliverer
wire making machine watcher
factory sweeper
warehouse packer
bouncer
mcdonalds restaurant staff
van driver
systems manager
research scientist

[TimC]

Having to go a long way back here...

Paid:

Tiler's mate
Mobile disco DJ
Garage mechanic (Jaguar/Alfa Romeo)
Production line worker in a photocopier factory
Sales agent for supertanker propshaft bearing manufacturer
Delivery bod for NAAFI Germany
Garage mechanic for Serious Military Vehicules!
Production line worker in German fire extinguisher and agricultural spray manufacturer
RAF pilot
Folk singer
Narrowboat hire company owner
Airline pilot

Unpaid:

General builder
Editor and writer for various RAF motorsports publications
Racing driver (enthusiasm eclipsed ability)
Entertainments manager
Expedition organiser
Dad
Probably lots of others I've forgotten.

[harrumph]

pointless tasks (various)