Post your job progression:

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High School:
-- fast food slave
-- vacuum cleaner sales (only lasted 3 days)
-- office furniture delivery

Summers in College:
-- ice cream truck driver
-- pizza delivery
-- poster roller

Post-College:
-- poster roller (6 months)
-- procedural manuals writer (6 months)
-- itinerant traveler/unemployed bum (a year)
-- indexer (a year)
-- copyeditor/proofreader (a year)
-- financial writer (7 years)
-- freelance financial writer (6 years and counting)

[BaggyAnt]

Paperboy
Cash and Carry Shelf Stacker
Cash and Carry Cashier
Purchase Ledge Clerk
Bank Teller
Banking Call Centre Sales and Service Adviser
Scheduling Assistant
Scheduling Manager
Project Manager
Forecasting Manager
Resource Planning Manager
Head of Resource Planning and Internal MI

[jd2b2006]

Scorekeeper at bowling alley
Telemarketer
Bag Boy
Lab Tech in organic chemistry lab
Tutor
Energy Analyst
High School science teacher
Pharmacy Tech
Tax Intern

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I have wondered how easy it is to transition from engineering to teaching - did you have to get an education certificate/degree or pass a test to be able to get into that career?

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In Florida, all you need is to have taken the requisite amount of credits in the area you want to teach to get a three year temporary teaching certificate. Additionally you must get professionally certified as a teacher within five years of when you start by taking a general knowledge test, a subject area test, and an education test.

[train.]

peach orchard worker
quick stop stocker
otasco gopher
railroad
....brakeman
....conductor
....hostler
....yardmaster
....asst. trainmaster
....trainmaster
....corridor mananger
....trainmaster
....conductor
....dispatcher
during furlough times from railroad
....insurance salesman
....dry cleaners manager
....telemarketer
....car salesman
....avionics installer (best job ever)
edit:....built a few decks and flower beds (reminded by the lawn thread.)

unpaid jobs for last 5 years
....flower delivery boy
....flower shop maintenance dude
....flower shop bookkeeper
....flower shop do what nobody else wants to do guy
(can you guess what my wife has done for the last 5 years?)

[Rolon]

'Group leader' for City Nutcracker production (glorified babysitter)
Rainbow summer leader (glorified babysitter)
Lab manager for a Geotechical firm
Quizno's for one week for free sandwiches.
Poker/Traveler

[DonkeyKongSr]

Fair food vendor
Disneyland food vendor
Waiter
Data Entry
Rental car paid intern
Assitant Media Planner
Media Planner
Media Supervisor
Media Manager
Assistant Media Director (starting in a week and a half!)

[anisotropy]

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Car Wash Attendant
Video Store Clerk
University Library Storage worker
Materials Engineer
Process Engineer
High School Math/Science Teacher

[/ QUOTE ]

I have wondered how easy it is to transition from engineering to teaching - did you have to get an education certificate/degree or pass a test to be able to get into that career?

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I live in NJ, and if you have the minumum GPA (2.75) then all you have to do is take a few classes and you can get a teaching certificate via the "alternate route" (as opposed to getting a BA in Teaching).

For me, however, it was a lot easier, since I am teaching at a private school. I was not required to get a certificate. Just pass the interview and I am in teaching. I've been doing it for the past 2 years and it's been great. I may get my certificate at some point in time, but right now I have no real incentive to do it (the school only pays an extra $500 for a teaching certificate).

[man]

sandwich maker
camp counselor
grocery store clerk x2
camp assistant area director
medical records filer
librarian's assistant
landscaper x2
nonprofit intern
computer/printer maintenance guy
handyman
math tutor
camp area director
financial specialist (spreadsheet maker)
customer service representative
handyman

I just turned 23.

[Victor]

13 soccer ref
15 arbys
17 structure (1 day)
17 back to arbys
18 siding
19 pizza delivery
20 diebold intern
21 worked at the college gym
22 engr intern at fiberglass factor
23 audiopack
24-26 professional degenerate

[Vavavoom]

Paperboy
Leaflet Deliverer
Operations (maintenence at large retailer)
Food Cashier
Foods Supervisor
Holiday Rep
DJ
Holiday Rep
Junior Bond Broker
Bond Broker

I've still got a long way to go...