What Have I Done? Part II

My very first post entitled "What Have I Done?" was really more about what have I, or my daughter? gotten myself into, in terms of blogging. But I started thinking the other day about what I've done in my lifetime and all the jobs I've had. So here its is: My List of Things that People have paid me to do starting at age 14:

1. Tractor driver doing summer-fallow work on a farm
2. Haying (bales)
3. Cutting (if you know what I mean) and branding calves.
4. Working the water pistol game at the local fair carnival.
5. Working the "toss a dime on a dish" game at the local fair carnival.
6. Scraping Manure off the feed lot fence in preparation for painting.
7. Doorman/ticket taker at the local movie theatre.
8. Meat delivery/bone pickup/carcas boner at a meat packing plant
9. Wheel move irrigation system manufacture and assembly.
10. Public library janitor and various other venues including a bar cleaning up vomit from people who mixed too much beer and who knows what else with chili and chips. (I figure this one and scraping manure off the feed lot fence would qualify for the "Dirty Jobs" show.
11. Sears plumbing and heating and paint and wallpaper department sales person.
12. Underground sprinkler installer and repair man (Private industry and city unionized employee.
13. Chartered accounting student with major public accounting firm and with smaller firm that specialized in bankruptcy.
14. Chartered Accountant large public firm
15. Special Projects Accounting Manager - small oil and gas explorationa and production company
16. SEC and FASB Accounting Research and Compliance Specialist with a large oil and gas exploration public company.
17. Chief Accountant responsible for financial reporting, Tax and Treasury for the small Canadian subsidiary of a major multi-national oil company.
18. Global consolidations accountant for the parent of the small Canadian oil company.
19. Retail accounting and audit supervisor same company
20. Transportation (pipeline) Budget and finance coordinator for same oil company
21. Budget and Finance coordinator for the Rockies business unit (refining, pipelines and marketing) of same company.
22. Accounting and Planning Manager for the Venezuelan subsidiary of same company.
23. Currently the primary finacial data organizer/chief data miner for the U.S. marketing department of this same company. Yup, that's it. At some point I stopped being an accountant and now I'm a data miner and specialize in telling people how to get their financial data out of one of the largest computer systems in the country, quite possibly the world. Not as glorious as it sounds - Especially when looking for historical comparative data out of 2 predecessor companies we refer to those projects as "Dumpster Diving for Data".

Okay folks. Nothing happening here, move along!