However you commemorate Labor Day, I hope that you consider the protesting, stalwart activists who made sure that legislative and institutional changes were made to ensure and protect laborers in this country--young and old, male and female, white and otherwise. Cheers for labor unionists, labor organizers, and we the workers ourselves. More protections and considerations need to be brought to eventuality in terms of our comrades and counterparts from and in other countries. And lastly, I would ask that we remember that when we purchase goods manufactured by the hands of exploited laborers we are supporting bad/unfair/often illegal labor practices. Let's do the better thing, as often as we can.
And now, a list. I thought it would be--here on Labor Day 2009--an interesting exercise to list all the jobs i could remember ever having worked. So here it is, from my fast-food inaugural work experience to my current job. For what it was worth...
Wendy's - Fort Worth - front counter, food prep, dining room cleaning, drive-up window
General Cinema - Seminary South Theater - Fort Worth - concessions, ticket sale, popcorn maker
Texas Grain & Feed Association - Fort Worth - general office assistant
Minyard's Grocery Store - Fort Worth - bakery clerk
Black-Eyed Pea Restaurant - Fort Worth - waitress/host
Goucher College - Towson, Maryland - Office of Public Relations - work-study position
Gander's Restaurant - downtown Baltimore - waitress
Southwestern Petroleum Co. - Fort Worth - clerk/typist, data entry
Union Equity Cooperative Grain Exchange - Fort Worth - general office assistant, data entry
Goucher College - Towson, Maryland - Office of Dance-Movement Therapy - work-study position
University of Texas-Austin - Journalism Department - phone survey - data collection
University of Texas-Austin - General Libraries - Administrative office - receptionist/office clerk
University of Texas-Austin - University Inter-scholastic League (UIL) - Administrative office - assistant to three directors
Tarrant County Mental Health Mental Retardation Services - mental health therapist tech and manager of three-quarter-way facility for chronically mentally ill adults
Boys and Girls Club - Eastside branch, Fort Worth - Cultural Enrichment Director
Chinese restaurant - downtown Fort Worth
Warehouse - Boulder, Colorado - shipping/receiving assistant
Frying Pan - Basalt, Colorado - waitress (one day only)
Live-in nanny on Buttermilk Mountain - Aspen, Colorado - cooking, cleaning, childcare, food shopping
Poetry consultant (for musician Jimmy Ibbotsen) - Aspen, Colorado - one-shot thing
Tesuque Village Market - Tesuque, New Mexico - cashier/waitress
Tia's Tex-Mex restaurant - Fort Worth - waitress
Nokoa-The Observer - African-American Progressive weekly newspaper - Austin, TX - office assistant, reporter
Boys and Girls Club - Montopolis (adjacent to Austin) - summer instructor
University of Texas-Austin - Natural Fibers Research & Information Center - research assistant
Website development consultant - Fort Worth
Booker T. Sparks Performing Arts Program - Fort Worth - afterschool arts educator
University of North Texas Health Science Center - Lewis Medical Library - Fort Worth - library assistant
Latin Arts Association (Artes de la Rosa) - Fort Worth - afterschool arts educator
Veterans for Peace - 2005 National Convention - Irving, Texas - convention coordinator
Fort Worth Independent School District - substitute teacher - middle school and high school levels
(Plus various temp job assignments through temporary employment agencies
and
commissioned art assignments (performing, teaching, mentoring youth, and writing)
and
paid artist residencies in Nebraska, California, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, and Texas.)
Volunteer positions - the following list is about 15% complete
(Women as volunteers contribute most of the world's unpaid labor, which is not considered as part of the gdp (gross domestic product).
St. Andrew's Catholic Church - Fort Worth - youth lector, liturgical performing artist/director
ACLU - Fort Worth - student intern
Texas Civil Liberties Project - Austin, TX - free legal clinic - administrative assistant
The Other Screen - founder/director and coordinator of this monthly independent film/video series in 1980s Fort Worth
Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute (and organic farm) - Basalt, Colorado - intern
KO.OP (91.7 FM) Radio - Austin, TX - producer/programmer, outreach coordinator, and elected member of the Community Board
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T*mmy - if this is you? Its PMX from Itscomingoutofyourspeaker. Hit me up via email if you can about getting some more tapes ripped and uploaded for the masses! We must do it for culture globally! steve_pmx@yahoo.com thanks!
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