Retired for eight and half years...
My first paying job was moving pipe where the wheat was taller that I was and you would sink to your knees in mud in the tater fields. Then I moved on to a farm hand. Next I got a high school job busing tables and washing dishes at a Mr Steak restaurant. I got promoted to cook before that gig was over. I then went into the Marine Corps for four years. After the Marines I worked as a auto/diesel mechanic. In 1980 I got hired by a now hated major chemical company starting out on the bottom tapping furnaces. (this is the same as tapping slag for steal ~ Hot! ~ only this plant made elemental phosphorus) I moved on to condenser operator in the furnaces for a couple of years then changed departments becoming a dryer operator. I then moved to the "yard" driving heavy equipment for seven years. (992, 988 loaders, Kress pot carriers, D9 cats, graders, 767 cat trucks, and a cat 245 track hoe) Then I moved to industrial maintenance as (of course) a mechanic for the last 16 years.