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Job Title: Referee

Company: New York City Social Sports League

Duration 6 Seasons – Approx. two years

• As one of the original players in the league, I began reffing after I left my job at DC Comics – it was a great way to get a little money off-the books to help supplement my unemployment checks.
• Responsible for taping the courts before match play began and cleaning the space at the end of the evening.
• I had to follow six balls at any given time, flying through the air in different directions, making sure the folks who got out, got out – you be surprised how many people try to cheat during a dodgeball beer league…
• Job helped me develop an even thicker skin. People hate the ref!

Job: Golf Caddy

Employer: Bonnie Briar Country Club

Duration: two summers

• Carrying one or two golf bags for uppity, pretentious, rich folk.
• I was not a good caddy.
• Working at BBCC proved to me I was not made for manual labor…
• By the end of the first summer I was only assigned  “ladies bags” and “Putters”  – Putters is the worst, the caddy is forced to follow around a golf-cart full of drunken assholes and be responsible to keeping your eyes on their balls.
• My father was the Asst. Greens-keeper so they had to keep me, otherwise I’m sure I wouldn’t've been hired back for a second summer.

Job # 39

Title: Office Manager

Employer: Coalition for the Advancement of Jewish Education (CAJE)

Duration: Three Months (Short term job)

• Responsible for setting in place an organized method of storage of office supplies and marketing materails to be processed for shipping.
• Reorganized both the storage room and mail center making both user friendly and easily maintainable.
• Responsible for filling and shipping orders for reference materials (Pamphlets, donation card, etc., etc.) as to the cause.
• I was the only non-Jew working there, they joked I was sent in by the Pope to sabotage the cause.
• The job was only short term to begin with, but I left a few weeks before my contract was up. I was sleeping the with person who go me the job, and when the office came back from their big yearly convention, he broke up with me and told me the reason was because he was seeing someone else and SHE worked for CAJE as well! Awkward!

Job # 18

Title: Bill Collector

Employer: Citibank

Duration: six-ish months

• As a collector for bucket-three cases, I was the last person the debtor spoke to before his/her account would be turned over to the in-house collection agency.
• I worked second shift – 6 to 11, so most of my calls were to the west coast. We tried not to call anyone after 9pm.
• I quit the day after I saw my name pop up in the system…

Because, at one time, I wanted to use this forum to post short memoirs and that didn’t work out so well, the road to hell…blah, blah, blah – I’ve decided that to help make myself accountable this year, I’m going to use this space to build my resume.

I’m trying to make myself work on projects, not just talk about them. So I’m starting a new feature, I’m calling it: Resume Builder. It’s a way to outline, what I hope, will be interesting enough to expand into a book.

I’m going to bullet point every job I’ve had in my adult life, as if I were writing the worlds longest resume – I’ve had a lot of jobs…the list is here. I’m going to start around #18, after I graduated college, the adult jobs. I probably won’t go in order…

One day, when the bullet points turn into stories, and the stories get published, I’ll thank you all on the acknowledgements page for "being with me from the beginning.

Please feel free to comment with questions and thoughts…