Oh geez....I sold popcorn and peanuts at Astros games starting the year they moved into the Dome. I also worked Soccer games, bullfights and the rodeo. I drove a truck one summer in high school for my old man - hotshotting oil field supplies around Texas. I worked over a year in the oil patch doing mud logging - testing fliudity, gas composition ans such things of the mud as it came off the bottom. I worked summers in college for the phone company - SWBT - pre-wiring houses and apartments and removing telephones with disconnect orders. Some of which of course people did not wish to have removed. One address I went to, the house had bruned down and I brought back a very melted Dali-esque phone to the garage.
I started with IBM in 1977, but took a hiatus for a few years in the early 90's and made a, very poor, living as a candle maker, selling to shops around the country and doing the fair circuit. Got some great stories out of that gig.