Below are the jobs I've held since 1996. Prior to that I was a "housewife" (long story). Jobs are in reverse order, generally, and descriptions include some personal reflection and commentary. This isn't my resume, folks…
9/2008 - present
MarketMyFirm.com, LLC
2833 Remington Green Circle, Suite 201
Tallahassee, FL 32308
(850)878-2100
Company Profile: Marketing firm catering to CPAs/financial industry
Pay Rate/Salary: $12+/hr.
Job description: This is a start up firm; I am essentially the 'operations manager' handling many different aspects within this very small company. On occasion I also assist with the sister company, MyPayrollSite.com.
11/2004 - 12/2005
5/2007 - present
Spherion
1907 Capital Circle N.E
Tallahassee, FL. 32308
(850) 671-2345
Company Profile: Temp Agency
Supervisor: Diane Benson, Client Services Supervisor
Pay Rate/Salary: flexible ($8 up to $15, depending)
Job Description: Name it. I started at Citizens Property Ins. under Spherion, and worked there in various positions for over a year. I came back to Spherion after work as a Insurance Adjuster dried up in mid 2007. I was also starting two colleges (FSU and Norwich) and I wanted to stay flexible, and since then I've gone through a few temp positions. As a temp agency it is pretty good, and reliable, and I generally get a good rate through them. No complaints.
8/2001 - 10/2004
Mears Transportation-City Cab
324 W. Gore St.
Orlando, FL 32806
407-422-4561
Company Profile: Taxi company
Title: Radio Dispatcher
Supervisor: Mark Scalzo, district manager, taxi division
Pay rate/Salary: $9.25/hr.
Job Description: I worked as a dispatcher for two years before driving a cab most of 2004. This is a low point in my life. While the job was a typical low-paying crap job, and the company a typical corporation, I was dead inside. Why I wasted three years of my life at Mears, I'll never understand, at all. I think I just gave up.
7/2000 - 3/2001
youknowbest, inc.
1180 Celebration Blvd., Ste. 101
Celebration, FL 32747
407-566-1837
Company profile: Start-up software company
Title: Customer Support Manager
Supervisor: Alan Fulmer, president
Pay rate/Salary: $33,000/yr.
Job description: I helped develop the customer support end of new software designed for online integration with existing technology. Sounds fancy, and it was. There was a lot of promise there and a lot of venture capital investment, but the dot-com bust hit and the company had to scramble. A mass lay-off/downsizing ensued that was very political, very ugly, and I'm sure very necessary. I can't say I loved the job but it was a good one, and interesting. To bad about the economy, eh?
6/1999 - 4/2000
Digital Global Networks, Inc.
833-B Nicolet Ave.
Winter Park, FL 32789
407-622-2675
Company profile: Small ISP, mainly focusing on Website hosting (reselling, actually) and, yes, spam.
Title: Operations Manager
Supervisor: K***n K**p
Pay rate/Salary: $30,000/yr.
Job desciription: This was a great job, except for the owner. I have no doubt that he would hunt me down and sue my ass off if I were to dare say anything negative about him, his coke habit or his questionable finances, so I won't. But the job itself was great; I ran an 8 person team offering pretty cool web hosting packages. This was back in the dark ages of the Web, 1999, so what we gave people was not a lot (and it cost more than it does now) but my team gave great customer service and technical support. If the owner had not kept getting our servers turned off due to spamming, and if our paychecks had not kept bouncing, I might still be there. As it is, the company shut down not long after I quit. Don't bother trying to call.
9/1996 - 6/1999
Watermark Media, Inc.
414 Ferncreek Ave.
Orlando, FL 32801
407-481-2246
Company profile: Publisher of Watermark, Central Florida's largest GLBT newsmagazine.
Supervisor: Tom Dyer, Esg. (publisher of the paper, was also Chief Editor when I was there)
Title: Section Editor/Journalist
Pay rate/Salary: $20,000/yr.
Job Description: This was a small operation so I wore many hats, and it required a hell of a lot of writing, though. I was editor of the Nightlife section; editor and manager of the website, which I promoted and helped design; wrote 2-3 regular columns for each issue as in-house journalist; wrote major news and feature articles as a reporter; proofed and copy-edited the paper; managed the classified ad section; assisted with layout design; and worked as laison with freelance writers.
Reason for leaving: Got burned out and laid off. It was a nice job but a dead end, and I did not want to see that. But there it is.
