working girl

"I have a head for business and a bod for sin. Is there anything wrong with that?"
"Uh, no. No."
-Tess McGill to Jack Trainer, Working Girl

For a stroll down memory lane, and in the never-ending process of updating/revising my resume, I made a list of all the jobs I've ever worked.

I started working when I was 13. (The legal working age in Massachusetts is 14.) Here is my life in stipends, paychecks, cash-stuffed envelopes, W-2 forms, and tax returns:

• Chinese restaurant hostess/takeout girl/cashier
• Hospital candy-striper/receptionist
• Town hall conservation commission intern
• Town library book shelver and shelf-reader
• Harvard OEB lab assistant, plant physiology department
• SAT essay and beta exam writer (The Accolade Group web tutoring start-up)
• SAT tutor, private tutoring
• Harvard Dorm Crew
• Harvard DEAS lab assistant, David Mooney stem cell lab
• Domestic violence hotline counselor, community educator, office intern; Interval House crisis shelters
• ESL and US Citizenship tutor
• Finance software troubleshooter/summer intern, athenahealth Inc.
• Research assistant, intern, receptionist, Lexecon Economic Consulting, Inc.
• Research assistant, virtual classroom software pilot program, Harvard Graduate School of Education
• Research assistant and personal assistant, National Bureau of Economic Research/HLS
• Receptionist, research assistant, Harvard Graduate School of Design
• Editor, research assistant, Professor Hashim Sarkis GSD
• Editor, research assistant, GSD PhD candidate
• Receptionist, Harvard QRAC gym
• Economics consulting, real estate finance, EDAW Ltd

For some reason, even after all these jobs...I am still broke.
Maybe it's like what Carrie says in Sex & the City: "I like my money right where I can see it--hanging in my closet."