What did you do before....

...you were a dispatcher??? we all know we didn't grow up wanting to be dispatchers.. so before this what kind of work did you do? Me? I have worked as a housekeeper, nurses aid, group home worker, in a video game arcade, cashier, did the nanny thing.. to name a few

I have worked in a factory,ny system restaurant,delivered groceries and drove for a wholesale florist.

Not a dispatcher yet....but I worked in a manufacturing plant in Oregon..making luxury motor coaches. I was in the upholstery department for 11 years. Then moved to Alaska...worked one year in another manufacturing facility making liners for portable blu-med hospital units and military buildings. Then they closed plant up here. Now.....I am looking for work. Believe it or not I entertained the idea of being a dispatcher several times throughout my life. Then recently there was an ad for dispatcher in training and I am pursuing it even tho I did not score high enough on initial testing to get into training.

Before becoming a Dispatcher I worked as a Security Guard, prior to that I worked as a Paramedic and EMT. I also worked as a kitchen worker for Vassar College part-time during school as well as Wendy's and K-Mart. I am also a life member of my fire department.

I never had a full time job before I started dispatching a little over 4 years ago. I had recently gotten divorced and suddenly needed a real job. Before that I worked in a gas station, at a nursing home, various restaraunts and went to college part time while caring for our 2 kids.

Oddly enough, I always thought it would be fun to be a dispatcher WAYYYY before I knew what one really was. I remember being 18 and asking one of the state police sgts if he needed a dispatcher locally. I was half kidding, but obviously there was an interest there. The bizarre thing there was that I ended up dispatching in a small town half way across the state and then ended up dispatching for state a few years after that and ended up dispatching that same sgt. The same sgt who also gave me my very first speeding ticket. It's such a small world! As for what I did before, basically office work and I hated it. Filing just killed me. I would let it pile up and just couldn't face the day to day paperwork. I was in heaven when I finally fell into dispatching. Dina

Cahier/sales, housekeeping, nurse's aide/home health aide, waitress, real estate agent, school bus aide. I think that's all of them lol. Carol

Sorry for the late post... I was a credit counsellor for a mortgage credit reporting agency for 7 years. I met a dispatcher at my friends wedding, went on a "sit-along" and caught the bug that night. 13 years later... It's been interesting to say the least... Sheryl