Steven and Linda Or rather Devin and Wesley

Sometimes I feel old, but reading over all the different jobs that my Dad has held in his 60 or 61 (or maybe even 62??) years of life reminds me that I have a whole lot to learn and a whole heck of a lot more work ahead of me! — Hurrah or maybe not, gulp…well God willing I’ll still be fighting the good fight in 40 years if the Lord hasn’t come back by then (please oh please come back Lord!!). Because if my Dad’s still serving the Lord at 60-whatever-years-old-he-is, then I have to be too!

Ok, on to the more interesting part of this post, at least I think so, are all the jobs that my Dad has done in his lifetime & actually gotten paid for. My Mom sent me this list and was meaning to get more info about the jobs but for lack of time this will have to do. And knowing my Dad I would not be surprised if he forgot about a dozen or so other jobs, but maybe it’s ’cause he didn’t get paid for them. So here’s the list:

1. Cutting Fire Wood

2. Pulling out Palmetto tree stumps and clearing off land

3. Helping to build a house for 3 years

4. Farm work

5. Yard Work

6. Mixing cement for block mason

7. Painting Houses

8. Worked at a Marina

9. Life guard in Florida

10. Post Office and Parcel Post

11. Restaurant work…dish washer, kitchen prep

12. Solider in U.S. Marine Corps

13. Assistant manager (Trade Winds Hotel)

14. Manager of the Cape Kennedy Hilton hotel

15. Bar Boy

16. Baseball team bus driver

17. Bred Afghan hound dogs

18. Commercial Clamber

19. Made Cabinets

20. Wood work in “Crim Craft” family owned business

21. Made trailer houses

22. Pulp wood (don’t know what that means)

23. Delivered fertilizers

24. Bartended in Dodger Town (for the baseball team itself)

25. Bartended in 10 different restaurant bars.

26. Owned and managed Camelot Restaurant

27. Car Washer

28. Window Washer

29. Delivered phone books

30. Librarian

31. Made furniture

32. Carpentry & framing work

33. Made pens and furniture out of Saguaro cactus

34. Organized dozens & dozens of yard sales

35. Sold videos for Family Entertainment Network

36. Substitute school teacher in an Arizona Charter middle grade school

37. Built swimming pools

38. Baker

39. Painted houses

40. Truck driver

41. Auto parts store

42. Worked in the supply room in the Marines

43. Dumped ammunition in the Marines

44. Donut maker

45. Ran a Mini Storage

46. Farm work on 4 different farms

47. Cleaned houses

48. Handyman work

49. Restored house trailers

50. Missionary work for over 25 years (in South America, all over North America, & Asia) and is currently serving the Lord with my Mom in Mexico! – The Lord’s always compensated & supplied abundantly throughout the years, and I think my Dad would agree that He’s been the Best Boss out of them all.

And last but by no means least, he’s been a FAITHFUL, HARDWORKING, and LOYAL Father to his 13 children…funny that this is the one job he hasn’t received a dime for! : )

Happy Father’s Day Dad!