Working

[glatt]

When I was a kid, I would mow lawns and shovel driveways around the neighborhood. Babysat too. Must have been around 12-13 when I started those odd jobs.

First real job job was working in a college bookstore for the last summer of high school.

Then had cafeteria jobs all through college. Everyone should work food service at some point in their lives.

For a few summers and winters I worked at a local mom & pop corner store. That was awesome, ran the place myself for up to ten hours a day. First job with real responsibility. It was the store I used to take my pennies to when I was a kid so I could buy candy. Felt like I had come full circle when I was selling the same crap to the next generation of kids.

My first post-college job was working in an antique furniture restoration place. It was fun, but unhealthy. Scary warning labels on all the products we used. I learned a lot about furniture there. And racist southerners, like the owner.

Then I was unemployed and borrowed/embezzled enough money to live poorly on from my parents for 6 months before I got a job temping in a law firm. They know about the money, but forgave the debt a long time ago.

That temp job turned into a permanent job, and I've worked my way up the ranks of this firm over the last 15 years. Don't see myself leaving any time soon.