What I learned from my first job
It’s hard for me to narrow down what my first job was— would that be babysitting, mowing, helping my Dad set up mobile homes? Or do I consider my college on campus work-study job to be my first job? Or would it be my post-college days of waiting tables and working retail? Or how about my first salaried job teaching?
I decided to share my top 10 lessons that I learned from an assortment of my early jobs, some serious, some not so serious, in no particular order…
1. Working at Sonic is harder than you would think— especially if you’re in charge of making the drinks. Geez, how many different flavors can you put in a Coke? And those shakes don’t make themselves, you know.
2. Left alone for five seconds, children will put anything they can find into the toilet.
3. You can sell pretty much any baby product to a first time grandparent.
4. You can sell pretty much any dessert to the table that has margaritas.
5. You can sell pretty much anything to a woman if you can convince her it makes her look thin. Note to self: Look into creating website that convinces women they look thin (www.youlookmahvelous.com).
6. Your best defense when dealing with a classroom full of teenagers is to develop a great knowing stare to follow the question, “What are you doing?”
7. I don’t want to mow for a living.
8. I don’t want to set up mobile homes for a living.
9. I like jobs that let me interact with people
10. And, finally, from my work study days working in an art gallery where I set up for receptions— it’s all in the presentation.
June 16th, 2006 at 11:34 am
That was both funny and good.
June 17th, 2006 at 3:27 am
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