I’ve held some interesting jobs since I started working at age 14. Here is the master list along with a little something I learned from each.
Age…14: An Honest Bike Shop
-How to deal with vendors and ordering product
-How to throw an adult hissy fit compliments of a crazy boss
-How to fix bikes (duh)
15: Saturn car dealership washing cars
-How to kill hours by doing nothing
-How to get the concrete bug juice off your windshield
15-18: Started at Tyrol Ski and Sports in the back as a tech then moved to sales
-How to sell expensive gear
-How to deal with all sorts of people. Some have deep pockets and others very shallow
-How to love your job
16: Somerby Private Country Club
-How to please the ultra rich
-How to drift golf carts
17: IBM manufacturing warehouse building massive super computers
-How to be a human robot
17-18: PacSun selling clothes
-How to fold t-shirts
19: Sargents Landscape and Nursery
-How to shovel rock
-Appreciate the outdoors
-How to make friends with a crack head co-worker
20: Janitor for a large printing business building
-People eat some gnarly stuff everyday. No wonder we’re all getting fatter.
-How to put your feet up on the CEO’s desk and drink their complementary soda
-How to salsa with a vacuum
21: Rivercrest taking care of chronic alcoholics
-Life lesson: Don’t become an alcoholic
-How to negotiate with drunk, half brained, hobos
-How to help those who truly need it
22: Teaching in Korea
-How to control a class full of 29, hormone raging 13-year olds
-How to live happily in a foreign country