Common Ground: A Community Post
Do your job.
This month we’re starting to ramp up the search for summer work for my kiddos. At various times in my young life, I was a terrible waitress1, a bored grocery store cashier, and a college campus landscaper.
What was your first job? What was your best or worst job? Lists are welcome.
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I know this seems like run-of-the-mill self-deprecation, but I was really terrible. I spilled drinks on people on multiple occasions. As the summer went on, I got better, and I still think that waiting on 8-10 tables at a time prepared me pretty well for (a) teaching little kids and (b) mothering five of them.
Babysitting
Childcare
Babysitting
Childcare
College Donor Data Entry
College Admissions Data Entry
Gift Basket Store Employee (including maker of gift baskets—I can make a mean handmade bow)
Resident Assistant
Missions Teams Assistant (planning travel logistics for MANY teams)
Dean of Women (I jumped up the ladder real-fast there)
Starbucks Barista (how the mighty have fallen)
Writing Center Consultant)
Adjunct Instructor
Communications Specialist
Freelance Editor
Communications Specialist
Communications Manager
CEO (again with the jumping up the ladder!)
My first non-babysitting job was working at an RV rental company cleaning RVs... in the summer. It was about as bad as it sounds. I was never much of a nascar fan before that, and working there made me loathe race week. It was our busiest week of the year and all the RVs came back the dirtiest that they ever were. I always thought I was a detail person, but it turns out I only love the details when working on things I actually care about...