re: Jobs You Had as a Kid

First I mowed yards. Also loaded hay bales on my uncle’s farm. But my primary teenage job was two summers as a vet tech. Large and small animals. I’ve helped worm and geld horses, assisted in surgery, helped pull a dead calf out of a cow (she died). Full time in the summer and cleaned the kennels every morning at the 6:00 during the school year.

In college I worked a semester on 3-11 shift driving a forklift and loading trucks at an office furniture plant. I’ve never worked retail or fast food.

Lifeguard from the summer before my freshman year of high school thru my freshman year of college. Such a great job as a kid.

I had a job as a bar back and back of house in a restaurant my junior year. Not bad money cause all the waitresses liked me and would tip me out. Then one night our dishwasher quit and I had to fill in. Next night, same thing. Then all my shifts were dishwasher. Quit after that.

I worked one day at a tire and oil change place. They put me working with this old douchebag mechanic that sat there and yelled at me all day. frick that guy. What a miserable human being. At first I thought he was just giving me the weed out treatment until one of the other techs came up to me and said “just ignore him. He hates everything.” Quit that evening. Not worth the hassle

Worked retail one semester in college thru the holidays. Black Friday is as big of a nightmare as you think. They hired too many people so I was working 4 shifts per week and not making any money. Then around Christmas they kept scheduling me “On Call” where I had to call in twice and see if I had to go in. This was unpaid of course. After two days during Christmas break where I didn’t go in I quit. No point in sitting around my apartment all break doing nothing.

Last non-professional job I had was a HVAC supply house warehouse job. Worked there all thru college until the summer before my senior year when I got an internship. It was a good job, made good money at the time. Let me be independent. Best thing is it let me learn how to talk to working people. A bunch of the contractors that would come in got to know me and knew I was going to LSU for CM and really were helpful. I took an interest in their trades and they respected me for doing so. I found when I got my first internship I was definitely more comfortable dealing with the contractors than most of my peer interns.

My dream job as a teen was to work the counter at that pizza place in the shopping center on the corner of Jones Creek and Tiger Bend. I assumed I would just be able to watch TV and play arcade games for 90% of the shift.

But aside from that:
- bus boy at mall pizza place
- lots of mowing yards and washing cars
- whatever the shite they called the salespeople at Buckle
- video store clerk
- auto parts delivery for a local junkyard.