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My first job was at a Dairy Queen. I was fired at the end of my first day for supposedly not scraping the metal ketchup canister well enough. The boss was this Columbian guy & he had instructed me to scrape it for all it was worth...which I did. After he had given me the news that it wasn't going to work out, he & 2 other teenage female employees then had a ketchup fight right in front of me. The thing was (as I look back on it now), the owner just didn't like me because I probably had been getting lots of attention from the female employees. Weeks later, & this is no bullshit, I read in the paper (my then-girlfriend call my attention to this) that the owner guy was busted for dealing cocaine.
Now my first real job was a blast. As a teenager, I literally landed one of the coolest jobs possible at my age in my small town. I became the projectionist at the local movie theater. There were only two theaters in town & they each only had one screen & I worked at both of them. So I learned how to splice together & assemble the films & thread a projector. These days it's idiot-proof. On a couple of harrowing occasions, the film broke & I had to scramble to get it going again. My high school girlfriend was allowed to come in the booth with me while I worked also. The door to the booth had a lock on it & so we would have sex up there. One time, the tickettaker/manager guy came a' knockin' while we had the door locked & I told him I must have locked it by accident & he still let my girlfriend come by after that, but asked me not to lock the door again. Which I think I probably did, but we never got caught in the act (well sorta) ever again after that. This was 1987, so I especially remember seeing Predator & The Secret of My Success lots of times. The one film that really made an impact on me with repeated viewings was the great Full Metal Jacket.
I've worked (in some cases multiple times) as a laborer, carpenter's (remodeler's) helper, inbound & outbound telemarketing/customer service representative, telephone surveyor, landscaper, cashier clerk, dishwasher, line cook, fry cook, broil cook (for Shoney's, Waffle House, Huddle House, Bennigan's , Red Lobster, Chili's, & also other local restaurants) waiter in a restaurant, host, expediter, caterer, concert usher, barback, bartender, door guy, in an office for social services, buying & selling used textbooks, campus secretarial, student notetaker, & even a couple of times as a life drawing model. Now I am a merchant & work from home with an internet business.
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