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All the paid jobs I remember having:
✅ Babysitter
✅ Baton twirling instructor – one time a little girl removed the rubber cover on one end of her baton and jabbed another little girl in the upper arm, making a round cookie cut-out of her flesh. 🤢
✅ Lifeguard (at a motel pool with very few guests, other than the occasional trucker) I mostly sat around and worked on my tan.
✅ Waitress in a retirement community
✅ Retail salesperson in a children’s shoe store
✅ Administrative assistant – at a forklift dealership, a medical center, a municipality, and various other offices
✅ Fundraiser/Grantwriter
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Of course, I gotta ask: Which one was the best? Lifeguard with no swimmers would sound like an easy job for a young person, but I imagine it might get a little old after a while. Salesperson in a kid’s shoe store, could be easy or hard all depending on the parents. Ha, ha, how close am I?
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Haha, thanks for asking Brian. I did have some fun at the forklift dealership one college summer. I remember the mechanics bringing me their grease-covered time sheets and letting me drive a forklift. The whistling when I walked into the shop, drinking at lunch on pay day, being asked out in the office…so many HR violations! Good times. 😉
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I can only imagine … an HR nightmare. Ha ha
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Who would have thought baton twirling would have been so hazardous! I cringed at the flesh cookie cutter…
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It was those cheap hollow kid batons! Real batons are solid metal. The moms were not pleased with me. I believe tetanus shots were involved.
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