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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