Mark from Plano
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As a companion to the crappiest jobs thread. What early jobs did you have that were pretty sweet gigs. Can't be your permanent career, just something you did that was pretty fun/lucrative/whatever while you were young and in school.
I had several that were pretty good gigs:
1. While in college I worked at a tobacco store. Learned a lot about pipes, cigars, and all implements of the sweet smoke. This was 15 years before Cigar Aficionado made it mainstream.
2. Threw the Wall Street Journal. What made this gig fun was that you had 4 hours to throw the route and got paid minimum wage for 4 hours, plus mileage even though it only took about 1 hour to run the route. Also, the route was in downtown OKC at about 4am so no one was on the streets. You could drive the wrong way on one-ways, etc. and no one cared.
3. Pizza Hut. Cooked pizza. Not bad for a high school kid. Free food. On slow nights my friends would come in and if the manager wasn't there we'd have a pizza party.
4. Wal-Mart HQ. My first office job was in High School at the Wal-Mart HQ in Bentonville. My first experience with getting paid without actually having to sweat. I never looked back.
I had several that were pretty good gigs:
1. While in college I worked at a tobacco store. Learned a lot about pipes, cigars, and all implements of the sweet smoke. This was 15 years before Cigar Aficionado made it mainstream.
2. Threw the Wall Street Journal. What made this gig fun was that you had 4 hours to throw the route and got paid minimum wage for 4 hours, plus mileage even though it only took about 1 hour to run the route. Also, the route was in downtown OKC at about 4am so no one was on the streets. You could drive the wrong way on one-ways, etc. and no one cared.
3. Pizza Hut. Cooked pizza. Not bad for a high school kid. Free food. On slow nights my friends would come in and if the manager wasn't there we'd have a pizza party.
4. Wal-Mart HQ. My first office job was in High School at the Wal-Mart HQ in Bentonville. My first experience with getting paid without actually having to sweat. I never looked back.