Journal Jar Prattle #4

"What jobs have you had during your life? When? Where? What did you do?"

I've always liked working. There's just something about doing a job well. And having my own money was always really cool when you're young. Think about it? Your parents pay your bills, feed and clothe you, etc, and so any money you have is yours to do what you want with.

How I long for those days. (Sigh)

I was always babysitting when I was young, but then the summer I turned 13 I became a sort of nanny. I would go over to the house at 7:30 in the morning, watch three kids all day, and go home about 3:30. I did that for two summers. Then I realized that there was more money to be made in an actual job-job, so I started working at 15 at a fast food resteraunt (sp?). A friend of mine got me the job. I didn't know it until after I was hired that the owner only hired girls to work the counter because he believed they attracted more customers. Hence the cooks, with the exception of one, were male. It was a tiny, one franchise store. There were 5 cashiers and three cooks. Next door was an Allied, sort of a home depot but on a lower budget scale. There were some cute guys that worked there that would come over for dinner. Maybe there was something to the my boss's idea that girls attracted more business! I worked there for two years. Granted it wasn't my dream job, but we pretty much ran the place ourselves, and it was a really entertaining job to say the least. I sometimes miss those Allied boys. LOL! I suppose I just miss my youth.

I then worked for TJ Max until I graduated high school. I was one of the other high schoolers who worked nights and weekends. Gosh that was fun too! We all got to be good friends and so would hang out after work sometimes. Mostly just a party a lot of the time! After a few months they moved me up to head cashier and I didn't have to do anything but hang out and chit chat at the service desk. It doesn't sound like that much fun, but when you're working with a bunch of kids from other high school, and the store was dead, it was tons of fun!

After my first year at Ricks I came back home and got a job at a local specialty boutique. That one wasn't nearly as fun. Maybe because I felt like I'd entered the real world somehow. She offered me a management job that I turned down to return to Ricks.

Then I got married and moved to Logan. There I worked at a research company. Within a year I was made a supervisor and then onto the assistant to the boss. Not exactly my dream job, but it paid the bills. A few months later, Doug graduated and we moved to California, and I haven't worked since!! Well, at least at a job I get paid for!

Gosh I miss a pay check! I wonder what my pay would be for taking care of 4 kids and being "my kids mom." (Dr. Laura) Any ideas? I think it would at least be in the $100k mark.