via karion:(and everyone else)

There was a brief stint in elementary school where I made necklaces and sold them to the other kids in class, but I was told by the principal that I was not allowed to conduct such business on school property or at school events.  She killed my entrepreneurship.  One summer in middle school I co-taught (assisted) with my mom’s summer school science class.  This was actually a ton of fun as I got to teach all of the fun experiments and I think I had to break a few 8 year old hearts as well.

Okay, first real, on the payroll job was Jackson Hewitt as a file clerk for a couple of tax seasons in high school.  Basically I had to reorganize the entire filing system and shred a lot of paper.  I also stapled a ton of W-2’s.  The fun part was seeing how some of these people made their income.  Every year there was the handful of people that had stacks of W-2’s from the race track.

During college, I did pretty well here. (I can 10-key the phonebook like no one’s business and still can’t walk through a grocery store without counting things on the shelves.)  I worked there for almost 3 years and honestly when I first moved to NYC considered working nights for them to make extra money.  I doubt the people up here are as fun to work with though.  I was lucky that I had a great team and worked for a great boss.  However, it was the first time I was ever accused of sexual harassment.  The hours were tough and inconsistent so I left them and started working here my last year of college.  I was an Account Rep. for Target working the evening 3pm - 10pm shift.  I was responsible for setting up loads, making sure drivers showed up and that everyone had proper paperwork.  I could probably  name the locations of all Target Distribution Centers in the country if I had to.  If I had found transportation and logistics interesting at all, I would have stayed.  They offered to keep me on after college and work on a ‘career’.  My boss knew I wanted to end up in NY and even talked about looking into jobs in the Elizabeth or Newark offices, but I politely declined once I landed my ‘dream job’ in Asbury Park, NJ.

And I’ll leave it at that…