14 job-related things about me

25 job-related things about me

I read this article, and thought I'd make a list of my own.

1. My first job was a lemonade stand staffed my my brother, sister and I, and in two weekends, we were able to buy a giant trampoline with our profits. My second was a partnership with my sister to sell beanie baby accessories online - we were not nearly as successful.

2. My first "official" job was grounds crew and leader the of the jail convicts to clean and move thing around the fairgrounds. I lasted five years, and dealt with a lot of garbage!

3. I lasted a whole summer at another fairgrounds, where I regularly cleaned 120 horse stalls with jail convicts, emptied and arranged over 300 garbage cans and mowed over 100 acres of grass. My favorite was mowing until I fell asleep and rode into some soccer nets, and I didn't get to do that so much anymore.

4. At #3 I was required to wear an XXL bright green shirt with the intention to match the sanitation crew. Also, pants all summer, so I ripped a lot of holes in my jeans "by accident" to stay cool. I also learned to drive a skidsteer and tractor, so a big plus there!

5. I worked at a gas station for over five years, and was trained in by someone who quit during my second week to murder someone with her boyfriend, then cut him into pieces and bury him in her parents' yard. So every time I did something wrong, I totally blamed her training.

6. My best job perk ever was getting paid to work on a beautiful island on a marathon. While I worked hard setting up for a weekend, it was warm and sunny, and housing and food were paid for as well.

7. My dream job would be to manage a national tour of triathlons/running races, and set up training trips around the country for athletes (and get to test them out!). I'm also very interested in non-profit leadership, health and wellness, and tourism.

8. My first job out of college was security at a waterpark.

9. I've worked for 28 different organizations. This doesn't take into account working for several departments or several locations one place - always at least 2-3 at a time.

10. I've never been fired.

11. I sold programs and did some marketing for a baseball team, where I met a lot of great people and got free beer and hot dogs after the games. I still miss that job!

12. I used to work two full-time jobs both from 8 to 4. Of course, this was both 8 am and 8 pm that I started (casino and waterpark) and I wanted to die every day.

13. When I quit working at the waterpark, I had to bring a garbage bag full of uniforms because I had worked in every different department to help out at some point in time (my favorite was cabana server!).

14. I've worked on events as large as the Disney Half Marathon, inaugeral events like the Catalina Eco-Marathon, running events in California, Wisconsin and Minnesota, and even directed one with proceeds going to charity.