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[quote=Anonymous]I worked every summer and part-time during the school year.  From the time I was 13 all the way through law school.  Some of the jobs were fun, some of them were boring, some were hard work, but all of them taught me something--the value of showing up on time, how to get along with different kinds of people, how to solve problems quickly, how to manage my time, the value of money, budgeting, etc.  I've never thought that I was better than anyone else because of my job or my income, and that there is nothing wrong with honest hard work.  And it was pretty normal for even UMC kids to have jobs--one of the wealthiest kids in my class had to work at McDonald's--his dad owned the franchises in our town and the family was loaded, but all his kids had to flip burgers in high school.  He did not want them thinking that they were too good to do what they asked their employees to do.

Working in a service industry can suck, but I'm much nicer to service employees because I know what it's like on their end.  And I have contempt for people who think they're all that but treat those that they think are beneath them like crap.  The snotty rich kids who did stuff like intentionally make huge messes on their dining hall trays (like gluing plates together with the nacho cheese) because they thought it was funny, never thinking about the people who had to clean up after them--I learned that people like that are shit.  [/quote]

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