his thread has helped me look at my career trajectory with new eyes.
Fact: I was employee of the month at Forever 21 (one summer job) due to my skill at restocking and organizing tiny trashy articles of clothing by color and style.
Now that I have an advanced degree and have worked in research for several years, I'm realizing that I should be highlighting this early career award and accomplishment...because research really boils down to the ability to look at and categorize stuff.
But you were way more HOTTER back then than you are now.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Confession: in a brief moment of nostalgia I created a FB page for my high school job at an amusement park.
It ballooned in popularity, people made memes and posted it there, long stories and memories were written and "liked" and commented on for days, pictures came out of boxes in the basement and were scanned and posted.
The owner who is now 80 actually figured out how to log in and see it, and it was adorable with him telling us how proud he was of all of us. Tears!
It was insane.
I need a link to this.
Anonymous wrote:Confession: in a brief moment of nostalgia I created a FB page for my high school job at an amusement park.
It ballooned in popularity, people made memes and posted it there, long stories and memories were written and "liked" and commented on for days, pictures came out of boxes in the basement and were scanned and posted.
The owner who is now 80 actually figured out how to log in and see it, and it was adorable with him telling us how proud he was of all of us. Tears!
It was insane.
Anonymous wrote:This thread is eye opening, and has caused some internal dilemmas.
Quick history:
- I worked at a Mom and Pop grocery store in the mid 90s. The store was later put out of business by Walmart. I feel this might be vital information, and a nice talking point during the interview process. Thoughts?
- Another point is that I still have most produce codes memorized (4011 - bananas, 4062 - cucumbers), even though I haven't worked there in 20 years. Should I move this skill to the top of my resume? Maybe in a Career Highlights section? If you do think I should include it, will I get dinged for not keeping up to date with new codes. I'm totally lost on organic codes.
Anonymous wrote:Most of you would not last 1 day in high volume fast food or retail.
Anonymous wrote:We worked our asses off during those 2 summers.
We were very busy all summer long and served everyone from tourists staying at nearby hotels, to baseball teams, swim teams, soccer teams, birthday parties.
It was a very demanding job.
To now act as if none of that ever happened is very pretentious of her.
All she does now at work is sit in front of a computer all day.
We were both at the bottom of the barrel once.
Our boss (the owner) was a major asshole at times.