Work to Live...
Live to work!
At the robust age of fifteen I started working at McDonald's. Surprisingly
enough this was one of the best jobs I had! I started at the register and by the
time I was ready to go off and start the life of Jaime I knew how to do
everything. Drive through, registers, cooking, and even breaking down machines.
The whole reason I liked working there was because of the people. My manager was
the best, and the people I worked with were great! They're really the ones who
made my job special. I even remember the little old man that came in on Sunday's
to get his coffee. Such a sweetheart! Anyway it was a good place to start my
working career!
http://www.mcdonalds.com
The summer ending my 10th grade year I went to work as a "councilor"
(at least that's what we were called. But really we were nannies!). I
worked at Glendorne which was a little resort in my tiny town of Bradford. The
Zippo family owned and operated it. The family and guests would come and I would
watch the kids. It was pretty cool. We lived in what they called cabins however
they were really condos. These cabins were bigger than my house. I had the
children 24 hours a day. We had a pool to swim in, built in the ground
trampolines to jump on and even our own little fire truck to drive around in.
This wasn't work really it was a summer retreat! This job helped me save
for my summer trip that was planned for the following year to Germany!
http://www.zippo.com
The
summer of 1996 I moved to Pittsburgh, where I got a job at the big bird as a
bakery clerk. What a job! I look back now and see the paychecks I received and
wondered how I survived! This job was okay. But the cookies and cakes finally
got to me and I had to move on to a bigger and brighter world.
http://www.gianteagle.com
I went on and started working
at 
a
rash of telemarketing companies around the area. Jumping from selling magazines,
to raising money for charities, to even setting up appointments for insurance
companies. That got old quickly though.
I started working at In Pittsburgh Newsweekly, a alternative paper in the area. I did classified sales there. Called companies and tried to get advertisements and also took calls from advertisers wanting to run in the paper. It was a cool job. I even had to think up ads for the adult classifieds. What a trip that was! I would of liked to stay there but unfortunately I took way to much advantage of there leniency towards being late and eventually ended up getting fired. Oh well! That was the end of my newspaper career!
I got hired at Verizon on October 26th, 1999. I'm what they call a telephone
canvasser. Which initially was a glorified name for a telemarketer but now it
also means a customer service rep. This was definitely the job for me. There is
a lot of room for advancement here and I aspire to become management one day!
Anyway I've been here for a year and half on April 26th, 2001 and now plan to
eventually retire with the company!
http://www.verizon.com
