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MY FIRST JOB
2008-06-09 - 8:17 p.m.

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I�ve had a few jobs in my life. Some good, some bad, as is to be expected. M y first �real job� was when I was 6 years old. Our new, next door neighbor, a single man who was a Police Officer, paid me 50c a day (big bucks in those days) to walk his dog. A rather LARGE German Shepard named Snickers.

After the first 3 days of walking Snickers, or should I say Snickers running at top speed and dragging me behind him, I decided to come up with a new plan. An absolutely brilliant plan if I do say so myself. What was it? Roller Skates! Did I forget to mention we live on a hill?

The first day went great. As I came down our steep hill, Snickers running in front of me.... me passing him and him running behind me... him passing me and....well, you get the picture... the kids in the neighborhood are all watching this activity and cheering me on. When I finally came to a stop in our driveway, they all came running toward us and begging to try it. I guess you could say this story was also the start of me owning my first business.

At 10c a ride, I made out pretty good for a few days until one kid had to go and crash into a brick wall and end all my fun, and my job.

What triggered off this story in my mind? I read the following cute little story on the internet and thought you may enjoy it too.

A young family moved into a house, next to a vacant lot.
One day, a construction crew turned up to start building a house on the empty lot.
The young family's 5-year-old daughter naturally took an interest in all the activity going on next door and spent much of each day observing the workers.
Eventually the construction crew, all of them "gems-in-the-rough," more or less, adopted her as a kind of project mascot.
They chatted with her, let her sit with them while they had coffee and lunch breaks and gave her little jobs to do here and there to make her feel important.
At the end of the first week, they even presented her with a pay envelope containing ten dollars.
The little girl took this home to her mother who suggested that she take her ten dollars "pay" she'd received to the bank the next day to start a savings account.
When the girl and her mom got to the bank, the teller was equally impressed and asked the little girl how she had come by her very own pay check at such a young age.
The little girl proudly replied, "I worked last week with a real construction crew building the new house next door to us."
"Oh my goodness gracious," said the teller, and will you be working on the house again this week, too?"
The little girl replied, "I will, if those as*!#!es at Home Depot ever deliver the fu*#'ng sheet rock..."

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