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kwassa

(23,340 posts)
26. One day
Wed Mar 6, 2013, 10:46 PM
Mar 2013

summer job in college.

Working with a roofing company on the roof of my old high school

Working with hot tar and raking gravel with the sun baking off the roof in high heat.

No regrets on that one.

Started at 8, walked out at noon. Never looked back. hobbit709 Mar 2013 #1
Bravo! ohiosmith Mar 2013 #3
I trained a guy that did that! lastlib Mar 2013 #18
I can beat that HoneychildMooseMoss Mar 2013 #35
I got the same record.... Broken_Hero Mar 2013 #60
I'm about to quit my job with USPS after 18 years. Occulus Mar 2013 #93
Do you have full medical? You should see if you can't get some kind of leave of absence. MADem Mar 2013 #95
Very impressive. Baitball Blogger Mar 2013 #2
Thank you! ohiosmith Mar 2013 #4
Though, I think I have you beat. Baitball Blogger Mar 2013 #13
That's awesome! graywarrior Mar 2013 #5
Outstanding! ohiosmith Mar 2013 #7
I lied my way into the job coz I was desperate graywarrior Mar 2013 #10
Okay! More information is necessary! Lied about what? ohiosmith Mar 2013 #12
That I could key punch graywarrior Mar 2013 #14
Oh! I thought it would be juicy! Like you were in a reform school for incorrigible girls! ohiosmith Mar 2013 #27
I was too smart to get caught graywarrior Mar 2013 #28
Shoulda known! ohiosmith Mar 2013 #29
Lynn, MA girl graywarrior Mar 2013 #30
Yea! But can you cook? ohiosmith Mar 2013 #32
Hell, yeah! graywarrior Mar 2013 #33
Good! I'll have a chicken pot pie,.....and a beer! ohiosmith Mar 2013 #37
How about a duck pot pie? graywarrior Mar 2013 #38
You are a force! Touché! ohiosmith Mar 2013 #40
qwak graywarrior Mar 2013 #41
I'm down with that! ohiosmith Mar 2013 #46
I gotta duck out of here and waddle off to bed graywarrior Mar 2013 #50
I'd like a gander of that! ohiosmith Mar 2013 #51
Geese, that was daffy graywarrior Mar 2013 #54
Ohiosmith will give you a goose kurtzapril4 Mar 2013 #66
Were you Peking? ohiosmith Mar 2013 #68
No, but I know a quack kurtzapril4 Mar 2013 #72
A friend who lives in Ipswich, MA kurtzapril4 Mar 2013 #65
We Lynners hear that wherever we go graywarrior Mar 2013 #74
Hey, It's a claim to fame! kurtzapril4 Mar 2013 #77
one day In_The_Wind Mar 2013 #6
Very good! ohiosmith Mar 2013 #8
Three days rocktivity Mar 2013 #9
Slacker! ohiosmith Mar 2013 #11
How about a subordinate? bluedigger Mar 2013 #15
Hahahaha! ohiosmith Mar 2013 #52
About an hour? femmocrat Mar 2013 #16
That may be the record! ohiosmith Mar 2013 #53
2 Hours 20 minutes. Answered an Ad: "Good pay---Fast paced--work with wonderful people" BlueJazz Mar 2013 #17
Nice story! Now forget about it! Don't want you to be pissed off! ohiosmith Mar 2013 #63
What story ?? BlueJazz Mar 2013 #81
Cool! ohiosmith Mar 2013 #82
I quit one job after four hours, another after 12. How's that? Scuba Mar 2013 #19
Outstanding! ohiosmith Mar 2013 #69
Not really. I shoulda quit the first one in the first 15 minutes! Scuba Mar 2013 #70
I think you are. In_The_Wind Mar 2013 #83
Since you brought the subject up, why did you quit??? I was quite happy for you when patricia92243 Mar 2013 #20
2 .5 hours...of paid training Sekhmets Daughter Mar 2013 #21
Usually months for me. I just "hired" someone a couple weeks ago Paulie Mar 2013 #22
I about match you. RILib Mar 2013 #23
Two hours. They wanted me to sign some unbelievably restricting NoGOPZone Mar 2013 #24
A little less than two months. Aristus Mar 2013 #25
One day kwassa Mar 2013 #26
I used to do roofs all the time when I was in college. Victor_c3 Mar 2013 #57
Half a day Demo_Chris Mar 2013 #31
3 days. High School summer job working suburb road maintenance. Gidney N Cloyd Mar 2013 #34
What type of work? discntnt_irny_srcsm Mar 2013 #36
Me personally, about 5 1/2 weeks but... discntnt_irny_srcsm Mar 2013 #39
One day. Honeycombe8 Mar 2013 #42
I wouldn't worry about it. discntnt_irny_srcsm Mar 2013 #43
Thanks. It's always bothered me that I did that. Honeycombe8 Mar 2013 #47
As my wife says... discntnt_irny_srcsm Mar 2013 #48
That one's a keeper. nt raccoon Mar 2013 #58
Thanks discntnt_irny_srcsm Mar 2013 #59
That's good. Tell your wife I'm gonna borrow her expression. Honeycombe8 Mar 2013 #89
Sure thing discntnt_irny_srcsm Mar 2013 #100
See in the old days RILib Mar 2013 #61
I AM talking about the old days. I'm gettin' up there in age, and I was maybe 19 at the time. Honeycombe8 Mar 2013 #90
I didn't make it past the interview. Apophis Mar 2013 #44
2 hours. I never got thru training at McD's NightWatcher Mar 2013 #45
Less than 6 hours. davsand Mar 2013 #49
Sixty Minutes Jeff In Milwaukee Mar 2013 #55
2 Days. A bus boy in an Italian restaurant Populist_Prole Mar 2013 #56
Thank goodness os. Helen Reddy Mar 2013 #62
Thank you HR! You are too kind! ohiosmith Mar 2013 #76
Why don't you tell us why? sendero Mar 2013 #64
Two hours at a Ponderosa Steak House. Tommy_Carcetti Mar 2013 #67
My very first job kurtzapril4 Mar 2013 #71
About an hour. cliffordu Mar 2013 #73
Three hours and it was a stormy goodbye... Phentex Mar 2013 #75
For myself, it was 72 hours. Knightraven Mar 2013 #78
I got fired within 6 minutes of reporting HereSince1628 Mar 2013 #79
Gang culture? Really? Common Sense Party Mar 2013 #97
Taking care of Paulie's calls? TheManInTheMac Mar 2013 #99
72 hours maybe ? steve2470 Mar 2013 #80
That depends IrishEyes Mar 2013 #84
3 hrs- Wally-World, Nov 1994 Earth Bound Misfit Mar 2013 #85
I quit one job before I started. MadrasT Mar 2013 #86
I worked one night as a cocktail waitress. Never went back. n/t tammywammy Mar 2013 #87
Two months and it was a big mistake jmowreader Mar 2013 #88
3 days Munificence Mar 2013 #91
Nursing home kitchen 43 minutes olddots Mar 2013 #92
I think that depends on how you look at it. harmonicon Mar 2013 #94
Royal Prestige cookware. Common Sense Party Mar 2013 #96
Two months. AngryOldDem Mar 2013 #98
In my case, 6 months; but I know of someone who got a 'permanent' academic job... LeftishBrit Mar 2013 #101
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