Senior year if HS....Took a job at a discount store making the signage "in house". Manually typesetting each one. I left each day smelling like the turpentine that was used to clean off the ink on the metal letter blocks. I did not want this job initially but grew to enjoy it. I got to work will all of the department managers and the Executives in the store. This position led to subsequent positions on the sales floor which included promotions to department manager...then recruited to the specialty store that was a division of this company....promoted to store manager! It pays to take an entry level job and learn the ropes from there. Worked my way up! Spent 13 years with the company. I loved working retail (still do) but I was tired of working nights and then Sundays. I left to take a job in commision B to B sales....still doing this type of job 30 years later!
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