My totally average work history

What jobs have you had?

My first job ever at around 14/15 years old was to be a gate guard at some pool company that was on its way out. Originally the position was to be a lifeguard but I didn’t know how to swim and I was too nervous to tell anyone. In an uber my mom paid for I cried on the way to the training because I was riddled with so much anxiety.

The uber driver would glance at me in the rear view window, we would make eye contact for a brief millisecond and look back out of our respective windows. The silence in the car felt deafening as I tried to console myself. I was alone with no way back.

I made some excuse as to why I couldn’t dive deep into that water and dissociated for the rest of training.

My second job was for Noodles and Company. One of my godmothers was a manager there and got me set up for the job. As usual I came into the interview far too overdressed to work at a fast food spot, but I didn’t know any better. I got this job during quarantine and was just what I needed during that time.

To round out my high school work years I ended up working at Dominos after school. I hated getting my hands in the dough so i became ultra fast at cutting and boxing pizzas. There was something ultra satisfying about it and when a rush would come through it felt like I was in a game!

After highschool I got started a weird cycle of being in and out of working 1-3 part time jobs at once.

The first job I got was for my colleges Student Disability Services. While working there part time I needed another job to cover me during winter break, so I started working as a barista on the weekends. Working these two job held me over through the spring and then winter hit. I wasn’t going to be going on campus and was struggling to get more hours as a barista, so I started working at a nursing home as a mealtime attendant. During period I was able to have a more flexible schedule and I also started taking a summer class later on. So I balanced all 3 even into the coming fall semester.

At first, Monday and Wednesdays I would be a barista with Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday at the nursing home. Once ai started taking classes things shifted to Sundays at the coffee shop to with Monday

and Wednesday at the nursing home and then Tuesdays and Thursdays on Campus.

I slowly slipped away from each of them before finding myself in my current position. I first slithered out of my spot being a barista as I started to really miss having my full weekend there and I had felt I had moved on from working there. Then at the nursing home I loved my coworkers but I felt I was consistently clashing with management so then I chose to dedicate myself to my campus job.

While in my last season on campus I made a project to help the students understand resources better. But I felt the delays I was experiencing and lack of importance around it, made me feel as if the resource I had made weren’t valued. I didn’t really plan on walking away forever but I think it was the best choice for me especially where I find myself now,