Best Summer job you ever had?????
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Michael Schey msche...@yahoo.com
As summer approaches, I often look back to my college days and the summer jobs I had. Some were great, some sucked big time.
What were your best summer jobs?
I'll start. I had basically 3 summer jobs.
The summer between Fresh/Soph years I worked, get this, in an unemployment office. UGH! I was one of the clerks on the counter who asked the people coming in if they had looked for work, noted yes or no on their card, and sent them to the check line. Basic 9-5 job Mon-Fri. Not what you want to do at 19 years old!
Summer between Soph/Junior years I worked....GET THIS...as a toll collector on the Garden State Parkway...the Essex Toll Plaza to be exact. The good thing was I was finished by 2:30 every day, and when working the southbound lanes got to see lots of good looking girls headed for the beach. Plus, we worked 90 minutes on , 30 minute off rotation....plenty of time to nap. The bad thing was I had to be there to start my shift by 6:30 am.
Summer between Jr/Sr years. Worked as a cook/manager, all around 'just get it done' guy at a Swensons in West Orange, NJ. This job was prob the best I had. Good looking waitresses and customers, plus I worked evenings.....had to be there by 5pm. So....EVERY day I went to the beach around 7:30 (Long Branch was an hour drive from home), got there at around 8:30, stayed until 3, drove home, and got ready for work. I did this almost every day for the entire summer.
Of course the best summer was the summer after I graduated college and started to 'look' for a job. Spent alot of time at the beach...........
So......did we all have fun during the summer, or were we miserable?
Michael (looking outside my office window and the blue sky and sunshine, thinking about summer jobs)
"Rick Rubenstein" rrubenst...@mycomcast.com
Well, I never had a good summer job, Mike.
But I recall vividly the summer of 1982, when I worked for the New Jersey Parole Board in Ewing.
I commuted in an un-air-conditioned Honda Accord from Wayne to Trenton every day. I would then drive to Leesburg, Annandale, Trenton State Prison, Rahway State Prison, and various County Jails, all summer long.
There's just something about the Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center in Avenel, during the summer, that will never really leave my memory.
And the Vroom Readjustment Center . .. now those criminally insane folks are a real party waiting to happen.
I made a mental note never to pursue a practice in Criminal Law.
The only thing worse?
. . . .Matrimonial.
"Slappy White" bruce.springst...@verizon.net
I did the seinfeld show ...
"lmmr" lee.mi...@verizion.netXXX
Slappy White?
Stop bending the shafts, stop bending the shafts.
FENDERMA ...@webtv.net (Tim C)
the summer of 1979 i was 16 years old....it was the summer i got my liscense.....and it was the summer i had a job working at the local conservation area for the youth conservation corps.....it was a 6 week job and i didn't get paid until the 6 weeks were over....i took the money and bought my 1st electric guitar...a cheap telecaster copy that i got because i was inspired by bruce and seeing gary busey playing one in the buddy holly story.
jcnj ...@aol.comBRUUUUCE (JCNJ357)
I was a pool boy at the Playboy Mansion.
Michael Schey msche...@yahoo.com
That may be the worst job........too many distractions.
Where do ya look first?
Ruth o...@somewhere.com
I worked at The Jewish Guild For The Blind the summer of 1970 at their day camp in New York City. Have had lots of summer jobs since then but that one stands out as being the most fun and rewarding and I met so many wonderful people. Actually most of my summer jobs were camp jobs although I did spend most of one summer cleaning dorm rooms. It wouldn't have been that much fun except that we were stoned most of the time.
Hey, it was 1973, whaddya expect?
;-)
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Ruth o...@somewhere.com
<shudder> The mind boggles just thinking of how awful matrimonial must be!
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e ...@nyc.rr.com (Eric (EAR))
The flotation devices.
E..........
jcnj ...@aol.comBRUUUUCE (JCNJ357)
You have been married way too long.
lupih ...@aol.com (Lupihome)
For 2 summers I worked in a lumber yard. Good physical work for a hung over college kid. The second summer they made me a truck driver. Now I never drove a truck before that. By summer's end, I broke 2 sets of side view mirrors, knocked down at least one mailbox, destroyed countless packs of roofing shingles, which made countless roofers very mad (you have to know how they carry the packs up the ladder to appreciate that. But my crowning achievement was loosing a door, complete with frame at a very busy intersection in Greenwich, CT. Rope broke and it slid right off the truck. For all this I never got fired and they asked if I would come back the next summer. I didn't, and I can't even remember what I did the next summer.
Ruth o...@somewhere.com
Oh my. I have always wanted to be a truck driver. I think I just changed my mind.
Ruth, who would probably wreak even more havoc.
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"The BEAST" noth...@all.com
: : > >Subject: Re: Best Summer job you ever had?????
: > : > For 2 summers I worked in a lumber yard. Good physical work for a hung over : > college kid. The second summer they made me a truck driver. Now I never : > drove : > a truck before that. By summer's end, I broke 2 sets of side view mirrors, : > knocked down at least one mailbox, destroyed countless packs of roofing : > shingles, which made countless roofers very mad (you have to know how they : > carry the packs up the ladder to appreciate that. But my crowning : > achievement : > was loosing a door, complete with frame at a very busy intersection in : > Greenwich, CT. Rope broke and it slid right off the truck.
: : : Oh my. I have always wanted to be a truck driver. I think I just : changed my mind.
: : : Ruth, who would probably wreak even more havoc.
Not to mention the trucks!
added The BEAST
brucefaninc ...@aol.com (Brucefan in Colo)
Caddy at Canterbury Country Club outside of Cleveland Ohio.
Had to put up with members crap, but got to play a great course every Monday.
obri6 ...@aol.com (OBRI6133)
The only summer job I ever had was in the summer of 1967, between my junior and senior years in high school. I worked as a pot washer in a restaurant on the boardwalk in Wildwood, NJ. From July 4th until Labor Day. $2.50 an hour. We lived in a rooming house where four guys slept in two beds and shared a bathroom with about 16 other people. Never met a Sandy or a Wendy, but I do remember Mitzi, who happened to be from South Philly. That was one thing I learned about Wildwood, the whole town was from South Philly....
oldgal old...@navix.net
For the summer of 1961, I had the best summer job ever, at least for a 14 year old. I lived in Hastings, Nebraska and somehow landed a job of selling ice cream bars, popsicles, and fudge bars out of the three-wheeled vehicle I pedaled around town. I sold the ice cream novelties for ten cents, altho they were available from corner stores for a nickel. We were, however, mildly romantic figures to the pre-teens who would come running as we rang our bells, and they were glad to pay the premium.
We made two cents per item sold, a paltry figure by today's standards, but good money for a young teen in a small town- none of my friends made nearly what I cleared.
I had two separate girlfriends, in different neighborhoods. Of course, a girlfriend was just a female I would talk to while taking a break, perhaps springing for a ten cent gift, which cost me 8 cents.
Of course, thinking about this I recall the downside. I was chosen for an all-city all-star baseball game, and to allow me to get to the game on time, my father drove my cart home one night. While racing two other ice cream salesmen, he tipped over my cart, breaking his hip, was laid up for weeks. I'm sure the medical bills and lost wages far exceeded my wages, but my parents at least never billed me.
None of my college summer jobs compared to this summer, before my freshman year in high school.
The New Guy thenew...@boootlegs.com
Probably my best summer jobs were the ones where I was mowing lawns for the neighbors to get a quarter or two to buy the latest Ace Burroughs novels, but one of the worst was the summer of 1977 when I had the misfortune of being over in Hawaii.
Strapped for cash, I had to work two jobs at the same time; the first was selling suntan lotion to Australian and Japanese and American tourists in the mornings from a small gr***-covered hut on Waikiki Beach (although occasionally I got to work the stand at the Royal Hawaiian) and the second was an evening job - I was the "happy hour" bartender at Lucky Pierre's just down the street from the University.
That basically meant that I "poured" -- if you can call using an automatic shot delivery system -- all the booze the little girls and the guys who came into the place could drink from 7-9 PM. What a cynical experience those jobs were. On the other hand, between the two jobs -- 7:30 AM to about noon on the beach, like a sun-blackened beach stud, and 7-9 PM, as a sadly-less-than-naive purveyor of "get-loose juice" I was knocking down an average of about 250-300 bucks a day in cash.
I'm sure glad those days are gone.
Warmest regards always, etc. etc.
The New Guy http://www.thenewguy.net
Michael Schey msche...@yahoo.com
Almost 19 years......... :-)
Michael Schey msche...@yahoo.com
I did that in High School.....Spring, Summer, and Fall for 2 years.
Baltusrol CC in Springfield, NJ.
Two rounds a day, double bags......
"lmmr" lee.mi...@verizion.netXXX
That is a incredible golf course.
"CHUCK" cmoo...@pleeznospamutmem.edu
Barker...Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, NJ..from 78-84.
Every summer felt like "4th of July, Asbury Park" (Although I don't remember Bruce singing about getting his *** kicked ) Chuck
b00b001 ...@aol.com (B00B001357)
Lifeguard at a public pool in Keansburg NJ across the street from the board walk. Never a problem and alot of hot chicks...
joeyfm ...@aol.com (Joeyfmdnj)
Hot chicks in keansburg ? That must have been a long time ago !
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