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THINGS THAT GO
Crazy First Jobs — & the Grownups Who Love Them
Our Three Oldest Children Are In Their ‘Eccentric’ Era
We’ve all had a weird job experience.
My kids are no exception. Our 18-year-old daughter — a high-school senior — slings cookies at a local bakery. She scoops the dough, bakes, and takes orders at the high-volume counter. It’s a shockingly stressful gig.
Easter has learned a lot, but she’s also found a fresh-baked annoyance for dealing with customers — and the crazy people who mill around downtown. As it turns out, introverts like her and food service jobs are like vegetable oil and water.
Maybe one day she’ll be a writer.
Our second-born son is a full-time student at a 4-year college. He plays and coaches a club sport, too. But when he’s not doing that, he’s working 20 hours a week at his transportation internship, doing a bunch of shit with city buses and trucks and things that go.
It’s fitting. Even though he’s just 19, he’s a go go go kind of guy — just like his dad.
The surprising part about Wes’ internship? Bus fleet maintenance uses a giant vacuum at the end of the day, to clean out passengers’ trash and other bullroar that gets left on the bus. What’s the strangest…
