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The summer I was 16, I actually had this funny combo of best and worst job. I had started a successful paintball business, so that was the best one, but since you needed a big group to play and it was only really busy on weekends, I had lots of time during the week to kill. So I also got a job washing dishes.
I’d taken the shotgun approach and left my resume all over town and this local restaurant in Vernon, B.C., happened to be the one who called me back. This was the first time someone else gave me a job, which was kind of thrilling at the time, and the first time I was getting a cheque for my bank account. This will date me, but I only made like $4.50 an hour, or whatever minimum wage was at the time.
The restaurant was a steakhouse, basically, that served breakfast too. I would work either early mornings or later in the evenings, for the breakfast or dinner rush, but neither shift was super long. I’d be either busy at night or had to wake up early the next morning, so the job kept me out of trouble too. At least I could wear what I wanted, which was usually jeans and a T-shirt. They’d give you gloves and an apron.
As you can imagine, it wasn’t the most glamorous work. You’d start by filling up the bus bins with dirty dishes and lugging them back to the dish pit. There was that big industrial, high-pressure hose that hung down from the ceiling. You’d rinse with that first, fit everything you could into the machine, wash and repeat. It was kinda gross at first, old food in a hot kitchen and all, but you get immune to it pretty fast.
It wasn’t hard, but it was repetitive. The hardest part for me was the boredom, but boredom was good, because I realized I was just trading time for money. I was doing this at my own business job too, but it was more money, and much more exciting and exhilarating. It really confirmed to me that I was on the right track, that entrepreneurism and self-employment was the path for me.
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