My Resume

Last week, I was talking with a co-worker about our first jobs.

My first real job (other than babysitting) was when I was 14 or so, during the Christmas rush I was a bagger at the Woolworths where my Mom worked the lunch counter. I don't think Woolworths even exists anymore and department stores sure don't have lunch counters any more!

That got me to thinking about all the other jobs I've had, and I think I can say, hands down, the best job I ever had was being a paid companion for a blind boy. He was only a few years younger than I was, and not a bad person to hang out with.

I basically got paid an hourly wage and a milage per diem to go pick him up, hang out with him, take him the Six Flags Over Texas and the movies, go out to eat, swim in his pool, and go to the shooting range. All of which, he paid for!

Yes, my blind friend liked to shoot. He was pretty good too. I could take a soda can and throw it out in front of us and he would hear the can hit the ground and hit his target more often than not.

I did that for two summers and it was by far, the most skate job I ever had!