I love these early-work-days retrospectives (I went on to read the preceding one); they do trigger memories. My bad jobs were temp assignments, about which the best I can say is that they were temporary! And the worst, always, will be the one day at a collection agency in a small office crowded with collectors working the phones to harangue and threaten people. I was assigned to type out checks (this was in the late 1970s) to pay a stack of bills. The boss failed to specify that I was to type checks for ONLY ONE of two stacks of bills, set there side by side. I industriously typed checks to pay both stacks. Horrors! He scolded me roundly for MY mistake.
I love these early-work-days retrospectives (I went on to read the preceding one); they do trigger memories. My bad jobs were temp assignments, about which the best I can say is that they were temporary! And the worst, always, will be the one day at a collection agency in a small office crowded with collectors working the phones to harangue and threaten people. I was assigned to type out checks (this was in the late 1970s) to pay a stack of bills. The boss failed to specify that I was to type checks for ONLY ONE of two stacks of bills, set there side by side. I industriously typed checks to pay both stacks. Horrors! He scolded me roundly for MY mistake.
Glad you got out of those hellscapes and persevered until you created the career you wanted!
Oof, me too!!
Thank goddess you got that job at Harper, 'cuz I got to meet you!!!!