Time to get into the work force and find that first job. What it would mean to punch a time clock, work your hours, and get that pay check at the end of the week. Just to find out that there are TAXES taken out of it! But then it would come - the great joy of being able to spend it or save it for something really big. Was it spent of clothes, hanging out with your friends, or did you work for something like a car?

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My first job was at Scanda House on 27th street. An all you can eat buffet restaurant, where I bussed tables and helped customers.

What a job that was, it amazed me to see how people could waist that much food. I can see that you may want to try something new. Ok so you take a spoonful to try it and if you like it you go back for more. But when you take mound of potatoes and more food then you know you could eat, then why do it! Or when you go out to eat why would you think you can eat like a pig and make such a mess! Ok sure you may not be the one who has to clean it up but someone else does! And they no more want to clean up your mess, even if it is their job. Who ever said it was funny to open the caps of the salt and pepper shakers so someone else can dump them when they try to shake them? Or hiding a quarter under an upside down glass of water? These are just some of the bad jokes played on waitresses, and it's not funny! This was my first and last job in the food industry.

As for my pay check, that was sweet. It did allow me to buy new clothes, and hang out at the mall with my friends or go to the roller skate rink, but the one thing I wanted most then was a beautiful fur coat that I put on layaway at Southridge Mall. It was a white rabbit coat for $200. Well I paid it off just to find out about quality workmanship. The first time I wore it I pulled out the sleeve. When I took it back they said that the pelts had been sewed on the fur and that's why it pulled out. So I gave the coat back to be fixed, but once again it happened. This time they said it could not be fixed and that I should take a different coat. By now the coat I liked was no longer available and that I would have to pick a different one. Now I got first hand experience as being a consumer. So I get my money back or settle for something else? Well in this case I really wanted the coat so I would settle for a black one.

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