So, aside from babysitting and helping my brother out with the newspaper route my first job was working at McDonald's on Lincolnway Bob Newcomer asked if I would like a job there and as they say the rest is HISTORY! I loved working there when most teens were out at football games on Friday night's I was working at McDonald's have the BEST time ever!!!!!! I learned so much from the job! McDonald's is a whole another post! Some of the greatest time's were spent with Holly, Sly, P.J., David, Josh, Nick and many others! I am grateful for that job!
Next up after high school I went to work for United Airline's in reservations! I was so excited because I could not yet be a flight attendant! I enjoyed this job but did not do a great job of keeping in contact with friends from there. I worked there just about a year and quit because I wanted to counsel at Camp Adventure for ONE week! Ya'll I was crazy! I quiet a great job to counsel at jr. high church camp but I HAVE NOT REGRETS!!!!
Once I returned from church camp it was on to find a new job! I do believe I worked between McDonald's again, Wal-Mart and Knollwood Country club as a lifeguard! This did not last too long as in August of 1998 or 1999 I can't remember exactly I went to work for United Express aka UFS at the airport in South Bend! That was a fun job as well! I still stay in contact with Donna! I LOVED working with Donna! Such a sweet and gentle spirit! We survived the Y2K and returned in the new millinum! Delta aka COMAIR had opening's as they were expanding and away I went down a few spaces down at the aiport to the Delta counter! I worked a mix of shifts over the years there and I am still maintain contact with a few from there such as Larry, Chris, and Mark! I will never forget one Christmas we had an oversold flight by 4-6 and no one was budging! I remember asking for $150 then $200 in vouchers. I got one taker! Come on people we are not going ANYWHERE until the flight was down to just 50 passengers! I asked my supervisor if I could go up to $250 he said "yes". I blurted out $350 or $400 and got a whole slew of people!!! My supervisor then had to honor that and figure out a way to award that amount since $200 was our MAXIMUM we were allowed to give in travel vouchers! We had our people though!!!! These people made me laugh and laugh and laugh or maybe I made them think I was crazy and I just laughed at myself! I am not sure which but we had fun! Then I moved to Iowa where I did many odd jobs. We moved there in October of 2001 and I worked at the small grocery store from 2001 to 2003 just before Lily was born. Then I worked at a local nursing home 3rd shift and that was not easy with a nursing newborn at home. So, I stopped that for awhile then in August of 2004 I went to work Mayflower Nursing Home in Grinnell. I then went on to have Timmy and William! Then we moved to Fowler, IN where I worked at the local grocery store. We moved to Shirley where I began working again in October 2012 at Sallie Mae. I jumped in ready to be back in the work force again! After many different life events today ended a short time there. Although I AM BEYOND EXCITED to NEVER have to "bring current" a student loan again!!!! I WILL miss the friendships made! I pray that the friendships made will continue. As I told my friends today as we drove home, I will miss the laughter that we all shared but alas I now have a new audience to make laugh and doing something I was wired to do!
