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breakingnews · 12-05-2006, 07:42 PM

I've never worked retail or in a restaurant. I've always wanted to, but ... I never did. I always found myself earning money by just kinda "fitting work in" with what I happen to be doing anyway.

The summer after junior year of high school, I started teaching tennis at a local club, but it was mostly traded for court time and the occasional private lesson. My parents also bought me a racquet-stringing machine, with which I made a buttload of money by undercutting all the local tennis clubs and shops.

Summer after senior year I took my first formal employment, teaching tennis at a local camp. At some point I was also contracted by Sports Authority to string racquets, which I continued doing on and off for about a year.

Summer after college freshman year, I interned with LogicalAd.com, one of those ludicrous dot-com startups with a fat bank account but absolutely NO business plan whatsoever. Ironically, despite business barely budging during my three-month stay, I learned quite a bit from my superiors. I wish I had stayed in touch with them.

College sophomore year, I started designing display ads for the student newspaper for $40 per issue. Meanwhile, I was being paid for writing sports articles, and toward the end of the year I was hired as an editor (although the pay was a laffable matter) and had to quit the ad stuff. I made so much more money working for the business staff.

That summer, I racked up a healthy $1,500 credit card bill in Europe. When I got back to school I did whatever I could to pay off that debt. How's this for conflict of interest? For the first two issues of the year, I sold ads, designed ads, wrote articles, photographed, did page layout and edited the entire newspaper. Meanwhile, several of our ad clients (local restaurants and businesses) hired me to help them with other design work, like menus and fliers. I paid off that credit card bill in under 3 weeks.

Summer after junior year was probably my most interesting job, working with a golf association as a media/PR person at their tournament sites. I traveled the entire west coast for 15 weeks in a conversion van with a trailer. Awesome.

Then after graduating I was hired at the newspaper in Bucks Co., where I worked for a year before jumping to a big newswire's headquarters in NYC.

Two years later, at 25 years old, I've already moved on and am looking for my next fortune ...

12-05-2006, 07:42 PM	#6
breakingnews Q_Q Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: somewhere in between Posts: 995	I've never worked retail or in a restaurant. I've always wanted to, but ... I never did. I always found myself earning money by just kinda "fitting work in" with what I happen to be doing anyway. The summer after junior year of high school, I started teaching tennis at a local club, but it was mostly traded for court time and the occasional private lesson. My parents also bought me a racquet-stringing machine, with which I made a buttload of money by undercutting all the local tennis clubs and shops. Summer after senior year I took my first formal employment, teaching tennis at a local camp. At some point I was also contracted by Sports Authority to string racquets, which I continued doing on and off for about a year. Summer after college freshman year, I interned with LogicalAd.com, one of those ludicrous dot-com startups with a fat bank account but absolutely NO business plan whatsoever. Ironically, despite business barely budging during my three-month stay, I learned quite a bit from my superiors. I wish I had stayed in touch with them. College sophomore year, I started designing display ads for the student newspaper for $40 per issue. Meanwhile, I was being paid for writing sports articles, and toward the end of the year I was hired as an editor (although the pay was a laffable matter) and had to quit the ad stuff. I made so much more money working for the business staff. That summer, I racked up a healthy $1,500 credit card bill in Europe. When I got back to school I did whatever I could to pay off that debt. How's this for conflict of interest? For the first two issues of the year, I sold ads, designed ads, wrote articles, photographed, did page layout and edited the entire newspaper. Meanwhile, several of our ad clients (local restaurants and businesses) hired me to help them with other design work, like menus and fliers. I paid off that credit card bill in under 3 weeks. Summer after junior year was probably my most interesting job, working with a golf association as a media/PR person at their tournament sites. I traveled the entire west coast for 15 weeks in a conversion van with a trailer. Awesome. Then after graduating I was hired at the newspaper in Bucks Co., where I worked for a year before jumping to a big newswire's headquarters in NYC. Two years later, at 25 years old, I've already moved on and am looking for my next fortune ... __________________ Gone crazy, be back never.