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Life is a Resume ( Part III )

       Let's talk about that time I was a Bill collector . I worked for this company on South Hampton Rd. called Tate & Kirlin. This was an interesting job, It took me about a hour & 45mins to get there from Germantown, I never really had a ride home and would have to walk about 15 to 20 mins to the bus stop every night because we got off at 12am. When I did get a ride to the bus I had to hope I was alive to get on it. These people would drag race each other down Roosevelt Blvd, that's the thing that made it interesting besides the phone calls telling people to pay their bills and how they would react about it. I was 19 & I hadn't experienced a lot about people & this was wild. Anybody that's ever worked collections knows what I mean. I was also a Telemarketer selling pagers & cell phones for a brief stint for this company called GoInternet.    I went into a training with the welfare to work program and became a property manager for th...

Life is a Resume ( Part II )

     (All these Jobs were in Philadelphia)      My first tax paying job was Burger King on Chelten Ave, I was 16. I kept this job all of 2 weeks because as far as I was concerned this job was not for me. They expected me to sweep & mop that huge dining room floor & put out huge bags of trash, in the dumpster around the back of the store. I found these things to be too complicated at the time and decided that job wasn't for me.      When I was 17 I started working for Dunkin Donuts on Broad & Wyoming. This job was fun & I became the bomb at making coffee. There is a story behind this job that I'd rather not tell, but I will say I was fired after working there for a year.      After that I tried City Blue on South st. it was interesting being as though the location was so lit. I met a lot of different people from a lot of different countries but yet I still found it to be boring. A friend of mine got me into ...