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Trying to impress LJ
Trying to impress LJ. This is not the post that I originally planned to write. I was planning to write about my college work study experience. So, why am I writing about LJ again? Why this post? First, who was LJ? LJ was my high school band director. If you search my posts you’ll find…
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Working at Kmart
Working at Kmart. If you’ve been following my last few posts, you know that I’ve been talking about the summer jobs that I had during my college years. Today I’ll be wrapping up the series with my final summer job. Limbo I graduated from James Madison University (JMU) in May of 1988 and immediately went…
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Working at Long John’s
Working at Long John’s. My last two blogs have talked about summer jobs that I had during my college years. You can read about them here. I’ll summarize the experiences by saying, they didn’t go well. Getting started Dad was emphatic that I make money during the summer. I decided to steer clear of the…
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Working at Dollar Bargain
Working at Dollar Bargain. Last week I talked about working at the Gimbels in the now defunct Eastland Mall. Things hadn’t gone well. It was a year later and I was, once again, looking for summer work. I returned to the Eastland Mall and found work at the Dollar Bargain store. Dollar Bargain was another…
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Summer at Gimbels
Summer at Gimbels in the Eastland Mall. I’ve been talking about my college experience and the academic challenges that I faced. Today’s post will tackle one of my first summer jobs. I was a stock boy at Gimbels Department store in North Versailles, Pennsylvania. Make money I didn’t work a job during high school. Mom…
