QOTW: First job/first knowledge

Posted on June 16, 2006

The women over at Work At Home Mom Bloggers are talking about first jobs this week and I decided to join in and share my first experience with a paying job.

So what was my first job? Well, promise not to laugh too hard, but from when I was 15 until I turned 18, I was a janitor at a local publishing company in my home town. I worked five days a week from 3-7 p.m. cleaning toilets, vacuuming, dusting, and other menial but necessary work. It was honest labor and great experience for me.

While I did learn some important lessons on cleaning (which my husband wishes I would employ more often), the most important lesson I learned was about budgeting my time. Since I worked everyday on top of school work and extracurriculars, I had to be very organized about when I did what. That lesson has stayed with me and to this day I thrive under pressure.

It has particularly come in handy with my cooking and writing – I can set a basic time frame and get things done during that time and then get to my other responsibilities. I know to budget time not just for the actually processes but for development, preparatory work and implementation.

Read the full post at Cucina Bella, a family cooking blog.

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3 Responses to “QOTW: First job/first knowledge”

  1. Frugal Work at home mom on June 17th, 2006 10:36 am

    Thank you for participating in Work at home mom bloggers QOTW What was your first job and what life lessons did it teach you?

    Wahm reveal first jobs and life lessons

  2. ~Black American Princess~ on June 19th, 2006 8:44 pm

    That’s funny! Is that when your love affair with writing (indirectly) began? My first job was a cashier at Hallmark. To this day I can’t pass the card aisle without fixing everything and making the cards stand upright.

  3. Sarah on June 19th, 2006 8:50 pm

    It was more of a coincidence really. I have loved writing for as long as I have been able to write and I knew I wanted to be a writer at a very young age. So when the opportunity to work at a publisher came up, I didn’t care what the job was as long as I got to work there.

    LOL on the card aisle comment! I still do have a slight affection for cleaning products and tend to use the same ones I used then.

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