During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
While in high school, I worked part time at Subway, then at the front desk of the local YMCA, then at a tennis club, until I landed an unpaid internship at 'The Mountain View Voice,' my hometown newspaper.
I was a per diem floater in the same junior high school I went to. I sat in the office and made $42.50 a day, and whenever a teacher was absent, I'd substitute. I taught everything from English to auto shop.
I had three jobs my junior and senior year of high school. I worked for the gas station and worked for a pizza place.
I left school when I was 14 to work in kitchens.
I remember I made $22 a week doing dinner theater in Norfolk, Virginia. Back then, in the '70s, that was pretty good for a teenager, for a part-time job.
Since my parents both worked, they hired me when I was 11 to make dinner every night. I got a quarter a day. But I was always making things like duck a l'orange and baked Alaska. I was a little bit nutty.
I had great teachers, great ensembles, and great companies to work with who supported my career.
To make money for college, I worked in our college dining room.
I was dishwasher, then promoted to chef in a local kitchen in a restaurant in Seattle, and I was working on a building site as well, putting in insulation and painting houses, and then doing some classes at a community college nearby.
I worked as a secretary, a waitress and a dance teacher - all in high school.