(18) My first job was spraying Ralph Lauren perfume on women in a department store. Mind-numbingly boring.
(18) Waitressing at a Pizza Hut. I didn't mind serving but I hated cleaning the restaurant after closing.
(19) Retail at The Nature Company at Union Station, D.C. I loved working the register when it was super busy.
(19) Made sandwiches at a little bakery near campus. Gave away far too many free subs to the Delta Tau Deltas that came in.
(20) Worked in a huge warehouse filling drugstore orders for make-up, nail polish and pantyhose. It was strangely surreal and became the setting for the first short story I wrote.
(21) Worked at an art gallery in D.C. and eventually became the assistant manager. I started there because I love art but ended up thinking it was just glorified retail.
I wasn't thrilled with any of these jobs but I was in college at the time so I didn't really care that much.