My Employment History

When I turned 16 my father told me it was about time to apply for my first job, during that year my family moved from Brampton to a very small town called Lisle just outside of Alliston, one hour north of Brampton. The job selection for kids my age at the time wasn't what you call vast, it was pretty much the opposite. All the kids at my high school worked at one of 7 places: Zehrs, Sobeys, Canadian Tire, Staples, Tim Hortons, Zellers or McDonalds. During the 4 years I lived there I worked at two of these places.

Tim Hortons

My first job was at Tim Hortons; all in all it was an easy job. I worked there full time for 2 and a half years; I trained a lot of people and met a couple of my current friends. Eventually I trained this one particular woman; we didn't get along from the beginning, she eventually became store manager and fired me for some bogus reason.
I remained unemployed for 3 months because like I said Alliston doesn't have the greatest array of locations to work.

Zehrs

Eventually, after my 3 months of slacking off and playing video games a buddy of mine got me a job at the Grocery Store in town; Zehrs. My job was to push shopping carts and bag groceries, not what you would call hard labour. When September rolled around it was time for me to go to college, I moved back to Brampton and started attending Sheridan.

Golden Boy

When school started up, one of my roommates got me a job at a Peanut butter factory, needless to say... this is the worst job I've ever worked. The job is extremely labor intensive and repetitive, the environment is hot and sweaty, and the smell... yum. For 8 hours every shift I do one of 3 things.

1. Building Skids. This is tied for the worst job inthe plant. A constant stream of HOT cases of peanut butter fly out onto the conveyor where the worker (i.e. ME) picks them up (keep in mind these are blistering hot) and places them, in a very distinct pattern onto the skids. (The picture was taken at the factory, that is a skid in the process of being built)

2. Crunchy. This job sucks as well, basically the worker (i.e. ME again) has to scoop buckets and buckets of crunchy pieces into the hopper.

3. "Up Top". This job isn't so bad, the only responsibility of the worker is to ensure that the hoppers are always full of the needed sugars and salts. Easy.

Hopefully I don't have to continue working here throughout the summer, but if thats the way of the road... I'll tackle it.

Untill Next time!