“It wasn’t a bad job, though eight hours a day of inhaling fumes probably wasn’t the best thing for the ol’ sanity.”

"People would check the pictures sometimes because you didn't have to pay for bad ones. The last shot on this one lady's roll, she had a mouthful of some guy, and her face was priceless when she saw it. Another roll featured someone naked, wearing a leash, and eating from a dog bowl. When I went to class for the new semester, they were in one of my classes. They acted mad at me, but I didn't ever say anything. Maybe my poker face was not good enough."

"I also worked at a title company and a mortgage servicer. They would have 'fashion shows' once a year about what was appropriate and not for work. I remember stopping at 7-Eleven all the time on my way to work for cheap pantyhose when I had runs. I don’t miss those days at ALL."

"I remember when I thought Wet Seal was the pinnacle of fashion."

"What a name for a women’s clothing shop."

"Working at Blockbuster was probably one of my favorite jobs I ever had back in college. Free movie rentals and posters, plus having an employee's picks section was the bees' knees."

"I worked at a little, single-location mom-and-pop video store. To this day, I have over 600 movie posters!"

"My first adult job was a clerk for a multibillion-dollar hospital system. A couple of years after I started, somebody decided it was time to get rid of all the old microfiche copies of our records...by putting the racks full of microfiche out in the dumpster. This was two years after HIPAA went into effect. I found them, and told my boss, and had a fun couple of weeks at work while they all tried to figure out who did it."

"Catalogs are why I have worked in advertising and print my entire adult life. I was obsessed with those catalogs and loved to draw and paint. Now I use Photoshop nine hours a day."

"Totally forgot about Successories! My dad's study was filled with stuff from that store back in the day."

"Detasseling seed corn is when you go out into the field and walk up and down the rows pulling the tassels off of the 'female' rows of corn plants so that they get fertilized by 'male' rows. The seed corn companies do this because they are engineering a specific type of seed.  They don't want the pollen from one field getting into another field with a different type of corn and messing with their seeds, so this is a more controlled way to do it. There is a pattern to it and timing and all of that jazz. You would just walk up and down the field, row by row, pulling tassels. When one field was done, you'd go to the next and work until dark. They have machines that do it now in most places."

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