{"id":372,"date":"2024-02-28T00:53:53","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T00:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phlexon-dev.com\/senior\/?p=372"},"modified":"2024-03-08T21:58:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T21:58:33","slug":"my-unconventional-journey-in-the-world-of-odd-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phlexon-dev.com\/senior\/my-unconventional-journey-in-the-world-of-odd-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"My Unconventional Journey\u00a0in the World of Odd Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Robin Herren Sievers<\/strong>, formerly of Avondale, retired PR professional<\/em>
\u201cI was Winnie the Pooh every Saturday through the summer at the Sears in Atlanta when I was 15. I have vivid memories of children attacking while I wore a hot-house costume while not speaking and trying to be nice. It was in the days before big, heavy costumes like that had any cooling packs or fans. I would take breaks to go to the bathroom, which took at least 20 minutes, and I would be soaked with sweat. I found that if I weighed in the morning before putting on the costume and then when I finished I had dropped about five pounds. And, Oh Lawd, did that thing stink! It was then I made the decision I loathed children and would never be a parent! While I was determined to never reproduce, I did manage to squeeze out three of the little suckers! I still have flash backs every time I see Winnie!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sharon Cobb<\/strong>, <\/span>Riverside, screenwriter, filmmaker, author<\/em>
\u201cIt was 1967. Everyone knew that girls weren\u2019t butchers. But I always defied the gravity of conventional wisdom, playing in a rock n\u2019 roll band all my teen years when only boys did that. So, when my dear grandfather, Jodie T. Snowden, suggested I work in his butcher shop in Pierson, Florida before and after school during my senior year in high school, I leapt at the chance to carry beef quarters weighing more than I did and wield a cleaver and butcher knife like a pro. I learned that girls could be strong, and I could do anything if I put my mind to it<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Julia Long Painter<\/strong>, Orange Park<\/em>
\u201cThe oddest job I\u2019ve ever held was peeling the price tags off of L\u2019Eggs pantyhose packages back when they came in those giant plastic eggs. Later, I got \u2018promoted\u2019 to cleaning and sorting them to be sent back out to stores. It was during my senior year in high school, and I always said, someday, I\u2019ll tell people about this being the weirdest job ever!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Janet Lundborg Gay<\/strong>, Westside<\/em>
\u201cI worked in a potato field in Minnesota near my South Dakota hometown around 1966. I would stand at the back of a big machine with a belt around me so I wouldn\u2019t fall. As it went down the rows it would pick up dirt and potatoes. My job was to push dirt to the left and potatoes to the right. I was a sight to see at day\u2019s end! It was dirty, but I loved it because it was outside, and it was different from any job I had ever had. Also, we got potatoes to take home.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dean \u201cMac\u201d McDonald<\/strong>, Middleburg<\/em>
\u201cI was the security\/bouncer at one of those old lingerie modeling shops \u2013 the ones where the guys would come in and pick a girl to \u2018model\u2019 lingerie in private for him. I actually sat in a back room monitoring everything via cameras all over the shop. They didn\u2019t want a guy out front, for fear it would scare away potential clients. The building itself is gone now. They used to have these shops all over town. I can\u2019t remember for sure, but I think [former Mayor] Tommy Hazouri led the charge to get them closed down. Yeah, it was a very interesting job.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robin Herren Sievers, formerly of Avondale, retired PR professional\u201cI was Winnie the Pooh every Saturday through the summer at the Sears in Atlanta when I was 15. I have vivid memories of children attacking while I wore a hot-house costume while not speaking and trying to be nice. It was in the days before big, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-372","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-interviews"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phlexon-dev.com\/senior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phlexon-dev.com\/senior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phlexon-dev.com\/senior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phlexon-dev.com\/senior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phlexon-dev.com\/senior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/phlexon-dev.com\/senior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":565,"href":"https:\/\/phlexon-dev.com\/senior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions\/565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phlexon-dev.com\/senior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phlexon-dev.com\/senior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phlexon-dev.com\/senior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phlexon-dev.com\/senior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}