My Other Job

Nine months of the year, I'm a professional student. I also work then, at various fast-food places. I do small alterations for people.

When I'm home for breaks, I work at a funeral home. I also do side jobs here and there, for various people.

During the summers, I'm often a part-time student, holding down a part-time fast food position, and working as unpaid help for someone who can help me down my career path.

I've been a golf shop clerk, a college snackbar, worked at Sonic, Flying J, a funeral home, a college, Montana Mike's Steakhouse, another funeral home, a convience store, for the PGA of America, been a camp counselor, the first funeral home, Walmart, another sonic, an independent living center, The Bricktown Association, Spaghetti Warehouse, McDonalds, and Goldentreewands. (Wow. 21 years old, 20 jobs in seven years, all left on good terms.[Ok, except for the second Sonic, but, they totally deserved it. I walked out on them midshift.] That's got to be a record.)

But my absolutely favorite job of all time has only happened in the last few years.

I blow shit up for a living. >:)

My dad's best friend's son, Levi, works for a company called Premier Pyrotechnics. During peak season for fireworks shows, we put in a lot of hours setting up explosives. I love it. It's amazing. I get to go to school for a week in April to learn how to actually be the one putting match to fuse. *squee*. I helped do this this summer. It was thirty minutes long, and each burst was set to a complilation of music, but... No one knows what the song a the end was. I guess that's what happens when you put up ten shells per second.


Anyway, there is a movie coming out soon called "Splinter" (or something like that) that we rigged explosives for. In the final climatic scene, this terrible evil monster chases some innocent people to an old abandoned gas station. In the madness, a propane tank explodes, which blows up the gas pump, which blows up the building, which blows up the monster. And, if I do say so myself, it FREAKING ROCKS!!!

It's not something I could ever do for a living, but it makes one hell of a fun side-job. Pay's not bad, either.