Category: Summer jobs

  • Working at JMU

    Working at JMU (James Madison University). I’ve been posting about my summer work experience during my college years. Today I’ll be finishing the series with my work study job at JMU. Getting started Bill Posey approached me after a marching band practice. Bill was on staff with the Marching Royal Dukes and I liked and…

  • Working at Kmart

    Working at Kmart. If you’ve been following my last few posts, you know that I’ve been talking about the summer jobs that I had during my college years. Today I’ll be wrapping up the series with my final summer job. Limbo I graduated from James Madison University (JMU) in May of 1988 and immediately went…

  • Working at Long John’s

    Working at Long John’s. My last two blogs have talked about summer jobs that I had during my college years. You can read about them here. I’ll summarize the experiences by saying, they didn’t go well. Getting started Dad was emphatic that I make money during the summer. I decided to steer clear of the…

  • Working at Dollar Bargain

    Working at Dollar Bargain. Last week I talked about working at the Gimbels in the now defunct Eastland Mall. Things hadn’t gone well. It was a year later and I was, once again, looking for summer work. I returned to the Eastland Mall and found work at the Dollar Bargain store. Dollar Bargain was another…

  • Summer at Gimbels

    Summer at Gimbels in the Eastland Mall. I’ve been talking about my college experience and the academic challenges that I faced. Today’s post will tackle one of my first summer jobs. I was a stock boy at Gimbels Department store in North Versailles, Pennsylvania. Make money I didn’t work a job during high school. Mom…