I got a late start in working because of living so far away from town, and also because of extreme shyness.
My first job was a cashier at a discount store. Thing is, I had already graduated from college
- and THAT was the only job I could find?!
Plus it was just holiday help, and I messed up and was not extended. Didn't get fired so much as they just decided not to keep me on after the holidays. But probably most of the other holiday help was the same way.
My second job was supposed to be permanent but I was asked to resign after 8 months. I was a psychiatric attendant at an institution for the developmentally disabled. I was really not suited for the job, plus a lot of my co-workers hated me and had it in for me because I was a college graduate. (I have experienced a lot of anti-college bullying in my life, especially when I was in my twenties. Not so much in my thirties and forties since then and now I mostly work(ed) with other college graduates and know people who are college graduates, or at least people who don't hate people who have been to college!
)
I've had a lot of different jobs, many short-term and temporary and some rather interesting experiences, such as working at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway during the Indy 500.