GeorgiaXplant
Well-known Member
- Location
- Georgia
Lots and lots of various and sundry things...this thread was started long ago and although I haven't checked must surely have posted about them.
Since I retired the last time...maybe four years ago?...I got more and more bored. Y'all have heard about the labor shortage so what did I do? I applied at a locally-owned fast-food place that serves mostly breakfast and caters to mostly older folks. Yup. That's what I did. I merely mentioned it to the person at the drive-thru window one day when I was sitting in the passenger seat while DD picked up breakfast.
Much to my surprise, the clerk called the manager over who asked if I'd be willing to be the biscuit maker, a job that starts at 4am. Oh, hell to the yes! (For those of you not in the US, our biscuits aren't cookies ). That's an almost obscene hour to be anywhere except snuggled up in bed. Have you any idea what it's like to get up at 3am in order to be awake and working at 4am?
So, I became the biscuit lady Thursday/Friday/Saturday mornings at 4am. It's hard work mixing and kneading and rolling and cutting out hundreds of biscuits, but gosh! I love it. On Thursdays and Fridays, I'm home by 10:30. Saturdays are a horse of a different color and w're busy, busy, busy. Just a wild guess, but there are probably close to a thousand biscuits made. I'm not home until between 12 and 1.
I like having a place to go and something to do and people to talk to. I especially like payday
Considering the jobs I've had since I started working at 14, from carhop to file clerk then through the ranks all the way up to the C Suite in Germany, then head housekeeper at a hotel, then owning my own cleaning service, this is a very different kind of "career" move.
At 80, I've started a new career. LOL
Since I retired the last time...maybe four years ago?...I got more and more bored. Y'all have heard about the labor shortage so what did I do? I applied at a locally-owned fast-food place that serves mostly breakfast and caters to mostly older folks. Yup. That's what I did. I merely mentioned it to the person at the drive-thru window one day when I was sitting in the passenger seat while DD picked up breakfast.
Much to my surprise, the clerk called the manager over who asked if I'd be willing to be the biscuit maker, a job that starts at 4am. Oh, hell to the yes! (For those of you not in the US, our biscuits aren't cookies ). That's an almost obscene hour to be anywhere except snuggled up in bed. Have you any idea what it's like to get up at 3am in order to be awake and working at 4am?
So, I became the biscuit lady Thursday/Friday/Saturday mornings at 4am. It's hard work mixing and kneading and rolling and cutting out hundreds of biscuits, but gosh! I love it. On Thursdays and Fridays, I'm home by 10:30. Saturdays are a horse of a different color and w're busy, busy, busy. Just a wild guess, but there are probably close to a thousand biscuits made. I'm not home until between 12 and 1.
I like having a place to go and something to do and people to talk to. I especially like payday
Considering the jobs I've had since I started working at 14, from carhop to file clerk then through the ranks all the way up to the C Suite in Germany, then head housekeeper at a hotel, then owning my own cleaning service, this is a very different kind of "career" move.
At 80, I've started a new career. LOL
Last edited: