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Here's Peter sharing some stories from a few of his first jobs, including those before and after serving in the Air Force. There's a, like a pitch and putt golf little thing with a little ice cream and miniature golf and driving range. And I don't know, I think like high school, whatever, girlfriend or something like that got me the job and we're both working there. And I mean, this is before, I don't know, they had tractors picking up golf balls.
So I used to go out there and scoop them up with a little scooper on the driving range and then run over to the ice cream shop and, you know, try to make a twirly ice cream cone or, you know, and I'd eat the mistakes. I was a kid, I was 14 or something like that. So I lasted a little while there, but that's a seasonal job, right?
So you can't do that in the winter. So then I worked at, I applied for, I got the job at Burger King and I lasted three weeks at Burger King. And the reason I lasted three weeks is I was like bored. I was, my brain was atrophying. I was making these burgers in the back and fries and they were like, oh, I'll just promote you to the window, you know, the drive through. I was like, no, no, I don't do that. Like now, do you want, how about the cashier? Do you want to be a manager? I was 16 years old.
I was like, no, no, no, no, no. It's hard work actually. I mean, I don't know if people understand this.
This is labor. I mean, I mean, it's lunchtime. I mean, these things are flying off the, you know, the buns are going everywhere. The burgers are flaring up and, you know, you're running out of cheese and obviously it's fast food.
So you got to synchronous, you got to drop the fries and then the alarm goes off. And it's, I was like, I don't know if this is right. Like, I don't know if this is where I was built to be. I didn't last three weeks at that place. It was, that's the issue.
That was it. It was grueling work. You had to be perfect. People get upset. They're spending $3 and 99 cents.
They want every penny of value out of that stuff. That's hard, hard work. You got to be there on time. It gets pace, hectic people, you know, expectations, unmet expectations communicated or not. It's the root of all conflict.
If the burger doesn't show up without the pickles or whatever, this conflict is an expectation isn't met. I think it was a good lesson and I learned about people, you know, people. So I got a job at a grocery store as a bagger and this is back in the day where they like tip you a buck or something like that. This is 1991, I don't know, 1990. And I remember this woman came in furious because I put the bananas on the bottom of the bag and, you know, she had brought them home and, you know, these dollar 98 bananas were smushed.
They were, they weren't, they weren't, they were deformed. And I mean, God, my face and it was like, I'll buy you a banana tree. Like, I'm sorry. Like I didn't, I apologize. I wasn't, you're right.
You're right. I'm sorry. And I remember they like put me on like punishment. So my parents punishment. So my punishment was to return all of the things that people don't buy and go find where they're supposed to go back on the shelf.
And I did that for a while. And, you know, in Rome, New York, it snows a lot. And, you know, one night we have this snow storm and nobody was coming. I mean, it was just like, why is the store open? And so they, you know, Pete, you're going to go out and shovel, you know, the sidewalks and clean them off. And I was like, well, why isn't Bethany doing that? Like, you know, no, Pete, you're going to go shovel the, shovel the sidewalk.
So I go out and I shovel the sidewalk at this grocery store and I'm like, where am I going to put all this snow? And I covered Bethany's, my classmate from high school, her car up in snow. And I thought it was the funniest. It was like king of the hill, right? Like it was the funniest thing.
I just buried her car in snow. And, and we were, I mean, if she ever hears this, she'll, she'll remember this. And she started laughing. Yeah, she wasn't, she was like complaining, laughing, crying all at once. And Bettina, if she's around, she was like the manager. I mean, I was 16.
Bettina couldn't have been 22, but I thought she was like 48, right? Like she was in charge. She's like, you're going to go clean off her car and you're going to clean it all.
I was like, all right. So I went back out in the snowstorm, cleaned off Bethany's car. I cleaned off Bettina's car. I cleaned off my car.
I mean, nobody was coming into the store. You know, you have two hemispheres of your brain for a reason. One is more logic and math, the other's art and creative thinking. And, you know, for me, I kind of felt like my, I don't know if it's left brain or right brain, but the creative thinking side was kind of atrophying a little bit. And so I remember walking out, I was at Credit Suisse and I walked out and it was a suit tie, you know, the whole Swiss banker look. And I was, I walked by this art store and I looked in it. It was like a movie.
I stopped. I looked in the art store and I went in, I bought these big canvases, huge, like, you know, I don't know what they're four by sixes or something like that. And I never painted anything, but I hung the canvases up.
And so I remember, you know, I guess the party trick with, you know, maybe if I brought a date home to cook her dinner or something like that, you know, they'd see the canvas. You know, some would say something, some would say like, oh, you don't see it? You don't see the art? There's nothing on it. I mean, there's nothing on this thing.
I just never got around to doing it. But what I did do to kind of fulfill that was to cook. So I like to create things and here's the good news, you get to eat it. And a terrific job on the editing production and storytelling by our own Greg Hengler and a special thanks to Peter Braxton for talking about his first jobs, including those before and after serving in the Air Force. And the one before just made me laugh because my first job was at Roy Rogers. And I lasted a very short time because it is brutal work.
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