Your job? Identify the lie in this post.
Angela Greear
7???
Terrell Shaw
It didn't last long but, sad to say, I did go door to door trying to convince folks to heed a 20-year-old boy's sales pitch on the glories of such cookware. Sorry. BTW I think I managed to sell only one set before I quit.
Nena Dake
1
Terrell Shaw
Sorry Nena, see above.
Annie Shields 9
Terrell Shaw
Oh my goodness! As I wrote mistakenly for #8 ---
Even more amazingly, I was paid at Floyd Junior College's Small Business Development Center for helping beginning business folk put together business plans. We are talking here about the guy who started two unsuccessful businesses. Sorry.
Christine Reinolds Kozelle 5?
Terrell Shaw
I was AP at McHenry Elementary 1973-1977. It was a very small supplement and other than occasionally filling in for the principal when he was sick or out of town, my extra duties were few. I had a full teaching assignment through those years. I loved my time at McHenry! Sorry.
Carl Franklin 2
Terrell Shaw
I walked all over Rome and Glenwood selling Fuller Brush Products one summer in the sixties! Sorry.
Ellen Henderson Garrard
#6?
Terrell Shaw
I kept tryin' to sell stuff, despite proving over and over that sales is not my forte! This was the mid-seventies. Sorry.
Terrell Shaw Well, I guess it's time to admit it's a sorta trick post with two possible solutions. Anyone wanna have a stab at one of the trick answers?
Anita Stewart
Short Order Cook?
Terrell Shaw
See my note about the worst short order cook in history above!
Terrell Shaw
OK FOLKS, I admitted above that this was a trick post. Whenever I respond to one of these memes this King of Elaboration* wonders if there is a different take to explore. So I offer first my confession, then two solutions for my post...
Confession: I have held all ten of these jobs and more with at least part of my motivation the acquisition of wealth.
Solution Number One: the label, written in all-caps at the top is the lie, since I had all ten jobs.
Solution Number Two: I specified that I had to make money at the jobs. I do not believe I ever made a dime off our newspaper, Broadside, during the two and half years we gave to it. Sheila drew a small salary as did some of our other owners and employees. but I kept my "day" job and never drew a salary. So I had the job but was not paid for it. With that understanding the label is true and number 3 is a lie.
So forgive me but this is ALMOST April Fool's Day.
* I spent eleven years teaching kids who were smarter than me in the Floyd County Program for the Gifted. I got in the habit of trying to think outside the box to try to stay one step ahead of 'em -- part of the time anyway!
Anita Stewart
You pulled it off! Professional storyteller.
Peggy Davis Enjoyed post & every comment & answer Fantastic
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