[Amanda Morrison]

The week I turned 13, I got a job alphabetizing and filing papers in an insurance office for a few hours on Saturdays. I worked there for over a year, and then moved on to the local newspaper. I would begin work at 9pm at night, stuffing the Sunday paper with the coupons and inserts, and finish when we were done (normally early Sunday morning, around 8am). I was there for a long time, and eventually got a pay raise, and did pretty well for myself in kind of a supervisory role.

Later, they gave the job to temp workers, and kicked the high schoolers out. I got a job a few months later at a local pizza place as an Oven Bunny (yes, that was my title). I watched the cash register, took orders, and took care of the pizzas in the oven. I quit that job to work at the local grocery store chain as a carryout and shelf stocker.

When I came to college, I would go back home in the summers and work at School Stuff, a local school supply store, taking care of stock and merchandise, decorating the store, and numerous other things. I did that for two summers, and finally last spring got a job in the Archives and Special Collections in the Ball State Bracken Library. I get to maintain collections (for instance, we have the world's largest of John Steinbeck), which is really cool.

I left that job after only a month or so to work at Purdue University for their Purdue FIRST Programs and to work on the Boilermaker Regional planning for next year. I returned to the library this semester.

Overall, I've been a little bit of everywhere, and done a little bit of everything.