- Salvation Army employee (age 16, when I was way into thrift store shopping, but my mom didn’t like my shift lasting ’til midnight and I quit after one day)
- Babysitter for hyperimaginative three-year-old (17)
- Tower Records cashier (18-21, oh those glorious summers)
- Peer tutor at Loyola Marymount University library (20-21)
- Barnes and Noble bookseller (21-22)
- Film/book reviewer and reporter at local daily newspaper (21-29)
- Reader/teaching assistant for 6th grade language arts teacher (23-28)
(In response to the #firstsevenjobs hashtag on Twitter.)
