The beginning...

 Back during high school, I had no worries. My classes were easy, I never had homework and didn't have to study. I did not have drama I was just simply friends with everyone. I went out during the weekends and had friends over on school nights. I played tennis everyday, started the earth club and poetry club, along with being in about 15 other extra curricular activities. Needless to say it was the time of my life. But like the saying, all good things come to an end. That happened a month before graduation, when my parents told me I had to get a job.

 After many applications and resumes being turned in I finally got a call back from Jimmy John’s. The owner, Bob, had me come in for an interview that actually turned into being my first day at work. He gave me a simple schedule, since I was still in high school, two or three nights a week with weekends off.

 Graduation came and went and slowly everyone started to move away and like me started to get busy with work. I started working full time; it turned into sleep, work, eat, sleep, work, etc… I thought I was doomed, and then my parents surprised me with a trip to NYC with my best friend Cameron and his parents. I wasn’t sure if I was going to be able to go because of my job but I explained the situation to Bob and he was really cool with it. He gave me two weeks off.  

Cameron and I at Time Square '10

You see, Cameron had cancer and we knew this was going to be his last summer…so it was an important trip to me. I went and had the best time ever, it’s something that I will never forget and I am very grateful that Bob was so generous. Any other job would not have let me take a two-week vacation during my first few months working there.

 Nearing the end of the summer I told Bob that I would be living on campus and I didn’t want to commute from svsu to hemlock, which was about 45 minutes. He told me I could come back during my breaks and work, but told him I would call him when I needed the money. At that time I had no intensions on going back.

To Be Continued…