What did you do in the summer when you were a student?

During university, I worked summer relief in a chicken processing plant, doing everything from hauling guts (*shudder*) to loading trucks.

 

Oh, you know. Just your typical group of guys getting hammered while watching the Sun-Bulls Finals, then deciding to crash my friends apartment at 2 in the morning, knocking on the door, banging on the door, deciding to climb the 2nd floor balcony since no one is answering, then figuring out we're at the wrong apartment, then being hauled off to jail for breaking and entering.

You know, just your typical college shenanigans.

For a couple of summers, I had a job playing bongos for the modern dance class. 20 bucks an hour to watch chicks dance in leotards. Good times.

 

Internships and crappy factory temp jobs.

 

Since going to camp was mentioned, I'll assume we're talking about high school. (for the sake of brevity. )

My last 2 summers were spent going sailing and boating (skied and fished) around the Bay and Clear Lake/ Clear Creek, going to Austin and doing the same at Travis, where we went skinny dipping at Paleface Park and at Lake Austin after dark.

Went to nightclubs in Austin and listened to music. Went to concert after concert in Houston and hung out at Allen's Landing, where I worked one summer doing the light show for a bar/club. Chased girls. Chased girls a lot and got chased sometimes. (I was a lot better looking when I had hair down the middle of my back)

Enjoyed the fact that my professor Dad spent his summers working overseas for USAID and took my Mom with him. I was left to "watch the house", since my sister was older and thought it beneath her. (ha ha!) Did a lot of things in large quantities, all sorts of things, and had an absolute gas doing it. Went to more concerts.

My memories are of the water, the hot sun, the smell of pretty girls laying next to me wet, running around with them and my friends in the dark, barefooted, and never stepping on a sharp rock or a cactus. Diving off a cliff 20 feet into the lake at night or going off a rope swing... naked and howling at the moon. Sitting around a fire passing a Wild Armadillo. Seeing a real armadillo at night the size of a small bus, or so it appeared. Having really close friends, male and female, and having a damned fine time.

 

during high school, I worked at my local Ace hardware.
During college, I worked at an Albertsons one summer, went to summer school the second, was a child supervisor at a magic camp my third year, and well... things aren't going to deviate much from any of the previous three this year either.

 

Commercial fished in Alaska after 11th grade. Every summer since I've ranched in eastern Oregon.

 

I worked a crappy job for tree fiddy an hour.

 

Did the same here. One summer session I took no class and then it was just sleep, start drinking when I woke up, Repeat.
Good times that was.

 

Get Horny!


(RIP - YoYao)

 

While in college...

One summer I worked for Fluor in their mailroom.
One summer I went to summer school at UT.
One summer I worked for Brown and Root doing construction on chemical plants on the ship channel.

 

one summer i worked cash control for a mall

the next summer i was a marketing/pr intern at the chronicle...worked there the summer of 94 and was involved in the whole Believe It campaign. Got to escort Robert Horry up to the stage in Jones Square for a Rockets pep rally put on by the Chronicle.

the next summer i was a marketing intern for a company that trained corporate spokespersons to handle the media

the next summer...i stayed in waco while my fiance took summer school...and worked at a day camp with a bunch of little kids..playing kickball...swimming...goofing off. good stuff!!

 

Freshman and sophomore summers worked for my dad at a pipe yard. Inspecting and prepping pipe for oil rigs. That was one nasty job! Came home every night covered from head to toe in pipe dope (an oil based product that protects pipe before drilling. Horrible work, but excellent money

Junior and Senior summer worked waiting tables and went to summer school. Those were some great summers! Summer school was great! Very laid back, lots of...well everything! Sex, drugs and Rock and Roll! Oh and a bit of class.

 

Damn! It makes me wish I wouldn't have been married while in college.

 

summer 1: Worked at Kitchen Place, wore apron
Summer 2: Worked in Seafood Department
Summer 3: Worked at Bristol Myers Squibb Headquarters (Alzheimers Research)
Summer 4: Worked at Fisons Pharmaceuticals (Alzheimers Research)
Summer 5: Watched OJ a lot.

 

tons of basketball, swimming, and Cubs day games on WGN.

 

smoked pot

 

My first summer job was when I was 14. I did KP at a mess hall for Army MP's. Those were about the sickest group of perv's I have ever been around in my life. Boy, did I get an education that summer. When I think about what the one-toothed-bald-headed-redneck-cretin-head-cook threatened to do to me on a daily basis (cue the dueling banjos), I am not too surprised about the goings on in Iraq.

The left over food from the mess hall was put into corregated metal trashcans and then put in a refrigerated room. Once a week the pigfarmer came and took the slop. While in the refrigerated room, the grease congealed in the crevices of the trashcans, which then had to be scrubbed out in the hot summer sun. Good times, for $2.35/hour.

Next I lifeguarded for a few summers through high school. A big step up from KP duty, and the people interested in me were actually of the opposite sex! One time I had to pull a kid out of the pool who wasn't breathing, gave him mouth to mouth, and saved his life. Not bad for a minimum wage kid.

Good fringe benefits (as long as you avoided the jealous husbands ) and great job!

Then when I was in college I started my own painting company painting houses. Hard work, but I set my own schedule and made a ton of money. I eventually got to where I didn't mind painting so much, but you had to watch out for the jealous husbands. Actually, the quiet desparation of the average housewife became kind of depressing, but that's another thread.

Went to law school and went back to lifeguarding at a lake at a county park. Much different than working in a pool. The water was pretty muddy, so if someone went under you could lose them in a hurry. It was a very rural area of Virginia, where the locals loved to drink and swim. Not a good combination. I pulled one kid out, he must of been 12, and the bourbon was strong enough on his breath to knock me over. One Saturday we had seven rescues. I thought we would lose someone for sure, but we never did. Another job with great fringe benefits , but also the worst job ever. This was a public park, and we had to clean the restrooms in the bathhouse. We had black industrial rubber gloves that were thicker than the monster tires on the pickup trucks. I was just glad I didn't have to clean the girls' room, man what they would leave ....

After my second year of law school (I never clerked anywhere), I worked as a cowboy on a ranch in Florida. We worked from cain't to cain't (from when you couldn't see in the morning till you couldn't see at night). $35 a day (got paid for 5, worked 7), and all the steak and beans you could eat. Steak for breakfast if you wanted it. My favorite job ever. I loved being a cowboy and never got throwed.

I had great experiences working, and unlike most on this board never went to summer school and never took a summer off. I didn't think I was missing anything at the time.

 

In high school, I worked my mall job.
In college, I worked at local Sports bar and Cafe.

 

Every summer in high school I worked for my Dad doing manual labor. I'd sweep out construction sights, help haul trash, put up silt fences, run errands, PLUS help my Mom in the home office.

In college, I did the same thing after my Freshman year, but after that I had 3 straight internships at Compaq (then HP).

 

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