Starting at 14 I did whatever I needed to do to make money. (Almost) you name it I’ve done it. Before I got into pharmaceuticals in 79, I delivered circulars, worked in supermarkets, weeded strawberry fields, worked in gas stations, worked in record factories, worked as a dishwasher then chef in an Italian restaurant, worked construction putting up dry wall....then as a non Union iron worker. Worked with a friend as a house painter Bought a motorcycle then found a mechanic befriended him and learn how to fix it.....got a job as a motorcycle mechanic. Fixed cars too... did handyman work for folks...drove school busses, installed aluminum/vinyl siding. Learned how to fix business machines/typewriters (on the job training )
Got a job in pharmaceuticals and in near 30 years in biologics /pharmaceutical firms did 7 different jobs finishing off managing instrumentation/calibration department. Somewhere in the middle of all those jobs I got me an associates degree. I wish I had done more in the education department in HS because I would have liked to have been able to do engineering and / or physics but alas in HS (and afterwards ) I was more interested in Girls, Beer, Guns, Hunting and Fishing.
I was never afraid of working an never ashamed of any of the jobs I did.
Work always gave me a great degree of accomplishment.
Those who don’t want to work are missing out on the greatest parts of life.
So did I but I switched back to booze... ;)