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I started my career in the restaurant industry. Got fired from my first job as a bus boy at a fancy full service restaurant because I refused to do someone else's work.
I moved onto a QSR and was good at what I did. Within 6 months I was promoted to management. I loved the job, but had, months earlier, joined the delayed enlistment program in the USAF.
I liked that as well but decided I marriage would be a good idea (hacks, everyone was doing it). I had a child, divorced, gained sole custody, and was ordered a remote tour to Korea. Refusing to give up my daughter, I received a humanitarian deferment (honorable discharge due to hardship).
My stepfather was a plastering contractor, so upon discharge, since I grew up in the trade, joined the union, and became a journeyman plasterer.
I worked with a 50+ plasterer that was crippled as a result of the trade and shifted my interest back to the QSR industry. I accepted an assistant manager job, and within 4 years, was running my own restaurant.
I left as a result of not seeing eye-to-eye on dress code issues and move to retail management. After two years, I got tired of dusting and went back to construction.
I worked for another union contractor, and started my own plastering and drywall business, and shifted my business to general contracting.
After about 12 years doing this, my daughter fell ill, so the business failed as a result of my choice to focus on my daughter.
After she passed, I reentered the QSR industry, where I advance to an executive management position.
My career led me to an abusive owner, with which affected a burnout on the industry. I ultimately departed and began a "9-5".
With the burden of being responsible comes advancement, and I soon found myself running a logistics company.
I recently went into semi-retirement and am currently recruiting for that logics company.
