HEB
Grocery Store
My very first job when I was a mere 16 years young. At HEB I was a checker. Believe it or not, but I loved that job. I worked with great people (I love my HEB Partners!), the customers were cool, and I just had a lot of fun.
I'm 21 years old now. I've had about four reals jobs so far, and I thought I'd share with y'all. People always write me interested in WHO I am, so here it is: what's more me than the work I do during the day?
HEB
Grocery Store
My very first job when I was a mere 16 years young. At HEB I was a checker. Believe it or not, but I loved that job. I worked with great people (I love my HEB Partners!), the customers were cool, and I just had a lot of fun.
K-NACK
At K-NACK (KNNC 107.7 FM, Austin's Original New Rock) I was an intern. I
got to work with the sales staff at the
business office downtown and got to work with the air staff at the studio.
I did marketing work with the sales weasles and at the studio I got to learn
production, help write commericals and PSA scripts, do voices in commericals,
even help Mike Peer with some music programming or picking new tunes and
bands to play. It was a kick ass job: atomsphere was cool, people were fun,
and I learned quite a bit too.
EDS
I've interned at EDS (Electronic
Data Systems) for two summers in a row. Both times I got to wear a suits and
pretend to be a business professional.. it's a stretch sometimes, but
I usually was able to manage. However, my second year was pretty exciting in that women were actually allowed to wear pants! (EDS made the
national news when they changed the corporate dress policy for women, I
thought that amusing). My second summer I worked on the technical team
that supports EDS Corporate Security. Though I'm not entirely sure, if
I had to guess, I'd probably say I worked on helping to develope
and document processes for my team and our corporate security
customers. I got to check out lots of COBOL programs, lots of JCL, and
eventually put the stuff on the web for my team. It was pretty
neat stuff. And if nothing else, since we work for security, we get
the exciting gossip about all kinds of security stuff! I worked there
last summer too. I was pretty much a systems
engineer, if that means anything to you, and I basically did a lot
of programming work on a project called the
Knowledge Network. We have our own server dedicated mainly to organizational
learning and employee development, and I did a lot of coding of web
pages and did some work with Access databases. It was a very cool job,
and EDS is a very neat company. Looking back in retrospect, EDS was really a great opportunity. Great technology, and even better, truly terrific people. Though super conservative, it was an amazingly fun place to work both summers.
Arthur Andersen
When I worked (past tense) at Arthur Andersen I was an intern in the
CRM group from Houston. It was the perfect internship in that many
of us interning there got to really learn what CRM people were all
about and whether or not that was a place we'd be happy working in
the future. (If you want details of the experience and want
to know what it's really like there at the CRM practice in the Houston
office, mail me and ask. I
have
lots and I'd be more than happy to
share). I would provide a link for y'all to learn about AA or CRM, but
Ed thinks that might be considered sexual harrassment, mentioning
litigation happy people nowadays (what?!?), so I'm happy to help out Ed
and not put a link. Got that? No link for y'all. You'll just have to
find their page on your own if you want to visit.