Donna Akana:  

My first job was at GEMS, where I got paid 1.80HR. to STOCK SHELVES.. What I remember most about it is LONG 12 HOUR SHIFTS!. If I had one do-over I would have left home immediately after school and joined the airforce and become a nurse like I planned. The weirdest job I ever had was working two nights at ALEX'S DRIVE INN-remember? It wasn't really weird as much as it was lame for me because I went in there to serve customers at their cars on roller skates...and I didn't know that until the night I started. I had never been on roller skates in my life but I needed the job! The first night I worked I tripped over the raised bump on the curb fronting the car I was serving saimin to and saimin went all over the car and me. DID I SAY I WAS DESPERATE FOR A JOB? Well I went back a second night and this time I skated up to the car in one piece but as soon as I reached the window the driver opened his door and the two double fudge cones I was holding went into my face and hair-then I fell and I had ice cream in my shoes as well! But I didn't go home because they were shorthanded so I worked the next 6 hours with sticky ice cream in places I won't speak about! My crush teacher was Mr. Bintliff. Remember him? He was gorgeous. First he was a substitute teacher and then he came on board full-time. I remember he played a guitar. I remembe...Expand for more