Favorite summer job

What was your favorite summer job as a child, teenager or young adult? I’ll give a prize for the most interesting answer.

My first job was working for my father.  I was probably 10 years old.   I made .45 an hour sweeping the floor and doing errands at The Book Store in Morganton. It was sweaty work. We didn’t have air conditioning. Eventually my salary mushroomed to $2.00 an hour when I learned the intricate skills of picture framing.

Perhaps my most unusual summer job was working as a country music disc jockey in Lenoir during college. I wasn’t Bill Leslie. My name was “The Tall Man” on WKGX in Lenoir. I remember the program director giving me a hard time for playing “Aquarius” by The Fifth Dimension one Saturday morning. Not exactly Hank Williams material! The funniest song I played that summer was a tune from Freddie Hart. The lyrics went like this: “If fingerprints showed up on skin I wonder who I’d find on you.” Eventually I grew tired of doing commercials for septic tank aroma bars on sale at the local Giant Foods store and decided to get into radio news.