What was your favorite job?
I ran into my old boss from when I worked for a tug boat fleet in high school. Being a teenage girl working around roughnecks was an experience but they were all so kind, cool and welcoming. I did kind of a jack of all trades administrative job. Send invoices, order parts, contact the coast guard, get with pilots, agents, and mooring agencies… it was a lot but very direct in “this is the job, say what you mean and mean what you say” if that makes sense?
It was a lot of fun. It’s a pretty cowboy type of industry. I had my own parking spot, flexible hours, they paid me two weeks when I was taking my finals to stay home and study, all kinds of perks. We’re talking huge multi million dollar contracts run by a couple of average Joe regular guys who secured a loan and bought a push boat and made move. Not too many business models that run that way. They’ve grown substantially in the 18 years since I worked there but had I not become a doctor I’d weigh it as an option.