When I was 18 I worked for the Salvation Army, me and two guys my age were placed there, on a government young peoples work scheme. Paid well tbf.
Me and the boys instantly hit it off, when we weren't on the shop floor, we where battering each other with bags of clothes out back, haha!
Anyway, we were all quite immature back then, our boss (who actually had very high standards, having come from managerial at River Island) was not best pleased with us.
Me and the guys started hanging out outside of work, naturally. Then I started banging one of them... We all got fired about 4 months in, lol.
18-19 I worked in my local bar, it's practically a right of passage for all the girls in my family, the silly bint who had taken over management barely new how to handle customers, let alone the rowdy crowds we had, I discovered a talent for being able to control the punters. Alas, this came with a lot of drinking on the other side of the bar too!
19-20 I worked in busy bar slightly further out, my work ethic was pretty solid by then, but the booze on the other side of the bar was a huge temptation to all of us young (18-25) staff members.
So when I joined an admin job from 20-23, I spent most my spare time in the bar I'd previously worked in, drinking!!! Partying!! Causing trouble!! Haha.
Blehh, that was to help block the absolute mind numbing boredom from the office environment. Turns out that most offices are run extremely inefficiently by bureaucratic twats, and my talent was for fixing the retarded systems of my seniors.
My friends said that I turned rather unduly "posh" and "professional" during my office time, I think I finally fell out of the perfectly professional/pleasant telephone manner sometime last year... Took a while to get out my system.
Ugh, fuck drone life.
And I've just been in and out of shitty jobs ever since, so I don't even know what else I'm good at. I had to leave that department, it was going through negative & transformative motions and so were my bosses, the atmosphere was draining, and I couldn't be arsed.
I can flip from professional to goofball in 0-60, and I don't think that's ever going to change. My office department was delivering the welfare-to-work program, and I was about the only staff member who treated the "clients" like human beings instead of statistics, I really got on with our regular clients.. and met this ISTP client who I sorta dated for a while. .. My general life long motto is that "rules are made to be broken", so I'm always a bit of a cheeky chappy in the work place... But I don't shy away from labour or challenges.
"You are full of so much potential" are the words that will probably stalk me for the entirety of my working life.