When I was a teenager, freshly graduated from high school, my first full time job was with a Hotel Bathroom Supplies & Restaurant Supply Company about a half-hour’s drive from my house. My official job title was “Girl Friday” which meant that if it involved any of the office work, I did it. One of the things that I found very interesting about the company was that I learned a lot about bookkeeping and marking up prices that I had not learned in school. Of course I was fresh out of high school back then and really was totally unprepared for work in the real business world. Which is why, I’m sure, that particular Hotel Product Supplies & Catering Supplies company only saw fit to pay me two whole dollars per hour! Which, from what I understand, was more than minimum wage at that particular time!

When I have the need to take a look at my resume to update and edit it, I find myself thinking back to that first full-time job. That was where I learned that if I wanted to take a break I had to be smoking a cigarette. And that if I were so brave as to correct my boss’s terrible spelling and grammar on a letter that he wanted me to type up that he would get really angry and threaten to fire me even though I was right and he was wrong. I learned a lot of real-life lessons back then about how unfair life is and that biting my lip and holding my tongue was a very hard, but very important thing to do if I wanted to keep my job.

From time to time I find myself thinking back to that job, and remembering that even though the people there were difficult to work with, that the place really did have good prices, good quality, and a good selection of things that are not normally available to the retail customer going to a mainstream department store. So when I decide that I want to buy something for my house that just might be available from a place like that I will go online and see if I can buy it from a website like the PeachSuite Wholesale Hotel Supply & Restaurant Equipment Company website. You can find some really cool items on there, like a seven-piece pie cutter for under ten dollars. I think that is a great little gadget to have!

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