TDW 1544 - Revisiting EVERY Job I've Ever Had
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bad I always have the worst trouble with
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these things welcome everyone Adam the
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woo here I have been doing YouTube
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videos for about 5 years now a little
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bit past the 5year mark whoa there's
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a for 5 years I've have been doing
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videos on YouTube and people always ask
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they wonder what did you do for work
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before you started doing YouTube videos
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and that's what I'm going to cover in
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today's Vlog but were you ever the
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president of the United States of am
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second channel daily Vlog channel it's
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the daily woo everyone remembers their
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very first job and mine was right over
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here to the right I used to pull
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straight into this parking spot
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and stop right
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here and where that gold gem is
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now was a public grocery store the year
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was 1991 my family had just moved to
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town I was 17 years old my parents said
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you need a job so I went and got a job
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it looks a lot different than it did
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back then the front entrance was over
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here where this wall was you would walk
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in and the sliding door would open and I
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would go in go upstairs punch my time
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clock get get to work I started off
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bagging groceries and collecting
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shopping carts from the parking lot and
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then I became part-time Stockman and
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then I became an overnight full-time
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Stockman there were many of times that
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my clunker of a car that I had would
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break down right in this very spot and I
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would spend hours and hours after work
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trying to get it started right in that
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very spot around the back is where we
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would unload the trucks you could still
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see down here where the little ramp that
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went up to the truck was so this would
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lift up to where the truck which was
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parked where that dumpster was we would
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take the pallet jack in pull the pallets
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off take it inside that door stock the
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shelves after a couple years working
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there a guy in my dad's church who owned
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a cabinet shop convinced me to go to
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work for him I did not and still don't
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know anything about carpentry but I took
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the full-time position there is now a
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boat shop in its place but that's where
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I made cabinets I spent a lot of time in
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inside those bay doors sanding and
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cutting wood looks a lot different in
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there than it did with all that with all
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that dust I worked there about 6 months
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before I was laid off and had to go back
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to Publix but it wasn't back to the same
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store it was to another one down this
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road bua Ventura Boulevard in bvl bvl
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stands for bua Ventura Lakes and this is
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it the second Publix that I worked for
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and after I worked here it closed and
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became something else now it's closed
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again it looks like it's
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abandoned it's awesome how your mind
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works you see something from decades ago
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and it brings back memories they just
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flood back in as if you were just here
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yesterday when you weren't wow look at
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that the door still says
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Publix that's so cool there's a golf
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course right over there and I distinctly
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remember unloading a truck from here one
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day talking to one of my co-workers
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about how nice it would be to not be
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stocking shelves and to be playing
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around a golf and I don't even play golf
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oh except putt putt it was mid1 1994 and
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this Staples was a wind Dixie grocery
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store and upon looking at it closer it's
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actually two storefronts it's an Aldi
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and a Staples but this was all one store
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and I was the overnight stock crew
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manager here I would always get to work
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a few minutes early and I would park in
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this spot right there of times sitting
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there before I had to go clock in
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thinking I really do not want to be here
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I do not want to do this tonight Vivid
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memories parked right there after about
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12 months I said goodbye to wind Dixie
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and the store manager said I would never
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work for the company again but more on
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that a little later I caught wind of a
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rumor around town that the store that
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used to be where this Dollar Tree is now
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was moving across the street and they
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were hiring a lot lot of people in all
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honesty it was one of the most exciting
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announcements in town at that
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time the Walmart Super Center was about
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to rear its head upon St Cloud Florida
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construction had just ended on the
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building and I was one of about 20 to 30
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people hired to set the store up check
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out this parking job sweet and basically
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what that entailed was moving things
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from the old store to the new store when
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we walked in there wasn't one single
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shelf or anything anywh in the building
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all of these shelves all of these
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products none of that was here we had
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our employee meetings right in this spot
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here right on this tile after about a
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week of setting the store up they
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divided us into sections because I had
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grocery experience I started working in
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grocery this was the aisle I spent most
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of my time on countless hours right here
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stocking the peas after a tenure in the
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regular grocery department I became the
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dairy manager and over here they used to
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be McDonald's that I would get my
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breakfast at now it's just a deli but
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was a legit McDonald's inside % off the
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r tick prices and as always thank you
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for Cho your Walmart class it's a pretty
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good deal I just got yelled at for
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filming inside there that's right come
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on come on no filming down there and now
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we're getting into some of the
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longer time periods that I worked at
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places this used to be Kmart I worked
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here 5 years pretty much every
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Department everything you could possibly
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do in there I did it's some facet over
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that half a decade period it's been
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completely remodeled but that was the
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front door right over here is where all
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those little child toys that you put a
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quarter in and ride were and that was
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the entrance to the garden center and
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all the garden supply stuff was right
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there in that little outside forer area
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Kmart tried to emulate Walmart's game
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plan of taking a regular store putting a
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grocery store in it and making it a
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super center Kmart's idea was to change
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the name from Kmart to Big K and I
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worked here during that transition this
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was the back of the store this is where
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we unloaded the trucks right in there
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that was the receiving area I worked a
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lot of overtime when they transitioned
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not only at Kmart but at Walmart some
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weeks I work like 80 85 hours a week it
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was pretty intense but overtime is good
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even though I was getting basically paid
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minimum wage which means they're paying
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you time and a half on nothing and a
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little side note there were times in my
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life that I didn't have a car and I had
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to take that Lynx bus system to work
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after the periods of overtime ended I
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stayed working at Kmart full-time but I
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also had a plethora of part-time jobs on
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top of the full-time gameart I sold hot
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dogs and nachos at the spring training
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facility of the Houston Astros see that
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concession stand right there I worked in
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that one man that brings back a lot of
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memories I kind of want to do that again
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just for the heck of it it was kind of
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fun right over here near the corner
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right where that sign is was a video
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store called video Center and I work
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part-time there couple nights a week I
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really like working there the guy that
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owned the place that I work for refused
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to switch over formats when DVDs came
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out and hence went out of business but
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man he had so many good old school 80s
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and 90s VHS I learned a lot about movies
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working in that place right here among
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this Shrubbery I worked a couple nights
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a week at what was a miniature golf
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course that was the parking lot and
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there was a bridge that went this way
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and basically I would sit right up there
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and rent out the golf clubs and the golf
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ball and sometimes on slow nights when
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there weren't a lot of people on the
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course I would walk down here to the
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very first hole and I would play the
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first hole over and over and over and I
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got pretty good at it and there are
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still some remnants of that hole still
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here it's kind of sad and if you look
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closely you can see some of the other
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holes as well all through here and some
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of the wooden posts from the bridges it
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does rain a lot in Florida and one of
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the tasks I had was to come out here
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basically with a blower and blow the
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water off of the course where puddles
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would
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accumulate
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man that was a long time ago it was
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called River Adventure Golf on Highway
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192 and that was the address and I am
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now infested with these little these
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little Klingons get off of me klling on
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after Kmart and all those part-time jobs
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I once again switch careers to a place
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right up here straight in front of us
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where these restaurants are was a place
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called holiday Villas I went in the
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office applied and got a job working at
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a couple of their Resorts and they were
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right down Point Siana drive three
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different properties down that road the
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first one was Laguna Bay Villas and I
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worked in that little clubhouse right
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there the second one was Royal Palm Bay
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I would drivve in this way to work and
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basically I was kind of the sort of the
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manager of the clubhouse and I use that
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term very Loosely because I was the only
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one working in there I think they just
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give you that title to kind of make you
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feel better about yourself and the last
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place is Villas of Somerset and of the
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three properties I think this was the
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clubhouse I work the most at I worked
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here about 9 months 10 months and while
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I was working full-time here I also
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worked a few nights behind this hotel
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was a little pool bar and from what I
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can tell this hotel is now abandoned
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more or less they have a fence up around
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the property I answered an ad in the
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newspaper for part-time work and
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basically this guy had taken this shed
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and turned it into like a makeshift
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snack bar and he also served you know
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beers and like chips and hot dogs and
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stuff like that right next to the pool
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where tourists who were at Disney and
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Universal would stay in these rooms and
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they would swim in that pool and I
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worked right there in that little that
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little Shack and it was a little strange
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me being a non-drinker being a quote
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bartender even though it really wasn't
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like full alcohol or anything I got very
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good at telling people I cannot accept
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their request to drink a beer that they
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have bought for me cuz I was at work so
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that kind of worked out I had a good
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excuse hey Justin how's it going man
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what are you wearing I'm getting full
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Florida bro look at it I got my Florida
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towel I got my Florida shirt check out
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my fanny pack I got my Florida sunscreen
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in there I'm a real Floridian now uh
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no no you're not no anyone that sees you
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that lives in Florida would know but the
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fanny pack here just let me come in and
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show you just let let
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me after working at those
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clubhouses I spent five years at this
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Office Max I did about everything you
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could possibly do in that store from
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overnight stock to receiving manager
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pretty much
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everything man five years I walked in
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and out of that
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door 5 days a
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week ah memories after working in office
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supplies for a little while I went from
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cumi Florida back into St Cloud those
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two towns are basically Twin Cities they
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are side by side right next to each
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other so commuting back and forth was
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really not that big of an issue really
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only a couple of miles and pretty much
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every job I had that I have shown was in
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those two Two Towns give or take in the
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general area of those two towns either
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CMI Florida or St Cloud Florida and
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after that I went back to grocery and
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back to wind Dixie where I was told by
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management that I would never work again
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I returned I worked inside there as
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grocery stock crew manager and once
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again a dairy management position I did
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it for one year and then I went to work
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for a place that I never in a million
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years thought that I would be
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working at this town has a lot of farms
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and ranches and people who own cows and
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horses and chickens and ducks and
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pigs and
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whatnot and before I started working at
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this place I had no idea about any of
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that stuff but all that changed when I
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got a job at this feed store you can see
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the big bales of hay right there that I
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would load in the back of trucks with a
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forklift you could see the gates that we
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would sell and this trailer was full of
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hay and I would stand at the end of the
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hay trailer and throw it in the back of
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trucks with people who needed hay I
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would also load this salt in the back of
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people's Vehicles as well as sod and
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mulch plants things like that by working
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there I learned a lot of things that I
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never knew before which was really cool
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but after being there 3 or 4
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years the wheels in my head started to
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turn and I thought to myself I need to
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do
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something on my own even
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if I do not get a paycheck a weekly
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paycheck I need to Branch out and do
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what I want to do and this took 2 years
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to come into
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fruition and I totaled 5 years working
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at that feed store before I quit on
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August 9th 2011 which means it is just
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past the 5-year anniversary of the last
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time I punched a Time Clock I was 17
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years old when I started working 20
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years later when I was 37 which was 5
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years ago
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I decided to stop working on my own
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accord for no reason other than I wanted
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to do it I had to change in my mindset
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that instead of putting so much energy
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into someone else's business into what
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someone else was telling me to do I
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would go out on a crazy limb and try to
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make something for myself I don't think
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it worked out just because I don't think
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it worked out on accident when I did
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work a normal job at all the places I
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was showing I was rarely late to work I
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rarely called in to work I rarely took
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time off and when I did do something I
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always tried to do it to the best of my
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ability not only to try to like succeed
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in the company but just for my own
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personal satisfaction I tried to do the
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best job I could and I feel like I apply
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that to what I am doing now I don't know
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if that shines through I don't know if
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you see that but but it would be really
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easy for me to sleep in every day it
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would be really easy for me to go out
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every night go do other things and then
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sleep all day sit around you know
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watching TV or doing nothing but I don't
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do that I get out and I do something
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every single day and I feel honestly I
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am working harder and working longer
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hours than I was working when I worked
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for someone as crazy as that is now I
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know I'm super blessed and I'm super
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like on a different wavelength than most
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people because I have the ability to do
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what I want make my own schedule but
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sometimes you can fall into that trap of
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letting that make you lazy and I never
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want to be that way and good Lord
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willing in the creek don't rise I never
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will
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be thanks for watching I'll see you guys
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tomorrow look at those
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clouds the
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sunset is rather beautiful this evening
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look at that look at that over
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there amazing
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life is
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good life is definitely