I have a rich employment history...Nuclear power plants, mgr, top tier restaurant, gas jockey, vacuum, insurance sales, gov’ment work; Registry of Deeds, auto service mgr, liquor store, route owner/driver, UPS driver, till the back had enough...started doing paper routes, lawns, including our own, probably from 12 yrs on...I was paying rent and buying a lot of my own clothes very early on, even did house cleaning as I grew out the paper routes; had two...lots of other fill in jobs...I now do Pest Control, only...there is not a day that I don’t pull from my whole life work experience...you have to know how to open...you have to know how to close...you have to know how to engender trust and confidence soon into the first encounter!
You have to start early!
Life is one big negotiation!
Then you better know how to fix the bicycle!
Or, your mechanic/partner better up to his game, too.