Even if we end up working in an entirely different industry, the skills learnt working in fast food stay with us for life.
McPresident Kamala Harris? While I’m personally lovin’ the sound of that – despite Harris holding a part-time position at McDonald’s during college – I’m sure she’d prefer the title without the prefix.
As someone who donned my red, Colonel Sanders embroidered polo shirt, black slacks and matching cap to work behind the register of my local KFC for over five years through high school and into university, there’s no doubt that the skills I learnt, many mistakes I made and encounters I had – like those with “extra salt Sally”, a slightly aggressive regular who always demanded blood pressure rising levels of salt – set me up for my future working life.
Skills like problem-solving and resilience can also be used outside of work, says clinical psychologist and author Dr Rebecca Ray. In my gig, this often involved cleaning the male toilet. This, along with the regular burns inflicted at the corn cob station, taught me very early on in my working life that there will always be tasks that you won’t enjoy doing and, in some cases, may literally scar you for life.The first rule of any customer service job is that the customer is always right. However, as anyone who has ever worked in customer service knows, this isn’t always the case.
As I was learning the “first in, first out” system of food storage or how to make a Twister wrap that won’t fall apart, I assumed these skills would be useless outside the fast-food industry.
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