Fast food should be your last choice of job. Here's why.

<p>I have ap ush, ap chem, and ap english and I work, I don't get how there wouldn't be time....</p>

<p>Why don't you get a job at a Pharmacy since that is what you plan on doing? </p>

<p>I am also planning on becoming a Pharmacist and I work at a local pharmacy as a Pharmacy Technician. I really love what I am doing and it isn't that difficult. It can be stressful at times, but overall it is a really good job.</p>

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I don't think he'll do that. Mainly because he works in the kitchen and knows what they put in it and how they cook it.

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Uhm, what? Fast food has health codes just as strict as olive garden my 15 year old friend. Maybe you should get your first job before you try to offer advice about having one.</p>

<p>Now for the original poster. No offense, but you should suck it up and take it. Fast food is good for you, (mentally) :) I'm proud of you for sticking at your other fast food job for seven months. I have had several McJobs including, Captain D's, Wendy's, Long John Silver's, Little Caesar's, Pizza Hut, and Papa Johns. My father said, "you want a car? get a job." taught me value.</p>

<p>The jobs taught me all sorts of valuable lessons. How to interact with people that have the brain of a peanut, how to ignore annoying people, how to concentrate on lots of infinite, meaningless crap all at once. How to deal with a 21 year old manager (i was 17 or so) with a chip on his shoulder. (this translates into the corporate world directly.) This was all from the crappiest of the McJobs i've had. </p>

<p>It was always such a breath of fresh air when you were able to interact with the occasional smart person, or the guy who didn't care that his food had to be recooked. It made me appreciate the work all that much more and to respect McD's when i order food now, even when they screw up. </p>

<p>Now the next step up is pizza. Pizza is a FANTASTIC fast food job and honestly i think you should quit Mcdonalds and get a job at a pizza place. (no! don't quit until your hired dammit!) I had some really cool managers in the pizza business, everyone was always laid back, the dinner rush was the only real time when it was a pain. (i worked at very high volume stores too) I was fortunate enough to work for the owner of Little Ceaser's, who worked in store right next to us. He was a fantastic mentor to all the teenagers there, constantly offering advice, helping us develop common sense, and being able to criticize us without it feeling like a parent. Pizza is also the cleanest version of fast food i know besides subway. Not to mention, if you deliver pizzas (did it for 3 years), you can make 9-15 dollars an hour to drive around and listen to music. But you gotta be good. (hint: gps)</p>

<p>I think fast food will teach you a lot of common sense. A year of that crap and you pick up a lot of good decision making skills that school doesn't even touch on. Now, of course, you have to be intelligent to get anything from it. That's why ol' billy over there never did notin but get high and warsh them dishes for two years.</p>

<p>You also need to remember that volume matters, there's a big difference between the McD's off the interstate and the one that you have to drive five mile to get to. In terms of easy, i'd go with the one in the boonies, but the one near the interstate is going to be monitored harder, therefore cleaner, and *possibly *more intelligent crew / managers.</p>

<p>The next step up from fast food i think would be retail or serving. They are both in a world of their own, and i hate each one. I can't stand being that up close and personal in the service industry, pushing products onto the fat cogs that drive america's machine. You should definatley give each a shot though, even for a couple months cause there's a lot of different skills to be learned there too.</p>