Line Cook
Cooking is the entry-level job that I stayed at the longest. Which puts it at the top of the list for most bearable bouts of employment for the beginner. How bearable the job will be rests largely on your personality. Doesn't it always? The higher paying starting positions will be found at upper class franchises like Longhorn and Outback Steakhouse. Inexperienced teenagers can generally land a job there starting in the prep area. Sometimes you may have to pull double duty as a dishwasher until you can prove your worth. While you learn the ins and outs of slicing and spinning lettuce dry, you will protect yourself with three gloves. A latex glove for sanitation, a chain-mail gauntlet for protection, and another latex glove for the gauntlet's longevity. Slicing veggies in that get-up is like playing pick up sticks in boxing gloves. I may have once had a salad returned sporting a glove garnish. That may have set my advancement to fry cook back another day or two. Fr
