Getting fired
“There’s one thing good about getting fired,” said the late comedian Rodney Dangerfield, “It helps you make up your mind.” Over the years, the average person gets relieved of their duties about two times, and I have taken pride in being an above average person. As a teenager working at a 24-hour diner in Florida, I was dismissed for cutting my finger, though they hired me back as a dishwasher. Meeting my career quota at the same place a few months later, they gave me a chance to be a short-order cook to help during rush-hour surges. In the task of cracking two eggs, one in each hand, over a dozen were unsuccessful – meaning they went into a container for use in scrambling eggs.