Jobs Are Us!

thank you, thank you. Ye it's kidd juicy, I mean the juice is a spilling. Okay, all right, So as per normal, we gotta give our reasonably shady moments of the week. Okay, So, oh my gosh, moving, Oh my gosh, this ring moving. Moving sucks. So my reasonably shading moment just goes to the whole concept of moving, of packing, moving, of unpacking. Like, what part do you of moving do you think is the worst? I think the packing, not

the unpacking. No, No, because packing, like you can just literally just grab stuff, throwing in boxes and you know, kick the box up and whatever. But unpacking when you have to try to figure out where the stuff is going or you know what I'm saying, because it might not. It's like the house you moved to is not the same configuration. You might not have the same drawers or cabinets, or you might realize I don't need this, or we might say like okay, I don't want all this stuff. Right,

It's just so did you purge before you packed? Half and half? So I packed my closet, like my personal stuff, so I was I purged that stuff. But like I and then moving, the shady part goes to my movers call him out. I don't really want to call them out. Alright, fine, we won't, but I paid for a pack and move, like a full house pack and move, and the movers show I was like three men and they were like,

um yeah, most people. Most people just their boxes are already packed and we just picked their boxes up in the little tracks like we've never packed a house before. And I'm like what what Okay, listen at that point they need to be fired, right And I'm like what, I'm like, w t F. So my you know, one day moving job turned into a two day moving job requiring too and it's so weird because I'm like, the last time I moved, which was like four years ago,

it wasn't like it wasn't this much. Okay, So what's the So you came from what square footage and you went to what square footage? Do you know that you know? I really don't know. I think the townhouse was like square feet and then my new house, you know, the basement and all that is probably like five thousands square feet. I don't know, so like so up to the east side sky. But it was I mean at first, I'm like, why do I have so much stuff? Right? Why? Like

you know what I mean. It's like when when you are unpacking, that's when you realize like how much stuff you have and you don't need. I feel like i could just literally like throw all the rest of the boxes away and I would not miss anything. And I'm sure the boys have accumulated a lot of just stuff. The boys, I mean me want like all of us. It's just all right. Well, I was doing some traveling over the past week or so, and I was in

Los Angeles, very excited. I took my kids there because they had never been, and they were like, you know, we need we want to go. We want to go down Rodeo. We want to be in Beverly Hills, we

want to We're important. Anyway. My point is every restaurant that I went to, and I went to some very nice fine dining, so I would be chewing on my last bite of food and they're ready to get you out of there, and they were literally snatching up my plate and they were like, okay, all right, bye bye, like they were Every restaurant was snatching my plate up and I was still chewing my last bite. L A restaurants, y'all a shady. I don't know what is going on.

I don't know if y'all all have a mandate like get people out, turntables over. I don't know what it is, but goddamn it, let me eat my food and leave my plate alone. Wow. Yeah, that's frustrating. I definitely feel like the restaurant in the street with the pandemic is just like jacked up because either they're short on workers um or they're like trying to make up for lost time and so everything is like super expensive. And then like you said, they're like trying to get you in

and out. Yes, and I'm a black woman, I like to like save all my food. So let me say that. Did they even let you order dessert? One place? He brought me the check before I ordered dessert, and to know me as to know that I always ordered dessert. Excuse you, sir, I need to see the dessert menu. I am not done. She not done? Did you ask them like, what is that with this? No? I just you know you would have called them out, but it was every restaurant. Every restaurant was like literally they weren't.

They weren't being rude about it. They were just snatching my plate on my last bike. I think they're like, okay, we're trying to get as many people in and out and and what's every restaurant like Super booked Oka they were crowded yea, yeah, they had people in there. So I just I didn't like it. Um l a restaurants, y'all are shod and leave me alone the end the end? Yes, okay, but so much is happening in the world robbing since we last chatted. I kind of wouldn't know because I've

been underboxes for test a couple of weeks. Okay, when do you think you'll be done on patching? Okay? So like to my liking, I need another full week, and I like and I don't want to leave. You know, sometimes it's like you move. First of all, moving is like giving birth. So it's like you you know, when you give birth, it's such a horrible, horrific experience, but you do it again, like you know, you you kind of like forget how bad it is and you do

it again. So I feel like moving is the same thing. It's like, I know, moving sucks, but you know, I chose to do it again. So anyway, but I don't want to leave, like I don't want to just like I have a really big stoge room and I don't want to just like throw everything in the store room and forget about it, like I want to get through

every single thing and put everything in its place. So I'm gonna give myself another week, so I apologize, and look, I have all these emails that have been neglected, and I got some business I need to take care of. Probably probably all right. Well, one thing that struck me, um news wise was that you know, okay, you know iced tea and cocoa, yes, like cocoa, saying she is still breastfeeding her daughter. I saw that, and she's like five five, Yes, she's five. So it sparked all of

this talk about like is this normal? Is this oh what mom should be doing? Anyone saying that was normal? But I don't think I didn't. God, I think it's crazy. It's insane. If the baby can pull your titty out your bra it's a problem. Yeah. And if she can like run around and tell people I pulled mommys titty out, you know what I'm saying, It's like it is all the way nasty. Now Icy did come out and say, hey, you know, the way me and Coco live our lives is not the way y'all might live your lives and

do not. Um, but I think that you're setting your child up for let's see, um booby envy. Maybe. Now wait, now why does she explain? Like why she alright, first of all, like how often is it? Like, like why do you continue to do that? Is it because like it's a bonding thing. It's a bonding thing. Um, I mean I think at some point, well, I mean it's

that's just that's just really weird. I think the daughter eventually pretty soon will probably stop, you know what I mean, Like on her own, I think, like not want it anymore? And then how often do they do it? Is that like bedtime? Is it did? After I saw the headline and I read a little bit, I was disgusted, So

I don't I don't know that the particulars. And to be honest, so this might be t m I but like I breast fed for like, um six months my kids, but like my boobs to me are like more of a like a sexual thing, like for with you know, with my partner, Like I prefer to leave them for him. So I couldn't wait for my kids to get off my boots, you know, because I felt it felt kind of weird. I'm like, yeah, were my boobs, but this for some you know, yeah that was that was for

daddy kids. Yes, So I couldn't wait for them together. It was It was very painful for me to breastfeed, like that whole latching on thing hurt so bad that I was like, I don't want to do this. I remember, I will never forget my mother. So I was trying to breastfeed the twins so you can ima engine. I had one on one breast and the other on the other breast at the same time. Like football's and she was like, um, and I think I was crying while I was doing this, and she looks at me and

she's like, is this working for you? And I said no, it's horrible. So she was like, we're done with this. Don't do this right, So she literally like went to the store got infamale or semilac whatever that stuff formula, and I was it was it was a right, it was. Girls are beautiful, smart, intelligent, athletic, you know, fully grown. So I be. I mean, I know a lot of women that is something that they feel pressured to do is to breast feed because that's you know, that's the healthy,

natural thing to do. Um. But if you if it's if it's difficult and it's causing you pain, I mean there I think everyone's going to go through, like the pain because there's like a rawness and all that. But like if it's excruciating and uncomfortable, don't stress yourself, you know, feat yourself up if you can't do it, and it's fine. And if you can do it, like cocoa, I think eighteen months is to cut off. Eighteen months to two years, that's to cut off. Yes, okay, so I I was.

I was on the Twitter, not the Twitter. I was on the Instagram, and I saw Lallapalooza right, and I saw like the festival music festival. It was a big music festival in Chicago. It was like two people. And so I was as I was watching it, watching the clips from and I was like, clearly this was like I'm thinking this was like two three years ago. No, this was like the other day and and like rolling out loud and all these what happened to the COVID,

y'all forgot COVID exists? They forgot. But I was actually all my way here and I've heard a news repoint they said there's in Chicago there there are two hundred plus COVID new COVID cases that they are linking to Lalla Palosa. So imagine if they have those two hundred that they are aware of, how many more there are because people might be asymptom asymptomatic or something like yes.

And there was reported that was reporting on how they were checking your quote vaccine vaccination car at the door and it was like like you literally at the show a piece like you could just show a white card, just like a white pie. Just hold up a paper and a and you got in right now. It was outdoor though, right, yes, okay, I mean honestly I did. So I went to Miami in the midst of moving.

I went to Miami last weekend and I you know, we were down there, you know, walking around with that our masks and stuff, and and at some point I'm like, oh, this is like not feeling right, you know what I mean. I'm like, let me start putting my mask back on, because you know, you hear about the cases creeping up, and I'm like, we're vaccinated, but we still don't want to pass it on to other people who aren't. UM,

and it just started not feeling right. So hopefully people kind of I know, we're all sick of the pandemic, um, but hopefully we start taking it more a little more serious. And these young people like the Lallapalooza, the rolling out loud, we're rolling loud whatever, rolling whatever whatever that was. Think. Um, you know, y'all have to be very aware that like this new variant is it seems like it is targeted towards the young people. UM, So everybody has to be

very very careful. It's super contagious and then you know, sadly we're hearing about people you know that we um you know Candice's music producer who was not vaccinated and passed away from rest in peace, Chuckie Thompson. It's it's not gone, y'all. It's not it's not. One of my line sisters is struggling right now. She's in the ICU. So, yeah, you did. This is not the time to like let

go of our safety precautions vaccinated that. I've been asking that and nobody wants to give me a straight answer. So I'm just gonna leave that alone. Okay. Now, we have been traveling and I've been seeing I've been like hyper aware of the people that have been acting crazy on these airplanes. Okay, I don't understand. Okay, so this is okay, So let's be clear. There are people on airplanes that are losing their minds. The last report I saw the man had to be duct taped to his seat.

Duct tape why because he was screaming and yelling, he was going off. I think he hit a flight attendant. He did something, and it was to the point where the whole plane was like, yeah, duct tape his ass, Like nobody wanted him like his mouth everything that though. Okay, I'm gonna tell you. Okay, So he was drunk. Okay, So I feel like there should be a band of alcohol in airports until people act like they got some sense. See, I was going to say, I think it's because the

airplanes aren't serving alcohol anymore that people are acting crazy. No. I was on the plane recently. I'm like, Dan, can I get some fodka or something? And they're like no, I'm sorry what I wanted to be mad? I was like no, so I wanted to bust the window open because I couldn't get some alcohol. Like that's why people are mad alcohol. And people are mad because they're going to the Buffalo wing spot in the airport and they're getting totally like hammered and getting on the plane. But

that's nothing new. That is nothing new, So why is it? Like I don't know, I don't know, but I think it was like did he not want to wear his mask or something. It probably was that, like he didn't have the little clip that I saw, he did not have a mask on. It's probably what it was. They probably like, sir, you need to wear a mask, and he's like miss and then he's drunk. And then when you're drunk like robbin, what did he says, you're infringing with my freedom? Yes, but I was just so happy

that they don't. I didn't know they had duct tape on planes all for the purposes of duct taking people the seats. That's you just sit in there like stuck and you're feeling like an asshole. Like you imagine, I would literally be taking pictures of this person, like everyone, this is the thing. Okay, So when someone acts up on your next flight and their duct tape to the to the seat, every person on place, your walk up

to the person and take a picture of them. Just make him feel like a bigger asshole, right, like right, take a selfie with him. Look at me at the asshole. He was screaming that his parents had two million dollars. My parents got two million dollars. Y'all can't do this to me. Give me your money, right, Oh yes, we can watch and change. That was a bad. So I just want to ask for people to get themselves together

before they get them on these planes. And I want the allowance to serve alcohol again, Yes, because I don't I don't know about you robbing. But I don't sit

in the same cabin as my kids. My kids with me and my children travel, they sit in a different cabin than me, and so if they're back there, I want to make sure a safe that they're okay yet to my brother, we were when we were in Portland and we were flying home at the same time, and I was in first class and I bought my brother a coach ticket, and he thought I was like the worst person in the world. Know, It's like, you are

so me you. I'm like, I'm sorry, at least I bought you as a ticket, right and if and if he had a problem, he could upgrade his damn sound right exactly. But he was so he was so salty. I was funny. Yeah, my kids don't know the difference, so they just go right on back there and get your life hilarious. We do have to shout out our girl re Re also known as Rihanna, miss fenty Money

now bill money Bag. So I mean, how does I just you know, when they did the headline that Rihanna is now a billionaire, I wanted to know, like who calculated the money? Like how does that go down? Right? Because it's the same thing because you know, remember when they said, um, Kylie Jenner was a billionaire, and then they came back and was like, yeah, there was like no, we fabricated. Yeah, they like took it back. So it's like, right, what are they what are they basing that off of?

I think it's like the valuation. I don't. I don't really think it's like, oh, she has a billion dollars in her pocket, right, It's like the valuation of their companies and the worth of their companies. So they're basing it on, you know, whatever public information that companies of that size have to disclose. It's her company of publicly publicly traded company. Probably not, I don't, I doubt it, but the matter of fact that she's gotten there, she's well,

how old is she thirty something something? Younger than us? That's just black excellence, black girl magic. She's younger than us and richer than us. And that's I guess that's amazing because that's like, you know, I assume a bulk of that came from the makeup and and from her lingerie lingerie, But I think the makeup is what kind of like drove the rest of everything, you know what I mean? Like, so, I mean same thing. If you look at Kylie Jenner, where where does she make her

money her makeup? Like that is? But everybody keep you know, everybody for years has been like when is Rihanna coming out with more music? Guess what? Guess what? She don't have any to do that again in her life, right because that is a grinds And you know, artist, you know, I correct me if I'm wrong someone. But I feel like they make their money on tour more like that's where they really make their bread. And I'm sorry, but

touring it looks exhausting to me, do you know? Yeah, you gotta you gotta be in it right constantly on the road, you know, Just it's exhausting, it's physically demanding, it's it could be lonely, you know. So shoot, I'm sorry. If I'm Rihanna, Okay, I might make a song or two, but I might not listen. If I'm Rihanna and I got a billion in my pocket, I'm not. I'm sitting on the couch, y'all. I'm here to tell you. Couch

is my name, my friend. I would I would love to hear some new Rihanna music, though I know I know re read if you don't mind. Um. Okay, So someone is calling me to asked me to extend my car warranty. Have you done that yet? Have you extendish your car warranty? You know I haven't? Should I I mean, make these people stop calling you? All right, Well, we would like to share with you guys today on this episode some you know we we have told you guys a lot about our background, where we came from, all

that good stuff. But we've had Robin and I have had so many jobs in our life and none of it got us to where we are now. But this episode is called jobs are Us? Okay, So Robin, I'm gonna let you start with with the job because I think yours are a little bit more hilarious than my. My minor straightforward Robin's are not okay, so gosh, and I'd run down all of them. I mean, I don't know. Okay.

So when I was in high school, you know, I'll admit I didn't want for anything, like you know, my parents gave me everything, a brand new car, I had money in my pocket, clothes, whatever. But I decided, like, no, I want to work, right, I mean, who like what I don't know. I mean, I guess a lot of teeny was Yes, I'm sure she gets everything from you. Yes, but she's working and can I just I don't mean

to interrupt you. She gave me her first paycheck and she gave it to me to putting her a little bank account, and it was like two hundred three two three dollars or something. She was so excited and um, she felt empowered, right, So it wasn't about the fact that it was two hundred dollars, it was it was about it was her. She worked for it, she earned it, and it made her feel like she's growing up. Absolutely. Yeah. So I I chose to work on my own. My

parents didn't forced me to. I was just like, Okay, I want a job. So I worked. My first job was at a cafe at a swimming pool. So it was in the summertime, nice and I worked in the cafe. I made burgers, wings, grilled chicken sandwiches, mazza relisted French fries and I was it was so crazy because the

food was really good, like really really good. So I worked so it was like you know, a little kitchen job and we did it all from you know, opening and closing and cleaning and cooking and nice and charges and all that type of it was. It was hard work. My cousin's husband owned a catering business at the time, so he was kind of like behind, like the management of it. So it was kind of good to like work for a family member. But I had a lot of responsibility and I kind of learned to cook. You know,

Oh nice, you got some skills. So you were like flipping burgers, flipping burgers. You were taking the chicken wings and like putting them in the Yes, how old were you? Um? I was in high school, so I probably was like going into my senior year of high school the summertime, you know what it was at a summer pool, like

sixteen yeah, okay, sixteen seventeen, Okay, that's the process. Yes, So that one was good, you know, that's just and that really helped me appreciate how difficult it is to work in a kitchen, you know, whether it's you know, at McDonald's or at a five star restaurant, like, it's that thing. It's hard work, yes, sign a gang. So I definitely appreciated that. So then I worked at Northstrom. Okay,

in the shoot apartment. Nice hard work. Okay, so the women that come into their feet stay, you know, not really know um and you know, and I would have to do the whole like putting the shoes on the people.

Really yes, But in Nordstrom, I really appreciated my experience at Nortrom because they're really big on customer service, at least when I was there, and I just learned a lot about dealing with customers going like above and beyond, you know, so it's like okay, whenever, So first shoe, it's like, okay, if someone asked for once, you you go back and come back and bring them for yes, or you know, when you're checking them out, like don't hand in the bag across the counter. You gotta walk

around the counter and hand them the bag. Yeah, they do do that. That's all we were We were taught to do that. Yes, that's part of the customer service things. So so working in or from almost spoiled me when I would go to other stores because I'm looking for that same type of customer service and you're not getting it. I'm not getting it. And if I go to a northstroom and like the sales people don't walk up to

me and say like hi. So first of all, they're like, okay, if someone comes in your department, walk out to them and say hi, could I help you? Walk away? Like So, I'm as a customer who has worked at North Room, when I walk into a North Room, I'm expecting the salesperson to greet me, like right away. I'm expecting them to like walk around the counter to hand me my bag,

like I'm expecting the stuff. So I will now today as a shopper, if I walk into a section in North Room and they don't greet me, I'm taking my purchase to the next part, Like I'm going to walk across, you know, to another department and I'm just waiting whoever the salesperson is that's going to like, you know, go out of their way to say hi, do we then you get my sale. I'm just but I'm sure you don't have that problem now, I mean, you're you walk in as Robin Dixon and it's not an issue. I

mean I still see it. I Mean I'm like always amazed that like people who really just want to stand behind the counter and not do their job, you know, but working in the shoe department at North Room So I work in Towson Town Center and the shoot department was two levels, so it was like you had to go upstairs, up and down. I literally I would come home from work and I'm like, I'd work that job

mostly throughout my time in college. I can't remember how many different years, at least like over the course of probably three or four years. Oh, I felt like an old person, Like I was literally a college student and I was literally because you had to walk up and down the stairs. It was it was work NonStop, back and forth, up and down all around. That was hard work. Um let's see. So I worked, so that was like all throughout college. Um. Then I would say my first

job out of college was for Otis Elevator. What the hell is that Otis Elevator. Yeah, when you get on the elevator, you look down and says Otis, Like, all the are you selling elevators? What are you talking about? This is ridiculous, right right, that's real cute, right. I mean I had a I saw, I had a business degree. So my I was working in the sales department for

the maintenance plan of elevators. So like you know, they sell like service plans, you know, they like, okay, if you have an elevator, you wanted to be serviced every you know, quarter or whatever. So I worked in that department. Now this was I can't remember what year it was, but I didn't really enjoy that job. Okay, okay, and Aliyah died in a plane crash. Okay, and like the next day I went back to work and I was like, um Alia died in a plane plane crash, and life

is too short. I quit, Like you should just told them that you quit. Not blame it on Aliyah, who you don't know and her death, this is the worst. But I was so like I was distraught by her her death, like like I was so messed up from that, and it was like damn because she's she pretty much were like the same age and so seeing her, she was so beautiful, so talented, and just seeing her gone like that, like it was just like I just really, I'm like life is too short, Like I'm not I

cannot sit here, life is too short. I cannot work for y'all normal because I really don't like this job. I hate this job, but I'm not going to do something that I hate. Okay. That was like Jesus Christ was about nine months. I stayed it for nine months. Okay, okay, then did you get a job after that? Well? I worked for my mom. Okay, very good. And your mom has that printing Yeah, so my mom has her own business. She does like printing promotional products, anything that's like you know,

printed um banners, programs, inc. Pins. You know, anytime you have like you know, you go to a bank and the bank the name of the bank is on a pen like stuff like that. Yes, if you ever need you know, this is like a collecial. Yes, a plug for my mom if you ever need a printed material to promote your business, your church, whatever, your organization. How at my mama? Yes, what's the name of the business. So the name of the business is Specialty Marketing and Printing.

And what is her Instagram page? I'm just sending on to her instagram? Well, I mean g G. Bragg at gg Bragg is her Instagram page? Is my mama? How about at mrs Bragg? Yes, who is no nonsense out here in these streets? Okay, so we're we're gonna we're gonna find out your favorite job. Favorite let's hone this in gosh, I mean okay, so all right, I work for mom. I like working for my mom because I can do what I want, clearly. But she didn't really pay me that much. So she gave birth to you.

That was payment enough. That's what I tell my kids. Y'all have food. I will be honest, Like, I liked working in Nordstrom really, and I think that the fact that I have an online business and you crims business and I'm selling stuff, I think that like I think it's like tied together. Like I like to sell stuff, So I think that it once you get em balancet your hats in north Stroom, that's like total full sure

is Yeah, so we got to make that happen. Yes, absolutely, So none of your jobs prepared you for where you are today. Um, I would say they all prepared me, David didn't prepare you for the real house. While tell me, okay, no, no, no, nothing prepared for that. I got like a couple more. Okay, alright, go ahead, go ahead. I worked at under Armour. Okay that I remember that, in the corporate office at under Armour. And um, I'll tell you why I worked there. So

Woma was in the NBA. He played for the Wizards. I really didn't need to work. But I wanted to work, you know what I mean, And I wanted to get like I needed like a break from him, you know, a break from the boo. Yes, I just needed to be like our house. I wasn't like always available, right, So I went and got me a full time job on the armor working in their sales department for like their big box store. So like I would do like the reporting for like, oh, how many units were sold

at Dicks. And the one thing that frustrated me about that job, like I would do all the reporting. I would gather the data and I would give it to like, you know, the managers or whatever, and then they would have these big meetings, big sales meetings, and they would never include me, and I just I felt like, if I'm putting these reports together, it would be nice to know how they're being utilized, you know, and so that I can you know, maybe improve upon the reports or

so I can learn something. And so, yeah, I quit that job. Robin was not included in the meetings. So she quit, y'all. This this is this is a recurring theme here. That was like eight months. That's the one thing. If I don't you, I didn't eight months. Okay, So now eight nine months is like your threshold. After that, that's when I'm like, it's not working right, right, right, right exactly. So then I spent you know, we got married, and I spent a number of years as a housewife.

I didn't work. I did Oh, this is probably my favorite job working for the PR company. Yes, you know, I did work on a contractual basis or a project basis for a PR company, like doing event planning, which was a lot of fun. Like that was probably like that did not feel like work to me, but it

was a lot of work, you know. Yes, my friend Aba owns a very like respectable, accomplished, successful PR agency, luxury PR agency in d C. And so she would have some of the most you know, top of the line clients and we would throw some of the most fabulous parties and stuff. So I but didn't invite me to any of these parties. But that's not the point of the story. Yes, okay, So do you feel like all of that, all of the year jobs have taught

you something? Oh? Yeah, absolutely, I mean just from like I said, from Norston with the customer service element, from the jobs that I quit to know, like what didn't work for me or what I would want more from

a job. The PR job, it's like you're balancing so many moving parts at one time, working in events and PR and having so many clients, and you know, I remember one time I had like six major major events in like the same month, and it was like I was like pulling my hair out because it's just so many moving parts. And so now it's like I'm more like my own boss, but I am juggling so many different things. But you've done that before, so you know

how to get that done right exactly. That's nice. My dad told me, like I think I was like probably a baby, that his money was his money, and um, I didn't have any money until I got a job, so um, I had to get up out there and get like now, mind you, I don't want to like say, my parents didn't like ted toe like give me everything under the sun, similar to you. I like, you know, I had everything I wanted, but my dad was like, yeah, this is my money. So um. Which was fifteen. So

I decided to get a job at like fifteen. But that was like the best thing he could have ever like taught me. And I try to instill that in my kids, but they'd be getting over I'd just be behind him everything. Um but anyway, so at fifteen, I went out and got a job at heart Ease. That was my first job, best eating up in town, up and down all around. I think that's the slogan. I don't know I made that up. So um, they realized I was fifteen, like after the first week and they

were like, girl, you're too young. You can't work here because it was like some child labor law. I thought I could. They were like your fire And I got fired from my first job in like five days. Okay. So then um, I worked at chest Peake Bay seafood House, which was like all you can eat spot. So it was like they don't have these anymore, I don't think, but like you pay a certain price and you can get everything on the in you and so like you had the waitress has to like run back to the

to the kitchen every eight seconds. Oh my god. And people used to ask me, like, our your shoes comfortable because you're gonna be running the night gairl are yousues comfortable? I said, now I can't do this. I quick right after that was about four days okay. So then I started working for Postal Pizza, which was like equivalent to like a domino. Okay. So I was the girl that answered the phone. I was like, hello, Postal Pizza, can

I help you please? And I would take their order okay, okay, and then the drivers will come and get the pizza and drive it out. So I would literally have five phones in front of me and they would all be ringing at the same time, and I was the only girl there to answer, and I'd be like, Postal Pizza, can you hold on please click pst Pizza? What you need post Pizza? Postal Pizza. It was a mess. So

sometimes my dad would like prank me. He would call and he'd be like he talked real slowly, Giselle, she'll Dad, So I've been on a hole for thirty five minutes and I don't understand why I have to wait this long. Oh my god, Dad, leave me alone, Leave me alone. Yeah, he was like, I just wanted to hear you say supposed to pizza. Gne please. My dad is the worst, Okay. So I stayed there like throughout high school and and out there, you know, and if I had to leave

for a month and come back. They would let me do it. They were like cool. Then I worked at Bridges Great Outdoors for Women. Remember Bridges. Bridges was like a clothing store and they had several lines, so like there was the Bridges for Men, which was like high end, and then they had the Great Outdoors, which was like polo, and then they had the women's line. And I worked at that store and they were like, oh my gosh, you're amazing. Can you like not go to college and

like stay here and run run this little store? No, bitches. I got an education, I got to get like no, but they also let me like come back for college and work there like over um Christmas break and you know, whenever I had breaks. Okay. So then my dad was like all right, Gezel. You know he thought I was going to be like, um super smart and um be like a doctor or something. I don't know what do you So he was like, I'm gonna get yourself some internships. Okay.

So one of the internships was when I told you all before I was doing autopsies yeah, on dead bodies, which was insane, Like why am I doing this? Like this is this is not even fit. I am like a cute girl. Okay, what am I doing cutting up bodies? Okay? That was a hot mess. Um, So I stopped doing that. And then eventually when I got out of college, I worked for the Double A CP and I started doing

their events. So I like you, I understand like how you have eight hundred balls in the air for events, but they all like have to come together and it's not like it's hard, but you have to do everything or else the whole thing to fall apart. Yeah, it's

a lot. And so then that's where I got to meet like President Clinton and Hillary Clinton, and because we I had to interface with politicians and corporations and it was like that was a great job, Like I love that job and it was like not work for me exactly, so that that was fantastic. And then I um did pharmaceutical sales. Okay, so I was like paid drug dealer. Oh and those doctors love to see you in the door. There was like zails here is that this is a thing.

All of the pharmaceutical sales reps are good looking, all of them, like p that's I think the criteria. Yes, and I'm gonna pay you well. We got paid well, like our car um things aren't like they used to be, because like I used to be able to take my doctor, like one I had a doctor. She was like real crazy. She was like, let's go to the strip club, right. I used to take her to the strip club. I'll probably get me or the fece men there was men dance. I would take her to the strip club. And at

the strip club, you could get a receipt. Because I wouldn't want to get reimbursed. You can get a receipt that's blank, so at the top it doesn't say it's it's very generic. What the name is like restaurant exactly, and then you know that way. And because clearly I'm not the only person get trying to get reimbursed, and they've done this before, they know how to do this. So I would ask for the special receipt, and um, they knew exactly what I was talking about. And I

used to take doctor. That was her name. I shouldn't make that. Shouldn't have said that. It was a lot of doctor. Yeah, we would go to the strip club. We would have a ball. Okay, I'd be like, Drake saw me where to strip us that let's get the dollars. Let's make it rain. This is before to make it rain. So you're the reason they cut back on that, because I know they cut all that mess back. Oh they

don't do that anymore. Yeah, this I was a pharmaceutical rap in the good old days when you could literally like take your doctor anywhere and it was fine. You can, you can just like write it off. So they quit that because I I ruined it for everyone. I had a job running um like the meetings, the dinner meetings for pharmaceutical um companies. Yes, and they hired out. They hired this company that I worked for for compliance reasons because the reps would be like so out of control.

So I would be there um just kind of like making sure everything was above board. Oh wow, it was like the wild wild West back then. But if you knew a drug wrap and let's say you needed drugs, right, you know, over the counter drugs, you would just you would swap out like he had. I was orthor McNeil. If you had a five A rap, you swap out some drugs. I saw birth control pills. Everybody was looking for me because everybody wanted birth control pills for their girlfriend.

So you know, it was definitely wrong what we were doing right, but we have fun. Yes, yeah, y'all ruined. Y'all ruined it for everybody. Y'all have ruined it. Now they're like so strict, so you can't you can't do anything. And then I got married and I helped my husband build his business, which was you know, the church. And then um My last like job that I really liked was when I was making like cookies and cupcakes. I had sweetches out. It was such a a little bakery

at the spot or something. Yes, I would sell it at um Lord, I forgot the Timothy Dean Timothy Dean, Yes, yes, and I was Timothy Dean had a has a bistro and I would sell like the cupcakes and cookies at the b stro So I would make everything there. It's very labor intensive, but I loved it. Yes, I feel like you should get back into that. I think so too, when I get a little bit more time on my hands. Yes, yes, but I can say that all of that helped form

who I am today. I really got to thank my dad because my dad was like I didn't get it at the time, but he wanted to make sure that I had all of these things under my belt. It's just like resources that I can pull from, and now I know I can do anything. I can do any job that you give me, because I've done a million things. Absolutely.

I want to talk about side hustles that I picked up because and this might be helpful for people listening, like if you're looking for some extra money, because I definitely went through a time when I literally had like fifty million side hustles because you know, while and I were going through our financial troubles and I was just trying to find any of every way to make money. So one of them was, um focus groups. What is that? Focus groups? Like? There are you can sign up for

focus groups. I literally got paid and this is like you know, I got paid like two dollars for someone to come and watch you make a salad because like, you know, they're doing their research. So this is so companies have focus groups to do research on like consumer

behavior or never heard of this? Yeah, girl, So if you're looking at like I still I keep unsubscribing to these emails, but I still get the emails of you know, these companies that are looking for people to participate in their focus group about yes yes, yes, yes yes, Okay now I know exactly what you're talking about, right, so they can figure out the best way to sell their products exactly. Yes, whatever it is. Yeah, I would do multiple focus groups. You know, you get a quick hundred

hundred dollars here, two hundred there, you know. So for for people who are like you know, trying to find you know, little small ways to make extra money, just google focus groups. Like and you were selling your clothes, not selling your clothes, but you were doing so assignment. Well, okay, eBay, I had a I had a boom in eBay business. We sold I had want We had so much Louis Vuitton luggage. And the good thing about that stuff is that it holds its value, you know. So I made

a lot of money on eBay. So but even not even you know, you don't have to just sell like you know, designer stuff on eBay or consignment places. You can sell like little Nike, your your kids, it's closed whatever, shoes, everything, So that right there is a hustle in itself. Yes, another one. My friend Carly and I okay, Carl, Carly is always here with us, Okay. Now she's director of Operations, Yes she has a title. She demanded to get a title.

She's the director of operations. And don't you get it twisted? Okay, yes, what about Carly? So Carly and I we sold jewelry. Oh yes, yes, and we literally have it. Like we we would go to the jewelry shows and buy jewelry from different jewelry vendors, and we would host jewelry parties. So or we will go, you know, if there's like an event, we would get a tape me because I've never been invited to a jewelry party. I guess you know what we may not have been. This is rude.

I don't know, I don't know. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Maybe maybe maybe I thought you weren't interested in that. You know what the fashion jewelry. Me and Robin are breaking up. You know, it's like a little forty Robbin is shady. But I'm telling you those type of businesses if you can like so jewelry. I honestly there's times when I'm like, I wanna, you know, have a jewelry website. I want to like start selling jewelry again, because that

is like such an easy sell. Like we would go to a jewelry party and make like two dollars and one night. Yes, yes it was. Let's start this back up again. I want my cut. I want it right. So if it's so, we you know, we would be vendors at events and stuff like that. That was actually I've really enjoyed that. So I like to sell stuff. So yeah, so don't be surprised if I sell jewelry one day. But I'll be doing it too with Robin. Rom ain't gonna cut me out of this. This is

good stuff, all right. So I so the I guess the purpose and the what we really want to get across to you guys is that whatever your job is today, like, you never know what tomorrow is gonna bring to you. You never know if this you might hate it and quit it in nine months like Robin does, but that still is gonna give you some umpen in a toolbox for like the next job exactly exactly. Or you know, you can have a job that you love but it's like running you rag it, which is fine because you

love it, but you're still growing from it. I always say, I always think, like you know, when there's jobs that you love, maybe at some point figure out how you can venture out and be your own boss doing that, you know, if you're working for a company, really like it. Um, I think the next step up is to like venture out and be your own boss. I got one more job. I worked for our house furniture for like two weeks. I was as I'm mad at there might not because

I'm I'm still waiting for me to come. The furniture is beautiful. I worked there for two weeks, like I like it, literally like two weeks of training, and then we started filming the real house. I was of atomic and I was like, oh I quit. I was like, I'm busy, and at the same time I was working my pr event job. I was doing my like I would get my huston clearly us clearly. So sorry our house for quitting after two weeks of training. And I guess that's the purpose of our story. Get your hustle

on word. Yes, yes, yes, so that is our episode today, and don't ever forget to either be reasonable or be shady. Yes, and share with us, you know, some of your hustles, your side hustles, because we would like to share them with the listeners. And you know, we if you have feedback on this episode, what's up at reasonably shady dot com. Ye until then, see you next day. By by Reasonably Shady is a production of the Black Affect podcast Network.

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