However, I also sold tickets in the winter when it was below freezing outside
I had a string of jobs in my teens and early 20s that weren’t too glamorous. The first one was being a deckhand at a boat marina, and I did everything from cleaning the boats and the facilities to scraping dried seagull poop off the rooftop of the building. It was a miserable job to do in the middle of the summer when the temperature outside was over 100 degrees. While I was happy to earn the money, being able to buy a new guitar wasn’t worth the grueling work I was doing every week. That’s when I took up a job washing dishes in a nursing home kitchen. I figured that I’d be in an air conditioned environment while working but had no conception in my mind for how hot a commercial kitchen becomes when meals are being cooked and served. I sweltered so much in that kitchen dish room that I figured I’d take another outdoor job next time around. That’s when I started working in a ticket booth at the high school sports games. I sold tickets for baseball, football, and soccer games primarily. Unlike some ticket booths in the area, we didn’t have a window air conditioner inside to keep us cool. That meant I had to sell tickets in extremely warm temperatures during the spring, summer, and early autumn season. However, I also sold tickets in the winter when it was below freezing outside. Selling tickets in sub 20 degree weather without a space heater is almost worse than selling tickets in 90 degree weather with no air conditioner.