• Blackout@fedia.io
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    Even in the 90s I was tired of working as a server, so after my lunch shift I went to the cell phone store next door and told them I wanted to sell phones instead of food. Hired me on the spot. The commissions back then were insane. Sign someone up for Nextel, they’d pay us $2500/customer and I’d get 10% of that. If I could only go back and buy apple stock with that money :'(

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      I… what… I was a waitress in the 2000’s. I was unsure about the job security so during my lunch break one day, I went to the phone company shop next door where they hired me, so reading your story was really unsettling until that point. Turned out I was bored with the city and left for another country shortly after. Didn’t buy bitcoin later.