[Shaun @ Tru6]

I started washing dishes the summer between 10th and 11th grade. We moved that summer and I got a new job doing dishes at the nicest French restaurant in town at the beginning of junior year. The other fellow quit soon after and I began to work full time while going to school. Spring of junior year they moved me to prep cook, that summer I was trained and then moved to garde manger, the cold food chef. Worked full 40 hour weeks junior and senior year of high school. It was fantastic.

There were a lot of reasons for this. Principally, I had to pay for college and Brandeis wasn't cheap. Second to that, the car addiction set in when I was 15 and had my first taste of what my money would buy. I would comb the newspaper for cars in the $500 range. Then $1000, then... Bought a 64 1/2 Mustang to restore by the time I was old enough to drive. That car didn't pan out, the engine turned out to be junk, still sold it for double what I paid, but a string of cars followed including 240Zs (many) a Fiat 850 spyder, and a 63 VW Double Cab Pick-up.

Sold all the cars to help pay for college and got the family Chevy station wagon.