From flipping burgers to owning the joint, and have you thought about delivering newspapers?
My first job was in fast food, flipping burgers after school at a Wendy's near my rural Ohio home.
It was an extremely positive experience: I gained confidence, friends and (a little) discipline along with the spending money.
So contributor Susan Dryman's story about four women in the Evansville area who own McDonald's locations really resonated with me. Whitney Klinock started at McDonald's on the ground floor, taking orders, making coffee and such on the early shift. Now she's running the show and challenges skeptics to compare benefits. Check out the rest of the story here.
I suspect all four women are having their share of challenges finding enough employees to operate these days.
Hiring and the labor shortage are very much on my mind lately as I field emails from loyal subscribers who are having trouble receiving the paper regularly. I'm powerless to help beyond forwarding the messages to our circulation manager, a really nice guy who simply can't find nearly enough people who want to deliver papers.
If you are a morning person with reliable transportation who'd like to make some extra money — or you know someone who fits the bill — please consider picking up a route or two. One upside of the Courier & Press' recent decision to stop Saturday delivery of the paper is that it's now a six-day-a-week job instead of an everyday job.
Call 812-464-0326 for more information.
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Cindi Andrews, Executive Editor
Evansville Courier & Press
cindi.andrews@courierpress.com
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