"Don’t use ‘nest,’ don’t use ‘egg.’ If you’re out in the forest you can point. The bird lives in a round stick. And you have things over easy with toast."
Posted on 11/09/2023 8:05:13 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
In the 1970s, the coolest job you could have was flipping burgers at McDonald’s.
At least according to Paul Hendel...
Still, he felt conflicted. Hendel asked his dad for advice before accepting the offer at McDonald’s. That conversation, he says, “changed the trajectory of my career.”
“We were out to dinner, and I mentioned the offer from Hunt, and my dad’s first question — I’ll never forget it — was, ‘Do you like what you do?’” says Hendel. “And I said, ‘Yeah, I really love it.’ And he goes, ‘Do you think you’re good at it?’ And I said, ‘Well I just got promoted!’”
He continues: “Then he said, ‘Paul, if that’s what you like to do, and you’re good at it, stick with it because I’m not crazy about my job or commuting into Manhattan every day.’ I realized, then, that work isn’t just about getting a paycheck every week. I’m so glad he gave me the advice he did, because I still love what I do.”
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Thank you so much for reading the article and including an important reference from it in your comment. I remember in the early years of Freepublic when people did not comment unless they had read the article.
LOL...got me on that one!
How about Dan Scavino? From a caddie to a White House employee, while in the same "franchise" all his life!
Nice name! I think she just said "HI!" to you!
They sign off with he/she/it nowadays.
I miss bag boys. That’s a useful job that was eliminated.
“I miss bag boys. That’s a useful job that was eliminated.”
If you make it down here check out Publix.
I knew a woman of limited skills and education who,by the time she was in her forties, some twenty years ago, had amassed a retirement nest egg of about $350,000 working at McDonalds. Unfortunately her loser boyfriend cheated her out of it.
"Don’t use ‘nest,’ don’t use ‘egg.’ If you’re out in the forest you can point. The bird lives in a round stick. And you have things over easy with toast."
I think he did...LOL!
Fifty years later, Hendel owns and operates 31 McDonald’s locations across Long Island, Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan, including the flagship restaurant in Times Square.
Hey, even an owner has to change the grease pit on occasion.
I must say, I saw the title, and was ready to come into this thread and do battle!
Relating it to the concept of raising the minimum wage to a “living wage” to service industry workers such as a McDonald’s employee flipping burgers, but...it is nothing like that.
It wasn’t his “forever job”. That would be someone who 55 years later is still flipping burgers.
This guy, as others pointed out in the thread, did not take McDonalds as his “forever” job. He might have started out flipping burgers, but it isn’t what he does now, or for the last 55 years.
I worked at a well-known defense contractor in the 1980’s. The president of the company started out as a dishwasher in the cafeteria in the 1940’s, and over the next 40 years worked his way up to be the president of the company.
So true. Back in 1972 when I first hired into my company in the mail room, HR had a group of local inner city high school kids that would pick up trash around the perimeter of our plant's property. They had one skinny bkack kid who was like their leader.
After he graduated from HS, he went on to college and in the summer they would hire him to work with me in the Mail room.
After graduation, he was hired full time and worked with me in HR where he became my supervisor. Over the years, he took advantage of our company's college reimbursement program and obtained an MBA and ultimately a law degree.
He became VP of our corporate labor relations dept. then he moved on.
I'm not sure if he's still working but up to a couple years ago, he was was the Senior Vice President of National Labor Relations at Kaiser Permanente, in California.
That’s true
It wasn’t my first job (2nd), but I also started as a bagboy at a grocery store in HS. I then got the “big promotion” to the Produce Dpartment. Worked there through my first couple of years of college. I once was approached to get into store management. thankfully, I didn’t.
My first HS job was even better - a drive-in movie theater. It was a blast!
“My first HS job was even better - a drive-in movie theater. “
Did you let your buddies in for free?
When I was working box office I might have been known to fake taking money from some people...... :-)
I worked at Micky D’s for 2 whole days flipping burgers during college. Could not get rid of the grease smell. Left to be a janitor at a department store cleaning bathrooms and the beauty salon. Much happier.
Funny movie. Had forgotten about that.
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