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On Tuesday, July 5th, the BBA will hold its Summer Jobs
Program Kick-Off, where Mayor of Boston Thomas Menino will hold
a brief press conference to send off 49 students (a summer jobs
program record) to the law firms and law related public agencies
they will be working at this summer. This event got BBA
Week wondering what summer jobs experience our members have
had, so we asked:
"What was your favorite (or least
favorite) summer job?"
If you would like to respond to a future
Voices of the Bar, make sure you send
a headshot, and contact Eric Fullerton at efullerton@bostonbar.org. |
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Michael Tuteur – Foley Lardner
"Of all
the jobs I worked in the summer, my favorite was playing the
alto saxophone in the Second Company, Connecticut Governor's
Foot Guard Band. During the summer, we exchanged our bearskin
shakos and heavy, woolen, colonial-era red-coat uniforms for
natty white shirts and dark pants, and played Sousa marches,
classical pieces (a la the Boston Pops), and popular tunes on
town squares all over southern Connecticut. Since we all had
to be union musicians, we received union scale -- far better
wages than the menial jobs I worked at during the day. And
besides, what could be better than watching parents, children
and senior citizens clap along to the finale of the Washington
Post March, while watching the summer sun set over a pretty
New England town green?"
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John Ward - Novartis Vaccines &
Diagnostics, Inc.
"My favorite summer job?
That's easy. Caddie at Bear Hill Country Club in
Wakefield. I did this every summer between grades 5 and
12. The hours were good. The work was outside and
varied. And the game is still a big part of my
summers."
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Beth Hella – Foley Hoag
"When I was 14
years old, my uncle hired me to work as a dishwasher at his
seasonal restaurant in New Hampshire. Every hot summer
night I stood over that sink scrubbing pans and sweating for
$4/hour. But at the end of the night, my uncle cooked up
a full meal for the staff, including over-flowing baskets of
shrimp tempura- worst and best summer job
ever!"
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Brian J. McLaughlin – Attorney at
Law
"My favorite summer job was as an intern at
the FBI. There is nothing like being at a command post
watching months of intricate planning and hard work commencing
into action. My colleagues and I would then go to breakfast to
celebrate, knowing that the bad guys were on their way to
jail.
My least favorite summer job was licking and
stamping addresses and placing them on envelopes for a state
representative. With my limited hand eye coordination, it was
like trying to accomplish this task wearing
mittens."
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