Job Experience

After moving back to Washington I quickly realized that I needed to get a job.  I had bills to pay, or more precisely I had comic books to buy and gas for a very large car.  So I got a job at good ol' Discovery Zone.  Unfortunately shortly after I left the whole company went bankrupt.  I am not saying that if they kept my I could have saved them but the world will never know.  For those that do not remember what Discovery Zone was think about a burger joint playground.  There were tunnels to climb through, ball pits to splash in, obstacle courses to conquer and cushioned hills to climb.  They had rooms for parties and a couple of pinball machines in the corner.  It was really geared towards a being a safe place to bring younger kids so they could burn off all their energy.

While it was geared to younger kids something else entirely happened once the doors were locked and the kids went home.  From time to time we (as young adults) needed to burn off a little bit of our energy.  So we turned the entire play area into a giant game of hot lava tag.  The only rules seemed to be that we could not touch the floor, with the exception being the obstacle course area.  We would climb up the bars and leap from area to area.  We would have a blast and to my knowledge no one got hurt all that badly.  Maybe a sprained ankle or something minor but for what we were doing it is amazing that no one came away with something torn or broken.

I worked there for a couple of years through out high school until finally making the transition to an adult job in the military.  Looking back on my time there, while it was not the most fulfilling career that I have had it was enjoyable non the less.

Scott