{"id":2099,"date":"2018-09-03T19:07:29","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T02:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/?p=2099"},"modified":"2019-05-03T19:08:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-04T02:08:17","slug":"summer-teen-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/?p=2099","title":{"rendered":"Summer Teen Job"},"content":{"rendered":"      \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\nI\u2019m polishing a book to release next week!&nbsp;<em>My 90s Boy Band Boyfriend&nbsp;<\/em>ought to go live on 8\/23. It&#8217;s been one of my most fun books to write. I mean, it&#8217;s about a 90s boy band star who miraculously survives a plane wreck, only to wake up in the present day at the home of his&nbsp;<em>biggest&nbsp;<\/em>fan, only to be snubbed by her daughter who thinks he&#8217;s faking his identity. What couldn&#8217;t be fun about that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The main character is Oakley,&nbsp;a high school girl. She&nbsp;has a fabulous after-school job at a woodworking shop called Board &amp; Brush. Frankly,&nbsp;I had to write this whole teen-job thing purely from imagination. Here&#8217;s my excuse for why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My sisters and I were talking about it this weekend when we got together for my parents\u2019 50<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;anniversary. None of us ever worked in a restaurant. Why? Because there weren\u2019t any! We lived a full twenty minutes from the nearest fast food place. Our whole paychecks would get eaten up in fuel there and back. We didn&#8217;t work anywhere official until we moved out and went to college.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead, we did farm work. My summer job designation was&nbsp;<em>pipe mover<\/em>. That\u2019s irrigation sprinkler pipe, in case you don\u2019t have context for the term. 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