It was my senior year of high school, (or maybe Junior? I blacked it out) when I took my first ‘W2’ job at a pop-up Halloween store. My resume to that point consisted of regular babysitting jobs and for some reason a friend getting a job at a Halloween shop inspired me to do the same. It was my first interviewing experience, and to this day probably one of the weirdest. My interviewer posed such thought-provoking questions as: How would you answer to someone who says Halloween is satanic devil worshiping?
Needless to say, it was an experience. Recently on Man Repeller I read this gem of an article about a summer job as a grocery store clerk. (Here) It got me thinking about my days working at Halloween Express – a job I frequently look back on and cringe. Now an adult, I have a regular job in marketing, something I love and feel good about at the end of the day. It’s such a far cry from my days stocking shelves with masks that I felt inspired to talk about it. I mean, how many people can say that they worked at a Halloween store?