My Summer Job at Rent-A-Center

Shannon Cason's Homemade

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4.8 • 848 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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On my summer break from college, I wanted to get some real business experience. I got a job at Rent-A-Center and got more experience than expected. Give a listen!

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0:00.0	Before we start, do you love stories and storytelling?
0:04.9	Learn to tell better stories with my 10 rules of storytelling.
0:08.5	It's free when you sign up for my newsletter at shannonkaysen.com.
0:14.0	And I send pretty good newsletters too.
0:16.5	Come on now.
0:17.5	So sign up.
0:18.9	All right.
0:19.4	Enjoy the show.
0:20.1	Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Welcome to Homemade. I'm Shannon Kayser. I've had a number of jobs.
0:31.9	I've talked about many of them on homemade podcasts, good jobs, bad jobs, sometimes jobs just to make it through.
0:41.3	This is the story about my job at Renner Center.
0:45.1	And I can't say that it was all the way bad because I did learn a lot at Renner Center.
0:50.6	I learned how to drive big trucks.
0:53.3	I remember sometimes I have to back this big, huge box truck down the narrowest alleys.
0:59.2	So I got pretty good at it.
1:01.2	I learned how to keep my cool in high-stress situations.
1:05.6	When you knocking at somebody's door to take their kids' bedroom set, you have to be able to finesse.
1:12.8	You can't strong arm everything.
1:15.3	It's a balancing act of understanding, direct statements, and getting confirmation.
1:22.6	Man, I get it.
1:24.4	It's messed up.
1:25.9	This is messed up. We have to take the baby crib with us.
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