Oh, yes, the exciting part of adolescence: finding a minimum wage job. Most of us have been through it, trying to fill out applications despite not having any real experience in the work force. I don't know about anyone else, but I was super picky about what minimum wage job I wanted, which is sort of ironic when you think about it.

Eventually, I did receive that call back, and that call came from a frozen yogurt and smoothie joint called Red Mango. Which brings me here, the many, unfortunate things I've learned working a minimum wage frozen yogurt job:

1. Kids are your worst nightmare

I know this sounds kind of messed up, but picture this: a mother and her three excited, screaming children ask for sample cups. You hand them the sample cups. They get fro-yo everywhere except the sample cups. Kids pick a flavor. They overflow their cups. Mom gives you an exasperated look. Proceed to mop.

2. You will never look at the little ketchup cups the same ever again.

After going on many breaks to sample some fro-yo, filling your little white portion cup with ketchup just feels wrong.

3. Every customer thinks you're an expert on frozen yogurt.

I can't really tell you the health benefits from eating frozen yogurt, but I doubt piling it with cookie dough doesn't help.

4. Customers blame you for everything.

"I'm really sorry we don't have any sprinkles at the moment...No I can't buy those myself...Oh, you can't have your frozen yogurt without them?...You're going to throw it out?...Okay."

5. Every night, I came home with some sort of chocolate stain,

This left me in a sticky situation...literally.

6. The after dinner rush, a.k.a. Hell.

If you work at any desert-type restaurant, 8:30pm is the scariest time of the day. It feels like every person in the neighborhood is satisfying their sweet tooth. Even worse is when meal times get thrown out the door becaue people are ordering smoothies after dinner.

7. Some people are so lovely.

This is the best part of any job: those wonderful, sweet people, who just give you a nice compliment or ask you how you're doing or just give a genuine smile. The little things go a long way.