Or you approached all the dining establishments in your community for a job as a busboy or waitress.

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Krouham, a Mexico City native with a degree in business administration, joined Grupo Anderson's as a busboy in 1986.

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The Oklahoma native, 41, mixed his experiences as a busboy and a VC to create the job site Shiftgig.

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Before November 2001, Lawrence had never invested in foreign currency other than trading U.S. dollars against the Mexican peso back when he was a busboy and waiter.

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He paid for Johns Hopkins U. working as a busboy at the Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, teaching Hebrew School part-time and checking IDs outside a gym.

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If she was a waitress, I'd be her busboy.

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