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This summer my job has been working for a student run and owned painting crew. It is an all girls crew so it has been really fun to just work as this fun little team and we have gotten to be pretty good friends in the past three months. Most of our business has been fixing up the nicer houses around town. Despite the fact that student houses off campus usually don't look the best, they probably don't want to spend the money for the house to just get dirty again in the fall. The higher end home-owners come to us because they know that we are a locally owned business of all female students who are trying to understand how to run a business while supporting themselves. They pretty much pay us better than any other job in town during the summer to get burnt in the sun and get all dirty on the sides of their houses.

One thing that I have really been intrigued by has been the various forms of home security systems that these people have around their homes. Now when I say that these are the well-off homes I really mean it. I mean for some of these houses I have actually thought that there might be attack dogs hidden away somewhere in the trees and like snipers on the roof. I was wrong of course but I definitely saw some pretty high tech stuff in these places. Most of them had some kind of security cameras outside. The nicest of all of these homes actually has security cameras systems in each section of the house which all connected to a room where they had a room full of televisions. We have been lucky enough to have not set off a single one in the entirety of the summer so far but I have a feeling that we have it in us.

As of now the summer is sort of winding down and we can feel it on our little crew. We are all sort of trying our best to enjoy every day now because we have just around three weeks until the school year starts and I will have to stop working then. It has been really fun so far and I really hope to do it again next summer.