I went to the Universal Studios job interview and was hired to work in the merchandise warehouse on the lower lot at Universal Studios. All I need now was to find a place closer to work as traveling back and forth on a bus from Norwalk, California would be a long bus ride both too and from and depending on the work schedule hours that would be a night mare.
On that Sunday I found a motel room with weekly rates that was not what you could call a great place to live with all the uninvited guest cockroaches that lived in my room. It was at least in walking distance to Universal Studios in North Hollywood, California. I did not have to report until Monday or Tuesday from what I can recall from that time. I started off sitting at a table where we put price tags on merchandise and did that from 7:00 a.m. in the morning until 4:00 p.m. in the afternoon.
Everyone at Universal Studios had uniforms that we had to ware that identified which department we worked. We had a locker room in the top of the tour park where we changed from our street cloths into our uniforms. We clocked in and then went to catch what was called a stand-by van that would drive us to the lower lot Universal Studios to the merchandise warehouse. We had to clock in fifteen minutes early in order to be down at the job site in merchandise warehouse at Universal Studios. I was now working for MCA, just like I said I was going to with one exception is was not on the movie side of the business but instead working for the Universal Studios Tour Park. It was a job I had lots of experience at doing what I was doing at Universal Studios. Everyone started at the same place at the bottom and then applied for job openings from the inside that way Universal Studios did not have to advertise job positions when they become available.
I started out sitting at that table marking merchandise, which was a very boring job. I began asking questions about how things worked when it came to the paper work end of things. And before too long I was doing UPS shipments, receiving merchandise, driving a fork lift and working out in the warehouse unsupervised because of my past job experience. I was moving up. I just was not making any more money and the motel room was taking everything I had. I had to go to the local churches for food, as I could not afford to do both. Put a roof over my head and eat too. In fact I even decided I needed another job so I applied for a job at a place in Universal Studios Tour Park called Sound Tracks Recording studio where people could pick out a song, sing it themselves or lip sink and have it be recorded on video or audio tape.
Now this job was a fun job not that I did not like the other work I was doing in the warehouse on the lower lot at Universal Studios but this was in my field of education as I had an AA degree in Theater Arts/Telecommunications from Long Beach City College, Long Beach, California.
While working at Universal Studios on the back lot in the Merchandise Department and I worked in a place called Sound Tracks Recording Studios in the Universal Studios Tour Park, right next to Star Trek Screen Test Theater back in 1988. As the people would exit from Star Trek Screen Test theater they would enter "Sound Tracks Recording Studios" where they would find me waiting to announce to them what Sound Tracks Recording Studios was all about. I wrote the following: "Good Afternoon ladies and gentleman and welcome to Universal Studios Sound Tracks Recording Studio where you become the star. We have over 420 songs to choose from and once you decide which song to sing, you can do it one of two different ways. You can either limp sink the artist on the recording or sing it yourself. If you decide to sing it yourself you can practice the song and then record it and then you can do your won music video. Once again welcome to Universal Studios Sound Tracks Recording Studio where you become the star. If you have any questions please feel free to ask the technicians here and they will be more than glad to answer your questions. Welcome to Universal Studios Sound Tracks Recording Studio where you become the star."
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