The assistant MMA instructor to deli clerk transition was definitely the least fun among these job role changes, lol.

The reason it happened was that I changed from a small martial arts school (where I was one of two assistant instructors) to a big martial arts school that I began commuting too in the evenings in the city with a much better instructor (he was an instructor of instructors for the federation of this martial arts system), where I resumed the role of a student so that I could reach a higher skill ceiling than my prior instructor could get me to (I had stalled for quite some time). It worked like flying colors (this head instructor was a living meme; I should write about him sometime) and I got way better, but then... I broke my leg.

So after I healed, my summer job was as a deli clerk. I had applied to the UPS as a box handler and to Target as a cashier, but they both turned me down, and so I ended up in my backup job as a supermarket deli clerk for a summer.

The list of jobs might seem like cool or bragging but when you dig into the details of how it happened, a lot of it was random and not very flattering.