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Meet Jessi Favors, a barista at Hot Chick-a-Latte in Spanaway.

Chick-a-boom-boom by Favors, photo by Karie Hamilton
She wrote an op-ed earlier this week responding to the pitchfork-toting soccer moms who just don't get that she's not serving coffee in her knickers because she wants your husband. She's doing it because she wants your husband's money.
At any rate, we salute Jessi and others who brave the cold and risk the chance of a steam wand malfunction to deliver superior service (and not, we stress, in the Thomas Chelone-the-excited-RV-guy sense of the word.)
In celebration, we've compiled a list of jobs that would not be possible if your uniform was an apron and a smile. Please feel free to add your own.
Racoon catcher
Trapeze acrobat
Blackberry bramble remover
Yoga instructor
Firefighter
Bullrider
