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‘Wildly Out Of Your Comfort Zone’: Unlikely Colorado Airport Ramp Agent Finds Purpose

When Megan Collom's parents told her she needed to find a job over winter break, the college sophomore decided to look nearby .

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December 29, 2020

EAGLE, Colo. (CBS4) – When Megan Collom’s parents told her she needed to find a job over winter break, the college sophomore decided to look nearby at the Vail Valley Jet Center. There was an open position as a ramp concierge. Megan assumed it would be your standard concierge position.

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“I assumed that that meant that I was just inside at a desk saying hello to people and… I was quite wrong,” she said.

She showed up to her interview dressed in business attire and a man, soaking wet from rain, informed her the job was a ramp agent gig, and she’d be mostly running around outside.

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