When it comes to our professional lives, we all have to start somewhere. First jobs can run the gamut — they can be fun, frustrating, or downright daunting, but, in the end, they always teach us something that we (hopefully) carry on to the next job.

For Shonda Rhimes, her working experience has been no different. In the latest Office Hours, Shonda looks back to her teen years and shares the lessons she took away from her first job at Baskin Robbins.


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