I’m in the market for a new bag of some kind, and I realized after sorting through hundreds on Etsy (wrong color, wrong style, or wrong size) I realized that I have retained one and only one lesson from my first job: buy a bag the size of your butt. Yes, that’s the lesson I’ve retained from the Cobbie Shop, home of shoes for women with problem feet in search of comfortable shoes (and ugly handbags for all). Your handbag must match your butt size. And, if you don’t know the rule, you will gravitate toward a butt-size handbag anyway.

 Readers, do you have any lessons learned from former jobs that you apply today?