What was your very first job?

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  • hedgiie
    hedgiie Posts: 1,226 Member
    store crew
  • mahanaibu
    mahanaibu Posts: 505 Member
    Babysitter at age 10 and even though I was mature for my age, I thought even back then....what kind of parents would leave their toddlers with a 10-year-old they barely knew? Throughout high school, cool job translating French cartoons to English, with my EXTREMELY limited high school French, for 10 cents per caption. Belle mere? I would wonder. Why are there so many jokes about beautiful mothers (took a year so to find out it means mother-in-law). They were turn these things out by the hundreds every week, so I was encouraged to just make something up if I didn't know the French. My early start as a comedian.
  • BrittanyMegan88
    BrittanyMegan88 Posts: 670 Member
    I used to work at a music store.
  • JenAndSome
    JenAndSome Posts: 1,893 Member
    I was worked like a slave carrying trees and digging ditches before I was old enough to get a paying job at 15. At that time I started working at Burger King. I used to take a piece of bacon, wrap it around a chicken tender and dip it in mayo. I don't care. It was delicious.
  • ChadThorson
    ChadThorson Posts: 11
    Paperboy for the Chicago Tribune.
  • embersdream
    embersdream Posts: 401 Member
    retail - bookstore
  • aquarabbit
    aquarabbit Posts: 1,622 Member
    My grandparents farm when I was 12. I started by mowing the lawn and looking after the orchard, then moved onto actual farm work at some other family farms with animals.
  • strawberry_chu
    strawberry_chu Posts: 5
    I was an accounting intern at a large company.
  • MyJourney1960
    MyJourney1960 Posts: 1,133 Member
    other than the usual baby sitting and waitressing at small events, my first job was mail delivery when i was about 16 or 17 (a summer job). i actually loved that job (for a summer) because we could pretty much make our own hours, I would go in early, do my rounds, go back, start sorting tomorrow's mail, and still have time to go to the beach with friends.
  • nadiB
    nadiB Posts: 283 Member
    7 years old, I was a child model and got paid real well for photo shoots, it was great fun to we got to go to all sorts of places and just basically played dress up...... I did this for about 3 years and then got bored of all the girly stuff.... Hair, makeup and dresses :-) it took another 15 years for me to start wearing makeup again and to this day I refuse eyeliner lol
  • Nutella91
    Nutella91 Posts: 624 Member
    working at a gas station, i was 14 :)
  • waipepe
    waipepe Posts: 110 Member
    didn't have a real job till about 25 - customer service part time however prior to that I was a full time athlete and that's where all my time went.

    don't get me wrong, being an athlete is a full time and a real job however it does not pay much unless you earn huge endorsement fees and participate in sports that provide the potential for earning a good income.

    I chose the freedom/lifestyle over having a desk job until I got burnt out and injured too much)
  • latenitelucy
    latenitelucy Posts: 1,314 Member
    I worked in a ticket booth at a state park recreation area. My very first day this woman comes pulling up screaming and crying. She was yelling, "Please call the police or the rangers. I think my husband has been murdered."
    Freaked me out. Loooooooong story short, the guy had a terminal disease. He had taken his favorite dogs out on the lake early that morning. Came back to the boat ramp, put a shotgun between his knees, and ended his own life.
    Everytime I start a new job I always think, well my first day can't be as bad as that one!
  • Prettymisssparkles
    Prettymisssparkles Posts: 1,274 Member
    Small pet shop when I was 16. I prolly would have worked there for free honestly. I loved working with the animals. Got to hand raise all the birds. Pretty much managed the store. Feed and cleaned all the animals, keep the store clean and well stocked and handled all the sales. Was a lot of dirty work for a first job but I loved it. Fun times!
  • Prettymisssparkles
    Prettymisssparkles Posts: 1,274 Member
    I worked in a ticket booth at a state park recreation area. My very first day this woman comes pulling up screaming and crying. She was yelling, "Please call the police or the rangers. I think my husband has been murdered."
    Freaked me out. Loooooooong story short, the guy had a terminal disease. He had taken his favorite dogs out on the lake early that morning. Came back to the boat ramp, put a shotgun between his knees, and ended his own life.
    Everytime I start a new job I always think, well my first day can't be as bad as that one!

    Yikes!
  • NaughtyNancy69
    NaughtyNancy69 Posts: 32
    Lifeguard, dancer :)
  • onwarddownward
    onwarddownward Posts: 1,683 Member
    Secretary to a judge, who happened to be my mom.
  • RipperSB
    RipperSB Posts: 315 Member
    Aside from the paper route in my early teens, I got a job as a part-time short order cook, around mid-teens. Worked at an arena in winter and ball diamond during summer. Burgers, hot dogs, fries and rings were the only things I had to cook and also sold chips, pop, candy and other essential canteen goodies. .
  • krystina_letitia9
    krystina_letitia9 Posts: 697 Member
    At 15, I started as kitchen help in an Italian restaurant. When I turned 16, I began hostessing at the same restaurant. Left there to work in fast food less than a year later.
  • Mustang_Susie
    Mustang_Susie Posts: 7,045 Member
    I worked in a ticket booth at a state park recreation area. My very first day this woman comes pulling up screaming and crying. She was yelling, "Please call the police or the rangers. I think my husband has been murdered."
    Freaked me out. Loooooooong story short, the guy had a terminal disease. He had taken his favorite dogs out on the lake early that morning. Came back to the boat ramp, put a shotgun between his knees, and ended his own life.
    Everytime I start a new job I always think, well my first day can't be as bad as that one!

    Oh, how sad.
  • PepperWorm
    PepperWorm Posts: 1,206
    Dairy Queen at 16.
  • JTutz
    JTutz Posts: 69 Member
    First unofficial job was babysitter age 11. First official one was lifeguard age 16.
  • kuntry_navy
    kuntry_navy Posts: 677 Member
    steering the tractor or combine on my dads lap. first paycheck was when i sold my first pig, maybe 9
  • Bocomomom
    Bocomomom Posts: 5 Member
    My junior year of high school I was a cashier at Dairy Queen.
  • PepperWorm
    PepperWorm Posts: 1,206
    My junior year of high school I was a cashier at Dairy Queen.

    DQ friends! :D
  • NoWeighJose74
    NoWeighJose74 Posts: 581 Member
    I flipped burgers at Jack in the Box for about 3 months after high school.

    Then I enlisted and did 6 years in the Navy in the Nuclear Propulsion Program.

    Got out in 2000, and have since been a stationary equipment operator for Abbott Nutrition.
  • eric_sg61
    eric_sg61 Posts: 2,925 Member
    At 14, working on the railroad with my uncles construction company.
  • w2bab
    w2bab Posts: 353 Member
    Working on my dad's commercial fishing boat off the Oregon coast, when I was 15 and 16. I got paid 3% of the profits.
  • MelsAuntie
    MelsAuntie Posts: 2,833 Member
    Removing and later reattaching interior door panels at an automobile rustproofing shop.
  • jlclabo
    jlclabo Posts: 588 Member
    track attendant at a go-cart/speed boat track when i was 15..... was a great first job... got to meet loads of cute girls and got invited to tons of parties with them...

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