What was ur first job :-?

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  • moodymarble
    moodymarble Posts: 182 Member
    First job ever was cutting grass, then went on to dish washing and busing tables at a truck stop, then worked in a little take out joint affectionately known around town as "The Chew n Choke".
  • tmhscp1978
    tmhscp1978 Posts: 1
    Opryland Themepark @ 15!!!!! Man I miss that place.
  • scotslass
    scotslass Posts: 317
    13 - In the lighting section of a Market Stall place....urgh it was awful lol
  • LaMujerMasBonitaDelMundo
    LaMujerMasBonitaDelMundo Posts: 3,634 Member
    QA Staff in a American data processing company.
  • scotslass
    scotslass Posts: 317
    Opryland Themepark @ 15!!!!! Man I miss that place.

    Im so jealous that would have been awesome!
  • dmpizza
    dmpizza Posts: 3,321 Member
    Worked at my Dad's camp. Some people think it was easy working for your father. NOT!!!!!!
  • deadbeatsummer
    deadbeatsummer Posts: 537 Member
    the first days work I did was a one single day vacation job at a women's clothes shop called Next that we have in England.
    the next proper job was at a horrible place called Card Factory.
  • HopeytheHopester
    HopeytheHopester Posts: 122 Member
    12, babysitting...:)
  • minnesota_deere
    minnesota_deere Posts: 232 Member
    McDonalds.

    I was 15, wanted to make money, so i applied to McDonalds and a million other places.
    Got the job, forged my parents consent on the form since i wasnt 18 yet.

    Great time, simultaneously miserable, tho fun.

    btw, never eat @ McDonalds, jesus, dont. Believe me. Dont. EVER.

    trapping pocket gophers, i was paid $1.00 each for the front paws, had to have both of them, because they could still dig with one. and milking cows but my dad said the pay was for my room and food.
  • pinkakira1
    pinkakira1 Posts: 235 Member
    My first job was at Hardee's which is a fast food burger place I like to call arteries because it is so fattening, I was 16 years old and it was the first job I applied for and got it so I thought getting a job was not all that hard like everyone said. I got every job the first try till I was about 24 but now everyone expects you to have all kinds of degrees!
  • shovav91
    shovav91 Posts: 2,335 Member
    I was a server at the most awful breakfast place. I had evil bosses. Worst first job ever :(
    But then... I found Baskin Robbins. It was love.
  • woman1961
    woman1961 Posts: 23
    my first job was working for my granfather mowing lawns 50 yards a week got lots of exercise then i miss him hes been dead since 1987
  • Pfauxmeh
    Pfauxmeh Posts: 259
    Dairy Queen!

    It's what made me gain so much weight in the first place.

    It was both the best and worst job ever. Wouldn't recommend it overall.
  • mrshoneybear1014
    mrshoneybear1014 Posts: 275 Member
    First job was a party hostess at AMF bowling!! Lasted 1 month :D
  • Pfauxmeh
    Pfauxmeh Posts: 259
    Heehee! So many other people worked at DQ! Small world.
  • mwcraig34
    mwcraig34 Posts: 359 Member
    My first real job was a bus boy at a place called All the Fixins! It sucked but I need school clothes. It was during the summer and I was 15 years old!
  • zincalloy
    zincalloy Posts: 43
    Fed up with school so just after my 15th birthday I left to work in a newsagents in Victoria. Only lasted about 4 months before moving on.

    It felt lovely to have some cash in my pocket.

    Never been out of work since and that was 29 years ago.
  • jenny95662
    jenny95662 Posts: 997 Member
    i babysat before a real job in retail but my job i officially got taxes taken from was
    kb toy works toy store
  • duharvalgt
    duharvalgt Posts: 319 Member
    I guess my first real job was working in Waterstones( a bookstore)
  • Sl1ghtly
    Sl1ghtly Posts: 855 Member
    Cutting tobacco. 10$ a day and all the hot water I wanted for FREE!

    Good times.
  • batalina
    batalina Posts: 209 Member
    when i was 17, about a month after i graduated high school, i got a job working for a subsidiary of Kodak called Qualex, Inc, which ran photo labs in various stores. i started off working in a lab that was in a Target store, and then i was moved to the one in the local BJ's Wholesale Club (people would be traded back and forth as coverage was needed). I was there for a year and 11 months, and i think i would have been there longer if Qualex hadn't gone under and closed or sold all their mini labs. The ones in BJ's stores were all closed, and the ones in Targets were sold to Target and then staffed by their own employees.
    we were notified we'd be out of jobs less than 2 weeks before the lab closed. i had to help de-install it, which was really depressing. i was there a month short of the two years i would have needed to be there to get a severance package :-/

    i loved working in a photolab. i did it a few more times later (including twice as a Target employee in the lab at Target). i really miss it, and wish that it were a more thriving industry. but as it is now, every lab i've ever worked in is gone.
  • xtinalovexo
    xtinalovexo Posts: 1,376 Member
    i was a hostess at a diner when i was 15.

    when i got my first real job @ 17... i was an engraver and i loved it.
  • iuew
    iuew Posts: 624 Member
    my first job was sacking groceries and running the register at a regional grocery store.
  • SkinnyShadow
    SkinnyShadow Posts: 106 Member
    Singing at functions :p
    $25. a song... not bad for a kid!
  • Guajardo73
    Guajardo73 Posts: 17 Member
    Drive in movie theater! Amazing job! Free movies but the food got me big!
  • Silverkittycat
    Silverkittycat Posts: 1,997 Member
    "selling" clothes at Wanamaker's - standing around talking to the other employees..I do love fashion though. :smile:
  • Ocarina
    Ocarina Posts: 1,550 Member
    My first job was actually with my mom. We sampled products through a third party at WalMart. On my own my first job was Arbies... that lasted approximately one month.

    I absolutely love the job I have currently. Working in a computer lab on campus. Glad to never have to work dead end jobs again. School is awesome! :bigsmile:
  • bluebird321
    bluebird321 Posts: 733 Member
    Burger King. Nothing like dead end jobs to motivate a person to go back to school.
  • Melyssaks
    Melyssaks Posts: 69 Member
    Substitute teaching. Starting with what I love :)
  • Darkskinned88
    Darkskinned88 Posts: 1,177 Member
    I was working in the electronics dept at target...i got to talk about music, movies and video games most of the day. Looking back i still cant believe i was happy making $7.75/hr
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