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    Where was your first job ?

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    • Posts: 2,091 Member
      I worked in a 'Pound Shop' in England, akin to the Dollar Stores here in the US.

      I was supposed to work with one other person as I was 15 and couldn't be left to man the registers by myself; she ended up repeatedly leaving me by myself. One day I was made to open, run and close the store by myself. I got a massive bruise on my shoulder from trying to lift the window shutters to open the store. I also twisted my ankle while trying to assist a customer. I had to call my dad to pick me up, we drove to my work colleagues house and dropped off the keys and never went back.
    • Posts: 1,384 Member
      First job was at Sackners. I ran nylon cord machines that made nylon rope. I was 18 then. I was hired to run the paper cord machines. I did run them for a little bit but the other gal got fired and I got her job. Nylon cord was way less messy then paper. No glue pots to fill and get all gummed up. That was soooo GROSS. :bigsmile:
    • Posts: 386 Member
      I worked for my parents as a manicurist at 17. What I actually did.. showed up late, took naps, went fishing, then went home early and got paid $500 a week.
    • Posts: 4,733 Member
      the summer after my sophomore year of college, i lived at the beach and delivered pizzas for 2 months to pay the rent and buy beer.
    • Posts: 845 Member
      I worked at a tanning salon. Mostly I watched TV, let my friends tan for free, and perfected my lock picking skills.
    • Posts: 275
      waitress at a family steakhouse when I was 15 :)
    • Posts: 306 Member
      Ski Resort. I worked as a cashier and skied on my breaks. Best first job ever!
    • Posts: 177
      Burger King and I started working 2 months before my 16th birthday. I worked as a counter person.
    • Posts: 33
      Dunkin Donuts...and I gained 20 lbs the first 6 months I worked there... HAHAHAHAHA ugh >_<
    • Posts: 47 Member
      Tacobell......Loved the choco Tacos...
    • Posts: 1,092 Member
      What were you hired to do ?
      Sales person at Betty's Western Store when I was 16.. Selling and stocking tack, clothing, boots, etc.

      What did you REALLY do ?
      The above plus loading feed (50# bags) for some customers, flirting with cowboys and (this is important) learning to drink too much coffee.
    • Posts: 1,759 Member
      Where was your first job ? neighborhood McDonald's
      What were you hired to do ? clean tables, take out trash (eventually worked drive-through window)
      What did you REALLY do ? smoked pot by the dumpsters, ate boxes McDonald's cookies.

      (unrelated: the spaces before the questions marks bother me. Not sure why. Just wanted you to know)
    • Posts: 609
      cashier at a bakery, i was 17
    • Posts: 444 Member
      Abercrombie and Fitch! Ha what a joke. I put in my two weeks after two weeks of working there! I was the only one who actually did anything like fold and put clothes away. Everyone else was just a slap**** and stood around. I like being busy because it makes the time pass much more quickly! Not standing around trying to flirt with customers... I mean not that I do not enjoy doing that, but I like feeling useful and that I have a purpose.
    • Posts: 786 Member
      I was employed to work Saturdays on the loose sweet counter at a big department store......................I ate more than I sold :laugh:
    • Posts: 263 Member
      Waitress at a Tea & Sandwich shop
      Waited on people, made the food, cleaned, etc. Whatever needed to be done :)
    • Posts: 2,086 Member
      I was a fluffer.......:wink:

      I thought I recognized you!
    • Posts: 61 Member
      Dishwasher on campus. Not fun
    • Posts: 38 Member
      I was the only American born girl in a pizza shop full of Bosnian guys lmao

      They all acted like my big brothers and I alternated between making pizza, studying, and drinking too much
    • Posts: 601 Member
      K-Mart... and the store manager was quite sexist so girls never had to go outside to get carts, and rarely had to straighten "toys" (notoriously messy). I pretty much ran a register.
    • Posts: 27 Member
      A student summer position working in housekeeping and on the line at a soft-gel pharmaceutical manufacturer (6PM-6AM) At least I had access to an unlimited supply of NyQuil/DayQuil.
    • Posts: 75 Member
      Salon Assistant...shampooed hair, swept floors, applied colors
    • Posts: 69
      In-N-Out Burger on Venice Blvd in w.LA. I was hired to hand out orders (Level 1).
      What I really did? Hand out orders, to the wrong window/walk-up causing grief to our already stressed out cooks to remake a burger (or 3). LOL

      I lasted 2 years, so I wasn't doing terribly. I got a free meal during my shift, so I ate a ton of dub-animals and animal-style fries, which is why I weighed so much in high school. LOL.
      Oh and shakes all day! Root beer floats with chocolate ice cream shake? Yes please.

      /bigfail
    • Posts: 53 Member
      I worked my way up the McDonalds Ladder to Manager and than became a live in nanny. Much less stress, but also less active!
    • Posts: 1,170 Member
      ive not even had a job yet :sad: no one will hire me haha
      well if you dont count a bit of free lance graphic design.
    • Posts: 33 Member
      database developer/system engineer.
    • Posts: 81 Member
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    • Posts: 6,296 Member
      where?Wendy's
      what?Cashier
      really?sneaked chicken nuggets and flirted with the other cashiers
    • Posts: 739
      An electrical control company, I started actually working when I was around 14-15 yrs old.

      I took electrical schematics and converted them into color coded wiring diagrams. And built electrical control cabinets/panels. I was building custom cabinet/panel combos from the steel sheet to completion and running every piece of equipment in the shop by 16 yrs old.

      I think that is illegal now-a-days ....LOL....
    • Posts: 1,837 Member
      Mobile, Alabama.
      Service station attendant (remember them?).
      I pumped gas, checked oil, added oil, washed windshields, fended off the boss from groping my breasts.
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