Where was your first job ?

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  • TeachTheGirl
    TeachTheGirl 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.
  • mem50
    mem50 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:
  • EvilDollee
    EvilDollee 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.
  • WinnerVictorious
    WinnerVictorious 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.
  • Legs_McGee
    Legs_McGee 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.
  • LibertyBelle89
    LibertyBelle89 Posts: 275
    waitress at a family steakhouse when I was 15 :)
  • Seminolegirl97
    Seminolegirl97 Posts: 306 Member
    Ski Resort. I worked as a cashier and skied on my breaks. Best first job ever!
  • sharon_moyer
    sharon_moyer Posts: 177
    Burger King and I started working 2 months before my 16th birthday. I worked as a counter person.
  • Frantastic5685
    Frantastic5685 Posts: 33
    Dunkin Donuts...and I gained 20 lbs the first 6 months I worked there... HAHAHAHAHA ugh >_<
  • maggiecosmo
    maggiecosmo Posts: 47 Member
    Tacobell......Loved the choco Tacos...
  • Amazon_Who
    Amazon_Who 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.
  • kennethmgreen
    kennethmgreen 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)
  • sPaRkLiNgLYFE
    sPaRkLiNgLYFE Posts: 609
    cashier at a bakery, i was 17
  • eatcleanNtraindirty
    eatcleanNtraindirty 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.
  • sandradev1
    sandradev1 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:
  • Lisa_Rhodes
    Lisa_Rhodes Posts: 263 Member
    Waitress at a Tea & Sandwich shop
    Waited on people, made the food, cleaned, etc. Whatever needed to be done :)
  • BeeElMarvin
    BeeElMarvin Posts: 2,086 Member
    I was a fluffer.......:wink:

    I thought I recognized you!
  • dearly4ever
    dearly4ever Posts: 61 Member
    Dishwasher on campus. Not fun
  • mstyer2790
    mstyer2790 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
  • NKF92879
    NKF92879 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.
  • KX19
    KX19 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.
  • SassJess81
    SassJess81 Posts: 75 Member
    Salon Assistant...shampooed hair, swept floors, applied colors
  • Nikki_XC
    Nikki_XC 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
  • RobinRayn
    RobinRayn 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!
  • kennie2
    kennie2 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.
  • veec0
    veec0 Posts: 33 Member
    database developer/system engineer.
  • gillz89
    gillz89 Posts: 81 Member
    LifeGuard/swim instructor


    I did exactly what I was hired to do...

    me too

    me too!
  • LuckyLeprechaun
    LuckyLeprechaun Posts: 6,296 Member
    where?Wendy's
    what?Cashier
    really?sneaked chicken nuggets and flirted with the other cashiers
  • drefaw
    drefaw 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....
  • KenosFeoh
    KenosFeoh 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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