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Where was your first job ?

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  • Sheila_KI
    Sheila_KI Posts: 206 Member
    At 15 - File Clerk for Credit Bureau (long before things were automated)
  • goldenboy2532
    goldenboy2532 Posts: 856
    At 15, order taker at Chick-fil-a
  • smantha32
    smantha32 Posts: 6,990 Member
    I was hired part time by a friend of my mom's when I was 16 to solder circuits onto motherboards. He had some kind of small electronics business. He paid me pretty well. Best job I had till I was substantially older.
  • smantha32
    smantha32 Posts: 6,990 Member
    Wendy's, I did every position.

    I think I knew Wendy too.

    I wonder if it's the same Wendy I had too.


    Me also. lol
    I didn't get sucked into that until I was 19 though.

    28 years later and I still can't eat at Wendys anymore.
  • GnomeLover1984
    GnomeLover1984 Posts: 80
    15 years old. Burger King - Cashier/Drive-Thru/Cleaning

    What I really did? Smoked weed on the roof or in the basement.
  • DankaCibulka
    DankaCibulka Posts: 91 Member
    in the bank when I was 18:)
  • MizTerry
    MizTerry Posts: 3,763 Member
    My first job was as a salesman for Sears.
    I really sold stuff. Really. And flirted with the hot guys.
  • aproc
    aproc Posts: 1,033 Member
    My first job was concierge at the Marriott. I went and interviewed to be a server in the restaurant but he thought I'd be better suited for concierge. I basically just had to help oversee the concierge lounge and talk to the guests.
  • links_slayer
    links_slayer Posts: 1,151 Member
    Bag Boy / Stock Boy at a local grocery store when I was 13.
  • never124get
    never124get Posts: 163
    I was straight out of high school and I was hired on at Toys R Us originally as a cashier then I was moved to customer services and then I was promoted to assistant manager because one of the assistant managers was stealing money and toys. I had only been working there for 6 months once I was promoted but it was a nice surprise.
  • Ebcanada
    Ebcanada Posts: 133 Member
    cashier at a local hardware store. To date myself...my pay was $3.82 per hour.
  • HardDon
    HardDon Posts: 204
    i used to wrap cheese slices individually
  • BabyCerise
    BabyCerise Posts: 70 Member
    I was a french assistant in 2 colleges in England for 8 months. I learned english there and I also discovered carrot cheesecake - HUGE lol.
  • JUDDDing
    JUDDDing Posts: 1,367 Member
    Baling hay in the summer and cutting, limbing and splitting wood in the fall - I got a cut of the profit for each season if we had profit. Not usually too much, maybe $100, but there was a cold winter and a hay shortage one year and I made like $1000 that year. :)

    Then when I was 13 I started cleaning elementary schools after school for $3.35/hour.
  • jimshine
    jimshine Posts: 199 Member
    When I was 14 i got a under the table job at a veterinary hospital cleaning at night. The worst part of the job was I had to run the furnace.
  • Aitm20
    Aitm20 Posts: 92 Member
    14 yrs old...filing and mail at an Insurance Agency
  • meeper123
    meeper123 Posts: 3,347 Member
    I worked at a farm I was suppose to take care of all the plants and I did but mostly I oogled the boys lol
  • SerenaFisher
    SerenaFisher Posts: 2,170 Member
    15 years old, I had working papers and got a job doing Laundry at "Browns Welcome Inn Hotel". I had to be supervised with everything I did, so I always worked with a woman that had dark hair, and a lot of tattoos. She was always telling me horror stories about her boyfriend, and she seemed really old to me. I basically sat on the washer or dryer and talked to her. I remember she seemed so old, ironically she was 30 which is the age I am going to be soon enough myself haha.

    It wasn't a great job, and I think my paycheck was like 60 dollars a week. My mom probably spent that driving me there, but I was just so excited to have a job!
  • conniemaxwell5
    conniemaxwell5 Posts: 943 Member
    Detassling corn. Lol. And that's just what I did. Detassled that corn.

    And got a tan, I'll bet!
  • 2credneck208
    2credneck208 Posts: 501 Member
    Dairy Queen, the supervisor was like 17 and we had food fights and locked each other in the freezer. Good times....lol!
  • JonnyR214
    JonnyR214 Posts: 228 Member
    I was a bus boy at a restaurant in windham while I was living in the catskills with my ex

    Well I tried my best to do my job correctly, the other waiters werent very polite though :/
  • babecon
    babecon Posts: 136 Member
    When I was 14 i got a under the table job at a veterinary hospital cleaning at night. The worst part of the job was I had to run the furnace.

    At 14?! That is so grim
  • mariapuhl
    mariapuhl Posts: 529 Member
    I was the only competent cashier at Wal-Mart when I was 17.

    You know, that one who has 20 people in their line but still manages to get through them faster than the doesn't-care-to-be-there-at-all-45-year-old-lady-and-smells-funny-who-only-has-two-people-in-her-line?

    Yeah, I was the fast one.
  • skylark94
    skylark94 Posts: 2,036 Member
    McDonald's. Started there part time at 15 and stayed 4 years. It was tons of fun because back then it was all kids working there. My brother was a manger. Lots of after hours parties on the roof :bigsmile:
  • rtarpley
    rtarpley Posts: 24 Member
    Taught High School agriculture/FFA at Lovington, New Mexico
  • WTF7
    WTF7 Posts: 140 Member
    Baby sat for 4 horrbile kids down the road-it was 22 years ago-and the parents would come home wasted and fighting- and Im still waiting to get paid!
  • KeepCalmNGetyaSweatOn
    KeepCalmNGetyaSweatOn Posts: 361 Member
    CINNABON was my first "real" job. Let's say I put on quite a bit of weight when I worked there, haha!
  • digitalbill
    digitalbill Posts: 1,410 Member
    When I was 13, my cousin and I started a lawn service. We had a single push lawn mower and an edger. We also had a wagon that held a bucket, soap, and towels.
    We would walk around the neighborhood during the summer to see if people wanted us to mow the lawn or wash a car.
    A lawn was between $5.00 and $20.00 per cut (depending on the size.
    A car wash was $1.00 or, if it was a van (no mini vans back then) it was $2.00.
    But, we had a hook.
    If we mowed your lawn, we would wash your car for free.
    We would easily make $200.00 each every weekend during the summer.


    When I was 14, I got a "real" job at Burger King.
  • imakimm
    imakimm Posts: 839
    A cashier at a local grocery store. It sucked!
  • bgelliott
    bgelliott Posts: 610 Member
    Hostess at Islands. Loved that job!
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