What was your very first job?

Military at 17. U.S. Army.

age 9, pulling dandelions for the neighbor to earn $1.00 a week, paid for two trips a week to the community pool.

Other than babysitting, my first real job was as a typist/catalog-stuffer in Southern California while I was in junior college. We typed address labels, stuffed catalogs in envelopes, glued on the addess labels, sorted them by zip/province code, stuffed them into mail bags, and took them to the post office. The company made the pole vaulting/high jump pits used at the Montreal Olympics and bean bag chairs (which I got cheap), so it was kind of cool.

age 15-17 worked in a paper factory making round corners on notebooks. This job made me want to go to college

My first paid job was picking blueberries for 7cents/lb when I was nine. I started babysitting at 12 and got my first "real" job in a delicatessen at 16.

I was a cashier at Wendy's. I didn't get enough hours, everybody hated me and it totally sucked. I quit in less than a year.

Bagger at a grocery store.

Security at Target applied for cashier but got offered the asset protection job instead. Best job ever! :-)

Cashier at Wendys Fast Food Restaurant

McDonalds , I was 17

I tried fixing it too, sorry

looks like tinypic is the only way i can do it . but I finally got it . THANKS ,for trying to help.

Love it!
I was looking for vintage 80s pics but could only find your color.
I wore blue with the golf visor- lol! :bigsmile:

This was 1983 . It was my birthday, I weighed 132 and I thought I was fat ...Ha! I wasn't even supposed to be at work but the shake machine kept freezing up and for some darn reason I was the only one who knew how to fix it.

At 13 I was a teacher assistant at a local day care. I got the kiddos up from nap time, helped with toileting and engaged students in afternoon play. I worked there until I graduated high school.

I was janitor at a pre school

Quizno's. It was close enough to walk to and directly next door to the movie theater I desperately wanted to work at.
I was the only female employee in a staff of 8 college guys and one HS guy. To say it was awkward is an understatement.
They basically ignored me completely and never taught me how to do anything but take the hot sandwiches out of the oven, which burned the hell out of my fingertips.
Also the manager was a punk looking kid who frequently joked about being a heroin dealer- "First hit's free!"

So when they randomly didn't put me on the schedule one pay period and said I needed to come in and talk to the manager about why, I just applied to the aforementioned movie theater, interviewed, and got hired. The next time they saw me was in uniform picking up a discount sandwich during break like a week later, for like 50 cents more per hour, too.

middle school - News paper boy, High school - Pizza shop

There's a local call center that will hire anyone and fire anyone, I quit after two weeks for a really stupid reason.

The first job I REMEMBER was at a bakery, and my boss there was an amazing person who taught me a lot of stuff I will never forget.

Also, that was when I first lived on my own and I was allowed to take the 3 day old bread they were going to donate to charity home and mostly lived on that and broth because I was so broke. I can't eat regular presliced bread from a package after that- it has to be really good, thick, hard crust bread or onion bread or seed bread or something. Regular bread, even the whole wheat, is like I'm eating air.