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What was your first job?

Grimmerick
Grimmerick Posts: 3,342 Member
edited October 2024 in Chit-Chat
My first job was as a bagger at Winn Dixie, it was actually a lot of fun. Minus cleaning the bathrooms..............why that was the baggers job I am not really sure.
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    dls06 Posts: 6,774 Member
    Jacks Camers Shop. 1 day.
  • RoseRDH
    RoseRDH Posts: 24
    Mrs.Fields Cookies at the local mall. When I was 16 I could eat cookies my entire shift and get away with it, today...not a chance!
  • AimingHighWeighingLow
    AimingHighWeighingLow Posts: 192 Member
    Cash in hand.....furniture removal at the age of 13! (Helping my folks) Legit job...Telesales, did it for 18months, did really well at it too, great little earner!
  • OnMyWay2STay
    OnMyWay2STay Posts: 144 Member
    Kum n' Go Clerk
  • godroxmysox
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  • for_a_mittengrl
    for_a_mittengrl Posts: 93 Member
    Working in a gift shop at an amusement park.
  • fbmandy55
    fbmandy55 Posts: 5,263 Member
    Assistant to my mother, who is a real estate agent. I should have known better but two years ago got a job with our local association of realtors... Keeping it in the fam I guess.
  • Diary_Queen
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    I worked during college at a computer lab on campus and worked in the Art History Department as an intern scanning and organizing slides
  • alicollins74
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    Gymnastics and dance teacher...I loved it
  • Katbaran
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    Hairdresser. Didn't like it, didn't keep doing it.
  • leilaphoenix
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    on an ice cream van

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  • jamk1446
    jamk1446 Posts: 5,577 Member
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  • glockster972
    glockster972 Posts: 704 Member
    Dishwasher at a local steak restaurant.
  • 2dayirun4me
    2dayirun4me Posts: 336 Member
    I was a car hop for a little dairy stand
  • m2purple
    m2purple Posts: 38
    A lifeguard at a 3 and a half foot pool. and I am not joking..... :-)
  • PhiMuHoney
    PhiMuHoney Posts: 127 Member
    I've been babysitting since I was 13, but my first job on a payroll with tax forms and all that jazz was working at the national office for the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf in DC.
  • Miss_Chievous_wechange
    Miss_Chievous_wechange Posts: 1,230 Member
    Working the floor at a department store called Sky City
  • Jennloella
    Jennloella Posts: 2,286 Member
    I didn't work until I was out of high school, first job was at a veterinary office....
  • 27strange
    27strange Posts: 837 Member
    Small local grocery store. I bagged/checked/processed orders/drove forklift little bit of everything. Great first high school job.
  • Loko_Ino
    Loko_Ino Posts: 544 Member
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  • PegasusDeb
    PegasusDeb Posts: 665 Member
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  • mrmarius
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  • lalalalyndsey
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  • cm2two
    cm2two Posts: 194
    i worked at a kennel shoveling dog *kitten*...how fun. then i moved onto dunkin' donuts taking people's *kitten*...how fun.
  • rachrach66
    rachrach66 Posts: 271 Member
    Selling candy door to door
  • angiesteele
    angiesteele Posts: 366 Member
    cashier at Super Wal-Wart.
  • 3ur3ka
    3ur3ka Posts: 230 Member
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  • mem50
    mem50 Posts: 1,384 Member
    Sackners Factory rat during the week and barmaid on the weekends.
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