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What was your first job?

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  • alyssa92982
    alyssa92982 Posts: 1,093 Member
    Mine was catering-started when I almost 16-still 15 yrs old. It was fun! Help decorate for weddings and events and prep food-one of the best parts was getting to eat the food!!!
  • jlzrdking
    jlzrdking Posts: 501 Member
    Cook at Long John Silver's

    I can still deep fry anything
  • california_peach
    california_peach Posts: 1,809 Member
    Video store clerk. I was like Randal from Clerks only I recommended Clockwork Orange as a family movie. In my defense we did not have a porn section.
  • G0dsP3n
    G0dsP3n Posts: 30 Member
    I worked at Lane Bryant and did Daycare.
  • me1howard
    me1howard Posts: 45 Member
    I worked at a waffle house!
  • brittanyjeanxo
    brittanyjeanxo Posts: 1,831 Member
    Still at my first job, stock girl at JCPenney. Went on a 3-hour job hunt today though, got some definite promising stores!
  • porffor
    porffor Posts: 1,210 Member
    I worked in a launderette doing service washes! lol Dot Cotton that was me! (at 13).
  • pacmanjack
    pacmanjack Posts: 866 Member
    Scooping ice cream at a shoppe called "Brigham's" when i was 16.
  • ncgatorfan
    ncgatorfan Posts: 517
    Worked for dad as his medical assistant. Started when I was 12, Let's just say he was more than a little disappointed when I did not become a doctor.
  • Suziq2you
    Suziq2you Posts: 396 Member
    Fotomat! Does anyone remember Fotomat?
  • kelceyjean12011
    kelceyjean12011 Posts: 185 Member
    arbys! when i was sixteen. ate the food everyday...cant do that now
  • Nikki_GodzPrincess
    Nikki_GodzPrincess Posts: 138
    Nicholas Pizza....I was cashier, box folder,pizza maker LOL....and I was 13 or 14 I think. I was paid under the table :)
  • Stormy65
    Stormy65 Posts: 49 Member
    babysitting, But my very first job was a data entry operator. Now a medical transcriptionist!!!!!!
  • shevanity
    shevanity Posts: 33 Member
    At the age of 12, selling Birds Eye seeds door-to-door, delivering newspapers with my brother, and yard work. At 16, I earned my first paycheck from retail and at a library.
  • staps065
    staps065 Posts: 837 Member
    Newspaper delivery boy! Also used to put out and take in a neighbor's trash cans for a $1 a week! First true job that I earned a paycheck was a bagger / stock person at a place called Valley Fair; sort of like a Wal-Mart but smaller.
  • piezoeyjune
    piezoeyjune Posts: 186 Member
    Friendly's waitress.


    14 (looked 20), hourglass figure, and wearing those blue and white checkered dresses. Mine was quite form fitting.
    I think the manager did it to appeal to the old guys who came in and sat at the bar and war stories...

    Yup, I was a hit...

    Didnt quite get it until years later when some friends saw old pictures of me in that uniform.

    Ah, the cluelessness of teenagers...
  • pacmanjack
    pacmanjack Posts: 866 Member
    Friendly's waitress.


    14 (looked 20), hourglass figure, and wearing those blue and white checkered dresses. Mine was quite form fitting.
    I think the manager did it to appeal to the old guys who came in and sat at the bar and war stories...

    Yup, I was a hit...

    Didnt quite get it until years later when some friends saw old pictures of me in that uniform.

    Ah, the cluelessness of teenagers...

    I was Brighams!!!
  • Ocarina
    Ocarina Posts: 1,550 Member
    I was 14/15 when I worked with my mom on the weekends sampling and selling random products for Walmart through a private company. It was really fun except when I had to advertise toilet cleaning products. I came home with a lot of free sample stuff like make up, snacks, and other things.

    My first job on my own was at Arby's. I didn't last long though as I had major social anxiety. My first favorite job was delivering pizza at Pizza Hut which helped me get over said social anxiety. Sadly that job didn't last as long as I wanted as the car decided to break down.
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