What was your first job?

[Endued]

Till monkey in a large, busy and poorly run store. Soul-sapping.

 

[Bbucko]

Aside from paper routes and mowing lawns/shoveling snow for a neighbor, I got my first job as a Tea-Leaf Reader at 16: really.

There's a story behind it that I'll share briefly. When I started driving I was expected to pay for gas, which is not unreasonable at all. But my mother, who expected this, consistently undermined my efforts to find employment by not giving me phone messages for days or refusing to others because she didn't want me out "too late", so after about three months of this, I took the subway into Boston and went to a Tea Room (as they were called) downtown across from the Common downtown.

The owner didn't quite know what to make of me when I applied, so she had me do a reading for her which genuinely impressed her and I started that afternoon. I worked between three and four days after school and all day Saturday. On a good day I could make anything from $50 up (sometimes much more).

My mother was livid, but for whatever reason didn't forbid me from doing it. I worked there for two years :wink:

 

[justmeincal]

I was in the third grade when I got my first job selling newspapers in a hospital. I then graduated to a regular paper route which I had until I graduated from high school. While delivering papers, I got a job cleaning the equipment at a butcher shop. When I got to high school, I also worked at a drug store before and after school. I was never without a job until I retired.

 

[maxcok]

Sorry to be so cliche...but could you give me some mouth to mouth? :biggrin1:

Gladly, after I clear your throat of any obstructions. :wink:

Aside from paper routes and mowing lawns/shoveling snow for a neighbor, I got my first job as a Tea-Leaf Reader at 16: really.

Spooky.

 

[Bbucko]

Spooky.

I always favored Lydia Lunch's version, myself :biggrin1:

 

[MC1000]

First work I was ever paid for was mucking out horse stalls and putting up hay. Frist real job was working at Frisch's Big Boy for $2.35 hr. Hated both!

 

[camper joe]

My first job was mowing yards, I started when I was eleven and kept several of my yards until I was twenty. I just wonder how many miles I pushed those mowers???

 

[D_CountdeGrandePinja]

camp counsellor - haven't thought of that in years!

 

[B_subgirrl]

I worked at McDonalds when I was 15 (was hired at 14 but couldn't start until I turned 15 due to new laws). I was paid AUD $4.84 an hour. I didn't know what to do with all my money. I felt rich as my pocket money before that was $7 a week.

 

[Riven650]

Like many of you I cut grass and washed cars for pocket money as a kid. We lived next to a farm and they employed me to cut their lawns and re-paint the farmhouse doors and windows. The farmer's young wife was very hot and although I was only 14 I used to get so randy as she went around the house in her bathrobe. She was subject of my wanking fantasies all summer. The farmer (sensibly) got me driving tractors next and introduced me to the hard graft of manual work of loading trailers with straw bales, sacks of potatoes, etc. so I grew some muscles and got paid for it. Happy days

I hadn't done well at school and had no idea what I wanted to do with my life. The first full time job I got was working in the warehouse of a plastics factory. I had no transport and had to hitchhike a long and awkward journey to get there during the winter. Needless to say I turned up late too many times and they fired me. I wasn't unhappy about that. I got a job delivering crates of bottled drinks to pubs for a few years. Then went to college at age 22 to turn my new hobby of photography into a career.

 

[Mickactual]

My first job as a teen was frying fish at Arthur Treacher's Fish & Chips...and I still have the oil burn marks on my left arm to prove it!

 

[B_dxjnorto]

Baskin Robbins when I was fifteen. Creepy. The owner's brother was doing his daughter. Uncle and niece.

 

[D_Barbi_Dahl]

Babysitting. I made a boatload of money from 11 - 25 from babysitting/nanny-ing. But the first real job...McDonalds. I did drive-thru. I looked like a dork in the uniform.

 

[B_Tonnie]

Working in a diner after school & weekends from when i was 14 til leaving college at 18. Pay was crap but the people watching was awesome.

 

[lance6260]

ooo!! people watching is the best part of a job! my first real job was Wal-Mart i was 18 . i loved it there i got away with a lot lol until a new manager got there and hated me and falsified a document or two and i was fired!!! but he was fired 3 days later for falsifying other documents lol (what r the odds) but that was a while ago.

 

[798686]

Had a paper round...for which I earned £3.50 a week - divided between me and my bro. £1.50!!!

Then worked at a superstore when I was a teenager, and as an office junior/tea-boy at this stockbrokers in Liverpool when I was 16. Was ok till I spilt hot chocolate all over the dockets, lol. :redface:

Btw, why is it that all the lowest paid jobs are actually the most exhausting?!

 

[Gillette]

Electronics dept at K-mart.
I lasted two whole days before I flipped off a customer and left to work for a sportswear manufacturer.

 

[Tevye]

My very first job was equipment carrier for a cartographer a job I held for 5 years starting at 14 then becoming an apprentice in the field as I continued my college studies.

 

[B_stanmarsh14]

Paper round, then at 16, for 2 weeks, worked as an apprentice twist hand, making lace, then onto my main job, as a trainee sales agent in the flooring trade.

 

[Pitbull]

Golf Caddy
Age 12