What was your first real job?

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Worked at the local grocery store. They only paid minimum wage whatever that was at the time back in '78, I was 14. I bugged the crap out of them, went every week to see if they needed any help, finally on a Saturday morning they called and told me to be there in an hour.
Are you that persistent and passionate about everything you do? :wink:


I've never had a real job. Though it's largely due to illness and a little to do with opportunity, I'm still ashamed and embarassed by that fact. :redface:
There's no shame to that as I am currently unable to work due to illness as well. :redface: It is however damned annoying.:mad:


My first job was during the summer after I turned 16. For $1 per hour I worked in a department store chain's main office extending invoices, microfilming bills and handling the mail for all 28 stores.
That sounds like a lot of work with sensitive information for one so young. Let me guess the head of human resources was a woman and you charmed the silk stockings right off her. :wink::cool:


Does Sperm Donor count? That's more of a volunteer opportunity wouldn't you say?
First real job, after working through college etc, was with an international bank. :redface: The shame.
An international sperm bank? Do you mean to tell me somewhere in America there are a dozen or more lesbians who are your babys mamas? :tongue::biggrin1:
 

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My first job was at a small hardware store, as the clerk and stock guy. I got the job from a friend that previously had it.
 

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It took a bit of time for my vocational flower to bloom. I was 18, and at law school.

I'd had casual labouring jobs, but my first regular part-time job--you know, with responsibility, people-skills and typing--was to answer the phone for an undertaker.

Undertaking, as you know, is usually a live-in job. When the undertaker wanted to take his kids to little-league, he'd call me in to mind the office. Though still a family concern, it had several branches and quite a few employees---a really great bunch of people. Undertakers really know how to party. I miss those guys. And having teh run of a quiet, luxury office for hours on end allowed me to do lots of reading and writing.

Before you ask, the answer is NO. I didn't get involved in the nuts-and-bolts side of the business. Though I introduced my brother, a medical student, for a summer job. Most med students have seen more dead bodies than live ones, anyway.

And no, I never actually had to comfort hysterical relatives on the phone--most ask cooler heads to make the call. More often than not, the call ran something like, "Um, my great-uncle just died, and my great aunt's very upset..."

As you would expect, company policy dictated that my first question should be..."Has the doctor been?"

I did the job for several years, and experienced only one close relative who made The Phone Call. It was a woman whose husband had died . She wasn't in hysterical tears, or even sad. She was a grumpy old bitch.

Cops who visited the office always cracked the same joke, oddly. "How's business?" they would ask, rhetorically, and answer. " I guess it's pretty DEAD, eh?" And then they'd laugh hysterically. Company policy was to reply, "No, business is looking up." It generally took them a minute or two to get it.
 

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Stacking shelves in the local grocery store then got promoted to serving on the fruit and veg counter. Officially I was 14 (though did start a few months before my birthday.... was a tad persistant) Got paid 65 pence an hour.

Worked Thursday evenings, Saturdays and all school holidays....
 

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Worked at the local grocery store. They only paid minimum wage whatever that was at the time back in '78, I was 14. I bugged the crap out of them, went every week to see if they needed any help, finally on a Saturday morning they called and told me to be there in an hour.


Oh good lord that is too spooky!!!:eek: :eek: :eek: same story as me (except I got 65 pence... no idea on £/$ back then...). It was even the same year!!! :rolleyes:

Yikes!! :biggrin1:
 

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I had a paper-round when I was about 12.
When I was 16 I started working in Sainsbury's. Never looked back.
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I worked on our family farm from a very young age. I was paid an hourly rate and had to pay taxes and all that fun stuff, even at 14-15 years old. I worked on the farm through most of my college years too.

My first paycheck from anyone other than my father was in my early 20's when I realized farming wasn't for me and went to work at a pharmaceutical manufacturing company (yes, it was legal drugs!) in my hometown.
 

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I'm not sure if modeling counts as a "real" job since it was random, so I will say my first real job was in retail...I started as temporary hire for the holidays but took it upon myself to learn to use the registers so I could assist in sales since the lines got so long...they liked my initiative so made me a permanent employee, and after 6 months offered me the position of assistant manager.
 

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My first job was at Tim Hortons (a canadian donut chain). I went on my break, I got an ice cappuchino, a double chocolate donut and then I got in my car and never went back
 

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My first real job was working for fathers construction compnay. I did not even know I was hired. Told the night before and awakened at 5AM. After many summers and weekends of this I decided to get a summer job before I had to work one more summer in the Florida heat. I worked for a drug store (16) and they put me in the pharmacy for a few days and at the front counter the rest. I meet a lot of nice women that way. I also got to see what was in thier records also.
 

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My first real job was working for a mechanical contractor. That was back in the summer of 1977. I turned 16 that summer...