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What was your first job?

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for me a weeks work experience in a garden centre a couple of years ago , it was mainly pricing christmas stock i had to do so didnt really do much with the plants.
 
if you don't count babysitting..it was working the counter at a dry cleaners. no wait...it was working for a dept store as a fit model.. n stuff but i liked the dry cleaners better:)
 
this is really bad I am still with my first job....
I work for Tesco and I am now a Butcher..... used to just be on the deli counter and I have been on hot deli too but now on the meat counter and studying my gold course
 
first job was doing set-up and tear-down for a local fair. I was 14 and made $25 for the weekend, which was some good money in them days.

Following that (through high school) I worked as a dishwasher in a Chinese restaurant, served juice and protein shakes to the body builders at a snack bar in a gym and cut fabric at a clothing factory.
 
Babysitting aside, my first 'real' job was in a pizzeria. I started taking orders and doing prep work/making dough/sauces etc., learned how to make pizza, became the manager then went to work in the new restaurant my boss opened. Worked for him for about 5 years total, really great guy.

The restaurant was in Lake George, NY. It never did well because it was too far out of the tiny village but my sister (she waitressed) and I had a blast. We rented a room in a haunted house (for real) and spent most of our free time drinking and eating Neba subs. Yeah, what a summer!
 
When I was ten I took on a paper route. I had mowed lawns the previous summer but as seasonal jobs go... I had to find solid employment. :) I also delivered hand bills from the local shopping centers on Thursday afternoons. When I turned twelve I went to work for my father as a carpenter. I still run a lawn business as well as a carpenter business but gave up the paper throwing business before I was a teen. The other two... I'm ready for my fifty years of service gold watch.
 
It's hard to remember that far back...it was either feeding the pterodactyls or stoking the fire for smoke signals.

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(Sorry, couldn't resist. I'm feeling PARTICULARLY ancient today.)
 
My first job was a store remodeler . was very easy had to install shelfs with a torque gun . and the fun part was testing my boss told me to sit or lay on it for a 5minute time . if it falls I get compensation if it Dont fall take my azz to do the next install. Now a mechanic and firefighter.
 
Hmmm.. My first real job.. i was "a cleaning lady" in a grocery store. That was terrible to wash meat saws etc... i was in a highschool then. Oh wait, i was just graduated. And of course a paperboy when i was younger...
 
bkdc said:
:argh: Delivered newspapers
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:ditto:12 years old on my bicycle. The state edition came out in the morning, and the national edition came out in the evening. At 13 I had a key to the local newspaper office. I was paid $0.10 per 100 for stuffing the Sunday papers. The ads came in on Thursday, the comics on Saturday. My job was to assemble them all inside the Sunday comics. Me, and all of the other folks that had Sunday paper routes, would take the Comics / ads that I stuffed and put them inside the new part that was dropped with the insides on Sunday morning.
 
Started working part time at 14 years old and I pumped gas and did tire work(Mounted and balanced new and used tires,And fixed flats).
Was at my older cousins Shell Service Station.
 
Unforgiven said:
:ditto:12 years old on my bicycle. The state edition came out in the morning, and the national edition came out in the evening. At 13 I had a key to the local newspaper office. I was paid $0.10 per 100 for stuffing the Sunday papers. The ads came in on Thursday, the comics on Saturday. My job was to assemble them all inside the Sunday comics. Me, and all of the other folks that had Sunday paper routes, would take the Comics / ads that I stuffed and put them inside the new part that was dropped with the insides on Sunday morning.
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I remember well, would be considered slave labor to-day I would deliver weekday evening and Saturady/Sunday morning. Cleared $10 a week if I was lucky..:D
 
Other then being a paperboy, mowing lawns & selling soda bottles as a kid, my first real job was as a dishwasher at McDonald-Douglas right after high school. I quit the next year and moved to Cali to become a beach bum!
 
Dish washer at a coney island in 2010 3.50 an hour 49 hours a week zero overtime pay, two hour bus ride to and from, job discription was everything they were short on plus dishwasher. Waitress late guess who is taking orders, back up cook quits on a whim...I'm back up cook today as well.

I worked hard... Had crap pay..miss the people I work with everyday. The interaction made it worth it.
 
My first paid job at 16 years of age was to grow plants at a company on Saturday. Great outdoors work until i was drafted into the military for 14 months. I was 17 years old at that time.

After that, 19 years old, i started out in the road construction business, learning how to operate a wheel loader and a excavator.

Now i'm almost 50 years old, and i'm still operating a wheel loader.
 
My first tax paying job was that of a grocery store bagger. I hated it like most 17 year old kids at the time. Now I get pissed when the kids at my local grocery store don't bag the groceries properly......
 
trophynuts said:
My first tax paying job was that of a grocery store bagger. I hated it like most 17 year old kids at the time. Now I get pissed when the kids at my local grocery store don't bag the groceries properly......
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jhtalisman said:
QFMFT!
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Especially when I put the groceries on the conveyor in the order they chould be bagged. No you dolt, don't bag the chicken with the bread.:banghead:
 
My first job was a smelly Troglodyte!

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But naah I am still working at After Care for little bastards that think they know everything! :)

I am surprised I haven't gone to jail yet for murder they are so crazy!

:-D
 
I worked at what we called a shlock shop (maybe not as nice as a Kmart?) slinging ice cream cones at the front of the store! After management saw how much ice cream I was putting on the cones they moved me to the grill in the back and set me to work making burgers and hot dogs & bowls of chili - with pre-made portions, lol.
 
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