1st Job

[drum]

Did roofing with my uncles company at 14

 

[Harriet Tubgirl]

cashier at nordstroms in the BP section (young women's)

 

[Mojoed]

First unpaid job - junior counselor at a summer recreational camp for kids.
First paid job - Burger King in ~1987

 

[DAGTA]

Paper-route at 13

 

[MagicConch]

law office, I really enjoyed it.

 

[thirdlegstump]

Started with blow

 

[Siddhartha]

First job out of high school was being a stock boy at Dart Drugs in Virgina. It was such a bad dead end job, it convinced me to go to college. And I hated going to school.

 

[ubergeekmeister]

I worked at a Car Wrecker. Mostly doing all the work no one wanted to do or was too dangerous.

In return I got to go nuts and smash up any of the old cars or drive the ones that actually still worked and smash them into other cars. It was fun.

 

[montanafan]

Kroger's cashier and then night manager when I was in college.

Bad - arguing with drunks who wanted to buy beer after hours.

Good - partying with the stock boys on the night shift.

Pay averaged 40 something a week. It was the '70s.

 

[necine]

Cabana boy

 

[AbAbber2k]

Factory grunt/lackey.

 

[opticalmace]

youth soccer referee; worked in a warehouse for my grandfather for a bit

though, what i consider to be my first "real" job was at McDonald's

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Intern at a tech company. I did IT and some freelance intranet / database coding for the company.

 

[Darien]

(undergrad) research assistant

 

[Sheepathon]

Worked valet when I was 18-20.

 

[zoiks]

Dishwasher at the old WoolWorths restaurant. Didnt last 2 months.

 

[Pocahontas]

Hmm, pretty sure is was working with the City Of Grand Rapids Parks and Recreation Department as a soccer coach, big money at 14 it was 7.00/Hr then 9.00 to referee.

 

[IronWing]

Mowing lawns, building concrete block walls. So I went to college for nine years to get a BS, MS, and most of a PhD. This week I worked building rock walls. Go figure.

 

[Feldenak]

Working in my dad's video store.

 

[mindmaniac]

14 - started an eBay business with a friend. For the first two years when the coals were hot we were making $1200 a month each for very little work.
16 - my first real job was at a car wash; I only worked there for two days.

 

[beyonddc]

I was spoiled when I was young, so I didn't start my first job until the end of freshmen year in college.
18 - Desktop Publisher @ Marine Technology company.