What was your first ever job?

[RagingBITCH]

Just curious as to what everyone's first ever job was.

Mine where I paid no taxes: a neighbor's kid and myself ran a landscaping service where we mowed/edged your yard among other services.

Mine where I paid taxes: worked for a company called Brinkman Technologies as a combination Visual Basic and Web Site Developer. (Got the internship so to speak through my high school business programming teacher who was impressed with the ease in which we blew through her class without trying.) Fired a month later because we basically did nothing. (Originally brought in to do Visual Basic, they put us on redeveloping their website, and after a while we just pretty much did nothing)

Now I don't do any programming at all b/c I realized in college that I hated it.

 

[dquan97]

Being a lab assistant for a prof...washed lab equipment and took care of 50 hamsters <shudder>

 

[NuclearNed]

I got a paper route in 8th grade. Back then I was the richest kid anyone knew.

 

[tranceport]

Where I payed Taxes? Circuit City Sales Associate.

 

[gistech1978]

i mowed the grass and painted at my grandfather's land and rental properties in middle school and through most of high school.
my first taxable 'real' job was at taco bell.

 

[maziwanka]

i think it was working for an ice cream store.

 

[pyonir]

Bagging groceries at a local family owned grocery store.

 

[Horus]

McDonalds "chef" when I turned 16.

 

[Shockwave]

Machinist.
Ran something like this and a centerless like this as well as a surface grinder and learned a Blanchard. Also did milling and drilling, ran some homemade machines designed for specific purposes too. A few other odds and ends as well.

 

[K1052]

Movie theatre.

 

[Ogg]

Worked at a small company that made mattresses and also made vinyl like body aprons for workers on the killfloor of the local slaughterhouse
Good times:Q

 

[Viper GTS]

Blueberry picking in the summer (12-13)
Computer lab tech @ my college (14)
Grocery courtesy clerk (15)
A/V lab + web development @ my college (15-16)
Overnight stock @ Target (16-17)
Call center (Qwest DSL &amp; HP Corp Laser support) @ Stream Intl (17-22)
Call center (T-Mobile support) (21)
Network Administrator @ ESS (current)

There, my entire employment history.

Viper GTS

 

[Mr N8]

I built rabit cages to order for a guy who sold them to pet stores. I made ~$3-$5 per cage, and usually could make 4 an hour. I only got about 5 hours a week, so at the same time I did yardwork for 4 homes.

 

[Shockwave]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS
Blueberry picking in the summer (12-13)
Computer lab tech @ my college (14)
Grocery courtesy clerk (15)
A/V lab + web development @ my college (15-16)
Overnight stock @ Target (16-17)
Call center (Qwest DSL &amp; HP Corp Laser support) @ Stream Intl (17-22)
Call center (T-Mobile support) (21)
Network Administrator @ ESS (current)

There, my entire employment history.

Viper GTS

Didnt you leave out the night jobs on the corner?

 

[Atomicus]

SSHSAT/SAT prep school TA. Did that last summer.... min wage but spent lots of time around cool co-workers

 

[bmacd]

delivered newspapers for the Observer and Eccentric (local newspaper).

-=bmacd=-

 

[memo]

office max

 

[Descartes]

I worked for Price Mart when I was 15 (I don't know if that's a national grocery store or not), but I was fired after a week. When I turned 16 I got a job with a local computer company that did custom server builds, network installations, etc.

 

[jlee]

Delivered newspapers when I was what..10-12yo..

First 'real' job..Publix.

 

[sillymofo]

Marines. (first official job anyway)

Before that, I ran a video store for my mom, then stupid Blockbuster came...

 

[DeeKnow]

no taxes.... helped an 8th grade girl get through exams (I was at engineering school then)
I remember she looked so-so, was dumb as a pig, but her mom gave me a nice bonus when she actually passed!

 

[phlashphire]

Worked in my uncle's sweatshop when I was a freshman in highschool. I had some good memories about that place til I later found out about the exploited immigrants... I was making minimum wage, and they were definitely making less than $4.25/hr.

 

[RagingBITCH]

Originally posted by: DeeKnow
no taxes.... helped an 8th grade girl get through exams (I was at engineering school then)
I remember she looked so-so, was dumb as a pig, but her mom gave me a nice bonus when she actually passed!

I hope the mom was a milf if she gave u a nice "bonus"

 

[Shockwave]

Originally posted by: phlashphire
Worked in my uncle's sweatshop when I was a freshman in highschool. I had some good memories about that place til I later found out about the exploited immigrants... I was making minimum wage, and they were definitely making less than $4.25/hr.

Thats not exploiting them. But, that goes beyond the scope of this thread.

 

[Encryptic]

After-school job at my high school doing some computer maintenance for various teachers.