What was your first job ever?

[wischeez]

1st job: Full service gas pump jockey.

2nd job (17 years old): USAF F-4 Phantom mechanic

 

[buck]

Worked at the beach service renting chairs, umbrellas, boogie boards, surfboards, jetskits, etc.

From 15-20 years old.

 

[Dr. Detroit]

Dishwasher/ bus boy at a Dennys like restaraunt

 

[CrimsonChaos]

20 years ago, was a bagger at Marc's. And I got fired for wrestling in the hall with another co-worker.

 

[Toasthead]

movie theater projectionist

 

[RichUK]

Paper round when I was 13.

 

[tigris649]

I referee hockey games. $50/game

 

[shocksyde]

Pizza "the" Hut when I was 16. I worked there long enough to save up and buy a Nintendo 64.

Free personal pan for every 6 hours worked! JACKPOT!

 

[maziwanka]

first, ice cream store in princeton called "halo pub"; earned a little bit more once i learned how to make all the different coffees they had.

second, gap

third, best buy selling computers (was damn good at it). haha

edit: i just remembered that the best thing ever at BB was one day after closing, the loss prevention team got everyone together to show us how they caught someone stealing CDs in the store earlier that day. they showed us a surveillance video of the dude stuffing CDs down his pants.

the best part was that i immediately recognized the dude on the video as a kid i knew in HS (not really a friend, but was in our circle of friends). i was dying inside of laughter.

other than that, i dont particularly remember BB being a bad place to work when i was there.

 

[Deeko]

When I was 14 I worked at McDonald's, they were pretty much the only company in the area that hired < 16.

 

[gar3555]

worked for my dad and neighbors on the farm ages: 10-18. Drove tractors, swathers, combines, trucks, and various other manners of heavy machinery. Also hauled bails for neighbors. Damn those small square bails. Also fixed fence, and maintained farm equipment. Taught me to despise manual labor...

 

[Modelworks]

First job was working on a farm.
Going through the turkey houses in the mornings , picking out the dead turkeys, several every day.
Burning dead turkeys.
Picking corn, tomatoes, or whatever needed doing.
Tobacco - if you hate smokers now, just try working with the stuff , ugh, tobacco worms.

I left out the really fun parts.
Giving hogs shots.
Really fun when you miss the hog and hit your own leg.

 

[xanis]

Working with both mechanical and non mechanical attractions in a local amusement park. I was 16 and I was getting paid $5.25/hour.

 

[adairusmc]

USMC

 

[hanoverphist]

at 14 i was walking to the store and saw a new restaurant opening next to the circle k. poked my head in to see what kind, and started talking to the guys working. they hired me to help clean out the restaurant and set up stuff with them, gave me a dishwasher job after they opened. worked there for 3 years until they closed. had other jobs at the same time, but that one was way better. learned how to cook italian food and make pizzas there.

 

[JackMDS]

Cleaning in late evening the Brass matrixes of the local Newspaper Linotype printing machine.

With the money I bough parts (Vacuum Tubes) and built my own Stereo Amp. (Circa 1956).

 

[mozirry]

my first job was in 7th grade, I went out and detassled corn from 4:00 am to 3:00 pm for about three weeks.

Paid 6 an hour at the time which was an amazing amount of money for a kid.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Full service pump jockey during the fuel wars of 1974 - 75

 

[alfa147x]

Originally posted by: OdiN

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: OdiN
Free manual labor for my parents.

Free?!? They fed you and clothed you, didn't they?

No. I had to sleep naked under the trees outside.

Best response ever!

 

[bctbct]

10-14

detassled corn-sucked
put up hay-sucked harder
many paper routes-walk and bke kind, not the car kind
mowed lawns
shoveled snow

I even had a gig digging up wild spanish bayonets in florida and selling them to the neighbors.

got my first real job at a restaurant a few days after i turned 14.

 

[lyssword]

newspaper delivery (helping, not official job) around age 12

 

[Born2bwire]

From 14-17 or so I was a clerk on the Chicago Stock Exchange. Nepotism for the win! The second real job I had was at Argonne National Labs the summer before I started college.

 

[ballmode]

Pizza Hut Cashier/Drive Thru

 

[DanMart25]

My first job was at Subway, worked there for 6 months. Now i work in an Insurance company.

 

[poopaskoopa]

I think I was 15 years old, and I picked blueberries for 14 bucks a day. I had to be picked up by the farmer at 6am, and came home at around 6pm. I did it for a week, and I said fuck this I'd rather be broke and play video games at home.

There's no bathroom out there at the blueberry farm. I hid in the blueberry bush to pee and I wasn't the only one. Because of this knowledge I'm always uncomfortable eating blueberry muffins.