What was your first job & how much did you make?

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BurnItDwn

Lifer
Oct 10, 1999
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Wendy's. $4.25/hr. that's why i never get pissed at any fast food workers, even if the order is wrong. mistakes happen

I don't agree with a lot of your posts, but I 100% agree with you on this one. Working in fast food is fvcking hell.
 

Cogman

Lifer
Sep 19, 2000
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1992, pulled rye and earned $2 an hour (actually, I think it was less than that.. I was only 7)
 

Cogman

Lifer
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I don't agree with a lot of your posts, but I 100% agree with you on this one. Working in fast food is fvcking hell.

:) which is why I tend to be especially nice to fast food workers. They handle your food! Don't give them an excuse to spit in it.
 

wischeez

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Worked at a Texaco gas station as a full serve island pump jockey. Made $1.75hr back in 1971.
 

silverpig

Lifer
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I think I was 14 and worked for my dad doing construction, tracking dump trucks as they came in and left the site. I think i got $12.50/hr in 1996. It only lasted a few weeks though.

After that I got a job in a coffee shop for the rest of high school. Made about $8/hr.
 

Zeze

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1. Did busboying at my aunt's cafe for pretty good money ($40~ a day in 1996~)

2. Made $5.35/hr at Burger King as my first real job @ 16 or 17 with worker's permit

3. I thought I was the shit making $7.50/hr at Staples around 1998 (Jr in HS). That was pretty good 12 years ago as a summer job. Most of my peers still made $5.50-6/hr

4. $10/hr in college doing workstudy as a computer lab do-nothing person. I refilled printer paper once in awhile while surfing the net. This was awesome compared to same pay at dorm cafe busting your ass. Most of the time I wasn't even there and lied about it.

5. Made $11.50/hr with full benefits at Comcast in Soph/Jr college during summer. This was pretty bad ass. Probably equivalent to making $17-20/hr now with full benefits.

6. Jr/Sr in college, made $25/hr tutoring English to a fellow church friend's son (whoohoo networking!). It was only few hours a week and I made cold $200 cash in an envelope every week. Cannot beat this.

6. Got my shitty ass first job with a degree making $32K about 7 years ago. What an irony.
 

IcePickFreak

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This is ATOT, my first job payed $100,001/year.. we all know $100,000/year isn't worth getting out of bed for.
 

Elbryn

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first offically taxed job- age 14, loading cars at a garden center and general mule for inventory. made min wage, 4 something i think. i thoguht it was awesome that i made money and got to eat at burger king for lunch.
 
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Depends what you mean by 'job'. An official job, where you filled out paperwork and such? Data Entry at an auto parts store in 1988 for $4.25/hr. Or do you mean just anything you regularly did for non-family to get something in return? Fly swatter and good luck charm at a garage for free popcorn and all the unsold adult magazines in 1983ish.
 

Imported

Lifer
Sep 2, 2000
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Worked at Denny's in High School.. Think it was $6.75 or $7.25/hr + tips and free food for breaks.
 

ahenkel

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Lllama shit wrangler for grandma's doctor's wife. Under the table for 3.00 an hour when I was 15. I used to steal her victoria secrets catalogs.
 

IronWing

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Jul 20, 2001
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Babysat for $1/hr.
Built concrete block walls for $3/hr.
Car wash at $3.35/hr.
McDicks at $3.35/hr (sucksville, every other job I've ever had was better than working fast food)
 

Whisper

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Feb 25, 2000
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15-16 y/o, worked at a movie theater for minimum wage at the time, which was either $4.25 or $4.75. Only lasted a few months, but good lord did I eat a lot of popcorn.
 

Wreckem

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Sep 23, 2006
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My first two jobs were back in 2000. Right after I turned 18 I got two jobs.
Construction(gutters and siding) &
Night stocking at a grocery store

Both jobs paid $6.75/hr which was $1.60 more than min wage at the time.

Basically I work 8am-5pm and 10pm to 7am. Didn't last long. I kept it up 3 months until I hurt my back.

Other shit jobs I've had were a paper delivery route at $1000/month(sometimes broke down to less than minimum wage), a fry cook at $7.50/hr and manager of fast food place at $8.5/hr + .33% of weekly sales as a bonus if I worked 5-7 shifts, .5% if I worked 8..
 
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Soundmanred

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Oct 26, 2006
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Prostitute. Two thousand dollars, I'm that good. And you should see me fuck. I'm the best piece of ass in three states
 

CRXican

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started at $7.00 hour left at $17.00

should have never left, now I'd punch a baby for $17.00
 

Possessed Freak

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Nov 4, 1999
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Punched brass tags at a custom air controller place. $7/hr in 1996. Was pretty repetitive after the 500th or so tag.