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

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BurnItDwn said:
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.
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🙂 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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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)
 
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.
 
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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