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What was your first job?

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Dishwasher (by hand) and bus boy at the local Dixie Pig BBQ not counting delivering newspapers and mowing lawns
 
Cashier at a local tourist attraction, on weekends during the summer.
I don't remember how old I was...14 maybe?
 
Cleaned cars at the car rental place my mother used to work at. Got to keep all the change I found in the cars, which was enough to pay for 1-2 days worth of lunch. Which was literally 30 sec walk from where we cleaned the vehicles.
 
At 13 I was senior executive director of the CEO for a local semiconductor company. At 15 I owned it. Once I got to UniversityI sold it to Intel for 649 million dollars because I was too busy.

/typical Atot response 😛


I was actually a janitor/helper for my first job. The school was hiring so I applied, got the same job 4 summers in a row. Though the first year was more moving stuff than anything, as the school was getting a brand new building.

The stuff you can find in lockers when cleaning them. Wow.
 
Child performer. Tap shoes, curls, dress with ruffles. My mother had a picture in her bedroom of me in my cute little outfit. I was tiny. I never saw any of the money, but I know I got paid.
 
Gas Station attendant. Was the last gas station in town to allow pumping before paying, which got really annoying trying to watch for drive offs (they started requiring pre-pay shortly after I got there). Otherwise was pretty easy.
 
It was when i left home @ 14 ,got a job scraping maggots off cow hides at the slaughter house....D:

It was the first place that would hire me for cash after 3 days of searching and needed the cash.

Ahhh memories....
 
Car wash detailer and attendant.

My parents owned a automated car wash and I'd work weekends and summers either scrubbing the tires/rims and bugs off the front of cars before going through the car wash in hopes of a tip or do detailing of cars, trucks, boats, motor-homes, etc.

The detailing is where I made my real money.

My Dad let me keep 100% of the money from the detailing and it was completely up to me to drum up business, make appointments, etc.

Would typically make anywhere from $60 to $200 a day on a summer weekend.

I actually really liked it most days since I was my own boss at the age of 14, 15 and 16.

When I wasn't busy I'd take care of the lawn work there or pressure clean the building or empty out the coin vacuums, etc. Got to blast my rock music and keep busy all day without being overly worked most of the time.

This was when we were living in our "wilderness" years up in a very small down in the very center and right on the boarder of NC on the GA side. Town was called Hiawassee. Population was 2,000.

When we lived there in the 90's from '92 to '96 it was a blip on CNN news as one of the safest places in the country. Was literally one of those places where everyone knew everyone else.

Our house was maybe 10 mins down the road from there and at the age of 14 I'd ride my little 250cc Suzuki GN motorcycle to "work". I'd ride into town for lunch. At age 15 I started driving to peoples place of work and picking up their cars, driving them back to the car wash, detailing them and driving them back. It was funny to me at the time that no one but me seemed to even caution that I was only 15 and didn't even have a license. I'd always tell everyone and the typical response would be "what are you going to do, run off with it? We know where to find you, who your folks are".

Funny looking back at those times. I grew up in SE FL where there's no way stuff like that would fly and where I live now same thing.

Only a little place like that could those things be possible.
 
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Flight Dispatcher, Quantico Marine Corps Flying Club @ 15. Fun job and managed to hang onto it through my first summer at college. Then it went under because it was forced to move off-base 🙁
 
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