What was your first job?

[Fezticle98]

I was a dishwasher in a pizza place in Hawaii. I was 16. It was a hellish job, but I have fond memories of it. I made $5.25/hr...minimum wage at the time in Hawaii.

[TheGameHHH]

Package sorter at UPS in Parsippany, NJ. I was 17.

[PapaBear]

Cleaning up a real estate office for 2 hours a day when I was 14. Minimum wage was $3.14, I think. I was able to save up enough to buy a fishing pole and a Nikon FE.

[badorties]

a friend of the family opened up a pharmacy, and hired me (at eleven) to help out

my first day in the shop: i was cleaning, and found a button under the counter ... i pressed it, and it did nothing ... pressed it again, and it did nothing

within minutes squad cars galore flocked to the store, and boy was my face red

[Heather 8]

When I was 16, I was a cashier at Giant Foods, a job I got just to hang out with a guy in bakery I had a crush on (he turned out to be gay, but that's another story).

Made $5 an hour, stayed for 2 years, and never got a raise.

[JesterOfSadness]

Working Maintenance at a local water park in East Brunswick.

[King Hippos Bandaid]

Paper Boy at age 12

Roy Rogers Cook was first "On the Books" job

:king:

[Marc with a c]

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[Fezticle98]

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How did it taste?

[cupcakelove]

I worked at a Toys R Us through the holiday season. I was 16. About six months before that, when I was still 15, I got a job with a friend at McDonalds. I worked there for half a day before the manager realized I wasn't 16. I never lied to them, they just didn't read my application.

[midwestjeff]

How did he taste?

fixed.
But seriously folks....

I was a paperboy when i was twelve.

[bigredd]

My first paying gig was as a chimney swwep's assistant. It was crazy. The guy I worked for...and this is no shit...had a a phd in theology but swept chimneys, installed fireplacaes and did small remodel jobs for a living. If we were working in the shop we were listening to NPR while we were working. I sell building materials for a living now and I haven't heard NPR on a job site yet...or at least in a LONG time. Good times.

[Devo37]

8th grade, my dad got me a summer job at the accounting firm where he worked. very boring and tedious at first, just going through giant binders of tax codes and replacing the old ones with the new ones (ex. "Remove pages 151-165 from Binder #3 and replace with the pages in the enclosed packet"--hundreds of times over).

eventually, i was sending out billing statements and filling out tax returns. i'm sure their clients would've been thrilled if they only knew!

[BMoses]

I was a lifeguard when I was 16. That was pretty kick ass.

[Snacks]

When I was 10-12 me and my brother would give out flyers at churches for my Uncle's Beauty salons, but I dont remember getting paid, I also helped my brother and his friend with their paper route.

My very first job that I know I got paid was at 14 I was a busboy/dishwasher at a small restaurant. Even though the work was nasty, I had a great time. I worked with Artie Lange's sister (Stacy). She was so hot and all of her friends were even hotter. After the lunch rush and before the dinner crowd we used to have water fights in the kitchen. I would always try to get her soaked.

[PapaBear]

This is a cool thread.

[Sarge]

I used to clean the butcher shop at the local Foodtown.

[tele7]

Sold skis at Hermans Sporting Goods in Woodbridge Center, NJ. I was 16 and made $2.65 an hour. My first paycheck was $49.08. By far the best days of my life.

[mikeyboy]

When I was 16, I was an engineering assistant for the Prince George's County Department of Public Works. It's less impressive than it sounds. Minimum wage was $3.25. I made $3.28!

[BMoses]

When I was 16, I was an engineering assistant for the Prince George's County Department of Public Works. It's less impressive than it sounds. Minimum wage was $3.25. I made $3.28!

Even at 16 mikeyboy was better than me

[danner1515]

When I was 16, I worked at a tiny fast food chain called Bullets. For $6 an hour, I did it all: cashiering, drive-thru, cooking, cleaning, mopping vomit off the floors, etc. I used to have scars on my hands from the Easy Off I used while cleaning the broiler. I wasted away much of my junior year of high school there. Several of my friends worked there though, so it wasn't so bad.

[drjoek]

I delivered 50 newspapers the Norwalk Hour after school then hung around Mr Espositos store and blew all my money on baseball cards and Bazooka Bubble gum. age 10-15
First pay check type job pushing Shopping carts @ Caldors
$2.10/hour.


As Ive told my kids every job I had as a kid is now somebodies career.
Delivered newspapers
Mowed lawns
Shoveled driveways
cleaned neighbors pool
Caddy at the local muni course

[BoondockSaint]

When I was 16 my brother got me a job as a busboy/barback. I worked Friday 4pm to 4am and then Saturday 10am to 4pm. I'd make like $300 - $400. Me and my friends had a lot of fun on Saturday nights.

[torker]

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/2/21/Lynx_Paperboy.png

[SatCam]

p.i.m.p.

[Dash77]

I was a screen cleaner, in a printing shop, I made $5.05 an hour...

[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

I babysat and tutored, but my first "real" job was as a library page. I was supposed to put books and periodicals away but I often hid in the stacks and read.

The librarians didn't like me and referred to me as "the girl in the dungarees." My best friend, who was also a page, once told me that the librarians didn't like to go into the basement because it creeped them out. So one said, "Oh, just send that girl in the dungarees down there."

[Fallon]

Production Assistant on ESPN Around the Horn, I was 23. Up until then I was pretty lazy I guess. $26 an hour, but it was mostly a two hour job unless they needed to do a hit for SportsCenter or good Morning America.

[PapaBear]

Production Assistant on ESPN Around the Horn, I was 23. Up until then I was pretty lazy I guess. $26 an hour, but it was mostly a two hour job unless they needed to do a hit for SportsCenter or good Morning America.
PRETTY lazy? You didn't work until 23?

[Snoogans]

Dunkin Donuts

[BMoses]

Dunkin Donuts

That is a delicious first job

[sailor]

when i was 16 i got a job at a burger king making either 3.25 or 3.75 (can't recall which was the minimum wage...that's what i got). i did it all, cooking, cleaning, shoveling snow (the store and parking lot took up an entire block...i shoveled snow for an entire 8 hours at a time), and cashiering. my favorite, they got the bright idea to put me out by the drive-thru speaker to collect money before the cars would drive up to the window to collect their food. basically, i sat in the middle of the parking lot with a few hundred dollars on me. i weighed about 120 pounds and the neighborhood was shady, at best. that's part of the reason i ripped them off for hundreds of dollars when i worked the registers.

[Ted_Baxter]

PRETTY lazy? You didn't work until 23?

Here's a picture of a young fresh faced Fallon:

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/richie_rich2.gif

[Fallon]

Dunkin Donuts

What a surprise, free munchies.

[Snoogans]

i didnt even smoke weed then, i was like 14 or 15 i think

[envirogator]

concession stand at the local pool; $2.00 per hour and all the candy I could eat...

[Snoogans]

wow you got fucked, I got 6 an hour and free anything from dunkin donuts

[Ted_Baxter]

I was 13 and worked at a Blimpie for $3.35 an hour. Ahhhh, the salad days! I was too young to legally work the slicer, but I looked older than my age so they let me anyway. One time I accidentally sliced off a part of my thumb. I still have the scar 25 years later.

[envirogator]

wow you got fucked, I got 6 an hour and free anything from dunkin donuts

It was 1977 and I consumed pop rocks like they were going out of style....which they did in 1978...

[Snoogans]

oh shit, sorry, it was like 97 when i worked at DD

[led37zep]

Paperboy when I was about 12 years old. I think I pulled in $100 a month.

[hedges]

I delivered The Washington Post. I have no idea how much money I made; I spent it all at the arcade.

[MHasegawa]

Cashier at A & P in garfield, 5.35/hour. I only took the job so I can get outta school at 11:15.

[A.J.]

When I was 14 I got a job at the golf course next to my house. My job was to pick up golf balls off the driving range and help gas up and bring in the golf carts at night. Actually, it's how I learned to drive.

I wish I kept that job longer -- free lessons from the pro, and free access to the driving range and the course.

[Death Metal Moe]

I got a job at a print shop right where my school bus dropped me off every afternoon. I was 16.

I started working there after school for the 2 hours I could each day and worked there all day during the summer. Eventually I became the store manager, for whatever that was worth, and worked there full time for a few months after I graduated.

Then the guy got really fucking weird and hired his buddy who had just been paroled. Put this guy up in his house and everything. So he promptly fired me. I heard a few months later that my boss's childhood friend who he had hired right out of prison stole something from his house and I guess he went away for that or at least got kicked out of my boss's house.

I had already moved on after that. I think the most I ever made, even as manager was like $8.00 an hour off the books. No bennies, nothing but the straight cash.

[Marc with a c]

Ben & Jerrys scoop master, mt. Kisco new york.

Best job I ever had 5.25 an hour free ice cream, free whippets, and my friends would just come and hang out everyday after school. Also there was a girl who would do coke and the flash us.

[Keotok]

I babysat from ages 12-16. Used to make $40/night. Really cool since I lived on an AF base. Movies were a $1, bowling was a $1.

First REAL job was cashier at a Golden Corral. Made $4.25/hour, but got a quarter raise after only 3 weeks of working there.

[Reynolds]

Worked at a pizza place at 15 (underage) my bosses were a family of Greek dictators. Scream and yell and swear at me all night. One day I slipped on some oil on the staircase while carrying some supplies down, caught my forearm on the corner of a fusebox, tore the muscle, needed a shitload of stitches. Boss freaked out because I was underage, he ended up paying for the hospital treatment out of his pocket.

[joethebartender]

at 13 I was mowing lawns and working on the weekends in a stationery store folding the sunday papers (all of the sections came separately). 15 bucks a lawn...40 bucks to do the papers no matter how long it took me. I hated the big sale weeks with all of the fliers.

[RoyMunson]

I started working as a Dishwasher at a coffe house my Freshman year of Highschool and stayed till my Senior year. Best job ever....

[BrooklynKat]

When i was 15 i worked in the brooklyn public library as a "shelver". All i did was shelve books all day and fight off old ladies attacking me the latest jackie collins novels.

[Freitag]

I was a dishwasher in a pizza place in Hawaii. I was 16. It was a hellish job, but I have fond memories of it. I made $5.25/hr...minimum wage at the time in Hawaii.

I really fail to comprehend how working in a pizza place in Hawaii can be hell.

I worked in a movie theatre at the Brunswick Square Mall in East Brunswick. This was before they converted it into the megaplex they have now. It had... get this... TWO screens.

Because of this, I now have Robin Hood Prince of Theives and Point Break memorized.

[IamPixie]

when I was 16 I worked as a camp counselor for 2nd grade. I only had to work from like 8-12
and I hung out with my friends all day while getting paid. That was hands down the most fun i've ever had working.

One time this kid was being a pain in the ass and when he had his back turned to me I pegged him in the head with a dodge ball. good times.

[cupcakelove]

when I was 16 I worked as a camp counselor for 2nd grade. I only had to work from like 8-12
and I hung out with my friends all day while getting paid. That was hands down the most fun i've ever had working.

One time this kid was being a pain in the ass and when he had his back turned to me I pegged him in the head with a dodge ball. good times.

This makes me laugh, a lot.

[RhinoinMN]

When I was 15 I worked for Seneca/Libbys foods. I operated a pea picking combine. Worked 7 days a week 12 hours (5am to 5pm) a day for 3 months. I did that each summer for 3 years and then worked as a pizza delivery driver in the winter. In 1995 the combining paid 6.50/hr, but half of the workweek was overtime pay which was nice for a kid in high school. The pizza place paid the same plus tips.

The combines harvested at about 1.5 mph. It was entertaining to see members or our "crew" fall asleep and slowly drive into the middle of a field, river or barn etc..

[buzzard]

at 14,I drove a tractor carting big rocks off a cow pasture and dropping them into a ravine,10+ hours a day for $10.00 a day I might as well have been working in a sweat-shop in Singapore..it would've been safer.

[Team_Ramrod]

My first job was laying PVC pipe for my dad's construction company.

Outside of working for my dad it was as a labourer for a home builder.

[Jujubees2]

When I was 16 I worked as a dishwasher at a nursing home for $3.15/hour. I also had to dish out the food and know what diets got what. The worst were the people who had to have everything pureed. Some of that stuff looked inedible.

The best part was after the cook would go home someone would bring out a bottle of vodka. Then we'd mix it with one of those big containers of OJ or cranberry juice, crank up the music and get wasted while cleaning up.

[KC2OSO]

I was a debarker at a lumber mill in Sloatsburg, NY. I ran this nasty machine that stripped the bark off of raw logs. After that I worked in a bakery and scraped dough off the floor.

[scorpion]

I was paper boy at 15

[Axem Red]

Grocery store bagger, made 5.15 an hour at age 15. I stayed there for while moving up to other departments. I saved up and bought my first car with that job.

[Badinia]

http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/spinoff1997/images/87.jpg

16 years old. Door to door. Paid for sales only. I made $600, but I think I only did it for six weeks. Came out to two-fifty an hour, although I frequently called my boss and told him I was making a pitch when I was IN FACT smoking pot with my friend Derek.

[Fezticle98]

I really fail to comprehend how working in a pizza place in Hawaii can be hell.


It wasn't completely hell, but it was hellish. I worked in the dishwashing room, which was affectionately known as "the dungeon". It was hot and steamy and my hands constantly hurt from holding the scrubbers. I had to alternate between there and the walk-in freezer, which was nice at first, but really fucks with your body temp.

When I was done, I'd get to walk out to my car that had been cooking in the 95+ degree heat of the parking lot. It's not like I was at the beach or anything. It was in a pretty quiet shopping center that was anchored by a Costco.

I appreciate the experience, but no way in hell I would do it again.

[Dougie Brootal]

http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2007/01/20/PH2007012000014.jpg

(this is the sign out front of the roy rogers i worked at.)

[IamFogHat]

http://www.humbertown.com/pics/logos/baskin-robbins.jpg

[grlNIN]

McDonalds, those were goodtimes.

[Poochie]

http://www.humbertown.com/pics/logos/baskin-robbins.jpg

That was my first job too!

I worked at the Marcus Ampitheater at Summerfest in Milwaukee..pretty cool job, got to see alot of really cool bands on my breaks.

[Thebazile78]

I was a baby-sitter from the time I was 12 through the time I left for college. To tell the truth, I made pretty good money baby-sitting . . . $10 per child per hour. . . and parents loved me.

Between the time I was 12 to the time I was 14, I'd cat-sit for my sister's best friend's Himalayan cat. Again, not a shabby payday; who knew it was worth $150 to watch a cat?

My freshman year of college, I had a work-study job at the library much like Ms. Fuzzy's. Except I worked in the microforms and current periodicals room. Now I know the difference between microfilm and microfiche! I think that job paid around $5.15 an hour, but it was based on the financial aid granted to me, not on any real skills I had (or lacked.) The job was pretty dull, and I could always find the time to do my homework while sitting at the help desk, so I didn't mind it too much.

The summer following freshman year, I worked as a cashier at Grand Union. I truly hated being a cashier.

[Freitag]

The summer following freshman year, I worked as a cashier at Grand Union. I truly hate cashiers.


Fixed, Miss Only-Use-Self-Check Lines

[mikeyboy]

Fixed, Miss Only-Use-Self-Check Lines

How did you fuck up the quoting so badly?

[Freitag]

How did you fuck up the quoting so badly?

what does that even mean?

[mikeyboy]

what does that even mean?

Look at who the text you quoted is attributed to.

[Furtherman]

Paper Boy at age 12


:king:

Same here.

[Freitag]

Look at who the text you quoted is attributed to.

For some reason, the board was holding on to a multi-quote from another thread.

[Gvac]

I had the GREATEST first job ever. I was 14 years old, and my next door neighbor's dad was a carpet cleaner. He was getting older and had recently hurt his back, so he needed someone to move all the furniture in the rooms he was cleaning and then move it back.

He'd pick me up at 6 AM on Saturday mornings and drop me back off at 6 at night. He'd buy me lunch and at the end of the day he'd throw me a crisp 100 dollar bill.

As a 14 year old kid I thought I was on my way to becoming a millionaire.

[dougiebrootal]

I had the GREATEST first job ever. I was 14 years old, and my next door neighbor's dad was a DINOSAUR HERDER. He was getting older and had recently hurt his back, so he needed someone to move all the DINOSAURS.

He'd pick me up at 6 AM on Saturday mornings and drop me back off at 6 at night. He'd buy me lunch and at the end of the day he'd throw me a crisp 100 dollar bill.

As a 14 year old kid I thought I was on my way to becoming a millionaire.

fixed it for ya. ya know, cuz youre so old.:tongue: (fuck you marc with a c!!!)

[Marc with a c]

I had the GREATEST first job ever. I was 14 years old, and my next door neighbor's dad worked for the pony express. He was getting older and had recently hurt his back, so he needed someone to move all the mail bags from stable to stable.

He'd pick me up on his horse at 6 AM on Saturday mornings and drop me back off at 6 at night. He'd buy me lunch and at the end of the day he'd throw me a shiny ten cent piece.

As a 14 year old kid I thought I was on my way to becoming a millionaire.

that does sound great.

[Kevin]

The Gap.. stock and floor.. at 16.. Awful..

[Marc with a c]

fuck me? no fuck you.

[dougiebrootal]

fuck me? no fuck you.

Go to hell!
http://i.imdb.com/Icons/poster_under_licence.gif

[Marc with a c]

My first job was being funnier then douggrasso, it was by far the easiest job I ever had.

[Furtherman]

Hahahahahaha

[torker]

The librarians didn't like me and referred to me as "the girl in the dungarees." My best friend, who was also a page, once told me that the librarians didn't like to go into the basement because it creeped them out. So one said, "Oh, just send that girl in the dungarees down there."

:laugh:

[dougiebrootal]

My first job was being funnier then douggrasso, it was by far the easiest job I ever had.

<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<-well good thing he's not around!!

[cougarjake13]

flipping burgers at roy rogers

[WhistlePig]

I was a maid at the "Red Horse Motor Inn" for $4.25 an hour. This was a great first job because I got to be independent and there was a definite sense of accomplishment (transforming a filthy room into a sparkling clean room).
Plus I got to watch soap operas all day.
The disgusting thing I remember is that we only did a twice-a-year comforter/bed spread wash!

http://pages.frederick.com/hotel/Redhourse%20outside2.jpg

[ralphbxny]

Delivering newspapers at 13!

[drusilla]

day camp junior life guard until i worked my way up to being the assistant arts & crafts teacher. (13 - 15) after that i spent summers working as a receptionist for either my parents or for my brother till i was about 18. i pretty much started working towards my career since i was 19. so it's been all sports medicine for the last 10 years.

[FUNKMAN]

produce stand on henderson and 6th in jersey city, where the newport mall is now. 2.25 an hour and all the fruit and veggies you could eat. plus they had these great little poundcakes and pounds of butter, those you paid for. the best/strongest odor came from the sweet onions

[JPMNICK]

started my own lawn mowing company when i was 12 with my friend

1 day a week we would work by his house and the other day we would work by my house. the other 5 days we fished. that was the good old days