What was your first job?

[fish b8]

What was your first job and how old were you?

Me = 7-11... A week after I turned 14 I started looking for a job I could walk to, and 7-11 hired me a few weeks later... It was a fun job... worked there till just before turning 16...

I tried at the library, but the old bag said I wasn't old enough.... I am now 28, and she still works there..... maybe I should try again:D :D I think she was looking at job security haha!!

[OVCobiapat757]

my first job 14-and current job first mate on harrison charter boats

[lurch1281]

My first job was as an ice cream scooper extraordniaire for a place called Jim's Jumbo Cones in Oscoda, Michigan.

Now I work for Radio Shack but my last day is tomorrow. Then it will be the Chesapeake Police Department. Academy starts June 26th.

[Railroader]

My first real job was in a Tobacco patch....sun-up to sun-down. One farmer paid 15$ a day and another I worked for paid 20$. I was 10 and thought I was making millions.....:cool:

It showed me very early what a day's work was all about. Nobody had to make me go to bed on work nights...;)

[matt anderson]

Farm hand/plow boy on my Dad's farm

Milk the cows

plow the feilds

cut hay

Shoot sick cows

[rattler]

picking up broken bricks on a construction site at 16...then the mail room at our local newspaper...advertisment insertion expert...they both sucked...long bus rides to both jobs...

[reelfixer]

My first job was pulling nails for $20.00 a week. I was 14. I felt rich.

[Bassplug]

I cut grass, weeded flower beds and carried news papers. The Richmond Times Dspatch. At Christmas I put toys togather in a Department Store.

[Big Rad]

at an ARCO station making 20 bucks a week. How many of you remember what it was called before ARCO?

BTW.....I was 11 years old:p

[cygnus-x1]

I started at age 12 working as a washington post delivery boy. Back then it was safe to walk around and collect money from people. I did that until I was 20. Of course when I turned 16 I added jobs but maintained the paper route until I was 20. I am 41 now.

[Lipyourown]

"working at the carwash baby"

[RuddeDogg]

I was a lawn boy. The worked for Acme markets. Then when I was in college I got into "collections" for a buddy of mine. Those of you that have seen my picture can probably figure out that I didn't do to bad. The I got hired on my local PD and the rest is history.

[TUMBLEYAK]

I was 10, driving a tractor for the "tobacco croppers" in Coffee County Ga. for $14 a day. When weren't doing that, we were walking the roads "picking up bottles" for the cash refund. Ohh the good ole days!!!

[chest2head&glassy]

First job according to the IRS was flipping burgers at McD's @ 17. Before that I had summer jobs working for cash as a laborer/landscaper.

[sand flea]

McDonald's, working in the back. They wouldn't put me up front because my "customer service skills were not up to standard."

So I got to get there at 5 AM to make the biscuits.

[MANDINGO]

Was As A Weighmaster At A Corn Cannery Called Friels In Wye Mills 6pm- 7am 7 Days A Week During The Summer. Started Out @3.50hr I Was Making Some Nice Change Back Then To Be So Young.:d

[Paully]

Started at age 12....working for my uncle as a carpenters helper...$20 a day.........we also had 250 crab pots between my two uncles and myself. All through school they let me pull most of the pots "to help get you in shape fo football season":--| Don't do me no favors.:p

tight lines

[SameOle]

Started out mowing lawns for a number of houses in my neighborhood when I was 12. Turned 16 and started bagging groceries and other grocery store jobs(cashier, stock, customer service)
Next came serving and bartending in college.
Then came hell, I mean being an accountant in the real world.
All of this in the last twelve years.:rolleyes:

[OVTODD210908]

Started at 15 pickin up hay for local dairy farmers, in washington state. The following year I got hired as a multipurpose farm hand cleaning calve stalls and driving a pooper tractor. started at min wage and when I left in 96 I was making 11 an hour as lot manager.

[chest2head&glassy]

McDonald's, working in the back. They wouldn't put me up front because my "customer service skills were not up to standard."

So I got to get there at 5 AM to make the biscuits.
Haha me too. I was playing alot of spring/summer baseball gearing up for college ball and told my manager that I could only work Sat and Sun mornings.....so they kept me in the back too dropping fries and nuggets in addition to the burgers.
Valuable lesson learned at McD's:
I learned you could squeeze a dozen mcnuggets into a 6-pack container for those cute girls that just ordered them and they'd think your cool (even with that ugly green, grease stained, polyester uniform).

[nozzlenut]

First "official" job at 15y/o was working for a Concrete lawn ornament manufacturer. We made park benches, bird baths, deer, and all other sorts of animals. We'd pour the molds in the morning and strip them in the afternoon. In the summer we'd pour/strip twice a day. Hot brutal work all for $4.50/hr. Got a raise to $5/hr after a year. Great job for a smart a%& kid. before that I worked on my dad's job sites "cleaning up". Of course I didn't get paid for that.

[shaggy]

at an ARCO station making 20 bucks a week. How many of you remember what it was called before ARCO?

BTW.....I was 11 years old:p

Hey BR, just a shot in the dark, but was that the old Amico stations. Can't say what I did, all cash and don't need no IRS investigation, or has the statutes of limitations passed :rolleyes:

Have Jeep will travel :D

[ken-wood]

at an ARCO station making 20 bucks a week. How many of you remember what it was called before ARCO?

BTW.....I was 11 years old:p

Well, I remember "Atlantic" gas stations but that could have been a local name (western NY area) - then Atlantic-Richfield.

1st jobs were summer farm harvesting (pre-teen). Picked tomatoes, string beans, cucumbers, currants etc.
1st "real job" was at a Sunoco gas station nights & weekends while in high school.

[eklutna]

I had a Washington Star paper rout at the tender age of eight. I don’t even remember what I made but it could not have been much. I only had 23 customers on my rout and papers sold for 25cents.

[the rhondel]

I think ken-wood has it right...atlantic richfield......shaggy..ya mean Amoco?I remember them.......the R

[Big Rad]

That is it. It was at the corner of my block.

I lived near Connie Mack Stadium and sold papers during baseball season too.:rolleyes: I sat in the bleachers for 75 cents a game too.:D

[HighCap56]

First "Sorta" job was at 11-12 selling All Occasion Greeting Cards door to door to earn some cheapo gas powered model airplane (one with the strings to control it).

"Hi - I'm Bob and we are are selling All Occasion Greeting Cards" .... SLAM...

Real self confidence builder there!

First REAL job, I Worked at Honda of Pleasant Grove in Dallas, Tx.

Assembled motorcycles, changed oil, whatever the older crew did not want to do.

Saw the first 500-4 Honda that came to Dallas, assembled it, then DROPPED IT on a slick spot going down the back drive! :eek: