Do you remember your first job?

[crusty440]

My Mom got me a social security # at age 13, started working for the local farmers picking fruit.  Then by 15 I had moved up to planting grapes and pruning orchards for 1.75 an hour.  At 17 I was driving fork truck at a fruit processing plant for 2.75 an hour.  When the harvest was in, we would put in between 80 - 100 hours a week!  Sure was nice after the first 40 hrs. so we were on time and a half, that was big money!

[BigBlackDodge]

My first real job was working at neighbors horse barn taking care of about a dozen horses and two dozen cows............moo. I've been kicked, bit and had horse snot blown all over me, good times....good times.  

My first day on the job they wanted all the stalls cleared out, they were layered in about 12" of horse crap in someplaces. It was a VERY hot south Georgia summer that year and the smell of urine and horse poo made it all the more delightful to be there.

Worked for a Goodyear store later on for a few months and then delivered pizza's in my '71 Dart after that while in tech school.


BBD

[draftingmonkey]

Let's see, at 5 started weeding yards/gardens around the neighborhood for a quarter a day.  BY 7 saved enough to buy a used power mower. Added house painting at about 10. At 14 added weekend janitorial work at a nursing home. At 16 added pump jockey at a full service 76 station. Needless to say I was very busy.

[NHCharger]

Worked for my Dad starting at 12 washing rubbish trucks and cleaning the shop. Can't remember the pay, maybe .50 cents an hour.

When I was 20 (1978) I got a great job offer. At the time I had a Datsun 280Z and use to street race, laugh but I beat most of the muscle cars. I got a call one night from a gentleman who said "I heard you have a nice car and your a pretty good wheel man. Would you be interested in transporting a package from Salisbury, Mass. to a parking lot in Laconia, NH. for $500.00, and don't look in the package". I politely declined the offer.

[Tilar]

My first job at the John Deere dealership started out at $1.65 an hour. I could leave school at 10:30 and be at work at 11. A 40 hour week paid $66 and with taxes and social security taken out I brought home something like $54 a week.

[TK73]

Flippin burgers at Roy Rogers - Vienna VA

[71ChallengeHer]

I started babysitting when I was 13. I got a job waiting tables when I was 15 at Pizza Hut. I made $1.15 an hr plus tips. But I did get to wait on Bill Pellington ( he played for the Colts ) He left me a $20 tip and his autograph.

[Brock Samson]

i found a pic on FB of the theaters where I used to work.

[bsakal]

I delivered the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin 7 days a week. It was a pretty big newspaper. It closed around '82. Wednesdays and Sundays papers were huge, my dad used to drive me around on sunday. I remember when Philly mob boss Angelo Bruno was shot in front of his house in 1980, the picture of him in the car was on the front page, it really stuck in my head when I was young. The highpoint was that both of my grandmothers were on my route, so I always got a snack or a drink, especially on collection day....

[ChgrSteve67]

14 years old - first paying job
equestrian fertilizer transportation engineer

[moparstuart]

14 years old - first paying job
equestrian fertilizer transportation engineer

  shit remover/hauler

[ChgrSteve67]

14 years old - first paying job
equestrian fertilizer transportation engineer

  shit remover/hauler

Yep  "Horse Shit"   but I had a cool title and we all know how important that is.

[Khyron]

I worked at Taco Bell... sorry, nothing exciting

[RusTy/SE]

Easily Back in 1971 (age 13) delivered groceries for $15wk + tips after school at a mom and pop Jewish grocery on Fort Hamilton Pkwy and 49th Street near Maimonides Hospital back in Brooklyn. Fun times

Handball anyone?

[RallyeMike]

I've been working since I was 10 - like others starting as a paper boy. My first real job other than delivering papers was as a dishwasher in a Chinese restaurant when I was 15.

[Cooter]

Lemme see, well, my first job was working for H&H Service Station selling groceries and sweeping the floor...Then, I finally after 2 years, moved up to changing oil and pumping gas....This was around 1987..

Hated that old "Know-it-all" B*tch I worked for(Grace), but looking back, she really DID know most of how my life would pan out I guess...Street racing on the weekends wasn't the best thing I could do, but when she would try and tell me the "Error of my ways", I'd simply tell her that I gotta pay for gas somehow, as the pay I'm getting here ain't doing it...

[Nacho-RT74]

McDonald's... 1 year, 9 months, 15 days. I had allmost 17 years when I began there.

got to me employee of the month, trainer crew and ALLMOST Swing manager, but I quit when I was to be raised...

[Brock Lee]

At 11 I was a paperboy. I had 80 customers, the bill was $2.10 a week per customer, and my cost was $1.50 per customer. So that meant I made a whopping $.60 a week per customer, less tips. Usually you would get $2.25 or $2.50. But there were a couple people that were nice and gave $1 a week tip.

[Charger-Bodie]

1. age 3-16 : My Dads body shop. (paper route too 12-14)
2. age 16-17 : Standard full service station.
3. age 17- now : Body repair and resto.

[69bronzeT5]

My first job was delivering newspapers to my street when I was 8-9. I ended up quitting because we were moving.

After that I delivered more newspapers for two different companies for about 3 years when I was 11-14. $5.55 a day, 2 days a week. At Christmas time I would write Christmas cards to everyone. I amazingly made more from doing that than I made in a whole month. The first company I worked at, I made enough to buy a bike and then I quit. The second company I worked at, I delivered for about 4 months before my dad couldn't help me anymore (he had to drive me because it was too far from home) so I had to quit.

I was about 13 when I got a job at a farm down the road cleaning out stalls, collecting eggs and feeding animals for the summer. I got paid $20, 2 times a week and I would get a paycheck every 2 weeks. I ended up telling them I had to quit because summer was over and I had to go back to school. The lady who owned the farm told me she'd send my last paycheck and that was that. I never ended up getting it. I emailed her and she said she had sent it. Again I waited and nothing. She stopped answering my emails. I got screwed out of about $40. Eventually the farm shut down and the property went up for sale.

Last summer, I decided to put up an ad at the mailboxes for lawnmowing and weedeating services. This was a trainwreck to say the least. I got hired by an old couple to do some work for a week. I moved firewood, cut grass, weedeated and cut broom (those annoying bushes that grow everywhere). I got paid good and got tipped good too. After that, a guy I know who bought a boat off my dad a few years back hired me to mow his lawn and water his plants while him and his wife went away for 3 weeks. I showed up on a Tuesday morning and his wife showed me what I had to do and told me I started on Sunday. I decided to go to Vancouver to my grandparents (my mom's parents) from Tuesday night until Saturday for something to do. I got a call from my mom on Friday night saying the guy phoned and was pissed because I didn't show up on Thursday and because of that I was fired. His wife told me I started on Sunday, not Thursday.....I didn't even bother fighting with it and decided to find another job. A few days later, I got hired to weedeat this huge hill in front of this couple's house. Of course it just happened to be a heat wave and the hill was in the sun for most of the day. It was really steep with some tall ass brush. I got 3/4 of it done and got paid for that. It was then time to do the lower (and steepest) part. I got fed up of that fast because I was constantly falling on the steep hill....it was full of snake holes. I kept getting snakes slithering over my feet (I HATE snakes). I finished for the day and went up to collect the day's wage. The guy tried fighting with me over hourly rate (it was $20....he tried telling me he said $10). He told me he would pay me $20 (2 hours) when I came back the next day. I left and never came back. I had enough of the hill and the guy trying to screw me out of money was the nail in the coffin. I lost $20 on it but it was worth it.

A few weeks later I got hired to water a woman's flower gardens when she went away for 2 weeks. I came and watered the garden's for 2 days before my dad called me saying my grandma (my dad's mom) was dying and she only had a few days left. I phoned the lady and left a message for her letting her know what was going on. I got my mom to do the watering while I headed to Vancouver to see my grandma. Anyways, I ended up staying at the hospice for a few days with my dad until my grandma passed away. In the meantime my mom phoned me and told me she went to water the garden's but the lady's son was staying there and he said he would do it until I got back. I got back from Vancouver and by the time I got back, it was about 8pm at night. I rushed over to the house to do the watering. I noticed it hadn't been done and some of the stuff looked a bit dry so I figured he hadn't done it for a few days. Obviously he didn't do it like he said he would. I got about 1/2 way done before the son came outside and tried to give me shit for doing the watering at night instead of in the morning and he told me to leave. I said whatever and left and never came back. The lady phoned me when she came back and apologized for her son's actions and said she would mail me the money I did make. I never did get paid for that job....the money never came and I lost out on about $60.

Otherwise, besides those job's I've done some babysitting for my aunt, worked with my grandpa (he's a tractor-trailer mechanic) and I've also done odd jobs for my uncle. Actually, I'm painting his dock at the moment with my cousins for $200 (my portion).

[68blue]

My first paying jobs were agricultural, shoveling various types of animal crap and baling hay. Later I moved up to farm machinery repair, worked on the 14T bailer which broke shear bolts all the time if pushed to make very dense bales. Out of high school I worked various auto repair and factory jobs until I completed college. Got a job as a chemist and retired as director. Now I'm back to working on cars and doing some consulting in factories. Who knows, in a few years I may be back to shoveling crap and baling hay, completing the circle.

[Tilar]

You cant push a 14T. We have one that we still use, and in all the years we've had it I don't think it ever pushed out any two bales that were the same length.  

[Axels73Charger]

Yard work and office work for my dad... And i only started 2 months ago lol. God I hate office/doctor work! Its BORING as hell!

[miller]

At the age of 16 I was the best Save a Lot sales clerk that has ever lived!

[Darkman]

Kitchen hand in Sizzler!