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What was your very first job?

Mine was at a Mexican grocery store in Chicago, in the summer of 1993 when I was 15. It was owned by a couple who were really nice people from what I still remember, and they made me enjoy working there.
HeavenBesideYou · 56-60, F
When I was 12 I washed hair on Saturdays at a salon. It was ok. Pocket money
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invisiblewoman · 36-40, F
Waiting tables at a greek restaurant
invisiblewoman · 36-40, F
@someonefromsomewhere1 no you will have to ask it here
invisiblewoman · 36-40, F
@NativePortlander1970 i didnt like gyros but i did the baklava. They made a huge pan nightly.
@invisiblewoman I'm addicted to gyros with extra tzatzkiki.
SubstantialKick · 36-40, M
A server/dishwasher in a college dining hall. It wasn't a great job, but definitely not the worst I've had. We did get free meals before work so that was one good thing I can remember about it.
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reflectingmonkey · 51-55, M
my first job was in a fast food restaurant, it was a horrible job. rushing all the time, never a positive reinforcement. in a way it was a good thing because it turned me off from working for others at an early age. for most of my life I was my own boss, investment, tradding, owning a restaurant of my own for a while, consultant in various fields. my last project failled and I lost almost everything so now, after 30 years of working for myself, I have a job with a boss, until I think of something else 😂
@reflectingmonkey I worked at a Burger King in the summer before college, and it was horrible. Ugh. I never did it again haha.
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McDonald’s cashier when I was 15.
@Colonelmustardseed I was a cashier at Burger King once, at age 18. Keyword is once lol.
@latinbutterfly Probably the same experience everywhere. 😮‍💨
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
Working at an elementary school part-time in the principal’s office doing general office work and also sent on errands and helped a first-grade teacher for an hour each day. That teacher had been my first-grade teacher for the second semester when we moved here the first time. She was very beloved when I was in her class and just as beloved that year by her students as well. She gave hugs for positive reinforcement and we loved it. This job was part of a cooperative office training class I took when I was a senior in high school
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Lostpoet · M
I worked with my mom and brother at the UPS store not to be confused with the actual UPS delivery service. We only packaged Items and made the delivery slips.
Landscaping. I turned a 5 acre garbage dump into a pristine, green field. $1 an hour and a cheeseburger & Coke for lunch.
blackarcher256 · 61-69, M
Janitor in a factory at night…I was 13
blackarcher256 · 61-69, M
@atlantic59 My dad was disabled in a car accident and couldn’t work…we needed the money. They payed in cash and asked no questions.
atlantic59 · 61-69, M
@blackarcher256 power to ya👍❤️
blackarcher256 · 61-69, M
@atlantic59 Thanks…as hard as it was, the experience taught me valuable lessons about survival and hard work, that served me well in later life.
ThickMadame · 51-55, F
Delivered newspapers 7 days week after school


I was 12
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Viper · M
Dance instructor
atlantic59 · 61-69, M
@Viper where did you learn to move like that?
Viper · M
@atlantic59 Mick Jagger
atlantic59 · 61-69, M
@Viper that is my forte
Paper boy. Still have the same job. 🤣🤣🤣
@Sojournersoul
What kind of paper this time?
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Ducky · 31-35, F
Farmhand for an alpaca farm.
samueltyler2 · 80-89, M
Lifeguard at a swim club.
Thevy29 · 41-45, M
Mine was on the dock unloading fishing trawlers. When I was 14 in 97. It was part time. The boats would come in every two weeks, and it took 6 hours to unload just one. If three came in, that was a long day.
atlantic59 · 61-69, M
@Thevy29 great job for experience for sure
Jenny1234 · 51-55, F
I was like 10 and delivering the local paper every Wednesday. After being bitten by two dogs (separate occasions) I decided to retire. Hazards of the job I suppose

When I was 14 I started working at a Burger King
@Jenny1234 "Retire" 😂
Missbirdie1986 · 36-40, F
I had two first jobs McDonalds and chicken treat in the city it was 30 minutes by train I had to choose between them I chose McDonald
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AntisocialTroll · 56-60, F
I worked on a play scheme for kids. I'm not really a kiddie person but it was surprisingly good fun.
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AntisocialTroll · 56-60, F
@someonefromsomewhere1 No you may not!
tiggerandariel13 · 46-50, MVIP
I was 16 worked at Subway for 2 years and then worked at ATT during summer home from college and made a career out of it
SW-User
Sugar beet singling. Then potato picking, abd strawberry picking. Working in a grain dryer whilst a Uni.
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Alessa · 18-21, F
Coffee shop, which was bad got me addicted to that stuff.
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SW-User
Bussing tables at a fisherman's bar on the canal from 12-17.
nudistsueaz · 61-69, F
Worked at Roy Rogers roast beef, counter person.
Tastyfrzz · 61-69, M
@nudistsueaz worked at Arbys for a fewcweeks before interning at IBM.
bowman81 · M
I was a paper boy for a weekly newspaper in 5th grade.
BarbossasHusband · 36-40, M
Babysitting my 18 months younger sister since I was about 6 y/o. Payment was a lolipop and actual compliments.

For money: More babysitting when I turned 9. Usually moms friends' kids while mom and her friend(s) went out drinking.
atlantic59 · 61-69, M
@BarbossasHusband yeah I saw some of those days too🙂
brian29715 · 46-50, M
Cutting grass and shoveling snow.
atlantic59 · 61-69, M
@OlderSometimesWiser certainly beats my first job as 'punching bag' for bullies..
vetguy1991 · 51-55, M
I worked at a gas station
Nevertooold · 56-60, M
hunkalove · 61-69, M
I had a paper route when I was 11. That winter I came down with an ear infection and tonsillitis that left me permanently deaf in my left ear. Quite a price to pay for about $5 a week.
@hunkalove I'm sorry to hear that 😕.
I worked in cine industry as a junior organiser for backstage dancers/hiring side actors like stuffs.Left the job once I got married because of certain things which I didn't like in the movie industry.
SunshineGirl · 36-40, F
I was spending summer on a military base in Cyprus with my parents. Our neighbour, a military policeman, paid me to walk his alsatian in the morning and the evening. I was 13 years old.
dancingtongue · 80-89, M
Unless you count cutting apricots and picking cotton, it was writing a high school sports column for the weekly newspaper at age 14.
SammyJo · 51-55, F
Honestly? I started as a prostitute when I was 13.

No paper-round or anything like that.

SJD x
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dale74 · M
Mine was working at a key and engraver shop started there when I was 14 working on the weekends
Piper · 61-69, F
Aside from little jobs in the years before, it was working in a hospital. It was the summer of 1972, I think.
Jeephikelove · 51-55, F
Other than babysitting which I started to do when I was 11, I had a job at a video store back in VHS days.
I played the piano for ballet classes at a dance school and later was organist for a local Baptist church in the year before going off to college.
atlantic59 · 61-69, M
@bijouxbroussard love that🙂
saintsong · 41-45, F
I grew up on my Grandparents Bee Keeping farm, I don't remember when I started working for them, I started out as a child as the honey tester, then as I got older I worked out in the fields, and in the extracting lab. It was actually really fun, good employees honey fights, and Grandma made us a feast each meal!
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calicuz · 56-60, M
I was a full service gas station attendant.
Straylight · 31-35, F
I was a cashier at a grocery store.
SW-User
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Cassieeeee · 31-35, F
Bartender ^^
Missbirdie1986 · 36-40, F
@Cassieeeee weren’t you too young for a bar tender job
Cassieeeee · 31-35, F
@Missbirdie1986 No, I had my first job at 20😅
KA9ha · 31-35, M
i was working in an industry as the owners personal Assistant when i was studying in college .
.One evening after work ,the owners wife called me to her home for late evening work...
OH my GOD,,,,,,, i left working next day
Sazzio · 31-35, M
@KA9ha What was the job at her house? 🤔 please tell 😃
KA9ha · 31-35, M
@Sazzio Initially she wanted me to reposition some furniture in her bedroom... including dresser ,drawers and other clothing hangars ,, Then her greenroom where flimsy underthings were filled..
She came up from behind ,closed the door and tried to seduce me there ,,,reached below the belt and groped.............. I reached home late
OldBrit · 61-69, M
First thing I was paid got - playing guitar in a school production of Joseph and his technicolour dreamcoat at a local junior school. I git musician union rate.
First full time job - trainee software engineer working on head up display units for F16 and A10
Paper route when I was 10
Gusman · 61-69, M
I worked in a corner deli in 1976 as my first job.
This was a tide me over job whilst awaiting to start an apprenticeship at the local copper mine.
One of my duties was to polish the fruit and vegetables for display in the window.
DragonFruit · 61-69, M
I worked at McDonald’s for a while, and when I left to go to college I was offered a managerial position (which I turned down because I was going to somewhere that I couldn’t commute from).
Tastyfrzz · 61-69, M
Grew up on a farm so putting up hay, milking cows, fencing, herding, shoveling grain, plowing, raking, chickens, pigs, ducks, machine maintenance, gardening....

 
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