What was your first job?

@Fluffybull I have a feeling that something is going over my head here, but what else is new?

@DrWatson I took this name coz I was born under the sign of Taurus the bull and my hubby calls me his fluffy little bull 🤗

@Fluffybull aw. That's so cute

@DrWatson i started my IT career on a system that that Grumman sold to my employer. Never got to long Island .

That computer system is long gone

@Orca4950 my first job was at McDo, the first one in Canada back in 1968

@Orca4950 The computers they ran on are long gone too!

@pdockal no

@FreeSpirit1 the shops by me when i was younger had either a white uniform or required employees to wear all white

@LaLumieri true Italian girl 🇮🇹 working in the bakery

@JustNik I agree that it was a great first job, much better than washing dishes or something like that. I was there from 84 to 87. The library was part of a large county system that was phasing in computers at the time.

It is amazing how much things have changed. People used to come in and ask for help finding some random bit of information that we can look up so easily on the Internet today.

@Freetime My wife still calls librarians on the phone with those kind of requests, and they respond in a friendly and helpful way.

@DrWatson Most librarians are eager to be helpful, in my experience. They are probably happy to still get questions.

@Ducky what is an alpaca Farm?

@LaLumieri You don’t know what alpacas are? They’re like a smaller llama.

@Ducky LOL I'm going to look them up. There's lots of things I haven't seen yet in this lifetime we were very sheltered as children we lived in a very bad neighborhood and we didn't get out much but that had to be really cool I would have loved to have lived on a farm or worked in an environment like that

@DrWatson I think I really loved when life was simpler just the basics as you say. Yes there are still some good bakeries the place I used to work for was famous for making something called a pregnant cannoli. It was a giant cannoli filled with little cannolis hidden inside the cannoli cream

@LaLumieri I don't think I could resist pregnant cannoli!

@Milkshake what was the first business you started on accident and profited substantially

@RadioDust that's awesome! I'm glad he gave you a chance. It sounds like in interesting experience. my grandmother was disabled from the time she was a toddler she had an accident and she had one arm she worked many jobs throughout her life. She was a house cleaning lady, a secretary, child care, she cooked for a restaurant and she gave haircuts.

@LaLumieri It was awful. It rained all day and I got stuck in the mud at the end of the day.

@SW-User But "a pound was worth a lot more then that it is today!"

(Just kidding! Just kidding!)

@DrWatson It was a long time ago, but even then it was terrible 😆

@HootyTheNightOwl those are some really great things you've done. What an awesome resume so fun so cool and so great

@LaLumieri It's not much use to me now, though... I can't work retail anymore and I need a job in IT where I can sit down.

My experience with that NVQ has put me off wanting to ever take another because of the way that I was bullied by my training provider and some of the shop managers and staff. They even went as far as calling me a "Tramp" because my hair would look untidy after I had been crawling on my hands and knees under hanging stock and didn't have a brush or the time to brush my hair after that.

I was also forced to see a dentist to "correct the colour of my teeth" which were discoloured by medication that I took to control my asthma at some point over the years.

As a deaf person who has issues with dentists after one would rub his genitals against my hand (in the presence of my mother) while carrying out the work on my teeth, you can imagine how I must have felt walking into a room, by myself, to see a male dentist that I couldn't hear or understand because of a thick, foreign accent to attend an appointment I never wanted in the first place.

I only went because they bullied me so much that I just wanted it to stop. I was just 18 at the time and the only people I saw were those that were bullying me - there was no "If you have issues with your training, contact Jane Doe". I eventually went to the office one lunchtime the day after the assistant manager I trained accused me of shop lifting from Help the Aged and told them that I am not going back... they either finish the course with me that day or they wasted 10 months putting me through that.

They finished the course with me - but they weren't happy. The laugh of it is that I could have applied for and gotten that job of assistant manager and saved myself the hassle of being accused of shop lifting... but I felt that I was too young and needed more experience than I had at the time. I wish I'd listened to my manager.

@alan20 That sounds absolutely amazing and something I would have liked to do

@LaLumieri The ballet girls are treated really sadistically though. Exercised until they're ready to drop. All of them so keen to become Margot Fonteyns. My problem was I seriously objected to being asked to arrange Chopin for them to hop about to, though I did do it once for Schubert Deutsche Tanzes. I preferred the opera work and felt more appreciated but it was unpaid.

@pdockal and likely you did the right thing construction will never be obsolete it's always needed.

@LaLumieri
Maybe but we're installing things that are already assembled
They have a machine that can build simple concrete structures using 3d printer technology

@Strictmichael75 that's pretty impressive at 11 years old and you don't see many people going into that field anymore

@LaLumieri no, but I wasn’t a tailor but learned how to sell, long days and envelope given to parents

@vetguy1991 wow that's got to be odd going past that place knowing it was part of your family's Legacy at one time. My dad had a bakery and I worked there mostly holidays he didn't really want me and my sister working there he didn't want us to get used to Bakery life. And it was funny because the only job I could get was that another local bakery which my dad used to tell me see if you could find out what goes on back there LOL. But it's funny housing was put up where the bakery used to be. We lived in a very bad neighborhood and there were lots of gangs and some gang members burned it down on my father's biggest holiday of the year at the bakery it was usually his most profitable day. After that we moved away

@MyNameIsHurl what made it so ghetto ass LOL? I also worked at a ghetto ass Pharmacy that was literally behind plexiglass because we were always worried about people shooting in there. And 90% of the clientele would get their drugs and sell them right outside so there would always be some kind of fights or shootouts

@LaLumieri the people that worked there an the clientele, it was cheap and they literally hired anyone, hahahaha

@SW-User wow that's a lot for a first job

@LaLumieri both were part time..

@SW-User that's not an easy job at any age. I think the part of that that I liked when I worked in some chains in high school was either stocking or fixing the shelves it seemed therapeutic to me rather than dealing with the customers at the register

@LaLumieri yeah, I hated the register too!! I enjoyed fixing the shelves and building the displays. It was very therapeutic.

@Torsten not an easy job but I remember having fun

@LaLumieri thats good you had some fun.

I have never been a big people person and tend to be fairy antisocial, so being stuck on a check out having to talk to people for hours on end was not enjoyable in the least for me. I hated it

@iamonfire696 youve had some great jobs

@LaLumieri they were good jobs to start out with

@iamonfire696 awwwe, that’s so cute