What was ur first job…and at what age?

Worked in my dad's shop starting at 7. Sweeping the floor, dumping the waste oil from oil changes into the barrel, pumping gas, Was actually doing the oil changes at 9 and alone in the shop when dad took on another job when I was 11. He paid my brother and I at the end of every season and it went into a savings account. If we wanted cash for anything, we had to go mow a lawn or some other such AFTER we were done with work for dad.

Learned one hell of a lot about people and human nature...

I was cutting lawns and shoveling snow when I was 12. Me and 2 other guys worked after school sweeping floors my senior year of high school, worked at McDonalds for a month, the a gas station for almost a year. I think the gas station qualifies as first real job. 17 then.

At 16, a friend from school was working at a JCPenny outlet store in a strip mall. He said I should apply there cause they were looking for someone. My buddy worked in the back warehouse area. I was thinking I'd be working back there.

Nope, they put me on Customer Service. Now if you could, picture a super shy ginger kid with near crippling social anxiety and then you have me. I had to wear a forest green rayon button down long sleeve shirt and black tie (clip-on).

So basically I had to do the CS thing with prospective customers, boy I sucked. I tried my best to avoid everybody that came in. Lol And a large amount were Mexicans, so you can imagine how that went. I got used to saying, no hablo espanol.

I lasted 3 days. 😆

I came home from the last day of school my Junior year. My dad said he found me a summer job. (oh no) You go to work Monday morning. I would be laying water line for the city. It was pick and shovel type work and paid $1.00 per hour. I think after taxes I took home around $37.00 per week.

Working in a corner store. Polishing the fresh produce was one of my duties.
My peers would stand outside the shop, laughing at me as I "Polished" the cucumbers. 😄
I was 14.

Delivering newspapers. I was 11. That Winter I came down with an ear infection complicated with tonsillitis that left me deaf in my left ear. Quite a price to pay for about $5 a week.

Delivering flyers like the Penny saver. Around 11 and 12 years old. That's not counting helping my father at his work, long before that on weekends at the bakery.

Switched to newspapers in junior high. Then restaurant in highschool. All of that under the table.

I never filled out a W4. Heck I didn't know my social security number until the military.

Not sure exactly how old I was, but my first actual regular job was working at the local McDonald's. I made fries and burgers and worked the cash register.

I worked for my uncle who’s a vet.

My wife's first job was as a life guard at the country club pool.

I washed dishes at a local restaurant when I was 14, saving money to buy a stingray bicycle with five speeds and a banana seat with a sissy bar and high handlebars! I ended getting one like this one only mine was blue and it had a small front wheel

Working in a supermarket at 16 for the $2.35/hour minimum wage. It was 1976.

Full service gas station attendant, and I was about 17.

Super store. I was like 16. I worked there for like a month or so and decided i will never work in a store again, then went into construction.

@wiseacre 🤔like most my age in our teens it as either a milk round or in my case a paper round

Delivering newspaper in grade 4 my route was straight up St Kevins street in Montreal deliver last paper in morning and my school was across the street lol

Regular salary, Lifeguard, age 17, before that started mowing lawns, babysitting, etc.

I worked in a diner at 19. Before that various paper routes during the summer while in jr high school

I started roofing at age 17. I got paid under the table & I lied about my age because I was supposed to be 18 to work there

Babysitting. 14

I guess i only ever worked for family

I had 3 paper rounds at 13.

Dog walking, from the age of 12.

12 picking berries

Worked in a warehouse when I was 17. Lied about my age to get the job

Paper route probably 13.

age 10. milk man helper, delivering milk to grocery stores,

19

Bouncer at local Tavern ( 6'4" & 102 Kgs )

Had just started Uni

First job at 14 at this religious retreat.

Still never had a paying job

Mowing lawns at 11. Worked in the family sawmill at 13.

paper route and im thinking 11 or 12

Truck mechanic 16

Paper boy 10 yrs old.

12 working at pawpaws sawmill

Coal mining. 9

Analyst. 16

7 operating a gravely tractor with bushhog

13, cleaning the school during the summer

Pumping gas and washing cars. 15

10, being forced to "help" on the family farm, long story.

Distributing flyers on my rollerskates for a nightclub I was 13
I got 50 bucks for 1000