What was your first Job?

[samiwas]

Started working at a large supermarket bagging groceries when I was 16. Had to quit when things got too busy outside of work.

Went back to the same chain, but a different store when I was 17, and again when I was 18 the summer before going off to college.

Briefly worked with a landscaping company when I was 18 for two weeks. Absolute worst thing I have ever done, hands down. Starting at 5:30am in the middle of summer in Memphis and having to wear long, thick pants and a long-sleeve shirt while mowing grass? It was horrible.

 

[Tomorrow]

Back in the day, people used to find out about things going on in the world and their communities by reading a series of printed documents called a "newspaper." It was printed every single day - holidays included - and it used actual paper, pages and pages of it. You have to remember this was before services like Amazon which would deliver products to your home - for that matter, it was even before the internet was in people's homes.

These newspapers had to be delivered to people's houses by someone, usually a teenager riding a bike with a huge basket attached to the handlebar. I was that kid, and I made what was then considered a small fortune (by a teenager's standards) for doing it - about $100-120 a month, depending on the number of subscribers I had.

One of the big downsides, apart from never, ever having a day off, was that I had to get up between 4 and 4:30 am to deliver these newspapers before going to school.

 

[shawnpuerto]

My FIRST job was at a Dunkin Donuts. I put on some weight.

 

[firedept]

My first job was on the tobacco farm I grew up on. Started when I was 12.

 

[RITZFit]

Running data cabling during senior year of HS.

 

[filmbuff]

Mcdonalds. It was about as bad as it sounds.

 

[Mr. McMac]

Mcdonalds. It was about as bad as it sounds.

Can you get me a discount on 2 Egg McMuffins? lol!

 

[Ulenspiegel]

Accompanying Interpreter. Paid well, but was really tiresome.

 

[fcomstoc]

My first job was a "sales associate" at Staples in high school, I started there when I was 16

 

[rhett7660]

Working at a flower shop for my father-in-law. It was actually pretty cool, he showed me everything from ordering, time keeping to doing deliveries and how to read a map. It was actually a pretty cool job.

 

[einmusiker]

Paper route at 11. Became a professional musician at 16.

 

[richwoodrocket]

Cutting grass at 13-14

 

[theonekcrow]

My first job was at Subway as a sandwich artist. Ended up becoming management shortly after graduating high school.

 

[adamhenry]

Pulling weeds in a 5 acre cow pasture.

 

[iBlazed]

My first job was a "sales associate" at Staples in high school, I started there when I was 16

I worked at the Staples Copy and Print Center from 17-21. It sucked. Staples has no respect for their employees and the management are a bunch of corporate stiffs. It's such a cold corporation.

 

[Gutwrench]

Minor: Baling hay and straw, shelling corn, chores for neighbors, detassling.

Adult: packing house

 

[iBlazed]

My first job was at Subway as a sandwich artist. Ended up becoming management shortly after graduating high school.

It's funny how Subway calls their employees "sandwich artists". I can't even say it with a straight face.

Whatever is good for worker morale I suppose.

 

[satcomer]

My first was working for a small town's road repartment and finding out that entailed digging out new graves in the graveyard! Wow that was an eye opener!

 

[Huntn]

At about 13, I got a summer job working for a retired policeman in this Azalia nursery in Upper Marlboro, Md. It made me love green houses. My high school had a green house and I took a horticulure elective just to work in it, although I had no intention of going into agriculture as a profession, always wanted my own green house.

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At about 13, I got a summer job working for a retired policeman in this Azalia nursery in Upper Marlboro, Md. It made me love green houses. My high school had a green house and I took a horticulure elective just to work in it, although I had no intention of going into agriculture as a profession.

In the area many friends worked in the tobacco fields harvesting for the summer.

 

[Moyank24]

My first job was as a cashier at Waldbaum's on Long Island when I was about 14-15. I worked there until I left for college.

 

[srltzz342]

I cut grass in the church's cemetery near my house when I was 14. I was paid with indulgences.

 

[shawnpuerto]

I cut grass in the church's cemetery near my house when I was 14. I was paid with indulgences.

hahahahahahahahah

 

[Natzoo]

Whats your current or first job?

Hi, can you please tell us what is your job or what was your first job and what age?

 

[mobilehaathi]

You can harvest your information here.

 

[sonicrobby]

I got my first job at 18 as an administrative assistant for one of the college departments, then worked as a pizza delivery driver, now I'm an associate mechanical engineer.