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What was your first Job?

First job was working at my dad's hardware store when I was 15. After that I several jobs, mechanic, electrician, audio technician, etc Then in 1982 I got my last job in which I retired from about 15 months ago which was an offset web printing press electrical tech. I'm now collecting Social Security at 62 years of age.
 
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Im currently in the final years of high school and do community stuff such as tutoring, but do people have any suggestions for what jobs i should do during high school and will be good for college?
 
Natzoo said:
... Im currently in the final years of high school and do community stuff such as tutoring, but do people have any suggestions for what jobs i should do during high school and will be good for college?
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Your approach is backwards.

The first thing is to discover what you truly like to do. The next thing is to get paid to do it.

If it doesn't feel like work to you, that's the job you should do.

http://www.paulgraham.com/work.html

via http://www.marco.org/
 
chown33 said:
Your approach is backwards.

The first thing is to discover what you truly like to do. The next thing is to get paid to do it.

If it doesn't feel like work to you, that's the job you should do.

http://www.paulgraham.com/work.html

via http://www.marco.org/
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Exactly. This is very sound advice, well worth heeding.

If you can work out what you find interesting, challenging, stimulating, fascinating, intellectually rewarding and then try to work out a way whereby you will be able to work in the field, you will be professionally engaged and will enjoy your work.
 
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my first job was at PetLand Discounts back in the days in NYC, i liked it. one of the pythons bit me thou when i was feeding him. after that i worked at a Doctors office in Manhattan at the front desk. the Doctor was an Italian female with stinky feet and part of the job she had me massaging her feet, i know, weird. she also let me massage her buttocks as well
 
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Apple fanboy said:
Nobody did digital marketing when I left school! Mostly because nobody had invented it!
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Most "digital marketing" is naught but an ostentatious circumlocution for "spam".

I suspect spam had been invented when you left school, but I'd wager it was the canned meat product. (cue Vikings)
 
I helped mom at the hotel she was boss at. I had a paycheck.
Don't know how much I actually I could help at 7-10 yrs :rolleyes:
But I did some sorting work and Mom kept me busy with simple things.
But mostly I enjoyed the ghost hunting and calling room service / restaurant to deliver this and that to the office.

In retrospect, I actually learned a lot of managements through it, as I grew up with it in a playful way. It's part of my backbone, and I had benefited of it in most things I've done later.

I was also most grateful to really be able to see, learn about who and what mom was at work.
Especially as I admired her greatly.
 
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First real job was in high school. I worked as a dishwasher at Sir Walter Raleigh Inn in Alexandria, VA. Worked my way out of the dishwashing to being a prep drone and salad bar monkey. Amazingly, the job led me to becoming a chef in later years, (among other occupations). I did love the work, though.
 
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