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your first job?

I worked in a call center. I hated every minute of it but it payed me nicely while at Univeristy (about £1000 a month for 3 months of each year). You would think that perhaps my call center experience would make me nicer to people on the phone... unfortunately it hasn't worked out that way.

I like my current "proper" job because I don't have to deal with the public.
 
Paper route
House painter [mostly exterior]
Grocery store stock clerk/produce guy
Printer [Bindery cutter/folder/stitcher, job planner, scheduler, manager, VP/prepress, VP/digital/fulfillment/warehouse/mailing]

This last one has apparently become my life's work, having kept me busy going on 23 years now. didn't see it coming:p
 
Mowing lawns & yard work at $2 per at 9.
Then newspaper delivery at 12.
Then two newspaper delivery - morning and aft.
Then picking corn and busing tables.
Then making/delivering pizzas and pumping gas ('70's.)
Then stocking shelves/bagger and pumping gas.
Then I graduated high school and really went to work...

My whole life I've had at least two jobs concurrently.

On my third company now at 50 & doing pretty,pretty okay - those jobs made me what I am today.

If you're not afraid of hard work and eating some pooh sometimes, you'll do great. Good Luck to you!!;)
 
First job in my early teens was in construction. Then I held a job as an interpreter, a marketing intern, a computer lab assistant, an HR intern, and buying/selling electronics online. I still do freelance interpreting but I'm finally graduating from college in May and am dreading the idea of a real job.

I'm debating just not getting one and continuing my freelance interpreting and online sales. I can do really well with both, but ultimately depend on having a good day to make money. While I don't require a lot of money to live, I would not have health insurance and might not be able to save much money initially.

I guess I'll give it my all for 6 months and get a real job if I can't make it. I just have this feeling in me that living my life this way will ultimately make me more successful and happy.
 
First job was as a "Web Developer I" (ie copy and pasting) for eCollege, I think I would have had my head explode if I had to stay with that level of job any longer, great people, great company, boring work. - $15/hr

Currently working as a part time PHP Programmer / General Web Guy for a small internet startup in Denver. - $25/hr

I'm eighteen if anybody is curious.
 
My first job was amazing....not because of the pay......

I worked for Lindt & Sprungli, the Swiss chocolate company......

can you say free chocolate?.......don't ask me how I stayed so thin, as I honestly have no clue. I ate so much!
 
First job of any sort was a temporary postman at Christmas to get some money to subsidy my student existance- I loved it, it was heaven walking snow covered streets through lovely Kentish villages with Christmas cards and presents to deliver. Crisp early starts really christmassy and I had lots of mince pies and the odd nip of whiskey or cherry given to me on my rounds . Bliss.

My first REAL job was a (very very junior) Engineer at Rolls Royce in Derby (RR Gas Turbines (Jet Engines) not cars)
 
Prepped clothing and accessories for buyers at "Market Week" in Los Angeles. (for a couple different designers) So I steamed clothes, hung the ones that were not on mannequins and carefully arranged handbags and such so it looked pretty for the people who decided what to sell in their stores. Got the job from my aunt, it was only seasonal work, obviously, but it was my first.
 
First job (on a YTS scheme - 80's government sponsored training program for school leavers) was running an MS-Net network on Apricot Xen-i. Was 16 and was a work placement but ended up running the whole damn thing. Was pretty cool they trusted me to run it at 16.
 
Not counting babysitting, my first job was as a waitress in an Italian restaurant/gelateria. The pay was pretty crap, but the food was fantastic. I was 15 and they paid me under the table. My first jobs on the books were as a lifeguard and working in a belt factory.
 
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