mommyoffive Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 What was your first job? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amber in SJ Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 Besides babysitting & farm work? Burger King. 16 years old and sexually harassed by a creepy 40 year old manager. I told my dad. It stopped. Amber in SJ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momof4inco Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 Colorado Springs Sports when I was 16. I loved that job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mama Geek Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 Babysitting then waitressing, then I worked in the college library and then worked on a surveying crew one summer...all the rest has been engineering. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ali in OR Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 Counter help at a pharmacy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myfunnybunch Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 Babysitting. First paycheck job, Girl Scout camp counselor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bettyandbob Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 (edited) Planting trees and picking up trash for HOA. It was supposed to be "educational" so they were permitted to pay less than minimum wage. I got my lifeguard cert and started getting minimum wage (3.35) a few months later. ETA not counting babysitting or organizing files my parents brought home from their own jobs. Edited June 27, 2016 by Diana P. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zinnia Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 Patient transporter at the local hospital. I was 16, and I'd been volunteering there for 3 summers. I loved the hospital so much, and I was a hard worker for my age. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeacefulChaos Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 I worked at Dairy Queen from the time I was 16 til I went to college (a couple months shy of 18). I also worked there when I was home for the summer after my freshman year, saving up because I was getting married that August. I had originally gotten a summer job doing data entry at this place in the middle of nowhere. The pay was better, but there were no lights in the parking lot and it was all in this kind of sketchy warehouse that was - literally - in the middle of nothing - and I got off after midnight most nights. I went to DQ to get some dinner once when I was working, and my old boss was like, 'You can come back here!' and I was like, 'You know, I think I will.' He did give me a raise compared to what I'd made before, and the atmosphere and everything was just - better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaplank Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 I had an awesome first job as a page for the local library. I worked there all through high school. They even gave me a scholarship when I graduated. I mostly worked in the children's section and learned so much about children's literature. I also got first dibs on checking out new books, videos and music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FaithManor Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 Babysitting was first but sporadic. My first regular job was accompanying and giving piano lessons which I began at 15. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa in Australia Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 working weekends in a bakery as the shop server. first regular job was being a nanny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 I worked with my dad cleaning carpets and then at a bubble tea shop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ottakee Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 Babysitting starting at 9 (yes 9 ) for short periods of time. By 11 I was picking blueberries and babysitting up to 9 hours at a time 4-5 days a week. My first commercial type job was as a dietary aide in a nursing home starting t 16. I moved up to weekend cook at 17 and worked there until after I was married. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Peregrine Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 Video store. I was 16 and I quit when I was sexually harassed by the owner's son. :/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 My first real job was as a waitress through college. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Florida. Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 Not counting babysitting - Working the concession stand at the local movie theater. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyJoy Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 Babysat tons from 11-18, including long weekends, 6 weeks all day one summer, aftercare/tutoring for a third grader one school year. The summer after my senior year of high school I worked 20 hrs per week as a Loan File Clerk for a credit union. I worked with a classmate and we had great fun in our office listening to Veggie Tales CDs while we worked. When she went to France for a week on a school trip I was happy they let me work an extra 20 hours since they weren't paying her :). Then I spent an 8-hour day shredding the bi-annual report. Whoa was that a crazy waste of paper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcadia Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 First regular job would be with Hewlett Packard after college. Then a string of tech MNCs until I stopped working. Before that was temp seasonal cashier at a supermarket, temp weekend counter staff at a general practitioner, private math and science tutor, working at the computer center while undergrad as a counter staff, software instructor and coordinator for the campus wide windows NT migration. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKL Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 Tutored a KG boy in "reading." Earned 25c. Washed dishes for the neighbor (probably not very well) to earn 10c. At 10 I had my first paid babysitting job. Around that age I also used to go to pizza shops and fold boxes for whatever they would give me - sometimes coins and sometimes free snacks. First "regular" job that I got on my own was a paper route at age 13. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom22ns Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 Babysitting, but I didn't do much. Wendy's was my first real paycheck job while I was in high school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tap Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 (edited) First job ever.....Answering the phone for a tiny real estate office at 14yo, I was on call, and if I was available, I went there when the *only* agent needed to go out to show a house so the office wouldn't be empty. First real job.... 17yo was a sales clerk at Music Land during Christmas season. First non-seasonal job....(next fall) at 17yo as the assistant to the art director when I was in college. First permanent job....18yo I worked in a group home for handicapped adults. Edited June 27, 2016 by Tap Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenny in Florida Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 In terms of an actual paycheck, my first job was behind the counter at a Mexican restaurant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmseB Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 Taco Bell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happi duck Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 Boxer. That's what they called the Christmas season job of carefully boxing up fragile items at the gift shop! (vases, candlesticks etc) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6packofun Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 Babysitting for a neighbor down the street, but I don't count that. lol My first "real" job was waitressing and other stuff at a catering/rental hall facility. We had some fun, late nights there and always got a bit of the yummy food! But it was tiring. :) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rachel Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 Paper route in 5th grade. It was an afternoon paper that only printed 5 days a week, I'm not sure those exist anymore. At 13 I detassled corn and got my first paycheck (and filed first taxes). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maize Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 Selling corn in front of our house. I earned over $100 the summer I was 8. First paycheck job was doing inventory stuff when I was 16. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
closed Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 After baby-sitting . . . clerk-type position at a retail nursery when I was 14. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarbecueMom Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 Little league umpire, age 13 or 14. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spryte Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 I taught horseback riding, starting about 12. I just taught the littles in exchange for my own lessons. Then worked at Express, then a party store - custom designing parties. That was fun. Oh, and before and during those I was artist assistant at art shows. Various friends of my mom's would hire me. The travel was fun. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrixieB Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 (edited) . Edited June 27, 2016 by TrixieB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-rap Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 Selling programs at our local rodeo, and serving ice cream at Baskin-Robbins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LucyStoner Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 Working as a daycare. I was 12. I worked all sorts of jobs between 12 and 22, usually several at a time. When I was 22 I got my first FT salaried job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldberry Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 (edited) I only worked one retail checkout job in high school, and only for about 2 months in the summer. My parents didn't want me to work during school. I stapled my thumb to a receipt there and passed out. :blush: First paycheck job was at a telemarketing center. This was back when long distance companies first started up. Thank goodness I only was on the phones about a month before I got promoted to the mail room, then quality control. Eventually I ended up in the training department, creating manuals and training guides, and training the new people, a class of 30 each week. It was a lower management job, I had to wear a dress or suit, and I was so proud! Oh, we also took inbound calls for Collins St Bakery fruitcakes during Christmas season! Edited June 27, 2016 by goldberry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 I was 18 and worked in a chiropractors office for a couple of months until the doctor's husband propositioned me. Apparently he did that to all of the staff the other girls told me. I never went back after that day and my mom called and complained to his wife. My next job was as a substitute teacher until I went to work at the university during grad school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DesertBlossom Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 Scooping ice cream and making cakes at Baskin Robbins! I was 14. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AHASRADA Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 Medical transcriptionist at the doctor's office where my mom worked when I was 16. I took a year off after high school and worked full time as a receptionist through a temp agency. Continued to do receptionist temp work summers through college, until I graduated and landed a teaching job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liz CA Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 Worked at an answering service and medical exchange. Back in the days without cell phones, when we had to page doctors. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wintermom Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 Swimming instructor and life-guard starting at age 16, and continued right through university. It was excellent, as it helped me get a full-time teaching job at a sports school in Norway. :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LisaKinVA Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 First job for pay? Or first job employed? Babysitting Mucking stables/moving manure Christmas job selling clocks and home decor in the mall McDonald's (several different stores from 1985-1992) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carriede Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 I babysat starting around age 12. In that time I also worked under the table at a small preschool during their summer sessions. I got my first official job at 16 at McDonalds. It paid pretty well since it was in a tourist locale. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizzie in Ma Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 Dishwasher at a little Finnish restaurant down the road. Handwashed, no dishwasher. I was 13. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Night Elf Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 My first real job was at a movie theater when I was 15 years old. I absolutely loved that job. Lots of fun! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Girls' Mom Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 I worked at Wal-mart for about 2 weeks, but then got engaged and was moving across the state, so I quit. My next job was as a file clerk at a credit union through the high school's co-op program. I ended up staying there for years afterwards and moving up into accounting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikslo Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 I was an attendant at the Water Wizz, a small water park in MA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kewb Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 Babysitting. First job that had an official paycheck was a recreation aide at a local park. I loved that job and was sad when I had to give it up when I was in college. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparklyUnicorn Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 paper route Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faithr Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 Babysitting and answering the phones at the rectory on Saturday mornings (we lived across the street from our church). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alisa in Florida Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 Ticket seller at Walt Disney World the summer I graduated from high school. I worked there all through college. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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