what was your first job? - Page 3

LyricalDrug · 03-13-2007, 05:54 PM

First job: babysitting when I was 11
First job not paid by parents/neighbors: a summer camp counselor when I was 15 (most fun job ever)
Worst job: tagging labels onto used CD's for a summer, in the basement of a record store, the summer after my freshman year of college
Current job: lawyer

maro_chik · 03-13-2007, 05:59 PM

I'm still in my first job, which I got when I was 19. I'm a cashier at the corner grocery store. So I've been there nearly 3 years, and I've been working my way up the seniority ladder ever since.

It's actually a pretty good gig. I get along well with pretty much everyone, I have an awesome boss, and it's predictable, which I like.

I wanted a job so I could pay for university without going into debt, which I've managed to do so far. And to have some extra cash every now and then.

MissVelvetDress_75 · 03-13-2007, 08:24 PM

16 yrs. old
Six Flags Over Georgia

redhotswami · 03-13-2007, 08:32 PM

i worked at a pool concession stand. then my boss got all passive aggressive angry at me bc i turned into a bouncer. she's right, it wasn't in my job description, but those kids were straight up trippin and she wasn't doin anything about it.

kassandra · 03-13-2007, 09:48 PM

Babysat at 15 and worked a register at Pathmark (grocery store). Now that job was horrible.

mandy1973 · 03-14-2007, 01:40 AM

Babysat a couple of times when i was 13 or 14
Worked in my dad's office during school holidays when i was 14 too - doing photocopying and filing and stuff.
First 'real' job was at 15 - checkout chick at BILO (Supermarket) - stayed there right through high school and first couple of years of Uni too. Pretty good money and they gave me shifts when ever I wanted them.
Why did I work? Coz I wanted lots of clothes and music and concert tickets and stuff that my parents couldn't afford!!

meegannie · 03-14-2007, 03:34 AM

I babysat the daughter of one of my dad's coworkers one summer when I was (I think) 16. Then I worked at my dad's store as a gift registry consultant the next summer, then at a mortgage company when I was 18, then interning for a senator and a member of Congress in DC when I was 19. My first non-summer job after I'd finished college was as a legislative assistant to a member of Congress in DC when I was 20.

sulawesigirl4 · 03-14-2007, 09:43 AM

First real paying job on the books with taxes and all was at Dairy Queen at age 16. I can now make a dip cone without dropping it into the hot chocolate or butterscotch stuff. What a talent to take with me through life.

Dismantled · 03-14-2007, 04:23 PM

farmhand..I was like 5 years old

tiny dancer · 03-14-2007, 06:27 PM

Babysitting at 16 years old, and I wanted to make my own money. My second job was a working in retail,at a really neat gift shop.

Carmelu2fan · 03-14-2007, 06:37 PM

Wendy's hamburger's... I was 16 and it was cool because I was able to by my own used car 6 months later. It was a 1990 Chevrolet Caviler

Justin24 · 03-14-2007, 06:47 PM

Let's see started working at 16 for Hollywood Video (God I hate that place) for 7 years. Left now I work for a security firm and I am being contracted out by symantec corporation. I want to create photo books that I can sell in major chains.

RedRocksU2 · 03-14-2007, 06:47 PM

Flower shop.

Zoots · 03-14-2007, 06:59 PM

Rutgers University, Alexander Library Copycenter Assistant getting $7 an hour for 20 hrs a week.

elevated_u2_fan · 03-14-2007, 09:13 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by RedrocksU2
Flower shop.

: pointsandlaughs :

Bono's shades · 03-14-2007, 10:57 PM

I can't remember if I babysat or delivered newspapers first. That was when I was 13 or so. I detassled seed corn the summer I turned 14 (you couldn't do it until after you turned 14). That was unspeakably awful work. The crew I was on worked 10 to 12 hours a day, 7 days a week. If it was raining you kept losing your tennis shoes in the mud and if it was hot you had sweat pouring into your eyes. It's all part of growing up in Iowa, I guess - at least it used to be 25 years ago. I never hear about kids doing it anymore.

I worked because my parents didn't believe in giving us an allowance and I was tired of having only $5 to my name in my piggybank. Plus I wanted to be able to buy my own clothes.

Pop Artist · 03-15-2007, 01:58 AM

First job was through the city's summer youth employment program when I was 15, working as a day camp counselor at a community center in the housing project across the highway from where I lived. I tried to work the summer when I was 16 but nobody would hire me! That Fall though I got an after-school (college in my case) evening and weekend job as a sales clerk in the mens' underwear department at a department store, worked that job for a year including full-time during term breaks and in the summer.

WHY - money of course, I saved some of it and used some of it to pay for school.

03-13-2007, 05:54 PM	#41
LyricalDrug Rock n' Roll Doggie Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: SF Bay Area, California, USA Posts: 3,237 Local Time: 06:41 PM	First job: babysitting when I was 11 First job not paid by parents/neighbors: a summer camp counselor when I was 15 (most fun job ever) Worst job: tagging labels onto used CD's for a summer, in the basement of a record store, the summer after my freshman year of college Current job: lawyer __________________

03-13-2007, 05:59 PM	#42
maro_chik Refugee Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Winnipeg Posts: 1,087 Local Time: 09:41 PM	I'm still in my first job, which I got when I was 19. I'm a cashier at the corner grocery store. So I've been there nearly 3 years, and I've been working my way up the seniority ladder ever since. It's actually a pretty good gig. I get along well with pretty much everyone, I have an awesome boss, and it's predictable, which I like. I wanted a job so I could pay for university without going into debt, which I've managed to do so far. And to have some extra cash every now and then. __________________

03-14-2007, 09:43 AM	#48
sulawesigirl4 Rock n' Roll Doggie ALL ACCESS Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Virginia Posts: 7,415 Local Time: 09:41 PM	First real paying job on the books with taxes and all was at Dairy Queen at age 16. I can now make a dip cone without dropping it into the hot chocolate or butterscotch stuff. What a talent to take with me through life. __________________ "I can't change the world, but I can change the world in me." - Bono

03-14-2007, 06:27 PM	#50
tiny dancer Blue Crack Distributor Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: small town Pennsylvania, USA Posts: 96,451 Local Time: 02:41 AM	Babysitting at 16 years old, and I wanted to make my own money. My second job was a working in retail,at a really neat gift shop. __________________ Into the heart of a child...

03-15-2007, 01:58 AM	#57
Pop Artist Rock n' Roll Doggie VIP PASS Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Brooklyn, NY Posts: 5,235 Local Time: 10:41 PM	First job was through the city's summer youth employment program when I was 15, working as a day camp counselor at a community center in the housing project across the highway from where I lived. I tried to work the summer when I was 16 but nobody would hire me! That Fall though I got an after-school (college in my case) evening and weekend job as a sales clerk in the mens' underwear department at a department store, worked that job for a year including full-time during term breaks and in the summer. WHY - money of course, I saved some of it and used some of it to pay for school. __________________

03-13-2007, 08:24 PM	#43
MissVelvetDress_75 Blue Crack Addict Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: basking in my post-concert glow still mesmerized by the orbit of his hips..Also Holding Bono Close as he requested. Posts: 25,776 Local Time: 10:41 PM	16 yrs. old Six Flags Over Georgia

03-13-2007, 08:32 PM	#44
redhotswami Rock n' Roll Doggie VIP PASS Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Waiting for this madness to end. Posts: 5,846 Local Time: 09:41 PM	i worked at a pool concession stand. then my boss got all passive aggressive angry at me bc i turned into a bouncer. she's right, it wasn't in my job description, but those kids were straight up trippin and she wasn't doin anything about it.

03-13-2007, 09:48 PM	#45
kassandra Refugee Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: on a sunburst street Posts: 2,360 Local Time: 09:41 PM	Babysat at 15 and worked a register at Pathmark (grocery store). Now that job was horrible.

03-14-2007, 01:40 AM	#46
mandy1973 Refugee Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Far away...this ship is taking me far away Posts: 2,460 Local Time: 01:11 PM	Babysat a couple of times when i was 13 or 14 Worked in my dad's office during school holidays when i was 14 too - doing photocopying and filing and stuff. First 'real' job was at 15 - checkout chick at BILO (Supermarket) - stayed there right through high school and first couple of years of Uni too. Pretty good money and they gave me shifts when ever I wanted them. Why did I work? Coz I wanted lots of clothes and music and concert tickets and stuff that my parents couldn't afford!!

03-14-2007, 03:34 AM	#47
meegannie Blue Crack Addict Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Norwich, England Posts: 15,798 Local Time: 02:41 AM	I babysat the daughter of one of my dad's coworkers one summer when I was (I think) 16. Then I worked at my dad's store as a gift registry consultant the next summer, then at a mortgage company when I was 18, then interning for a senator and a member of Congress in DC when I was 19. My first non-summer job after I'd finished college was as a legislative assistant to a member of Congress in DC when I was 20.

03-14-2007, 04:23 PM	#49
Dismantled Blue Crack Addict Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Vermont Posts: 21,345 Local Time: 10:41 PM	farmhand..I was like 5 years old

03-14-2007, 06:37 PM	#51
Carmelu2fan Rock n' Roll Doggie FOB Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: LOST Posts: 8,295 Local Time: 09:41 PM	Wendy's hamburger's... I was 16 and it was cool because I was able to by my own used car 6 months later. It was a 1990 Chevrolet Caviler

03-14-2007, 06:47 PM	#52
Justin24 Rock n' Roll Doggie ALL ACCESS Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: San Mateo Posts: 6,716 Local Time: 07:41 PM	Let's see started working at 16 for Hollywood Video (God I hate that place) for 7 years. Left now I work for a security firm and I am being contracted out by symantec corporation. I want to create photo books that I can sell in major chains.

03-14-2007, 06:47 PM	#53
RedRocksU2 Blue Crack Addict Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Murrieta, CA. Posts: 26,437 Local Time: 07:41 PM	Flower shop.

03-14-2007, 06:59 PM	#54
Zoots Blue Crack Supplier Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: the great beyond Posts: 36,802 Local Time: 04:41 AM	Rutgers University, Alexander Library Copycenter Assistant getting $7 an hour for 20 hrs a week.

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03-14-2007, 10:57 PM	#56
Bono's shades Rock n' Roll Doggie VIP PASS Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: The back of beyond Posts: 5,047 Local Time: 09:41 PM	I can't remember if I babysat or delivered newspapers first. That was when I was 13 or so. I detassled seed corn the summer I turned 14 (you couldn't do it until after you turned 14). That was unspeakably awful work. The crew I was on worked 10 to 12 hours a day, 7 days a week. If it was raining you kept losing your tennis shoes in the mud and if it was hot you had sweat pouring into your eyes. It's all part of growing up in Iowa, I guess - at least it used to be 25 years ago. I never hear about kids doing it anymore. I worked because my parents didn't believe in giving us an allowance and I was tired of having only $5 to my name in my piggybank. Plus I wanted to be able to buy my own clothes.