What Was Your First Job?

by keya Posted 2012/04/13 21:45:59

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norman 2012/04/14 22:19:19

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I delivered 40 newspapers a day on my bicycle, 6 mornings a week for $0.99 (that's 99 cents). I was 11. A Coke cost 5 cents, candy bars were 5 cents. For 99 cents I could buy 99 Tootsie Rolls.

At 17, after graduating from high school, I went to work in a local shoe factory for $0.95/hour (minimum wage in 1964). Gas cost 26 cents/gallon. My first car, a 1951 Chevy, cost $45.
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kittensforbreakfast 2012/04/16 03:04:47

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I haven't gotten a job yet, I've just been volunteering at places like the hospital, the local library and the retirement home. It's actually not bad and it helps your resume! :)

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MarcusRP 2012/04/16 02:55:11

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Piano Teaching. Still doing it.

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Theresa 2012/04/16 01:35:33

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Waitress at the Jolly Trolley a diner on staten Island when I was a senior in High school ( worked weekends)

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Drachen 2012/04/16 01:26:44

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Everyone's first job was to be a determined student.

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animelover123 2012/04/16 01:02:42

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I hope its at a candy shop haha

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NarcolepticGoat 2012/04/16 00:58:28

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alegrejocelyn 2012/04/16 00:51:10

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My firt job was a hostess at a restaurant trying to move my way up to a waitress when I was 15

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Tami Dauer 2012/04/16 00:08:10

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working in kitchen of a nursing home..dietary aide

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rickybob 2012/04/16 00:00:23
Th8nos 2012/04/15 23:59:40

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Movie theater

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janet 2012/04/15 23:25:56 (edited)

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The few months I stayed at home caring for my children right after they were born, everything else was a piece of cake : )

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gregaj7 2012/04/15 21:16:23

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Paper-boy for a weekly.

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MOMMA THOMAS 2012/04/15 20:49:49 (edited)

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TYPING BRIEFS FOR A BEGINNING ATTORNEY.... (I WAS A TEENAGER.) SOLD FRUITS AND VEGETABLES FROM MOM'S GARDEN AS A PRETEEN.

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autumnfae 2012/04/15 20:29:48

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I detailed cars

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Whatsername 2012/04/15 20:02:17

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having a paper route

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Deliciously Melicious 2012/04/15 19:38:22

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Babysitting.

Aside from that my first "real" job was a carhop.

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sweetserinity13 2012/04/15 19:35:30

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I had the best job ever. I worked in a book store where all I really had to do was read books and tell people what I thought about them. I would go back in an instant!

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blackrings70 2012/04/15 19:07:32

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I HATED IT!!!!!!

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Shep720 2012/04/15 18:58:39

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fastfood when i was 15, sub shop

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Bowman to Shep720 2012/04/16 05:49:12

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Shep720 to Bowman 2012/04/16 13:27:43

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huh, never heard of that place. in a certain part of the country?

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Bowman to Shep720 2012/04/16 13:33:13

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Harold 2012/04/15 18:47:35

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Before paying taxes, I mowed yards and sold greeting cards door to door. I even washed cars for a car lot before going to school in the mornings for a while at $2 an hour. My first actual tax paying job was with Neptune's Submarine Sandwiches in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. the manager wanted to hire me as the assistant manager after being there only a few months. He didn't seem to understand that I had to go to school.

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BUDWARDDIDDLE 2012/04/15 18:36:00

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Mine was working at Dunkin Donuts! I just got out of high school and worked there for about 3 months. It was bad because the customers were very very cheap. Regulars who came in 2-3 times a day for coffee wouldn't leave a tip at all. They wouldn't even leave a few pennies because they used them towards their next cup when they came in again later.I didn't get paid much per hr. either. I think I made $3 and some cents. It was really if you got tips that you made any money and I remember after 1 shift I had a miserable $2.00 in tips for my shift! How much does that suck? I ended up quitting because it was worthless. I practically worked for nothing!

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SilveryRow 2012/04/15 17:52:37

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Cleaner, for a summer. Not good.

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Dave Sawyer ♥ Child of God ♥ 2012/04/15 17:43:00

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Paperboy - 5-1/2 years.

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Blondie 2012/04/15 17:36:24 (edited)

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Last Summer, i worked on the beach at the weekends...I used to clean the trash from the beach and arrange the sunchairs...besides that, i didn't do nothing all day :p Btw, i was paid 2,50 cent per hour..it was my best paid job ever (and the only too) :P

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jackolantyrn356 2012/04/15 17:34:38

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Paperboy at 6 years old. I was at some 36 houses morning and once every 4 weeks I got my ollections so I cou;d get paid. THen I started getting more Subscriptions and finally had almost 50 satisfied customers by the time I was 15

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Pug For Huck 2012/04/15 16:56:17

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baxter 2012/04/15 16:55:25

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The Great Ecape

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baxter 2012/04/15 16:52:58

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Kitchen assitance

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Violet 2012/04/15 16:45:07

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i had and have an online business called artizen market

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frank 2012/04/15 16:39:17

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I worked in my Aunt and Uncles bar, in Long Beach, where they had the best cooks around, you cooked your own stake. I got $10.00 for the whole shift.

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JohnT 2012/04/15 15:53:48

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My very first was having three paper routes for different newspapers. Two early morning ones and one afternoon. Also did landscape work on weekends, had my Social Security card at age 11 that was before all the child labor laws.

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Damesha Powell 2012/04/15 15:45:02

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Wendy's

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Kat 2012/04/15 15:36:52

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Working in a gift shop. Was about 14-15, and they fired me due to lack of experience after 3 weeks. Gutted! Really enjoyed it and worked so hard too. then had a job cleaning show houses :o)

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Flea 2012/04/15 15:13:14

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I poured ceramics molds when I was 14.....

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Ira 2012/04/15 14:31:56

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Prep orderly in a hospital. I would shave patients before surgery. Fun!

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KatherineGPires 2012/04/15 14:25:01

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I worked on a beach bar ;)

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