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What Was Your First Job?

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  • norman 2012/04/14 22:19:19
    norman
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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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  • Tina 2012/04/20 19:18:17
    Tina
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    i've babysat but I'm still trying to nab my official first job
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  • Jammer 2012/04/20 02:29:33
    Jammer
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    Coffee and donut shop for retired people.... they want their coffee and they want it right now!
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  • Stacy Martin 2012/04/18 04:46:40
    Stacy Martin
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    mcdonalds
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  • donald 2012/04/17 22:18:26 (edited)
    donald
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    picking strawberry's
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  • DJPanicDC 2012/04/16 21:02:40
    DJPanicDC
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    Wall mart (any wonder why I grew up to be a union activist?)
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  • ««Gingey, the Master Debate... 2012/04/16 20:37:13
    ««Gingey, the Master Debater of Þ|-|Дэ†»»
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    I was a cashier at Walgreen's for $7.75 an hour. This was almost 4 years ago.
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  • Nellie-TheQueenOfCraziness 2012/04/16 19:16:57
    Nellie-TheQueenOfCraziness
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    Working in the library over the summer. I organized and put away things (books, dvds, music). Sometimes on Sundays I would also go in to do some reading to the kids that went.
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  • Mina 2012/04/16 19:04:21
    Mina
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    Waitress $2.25 an hour plus tips and Golden Corral BEFORE the buffet. Most fun I ever had. I probably had more money then, too.
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  • Marella 2012/04/16 17:18:23 (edited)
    Marella
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    A cook at Chick-fil-A. I started a week or so before my 18th b-day.
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  • Wanna Play 2012/04/16 17:09:12
    Wanna Play
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    File clerk.
    Starting pay: $5.25 per hour
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  • Muriel 2012/04/16 17:06:29
    Muriel
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    Started babysitting at nine years old. 25 cents for the afternoon. Big money.
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  • glass_b... Muriel 2012/04/16 20:13:20
    glass_butterfly ~YSU~
    At nine WOW! I babysit 9 year olds. Not sure I would trust the maturity level on a kid of that age with a younger kid! LOL.
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  • Muriel glass_b... 2012/04/17 21:43:05
    Muriel
    It worked back then because my family lived nearby and would be there in a heartbeat if they were needed.
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  • Sexi<3Mexi 2012/04/16 16:50:41
    Sexi<3Mexi
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    trail guide, got to ride a horse all day
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  • ♥əmma~*In Padfoot I trust*~♥ 2012/04/16 16:34:49
    ♥əmma~*In Padfoot I trust*~♥
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    Bagger in a grocery store when I was fourteen. Now, at sixteen, I bag, cashier, answer phones, make balloons, and face shelves. I make $8/hour.
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  • SoCalEx-Dem 2012/04/16 16:31:44
    SoCalEx-Dem
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    My first job was in a cafe " Country Kitchen". I was the waitress, fountain clerk, dishwasher, and short order cook for $4.00 a week and tips. I was on parole and living in a halfway house owned by the same people that I worked for, seems they got me for very cheap and they didn't report my work either. Bunch of crooks!
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  • Dave**Gay for Girls** 2012/04/16 15:53:10
    Dave**Gay for Girls**
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    paperboy
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  • glass_butterfly ~YSU~ 2012/04/16 15:16:45 (edited)
    glass_butterfly ~YSU~
    +1
    Babysitter funny
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  • Lonna121593 2012/04/16 14:44:56
    Lonna121593
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    Dog walker for ten bucks a day XD
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  • TheMadChameleon 2012/04/16 14:21:19
    TheMadChameleon
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    An assistant Learn-to-Skate coach.
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  • mgk-:{ 2012/04/16 14:12:18
    mgk-:{
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    i still dont have one
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  • Stacie's Mirage 2012/04/16 13:01:17
    Stacie's Mirage
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    McDonalds
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  • FAM of the OMC 2012/04/16 12:26:23
    FAM of the OMC
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    1st paying job was working for a cement crew, wrecking forms.
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  • jmc07806-PWCM-JLA 2012/04/16 12:02:27
    jmc07806-PWCM-JLA
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    I pushed a broom in a school during the summer.
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  • metalmania17 2012/04/16 11:45:58
    metalmania17
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    First paying job? Caddy at the gold course at 12

    Otherwise bailing hay at 8 and driving the tractor at 7
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  • FAM of ... metalma... 2012/04/16 12:25:20
    FAM of the OMC
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    That's what I was thinkg too (the hay bailing), although I NEVER got to drive the tractor. And if you consider supper "payment", then I suppose I got paid.
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  • metalma... FAM of ... 2012/04/16 17:10:40
    metalmania17
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    Yeah I asked my dad that once. "How come I don't get paid?" He said " You got a roof over your head and food on the table."
    I didn't like his answer but now that I have a daughter and I hear the same things come out of her mouth I understand his logic... :)
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  • American☆Atheist 2012/04/16 09:55:07
    American☆Atheist
    +1
    cleaning when i was like 13
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  • Booッ 2012/04/16 09:48:57
    Booッ
    +1
    Too young to work.
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  • shadow76 2012/04/16 09:36:23
    shadow76
    +1
    Hamburger joint only worked a week then Safeway called and they offered 2$ an hour the rest is me trapped for life!
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  • fruitfulmind 2012/04/16 09:24:03
    fruitfulmind
    +1
    Circus Circus in Las Vegas...working on the midway was awesome...fun games all day!
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  • HotPuhtaytuhs 2012/04/16 07:41:53
    HotPuhtaytuhs
    +1
    Record store
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  • Get Bashed 2012/04/16 07:27:35
    Get Bashed
    +2
    Farming potatoes, I was 15 and getting paid seven dollars an hour to do heavy labour...it was worth it and I was happy to have the job!
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  • xXmIsSuNdErStoOdXx 2012/04/16 05:51:46
    xXmIsSuNdErStoOdXx
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    Working at a pool
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  • Bowman 2012/04/16 05:38:31
    Bowman
    +1
    cutting firewood chainsaw oak tree
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  • Met 2012/04/16 05:34:29
    Met
    +1
    bag boy at piggly wiggly.

    piggly wiggly
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  • Deandra 2012/04/16 05:29:02
    Deandra
    +1
    My first job was doing janitorial maintenance at a historic hotel restaurant. Not the most pleasant job. But now I work for the government so can someone say upgrade? ^-^
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  • EmoMcParland 2012/04/16 03:44:39
    EmoMcParland
    +1
    Pasquale's pizza Chicago
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  • MkB 2012/04/16 03:42:12
    MkB
    +1
    Selling homegrown tomatoes and watermelons on a street corner.
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  • mikey 2012/04/16 03:24:59
    mikey
    +1
    was a self stocker at winn dixie
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