What was your first ever job, and did you get paid enough for what you had to do?

Answer 1

paper round, cant remember what I got paid

Answer 2

My first job was as a kennelhand at the local RSPCA, and I was paid enough. However, 20 years later, I am now an Admin Manager and am certainly not paid enough!

Answer 3

worked in a private nursery looking after 23 2yr olds every day with 1 assisstant!!! Had to do everything from playing,educating,feeding,changing. Worked 10hrs a day 5 days a week,the nursery was damp,cold(despite heating) had mice in the kitchen in the water tank cupboard,crawling with spiders,had a rat in the downstairs area where the pre-school kids were and they remained open whilst they put down poison!!!! Even had a cockroach in the manky staffroom!!!! Trained for 2yrs and got paid £450 a month!!!! So no i don't think i got paid enough!!!!

Answer 4

First proper job was on a pusher tug delivering the steel netting that was to become the foundations for the Oosterscheldedam. I was happy with my pay. I was only 18 and long happpy i had an interesting job instead of being stuck in and office, kitchen or similar.

Answer 5

My first Job was as a teacher at a scout camp, and The pay is next to nothing. Sometimes I think that I could sell dirt for more, but that is not why I do that job. I do it because I enjoy helping people and because I like the situation there!

Answer 6

My first ever job was a brick layers labourer, and no i didn't get paid enough, i had to be first on site, get the cement mixers going and make loads of cement, carry bricks and haul full wheelbarrows up a ramp and into a skip, it was back breaking work !!

Answer 7

I worked in a family owned "Are you being served?" type department store when I was 16 and got paid £2.10 an hour! I don't think it was a bad wage for the time but I do remember that I earned £16 a day and driving lessons were £17 an hour! :)

Answer 8

My first job was working the concession stand at the baseball field. Yes, I got paid enough since I really didn't do that much.

Answer 9

first job was a paper round and i thought i was a millionaire x the money allowed me to go to the skating rink weekly x
first job as saturday girl in a restaurant £1 for the day and my bus fares came to 1/6d
first "proper" job same restaurant £1 a day but for 5 days x gave my mam £3 a week x paid bus fares .... was better off with my paper round x

Answer 10

Working at a recycling center dealing with people who accuse you of ripping them off cuz they've been saving cans for a week and expected lots of $$$$ and then jumping into bins full of 6 month old milk jugs that have been sitting in the sun. So I'd say no the pay wasn't worth it.

Answer 11

My first job was babysitting. I thought I was paid enough for a fairly easy job....I never had bad kids.