What was your first job?

Question

My first job was when I was 15, I sold magazines over the phone, but it was short lived, I ran out of relatives to sell to. LOL

My next job was working at a private lodge in Northern WI, I was cleaning cabins, helping in the kitchen, peeling 50 lb. bags of potatoes at 5:30 AM, waiting tables. , washing dishes. All that for $1.60 per hour! The tips were great though, and the owners of the lodge gave us a free apartment and we could use the jeep to get around the 1200 acres.

Answer 1

Giving mom a lesson on why life's a b i t c h.

Answer 2

My first job was babysitting. And I also sat for a boy and girl for two summers in a row, every day during the summer. Then when I was 151/2 and I could get a work permit, I worked over Christmas vacation, again I did this for 2 years in a row.
I worked in a small warehouse for a major florist in San Francisco. in Union Square. They had a Huge Christmas tree display in their store around the Holidays, and they had very extravagant ornaments on the trees which they sold. Well I would work after school and I had to take each ornament and
put paper tag price stickers, mark the price on each one, and put it on each ornament, before they sent it over to the store.
Then after I graduated H.S. I started working at a collection agency, as a file clerk, eventually worked my way up, and before I left there I was doing Accounts Receivables and Accounts Payable. Those were my first jobs so to speak. I did have others later.

Answer 3

My first job was delivering the Delaware State News. I had ONE customer because no one wanted to ride all the way out to her house. She had a beauty parlor in her basement and I had to take the paper down to her. I was really made over by her customers and in the winter always had some hot cocoa and cake or brownie. By the time I gave up the route I had 64 customers (in a town that had 2,500 people and several delivery boys..and the Wilmington Journal) that was bad. I took areas that no one else wanted and bought a couple of routes.
After that was in an ice cream stand that sold...ice cream and milk. It was family owned and the 'factory' was across the street. I made 50c and hour. The location was great since it was on the corner of the street I lived on.

Answer 4

At a pharmacy filling glass prescription bottles below the counter. after school 4 to 6 and 8 hours Saturdays for 10 bucks a week. 1965

Answer 5

I was trained at 15, as a salesperson for the Christmas season. I loved the job and made $1.00 an hour and had 20% ddiscount privileges on the clothing.

We were taught that the customer was always right even if they were wrong or nasty. If you did not treat the customer right, you got fired!!! Even though it was minimum wage, I took my job very seriously.

Answer 6

From 12 to 14 caring for babies and children, mostly in the day time. At 15 At an out door drive in theatre in the day time, alone I popped popcorn, for a vender who had machines in
bars, resturants, etc. I'd put the popped corn in large sacks
seal and stack them. He came in early one day yelling, "Stop
Stop" I thought I had done something wrong. He laughed and said, "No, I have to sell this stuff, no one ever popped corn this fast before." That was in 1947 25 cents an hour.

Answer 7

my first job was scraping, then washing dishes in the school cafeteria. had to work for my lunch or probably wouldn't have been able to eat. i was in 3rd grade so i would have been 7 then turned 8 years old. they wouldn't let you work any younger than that. had to give up noon recess in order to eat. pretty sad now that i think of it. my first job that i got paid actual money for was when i started babysittting at age of 10. i watched 4 boys - stairsteps - no more than 15 months between each of them if that. i would sometimes go on saturday morning and help their mom clean house all day, then watch the boys and whoever they were going out withs kids too. i got 50cents an hourr for cleaning and babysitting, no matter how long i was there and how many kids i had. when i turned 13 i was old enough to de-tassel corn. that was hot, sweaty, nasty work, but we got paid $2.50/hr.
boy when i look back on it, i guess i had a pretty rough childhood. my Daddy died when i was 12 so all of my jobs were out of necessity rather than the desire to buy myself anything extra.

Answer 8

After been able to get into University with the Right grade, I wanted to be an architect. but my maths were dreadful. So had to give it a miss. My parents said; Teachers Training College. So off I went. It drove me crazy! learning to cut up bits of paper and make them into shapes, learning to write on the black -board. Give me a break.

I was in Durban, so i skipped most lectures and learnt to surfboard ride. At the end of that year, three of us decided we would go to Europe and hitchhike around. To my parents dismay I left TTT.

So, to save money I got a job as a 'Diamond Sorter" , with Anglo American. Still carried on dancing in few shows at night. I did work in an ice-cream parlour in my last year at school in the Xmas hols. I guess Diamond Sorter was the first.

Answer 9

I started my first job at the age of 16. I was a nurses assistant. That was 19 years ago. I am still working in nursing homes...seems to be my calling. Only now, I am an LPN w/ a cushy office job overseeing medications for the residents.

Answer 10

Cabin boy. Foreign flag merchant ship. Age 11. Shipped out every summer with my father until I entered the Navy at age 18.

Answer 11

$35 a week plus tips Victory Drive Barbecue, Columbus, GA

You folks in Wisconsin do have some lovely places for youngsters to work. My oldest granddaughter is working at a B&B, pizza, coffee, candy shop in Nelson, WI. in the winter they will also use her at the ski resort. $8 an hour is good pay, too.