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Demovictory9

(32,445 posts) Sat Mar 20, 2021, 08:48 PM Mar 2021

What was your first job? [View all]

Mine was paid tutor in high school. then fast food.

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What was your first job? [View all] Demovictory9 Mar 2021 OP

Summer camp counselor. nt Phoenix61 Mar 2021 #1

counselor in other fields, needs certifications, summer camp counselor youngsters Demovictory9 Mar 2021 #2

Ditto-ish; elleng Mar 2021 #36

Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service (clerk). alwaysinasnit Mar 2021 #3

out in a park, or office job? Demovictory9 Mar 2021 #5

I would have loved to be out in the field, but no, it was in the Federal Bldg. in San Francisco. alwaysinasnit Mar 2021 #7

Bagging groceries underpants Mar 2021 #4

messy! Demovictory9 Mar 2021 #11

Cleaned an independent doughnut shop before school. Harker Mar 2021 #6

I remember when kids could purchase cigarettes for adults Demovictory9 Mar 2021 #8

Nobody carded me for anything Harker Mar 2021 #12

first trip to vegas, wasn't carded for the free alcohol, yes...was different world Demovictory9 Mar 2021 #14

Started as cleanup boy in a full service meat department rsdsharp Mar 2021 #9

did you wear that mesh metal glove when meat cutting? Demovictory9 Mar 2021 #10

No. This was in the late 60s, early 70s. rsdsharp Mar 2021 #17

ok. I cut meat in the 80s. by law had to wear the glove Demovictory9 Mar 2021 #20

I was 15 when I started. I was probably 16 or 17 when I started using a knife, rsdsharp Mar 2021 #25

I remember a lot of that stuff. Used to throw sawdust on the blocks captain queeg Mar 2021 #62

Yeah, I dusted the blocks, too, and them use a stiff wire brush. rsdsharp Mar 2021 #76

One time back then I was at a friends drinking beer captain queeg Mar 2021 #82

I have 13 scars on my left hand and arm, and 2 or 3 on my right hand. rsdsharp Mar 2021 #84

It's surprising the amount of blood you lose depending on where it happens captain queeg Mar 2021 #91

Cash register clerk at a Rexall Drug Store,... magicarpet Mar 2021 #13

Newspaper delivery. Aristus Mar 2021 #15

jobs that kids held are no mostly held by adults. Demovictory9 Mar 2021 #22

Collecting was a serious pain in the ass . . . . . hatrack Mar 2021 #35

I can't remember which my first job was. Ka-Dinh Oy Mar 2021 #16

Was a 'helper' on MyOwnPeace Mar 2021 #18

6th grade? 2021, someone would go to jail for that Demovictory9 Mar 2021 #21

Yep! MyOwnPeace Mar 2021 #39

Washing dishes. Ocelot II Mar 2021 #19

Working a refreshment stand at Pleasure Island. Fla Dem Mar 2021 #23

Working on a fishing boat in Atlantic city tinymontgomery Mar 2021 #24

Working in the family business cleaning meat lockers. First PAYING job - prep work in a restaurant. Runningdawg Mar 2021 #26

Shinning shoes and cleaning spittoons at a local massage parlor. Or that's what I claimed on the brewens Mar 2021 #27

Delivering newspapers, age 7. (Got my SS card to do it.) Buckeye_Democrat Mar 2021 #28

Picking fresh strawberries... 2naSalit Mar 2021 #29

Usher in a movie theater Cartoonist Mar 2021 #30

Waitress in a kosher deli ( -- I'm not Jewish.) fierywoman Mar 2021 #31

Got fired after 30 minutes. Chased out with a butcher knife. Busboy. Beakybird Mar 2021 #32

I mowed lawns for cash then... El Supremo Mar 2021 #33

Paper boy TlalocW Mar 2021 #34

Dairy Queen for $1.25 an hour TexasBushwhacker Mar 2021 #37

My first job, summer between junior and senior year, volunteer asiliveandbreathe Mar 2021 #38

Babysitter at 8 years old, paper route at 12 years old and tomato grading and packing at 14. littlemissmartypants Mar 2021 #40

can you imagine people letting an 8 year old babysit today? Demovictory9 Mar 2021 #65

No, I really can't. I remember it like it was yesterday. littlemissmartypants Mar 2021 #68

A typist at an insurance agency. Some of the forms had up to 8 carbon copies. Arkansas Granny Mar 2021 #41

Pumping gas at a full-service station. TomSlick Mar 2021 #42

I was my parent's worst nightmare. hunter Mar 2021 #43

Clerk at the university library csziggy Mar 2021 #44

I worked in a Deli Mr.Bill Mar 2021 #45

Working in the pet department at Woolworth's 5 & 10 Store. In_The_Wind Mar 2021 #46

Sold peanuts, gum and scorecards at Fenway Park Submariner Mar 2021 #47

Construction grunt at 14 Ferrets are Cool Mar 2021 #48

TELEX operator IcyPeas Mar 2021 #49

I had to look up Telex machine. Demovictory9 Mar 2021 #67

and we had 2 machines.... one for domestic and one international! IcyPeas Mar 2021 #78

Nurse's Aide in a hospital. PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2021 #50

ironing hankerchiefs, then pillowcases Kali Mar 2021 #51

Movie theater usher- first job with a paycheck. hay rick Mar 2021 #52

Working as a gift wrapper during Christmas at an exclusive men's store in SF called Bullock kimbutgar Mar 2021 #53

I remember Bullocks Demovictory9 Mar 2021 #59

Very cool story! I was a Belk gift wrap girl in high school. I loved wrapping gifts. littlemissmartypants Mar 2021 #69

1st volunteer job: Headstart teacher's assistant. Paid: electric_blue68 Mar 2021 #54

Front desk receptionist in my college dorm. 1967-69 yellowdogintexas Mar 2021 #55

I raised rabbits in 4H when I was 6. Didn't make a dime. 1961. rickyhall Mar 2021 #56

Worked for a small chemical producer assembling containers ironflange Mar 2021 #57

Junior Underwriter at Aetna Ins, downtown Chicago Talitha Mar 2021 #58

Whatever happened to Aetna? I rhink theywere health insurance foe foemer job Demovictory9 Mar 2021 #60

It was back in the '70s - I worked in the Personal Accounts Dept. Talitha Mar 2021 #61

I had to stand on a milk crate to reach the grill to cook and fill plates to send through Solly Mack Mar 2021 #63

lot of responsibility for a 9 year old Demovictory9 Mar 2021 #66

I saw it as fun and something new to learn. Solly Mack Mar 2021 #75

Cinderella at an amusement park Rhiannon12866 Mar 2021 #64

My Mom Had A Pizza Parlor Jim G. Mar 2021 #70

I picked tobacco in the summer Sancho Mar 2021 #71

At a golf course radicalleft Mar 2021 #72

Busboy in the Waterfall Lounge malthaussen Mar 2021 #73

Paper boy. I think you had to be 13 to get a route. Threw the Denver Post. Hotler Mar 2021 #74

That was around the same age when I delivered... Buckeye_Democrat Mar 2021 #79

The day after HS graduation lillypaddle Mar 2021 #77

Montgomery wards was my store! Remember Electric Avenue?? Demovictory9 Mar 2021 #81

No, what was Electric Avenue? nt lillypaddle Mar 2021 #85

In the 80s and 90s..the appliance/tv area Demovictory9 Mar 2021 #86

I worked there in 1966 lillypaddle Mar 2021 #87

Cashier at a hardware store. LNM Mar 2021 #80

Helping my father pick up and deliver laundry and dry cleaning Glorfindel Mar 2021 #83

Babysitter, then sales clerk in a stationery store. Wicked Blue Mar 2021 #88

used to be lots of stationery stores. Now just one, that I know of, the Hallmark stores Demovictory9 Mar 2021 #92

Staples and Office Depot took over the market Wicked Blue Mar 2021 #93

Sales clerk in the women's dept of J.C. Penney's. I was 16. 3catwoman3 Mar 2021 #89

Taco Bell discocrisco01 Mar 2021 #90

Substitute secretary mnhtnbb Mar 2021 #94