What was your first job?

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

I started working at the Dairy Queen at age 15. Oh, the fun I didn't have. I remember cussing under my breath when the inevitable Little Leaguers would noisily stomp in for their after-game treats (although I partook many times after my softball games). We used to make mini Peanut Buster Parfaits for ourselves when there were no customers. Oh, the thievery!

[mike_c]

1. laborer in a lumber mill....

Loading and unloading trucks, mostly, schleping heavy things around all day because us 15 year olds were cheaper to run than the equipment....

[motely36]

2. My first job was when I was 18

I worked as a cashier in a convience store.

[kwolf68]

3. Well

Other than working on my granddads farm in Southeastern North Carolina, I worked at Kings Dominion in Doswell, Va.

[fujiyama]

4. I delivered newspapers

I hated it because I didnt have a wagon. I was stupid and would carry them...I think I was 15.

[Mizmoon]

5. kennel - walking dogs eom

[fishwax]

6. Wendy's (ugh, fast food)

other than construction for my dad, that was my first job. It sucked, although we too had ample opportunities for "fringe benefits," especially when unloading boxes in the walk-in fridge or walk-in freezer, where all those cookies and slices of smoked cheddar processed cheese product just waiting to be consumed.

[neebob]

7. I worked at a dental lab

for about a month until I got fired for writing "FUCK THIS" in little tiny letters on a note pad. Then I went next door and got a job at Wendy's.

[rawtribe]

8. Baskin Robbins

at 16. We would save whip cream cans and suck out the nitrous. It was a fun job. Daiquiri Ice and rum... yum..

[tridim]

14. Wipe cream?

Are you okay? :P I hear ya about the nitrous. My first job had those too. We would also inhale alcohol vapors from giant buckets of rising pizza dough, but I think it was actually the lack of oxygen that caused us to feel "high".

[mwdem]

9. Helped out in a child care center

My third year in high school. My mom worked there, also.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

10. I worked as a cashier at an independently owned Shop'n Save,

which is a big chain grocery store. Most of the stores have been renamed Hannaford now. It was a good first job. My coworkers were very nice. I was 17 at the time. I tried looking for a job at 16, but there weren't any jobs available. It's very hard to get jobs in a town of 3000 people, so I was lucky to get one at 17. I worked at this store for a little over 4 years.

[sffreeways]

11. I loved it

cleaning up a repair shop, putting the tools away, helping out the mechanics. Probably the most fun job I ever had. The owner was in the mob and the big ole Italian men with the hairy ears used to slide me money all the time. They loved it that a 16 year old girl was working in a garage.

[tridim]

12. Newspaper route

but my first real job was at a pizza place called "Happy Joe's". Gawd that was a fun job! I started out making pizzas, then delivering a year later, then assistant manager before I left for college.

[Chovexani]

13. Clerical help at age 15

My sister's friend runs a small but successful temp agency, and when I was 15 I used to help out around the office in the summer. It wasn't much, but it supported my gaming habit. :)

[TahitiNut]

15. Newspaper route, caddy, grocery clerk, busboy, tire installer, forklift

... you-name-it.

[Jamastiene]

16. Dog Groomer, read on before you think it's cool

1988-1994 My boss was a slave driver. Most people think "oh how much fun it would be to play with little puppies all day long". It's wretched. You wouldn't believe the depths of depravity of the human species. Some of the things I saw would make PETA launch a full scale attack on this area. Not to mention the puppies always ALWAYS would piss or shit themselves and I'd have to re wash them. Almost all of the dogs came in matted up and had to go through hours of brushing instead of being shaved even when they needed it. Lawyers, politicians, doctors were the worst dog owners. Their dogs were the ones who were matted the worst and had to go through the brushing when shaving would have been recommended by a humane boss. Not my boss. Asskisser and greedy bitch that she was, she gave those types discounts and told the poorer people who believe it or not took better care of their dogs most of the time that they'd have to pay way more and get their dog shaved down. I hated that job more than anyone could possibly imagine. Come to think of it. If I had had the internet back then, I would have contacted PETA, the US Humane Society, anyone I could think of to stop some of the outright abuse of the animals that I saw. I saw way too much bad bad stuff on that job and felt trapped in it. That's why I stayed.

Oddly enough though, my second job was a breeze. I worked at a music store and did practically nothing all day except "test" new guitars out. Until...the previously silent racist owner came to work in the place full time. Damn him. I was enjoying that job until he made it bad.

[The_Casual_Observer]

17. Graded math homework papers in college.

Stacks and stacks every night.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

18. Bailing hay

Growing up out in the middle of farm country, there were always farm jobs to be had. When I was 16 I got my first "city" job- running a line of hydraulic presses at a rubber products factory on second shift. School all day and factory work until midnight- it was rough, but it was honest money.

After graduation I enlisted in the Air Force (actually, it was BEFORE- I enlisted while still a senior, using the delayed enlistment program. I still remember the day my earth science teacher found out about my enlistment- he stood me up in the middle of class and shook my hand. He was the only teacher I liked and respected, and he happened to be a 'Nam vet.) I entered basic on July 4 in '73. Since it was a holiday I got to sleep in- reville wasn't until 6am.

[solinvictus]

19. Working for a rent-to-own store...

making deliveries, skip-trace, and repossessions. All for $3.35/hour in 1989.

[fleabert]

20. The Gap...

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