What was your first job?

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My first job (not including cutting grass, and doin other side jobs for people before I turned 16 and could have a job on the books) was a part time grocery stocker at Winn-Dixie after school and sometimes on weekends. Was there for bout 18 months.
 
I was a paper delivery boy as a kid. In high school I was a busser / dishwasher at a little breakfast diner.
 
Paperboy,potato’s picker in the October holidays,worked at the funfair in the summer holidays all in my secondary school years.Apart from the paper boy as I started that at primary school
Deanzer
 
My job at the funfair I was 14 working 70 hrs a week at £1 an hour £70 for 70 hours🧐.When your 14 I thought £70 a week was great and I bought my 1st set of decks and mixer with my saved wages.My school friends would laugh at me cleaning the bins,sweeping up and selling balloons ect but they maybe got £5 a week pocket money if they were lucky?.
I was the best dressed kid at school that’s for sure and I was the only one with turntables at that time😃 Acid house❤️🏴‍☠️
Deanzer…
 
I had a little Saturday job working in a sweet shop. The scales were the old fashioned type and the fashionable sweets at the time were pear drops, lemon sherbets and victory v's. They were put into little white bags and most people ordered 1-4 ( quarters) it was hard when they wanted multiple sweets from different shelves as they came in large glass jars/ bottles.
 
@biglil54 I loved those sweets, it was about 10p for a 1/4. The Pearl Drops I loved. I bet those jars were heavy, made from glass??
 
biglil54 said:
I had a little Saturday job working in a sweet shop. The scales were the old fashioned type and the fashionable sweets at the time were pear drops, lemon sherbets and victory v's. They were put into little white bags and most people ordered 1-4 ( quarters) it was hard when they wanted multiple sweets from different shelves as they came in large glass jars/ bottles.
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Here in the uk it was qtrs too or you could buy a 5p mix up when I was VERY small then you’d get a 10p mixup and a 20p mixup if you were flush🤣.They we’re in white paper bags also.The local shop where I stayed as a child used to unlike giving change ie 3p ect which was a lot more than these days!,he used to open up a bag of say opal fruits or starburst I think they call them in the US and give you 3 sweets instead of the change!.My mother thought I was taking the piss and marched me over to the shop as she thought I was lying you should have seen the look on the shop owner’s face (who was Vietnamese) with his straw hat tied under his chin.Put it this way I NEVER got sweet for my change again!🤣🤣🤣
 
@Deanzer I was a 10p kid, 20 was just way out my families league; especially with 3 kids. Do you remember the ice cream vans too? Taking the glass bottles back for a swap. We also go glass bottles of milk on our doorstep every morning and collected/swapped the next day. My uncle used to drive those vans as a second job, I also remember them being electric, interesting 🤔. Plus using the crates in the snow as sleds, our imagination from practically nothing was first class.
 
Don't forget the Green grocer. Guy in a van would show up twice a week with fresh locally grown produce.
Back then a penny farthing would net you a few lemon drops. So miss those days of simple innocence and the UK of course:)
 
My first job is so funny looking back. I couldn't work because I was so busy with sports and school of course, so I begged my parents to let me work at the local fair which was just one week. The first year was great, my own money! (t-shirt stand btw) and the second year the owners of the stand left me in charge because I was doing a good job I guess, which is crazy to think about, I was only 17! And that place was BUSY, but I was trustworthy and responsible, it was my only chance to get my own money that would last for awhile. BUT, with only an airbursh guy, my Dad was nervous about me being there at night closing up. So he would sit in the restaurant across from the stand every night at closing for 10 days! What a good Dad and a great memory. :heart:
 
Wow, I totally forgot my first “real job”, but this thread brought out so many memories from decades ago. I worked mowing lawns, trimming shrubs, planting gardens, etc from the time I could reach the pedals on the tractor lol! My first actual job was ski rental/teaching ski lessons. It was awesome since I enjoyed snow blades (the little skis) at the time, so I got a free lift ticket and season pass. Snow blades worked so well because I could ski backwards to help the person out.
 
I worked in a toy store when I was 15, cleaning and re-organizing and re-stocking. That was my first part time job.

The first job I had that actually allowed me to make a living for myself was dealing drugs. Did that for a handful of years, til my addiction to various drugs got way out of control. then went to college in my late 20s and now have a normal career (well, the work I do is still odd, but its legal and I get a paycheck and all that fun stuff).
 
Well my first job was grooming horses my second job I waited tables at TGIFridays I turned 21 we would get off our shifts and sit at a special table (table 20 I remember lol) and get piss drunk. Then at 2am when everyone was of work we'd go drink and smoke in the parking lot if the restaurant for a few hours or maybe go to a close apartment it was so fun but so reckless!!!!! They don't let employees drink at the restaurants anywhere I would bet anymore I think hmmm. Haha. My two best friends from that time period have passed away. ..one.from colon cancer at age 45 he fought for 1yr.....then his partner passed about 5 yrs after him (bc cimplications from not caring for himself in a lot of ways). Memories. So bittersweet. I went to call my friend today. Guess I'll see him in Heaven I pray ...
 
When I was 16 I worked in a restaurant for a few months. I wasn't comfortable; my morbid shyness didn't fit the work.

About 30 years later I was hurting for money. Expecting nothing, I checked the unclaimed funds websites for states I had lived in. Altogether I claimed about 900 dollars. About 200 of it was from that first job. I had forgotten to get my final paycheck.
 
@Kirarap Restaurants are full of functional alcoholics or they used to be back in the day!.
How many cooks like a tipple during service😂
Deanzer…
 
@Skeletal_Wings What’s the saying Never get high on your own supply!.
Not many manage this but it’s drugs we’re talking about mate so understandable ✊
Deanzer…
Ps glad you got sober.
 
First dollars earned involved going around the neighborhood and asking people if they wanted their lawn mowed. $2.50 to $3 per yard. Different times.
 
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