What was your first job?

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Earlier in the thread I said it was working at the funfair but that was my 1st full-time job during the summer holidays at 14 yrs old making £1 an hour doing 60hr weeks making £60!.
Actually at 14 it wasn’t bad but they wouldn’t be allowed to pay you that little an hour now!,but before that I had a paper round and picked potatoes in the autumn months .
Deanzer…
 
When I turned 16 I got my first job at a local restaurant as a waitress. We had to wear awful polyester uniforms. It’s was horrid.
 
My first job was draining irrigation lines on our farm. I was so young and so proud to be doing something that my Dad thought was important. We had to get up really early to go to work with him and I remember it was really hard to do that. He had us work all day and at the regular break time he brought me chocolate milk and donuts! I had 15 minutes to eat them and then back to work. I was 8 and it was awesome.
 
when I found out my neighbors would pay me to mow their lawns at 11-12 I became an entrepreneur.
 
I had a few jobs in JHS and HS - mostly one-offs (shoveling snow), occasional (babysitting - neighbor had a brood of boys, and I wasn't that much older than them!), and the slightly longer (a few weeks at an ice cream shop). Although the latter would qualify for this thread, I consider my first *real* job working at a plus-sized women's manufacturer. I was assigned to either order fulfillment (which I preferred - basically, going through this HUGE warehouse - actually, a whole complex of them - and retrieving orders) OR packing orders for shipping. The former was a lot of fun, especially when you were assigned one of the electric carts. The latter was lousy, but I learned to fold clothes really well. My next job after that was washing dishes, which I did for about two years. Fast forward 40 years, and I do all the laundry and dishes... better than anyone else in the house...
 
Damn - everyone here seems like such hard workers! I have to admit, I always was a reluctant (lazy) worker. In my whole working life, I've only worked fulltime maybe a few months here or there. I just always hated having my whole life dominated by a forty hour work week. When I hear of folks working even more - 50-60 hours, etc. I can't even fathom it. :oops:

I've always found a way to get by with part time gigs. Have always rented rooms in other folks homes and traded housework or yardwork for part of the rent. I still do a variety of gigs, rather than just one job. It's why I'll be working til I'm dead tho, as my SS won't really be enough to live on. But everything has its tradeoffs. I wouldn't change anything...;)
 
Powdered coating factory. I absolutely loved the job, could smoke weed at work, was getting paid under the table and didn't have to deal with customers. Just listened to tunes, took safety breaks with my coworkers every hour or so. In hindsight the work was pretty gritty and hopefully no crazy health fun later in life 🤣
 
First job was at a bookstore in Philly when I was 10 years old. I don't know if you could even get away with that anymore. I had to carry all the books to the post office for mail orders. But the mail sack sometimes was as much as 70 pounds. So I just dragged it on the sidewalk behind me. Payday was around 30 dollars and I couldn't believe anybody would give me that much money. Ecstasy!
 
In high school I had a couple tutoring gigs, but my first "real" job was slopping food in the college cafeteria. Very dignified, let me tell you. 😂
 
First job was at a convenience store. If anyone has ever worked at one, you kinda do everything. Cashier, janitor, maintenance, cook, security. All for minimum wage. That jog suuuucked! But I'd sneak some snacks and at the end of the day we'd have to throw out all the food left under the lamps around 11. So I'd dish up some fresh burritos and chicken at the end of my shift haha. Hey no one bought them! Let me throw them out into my car. 😂

Got a few beer runs done on me. I'd be like oh noooo not again.

Fun story, I kept coming up short in my reports at that job at one point but so did a bunch of my coworkers. Got written up several times. Turned out my manager was stealing insane amounts of cash and blaming us!

The next manager came in and kept stealing all the bud light dallas cowboys merchandise. He lasted maybe 3 weeks. I went through like 4 managers at my time there.
 
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