What was your first job ever?
 

Hi guys,
Just wondering if you could share your first work experience, how old were you? what was your first job?

Cheers

Lawn mowing - 12.

making smoothies at Yogen Fruz. Then worked at the Gap folding clothes. Age 16.

Glad I never have to do those teenage jobs again

designer :)

Grocery bagger

Putting stickers on bags at a clothing factory

The most mind numbing job you could possible think of

I used to work for my step father when I was a teen. He owned a motor repair shop. Looking back at it, it was rather interesting - he would get these motors and have to "burn them" in a huge oven to bake all of the wires so we could pull them out, and then we would sand blast everything. Then we would rewire them, test them, paint the motor, and send it off.

My first "real job" outside of family was at a local grocery store, an A&P. I guess I was a stock boy - stocking shelves, cleaning up spills, bagging, getting shopping carts from the parking lot, etc.

My second real job was working in a restaurant. I started as a waiter, then cook, then became night manager.

cleaning the grandstand at the local horse race track. i was 14 when i started.

Shoveling shit in a horse barn and bailing hay on a farm in the area. I was around 11 or 12. The farmer also let me lay my traps on his land and I would sell the pelts to an old guy named Alfred down the road. $5 coon, $10 rabbit, $15 mink and $25 for a fox.

Lot of rabbits, never did get a fox or mink. Good money in 1986 for a youngster.

7 years old, farm work. 25 cents an hour. I saved enough to buy a 20 gauge shoot gun.

WINNERS WIN because they NEVER GIVE UP!

My first job with a real paycheck was changing florescent light tubes near the top of a 12 ft (about 3.5 meter) tall step ladder in a discount department store. OSHA was not a problem back then :1orglaugh

Got over my fear of heights :P

I was a pin chaser at a bowling alley at 16. I would fix jammed machines

Loading blank tapes into a bank of video recorders and then pressing the master play button and the master record button on the duplication control panel.

I never actually saw the contents of the tapes cause I was too young, but that was how I earnt my pocket money :)

dishwasher, 12

why do people not say what they we're doing when asking questions in threads?

Anyway DatingO. I was a chambermaid at 16 & my partner worked weekends and after school in his fathers video shops from the age of 12 :thumbsup

Selling some random stuff at the local flea market when I was like 10. And my first real real job was at 19 working at the TV station.

That's a good point :) I was a babysitter and I was 13 :)

Bagged groceries at a Winn Dixie!! Yee haw!

Worked at a place that made cole slaw / salads and did packaging for frozen food products it sucked!!

materials handler at revlon. then it split to material handler/ shipping and receiving

Started in adult when I was early 16 so this was my first job you could say. Did some summer work(vacation stand in) at the local supermarket at 14 and 15 though.

Lifeguarding at the local pools! Age 15 making $3.30 an hour, wooo!!

Technically it was picking strawberries during summer vacation when I was 13. However, that was a job I could do whenever I wanted so out of 3 months I worked about a month of it. My first job job was when I was 16 and I had a summer job at a farm harvesting broccoli and rhubarb.

Actual paycheck was little caesers. Mowed lawns and worked for the family furniture store and my dads bar long before that.

CEO chauffeur at 18 as a temporary student job.

1st Job
 

At 4 my neighbor & I picked bag worms for a penny each for his grandmother for Popsicle money.
In the 3rd grade I bought penny bubblegum and sold it at school for 2¢. Most kids parents wouldn't let them buy anything at the five & dime.
6th grade had a small paper route.
1st paycheck job was the evening shift at 7-11. Month after I quit, my replacement was seriously pistol whipped in a robbery. Told me he was sure they were going to kill him.

Helping my auntie, cooking spicy salads and selling those in the market when I was 13. Funny now, but I was super proud I had my money to buy popsicles, chewing gums 'Love is' and sweet stuff without asking my parents. That feeling of being independent, haha

I was around 16 or 17 and worked at Ace Courier in Burnaby, BC in their warehouse moving things from one Fijian guys truck to another Fijian guy's truck.

i was 13 and worked as a helper for a roofer that did jobs on islands. So we ferried shingles back and forth to the island and then carried them to the roof. one month then i started at Mcdonalds

I was 18 years old and I worked as a construction worker mostly we were building glass facades in Milan Italy !

telemarketer

Sold a couple of my first computer games in 1993. Became a senior developer at some NYC-based software company in 1997. I feel so old now :(

Chimney sweep when I was 9. I used to have to climb up, sometimes down the chimneys and scrape the glazed tar and creasote from the inside. Tough work but it gave me a good grounding.

construction works, 17-18

Delivered newspapers on my bike in Queens NY when I was 12. Once a week after school we would have collect the money for the week from our customers. That was in 54 and neither I or any other newspaper boy ever had the slightest problem. Just try that today in Queens NY, chances are it would cost you you’re life.

I didn't get it. Do you mean that people in NYC now shoot at newspaper delivery boys? Please clarify.

Ditto. Also had a good line in car washing. We lived in an upmarket area I even had a price for Rolls Royces. Yes two of them.

Each route consisted of 70 to 100 customers, some even more, the paper cost 5 cents and the Sunday edition was 15 cents, so each customer paid .45 cents and almost all included a 5 cent tip.

That means you could be carrying as much as $50.00 when the minimum wage was around .75 cents an hour. Basically equal to 1 ½ weeks wages.

So when I say it could cost a 12 y/o their life today is actually an understatement.

My Point is our country has gone down the tubes.

I got a job at a commercial mowing company where we would do office complexes or large open fields. I got fired my first week and then moved on to restaurants cooking and later on as a waiter or bartender.

Making and selling 3d models with Turbosquid in middle school if that counts, ESPN bought one of them, too.

If you don't count that, then McDonalds in high school.. Worst job ever.

Got it, thanks.

Paper round, a few weeks after my 13th birthday.

Mecanic ingenier in a alchool factory :D

Ralphs Grocery Store in Glendale, California while attending college.

helping the gardeners when i was 7

delivering magazines when i was 13

(there were also soft nude magazines among those - it was awesome to get new ones every week and looking at them before delivering them to the clients)

A blowjob.

I didnt get paid, but I did get to cum in her mouth. So that was ok.

I was a pirate, zx spectrum audio tapes and Amiga diskettes...

So that's why these magazines are so sticky when just delivered...

when i was 14 i washed dishes at the elks club every fri/sat night for my grandma that was the cook/manager. I don't remember what I was paid but a year later i was fry cook that made all the fries/ potatoes and basically the sides to the meals..

Administrative assistant in HR department