LooseSuits Thread: My FIRST ever job was...

My FIRST ever job was...

Sara — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 10:05:33

My first job ever was writing, "publishing", and selling my own magazine in grade five. It was called "Totally Cool", sold for $5.00 per copy, and people actually bought it. I guess it's hard to resist a kid trying to be creative...

My first "real" job (as in, employed by someone else) was working at The Gap in the summer between first and second year university. That was definitely a low point in my life. I might love clothes and fashion, but working in a clothing store was nothing like I expected it to be. One of my managers was pure evil, and I spent more time scrubbing toilets and cleaning scuff marks off the floor using Windex and paper towels than I did selling clothing. Also, minimum wage ($8.00) sucked badly.

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missginsu — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 06:29:30

Taco Bell. I got paid $3.35 an hour and I remember thinking... "This is what my life is worth? I'm worth $3.35 an hour?" It was a disappointing moment.

My favorite part (other than wire-slicing 3'x2' blocks of cheddar intto portions that fit into the shredder) was working a smooth jazz radio voice at the drive-thru.

"Welcome to the border, may I take your order?"

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Vidar — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 02:37:56

My first ever job was at some lame ass dot-com as data entry, every day after school.

My first real job has yet to happen. I've mostly been working at these dead end jobs that werent very rewarding or well paid because it was all I could find that would suit me.

Now I do some websites here and there... I so hate this country.

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animejulie — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 23:04:46

I worked at a used bookstore, starting when I was 15. It was a blast and I was able to meet all sorts of people, and read all kinds of books. When the store was sold, I moved on, and starting working at UPS. I loaded trailers, and learned that were wasn't anything I couldn't do I tried hard enough.

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vickysecret — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 22:31:23

266th Finance Division, where I worked as an admin. I basically did grunt work, answering phones, typing up forms on a typewriter (which sucked) and sorting through microfiche slides (which sucked even more). Pay was a sad $4.75, but when you're only 14 years old, I guess that's plenty.

I hesitate to say that I've gotten a "real job" yet, although when I was 18 I was making pretty good money as a Supervisor for AAFES. I've also worked as a sales associate at Foolocker and the Hat Shack during college.

Hopefully I'll have my first "real job" lined up before graduation this December.

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wrttnwrd — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 19:24:23

Gibbs Home & Garden Center. I loaded bags of fertilizer into the backs of cars, and helped people pick the right plants.

I was 14 - working at a garden center in New Jersey, which is considered 'farm labor' and legal for kids under age 16.

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Devin — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:44:29

Now, my first "real world" job is in technology auditing for one of the big public auditors. The hours aren't as bad for us tech guys. ;)

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amentele — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 09:41:25

Lawn mower. You've seen "Can't Buy Me Love"? Yep, lawn mower.

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LorriM — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 01:36:33

Not kooky at all, Vera, a lot of little kids try to sell lemonade. I did, too.

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vera — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 21:53:58

When I was a little kid, I tried selling lemonade and even pet grasshoppers in my neighborhood. Kooky ideas, I know! The summer before starting college, I got a job at McDonald's at $4.35/hr! Times have changed.

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LorriM — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 03:47:53

My first job was working in a bakery after school. The donuts and danish were yummy, and so were the eclairs.

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Devin — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:32:37

Selling electronics (TVs) at Sears. I wasn't great but I got a good discount on my current 53". ;)

I guess I was a lifeguard at the same time. Pools are great summer jobs. Fun, money, sun, people, etc.

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Ollie — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:57:05

My first 'sort of' job was working on my fathers campsite. General grass cutting, hedge clipping and other boring stuff. But occasionally we'd have to cut a tree down, or demolish a building. The best thing we did was to actually move a building without demolishing it. I don't really know why we did it, but it was fun at the time. I was early-mid teens at the time.

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Anonymous — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:12:10

Hm.

My first job was organizing and indexing my dad's record collection (I should have said no). I got a comic book for a sh*tload of work. Bad deal. I was 12 years old.

[repeat] My second job was indexing his stamp collection. Yep. 13 years old.[/repeat]

The first real job I had was slaving away at Burger King. I took the job on (in Denmark) because I was paid a solid and tax free minimum wage (Denmark used to take care of its own ... and the foreigners living there) plus loads of extra cash on holidays, late shifts, etc. With all that money, I managed to pay off a great Sonor drum kit (plus a forest of Zildjan cymbals). The day I bought the last cymbal I had set my sights on, I quit.

I worked my way up from garbage compactor (great fun that, especially with half-filled milk shake cups fermenting away in the basement) via the drink station to making the sandwiches. In the end, because I think I might have been the only one not stealing anything or ripping the place off in other ways, I got to lord it over the whole shift (a whole bunch of Liverpudlian people (wankers) who lived in DK for 6 months to earn tons of dough ... only to return home and drink it all away within a few weeks (hours?).

I loved working there, especially when I ended up in the back in charge of the cash (does anyone have any idea how damn much money Burger King on Copenhagen's most populated central square makes [hint: the management drove Lamborghini])?

The problem was that for a year or two my hands would smell of garbage and onions and for another year of money (which, in fact, does smell worse). I loved the work with the aforementioned English guys (great bunch of people), but I just couldn't stand the smell of the place anymore.

Today I work in lots of classrooms with many unwashed teenagers.

I really moved up in the world. ;)

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Tyme — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:59:11

I herded cattle from horseback. Long hours, a lot of dust.

For some reason that's totally cool to me. How long did you do it?

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hdw — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:12:26

I herded cattle from horseback. Long hours, a lot of dust.

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darkmotion — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:48:36

working in dad's restaurant.

Then I quit and started working in a vfx company :)

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joshawesome — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 05:37:33

My first job ever was working at McDonalds. I started off in the grill and mastered that quickly and then I was allowed to work up front doing cashier shit. Never made it to manager although I contemplated it. I quit before they could promote me. I hated one of the managers I worked with.

My first job after high school was working in a factory making power line arresters. It was easy work and I got treated well because my dad has been working there as a supervisor for about 30 years. That's why I got the job, but I kept the job because I made triple the rate I was supposed to while everyone else barely made rate.

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frotzed — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 05:32:33

@ ErinR: You totally should have charged more for that second kid. I mean, babysitting one kid is like babysitting ... well ... one kid. But babysitting two kids is like babysitting four.

My first job was mowing lawns around the neighborhood. But my first REAL job was as a cashier at a local grocery store, Dominick's.

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SmileyFreak1981 — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 03:29:28

First job: Summer between 7th & 8th grade, babysitting from hell...and then I did it again the next summer, which was even worse. Those were the brattiest kids EVER. And they are still bratty as young adults.

First "real" job: Gift wrapper at a department store during the Christmas shopping season.

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Tyme — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 02:02:25

12 years old - babysitting every Friday and Saturday night. I proved to my Mom I could handle weekdays and I would study after the kid(s) went to bed. Soon I dominated my block.

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jensized — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 22:02:03

If it's a job, and you're making money, it's a "real-world" job as far as I'm concerned.

That said my first job was when I was 18, as an engraver at my friend's mom's trophy store.

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BIGGER — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 20:57:25

My first job was when I was 6. I went to work during the summer for my dad's construction company. My job was to go around the job sites with a bucket and pick up the nails, etc. that had fallen. I got paid a penny a piece. I would sit around and pray one of the guys would knock a box of nails off the roof or something. That was easy money.

My first real work job, was the summer after 6th grade. Me and my friends contracted shingling jobs from my dad.

First real job out of college was as IT Admin for a company out of Houston.

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ErinR — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:09:08

First job ever was as a babysitter. I was 12 and got $5/hour for one kid and $6/hour for two. I thought it was fabulous.

My first "real" job was as a web copywriter and product manager for a small business. It was also pretty sweet.

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znupy — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:10:46

I worked (for my first job ever) as a codemonkey for some software company.

My first real (and current) job is freelance web developer/designer.

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dook — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 09:13:52

First ever job, this Arcade joint a couple blocks from my house. It was decent enough.

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Kamigoroshi — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 09:09:02

My first real job was a part-time pc games reviewer for a national newspaper. I got to sit at home, play games and get paid while waiting to apply for college. It paid for my first PC (that I owned with my own money) and other things like food and stuff.

Couldn't get any sweeter than that right out of high school

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MangoFalls — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 08:41:12

I pumped gas at a little store in Yarmouth Maine. The owner also had a side business of delivering bagged ice.

In the evening when the traffic thinned, I'd decend into a damp dirt floor basement below the gas pumps to do battle with two large rumbling ice machines. My arms would be numb by the time I was finished. I can still remember the smell of that basement.

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lisa — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 08:27:11

My first job was at 15--I was a basketball coach for a bunch of 3rd and 4th graders. And damn we rocked.

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auburn — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:42:33

My very first job was teaching Sunday School and I absolutely loved it! I wasn't (and still am not) all that religious but I very much enjoyed being as creative as possible. I worked for minimum wage at Kentucky Fried Chicken but my first real job was as a therapist at the Mental Health Clinic.

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JPhill — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:49:06

Mike, you need to post up some pics from when you worked at the golden arch.

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jmathias — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:46:50

My first gig was at 11 years old. I made $3.50 under the table to get up at 5:30am, walk a mile to Brandy's Birds pet shop, load a small Nissan truck with birds and bird supplies, sit in the middle of the front seat between too large and sweaty people, one who always had a large, constantly shitting bird upon her shoulder and a bosom as hairy as it was sweaty for the 30 miles to the Napa Valley Flea market where I would hock bird seed and all manner of birds all day until 5pm when I would reverse the process of loading the truck and sitting between Charlie and Brandy all the way back to the shop, and then walk home 1 mile. It was a great lesson in work ethics. And I'm very glad I no longer have that job.

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dreamweaver — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:10:16

First ever job: Check out clerk at Sav-On Drugs. Cool job, easy money.

First "real" job: Receptionist for a law firm. I say "real" because I went to a business school so I could get a decent secretarial job, and that was the first one. Other than that, I never really had a "real" job, as in "went to college, got my degree, got a job in my field, etc." so there you have it.

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22Dollars — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:08:03

@Mike

I expect you be wearing that track suite of yours when I come down for the bachelor party ;-)

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peroty — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:05:03

@Mike

I don't know if that's sad, or amazing. But bravo either way.

My first job was selling baseball cards in our local barber shop (the guy was a huge sports nut and branched out from cutting hair to cards).

My first real paying taxes job was working at Food Lion the winter after I got my car before lifeguarding started.

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Mike — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:55:50

First job was at McDonald's where I manned the grill and back wall products (chicken, fish) and also put sandwiches together. I actually competed in numerous McDonald's competitions where your performance is rated during during rushes at various restaurants, asked about cooking specifications and safety procedures, etc., and was named to the New York State McDonald's All-Star team and have the track suit to prove it.

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estarla — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:55:08

Fake job: Working as a lab tech in my Dad's lab. Hah. I made(intracerebroventricular) injections on mice right through the soft spots on the top of their skulls. It's a difficult injection for a high schooler. :P Too bad I didn't apply for med school, because I'm technically published in the European Journal of Pharmacology. Sigh.

Real job: Working for the ticket office at UCLA. I signed up football and basketball players' families for their tickets, and sold Ticketmaster and Performing Arts' tickets at the windows and over the phone at the call center.

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Cas — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:48:54

The first job I ever got paid for was as a cleaner in my dad's office. Before that I'd traded mucking out duties for riding lessons at a local stables.

The first job I ever had that had me paying tax was working for the local branch of Whittard of Chelsea.

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RightOn — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:48:29

I experienced basically the same thing JPhill... the University where I went was like "just make it pretty" with ZERO direction except "THIS is our logo".

BLAH

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JPhill — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:37:35

My first job ever was working at Pet-Smart, which sucked at first because I just stocked a bunch of smelly dog food all day. Then I got moved to "specialty" where all of the cool pets were, so the job got better.

My first job out of college was working for the university doing web design. I had a lot of creative freedom, but I would have preferred more art direction. The project management was downright awful.

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Rich — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:34:53

Since the distinction has been made now, mine accounts for my first "real world" job.

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RightOn — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:31:28

My first job ever was as a post hole "cleaner-outer" for my dad's landscape company. My job was to get on my knees and scoop out the dirt as he dug post holes. It was a BLAST....

My first REAL job was asst. network admin for a small advertising firm in Texas. I basically manned the server closet and reset our mail server 654 times a day. I also repeatedly told the ladies in accounting that the reason their PC won't boot is because there's a floppy in the drive.

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22Dollars — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:31:21

JPhill - how about both.

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JPhill — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:26:02

First real world job? Or just first job ever?

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Rich — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:24:54

I worked for PC Cox for around 6 months. I sat on a production line and put sealant guns together. Not the most glamorous beginning, but it paid well and was 5 minutes from my front door. (And still is.)

I remember when I went for my job interview with them, they wanted to know what the hell I was doing there, noting that I was way overqualified. "Easy money", I said, and got the job.

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22Dollars — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:21:40

I would be interested to hear where many of the successful 9rule's members started off in their lives...

My first job ever was first-mate abord the Runnin' Rebel (charter fishing boat) on Lake Ontario. It wasn't as scary as "Deadliest Catch" but we did get tossed around pretty good some days.