Did you work while going to HS and college?

[Neesy228]

I would babysit on weekends and over the summers from the time I was 12 until 16. Then at 16, I had a brief stint at a nursing home serving food to the residents. That job was hard because I would get to know them and they would die. I lasted about 6 months.
Then I worked at a dry cleaner for a couple years until college.
In college, I held two jobs to make ends meet. One was an overnight gig at the computer labs fixing machines and keeping things running and the other was a daytime job at a candy store.

 

[J'aime Paris]

In HS I babysat and worked as a lifeguard/swim instructor at the YMCA.
In college I lifeguarded during the summer at a waterpark in Wisconsin Dells, and worked in the foreign language office during the school year.

 

[disykat]

Starting at 15, I worked all summers and sometimes during the school year (schedule dependent.) I already had quite a savings account because I started doing a lot of babysitting at 13.

My kids did the same. Right down to working for the neighbors before they were old enough for a "real" job.

 

[clori]

I did occasional babysitting during high school and college though some of it was technically as a respite care provider.

9/10th grade - I worked just 1 hour a day 4 days a week tutoring at an orphanage
11/12th grade - 20 hours a week during school weeks as a dietary aide in a nursing home with full time hours summers and vacations high school through college

College - work study jobs probably 5 - 10 hours a week
1st - 1 semester International Students / 2nd semester educational computer lab and helping a professor
2-4th - Evaluator's office for my college

One of my favorite babysitting jobs was during college: I would babysit for a family with 3 kids on some Saturday nights from 6-9 or so. The parents insisted I bring my laundry to do there for free. The father worked for a company that had something to do with vending machines and he always had tons of goodies. He would give me huge bags filled with free samples etc from various vendors to bring back to share with everyone. My friends liked to come to my room when I got back.

 

[bjscheel]

Mainly just on breaks. My mom was DON at the nursing home and talked me into being a CNA when I was 15 so I did that summers and Christmas breaks off and on from age 15 till 21. At college I did just a little bit of work study tutoring high schoolers. I also played organ one or two Sundays a month starting just before I turned 15 and that paid a little bit too.

 

[Disneylover99]

I worked all through high school.

 

[penn19]

I had various part time jobs during high school and college.

High School:
Jr year - Roy Rogers fast food restaurant
Sr year - American Eagle Outfitters

College:
summer after freshman year - Best Department Store jewelry counter
Soph year - intramural sports equipment checkout
summer - SeaWorld San Diego Japanese Village jewelry counter (I got to wear a Kimono!)
Jr year - intramural sports court & field supervisor and RA
summer - hostess at a pizza restaurant
Sr year - intramural sports equipment checkout

I LovED Roy Rogers!

 

[adisneyaunt]

I babysat during my HS years and in college I worked in the cafeteria dishroom and during the summers I worked cleaning the dorms. And in between HS and going off to college I was a camp counselor.

Yes, worked before , during, and after!

 

[wishesuponastar]

I was 15 working as a cashier at a pharmacy until I graduated high school.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

HS I did tutoring and babysitting. In college I did some babysitting, and I worked in one of the offices on campus. It was like 4 hours a week or something like that.

 

[jevs]

Yep.

 

[PollyannaMom]

I babysat a lot in high school, and worked mostly during the summer in college - though one year, I had a great campus job in the resume service!

 

[MrsCobraBubbles]

I live in a rural community so I started picking up work as a farmhand when I was 10. I also worked at a horse barn weekly in exchange for lessons and riding time and I babysat every weekend. When I was old enough for a working permit (14) I got a retail job but continued to work under the table too, picking up jobs where I could and continuing to babysit. In college I worked a full-time job plus a part time work/study job until I had my son. I was raised by a single mom so I had to work to help support the family, and then to pay for college.

 

[winterman]

I babysat from the time I was 12. When I was 16, I worked part time at a large dept. store. I worked summers while I was in college at the same hospital near my home that I had been a candy striper. The money that I earned those summers lasted me for much of the school year. Just as I was running out of money in March or April, I got my tax refund and that got me to summer break. This was back in the 60's/early 70's when college was actually affordable.

 

[Tattylou]

High school- I volunteered in an animal shelter for my sophomore and junior years (unpaid work, but I enjoyed it). Then, I worked in a candy store during my senior year.
College- I worked in the dining hall my first year. Then from sophomore year of college and all through college and graduate school I waitressed. It was a really fun place to work and I'm still super close with friends I made in that restaurant all these yrs later. In fact, I have more friends I still keep in touch with from that job than from college, lol.

 

[mi*vida*loca]

McDonald's starting at 15. That's where I learned how nasty and rude the human population can be. Especially over disgusting overpriced burgers.

 

[Klayfish]

No, I didn't have to walk uphill both ways in the snow, but I've been working since I was 12.

Started by taking out the trash in the doctors office where my mother worked. Then I was a camp counselor and did babysitting.

Once I turned 16 I started a tax paying job...my first day of work was the day after my birthday. Worked in a grocery store...collecting carts, mopping aisles, worked in the bakery, etc...

From there, I had a few jobs in high school years...worked at Macys, camp counselor again (did Macy's and camp during summer), then started working in the pizza business. I'm skipping a few jobs that I tried out but didn't last more than a few months. My parents threw me out of the house when I was 19...I was not the role model child. When that happened, I worked full time (60+ hours per week) at Pizza Hut, then Dominos. I returned to college on my own, part time at first. Once I was ready to transition to full time college, through financial aid, loans and grants, I left the pizza business. But I went to school during the day and worked full time at night valet parking cars. Did that routine for nearly 4 years until I graduated college.

 

[Mrs. Ciz]

I LovED Roy Rogers!

The food was pretty good but wearing that cowboy hat really messed up my big 80s hair!

 

[bigbabyblues]

Not in high school. I started working full time as a registration clerk in the ER at a hospital not long after I graduated from hs and did that all through college. I had to work f/t to pay for my car, gas, insurance and school, plus whatever else I needed or wanted. I lived at home rent free, ate at home when I could, but the rest was on me.

 

[Lilacs4Me]

Started babysitting around age 11, until I got my first real job.

Started as a bus girl at 16, worked straight on through at various jobs until July the summer I graduated from HS. Saw an ad to learn a trade skill, thought it sounded interesting, applied and got the job.

Worked there for the next 10 years during college, housebuying, marriage, and 1st kid. Dropped out of college because I was making good money there. Hated it after a while for various reasons, quit, worked a couple low paying, unskilled jobs or worked at home babysitting when the kids were little, then got sick of not having my degree, went back to school and graduated, have a "real" career now. Quit around Christmas because of a move for DH's work, but still consider it to be a career move, so all is good once we move and I find a new job.

I should just copy and paste this into a resume lol