What was YOUR first job?

[Deb in IA]

GMA is running a feature all this week about some of their anchors' first jobs.

Tony Perkins, the weather guy, was a narrator on one of those tour buses in Washington, DC.

Robin Roberts was a school bus driver, when she was still a senior in high school! She got the job partially because she was on the girls' tennis team, and they were always looking for a driver for their bus to go to their matches.





As for me, my first job was as a student lab tecnician in a biochemistry lab. In other words, I washed Ehrlen flasks and graduated cylinders.

What was YOUR first job?

 

[momof3disneyholics]

I worked as a checkout girl at Winn Dixie.

 

[GoofItUp]

Chief calf feeder and bottle washer! No kidding....I grew up on a dairy and we all started out with the baby calf feeding. Later, I graduated to feeding the weaned heifers and cows. What a promotion!

 

[ILUVDXL]

Other than baby-sitting as a youngster, my first real job was a meat wrapper in the meat department of a chain super market. I did this all through college and the money wasn't bad for it's day since we all had to join the union.

 

[KristaTX]

I was a cashier/office worker at a roller skating rink.

 

[manchurianbrownbear]

I was a janitor in an office building. Four or five other high school guys and I cleaned a 12 story building every night; vacuum, dust etc...

 

[monkeyboy]

I was 15 and I taught roller disco

 

[Gary M]

I pumped gasoline at a Sinclair gas station when I was 16. That was when I had to wash the windshield, check the oil, water and air in the tires.

 

[Dan Murphy]

Sweeping the parking lot at a, for that time, large grocery store (small by today's standards). I was 15 and the manager 'created' the job for me, paid me in cash.

 

[battricia]

Cleaning villas at a resort. That could get really gross @ times.

tricia.

 

[Girls Scout Leader]

Very first job was also my very BEST job ever..

I worked at a veryu large Michigan State Park. Met my future hubby there at 16 and been with him ever since.

 

[jjskribs]

Starting at age 13 I worked in tobacco fields in Massachusetts. (Hatfield and South Deerfield). I worked for the Consolidated Cigar Corp. and earned 85 cents an hour for a 48 hour week. We were considered farm labor so there was no overtime! The tobacco was used for cigar wrappers on Muriel cigars.

 

[worm761]

i worked at Rally's (fast food burger joint). loved my job. started working at McDonalds while in college. dropped out of college (i know~ stupid move). but i am still with McD's and most of the time love my job. i am a manager and hope to own my own restaurant some day. i am letting McDonalds train me on how to run a restaurant! LOL some of these classes are really boring though.

 

[Towncrier]

If being a paperboy doesn't count (I had several routes over the years), then my first "real" job was in a grocery store where I stocked shelves, bagged groceries, wrapped produce, mopped floors, washed windows, and occasionally ran the cash register. All for $1 an hour (in the early 1970s).

 

[DisneyBug1995]

A soda jerk at an old fashioned soda fountain.

 

[Pooh_Friend#1]

I have had 2 jobs total in my life. My first job was working in a daycare for 6 years. Duties consisted of every age group from 6 weeks to 12 year olds, cook, bus driver, and assistant director. My second job, which I consider my real job, is working as a Human Resources Specialist for the Bureau of Reclamation. Two completely different jobs!!

 

[danacara]

Assistant manager at a tanning salon. Made commission by selling packages. Killer money!

 

[momm2four]

I ran my high school library during the summer when I was 15. It was a really good job, except there were a couple of really big, scary guys who would come in after summer school was over on some days and try to mess with me. I guess they thought it was funny trying to scare me. I made sure to keep the library office door closed and locked, but it was a great chance to make extra money.

Lori P.

 

[JC2]

My first job was a platter fixer at a seafood restaurant. I put food on the plates.

 

[2angelsinheaven]

I worked at as a medical records clerk at age 17 for MIMA a large medical/doctors company in Melbourne, Fl. Part of Health First. Which led to my job as a desk manager for Shands Hospital when I was 18 in Gainesville, still regret leaving that job!