What was YOUR first job?

[arminnie]

Credit Bureau - companies called up and gave information on people wanting to charge. I pulled the record (pre-computerization) and gave them the report. The hardest part was that filing was done phonetically not alphabetically.

This was in the days before Visa and MC so almost every little store had their own charge accounts. I learned what EVERYBODY in town made and because of the legal items filed there also - some deep dark secrets of my friend's parents - like previous marriages, etc. I never revealed any of it though.

Ironically my last job was at Visa International. I started there when it was quite small and stayed until I retired. So I guess I went full circle in the credit business.

 

[DD2Disney]

cashier at a grocery store....nothing to exciting.

 

[*Fantasia*]

Believe it or not...I am still doing the same job as I did when I got my first job when I was 18 and was still in High School. I am an Optician. I used to work in the lab making eyelasses. Then later I decided to work on the retail floor. Now I work for the Optometrist. And I am very happy at where I am at.

I love my job!! I just don't like work!!

 

[nativetxn]

When I was 13 I did ironing for neighbors. 10 cents for a white dress shirt No wonder I had plenty of customers

My first legal job, meaning taxes were withheld from my pay was as a clerk in a variety store. $1.25/hour (that was minimum wage in 1965)

 

[Kitty 34]

I was a summer camp counselor.........was one of the best jobs I ever had!!! Very rewarding!

 

[Danauk]

My first job was as a silver service waitress at the Hilton Hotel (and I hated it!!)
I taught the trumpet privately before (when I was 15) that but that was not for a company so I'm not sure that counts.

 

[dizneenut]

White Castle.

 

[Patabel]

I flipped burgers at a Woolworth's Five and Dime on Chicago's northwest side (now doesn't that name age me! ). Started one day after I turned 16 (they wouldn't let me work before then) and made a whopping $1.25 an hour! Worked after school and on weekends. Actually, I had a lot of fun with it and met some really nice folks!

 

[SplshMtn99]

My first job was in 10th - 12th grade. A select few high school band members where given 4th grade students for private music lessons. I had 6 students. Each had a 1/2 hr private lesson on clarinet. They paid $6 for 1/2 hr. $36/wk -- no taxes. 1980 - 1982

My first "real job". After high school, while in college, I worked at McDonald's for 3 yrs. $3.10 / hr (PAY CUT!!!!! LOL) 1982 -1985

 

[lstokes]

besides babysitting for every body and their dog.....


CORN DETASSLING and BEAN FIELD WALKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Do you city folk know about these wonderful summer jobs?????

 

[princessariel]

I didn't have my first job till I graduated high school. I worked in a beauty salon as a shampoo girl/hair stylist.

 

[olena]

Landscaping and gardening

 

[Alice42]

I was 15 when I started volunteering at a hospital. I was a candy striper and delivered flowers, greeted patients, ran errands, etc.

My first paid job was a few years later working as a filer at a physician's office-I hated doing office work!

I am now a physical therapist and LOVE my job

 

[Alice28]

I worked in a dentist's office, cleaning tools, developing x-rays, filing, doing end of the day duties like vacuuming, sterilizing the charis, etc. Exciting stuff. One day the hygenist was out sick and I got to be the mouth vacuum girl- you know, I sat there sucking out spit and blood while the dentist worked. I was 16!!!! It was more than I bargained for when the dentist told me I needed to memorize the teeth numbers so I could help assist in fillings----um, you're paying me $5 an hour and I am a junior in high school....don't people go to college to do this job???

 

[parrothead365]

I swept greens at on a mini golf course fo a whopping 50 cents an hour. Job also included carrying mats and burlap sacks from the bottom of a crazy slide to the top. It was at the old Enchanted Forrest on Catawaba Island on the North Shore of Ohio. If any of you Northern Dis'ers remember it.

 

[JenBlaze]

IHOP waitress!

 

[tkd lisa]

Waitress at Farrell's Ice Cream Parlor/Restaurant. And yes, I can do the best birthday announcements!

 

[browneyes]

Babysitting or blackberry picking. I can't remember which one I did first.

My first tax paying kind of job was Data Entry though. I fell in love with the Tandy 1000.

 

[geffric]

Besides baby sitting, and being a candy stripper in a hospital, was a Sales clerk for children's clothes in a downtown department store.

 

[disneygals]

Mcdonald's when I was 16, only lasted 6 months!