What was your first paying job?

[MUFFYCAT]

My first job was a Weight Watchers weigher. It sounds lke a tongue twister!

 

[SeeDisney]

I was 15 years old -- Ashbrook Country Club Camp counselor for in Edison, New Jersey, the salary was around $20 a week. I had 4 four year olds to supervise.

I had nice memories.

 

[mrsdon]

Another 50 cent an hour babsitter here
My 1st real paying job was at a KOA in Wytheville VA
We were paid below min wage, because of some crazy VA labor law

 

[JudicialTyranny]

Starting around 5th grade, I worked at our weekly church bingo one or two days a month, but I wouldn't consider that a "job" although I did get paid.

The summer before my senior year in high school, I worked on a small farm picking corn and working the stand where it was sold. The area was not a big farming area (although it was at one time years ago), but there are still a few small farms around. It was a farm owned by a relative of a friend.

It was a tough job - I got up at 5:30 AM, picked corn for 2 or 3 hours, then worked the stand until 5 or 6 PM. I got paid in cash - the owner would tell me "figure out how many hours you worked and take the money out of the box"! I know I always underpaid myself (can you be TOO honest?).

The hours sucked, I was always dirty, and allergic to the corn pollen. But after the summer I was in the best physical shape of my life and they taught me how to drive in the farm truck...

 

[ducklite]

Paper Route at 13, cleaning a house at 14, busgirl at 16. Babysitting starting at 13.

Anne

 

[we3disneygo]

babysitting, first real paycheck job would be detassling corn..................... great deal for a kid in 8th grade...........3.65 an hour...............

 

[makinorlando]

A gift shop after I was out of college. After a few months there I started to work for Bell of PA, and although I have gone from Bell of PA to AT&T to the "new" AT&T, I have 26 years of service. Many many different positions, during this time!

 

[Kitty 34]

babysitting....age 12

 

[MOMTOCUTESTDOGEVER]

I got paid by an outside agency to count the number of people that watched particular movies at the local movie theater. The theater owner was a grouchy old guy and he despised me.

 

[JCJRSmith]

I was a caddy at one of the local golf courses. I did that when I was 14 and 15. By the time I graduated college I had done the following:

Caddy
Hardware Store clerk
parts picker in a warehouse
food and beverage at Sea World of Ohio
games attendant guessing ages, weights and birthdays on a scale at Geauga Lake Park in Ohio
(all of that before I graduated High School)

Ticket Sales for the Cincinnati Opera
Manager of a 166 unit apartment complex (NEVER AGAIN!!!!)
Bouncer
Retail Clerk at the University of Cincinnati Bookstore
Computer Salesman at the UC Bookstore
Programmer (TRS-80) for a security firm in Cincinnati

 

[cindercopper]

I had a weekend job at a guitar shop setting up for small weekend concerts. I was about 13.

 

[Stitchfans]

Another one who did a lot of babysitting. 50 cents hr for one $1 for more than one. Then in my senior year of high school I worked at Fredricks of Hollywood until my mom discovered what they sold. Got a great education for al while.

 

[DisneyTarheel]

I was a giant mouse (and sometimes a dog, or a purple monster) at Pizza Time Theater aka Chuck-E-Cheese's, at 15.

 

[crazelion]

My first job was at local minor league baseball in summer as runner in the concession stand.


Some years late went back to job because I could not found work anywhere else as the beer pourer now is Manger of concession stand now.

I am unemployement right now and can't wait to baseball and football season start so I can make some money.

 

[liamsaunt]

My first job was age 13, $2/hour under the table to dust shelves at a pharmacy owned by a guy who was friends with my mother.

 

[Kimberly815]

I was the papergirl!! (I started at about 12)

 

[monarchsfan16]

Babysitting. Scattered evenings for people from the time I was about 15 (around here very few babysit before 14 or 15), then once a week all summer when I was 16. A little after I turned 17 I started babysitting twice a week after school for a (then) 1 1/2 year old, and babysat until the day before I left for college this past summer, a few months before he turned three.
The first tax stealing job I had was mornings in the summer working for my dad, putting together equipment used in waste water treatment. Yeah, a real blast, but he pays well. I did that the summers before and after my senior year of high school (2004 and 2005). I'm still holding out hope that he'll decide that I don't really need to work for someone else this summer, and that I can work for him again. I hate the work, but the flexibility is great, and I sure don't mind making almost the same amount of $ as my friends in roughly half the time

 

[mcr5298]

I worked at a hibachi restaurant, like Teppanyaki in EPCOT! My friend's father owned the restaurant. I was a "busperson". I helped clear the tables off, refilled the salad bar and filled the two little dishes with hot mustard and ginger sauce. Once I spilled sauce all over this guys white shirt! I was so embarassed! But he was very nice, and didn't make a big deal out of it. I was only 16 years old at the time, and some guys would try to get me to get them drinks from the bar. I couldn't, since I was a minor. And the chef's would yell at the customer's in my defence! I had a good relationship with a lot of the chef's there, they were so funny!

My favorite line to customer's (told to me by the chef's)...
A customer would look at me and say, "hey, you don't look Japanese!". I would reply, "really, neither do you?". It was a lot more funny when I was 16!

I only worked there for about a month, because I wanted my weekends free to do stuff with my friends. It was a good thing I left too, because they changed over to an all Japanese staff not long after! :lol:

 

[PhotobearSam]

At age 11in 1983, I scooped ice cream for a summer for my folks. I made over $100 a week every week and paid for my plane ticket to Florida that year. My parents are big on delayed gratification and money saving.

The next year, when I was 12, I worked full-time at my parents grocery store as a cahier and did this till I was 19...Just a side note. at 12 yrs old I was already 5'6" tall so I was used to being seen as older than I was...

I was 5'5" at 10 yrs old...

 

[MamaLema]

I was a papergirl