What Was Your First Job

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Probably forgetting something... but I worked summers when I was 16-17 spraying weeds on the family ranches. That was under the table though. First official job I suppose was at 18 at AG-Rx as a "sales intern", pretty much just a title though. In reality I drove around to avocado and lemon ranches checking fertilizer tanks, monitoring everything, and walked groves to check for pests.

 

My first job was at a Christmas Tree Farm at 16, and I still do the seasonal work there. My first job that gave me a check and took taxes out of was as a maintenance worker for my high school's parish. Started that just after turning 17

 

Baked pretzels at Wetzels Pretzels at the mall. Surprisingly I loved that job. All my friends worked at the mall so that helped pass time. Oh and we got to take home all the pretzels we wanted if you worked the closing shift.

 

lived in a small neighborhood of old doctors old bankers and old lawyers. There was three boys in the neighborhood so we did all of the work all of the little old ladies needed. Yards, trees, gutters, clean pools, flowers beds, clean cars, and anything that needed to be done to make money for a bag, fishing lures, bike parts and 22lrs shells. At 16 went work at WEINERS Dept store in the stock room for 2.00 an hour..................got to love the 70's

 

First job I paid taxes on, general labor construction work. Worked for my brother in law.

 

14. Worked in a Dog Boarding/Training place.

Would get home from School and ride my bike down to the Kennel. Would feed/water all the dogs there. Then had to walk all the dogs. Then had to clean up dog shit/piss from the one's who couldn't wait.

Employers were very cool. Even remember the Owner's name, Chip.

I remember a lot of the dogs to.

- The meanest mini-poodle you ever met. Motherfucker would even growl at you when you gave him food.

- A couple big German Shepards who belonged to the owner. One was very unfriendly and spazzed when he saw the other dogs...every day...14 years old...trying to rangle a full sized Shepard through a room of dogs with them all barking like mad and the shepard trying to go after them all.

- An OSU football player kept his dog there. Demetrius Stanley was the player, Rohan was the dog. Great dog.

 

I worked as a caddy for a private country club in Grand Rapids, Mich when I was 15. I made $4.75 for an 18 hole round. That worked out to about $1.25/hr and they usually tipped.

 

I wish! I still remember getting yelled for eating a pickle slice! I only got the usual 10% discount. But after that I never worked fast food again! After that I worked at a preschool as a recess teacher, then CVS, then A&F, then joined the military.

 

First actual paying job was a paperboy for our local paper when I was 13 years old, loved that job, it was independant and as long as the papers were delivered on time, never had to deal with the boss. I only saw him the day I was interviewed, then we all got laid off in favor of having the post office deliver the papers instead, I was so pissed.

 

Selling Christmas trees...Pretty cool though, it turned into a regular job with those folks after Chrismas was over working at their greenhouse ;land then onto some landscaping work for them. I was only 15 when I first started.

 

My first job was a summer job at a horse farm when I was 15. Then I started working at Dairy Queen when I was 16. Only job I have had where I was fired twice!

 

My first job was at 12 walking the cotton fields of OK with a hoe in my hands. Made enough cold hard cash that I could go to town on Saturday, make a deposit in my savings account, take in the picture show with candy and soda, couple of games of pool or pinball at the billiard parlor, a new Hot Wheels car or model from TG&Y, and finish off with a double scoop ice cream hand dipped at the drugstore. Now that I wrote that out 1971 wasn't as bad a times as I thought, even if I do still hate johnson grass.

 

I worked at a Building 19 knock off called Value Village. I started in the store stocking and cleaning the smoke damages goods then moved to warehouse and truck driver

 

Mowed lawns starting at 12, then got a job selling sneakers at a shoe store till I was 16, then my uncle called me up at 16 and asked if I wanted to comeout to NV to fight fires, that last 4 years till I joined the Navy. Downhill ever since.

 

reffing soccer

 

Shoveling snow-12yo.
Retail selling for family business-13yo(.50 per hour-thought that was great-think minimum wage was 1.25)--still at it.
43 YEARS

 

My first job when I was about 12. I worked at my dads grocery store. He paid me $10/week for 20 hours. I got a paper route when I was 14 made about 200 month delivering about 200 papers 6 days a week. I'm 46 now

 

Shoveling Snow / Mowing lawns before I was 12

Paper route every morning on a bike delivering 130 papers until 15

Washed windows professionally and worked at a fabric store until 17

Worked on the landscaping crew at the State Capitol until 18

Worked in a warehouse and went to college until 19

Went on a volunteer mission until 21

Back to the warehouse until 23

Worked at a computer company and put myself through school until 26

Still in the computer field at age 53 and I'm not moving.

I will retire in 4 years to fish, golf, hang out with grand-kids, and volunteer. I've been blessed to never be out of work for more than day.

I will die.

 

How have you managed to live on $200 a month for all those years? Wish I could do that.