What was your first job?

[FTX I]

I knew I'd read some great stories.

[ltmgeller]

15 years old working security checking beach passes and carrying beach chairs at a municipal beach.

[5Zigen]

Paperboy during day and dishwasher by night on weekends.

[joeychitwood]

Originally Posted by swils8610

Billings Mt?

Yes. Graduated from Billings West High School. My second job was working as an orderly in the Emergency Room and psychiatric ward at Billings Deaconess Hospital. $2.00 an hour. It was a real education for a 16 year old.

[Rebel]

Sacking groceries when I was 14 1/2 was first "official" job. Prior to and after that I mowed yards until off to boot camp then college after that.

[Chewbacca]

9yrs old cleaning gutters and cutting grass.

[Ballzzz]

Making boxes at a pizzeria, Penny a box/ clean and stack fruit @ fruit stand / sold x-mas trees / collect carts at grocery store / I usto pick all the cases of soda @ a soda distributor then load the truck and make the deliveries sometimes long before a license / pizza delivery for that same place I made boxes / concrete laborer

Funny to think back I probably forgot a whole bunch but I think that takes me from about 10 - 18 ish

[Star Ferry]

I delivered newspapers at 11 -- I think I barely got paid but it was fun. I also lifeguarded at 15, which included cleaning bathrooms

I'm a millennial, and I increasingly meet people my age who have never worked outside of an office. Don't complain to me about your student loans when you did three fancy unpaid internships, and felt you were above waiting tables for actual money.

[DJ TT 2002]

First job punching a clock was at the local airport doing maintenance at the terminal and clean up on the runways.
Had to drive an International Harvester pickup with 3 on the column to get around to the runway lights with weed killer and paint the markings.

Never worked so slow
The full timers would tear into you if you finished a project early.
They could make a 4 hour job last a week

[-lenny-]

Family farm. I operated trucks, tractors and heavy equipment years before I got my learners license.

[Rolex Essex]

Worked in Burger King

[Fredette]

Sand Volleyball ref. Started as a sophomore in highschool back in 2007. Was a part time gigantic in the evenings. Stayed for 8 years during the summers.

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[jag32]

Joined the Marines at 17 and went to Afghanistan at 18. Stayed in for 8 years. Didn’t want to miss out on the wars of my generation.

[THC]

At 16, I swept and mopped floors at Woolworth’s on Magazine St., in New Orleans. The floors above the store were vacant and one day my co worker and I went up there on break and we saw the biggest rats I still have ever seen..

[THC]

Originally Posted by jag32

Joined the Marines at 17 and went to Afghanistan at 18. Stayed in for 8 years. Didn’t want to miss out on the wars of my generation.

Thanks for your service

[SlowhandBuzz]

I worked at a local Putt-Putt golf course that also had lazer tag, go karts and an arcade. Hosted kid's bday parties and such there too.

[Keadog]

Originally Posted by DJ TT 2002

Never worked so slow
The full timers would tear into you if you finished a project early.
They could make a 4 hour job last a week

My third and last summer in the mills was at a US Steel round pipe plant. One day the foreman took me aside to let me know I was working too hard and making the full time guys look bad. I was about to rotate onto night turn for the first time. On night shift, I was told "I don't give a F*** what you do or where you go, but don't let me catch you doing any work between 1 and 4 AM. Then look real busy by 5 when the plant foreman comes in. And remember, we know what you drive, where you park and where you live." I remember that like it was yesterday.

Good old unions. All 3 plants I worked in closed by the end of the '70s. No sympathy here.