What was your first job?

Charlie Mike

Charlie Mike

Sober since 1-7-14 (still a Paranoid Nutjob)
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I took a position at Fresno State University CA with the campus police department as a video camera surveillance operator. I was making minimum wage ($5.50) doing 20 hr weeks. This was fall 2000.
 
1966 I was hired at a local Butcher Shop as an apprentice meat cutter. $2.00 hr
Spent 3 long years there, until I moved on to a grocery chain,which I worked at for some 38 years.
 
Summer 1957. Pumping gas at a Texaco station. $1.00 per hour. I checked the oil, water, air and washed windows.

I also did lubes, oil changes and an occasional tire repair and/or change.
 
Same. Sunoco gas station, pumping gas. 4.50 an hour. I actually really liked that job.
 
Busboy at a Royal Fork Buffet. 1977. I made $2.35 per hour.
The manager was a cock gobbler, who constantly hit on all the girls.

The look on his face when he discovered someone took a dump on the hood of his brand new 260Z was priceless.
 
1969, 16 yrs old, worked at a Mexican food restaurant as a busboy, diswasher, and whatever else they told me to do for $1.15 hr. - after a couple of months I got a big raise to a $1.35 hr. Gas was 19-24 cents a gallon, A case of coors or bud cost $4 bucks, a whataburger was 55 cents, and you could get a t-bone steak with all the trimmings for a $1.95. Took home $20 bucks a week and I thought I was a Vegas high roller. :greedy_dollars: :D
 
McD's $3.30 an hour. Worked there all through high school, and I still think it was a wise use of time. McD's trained me to work hard.
 
Pat and Oscars (order at the counter type Italian restaurant in Orange County, Ca USA. I switched around a lot between food runner, busser, and cashier. Almost 8 years later and I'm currently a restaurant manager. Go figure.
 
My first job was working in a retail nursery. I did all the grunt work, but I enjoyed being outdoors.
 
my first job was at a pizza place i was a prep cook/dishwasher for minimum wage it really taught me how to work hard.
 
Delivering two separate newspapers (225@) and lawn mowing and snow removal from sidewalks and driveways. 1st full time job was working at Owens Illinis glass company. worked in Batch and furnace division.
 
Hmmm...first thing I did for any pay at all...I got paid $25 for four hours to dress up like a clown and go around to Gas Station Openings. First thing I paid taxes on...summer job going in to the local Chemical Plant to do a once-in-EVER cleaning. THAT was a horrifying job, lemme tell ya. Ten-hour days in a rubber suit in an un-air-conditioned plant in Texas in the summer. I could pour sweat out of my little booties every hour. Pay? $7 an hour. First "real" job (out of college, on my own)...shop carpenter/cable puller/warehouse slave/truss-monkey for a staging company out of Dallas. Good group of guys (mostly), hard work, utter bastard running it. When I went to him after a year in the shop (where the average turnover rate was four months) and asked him for a raise, since I was about to get married (was making $400/wk., gross), I was told, "Don't let the screendoor hit ya in the ass!" It's been mostly up from there, but I've had my downs, too. Finally settled into a niche that I think I must've be born for, lol...
 
Monorail Host at Walt Disney World for three years in the mid-seventies - my first "real" and full-time job.
 
Construction, $12/hr, cash. I was 13/14. Summer before I started high school. It was the first time in my life when I could buy the clothes I wanted for school.
 
When I was about 15 (about 30-32 years ago) I unloaded and stacked bales of hay for a farmer down the road. Man that was hot, sweaty work, chaff all over the place, bees in the hay loft, etc. Unloading the wagon onto the elevator wasn't so bad, but catching and stacking them in the loft, which was about 150 degrees, with chaff so thick you could taste it, wasn't much fun. I think I made a dollar a load but it might have been .50.
 
At age 12 I worked summers in a machine shop doing allot of repetitive tasks assembling and machining small parts that were later installed in printing machines and cash registers all of which were mechanical back then. The pay was $1.75 hr
 
First job was in 1998. I was a cashier at big lots. While dealing with the public sucked, the job did have one perk I was the only male cashier. So while all my buddies were in the back stocking and unloading trucks, I was getting plenty of interaction with the rest of the cashiers- all female :) To this day it might have been one of the better groups of people I have worked with.
 
I first started working around 9 months ago at McDonalds. Im a sophmore in college and never had a job in HS so I needed to start working in order to help pay for school. Im still to there to this day making minimum which is $7.25. Not planning on staying there for too long though. Being my first job I gave it my best when I started working there and the word was going around that after a few months I was one of the best ones there. They make you work hard and boy do I work! I like it there but there is always something there that makes me want to quit that very day.
 
In 2nd grade I used to take kids lunch money
Selling gum that I purchased wholesale from
The ice cream truck supply store.

I believe my first bag of Chinese gum (gum with a fortune) had 210 pieces that
I paid $2 for. I sold each piece for 5-cents and turned
$2 into $10. I eventually had lots of candy
For sale by the time I stopped in 7th grade.
 
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