What was your first job?

I delivered papers and mowed lawns for slurpee money before I was 10. Been working ever since at something or other.
 
I feel kinda bad. I never got my first job till I was 21 because I went from high school right to university and lived on student loans. I dropped out of university in my final year and went to work on an oil rig as a roughneck here in Alberta. Starting wage was $22 per hour back in 2001. Wages have sky rocketed since then I think a roughneck is like $34 an hour now. I'm not a roughneck any more now I'm the driller.
 
My first job that I was on the payroll was a lawnmower shop driving a delivery van to pick up and drop off mowers we repaired. but my actual first was grading tabacco for a local farmer....I hated that job, but it wasn't too hard even if I didn't get paid minimum wage.
 
My first job was working at a place that sold anything automotive and farm related. Oil, transmission fluid, filters, batteries, tires, cars, trucks, tractors, airplanes, you name it. If it was related to petroleum we could get it. Worked there during high school into college close to 5 years total. I made $6.00 an hour which was 50 cents more than minimum wage at the time. I started off in the warehouse and by the time I left I was doing deliveries, orders, inventory, changing oil in the forklift, maintained the electric pallet jacks, would work weekends running the retail counter in the store, make bank deposits of anywhere between 3K-15k at the end of delivery days, and I was still only the warehouse boy when I left.

I made a lot of good friends while working there and learned a lot about people. All the guys that were my co-workers when I started had arrest records, I was 16. I learned a lot about how not to act from them you might say, mainly in them saying "jail ain't no fun". I also learned that if there's a loud explosion behind the police department, were the store was located, the police didn't come check for bodies. One of the guys ran over a full can of fix-a-flat with the forklift and you could hear the boom echoing down Main street.
 
I sold flavored toothpicks that I made myself for 10 cents each, that was in first grade. Cinnamon was a big hit!
 
Made coping stone, the stuff that goes around the edge of swimming pools in the mid-80's. Minimum wage. Found out in a hurry that I didn't want to work in concrete for the rest of my life...
 
Camp instructor, teaching canoing, fishing, archery, survival skill's.
I had fun, while it lasted, all of 6 year's.
 
bus boy at an Italian restaurant when I was 16, then at Subway as a "Sandwich Artist" the following 2 summers. but of course I'd been mowing lawns and washing cars for "fun-money" for years prior to that.
 
Seriously, the army. I enlisted in '64 at 17. Now, I did sell worms briefly when I was in my early teens, bu I discovered that fishermen tended to like to arrive at about 5AM...
 
First job was in 1971, working in a small corner store stocking shelves and helping close up. It turned into making deliveries to neighborhood residences, then branched to weekends during yard work and stuff. At 12 years old, I was bringing in about $175 a week, but I was a hustling puppy. But my Mom was happy about the aditional $ coming in.
 
My first job was during high school back in the early 80's. I worked in the houskeeping dept(Janitor) of a nearby hospital every weekday after school. I was responsible for keeping the Rehab wing clean, in addition to the other disgusting things you can imagine having to clean up in a hospital. My least favorite task was every other Wednesday, I had to scrub the walls of the hydrotherapy room, as they would turn yellow from the stuff they put into the whirlpools (betadyne, maybe?), and the cleaning stuff stunk like rotten eggs. Anyway, it was pretty much a full time job. I don't know how I made it work, with school and all. But it was "good" for me in the long run.

Can't remember what I made, but it kept my car on the road.

Glenn
 
Kalindras said:
Hmmm...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.
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That may take the cake as the worst job I can think of.
 
Part time bag boy at the grocery store. It was a minium wage job, but I worked with a lot of people and made a lot of friends.
 
During summer holidays I used to work as a caretaker at a local facility. I had to remove the grass growing from the street. Cleaning shower rooms, the dirty, very dirty parts and fixing up electric parts of the facility.

I learned so much there, especially for craftmanship. It was a great time and a good money :)

Kind regards
 
Mid 70's I was a paper delivery boy.
Early 80's I worked landscaping with all of my bestfriends. We worked on all of the expensive houses in the area, and they usually have us tips. Tough job but payed off.
 
UffDa said:
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.
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++++ i did the same,ooo how times have changed for the worse.
 
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