DISQUS

jtcosby · 1 year ago

I was the Wendy's girl for Wendy's restaurant.

loswhit · 1 year ago

seriously?

jtcosby · 1 year ago

Yep. 14 years old and dressed in a red yarn wig and a blue and white striped dress...went to radio station promotions and things like that. It was quite a blast! I guess that is why I am NOT SHY at all!!! :)

philip Owen · 1 year ago

hosting at Jonathan B. Pub. Still not sure how a 15 year old was able to do that...but hey...I wasn't complaining.

Cindi · 1 year ago

Made sandwiches at a deli for $106.96 a week. Bought a $1600 Toyota Corolla and paid they guy $100/week for 16 weeks. Put $6.96 in the gas tank. 6 months later the frame of the car broke.

tmason47 · 1 year ago

My first three cars were like that., although I paid 300 bucks a piece for them...

jasonjeong · 1 year ago

pulling weeds in my Parent's ginseng farm. got 1 cent for every weed I pulled...too bad I had the attention span of a 7 year old...wait...I was 7.

loswhit · 1 year ago

That is awesome.

human3rror · 1 year ago

"official" was a Publix bagger... i was like... awesome at it.

portorikan · 1 year ago

well, Publix is awesome. How could you not be.

human3rror · 1 year ago

would you like paper or plastic sir?

petec999 · 1 year ago

I was a "bagger" at a small grocery store BEFORE plastic was an option:-)

loswhit · 1 year ago

I'll go first.
I repaired roller skates in the gymnasium of Briarlake Baptist Church on LaVista Rd.
I made those things fly.
Fly.
Los

Valtool · 1 year ago

So you are not originally a SoCal guy? I had no idea you lived in the Atl before BC called.

ardentvox · 1 year ago

McDonalds Drive Thru... would you like to Super Size that, sir?

Annie B (Kyoodled) · 1 year ago

I was a hostess at a Denny's...right on Route 66 in Kingman, Arizona. Massively busy place. It's where I first realized that sometimes my smile might be the only someone saw in a day.

David Richardson · 1 year ago

I worked for my grandfather's monument business. On Saturdays, I was part of a team that set up tombstones for families in cemeteries. We did not have a crane to move the tombstones, so we used rollers and crowbars to move them slowly from the truck to the burial plot. The pay was good, and I actually enjoyed it.

Thom McGuire · 1 year ago

My first Job was as an Music Director at an AM christian radio station

michael mears · 1 year ago

whataburger baby... nickname was mikey the whitey! flipped burgers for two years

rusirius · 1 year ago

What's Whataburger?

Amanda · 1 year ago

It's a hamburger joint here in the south. They are famous for their oversize burgers - about 6 or 7 inches in diameter - hence the name. http://www.whataburger.com/

ryanguard · 1 year ago

paper or plastic?

phil_brangers · 1 year ago

depending on the definition of job, it would be mowing grass or Working Drive Thru @ Arby's

Jeff · 1 year ago

I had a paper route in Virginia Beach when I was in junior high.

Pat Callahan · 1 year ago

If you don't count mowing my pop's and neighbor's lawns (and you don't count the job I had at Taco Bell but quit before my first day because I could bear the humiliation of wearing brown polyester while taking my college buddys' orders)...

Then it would have to be washing dishes at The Chart House in Ventura, CA.

mbort · 1 year ago

worked in a Christian bookstore when in high school. It was my 'dream job!' :)

Megan Sanchez · 1 year ago

Snow cone maker for my mom's snow cone stand in Moore, OK. Funnest job I've ever had!!

Taylor Lyall · 1 year ago

I worked at a tutoring center, helping kids work on computers.

brenna · 1 year ago

McDonalds, "Do ya want some fries"

ian · 1 year ago

target cart attendant

deneenwhite · 1 year ago

I worked for a candy store in the center of my town at Easter time. I made all of the chocolate figures during the Easter rush. It was one of the toughest jobs I've ever had. I *had* to eat any candy that didn't meet specs :)

chad markley · 1 year ago

Paper route in Garden Grove, CA. I got fired cause I was collecting the money for my route and keeping anything I got in cash.

I WAS ONLY 9!!

SINNER

Jonathan Jones · 1 year ago

Part time janitor at my high school. When I was in high school. Talk about humiliation.

But at least I didn't have to ask my Mom for money when I wanted to go out.

dewde · 1 year ago

word.

dewde · 1 year ago

AFB Commissary Bagger.

BACKSTORY: For Christmas my parents got my little brother a Nintendo (the original one) and they got me and my sister all the games. You know, so we would learn the fine art of /sharing/.

Screw that.

Got me a job and earned me $100 in nickels, dimes, quarters, and if I was lucky, dollar bills.

Pretty sure the cashier was pissed when I plopped down all that coin (literally) to pay for my own !&@$% Nintendo. And no I didn't share my games either.

Lesson learned. I've been a capitalist prick [TM] ever since.

peace|dewde

Ron Tuffin · 1 year ago

Made me laugh :)

loswhit · 1 year ago

That is amazing

portorikan · 1 year ago

mwahahahahahaha!!!!

Cody Thomas · 1 year ago

I did stock at a local office supply store... Office Land

erica · 1 year ago

I recorded children's music for a textbook company as a sophmore in highschool. I still remember some of the songs lol...

loswhit · 1 year ago

So sing us one.

Jeff Pelletier · 1 year ago

worked on a Christmas tree farm in south Louisiana. Don't recall which was tougher... planting the trees, or using the post-hole digger to run fence wire around the trees to keep the cows out?! Good times down on the bayou...

dirkdallas · 1 year ago

I worked in the computer lab at Vanguard University in Costa Mesa. Basically I got paid to do my homework and surf the web.

zak white · 1 year ago

making pico de gallo at a waterpark in MASSIVE quantities. BARF.

Jameson · 1 year ago

Chick-fil-A drive-through...327 customers in three hours = big bonus

Sarah Lewis · 1 year ago

I worked for an aromatherapy kiosk at the mall in my hometown. I sold those smelly heat packs like a crazy lady.

Then the Israeli owners ran away with the $$. And I was out a paycheck.

Really, in the end, it was a sucky job.

=)

Pam · 1 year ago

First job? Age 16. Radio DJ for a local FM station in middle Tennessee called Music Country 107 (perfect for a southern girl). Would leave school at 2p every day for a 3-hour weekday shift 3-6pm. GREAT fun for a young gal!

Brandy · 1 year ago

Theme park- sang in shows.

The Wingnut · 1 year ago

Picking radishes, onions, carrots and beets from my mom's cousin's farm. And sometimes watercress from the irrigation ditches.

And no, my name is not Dwight.


wingnut

The Wingnut · 1 year ago

...and how in the world did I reply 1 years ago???

Tammy · 1 year ago

Car hop at a local drive-in. No roller skates though!

murphy24p · 1 year ago

Burger King
Home of the Whopper

Turns out, girls don't like it when you smell like onions.

Jenni Clayville · 1 year ago

retail. kids department at sears

haemin · 1 year ago

if i remember correctly, it was working Saturdays at the Korean Language School in my church. it sucked. nothing like chasing bratty kids around and then getting yelled at in korean (which i don't 100% understand) by the scariest korean mom/lady ever. it sucked.

loswhit · 1 year ago

Can you teach me Korean>

Sam · 1 year ago

My first job was selling a mountain bike with a motor assist called the "EV Warrior". They took the air conditioning motor out of a ford taurus to power the motor. It topped out at around 15 mph and you could go about 2 miles on a charge. I ended up accidently breaking a prototype during a presentation and the job kinda went down hill from that point.

DTurn · 1 year ago

"do-whaterver-guy" at a neighborhood grocery store.

Rhi · 1 year ago

you're so funny... blog dating relationship. my first PAID, like official job was at this bad retail store named Fashion Bug....Besides a brief Christmas season stint at Victoria's Secret (which was really just for the 30% discount...) that was my only retail job too...lucky me huh.

hey..see you guys in a WEEK!! I'm so excited I can't hardly stand it!

Kyle · 1 year ago

Ponderosa Steakhouse.
I was 14 yrs old.

It was a terrible experience.

Makes me feel sorry for anyone who works buffet during Mother's Day.

shanastine · 1 year ago

Camp Counselor for Inner-City Kids. (I'm a small-town girl, a farm kid actually, and I remember thinking, "Okay, God, you're gonna have to help me big time on this one because I don't have the slightest idea about what I'm getting into and how I'm going to relate to these kids.)

It was an awesome summer. God was insanely faithful.

Fast-forward a few years:
Interestingly, I'll graduate college in May, and I've already been offered a full-time position with a local homeless/low-income ministry. My role?: Children's Director. Inner-City kids. :) Who woulda thought?

Josh · 1 year ago

i was in charge of the pedal boats at a local man-made lake...1995 min. wage for me was $4.25/hr. geesh.

iamjessica · 1 year ago

JoAnne's Fabrics, rolling ribbons, cutting fabric, sweeping the floor

Eric Frisch · 1 year ago

Paperboy. Woke up at 5:15 every morning for my last 3 years of high school. Now I don't even go to sleep until 3.

shan · 1 year ago

i had just turned 16 and it was at shipley donuts in san antonio, tx...my sister got a job there shortly after i did and when we worked together, we used to get in "donut hole fights" (threw them at each other). oh, those poor people who hired us. :)

Ben (of BenandJacq) · 1 year ago

Groundskeeper at a retirement community. Head weed-eater. On my next job reference, my boss said "most efficent and thorough weedeater operator I have seen in 25 years of landscaping.". It's a shame the next job held no advantage for a "speedyweedeater."

callmetravis · 1 year ago

delivered newspapers.
"I want my two dollars!"

Rachel · 1 year ago

I was a hostess at Golden Buddha in Douglasville, GA.

Travis Williams · 1 year ago

Give it up for D-Ville! Love the Golden Buddha. Although I have to say we prefer the Tokyo Steakhouse down the street, cause we'd hit up Chik-fil-a for a milk shake after.

PatrickJohn · 1 year ago

Camp Counselor at Camp Freedom. I owned those little kids in Basketball.

Isma Martines · 1 year ago

Taking off rollers at my mom's hairdressing saloon. Big tips :D

PastorT · 1 year ago

Bagger/Cart Boy at Kroger in Terre Haute, IN

Ron Tuffin · 1 year ago

Paper route while in high school.
Supplemented my student loan (it did not cover) by working in the Uni' library.

sully_michael · 1 year ago

Order Picker for Ingram Book (book supplier). I picked the books that had been ordered.

Billy McGuiness · 1 year ago

So you are the one that would mess up my orders...
First job was Dunkin Doughnuts. For the past 8 years a Christian Bookstore where Sully would mess up every order I placed...
boo. :-(

sully_michael · 1 year ago

i couldn’t help it, i was only 16 and i had a crazy cool scanner-gun attached to my finger

Mike Dalton · 1 year ago

Cleaning up job sites at age 10, my dad was a contractor and he paid me 5 bucks a day.

loswhit · 1 year ago

daaang son. slave labor

portorikan · 1 year ago

Family, always looking out for your best interest. :)

jbstansel · 1 year ago

my first job was as at abercrombie in the mall of ga. worst. experience. ever. i quit after 4 weeks because i realized i wasn't cool enough. i saw harry potter 4, went to work, exclaimed how amazing the movie was, got sour looks, and walked back out.

i haven't been back there since.

Yvette Z. · 1 year ago

Box"boy", Gong's Market, corner of Fresno and Ashlan. August 1989.

kate · 1 year ago

Red Lobster.
Hostess.
Horrible button up "hawaiian" print shirts.
An 8 inch metallic lobster hung around my neck on mardi gras beads. (mandatory)

I literally haven't stepped foot in a Red lobster since.

Amanda · 1 year ago

taking it to the limit in the shoe department at sport chalet.

Faith Walker · 1 year ago

My first job was working in a little ice cream parlor. Something that people in the south don't have that we have here in Ohio.

Mom · 1 year ago

My real first job was working for May Co. in Los Angeles

Beccity98 · 1 year ago

Christmas Employee at Garden Botanika (like Bath and Bodyworks, but less crazy and everything "Botanically Based." Went out of Biz and is now available only online, but who wants to buy scented products you can't smell first?)
My main job was to check in the new arrived stock (Or something like that...so long ago I forget what I was doing in the back)
I also sometimes had a little area I had to keep tidy and help cust w/ Questions. And cashier if needed.

I loved working in the back, and the cashier-ing made me sweaty.

(I still love working in the back no matter where I am-customers annoy me)

Gareth · 1 year ago

My first job was boring. "Installations Contractor". Basically installing PC's in retail stores.

barnettblend · 1 year ago

I was a hostess/cashier/busgirl at my grandparents Mexican restaurant.. Child labor laws didn't apply to us.. :)

Jessica · 1 year ago

Meter Reader for the Gas company. It was kinda like being a spy, sneaking around peoples houses, only... not.

Boaly · 1 year ago

A garage attendant

J-Shaver · 1 year ago

ages 8-15,,,,,Cutting grass in Lindmoor Woods neighborhood with older brother Adam.
.....
For someone else....(age 13, paid under teh table) -Again, with older brother Adam, -cleaning golf balls & fixing batting machines at Hidden Hills batting cages &driving range between Toco Hills & Shamrock H.S.
.....
1st legal job...Lavista roads Northlake Library.. right near Briarlake Baptist

lanna · 1 year ago

first job, part-time asst. daycare worker/teacher. the position actually was suppose to be a summer gig. i ended up caring it over to p/t after-school my last two yrs of h.s as i went to school w/ a work-study program. i received credit for working. plus, i left school at 1 pm everyday to work. it was good experience & really fun too!

i tried the whole fast-food gig lasted 1 day @ jack in the box, it was awful -- the longest 8 hrs of my life!

loswhit · 1 year ago

hahahaha

MrPoliceMan · 1 year ago

At the age of 10 I worked in a Jewelry shop. I got paid under the table but 20 years later I went back and she made my wedding rings.

Oh how empowering having a job at 10 is.

Karen Byrne · 1 year ago

I tried waitressing - lasted a day. First "real" job was at a Rite AId drug store back when they rented movies. I rented movies for "mature audiences only" to some really creepy guys.

Robbie · 1 year ago

Sweeping floors at a manufacturing firm in NC.

T.Ro. · 1 year ago

I worked at a peach farm. I was a peach grader. Delish!

Allen Arnn · 1 year ago

Baskin Robbins ice cream scooper

Keith Tackel · 1 year ago

Worked in a 1 hour photo place in 10th grade. Need to throw in "dream job" came the next year working in a music store.

CaroleTurner · 1 year ago

McDonald's.

Tina · 1 year ago

Dishwasher at the local (only) greasy spoon in our town of 1000. In 85 I was paid 5 dollars a day and could get all the fountain soda I wanted PLUS they had the great shaved ice instead of cubes. I was living large. :)

mandy · 1 year ago

I was the party thrower at McDonald's. It was fun until a bunch of my friends decided that THEY would have their 16 bday at my McDonald's. It started a large chain reaction at the school.

Russ · 1 year ago

Around age 14, I worked on a farm for a few weeks. I was the smallest guy on a hay bailing and stacking team, so I got stuck at the top of the barn, hauling up bails and stacking them. Hot, sweaty, and very itchy job.

Deanna · 1 year ago

Taco Hell......I mean Taco Bell.

Heidi Reed · 1 year ago

Thom McAn shoes. I don't even think they exist anymore. Yep. I was a shoe saleswoman. Ha!

kigkat · 1 year ago

Other than babysitting--my first job was at DQ.

Michelle · 1 year ago

working at an outdoor roller skating rink for a summer program for city kids in Pittsburgh. everything from rink guard, to concessions, to the rental desk.

Clay · 1 year ago

I was the Ax Man at a chicken house farm in Gainesville GA. I was 16 and would have to walk through the chicken houses and pick up the dead chickens and look for any sick ones and take them out and ax them. BTW, walking around on a carpet of chicken crap will humble a 16 year old punk like I was.

tabitha · 1 year ago

Gift wrap at a local retail store during the holidays. I loved the job just not the customers. It took years before I enjoyed the holidays again.

Roland · 1 year ago

Boy Scout Summer Camp Admin Assistant for $40 a week

Shane Kennard · 1 year ago

Soccer Referee

Ethan · 1 year ago

The summer I turned 16 I went to Anaheim CA to stay with my dad and I was put to work in his office as a file clerk making $6/hr. That was some serious coin back then I came home with $1500 in my pocket and I blew it all in about 3 months. So I have been working ever since and still wishing I had that $1500 in my pocket.

Rob · 1 year ago

I think I can top you all. My first job in junior high was working on my uncle's farm. One of the real highlights was working in the hog farrowing house in 100 degree heat. My job was to hold up the young piglets upside down and pin them against the pen while he castrated and vaccinated them. Good times...and no matter how many times you wash your hands, that smell just doesn't come off

portorikan · 1 year ago

OH. MY. GOD....

I think that would be burned in my retinas. Wow.

connormcc · 1 year ago

I was working as in a wee 'supermarket' called Centra, in Kells, Northern Ireland

Aaron · 1 year ago

Parking Lot Attendant at a County Fair in Northeast Pennsylvania

Amber Cox · 1 year ago

Phone Chic @ Bruno's Pizza

shawnw · 1 year ago

Dug graves in a graveyard. By hand.

Tammy M. · 1 year ago

Carvel Ice Cream Store

Chris Chowdhury · 1 year ago

Bagger at a grocery store. Met a hottie there. She dragged me to church. I became a Christian... Yep! All because of groceries.

JanetRN · 1 year ago

My first job was babysitting two little girls from across the street every afternoon from 3 to 6 (or until their parents got home.) My first job that I paid taxes on, was writing commercials/ radio ad's for WKIG in Glennville, Ga.

portorikan · 1 year ago

My first paying job I believe was McDonald's. From that point on, I've never really cared eat at McDonald's ever again and would occasionally be found on my lunch breaks at Burger King with my MickeyD's uniform on.

They didn't take too kindly to that at MickeyD's.

mandy · 1 year ago

Hubs doesn't have a blog, but he gave me permission to post his first job.

He was quick on his feet & had no fear...his first job was castrating cows on a large ranch in Oregon. He was 15. It included $8 an hour, lunch & all the beer he could drink.

portorikan · 1 year ago

He was probably one of the only guys at school that could say 'I'll cut your balls off' and actually mean it cause he knew what he was doing.

Wowsers.

Josh Brickey · 1 year ago

Batboy for a minor league baseball team, the Kingsport Mets. Of course, I was also a gopher for the players.

Travis Williams · 1 year ago

I worked for a home builder/remodeler my dad knew. I was 14 and it lasted maybe 1 month. Cut it short cuz the guy got fined for letting a minor use equipment that you had to be 18 to operate. So instead of owning up to it, he fired me.

Rit_a · 1 year ago

I started working at a day care center when I was 14. I worked there (summers and after school) until after my 2nd year of college. Best birth control ever.

Keith Barger · 1 year ago

16 yrs old - Roofer.
Tell me that's not a comforting thought in the middle of a tornado: "Yep. Had the shingles put up by a 16 year old.

Bill A · 1 year ago

The first job that didn't involve doing something for my Dad for a few bucks, was working on the Wisconsin Academy farm. I was in the 7th grade and driving huge machinery around. Made a smashing $1.90 an hour. Felt like I was rich!

matholemu · 1 year ago

BOWLING ALLEY! Best job EVER for a high school dude! Everything from DJ'ing Midnight Bowling to Leading the Cha Cha Slide to cleaning trash cans... not to mention all the free bowling I got.

Adrian Rodriguez · 1 year ago

My First Job was working at a peanut factory with illegal immigrants at the age of 16, fun times1

Clint Singleton · 1 year ago

I was a Cabin Reservationist in Pigeon Forge, TN......not a fun job.

jenn nahrstadt · 1 year ago

my first job was at a ma and pa bakery/restaurant. i worked from 5:30a-11a on Saturdays and rode my Schwinn 10-speed with the ram's horn handlebars there and back! the cash register was the old fashioned kind where you had to punch in each number to ring up the sale, and it didn't tell you what the change was supposed to be. that is where i learned--quickly too--to make change in my head! some of the older gentlemen knew i was learning, so they'd give me difficult amounts to make change for! it was a good experience, for a 15 year old!

Mackenzie Thede · 1 year ago

swatting flies at our house when I was really young. Got paid a nickel for every fly. (there was a bad infestation of flies that summer in iowa)

Michael Harrison · 1 year ago

Summer Inventory Help at a clothing store (my entire family has worked at the same place at one point or another...my brother is a VP there now). I was 14 years old. Even remember my very first paycheck and the amount.

Cami Smith · 1 year ago

LIfeguard at WhiteWater-- gotta love it :)

Shane · 1 year ago

My first paying job was a seasonal job at The Buckle. I spent my pay.

Leslie · 1 year ago

mcdonalds. there were 3 places to work in our town when you were 15. Hauser's IGA (grocery store), the local movie theater, and McD's. I weight out the benefits, and picked McD's.

Alison · 1 year ago

Publix bagger...."Where shopping is a pleasure"

Georges · 1 year ago

worked at a full serve gas station. was fun but a bit tough during the cold winter months.

Lisa · 1 year ago

Besides babysitting, my first job was a Santa's Elf at a mall in Colorado Springs, CO.

michaelmanasseh · 1 year ago

I worked at a BRAUMS restaurant , I was a burger cook.

Kenyon · 1 year ago

Paperboy

gretchen · 1 year ago

shredding paper in my dad's law firm....he tried to motivate me by telling me that once, a secretary found a $100 in one of the files to be shredded.....but, he's a lawyer, so I'm pretty sure he was lying.....

tony sheng · 1 year ago

hermans world of sporting goods.

AB · 1 year ago

Roller Skating Ref in Jonesboro, Ga. Complete with whistle and flashlight for those couple skaters who got too close. :)

darooda · 1 year ago

First was mowing yards or washing windows for a few folks in the neighborhood. First with an actual W-2, was CIT at Kanakuk Kamps.

Becca · 1 year ago

Working at Atlanta Bread Company . . . and they let you take home all the baked goods that didn't get sold so I gained about 20lbs . . . .

tricia · 1 year ago

I made cotton candy, candy apples, caramel corn & snow cones at an amusement park! Best job EVER!

chackler · 1 year ago

I grew up the son of a small business owner, so fro 9 years old I was wishing dishes and waiting tables in a small roadside cafe/convenience store. Later in high school I got a job as a box boy at the local grocery store... that's probably what I would consider my first real honest to goodness job.

Trey · 1 year ago

Rental Associate for Ken Stanton Music in Roswell, GA. AKA Paying 15 year olds to be the ones full time employees push off difficult parents with bad credit to

tammy · 1 year ago

working as a hostess at a local seafood restaurant when I was 16. I quit after a few weeks because of all the sexual harassment. The chef used to try to throw shrimp down my shirt or dress and then reach for it or my butt would get pinched. I never worked in another restaurant again.

Becka Knight · 1 year ago

My very first job was making and selling little plastic bead bracelets in 3rd grade. Now...years later I'm running my own photography business. I get the entrepreneurial spirit never dies.

jasonkovacs · 1 year ago

Bus-boy at a Greek Restuarant. I have never been yelled at in my life as much as that year - it was great!

Akash · 1 year ago

"Home Office Product Specialist" at Best Buy (I sold computers)

TeriRN · 1 year ago

My first job was Jack in the Box in Virginia Beach, VA.

Andrea · 1 year ago

When I was 16, I worked at a paint your own pottery store! If you haven't done that with your kids yet, it is a fun way to make memories!

Matt E · 1 year ago

Concessions Stand worker

Angela · 1 year ago

A hostess at Bonanza. Yes, it was that long ago.

Dale Best · 1 year ago

I washed and detailed cars at a luxury European car dealership. Also, lawn care at the dealership and at the house of the owner of the dealership.

Stacy · 1 year ago

Publix cashier

Aaron Jackson · 1 year ago

My first job was cleaning bathrooms and sweeping floors at my high school after the day ended. $4.25/hour, those were the days!

ricracmom · 1 year ago

I was 16 and worked at a dry cleaners. Not too interesting except it was on an army base in the middle the barracks and full of 18 year olds that just finished basic training. Gave my dad some serious heartache.

greg · 1 year ago

at an old stage theatre that had been remodeled into a $1 movie theatre - balcony, mezzanine and all!

chad · 1 year ago

Chickfila
No Sir we do not have "buckets of chicken"

brad · 1 year ago

I fried chicken at a gas station restaurant. *shudders while having flashbacks of being covered in flour and grease

Dale Schaeffer · 1 year ago

Meat Room Clean Up Guy (at a grocery store...nastiest job ever)

k-strat · 1 year ago

server/order taker at Andy's Pizza and Subs when I was a freshman in HS. I had to walk to work some days!

Mike · 1 year ago

Hey Carlos, My first job was a grocery store stocker/clerk.

Bubba · 1 year ago

Making stone/plaster models of people's teeth...
My dad makes crowns and bridges and I worked in his lab making the models from the impressions taken by the dentists. It was actually cooler than it sounds... :-)

Julie · 1 year ago

First 'W2' job was Wienerschnitzel, running the cash register.

But, my first job was really babysitting on Friday nights for my next door neighbor... and I would faithfully bring a small aerosol can of Aquanet, as protection, to spray in anyone's face should they break into the house and come after me. (yes, paranoid, but in my defense, this was about the same time that the original Halloween movie came out, amongst other babysitter-slasher type films)

- Sarah :-) · 1 year ago

I think I may have had the best first job ever. Because... while in high school I got a job with the federal government. It was awesome! And I seriously wouldn't be working where I am now if I hadn't gotten that job.

I felt like I was soooo cool... I mean how many teenagers can say they work for the federal government? And if I could tell you more about who I worked for and what I did, I think everyone would be jealous. But... if I told you... then I'd have to kill you. And I'd MUCH rather have you alive and jealous than dead and... well... not anything. ;-)

Amanda · 1 year ago

I moved in with my older brother when I was in 11th grade to get away from an abusive dad, so I started my first two jobs at that same time...

I worked in the cafeteria of my affluent, private, Christian school serving hot food, beverages, and working the snack bar for all the lunch periods. Talk about being embarrassed - but my paycheck paid my tuition so I could finish out there and graduate.

Nights and weekends, I was a bagger at Publix. I had some mad bagging skills. No smashed bread or bruised tomatoes with me. No way!

AngelBear_OH · 1 year ago

I washed cars at a used car lot in Carrollton, OH. Kept doing it until the weather just got too cold.

nicole dup · 1 year ago

mcdonalds. $4.25/hr...met my husband there actually. 2 kids and almost 14 years later...i would say it was definitely worth it.

steveharrison · 1 year ago

mowing yards for $2.00/yard...selling live Christmas trees in December for $1.00/hour plus 2% commission in the cold...at a car wash drying off every car that came through the automatic wash, that was a long day...

melguera · 1 year ago

I was a food & beverage cashier/server at Pharaoh's Lost Kingdom - the shadiest "amusement" park in Southern California.

Matt Brown · 1 year ago

Working at Wendy's and doing a variety of things there, though I never worked the salad bar. Yes, people, about 20 years ago, Wendy's had what was called the "Super Bar," which never featured burgers or fries but "healthy" salads. We would always scream at the people who'd bring their young kids through the drive-through at 11:00 PM - "Why are you getting dinner for your children when they should have been in bed hours ago?!?"

Beau · 1 year ago

First W2: Chuck E. Cheese

Cashier. Red Blue and Grey striped shirt. Short (too short) blue shorts. Red apron. White sneakers. Red visor.

I set the record for selling "Fried Cheese" one month. This by calling it "Mozzarella Sticks."

I also did a stint in the Rat suit.

dharkness · 1 year ago

golf caddy ... 2 fifty pound golf bags for four hours, nice shoulders

Brittney · 1 year ago

I mowed yards in north-east texas from june til school started in august. it was only 110 degress, and i'm a redhead.

Reverb · 1 year ago

You know...I haven't really ever thought about my job roots until just now. I had two jobs come about at the same time. Both when I was about 14 years old.

One of the was working for my dad for the Miller Beer company working special events. I would change beer kegs in the refrigerated trailers and make sure they were stocked with cups and supplies.

Also during that time I took a job with a friend of mine at a Winery picking grapes. It was totally illegal and I was making 50 cents for each 5 gallon bucket I could fill with grapes.

In this moment...I realized that my working history is all about alcohol. It explains a lot really.

Steve Patton · 1 year ago

"Working at the carwash!" I was 12 or 13 and I made 50cents per car my friends aunt's carwash. It was so I could pay my way to Cedar Point that summer. I promptly quit after i went to Cedar Point

Archiemck · 1 year ago

I cleaned brass instruments in the basement of a music shop for a summer. I ended up going back to school a ghostly shade of white and ended up smelling like bleach and rusty metal everyday I finished work.

Chris · 1 year ago

Little Caesar's. I remember one night was busy and I forgot to slice a lot of the pizzas that were going out on delivery. It happens.

Greg · 1 year ago

Paper boy... the Penny Saver in fact.

After that, I opened one of the first Movie Theater Mega-Plex's in the country. We were one of the first to offer 'stadium-style' seating AND the movable armrests.

Brian · 1 year ago

bagging groceries at Winn-Dixie baby! I was 14

Caleb Drawdy · 1 year ago

Independant Contractor for Centennial Wireless, a cell phone company in San Juan, Puerto Rico. I set up and config'd a new server environment.

-cD

Fay · 1 year ago

Cashier...but then my "boss" (the head cashier) screamed at me one day and I burst out crying and walked off the job and right across the street to Subway, where I became a sandwich artist. The Italian BMT is still my favorite.

Herstorygirl · 1 year ago

Well, if babysitting doesn't count, I was a waitress at Pizza Inn. =)

It was the best job I ever had until I became a mom!

b/ · 1 year ago

I was 5. I vacuumed the edges of the carpets, next to the walls in the banks and drug stores where my dad cleaned the carpet

exchangedlife · 1 year ago

I was an entreprenuer . . . in 5th grade I started my own lawn mowing business and had between 10-25 yards from 5th grade to my senior year.

leoschmidt08 · 1 year ago

Lifeguard. Oh, yeah!

John · 1 year ago

My first job was in a Mom & Pop cafe in my hometown. Isn't there any longer but we had the best 50 cent burgers ever. I miss that place.

jill · 1 year ago

I worked at a local ice cream place all through high school and college. In all honesty, I loved it - goofing off with a bunch of my friends for hours at a time while making ice cream! I can make a mean banana split ;) If they'd pay me $40,000/year instead of $4,000 I'd still be there!

Sean Pritzkau · 1 year ago

i lifeguarded for my school district. they didnt give me a paycheck for 5 months.. so I quit

clowe · 1 year ago

Sold produce at my uncle's farm market. From the time I was 12 until I started college. It taught me more about work ethic than any job I have had since.

heatherltrotter · 1 year ago

I was in the work program during my junior/senior year at high school and I worked at a Kroger Pharmacy. But I would have to say that my first 'official' job was at Six Flags Over Georgia working in the Food & Beverage department.

tmason47 · 1 year ago

I worked at SixFlags. I was one of the guys in the character costumes.

brad · 1 year ago

church flowers delivery boy. i drove a rickety 1980-something white suburban---imagine the stay puffed marshmallow man on wheels in your rear view mirror.

kacie · 1 year ago

i worked at a daycare center.
the one most valuable thing i learned form that job...i will NEVER have kids!

Sarah at themommylogues · 1 year ago

I worked at my dad's newspaper, first proofreading legal notices and then processing film in the darkroom. One day I'll tell my girls that. And they'll ask me what film is. Hopefully not, "What is a newspaper?"

azuspeak · 1 year ago

My first job was 10th grade at Newark Airport as a Go-Getter for Continental Airlines. I used to tag people's luggage, manage long lines, and help people that needed assistance (elderly, children traveling alone, etc). It was a really cool job and I got the flight benefits, too! :-)

loswhit · 1 year ago

thats rad

aubreysanchez · 1 year ago

I worked with a bunch of bricklayers making their "mud." What a beating that was. Every job has been physically easy since then though.

rene Smith · 1 year ago

I worked at Krispy Kreme Donuts!

Evan Courtney · 1 year ago

sold sunglasses in a mall

Loran Lichty · 1 year ago

Ice cream scooper at Baskin & Robbins (31 flavors)

Tim Holman · 1 year ago

My first job was a sacker at Kroger. I was 16 and lived in Cincinnati. I always wondered why they chose the term sacker as opposed to bag boy or cart retriever. I can still hear the MUZAC in the background... "I saw the sign" and "Linger" come to mind.

6yearmed · 1 year ago

book store. that's where i honed my sexy-librarian look ;)

m@ · 1 year ago

I worked at a junior high after school program. talk about birth control...

Carrie C · 1 year ago

"Sandwich Artist" at Subway. I hate hate HATED coming home smelling like dill pickles and bell pepper every night.

scottmills · 1 year ago

"sales associate" at FYE (for your entertainment) cd store. basically ran the cash register and listened to music.

thejonmorris · 1 year ago

working as a full service gas station tennant

meishe · 1 year ago

My very first paying job was driving a tractor, raking alfalfa.

knightt21 · 1 year ago

Working on a farm. Doing the all the deals. Cutting hay, racking hay, moving dead cows, and fixing fence. You know farming.

Crazy Daisy · 1 year ago

Washing dishes in a small local cafe.

bryankhill · 1 year ago

Cook @ Roy Rogers

bryankhill · 1 year ago

Cook @ Roy Rogers

Josiah · 1 year ago

Shoveling horse manuer for a farmer I knew

tagzisninja · 1 year ago

Church Sound guy, for weddings and special events

Jake · 1 year ago

Painted for my dad. I was a "gopher" at age 5 I think.

Paul J. · 1 year ago

If anyone is actually reading the 219th comment...
Brown's Trophy Shop, Tampa FL.
Assembling trophies.

deWeb · 1 year ago

i washed the hearse and limos at a funeral home. i was also in charge of sweeping and dusting around the place, including in the coffin display room. creepy.

Terrace Crawford · 1 year ago

Technically speaking: Field worker for Tobacco crops on the farms of South Carolina ((before I was legal to smoke it))

First real job: Kitchen staffer at local Steakhouse.

--Terrace Crawford
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Billy Ritchie · 1 year ago

A summer job when I was at college painting Trawler fishing boats

tunz · 1 year ago

It was community service at a funeral home. Yeah, I got 6 months of community service for a b&e when I was 13. I thought I was bad...hahaha

Lana · 1 year ago

Worked in the camp nursery at Pine Cove, a Christian family camp in Texas. I LOVED it. Spent the whole summer in a cabin with 4 other girls and worked just about every waking minute. But, we had a blast and I would love to someday take my family back there...

Lynse Leanne · 1 year ago

I was a sandwich artist at Subway. "eat fresh"

Byron · 1 year ago

...looks like I'm late to the party. My first job was taring driveways and rooftops as an eighth grader in Cleveland Ohio for my uncle who was in landscaping and construction. Talk about HOT. Think Atlanta humid meets sweat shop! Even the ice water was hot back in those days.

Aaron Dininny · 1 year ago

I was a cemetery caretaker. I mowed grass around the tombstones, weed-eated and even buried some urns after digging the hole by hand!

coveredindust · 1 year ago

i detassled corn for dekalb/pfizer genetics in the corn fields of IL; that was a grueling job! heat, rain, cuts, mud... in fact, i remember getting a cut on my eye from one of the corn leaves- those things are like knife blades when they're wet!

petec999 · 1 year ago

Night Janitor at a bank.

Andy Darnell · 1 year ago

worked at a hardware store helping people find those impossible to find items.

Kristie · 1 year ago

I worked at a buffet restaurant that my Dad managed. Until this job, it was my most favorite job.

bianca · 1 year ago

i was a veggietales show host/ mascot ( larry the cucumber) at Stone mountain Park

Jennifer M. · 1 year ago

15 years old... cleaned a real estate office on Saturdays... to this day, I do not scrub toilets... I have a wonderful husband... I married him for his ability to clean a toilet without complaining. lol

Rob Shepherd · 1 year ago

I worked at a Christian bookstore. I left because it wasn't very Christian. I went to Subway where it was a lot more Christ like.

aggie4him · 1 year ago

I made big blocks of Ice for the shaved ice machines in snow cone stands.

jen · 1 year ago

first and only job ever. starting at 15 yrs. old...gymnastics coach. coached in GA, MO, AK . all the broken bones and sprains plus some regular chiropractic assistance has paid off.

Scott · 1 year ago

taught tennis lessons when I was 15

Christina · 1 year ago

carhop at a locally owned Ice

Crystal Renaud · 1 year ago

Sonic Drive-in Carhop.