What was your first job ever?

And how old were you...?

15, pool lifeguard

15, Chic-fil-A

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Posted by nikkistar
15, Chic-fil-A

Chic-fil-A was around 20 years ago??

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Yup, at least in TX

16

"Welcome to McDonald's drive thru. Would you like to try a value meal today?"

cabin cleaner (for like 2 months)...14

moved on to Papa John's Pizza at 14/15

Posted by Dreamyboy
Idk if this counts as a first job, but I was a volunteer at a senior living Rehabilitation center when I was 16 for 2 years. Then went to McDonald's to work for a bit.

If you got paid it counts.

Sus: 14, sold "boxes" (stolen voice mailboxes) for $ 5, 2nd-gen VHS porn for $ 10

Legit: 16, waiter/host @ IHOP

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Idk if this counts as a first job, but I was a volunteer at a senior living Rehabilitation center when I was 16 for 2 years. Then went to McDonald's to work for a bit.

If you got paid it counts.

I wasn't paid unfortunately lol I just did it because I wanted to help

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It doesn't count then. But it does make you a way better person than the rest of us, so there's that.

16 at Whataburger.

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8-15: Hustled the neighborhood, raking leaves and pine needles for $ 20 a yard

16: Burger King

How'd you do that? Just go door to door?

i was 16, or 15, i made ID cards for a soccer league. i was bad at it. and i quit after two months since i couldnt play soccer anymore

An assistant handbag designer. I was 18 ?

12 and 13, picking strawberries during the summers.

A real year round job, 15 at Nordstrom.

Posted by thecrazyariestaurus
An assistant handbag designer. I was 18 ?

Like the assistant to the handbag designer or you actually got to be involved in the process? Did you get to name any of the bags?

I worked for my "going out money". After school and on weekends. Cashier at a supermarket, from 15 to 17.

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An assistant handbag designer. I was 18 ?

Like the assistant to the handbag designer or you actually got to be involved in the process? Did you get to name any of the bags?

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I was the design departments assistant, so I had to do the work they didn't wanna do lol I had to draw the bags, give the factory the specifications, and talk to buyers and let them know when they would receive the product. On top of that, I had to manage the showroom and make sure it looked nice all the time. It was a lot to do, and I was underpaid ? I didn't know any better

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An assistant handbag designer. I was 18 ?

Like the assistant to the handbag designer or you actually got to be involved in the process? Did you get to name any of the bags?

I was the design departments assistant, so I had to do the work they didn't wanna do lol I had to draw the bags, give the factory the specifications, and talk to buyers and let them know when they would receive the product. On top of that, I had to manage the showroom and make sure it looked nice all the time. It was a lot to do, and I was underpaid ? I didn't know any better

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Pretty cool first job though, and you got some sick ass experience. Being overworked and underpaid is like a rite of passage.

Babysitting starting at age 13 or so, and continuing through my teenage years. I was a favourite babysitter for a few kids so I got regular work because of that, and a house sitting job for about a week with one of the families. One of the kids taught me some fun things - how marshmallows blow up several times their size if you microwave them, for example, lol.

First job after that was full time in a toy store when I was ~ 19. Eventually I was trusted enough to work alone in the store some days, though that could be boring.

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An assistant handbag designer. I was 18 ?

Like the assistant to the handbag designer or you actually got to be involved in the process? Did you get to name any of the bags?

I was the design departments assistant, so I had to do the work they didn't wanna do lol I had to draw the bags, give the factory the specifications, and talk to buyers and let them know when they would receive the product. On top of that, I had to manage the showroom and make sure it looked nice all the time. It was a lot to do, and I was underpaid ? I didn't know any better

Pretty cool first job though, and you got some sick ass experience. Being overworked and underpaid is like a rite of passage.

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Yeah, I definitely don't regret anything about that job. It got my foot in the door in the fashion industry. Without that experience, I wouldn't have gotten a job with a pretty well-known fashion company. It's funny because i felt like such a failure before I landed that job because I couldn't get jobs with fast food restaurants, or retailers. Little did I know something better was on the way

Internet Club Administrator (no coffee : ).

Age 16 - 20.

I loved it (at first i worked for free - but was still better than paying as a customer)! 😄

12. I got paid for teaching Mathematics of primary school.

Posted by bumboklatt
First job was working at a movie theater in Burbank, I had to do everything and it was crazy.

My first day I had to work a cash register on a screening night.

The best part was watching all types of people who worked there, the main manager was sooo sketchy haha

Burbank, CA? Lol

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First job was working at a movie theater in Burbank, I had to do everything and it was crazy.

My first day I had to work a cash register on a screening night.

The best part was watching all types of people who worked there, the main manager was sooo sketchy haha

Burbank, CA? Lol

Yep I started at the big one like a few months after it opened. I think it's 16? Then they moved me to the one inside the mall the 8

One inside the mall was so chill, I used to let people in without tickets lol

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Haha damn we're neighbors ? I was always at that theater when I was little. My parents loved that theater

I was 16 and the hostess with the mostess

Not even a teenager on my first job.

(In no chronological order) Bailed hay, roofing (hell of a tan), stock boy, glazing and caulking windows, (non artistic) painting, and the occasional on the QT welding job.

15- after school care, personal au pair for private family: special needs child- global autism

Sweeping floors at local hairdresser. Part time coffee fetcher at real estate agent next door, and barista (over time) at Armenian coffee house in city...

I was paying my way thru school lol super busy

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First job was working at a movie theater in Burbank, I had to do everything and it was crazy.

My first day I had to work a cash register on a screening night.

The best part was watching all types of people who worked there, the main manager was sooo sketchy haha

Burbank, CA? Lol

Yep I started at the big one like a few months after it opened. I think it's 16? Then they moved me to the one inside the mall the 8

One inside the mall was so chill, I used to let people in without tickets lol

Haha damn we're neighbors ? I was always at that theater when I was little. My parents loved that theater

Did it close? I haven't been there since 2010

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Nope it's still there ? It has a bar inside too haha

I was 16 - did cashier and takeout at a BBQ restaurant

The one good thing is it smelled really good and the smell never got old

Sales 16

Wack Arnold's aka McDonald's and was 16. I worked there for like 2 months, and bought weed, a glass bong, and World of Warcraft with my first paycheck.

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Wack Arnold's aka McDonald's and was 16. I worked there for like 2 months, and bought weed, a glass bong, and World of Warcraft with my first paycheck.

worthy investments

Posted by Prince_Pisces
Webcam model LOL! 18, I'm guessing.

Guessing huh. So how old were you really 😉

Weekend jobs in a posh women's shop and then later on in a trendy men's clothes shop...i was in my early teens

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Babysitting starting at age 13 or so, and continuing through my teenage years. I was a favourite babysitter for a few kids so I got regular work because of that, and a house sitting job for about a week with one of the families. One of the kids taught me some fun things - how marshmallows blow up several times their size if you microwave them, for example, lol.

First job after that was full time in a toy store when I was ~ 19. Eventually I was trusted enough to work alone in the store some days, though that could be boring.

I'd completely forgotten that about marshmallows. Wow, so many memories flooding back now lol

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haha. 🙂 I love how, if it's done just right (not for too long) it caramelizes them like they've been roasted over a fire.

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Babysitting starting at age 13 or so, and continuing through my teenage years. I was a favourite babysitter for a few kids so I got regular work because of that, and a house sitting job for about a week with one of the families. One of the kids taught me some fun things - how marshmallows blow up several times their size if you microwave them, for example, lol.

First job after that was full time in a toy store when I was ~ 19. Eventually I was trusted enough to work alone in the store some days, though that could be boring.

I'd completely forgotten that about marshmallows. Wow, so many memories flooding back now lol

haha. 🙂 I love how, if it's done just right (not for too long) it caramelizes them like they've been roasted over a fire.

Yes funnily enough, I was even having trouble separating if what I was remembering was from roasting them at the fireplace or microwaving them. If you get it just right, like you said, they collapse on themselves in the microwave, harden up just a little bit and it tastes exactly like that.

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Yes! I like the microwaved version better because more of the marshmallow caramelizes, as you described, and there isn't the risk of dropping it and losing it forever like there is with roasting over a fire, lol.

One day I'm going to make marshmallows from scratch and see if I can get the same effect in the microwave.

The kid who showed me how to do that was fun. Another thing he taught me is how tasty it is to sprinkle breakfast cereal like Rice Krispies on vanilla ice-cream. We'd eat that while watching Wheel of Fortune (one of his favourite shows). This was in the mid 80s.