What was your very first job?

[Aqualung]

Groundskeeper

 

[Runt]

I was 12 years old and I worked on a stable cleaning horse stalls, exercising/watering the foals, watering the plants, feeding the horses, and cleaning the owner's house once she decided it was inappropriate for a girl to be doing "boys' work".

Then it was:
paid worker on a campaign
web designer
admin assistant for a consulting company
Renaissance Festival performer
exterior house painter
admin assistant for a TPA (third-party administrator for life insurance trusts)

 

[jacquie4000]

I was a babysitter. I looked after two kids (boy was 8 and the girl was 5) for a mother (a friend of the family) while she went to work. Something good came about this becasue the mother lived in an apartment complex and when another couple heard about this, the asked me to babysit their child which was around the same age as the boy. It didn't pay alot back then but I was ambitious.

I can actually see you doing this too

 

[jacquie4000]

Other than a paper route, my first job was working at Chick-Fil-A. I hated it, and by the time I quit I hated the sandwiches, too. The owner's first name was Norris. He liked two of the teenagers who worked there; he was ticked off at the rest of us all the time.


We used to sing (not actually to his face):

We're so sorry, Uncle Norris​

Oh, we didn't mean to cause you any pain​

We used to set the clock ahead ten minutes so we could close a little early, then set it back before we left.

When we were bored, we used to deep-fry quarters, flick them out in the mall, and watch passersby try to pick them up.

We made $2.05 an hour. You get what you pay for.

You were a little naughty weren't you

 

[jacquie4000]

Lanscaping with my uncle. I was 8 and did that off and on until I entered college. He paid me when he felt like it and the type of work I did breaks every OSHA code imaginable. In fact, I got a hernia over it.

I held other jobs like Taco Bell, Del Taco, waiter at Sizzler, Designing Toilets, blah blah blah....

Taco Bell and Del Taco, You were attracted to the food?:drool:

 

[eudaimonia]

Me: I wrote a small graphics software program that could be used to find homologies between two nucleic acid sequences.

Really? How old were you at the time?

Ah, let's see... I must have been 16 or 17.


eudaimonia,

Mark

 

[yossarian22]

Lets see. I had to calibrate a gas analysis chamber, a task which took over 68 hours, with no sleep.
I got a little mug and a letter of recommendation for it.

 

[Terrywoodenpic]

All my early holiday jobs were unpaid.
Most of the time I worked on our farm.
I worked one summer in the local photo studio.
Mostly glazing and dry mounting prints. 7 hours a day for nothing, just to learn some of the job.

 

[joeboonda]

McDonald's! I was always stoned so it was mostly enjoyable. Ya know, back in 'da day.