So What Was Your First Job?

So what was your first job and what did ya start at? I figure I'll start, I had worked in tobacco for a few years and did work experience during school w/ the janitors but my first real job was at Shopko (retail). Worked there for two years then recently decided to move on. I started at $7 (due to a mistake made on the paper work, I was only supposed to make $6 but since it was in writing I made $7 anyways) and soon after was making $8 with the overnight premium.

Patrick

 

I worked at Dominoes back in 88 for 4.25 per hour.I was in line to be the second youngest manager in Dominoes history until I had to quit. I was driving my grandmothers car to work,and she refused to let me drive it after 10 pm.Since I lived 20 miles from work,I really had no choice.

 

when I was 11 I worked at a bike shop. I started for free. After a month I asked to get paid and they took me on at minimum wage. I think it was $0.75/hour. THen it jumped up to $1.35 and they had to let me go. I hate minimum wage. LOL at 14 I was back at the Bike shop during the day and washing dishes at night. Oh the good old days!

 

I worked at a grocery store from about 1996-2000 made the princely some of 6.85 Canadian when I started, finished at about 8.25. I stocked shelves. Not a bad gig for a highschool kid. Beat burger flipping.

 

Paper route is my first job and still is on the main street right here in keokuk. Pay stayed consistently at around 100 bucks, and then lost alot of costumers at a big apartment building(had around 16/17 customers) and that made my pay fall down about 50% and now im at around 50 bucks. I get paid by the month. Aint much, good enough for gas and normal maintenance.

 

My dad owned 2 Shell stations here in Milford,CT

I was a Grease Monkey. But I preferred the title of Petroleum Primate. :laugh: :TU:

 

First Job was the old paper route
125 houses, filled up the bag twice each time on weekdays, 5 times on sunday. I cant imagine I made more than about 5 or 10 bucks a week.
I think I lasted about a year and a half doing that.
1972....I was ten.

D.

 

Morning paper route with 103 customers. Boy my Dad used to get mad when he had to wake me up at 5am after sleeping through my 0430 alarm. Would RUN the route up and down the hills, be in school at 0730, practice football from 2:30 until 5 or so then walk about 5 miles up hill to home. Man, I was in shape back then. $50/month????

-Motel laundry $1/hour
-Grocery delivery in a '55 Ford Sedan Delivery, chained up in winter. $1.25/hour (minimum wage)
-Throwing chain on a drill rig in Gillette, WY winter of '69 (after graduation) at 145 lbs and 17 years old. $3.50/hour
-Labored in the Anaconda Smelter (built in 1916) in the arsenic, cleaning Reverberator runners (you know, the shutes they pour the molten metal down) with a 90# jackhammer and a 6' gad that would melt and bend as the face shield deformed in front of your face. $23.00/DAY

From then on it's just one underachievement after another. p

But man, back in the 60s and '70s the fishing and hunting was something else! It's all private land now (the blue-staters moved in and want to fence the place now).

Hell, at 26 I owned my house ($11,000), a '71 240Z ($2350 w/48,000 miles), '75 CJ-5 ($5000 new), '71 Honda 750 ($900), all the :beer I could drink ($0.75? $1??).... oh, and I was single (read: hot and cold running women - PRICELESS!). Can't believe I made it to 53 - I would have taken better care of myself.

I actually got an education, too.

You guys gotta be careful throwing this kind of question out to an old fart - kinda like asking what time it is and I tell you ALL about the rotation of the earth and planets around the sun.

:boring:

 

Bruce's first job ... Well when I was very young I'd go door to door and wash cars , house windows , fix bikes ,shovel snow , and I had a paper route . I delivered 176 papers every day for a penny every 2 houses . I always stop at Texaco and bugged Carl the owner while I drank a Coke . He was my next boss for 8 years of my life . He put up with me and taught me what he could .

R.I.P. Carl , many thanx bud ! p :TU:

Working at a full service gas station as a kid .. Priceless ! :Smarty: p

 

Country club caddy. Got paid whenever I got out at least once a day and nor more than 3 times. Average for 18 holes was around $30. My second day I made over $100 for a straight 27 holes. :shock: Free food was a benefit, but only if you got out would you get free food and have the 30 seconds t cram a sandwich down your throat. Only lasted 1 season though, then got busy.
To bad the caddymaster always left around 4:00 in the afternoon, then if you went out for a second or third time when you came back he wasnt there to pay you. So people contemplated wheather to go out or not. I always took advantage of the openings and got out even if i didnt get paid that day. Salary was cold hard cash at the end of the day, tax free i might add. Also got a TON of stray, golf balls, espiecially from the pond.

This summer im probably going to pump gas or work at my local toyota dealer.

 

I started at a local steak restaurant back in 1978 for a whopping $1.90 per hour bussing tables.

 

I worked at a True Value when I turned 16. $4.00 an hour.

That was 15 years ago.

My Dad works there now that he is semi-retired.

Hopefully they pay a little more now.

 

Clean houses, lawn care, and snow shoveling of vacant homes for a real-estate company. I was paid per job - and paid well. It was a nice way to start.

Though I got these jobs through my father, who was a realtor - and he taught me to work hard. Also, if I made any mistakes, I instantly had to go back and fix it (like forgetting to change a dead bulb - drive out and change it that evening instead of the next day, LOL).

 

Paper route in '79 that paid 35 bucks a week. Pretty good money for a 15 year old back then. First real job...Dishwasher at the local pancake house in '80. Paid $3.10 per hour. Hated Sundays with a passion. Mobs of people who just got outta church with an appetite. :laugh:

 

When I was still in school I worked part time in a cemetery doing odd jobs like painting those big ern things silver and replaceing tiped over flowers and stuff like that, most other kids thought it was wierd but I was ok with it, I was in grade school making some spending money. Tom

 

I worked at a bar/eatery thingamajig. I did everything from stock the cases to buy salt for the water softener to yardwork. Basically anything anyone needed done. From 10am to 6pm $100 a week. The pay was low but the start and end time wasn't in stone. "Anything else need to be done?" "No, now get out of here."

 

Bagger at a grocery store back in 1985. Made $3.50 an hour. The store was basically all teenagers working there, man the stuff we used to do. LMAO :laugh: :spank: ou:

 

Started at the local A&W as a whopper flopper!! Made $3.85/hour. Enough for gas in my 72 Chevy p/u. Wish I'd kept that truck. o No:
At the same time, I also washed dishes at The Airport Inn for the same wage, as well as working at Gary's Downtown Conoco for $4/hour. All this plus a full schedule at school. All 7 periods filled, no study halls. Man was I tired all the time!!

 

My first job to clean up used cars at a Volvo dealership where my dad worked. Must have been around 1977.