What was your very first job ? (page 3)

darkuncle29

My first job was working for a pair of elders that owned a floor cleaning business. They did mostly SafeWays and others in the South Seattle area. I did a few day shifts that went OK, new construction. But only lasted one night during a regular night shift. I hated the hours.

Billygoat

My first REAL job (outside of babysitting) was as a sales clerk at a jewelry store owned by the worldly brother of an elder. It was for the "winter season" and I was hired to wrap gifts. Since it was all gold wrappers and bows (and not Christmas paper) my dad said I could do it.

I left that job for a job at a cookie store. I could eat whatever I wanted. I was there for about 6 months and ate cookies all the time! Took me years to look at a cookie and think it looked good. Just the smell of them would make me ill. LOL!

BeautifulGarbage

I had a very lucrative babysitting business when I was 14. Good sitters are very hard to find, and I had tons of referrals. Didn't pay taxes either.

Then, my family moved.

I made friends with a girl whose family managed a resort hotel. So, my first taxpaying job was a hotel maid. Some people were unbelievable slobs. I have quite a few disgusting guest stories. Some days my "uniform" was a bikini because if we didn't have too much work to do that day, my girlfriend and I would go lay out by the pool as soon as we were done.

A toilet-scrubing bikini babe I was.

drwtsn32

I worked for a brother who owned a bottled water business. He told me he'd pay me $6/hr to wash/fill bottles. Once I started he only paid me $4/hr. I was a good dub and didn't want to complain about this nice older brother who was one of the anointed...

Fortunately I only worked there for a couple months..moved on to bigger and better things.

shamus

McDonald's when I was fifteen.

I quit on the spot. It was the worst job I ever had, with the exception of the "ministerial weirdo" who ran a warehouse for a sleazy furniture place. I seem to recall all the salesmen were hammering one dumb receptionist.... they ended up firing her, LOL!

Oh, memories.

talesin

I was 11 years old, and I would go after school to work for a (you got it!) cleaning company for about an hour a day, cleaning offices at the telephone company. I was paid by contract, $120 per month by contract.

I have to admit, the 'brother' that owned the company paid good wages for his contracts, and what did I learn? That you have to work hard for the money.

It wasn't a bad experience, cleaning for $$ has always been good to me.

tal

somebodylovesme

"when minimum wage was $5.40..." .. isn't it only, like, $5.15 now? If not, I'm getting screwed.

Puternut

Picking strawberries at 13. Strawberry fields forever..........ate until I trew up from a tummy ache

bebu

Besides babysitting... besides picking strawberries in the summer... besides a paper route for 9 months... I worked for a restaurant where you order at the counter, in high school.

I learned that sometimes you work hard and don't get paid well.

I also learned that there are some true chauvinist pigs in business. It's hard to learn how to deal with those apes.

bebu

ball.

LT

The lesson learnt was that England is too bl**dy cold to clean windows in Winter!!!
Hence, not long after that I moved home to Scotland

to clean windows in the snow?

I worked in a bakery for a pittance of a wage. I regret turning down a job in an electronics firm with a college release program in order to pioneer, and I had already passed all my exams at school. It took me to leave the org 7 years later for me to go to college and change my life.

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