What was your very first job ? (page 4)

codeblue

My first job, I was 8 years old: picking cherry's....

yeah...picking cherry's...the good part was eating them on the job!...lol...the bad part was dreaming about picking cherry's that night after spending all day picking them...lol

Codeblue

talesin

codeblue

OMG, 8!!! I thought it was bad for me at 11. The things we learned so young ...

t

My first job was working in the prototype parts machine shop at the company paying my college education. My first assignment was to make a 4-way high pressure (6000 psi) connector with mounting flange out of 4 inch round stock. It took me the best part of 4 days working on a special lathe (with milling capability). I thought 4 days was way too long but apparently the finished piece by the "new kid" impressed my supervisor, the shop forman and the manufacturing manager. I got some nice assignments working in precision manufacturing and was still called in to cut special threads after I graduated from college. My first job paid 19 GBP per week.

I really liked that job. But I quit my later production engineering job with the firm when the majority of my work was for military applications and my "conscience" told me I had to quit. I haven't touched a lathe in 20 years and wouldn't have a clue nowadays how to use one.

Thirdson

seattleniceguy

Aside from two paper routes, I sold a ton of stuff door-to-door in my teenage years. I guess I figured that with my experience as a Witness, door-to-door stuff that people actually want would be easy. I sold address numbers painted on curbs, bungee cords, homemade cookies, mugs, magazines, cubic zirconium rings, and keychains. Oh yeah, I started a car wash subscription service for a bit too. Incidentally, the addresses on curbs thing was awesome. I made $800 that summer - not bad for a 14-year-old kid!

My first real job was working for my uncle at a locksmith shop. I worked there for two years. Did I learn anything? Yeah! I learned how to pick locks! They wouldn't let me go open cars for people though. I used that money to buy my first car, and then to go to Japan later.

SNG

Black Sheep

Lithographic printing

Would have gone down well with a Bethel application.

Just as well I got out of the Borg or I would have had that guilt trip too.

Purple

Gosh I had a bad experience today as a result of my first job! Are you following me around or what? ANyway there was this nasty manager who is just a bitch and delights in cutting, slashing, reducing staff and such. I left mostly because of her. Would you believe it they made an announcement today to say she is the new manager of community services. I thought I was over what happened but it all came flooding back this afternoon and I find feelings are just as strong today as they were 18 months ago. I have learnt and know to shut up around her, dont say much, dont disagree or let her know you have your own mind and own opionions about things. I have already informed my team leader and new section manager about my apprehensions and that I will not be saying much when she is around. I didn't say too much cause I dont want to colour everyones view of her but oh my god. I thought they were going to expand the services and such we offer, not slash them back further. Oh well and it was such a good job too but mayber I think I will start looking around for something else. Thanks for listening to the vent!

yoda

My first job was sweeping up hair & getting people coffee in the hair salon in the town where I lived, when I was 14.

Frantic

That would have to be a Trolley Collector. That was THE BEST JOB EVER! (for the amount of work I did) Rostered on for 5 hours and worked only 1 of them. The other 4 consisted of sitting in store, watching television and eating from the deli they had there. Like I said the BEST. I returned to the premises today, ahhhhhh the memories. Im happier at my current job now....... well, only because I get paid triple what I did as a trolley collector

freeman

At 13, most kids in my area had paper routes or mowed lawns or did something similar. I was a bit different; I worked in a TV repair shop. My first real job was as an electronic technician. Yep, I was a boy working with 40+-year-old men. Needless to say some of the guys I worked with felt a bit uncomfortable having me work with them, doing essentially the same job normally done by adults. After a while they got more used to the idea of having me around and stopped trying to compete with and test the whiz-kid-freak boy.

When they realized that I was not after anyone?s job or trying to show anyone up (something I could not do anyway, as with their experience they were much better then I was, they started sharing with me some of the tricks of the trade. That was a turning point, but the real sign of full acceptance came later on. I knew I was fully accepted when at our noon lunch break one of the guys showed me the collection of girly magazines and offered me a beer.

Beer and soft porn, just what a young boy needs! That was more then 30 years ago, one of the best days of my life and I can remember it like it was yesterday!

Freeman

worldlygirl

I got a newspaper route when I was 11. I worked 6 days a week (around 1 1/2 hours a day) for a whopping $15. I did that until I got my second job as a cashier/pharmacy tech in a drug store when I was 14. I kept that job all through high school, working about 20 hours per week. I haven't been unemployed a day since. Looking back, these jobs taught me a lot about work ethic and responsibility, but I also missed out on a lot of stuff in high school because of work obligations. It may have kept me out of trouble, though.

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