what did you do for your first job or money?

armchair_warrior · July 2012

Me I grew up in a poor, I saw these older kids looking at dirty mags. They stole them from their dads lol. I was like I could get you guys more.

I was selling dirty mags to these older kids back in junior high, it 1st year of jhs. Also i made alot more than a dollar. I went and brought unsold older mags that the stores had in bundles lol.

During the summer I cleaning animal crap. rats,snakes, turtle, and monkey.

whynot_31 · July 2012

I had newspaper routes starting at age 10.

At 16, I started work at a Subway Sandwich franchise. At 17 , I was given the key and the owner would go home whenever I worked.

I drove a catering truck throughout college.

booklaw · July 2012

I had paper routes starting at 12. Then I worked as a stockboy in a grocery store. Then I was the office boy at my after-school-and-Sunday-mornings Hebrew school. Summers I worked as a day camp counselor, and weekends as a lifeguard. During college I drove the delivery truck for a local liquor store, had work-study jobs on campus, and summers ran title searches at an abstract-and-title company.

armchair_warrior · July 2012

during hs and college, I work in a restaurant and delivery food. sold virtual items for money before gold farming became popular.

Also sold programs to other students.

tateinbk · July 2012

I babysat starting at age 12 for neighbors. I then continued that for years, all through high school and even during college and afterwards. I waitressed in there too. But mostly a lot of babysitting/nannying. I even was red-cross certified when I was 13.

xlizellx · July 2012

I babysat starting at age 13 and throughout all of high school. After graduation I worked summers at a daycare for school-aged kids making it more "camp" like and also as a camp counselor at Girl Scout camp. I also was an RA in college.

whynot_31 · July 2012

My junior and senior year of high school, my friends and I made lots of money by selling beer at a markup. In addition to getting us $, it also improved our social standing.

....my friend Lee worked at a drug store which sold beer.

...without Lee, we would have been simply misfits. ....with Lee, we were kids everyone wanted to be friends with.

stacey · July 2012

When I was 12 I started babysitting. The summer I was 14 I was a cotton candy girl in Coney Island. At 15 I worked at Tripoli. At 16 I started working as an inter-office page in a law firm. Then when I graduated high school I started as a legal secretary with the law firm I still work for today (it will be 25 years in 2 weeks) . While I worked full time some of the second jobs I took were at Palladium and the GAP.

the psycho-ologist · July 2012

As a young teen, I started out babysitting. I moved on to camp counselor, then in college, after school counselor/ day rehabilitation worker for special needs individuals. From there I just went further into my specialty: working with defective humans. (hahaha) All kidding aside, I went like a straight arrow into working in mental health and mental health related fields.

mrs whynot · July 2012

My first paid job was to babysit a dog. I was 11 and neighbors had a dog who would tear up their apartment if left alone. They paid me twice the babysitting rate because they thought the job was boring. Plus they were the first people I knew who had a VCR (I'm 42) and they let me bring friends over and they had Aliens. Fabulous introduction to the world of work.

I also babysat kids and tutored kids in math before graduating high school.

willow · July 2012

I worked for the neighborhood youth corps, in some kind of day camp for the underprivileged, we went on trips to the parks, pools, it was fun. After that I started working in the neighborhood swimming pools, like Red Hook and Sunset, that was the most fun. Wish we were back in those days, things would be might different if I knew what I know now

pragmaticguy · July 2012

At 14 I babysat, cleaned out basements and inventoried supermarkets. There were no calculators so we had to write everything on these huge numbered sheets which were then forwarded to someone who entered everything on a comptometer. There were still blue laws so we worked on Saturday nights starting at 9pm when the stores closed and Sundays we started about 8am and worked until we were done. Guaranteed four hours pay each day even if the job took less but it never did. Worked there for four years even while I worked other jobs.

homeowner · July 2012

My first real job was at 16 working as a teller in a bank. I did that for two summers then worked retail throughout college both during the summer and over the Christmas break. I also temped as a receptionist at a number of law firms, and Fox TV. While in college I also worked at a newspaper calling people to participate in polls that appeared in that week's papers.

armchair_warrior · July 2012

oh just remember out of hs, i was suppose to be interning in some architecture company or something that has to do with buildings etc. It was nice I got paid like 8 bucks or something it was way above minimum wage back then. butttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt I end up doing most photo copying and buying food lol. Most of the time I was playing computer games and one day.

I got bored and rework their stupid old paper files, which is in the same room as i was in into data base into a computer one instead. Didn't finish my project when College started. I think i got like 70% of their client info files and work into the data base. I told them they should hire someone to finish it and this way they can get all their client info etc.. much faster.

Old school lol they didn't know how to use computers back then sadly lol.

what did you do for your first job or money?

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