what was your first job? meaning legally on the books collecting a weekly paycheck? me: McDonalds!! flippin burgers o ya..i was making minimum wage $4.18 per hour
Big frozen food warehouse, Dot foods. Wasn't a bad job for high school kid except it was only on weekends so kinda cut down on the social life ha.
Mine was working at a recycling plant during the summer between school years. We crushed and bailed all sorts of plastics, metals, cardboard etc...
Delivered Newspapers at 9 years old and made $35 per week. Then was a gas jockey at a full service gas station for $2.00 per hour. Then, busboy for $2.50 plus 10% of waiters tips, and finally a short order cook from the time I was 14 to 17 when I entered the military.
Worked at the high school between 9th and 10th grade and built a railroad tie fence around the school. $3.35 and hour and I liked it. Bought my first car with that money.
I'm going to date myself here......the day I turned 16, I worked at a cabinet shop, sweeping floors, stacking lumber, sweeping floors, doing a little delivery with a 1960 International pick up truck, manual shift (ground a few gears on that thing, LOL), did I mention I was sweeping floors ? all this for the sky high wage (minimum) of $1.25 / hour !!!! I looked back at my tax returns from then, and I couldn't believe that I was making a whopping $50.00 per week !!! Of course when I was working there, I was only paying 16.9 cents per gallon of gas !
My first paying job was tying salmon egg sacks for $.02/each... I was 14. After high school I worked for an engineering and construction company as a hod carrier earning $2.90/hr.
First job was a dishwasher the summer of my sophomore year, then Domino's my junior year, enlisted in the Guard, Round Table Pizza and Big 5 my senior year... Never held a job for a long period of time until this one
My dad got me a job as a landsurveyor at 16 for pt summer work then I went on to work FT for 2 yrs after graduation then I was laid off because of the economy
Age 14 cart boy at the golf course, $5.25/hr. Unofficial first job, shoveling sidewalks and mowing lawns... at age 10.
My first job was working in tobacco when I was 16.(think it was $3.00 hour) Learned my lesson and started in a machine shop for $3.25 hour when I was a senior in high school. Oddly enough, after 4 other jobs in the tool and mold making industry, I am back in the first machine shop I worked at.(happier than I have been in years) Never burn those bridges. sent from my samsung note 2
I grew up on a farm....started earning a paycheck around the age of 12. My first job other than that was Mortgage Broker.
I was 12. Worked for my grandpa's plumbing & HVAC company for the summer as a shop grunt. Cleaning, inventory (counting nuts & bolts & fittings), ect. Worked about 20 hr's/week that summer. At 13, I was full time for 3 months. Even worked overtime. Got paid $6/hr cash from Grandpa. It was awesome. Spent most of my $$ on rollerblades, and Nintendo games. Worked there until I as 17.
Lifeguard. Best job I ever had. I started at 15 (min age allowed by Red Cross at the time) and did this the whole way through highschool. Well before that I was doing work around the farm for my dad to earn $$$, and I also had 3 lawns I mowed for neighbors at about 11y/o.
first job : working on a farm stacking 50lb hay bails in the back of a wagon at 9y/o for 2 years made 20$ a day. First job ( on the books) Age 11: Trap boy at a gun club in MD: min wage plus tips.
