OT: What was your first Job?

[yz250guy]

I'll take Leroy's suggestion and start a thread about our first jobs.

I got my first job when I was 11 years old. My brother was 13 and had a paper route. He decided he was going to quit, so my dad suggested that he let me do the route for a couple weeks to make sure he really wanted to quit. Well, you were supposed to be 12 years old to have a route, but since no one knew about it, I got to do it. In the end, the manager found out about 8 weeks later that I was doing the route and knew I wasn't old enough. He said that there hadn't been a single complaint in the last 8 weeks, so the job was mine. (My brother got about 10 complaints a month) I had that job for two years until my family moved to a different town about an hour away. It was out in the country, and I had no trouble finding work to do. Cleaning horse/cow/goat stalls, feeding farm animals, milking cows, bucking hay, etc, etc. Been working ever since. List of jobs?

Paper route
Misc farm work
McDonalds
Telemarketer (Don't shoot me, it only lasted a month)
Cajun restaurant prep cook/dishwasher
Pizza restaurant dishwasher/pizza maker/delivery driver
Went to Japan for two years as a missionary for my church
Hospital Janitor (environmental services aid)
Radiology patient transporter/phlebotomist
Pizza delivery boy
Full time student
Electronic engineering technician
Senior desktop support specialist
Network Technician
Systems Administrator
Systems Administration Supervisor (Current Job)

[The Baron]

Dude! You totally stole my Spicoli idea.

Anyway, my first job was with my uncle on his Mission Tortilla route. That was hard work. We'd wake up at 4am and deliver tortillas and chips to a bunch of grocery stores every day. Pushing a stack of racks which were taller than I was that were filled with tortillas is no easy task. Those things were heavy!

[YZalltheway]

As stated in the other thread, QUIZNOS SUB MMMMM.... Toasty

I just made a 10 dollar bonus advertising

[The Baron]

$10 bonus just to say their name and slogan? You could make more just posting that crap than actually working.

[YZalltheway]

I was beings slightly sarcastic, I've just never said that before, I have to start practicing up on my "Hi welcome to Quiznos, may I help you?" Most of the time its a hey whats up, but I think I can get it down by next weekend.

[yzernie]

My first job was when I was 7. My mom and dad managed an apartment complex in Chicago. Dad, after his regular job, did handy man work around the complex. I was his gopher and cleaned up after him so he could go on to the next project. I made a quarter a day and was thrilled to have so much money!!!

My first real job was when I was 13 and worked for my best friends dad who was a school teacher. In the summer months he had a school desk repair company. We traveled all over the state repairing desks.

[Bakemono]

My first job was as a buss boy at age 15.
Heres my list:
buss boy
dishwasher
fry cook
dishwasher
welder
generator assembler
generator technician

[LoKi]

My first job was when I was 15. I sorted cans & bottles at the grocery store for a whopping $3.50 a hour!

[char393]

Aside from the typical babysitting jobs that I started at 10, my first job was at a dental office. Seems the dentist figured it was cheaper to pay a couple of 13 year olds to come in and hand-address his mailers rather than use the labels he had printed up. I think I made minimum wage which was somewhere around $3.65/hr then. When I turned 16, I got a job at Taco Bell, complete with the funky brown polyester outfit.

Following Ty's lead, my list..

babysitter
dental slave
taco slinger
dispatcher for a tow company
commercial salmon fisherman..err...deckhand
bookkeeper/dispatcher for auto transport company
office help
preschool aide
postmaster relief
store clerk
commercial cod fishing deckhand
substitute teacher at the school
tribal children's services worker
community health practitioner
emt-2
cpr/first aid instructor
shop help
safety officer, parts runner, office fill-in person... whatever, I show up, they tell me what to do.

[P1M]

I was 13 and was the easter bunny at santa's village in Lake Arrowhead california.

[Mainjet2001]

Hoed weeds in orange groves in Northridge (S.F. Valley) for 3 months during school break for $1.00/hr.

[Ekholm]

My first job was delivering Pennysavers. I was 12 and put alot of miles on the 'ole Mongoose doin' that one...
First REAL job was working at GEMCO as a "Cart Boy". It was one step below a grocery bagger, basically pusshing carts in from the parking lot and cleaning up messes on the floors. In Phoenix, 115 deg, pushing 30-40 carts at a time accross a parking lot for 8 hours. That job SUCKED !!!!!

[Keetoman393]

Great thread! My first job... can't remember! I grew up working on farms and ranches so I'm sure it was probably hauling hose manuer out of the stalls.

Worked doing the following:

Ranch Hand
Lumber yard worker
Tractor Mechanic
Welding
Painter
Heavy equipment/mining equipment mechanic
Hydraulic Specialist
Expediter
Planner
Planner/Buyer
General Manager

[Chadm89]

My first actual job was as a laborer with a lawn service company.

I was 15 and minimum wage at the time was $4.25/hour. The company I worked for was contracted by the government, so I got paid scale. I was making $7.00/hr. and couldn't have been more thrilled about it. My friends, all making standard minimum wage, were insanely jealous of "all the money" I made. hahahah

I went into restaurant work after that, and worked too many jobs at too may places to list, but they included lead baker at a bakery/restaurant, head chef of 1 of the dining halls on the University of the Pacific campus in Stockton, Ca., and by 23 years old I was the Executive Sous Chef of the very upscale Ristorante Bella Fresca, also in Stockton, Ca.

Circumstances however led me into the construction industry just before my 24th birthday and I've been there ever since (just turned 31, so 7 years now). I'm the sales manager at Stockton Truss, Inc. - we manufacture pre-engineered structural components used in all types of construction.

[mxmama393]

I have heard of everything here except these two things.
Not to single you out Char... But what exactly are these two? If you don't mind me asking.

Originally Posted by char393

postmaster relief

tribal children's services worker

I can assume that "postmaster relief" is what it sounds like... but I am not sure


The second one really has me scratching my head

[char393]

postmaster relief is pretty much what it sounds like. because chignik was so small, the one postal employee was the postmaster. so when she wanted a break, i took over.

and tcsw, hard to explain. Sort of like a village contact for the one social worker who had to cover our entire region. also did different youth activites, wrote grants, things like that. because most of the kids fell under the indian child welfare act..anyway, there were a lot of different programs and/or monies available to us. we had fun with it.

[mxmama393]

Very interesting experience!

[char393]

Well...we took what we could get. "regular" jobs were hard to come by there. After I'd started in the clinic, Daniel became the pmr and later on, the tcsw.

[Miles711]

I started 3 summers ago working at the warehouse of EPO electronics in Webster.

The next summer I got a job working at a wiring supplier for Miller Welding. I basically crimped wires and made wiring harnesses all day long.

This last summer my old boss at EPO knew that I had a year of Mech Engr at college and wanted me to work there and help on a project he had. I ended up roughly designing (working directly with him) a set of solar panels to power the warehouse and helped build/make sure the other workers built them to the right specs. I actually enjoyed it since it was a hands on project.

[jum]

heres my list:
* babysitter
* factory hand and my uncles sailmaking bussiness
* worked at a bread shop
* work at a sandwhich shop now and coach young sailors