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Your First Job?

Last post 09-11-2010, 11:28 AM by Lasabar. 56 replies.
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  • Your First Job?

     09-01-2010, 1:15 PM

    Unofficially, I had a short-term gig waiting tables at a relative's Chinese restaurant when I was 9 or 10 [insert Chinese child-laborer joke here]. It was for a week during my summer vacation. It was fun for me because of the novelty factor and the customers liked the "cute" factor. Channleing Calvin's father, my parents thought it would "build character."

    Officially, I was a "Sandwich Artist" at Subway when I was in high school. Make sure to pronounce "artist" with a French accent.
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     09-01-2010, 1:30 PM

    My mom's owned a cleaning business for like 25 years, so my first 'unofficial' job was janitor. I took over one of her clients (a corporate tile office), and for 4 hours a week, made $250/mo under the table. Wasn't bad as a senior, but when my car broke down (the first time of many), had to get a second job. Started out at Banana Republic in the mall, working the stock room.


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     09-01-2010, 1:37 PM

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    I worked for a friend's parents' music store. It was like getting paid to play in a toy store for a 15 year old musician (I use that term lightly).

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  • Re: Your First Job?

     09-01-2010, 1:57 PM

    I was a dispatcher for my father's trucking company when I was 14. Paid under the table. My first actual job was as a Sandwich Artist as well.
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  • Re: Your First Job?

     09-01-2010, 3:24 PM

    Well, I started out at A&P as a bagger/cart dude...then they shut down on me...then I got a job at Circus World Pizza as Lucky the Lion....then they shut down on me.....next...I got a job at Willy Platt's golf range...then he lost it in a card game.....next...I got a job at Boston Market....then they shut down on me....so I went to Chuck E Cheeses...and cooked pizza for a year, then I just decided I had enough pizza and walked....got a job at Target catching shoplifters for the next few years till I went to college....now that was fun job.
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  • Re: Your First Job?

     09-01-2010, 3:38 PM

    I was a host @ red lobster for the summer before my senior year of high school. All I had to do was open doors and take people to their seats and hang around cute hostesses all day!
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  • Re: Your First Job?

     09-01-2010, 3:38 PM

    I started out at 13 hoeing and spraying weeds in the cotton fields in West TX. Didn't make a lot of money and was worn out and sun burned at the end of the days, but made my own money and killed a sh*t load of rattle snakes. I've had a job ever since and at times multiple jobs. Might have multiple jobs again soon.
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     09-01-2010, 4:06 PM

    Busboy at the (now defunct) Outpost restauraunt at 14. I used to bus the bar after closing and make myself drinks when noone was looking. Noone ever looked, I'd stagger home at 4 in the morning...
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  • Re: Your First Job?

     09-01-2010, 4:16 PM

    Started working at my church in Jr. High mowing lawns during the week, and running the audio production during the weekends.
    Later on I wrote lesson plans for the youth pastor while in HS.


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     09-01-2010, 4:32 PM

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    Bagged groceries at Winn-Dixie. Wasn't much, but that's all a 15 year old really needs for a summer job.
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  • Re: Your First Job?

     09-01-2010, 4:58 PM

    I did summer maintenance work at the Stickley factory, and weekends at their local showroom as a first job.

    I was a sandwich artist directly after that. Too funny, wonder if there's any correlation.
    Also funny, I went for the interview sporting a black eye I had caught the night before brawling at a gas station. Guess they were desperate!
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     09-01-2010, 5:29 PM

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    I cleaned up a Taco John's parking lot when I was around 11, paid in food.

    First real job was digging pools during the summer. I was 15 working almost 60 hours a week making $7hr, I thought I was rich.
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     09-01-2010, 6:09 PM

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    Worked a summer job for an electrical contractor digging trenches for secondary cable. 48" D x16" W @ 8 hours a day. Too this day I can do wonders with a shovel. Pay was $2 and a hour and a killer tan
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     09-01-2010, 8:09 PM

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    I was a "hamburger artist" at Burger King in high school.

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  • Re: Your First Job?

     09-01-2010, 8:42 PM

    i started off working for quiznos right across from my high school....started good.....turned into switching stores and being a manager at another store
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