Your first job

It was a tie. After getting out of school at 3 o'clock, I'd go home, change clothes and work 4 to midnight at a plastics factory, and on weekends, I was a pump jockey at a Shell station.
 

Shelf stacket ASDA during Summer the year I left highschool. I was sacked after 3 weeks (don't ask)

First proper job was as an Apprentice Land Surveyor for the NCB Opencast.
 
It was a summer job working at a local drugstore as a stock clerk.I would put items on the shelves,learned how to rotate to make sure none were near expiration date
Old habits are hard to break,once in awhile when I'm at Walgreens,I'll find an item that's expired,tell one of the employees about it
The local 7/11 convient store is another story,I'm always finding items that are expired sometimes by a month,tell the manger.Its obvious some of his employees can't be bothered to ck
 
mowing grass in my neighborhood... one summer... then I worked for English's family restaurant the next summer (first real job working for someone else)... I washed dishes here and got to eat their great fried chicken.

English's was established in Salisbury in 1937 by Jim and Jack English, who opened their Ocean City location in 1963, according to information provided by Daniel Billig of A. J. Billig & Co. A Maryland favorite, English's expanded into the Baltimore area in the 1970s, with locations on Joppa Road, Ritchie Highway, Patterson Avenue, Liberty Road and Merritt Boulevard. They have since closed.

Looks like their last location in Ocean City was sold in 2015.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/food-drink/bal-englishs-chicken-landmark-auction-20150119-story.html
 
macgeek said:
mowing grass in my neighborhood... one summer... then I worked for English's family restaurant the next summer (first real job working for someone else)... I washed dishes here and got to eat their great fried chicken.

English's was established in Salisbury in 1937 by Jim and Jack English, who opened their Ocean City location in 1963, according to information provided by Daniel Billig of A. J. Billig & Co. A Maryland favorite, English's expanded into the Baltimore area in the 1970s, with locations on Joppa Road, Ritchie Highway, Patterson Avenue, Liberty Road and Merritt Boulevard. They have since closed.

Looks like their last location in Ocean City was sold in 2015.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/food-drink/bal-englishs-chicken-landmark-auction-20150119-story.html
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My first (real) job was washing dishes, too, Mac. :)

I remember it so well, sweltering kitchen, industrial stainless dishwasher, me donning heavy-duty industrial rubber gloves that went to my elbows, but boy did the owner ever feed me well!
 
I worked in the cotton fields of West Texas along side the Braceros who legally came up from Central Mexico every year. I earned 50 cents an hour and paid room and board to my parents who spent it on booze.

As soon as I graduated from High School at the age of 17, I joined the Navy and life improved immediately.
 
Working in a discount department store - Ames. I did everything, from running a register, stocking shelves, changing light bulbs, etc. One of my jobs was printing signs. These were the signs, which were for sale items. It wasn't until I decided to respond to this thread did I realize how varied my job was. One of the things I learned was dealing with the "public". God, we are weird.
 
As a college freshman I got a Christmas job in the toy department (YAY!) of a large department store. At the introductory meeting we were all told if we wanted to continue employment after Christmas, we could. We ALL got pink slipped on...............Christmas Eve! Merry Xmas!
 
First 'real' job after babysitting was in a movie theater working in the ticket booth. During the day there, I made popcorn and custard cones, etc., at their outside food court.
 
My first job was window washing and mowing lawns. I charged a fixed hourly rate. Being only about 12 or 13, I didn't really have a good sense of my worth (or lack of it), so I don't know if what I charged was enough. I do remember taking a job at a house in Laurel Canyon that was big and had far more windows than I had ever done before. I am sure I didn't get anywhere the compensation I should have for the amount of work it was.

My first job at which I started paying into Social Security was at 15 1/2, the then minimum working age. I worked for the Dept. of Water and Power in downtown Los Angeles in the summers. The only year since then that I have not paid SS taxes was the time I spent in Vietnam, since we were tax exempt in that one situation.

Tony
 
My first job was during the summer between my junior and senior years in high school. I did a little programming in Basic but the main portion of the job was delivering invoices to a place in Berkeley. It was really cool to be driving up to Berkeley from where I lived (about 50 miles away.) I later found out that the invoices I was delivering had some sort of cash value and that they should have been using a bonded delivery service. However I didn't know it at the time and never detected any danger in my deliveries.

I also did babysitting, dog watching, and lawn watering for neighbors and doing work beyond chores around our house before that but the job above was the first where I actually got a real paycheck rather than just cash.
 
1st paying job on the books? Pumping gas at the local Sunoco Station for 2.10/Hr
Before that I had several odd jobs for cash... shoveling snow, mowing, splitting wood ECT
 

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