Name some jobs you had in your teen years.

Pappy said:
Me: Delivered two different papers daily.
Worked as an usher in our local theater
Helped bring in baled hay for a farmer I knew.
Planted Christmas trees.
Bagged groceries and worked produce department.
Mowed several lawns.
Shoveled snow from sidewalks
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What did you do in the afternoons, Pappy? 😊
 

Jobs in my Teen Years:

Delivered papers.
Worked at the local gas station (pump gas, wash cars, do oil changes/lubes)
Worked at a 5 & 10 cent store warehouse
One day a week I would put the order away at the local grocery store
Worked helping out on a fruit farm and also baling hay
In addition to the above, I had chores to do at home like most of my friends.

I had three jobs during the same time period for about 10 months.
 
Ken N Tx said:
Delivered papers,stock boy,sold ice cream, usher in a movie show, pin setter in a bowling ally.
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Hey Ken: I set pins for a few weeks. That job was so boring, I had to quit. I remember that when the first ball went down the alley and struck the pins, we had to jump down off of the shelf above the pins where we would sit and wait for the ball to knock over the pins and clear away the pins that were knocked over. After the second ball would strike the pins, we would clear away all of the bowling pins and step on a pedal that caused ten pins in the floor to raise up where the bowling pins would need to be placed and we would put the bowling pins over the pins in the floor and then step off the pedal, so that the pins in the floor would go back down. Was your's the same way? It was very much like the video:

 
I printed the 'in house 'sales signs for Ames Dept. Stores. You know, the signs that say, "Now, only $19.99". Ames had about 10 stores at the time. So I had to print signs for all those stores, too, One week, they were late getting me the list of what was on sale, so i could print the signs. It took all night, but I was able to get all those signs printed, and in the mail. But I did have a slight problem. Seems that I left the "R" out of "SHIRTS" in all the signs.

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Lets see:
Farm Hand
Yard Service
Donut sales

….. and the one I made the most money: Manure Sales

A buddy and I would drive out to the dairy farms and load up the pickup with dried manure. Then we would drive back into ElPaso and I would sell it to homeowners by going door-to-door. I was a pretty good salesman and we made a lot of money.

For an extra fee, we would spread it around their yard.
I sold eleven loads to a Retired Army Col, and always wondered what his neighbor thought.

So, I guess you could accurately say that I was a very successful S___ Salesman.

I learned to be very careful when cleaning out the Bull Pens. They seemed to be highly possessive of that stuff.
 
shelf filling at 15 on a Saturday
then college to study art /design
made shirts for a American company

and more till I married .
 
I had a job in a super market....16 years old...They put me in the Meat Department....UGH!!! I lasted 2 weeks....
I had a babysitting job every Saturday for a little Tot....That lasted until the woman lost her job....The baby was adorable...I was sad...
I did take care of my brother when he was young....When Mom was on her sewing machine.....She sewed men's army clothes...
That machine was always nosey up stairs in her bedroom...I took care of my brother....When my boyfriend came along, my brother
was tagging along with me and boyfriend (who is my husband now) 55 years....in August...
 
Before of legal age to work, I mowed lawns and was a pet sitter when their owners were away, caring for dogs, cats, birds, and fish. When I became of age, I worked in a paper box factory for several summers that made the small boxes things like aspirin bottles came in...
 
Lots of babysitting in my teens and a work-study secretarial job. But my favorite job in elementary school was "Japanese Beetle Killer." That paid me 2 cents a piece to clear neighborhood rose bushes - and that bought me ice cream!
 
Em in Ohio said:
Lots of babysitting in my teens and a work-study secretarial job. But my favorite job in elementary school was "Japanese Beetle Killer." That paid me 2 cents a piece to clear neighborhood rose bushes - and that bought me ice cream!
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How times have changed.

Babysitting was big business back in my day, wasn't a girl around that I knew that didn't babysit, and at the very start of summer holidays when the school year ended, the newspaper would be flooded with ads with those looking for babysitting work.

Today, not so. I see few ads for babysitting work anymore, and back when I used to babysit, word of mouth gained me every single babysitting job I ever had (no ads required), either neighbourhood moms who knew my mom, or neighbourhood moms I babysat for who passed my name onto other mothers they knew who were looking for a sitter.

Did a ton of evening babysitting (weekdays), and by Friday of each week, I usually had my entire weekend booked with babysitting work.
 
Until 16 do everything in a mom & pop grocery store. At 16 was in DE [Distributive Education] program worked afternoons and Saturday at a large grocery store as a stock boy for a week then a chance work in the meat department opened up. At 18 I was making more than my father & could have worked for Kroger a major food chain as a full time retail butcher. But the Navy offered something not possible where I lived. Travel & a chance to learn something else.
 
When I was 18, I was in a band & needed around $3,000.00 for keyboard equipment. I got a part-time phone job in the evening working for a carpet-distributor business. Every day, the office manager got an empty paper cup from the Sparkletts water dispenser & poured Vodka in it. He drank a whole bottle during each 4-hour shift. The office was on the 2nd floor & just before quitting time, he'd walk to the balcony, announce to the employees, "Well, the bar's closed," & drop the empty bottle into the dumpster 30 feet below, while we all LOL'd at how plastered he was. The dumpster always had pieces of carpeting in it, so the bottle never made any noise when it landed.

One afternoon, I told my co-workers to get ready for a big laugh when he was finished with his bottle.
Another employee & I climbed into the dumpster & removed all the carpet so it was empty.
Right on time, at 5:00, he got up & said, "Well....the bar is closed." He walked to the balcony, dropped the bottle & started walking back into the office. When the bottle landed in the empty dumpster, it made a huge sound like an explosion. It scared the hell out of him & he jumped.
When he saw us laughing, he realized what we did & he said, "You dirty bastards.....you mutha fu--ers," which, of course, made us laugh even harder.
 

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