What was your first full-time job?

Carla

Carla

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Think back, I am sure everyone can remember your first full time job! That first paycheck was thrilling and you couldn't wait to cash it! Do you recall how you spent it?

My first full-time job was a summer job in a jacket factory. Many of these jackets required eyelets, so I would line up the little mark on the jacket, use a foot pedal and wham! The eyelet was set. Those days @ $1.25 hr minimum but I still felt "rich". I went down to this local mart where they sold the latest records and paycheck be gone. I was 16.
 

I worked for a market research company. It was kind of fun, as long as you brought people in pretty regularly you were free to window shop the mall.
 
I assembled a machine that sealed the wrapping around a sliced loaf of bread. It was reputed to be one of the best of its kind in the world. This was back in 1960.
 
I was an usher @ the Fox Theater in Detroit. I don't remember what the pay was but I got to be up close to the

Big Bands of that era; Glenn Miller, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Benny Goodman etc.
 
"Ya want fries with that?" I left home, so I had to get a job. I entered the fast food industry. It wasn't exactly in a high management position.
BTW, the reason you were asked about fries is because that's where the profit was. They sold the hamburgers at cost, but soda and fries cost about one cent to produce, but sold for 15-20 cents. ( This was in 1964).
 
Killing people!

At age 15 I went straight from school into the military as a weapons and explosives technician (though they did give me a bit of training first!)
 
I was a high school student and lied about my age because I was so tall and could get away with it. I worked a Graveyard Shift during the summer months at a Box & Container Factory inserting cardboard into a waxing machine to make milk cartons.
 
When I was five, I learned to roll cigarettes for an old man that worked on my father's farm. I used Prince Albert tobacco and rolling papers to make sure he had 10 cigarettes for each day. I got a quarter each week that my mother always said she'd put up for me. I never saw any of it again. Back in the 50's, kids didn't think to run to the toy stores. But I can still roll 'em.:hide:
 
My first paying job was working in a nursing home. I spent my first paycheck on a reel to reel tape recorder for myself and a window air conditioner for my Mom and Dad. I still had money left over. It seems that paychecks went further back then.
 
Selling shoes. I had done it while in high school and college, so it became my first full time job for about a year, before I went on to work in a paint store.
 
I had graduated high school and had only had some part time jobs in high school. I had no interest in going to college and my mother told me I couldn't just sit around the house. She saw an ad in the local paper for a job at a car parts factory. I had no choice but to take it. $2 an hour.

Her idea was to make me take a job I'd hate so I'd reconsider college. It backfired. Met a guy there, got pregnant, got married. Divorced within 6 years.
 
Moved to Dallas right out of high school, worked at a florist for a while then got a job at Employer's Casulty Insurance right downtown, it was scary driving to work..lol
 
My first full time job was an office clerk for a vegetable canning business.
The pay wasn't great but I had a big desk in a room with the bookkeeper.
She was nineteen and we thought we had it made.
Regular pay cheques and a big office room to ourselves.
 
The kitchen of a drive-in that offered burgers and all things involving ice cream. I did the ice cream part. A guy named Dean did the cooking. He was hot, too. ;) Onion rings with real onions were the specialty. Mmmm good.
 

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