What was your first job? and ....

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what were you paid? (I mean real jobs outside the home where you earned a paycheck)

Mine was check-out girl (cashier) in a grocery store. It was 1966 and I was paid minimum wage which was $1.25/hr.
 

I think I remember almost this exact question appearing before on the forum. Obviously before you joined applecruncher. Still it's a good question. One summer I was a counselor at a summer camp and another summer I was a lifeguard at a country club swimming pool. I can't remember which gig came first.
 
In 1953 I worked on a maintenance crew at an Amusement Center in San Diego. I earned enough to buy my first car, a beautiful 1941 Chevy coupe. I was the only kid (17) on the 10 man crew. I got $1.65 per hour.Arial.JPG
 

AZ Jim said:
In 1953 I worked on a maintenance crew at an Amusement Center in San Diego. I earned enough to buy my first car, a beautiful 1941 Chevy coupe. I was the only kid (17) on the 10 man crew. I got $1.65 per hour.View attachment 15991
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Belmont Park!!! I had a few queezy rides on the roller coaster under the influence of something I won't admit to in my early 20s. I lived in Ocean Beach.
 
Glinda said:
Belmont Park!!! I had a few queezy rides on the roller coaster under the influence of something I won't admit to in my early 20s. I lived in Ocean Beach.
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I lived on Santa Clara Pt. and in PB on Wilbur and OB on Coronado but when I worked at Mission Beach it was Mission Beach Amusement Center and that was way before they tore out the Ballroom and all, it became belmont park and was ruined.
 
I came from northwestern Pa. to San Diego in 1969, 5 days after graduating from high school. I lived at the YWCA. I started my first job as a secretary at Aetna Insurance 6 days later. (And no, Jim, I was not fired the next day!) Can't remember what my starting salary was but I do remember that I saved up and moved out of the Y and into my first apartment about 4 months later. The rent was $85 a month and I was deathly afraid I wouldn't make it. But I did.
 
Still in high school; got a job as an usher at the Fox theater in Detroit.

Got to see/hear all the big bands and vocalists of that era. WWII was underway then.

2 years later I was in the thick of things.
 
My first job not connected to the farm would have been in 1963 working nights at the Armour packing plant during my freshman year at Drake University. I spent 8 hours (11PM-7AM) netting chuck rolls-grabbing them off the line with a meat hook and tossing them into a pneumatic netting machine. I don't remember how much I made-pretty much every penny went into my education.
 
Help..Need to get rid of the attachment on my post. I tried to make the image smaller and now cannot delete the first image.
 
ndynt said:
Help..Need to get rid of the attachment on my post. I tried to make the image smaller and now cannot delete the first image.
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Go to settings, scroll to the last item "attachments", on the right side of that attachment is where you delete the big fanny. BTW they list the size in kb's...pick the largest of the two.
 
My first paid job was at a small grocery store in Broken Hill N.S.W where I was born, don't remember how much I received a week, it would have been 1962
The small store is still owned and run by the same family, but I don't know how they manage to earn a living in a town of About 20.000 people and Coles, Woolworths and foodland all close by
 
Apart from paper rounds and holiday jobs such as dish washing in cafes and bar work, my first job at age 18 straight from school in 1967, was as a Scientific Assistant working on animal feed and soil analysis for the Ministry of Agriculture. Got promoted over the years, although I stayed in the same location until the mid 90s when the regional labs got amalgamated into one central lab at Wolverhampton. I moved with the job and worked more on laboratory automation systems and less at the bench. Ended up as a Senior Scientific Officer in charge of the IT section before taking early retirement seven years ago. Basically I was in the same job all my working life.

My first monthly pay check was about £30 after tax ... as cash in a little brown windowed envelope.
 
I know it sounds daft Viv, but the money somehow felt more real as cash in your hand, and I never went overdrawn either as the money was handed to mother for 'expenses' and I was doled out what was left.
 
When I worked 30+ years for General Dynamics, I loved the little grey envelopes containing salaried and supervisory personnel's pay check. Our hourly folks got their check sans envelopes. I always disliked that division of class when it came to our checks.
 
My first monthly pay check was about £30 after tax ... as cash in a little brown windowed envelope.
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About $44 US dollars? Not bad for 1967. $314 in today's dollars.

In 1967 at my cashier job if I got a check for $30 I was rolling in it! :D
 
Raked joints and catered to my bricklaying dad at age 8 ($.50 an hour), moved on to full time hod-carrier at age 11. My dad would fire his hod-carrier in the summers and call them back in Sept. It could be said he stretched frugality a little too much.
 
My first job was stocking in a large grocery store. That was in 1947. The pay was fifty cents an hour.
 
My first job was as a lifeguard at the beach across the street from my childhood home. I don't recall the hourly wage, I received $200.00 a month. I was eighteen.
 

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