What Was Your Parents First Jobs ??

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As a teen, my mom worked at an S.H. Kress five and dime department store
The retail experience would come in handy many years later when my parents purchased a country store and gas station just up the road from our house

In high school, my dad worked as an usher at the Wilby Theater
His experience there would come in handy years later when he needed to tell us to sit down and be quiet

... and a girl that worked over at S.H. Kress sometimes got free movie passes

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Naturally said:
As a teen, my mom worked at an S.H. Kress five and dime department store
The retail experience would come in handy many years later when my parents purchased a country store and gas station just up the road from our house

In high school, my dad worked as an usher at the Wilby Theater
His experience there would come in handy years later when he needed to tell us to sit down and be quiet

... and a girl that worked over at S.H. Kress sometimes got free movie passes

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Oh wow ! breaking news , son looks exactly like dad......^^^:love:
 
'y'know I haven't got a clue what my parents first jobs were.. altho' I suspect the job my mother was in hostel where she met my father when he stayed there was probably her first job but I don't know for certain...


OTOH I have no clue what my fathers' first job was. I know he left school at 14... but no idea what he did for a living.. he didn't meet my mother until he was close to 30, and had been married previously... so I haven't a clue what he did for a living then...
 

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My mother's first job was as a telephone operator with the Bell System.

My father's first job was working in his family's business. My grandfather was a painting contractor and also owned a shop where paint and wallpaper were sold and custom picture frames were made. Except for WWII when he worked for the government at Pearl Harbor, he worked in the family business all his life.
 
Mom's first job was as a singing waitress at a cocktail lounge. She had a great singing voice and she was beautiful. The story goes that some country singer called Yodelin' Johnny wanted to sign her on as a back-up singer, but she turned him down because she was married, had 2 kids, and just found out she was pregnant with a 3rd.

After Dad came home from WWII, he tried out for the Pittsburgh Pirates. He made it! He got his uniform, and got the short-stop and alternate left-fielder positions, but he got pink-slipped about 1/2-way into his first spring training. He'd gotten drunk one night, and got in a fist-fight. Zero tolerance for that, apparently.

So a friend from the navy gave him a job as an auto mechanic.

He did that for a few years, and then we all moved to his father's dairy. He got a full-time job at an auto-parts store, as a salesman & customer advisor, and worked the rest of the daylight hours and weekends as a dairyman on Gramps's farm.
 
I like your topic, Jim. What very nice photos of your mom and dad at
their younger ages. Priceless pics. Their first jobs connected them and
early in life, a special story you shared.

My dad at a young age of 16 did odd jobs around his neighborhood
to keep some income coming in helping out with all sorts of things that
were needed while living with grandma and grandpa. Mom after high
school worked at a bank doing some record keeping, while filing papers
and forms of sorts. Those were their first jobs, best I can recall at least.
 
Before I was born, my father worked at a place named Citrus Enamel working with highly toxic chemicals, but then quit and took a job at Electro-Motive INC on an assembly line, at a time Diesel Locomotives were starting to replace the coal burning Steam engines. He inspected gears.

He eventually found a job as a commercial artist, which I doubt paid as well as assembly line work in industry, but it was much more suited to his innate talents. He worked there until he retired. He designed things like commercial labels and decals, and most of us here have probably seen some of his work on cans or boxes without wondering who the person that designed it was. Some jobs were fun things. I remember he brought home the finished products of some Mr. Magoo stickers kids could stick on things. The art department had several artists, each with special areas of expertise. I remember one time he designed a logo for some auto racing club.

All I know about my mother, who became the traditional house wife of the era, worked at the Mars Candy Company at one time before she got married.
 
My dad helped at my grandfathers' store...stocking shelves I think. My mom, worked at one of those old time 5 and dime stores, behind the soda fountain, if memory serves. She was going to hairstyling school as well
 
Father went the route of carpenter to Guild Master before he changed directions and was an active partner in a niche carpenter/industrial contractor whole seller.
 

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