What was your very first job after leaving school?

Rocky said:
I was a "soda jerk" at a creamery/bakery in the summer while in high school.
I made the best malts and sodas anyone could wish for!
No more malts and the sodas sure aren't made the way they were then! :(

First job after high school was as secretary for a 2-man law firm. It was okay.
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That's because you used real ingredients as opposed to elements from the periodic table!
 

Debby said:
I suspected as much. After all, who can enjoy telling folks that they're SOL when it comes to a loss right? I liked the people at both offices I worked in as well, the work, not so much.
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Debbie, insurance isn't all bad and just about loss and getting a claim turned down. The place where I worked back then, was in motor vehicle insurance. One place I worked much later was in a disability department, where people where granted disability claim payments for illnesses or accidents.
 
if you don't count working on the farm, grew up on a dairy farm and was working since about age ...well long as I can remember.....my first job off the farm was laying concrete for 5 bucks and hour which was big money I 1971
 

My summer job between high school and college was working as a cashier in a sleazy loan business. One day, I was in the bathroom primping and wasting time and a guy came in with a gun and held the place up. By the time I came out of the ladies' room, there were cops all over the place. If we were short any money in our cash drawers, they would take it out of our paychecks. I was scared they were going to take the money the guy took out of my paychecks. Luckily, they didn't.
 
Cookie said:
Debbie, insurance isn't all bad and just about loss and getting a claim turned down. The place where I worked back then, was in motor vehicle insurance. One place I worked much later was in a disability department, where people where granted disability claim payments for illnesses or accidents.
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You're right, when you're suffering a loss and they hand you a check it's great but I had a number of experiences telling folks that their coverage doesn't include whatever their loss was as well as having to up-sell them and so on so I hated it. Not to mention the February 28th renewal experience we all used to go through. In our office, we were expected to put in the extra time (because people never seemed to renew ahead of the date) getting everyones insurance written up and there was never extra payment for the miserable extra hours or even a slight bonus for managing to smile all the way through it! I was really glad when I got pregnant and could leave it behind:)
 
When I left school I went to a Technical College, now
part of Edinburgh University, then I went to a Coal Mine
where my first job was picking stones from the coal, this
was not a nice job, but I had to do it in order to get an
Apprenticeship, so started a very interesting life.

Mike.
 
I started an apprenticeship in the construction industry when I left high school at 15. Except for a short stint to help my country and a short stint working in the mines that is all I have done, so I would say I loved it. Still miss "being on the tools".

Wylie
 
I worked as an assistant to two Insurance Underwriters. Made some really nice young women who became friends. It was a boring job.

Then, I moved from Vancouver to Toronto where I got a job with the Provincial government. Still boring work, but the benefits were great.
 
I left school aged 14,,,i was 15 in the August.....
My first job was a junior clerk in a Builders merchants......
I went on to be an addressograph operator and an audio typist....
 
I delivered newspapers like a lot of kids.
Then, dishwasher/busboy in high school. The waitresses liked me so that was . . . a plus...
After the service I occupied myself as a surf bum.
After a couple of years of that got work in a photo lab, then in a laser lab and finally in telecommunications.
Now, at long last, I am gainfully unemployed or in retirement by any other name. :cool:
 
If by school, you mean high school: I worked the last three years of HS as a clerk in the town pharmacy.

If you mean college: I worked in a bank all through college.

Immediately after college: Some nice people in Washington DC decided they needed me in the military to help with a little problem they created in SE Asia.
 

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