I mostly refilled stuff. Like eaaaarly starts before store opened in weekends or the evening shift. I always looked forward to eating 4 pizza pops and a chocolate milk for lunch 
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I was a Meter Reader for a week in my 20’s.
I quit. It was 40 below and I was trudging around people’s backyards in the snow with my scanner…dealing with dogs and freezing temperatures.
I cut across this woman’s lawn and she yelled out the door “YOU’RE STEPPING ON MY BEGONIAS!!”
I had had enough and resigned after that day.
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At least you weren’t watering the flowers!
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My first job was a part-time translator. And then I got hired by a company to do proofreading for books (had really weird lines which I mentioned to my boss, that was fun times). After that, I quit because I wanted to focus on studying.
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my first job was at 16 at a pizzeria
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Worked a Sunday market stall from 14-18. Was pretty fun
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Food server at a retirement home when I was 15.
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That sounds like a great first job for a 15 year old…very little stress I would imagine.
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Mostly. She still can’t bring up dirty dishes to the kitchen, change a cat tray without at least three reminders, or turn off a damn light (while telling me that my lifestyle is “unsustainable”).
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My first job was when I was 18 at a medical office
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Congrats to your daughter!
My first job besides babysitting was when I was 17. I worked at a daycare centre. I swore after that I would never have kids lol! Well I ended up with 4 kids and they are awesome!!
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Carwash, around 22 years old.
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I7. Dishwasher. $2.65 an hour. I started off washing dishes and they liked my work so much they promoted me to cook.
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Cool, I tried to get that job when I was 19. I tested for it but just scored about average and didn’t get called for that job. But it was during the California fruit fly infestation and I got called to pick fruit off trees. By that time I was in a group home. I still remember standing outside the group home with helicopters flying low at night spraying the ground with malathion. I had just been sick about a month or two. It was a surreal sight. How did you like that job?
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I’m an Older Sibling, so my first paid job was babysitting, haha.
My first REAL job was a cashier at a health store. It sold all kinds of supplements and alternative treatments and teas.
I was let go after a huge mistake, but I would have fired me too.
my first job was a summer job at a daycare when I was 15 and my first “real” job was as a cleaner in my mothers company, although I only worked part-time.
Ah man… sorry you didn’t get the job 
The job was pretty enjoyable, had to be to work at 5am, got off at 4pm… only worked Monday-Thursday. Made decent money for at the time. Wish I could still have that job but over here it’s only for 17 year olds-21 year olds
I did a lot of odd jobs starting at age 10. Delivering newspapers, shoveling sidewalks, piling firewood and picking dew worms in the middle of the night.
My first real job was in a metal shop, building furnaces. I started out running a machine making duct work, but worked my way up to welder which was twice the money.
Congratulations to your daughter on her first job!
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