How old were you when you got your first job (if you ever worked)

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I got a weekend job in a pet shop just after I turned 14. Here in the 1970’s you were allowed to work 16 or 20 hours a week at 14. I didn’t have a full time job until I was 19 though.

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First “legit” job at McDonald’s when I was 14.

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When I was 13 I had a paper route for a year. I also babysat occasionally at 13 too.

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When I was 15 I worked at a Chinese restaurant.

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When I just turned 14 I worked for a doctor filing charts.

My first real, legal job was when I was 16 working in a hospital kitchen.

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At 14 or 15 I got a job at Fazoli’s. It was awful.

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I was 23 years old.

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A call center at 18.

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My university bookstore at 18. Prior to that, I lived too rural to work.

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Back when I was in school, you could drop out and go to work full-time at 16. Now you have to stay in school until 18.

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I have trouble filing my taxes until I was 18 I had to report my jobs with my parents’ taxes my first paying job was at a car lot washing cars weekly after school I was 12 years old and roaring to go but I couldn’t get the cosigner for the Corvette that I wanted

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I don’t remember. I think , about 18 as a sales assistant in a gift card store… Memories…

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I think I was about 14 and I worked for the Pizza Hut call center in my city.

It was a pretty repetitious and boring job. But every Friday and Saturday was like insanely busy.

It’s pretty funny because a lot of punks and goth kids who were in high school worked there because they didn’t care if we had ripped jeans and purple hair. No one ever saw us in person. We just took orders over the phone at the call center.

:joy:

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21 at the renaissance faire.

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Welcome back, @shutterbug !

My first official job was at about 19 years of age. Mathematics tutor for college and technical students. Worked for the government.

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My first jobs babysitting and doing yard work were at 10 years old to 14 years old. At 14, I got a job at a restaurant as a hostess

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  1. Restaurant waiter.
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When I graduated secondary school (high school) at 18. I got a job at a tech company. It was hard to socialise with coworkers and this made me cry. I left after a few days. Didnt matter anyways because I had to leave the country to go to university the next term.

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I started working in my mom’s business when I was 16 to earn some extra money.

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I was 15. I worked one day on a farm hoeing weeds in Nebraska.

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