FedEx Ground was the first job I ever worked at and what I saw there was disturbing.
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I was a dishwasher at a little restaurant. 
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Yea I was rejected for that position when I applied 
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Dairy Queen flipping burgers. I was in the eleventh grade and taking physics and advanced math. They said I wouldn’t work late. I closed every night.
My Dad even went and cussed out the manager. It was hilarious. I miss that guy. I think I worked there a week. I made $136. It’s the only income on my social security records for that year. Minimum wage was like $2.36. Maybe it was a week and a half.
I stuck to cutting lawns. Could make $60 in about 40 minutes.
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I was a trolley boy at SuperKmart.
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Administration in my mom’s driving school.
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Bike messenger for a summer
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Subway Sandwich Artist
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My friend got me a dishwashing job at the restaurant he worked at. I was 17 but the law at that time was that a 17 year old couldn’t work nights so I lied on my application and said I was 18 because the restaurant was looking for someone to close. I got paid minimum wage which at that time was $2.65 an hour.
I did pretty well. The restaurant had five different dishwashers and all us dishwashers were hoping we’d get promoted to cook. The cooks were the top dogs there, they were all cool and they got to talk and flirt with all the waitresses. One night after I’d been there two months I was working the evening shift and things got slow so I took upon myself to clean the whole kitchen. I detailed the whole thing, cleaning the oven and scrubbing the walls and cleaning under the dishwashing machine. The managers were so impressed with that they made me a cook!
But I didn’t like cooking, it was hot and greasy in the cooks station and I had to work fast and memorize a dozen different things that we served such as hamburgers and spaghetti and reubans. I did it for a month until I got mad one night and quit. I was just going to walk out but a fellow cook talked me into staying and helping him that shift. It kind of defeated the purpose of the dramatic walkout, lol. We used these really expensive chefs knives and my last night there I shoved one in each sock and walked out without them knowing. I used those knives for 30 years, they got lost in one of my moves.
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I was 11 and I walked all over with a push lawn mower and a weed whacker. $10 cut grass plus $5 to weed/edge. Averaged $200 to $250 a month over summer break.
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At 10, I got my first babysitting job. Did that for many years, even after getting other jobs.
At 14, I got a job as a hostess. It was a mile away and I walked. Kinda crazy because I got off at 9pm, not very safe to walk alone in the dark, but I did it until I ended up in the psych ward at 16. After that, I worked at Subway.
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10 years ago I got my first job as a 18 year old, I was a dishwasher at a busy restuarant. Fuc-king hated it. Burned my hands every shift, got super dirty every shift.
I quit not too long after.
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Delivering newspapers to my neighbors around the neighborhood
Someone would drop off a huge couple bundles of newspapers in the night
put them in a bag and ride my bicycle to their houses and deliver them
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I think it was blueberry picking with my bro in the summer. The most i picked in one day was 125 pounds! 
i got 50 bucks for that. Me and my bro went crazy out there in the sun, we made friends with a bird and named him stouffer. He would hang out with us during the day and eat stuff that fell down lol.
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My first real, employer to employee job, was working at a grocery store as a day stocker. Hated it for the most part. Not so much the coworkers, but the actual job itself. I can’t do mindless jobs, or I just go crazy. I need something stimulating intellectually. But, as I’m only 20, I’ll get a lot more jobs in the future, and I’m quite excited about it.
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Many moons ago, Brach’s candy factory in Chicago, operated a candy wrapping machine as a teenager.
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My first job: Burger King. It’s the type of job everyone hates, but they hire high schoolers and criminals who are limited in their job search. In retrospect, they wondered why I’m so quiet. On my first day/night, they sent me home after 2 hours (I’m guessing because I’m so quiet). Now I know it’s poverty of though/speech pertaining to schizophrenia. I didn’t even know I had schizophrenia. It’s abnormal psychology so most people can’t read me; they only understand norms/stereotypes. I never go to Burger King as a customer because I know how badly the workers are treated; it’s slave labor.
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Sonic drive in. Fifteen years old.
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I was an invigilator for a government exams for a week and i got 300 for each exam.
With that money i went for a trip and it was amazing.
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I did housework as early as age 7. My first job was as a dishwasher/cleaner/prep cook. It was in New Hampshire and we were in the mountains and it was very beautiful but my family was soon to move.
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