I was 16 and did the reception in my mom’s driving school. I was paid minimum wage.
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Ride operator at a theme park when I was 16. The bumper boats and rollercoaster were my favourite rides to operate. It only paid £1.80 per hour.
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Dishwasher; ~20
Beetlejuice in da kitchen
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I worked at Fazoli’s, I prepared the breadsticks. Boss was an ■■■■■■■.
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My first official job was as a Math Tutor at a technical college. I filled in for an instructor and lectured occasionally. It was mostly tutoring students in smaller groups, though.
(Edit) I did like it. (/Edit)
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Invigilator for a government selection exam.
I won’t tell you my error done on. The first exam.
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I started babysitting and doing yard work etc for neighbors at 10 years old.
Did that until I turned 14, and then I started working at a restaurant as a hostess. I walked a mile to that job and back home after.
It’s interesting because no one does that anymore.
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My first paid job was at Dairy Queen. 16 in the 11th grade. It was 1986.
Was taking physics and advanced math. They told me I would never work late on school nights when I got hired. I closed every night.
I made like $136 think. Minimum wage was like $3.25 an hour. That was like for a week and a half I think.
My Dad went up there and cussed out the manager and I quit. I miss that guy.
I could make $60 cutting one yard in the yuppy part of town in less than an hour. The juice definitely wasn’t worth the squeeze.
But hey. I flipped burgers. My now wife worked there too and she just made dip cones and worked the register and was off by 5 every day. Dudes didn’t get that luxury.
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Cashier/Sandwich Maker @ Wendy’s.
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My first job was coat check girl in a hotel that had a ball room and a lot of events. But I was about 14 and paid with cash. My first job that had taxes taken out, was a car hop waitress at a drive-in diner.
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Beach cleaner age 16…
Courier same year and next.
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I started babysitting at 13 and got a job stocking shelves in a store at 17
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Babysitting and a paper route. I was 13 years old.
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a temporary worker program in USA at A Public Golf course.
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Driver at Panera Bread, but spent the first couple months in the dining area and in the back.
That was at age 20, although I did babysitting and basketball refereeing in my teens. Those were less official jobs.
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I got a job at a grocery store as a bagger when I was 16, in 10th grade. I was already rather ill at that point. I worked there until late winter of senior year, just went up to the office, clocked out, told the manager “I quit,” and walked out.
Really when I was 15 years old, that summer when my oldest niece was just a month old, my sister went back to work and I took care of my baby niece 40 hours per week. My sister paid me a token 50 cents an hour, though I was doing it more to help my sister. Diaper changes, feeding, burping, bathing, entertaining, you name it.
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Dishwasher. I was 17 but you had to be 18 to work nights so I lied on the application and said I was 18. I was a good dishwasher, one night I had some free time so I cleaned the entire kitchen and that impressed the manager so much he promoted me to cook. I wasn’t a very good cook. I wasn’t terrible but I couldn’t memorize the menu and had a hard time cooking.
It wasn’t a bad job, when I was a dishwasher we used to steal the homemade bread and eat it. I still remember how good that bread was. As a cook, we had about 12 metal inserts in the cooks station of ingredients with stuff in them like olives, sliced roast beef, cheese, pickles, sliced turkey, etc and we could have as much as we wanted, within reason. And for lunch break we got to make free sandwiches and hamburgers and French fries for ourselves. I worked there a total of three months until I got mad one night and walked out.
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I worked at a burger restraint called “The “Fatted Calft.” Pretty much just flipped burgers.
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My parents made it clear they wanted me to focus on school, so I did. Money was tight but I was able to get by. First job came a couple of months after college graduation - junior software developer. I was almost 24.
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Delivering newspapers… I can’t remember how much I made, but I was minimum wage at a place in early 00’s!
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