My first job was at a cooking school for children. I enjoyed the money it payed but could not stand my boss. Everything I did was wrong (even when I did as she told me to) to her.
What was your first job? Any good or bad experiences?
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My first job ever was slinging burgers at Burger King when I was 15. It was an interesting summer to say the least. My first real job, post college, was working as a DJ on a rock radio station here in Portland. Cool job. Paid squat.
My first job out of college was for Sears in their management training program. The store manager was a tyrant and did little training. There were nine of us in the program at this store and only one or two stuck it out. I hated the night and weekend hours and was very happy to get out of retail. I knew I was in the wrong business when the store manager had his assistant fire 7 full time people the day before Christmas so he would not have to give them holiday pay. He didn't have the balls to do it himself. Eventually he had done stuff like this a little to often and one day found himself being escorted to the door.
My first job was farm work. Planting, hoeing weeds, picking cucumbers, tomatoes, corn, apples, etc. Clearing fence lines with a scythe, Driving a tractor from one field to another (wasn't experienced enough to actually use the tractor). Delivering harvested veggies from the fields to the store.
Funny thing, I didn't even have a driver's license but because they were farm vehicles anyone was allowed to drive them.
After two summers of that, graduated to working in the store stocking shelves and eventually working the cash register.
It was six days a week and being farm work was exempt from minimum wage laws so I started at 50 cents an hour. And all the fruits and veggies you could eat. Truly fresh corn is best eaten raw.
This was 1962 -1964.
Funny thing, I didn't even have a driver's license but because they were farm vehicles anyone was allowed to drive them.
After two summers of that, graduated to working in the store stocking shelves and eventually working the cash register.
It was six days a week and being farm work was exempt from minimum wage laws so I started at 50 cents an hour. And all the fruits and veggies you could eat. Truly fresh corn is best eaten raw.
This was 1962 -1964.
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My first job out of college, I'd moved from Michigan to the big city of New York. I applied for a job at the animal shelter and they told me I was over-qualified; I persisted and they said all right, but you have to shave off your mustache - I balked at shaving my wimpy mustache off. Next I tried an employment agency and they got me a job as an assistant to the assistant librarian at the American Foundation for the Blind. Paid $90/week. 1968.
Telemarketing. I had a list of people who had previous contact with a financial firm to try and get appoinments for their financial planners.
my first job - McDonalds.
i started out just flipping burgers between uni classes.
then I ended up doing a couple of the night shifts a week
THEN i got sick of the food, the staff, the customers, the uniform, the managers etc
so I got the job getting there at 3am and unloaded the truck into the freezer and all the other staff thought I was a manager because i was doing inventory stuff and never in the stupid uniform, so they all did what i told them to. woo!
3 years I lasted at maccas, that has to be some kind of record.
i started out just flipping burgers between uni classes.
then I ended up doing a couple of the night shifts a week
THEN i got sick of the food, the staff, the customers, the uniform, the managers etc
so I got the job getting there at 3am and unloaded the truck into the freezer and all the other staff thought I was a manager because i was doing inventory stuff and never in the stupid uniform, so they all did what i told them to. woo!
3 years I lasted at maccas, that has to be some kind of record.
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Refractory construction, first week in the old Ridge Road west side incinerator, two story walls, when they were shut down, as soon as they cooled, the ratz would run wild .. or mebbe the dog food factory ..
My first job was weighing tomatoes and putting them in a box.
It was the Van De Nannen's farm on Ridge Road.
Even Pete Williams was better at it than I was.
Right off the bat I knew that I didn't like work. It didn't look good for me in that way.
It was the Van De Nannen's farm on Ridge Road.
Even Pete Williams was better at it than I was.
Right off the bat I knew that I didn't like work. It didn't look good for me in that way.
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I bagged groceries when I was 14. Not something I'd want to do for the rest of my life, (though with this recession it's not looking so bad right now) but it was a good job for a kid.
'Retired' from babysitting and lied about my age. Got a car-hop job at a drive-in (local teen hang out) restaurant until Dad found out. Promptly forced out of retirement and back to babysitting. 
Sue
Sue
My first job (after delivering newspapers and flyers) was pumping gas. The gas station paid more, and there was less walking involved, along with the side benefit of learning how cars work. I liked it well enough.
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My first job was at Burger King. I was always at the counter or drive-thru because I was polite (They had enough angry people and non-native English speakers in the back anyway). I hated it because I quickly learned that the people who ran the store had no desire to please the customers. The store manager was always getting angry at me for trying to be nice to the customers. Apparently it was wrong of me to actually fill the fry boxes. Were supposed fill them about 75% because that way we can sell more units per bag of fries. How stupid of me: Here I was thinking that customers would prefer a full box of fries.
Washed dishes at a Chinese restaurant in high school and then did a 2-year stint of tar-and-gravel roofing after graduating ...that forced me to rethink things and I ended up going to university. If nothing else it made me strong. 
...that forced me to rethink things and I ended up going to university. If nothing else it made me strong. 
When I was 15 I worked on a local farm during weekends and holidays when still at school. I was the envy of my mates when they saw me driving a tractor.
All about that bottom line, baby! My first job where I drew a paycheck was Pizza Hut my junior year in H.S. Before that I did ground maintenance for a local organization. Not too bad.
You really find what people are all about working in retail and fast food.
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