OT - What Was Your First Job?

bbqlearner

Worked in the post/mail office as clerk/bookkeeper.

Haws72688

My first real job was being part of the morning stock crew in a big chain hardware store.  This set the bar for getting up early and every job since then has seemed MUCH MUCH more tolerable with start times.

Having to be there at 4:30 with Michigan winters was a rough drive and meant getting up much much earlier some days.

Pretty much just made enough to cover gas and the occasional breakfast.

Fred19Flintstone

@Haws72688 - Are you still in the Great Lakes State? My cave is in Flint.

Lit

Started mowing yards in the neighborhood probably at 12 or 13. Got $25 a yard I was rich.

dlk7

Delivered the Peoria Journal Star, cut grass, detasselled, shoveled snow during years 9 -16.  Bus boy for a local restaurant for a year. Worked in my uncle's fabrication shop for 12 years and at the same time worked as an iron worker installing dust collection systems on grain elevators on weekends.

TexanOfTheNorth

Besides cutting grass, my first "real" job was working in a donut shop. I was 15. During the school year I only worked on Saturday and Sunday mornings but, in the summer I worked 7 days a week. Week day shifts started at 4:30am, Saturdays usually started at 2:00am and Sundays around 4:00am. My mom would get up and take me to work until I got my DL and could get there on my own.

SmokinDAWG82

Working in a lumber yard, pulling orders and delivering

Haws72688

Fred19Flintstone

I am living just south of Grand Rapids these days.  Although I am driving across to Ann Arbor once or twice a month.

Tillerman

My first job... wow, have not thought about that in a long time.  I was hired by a neighbor to clean his shop (but that didn't really count.)  Thinking back, I was employed by a Village outside Cincinnati to paint fire hydrants when I was 14.  I had to have a work permit and everything.  Funny, I thought I was so important!  LOL

SPRIGS

I helped a local hog farmer with the hogs and bailing hay as well as building houses with my dad, uncle, and cousin.  Then when I was 16 - started working at the local golf course mowing greens, fairways, etc..

robnybbq

paperboy and bowling alley utility person (mechanic, desk, porter)

sumoconnell

First clock-in/out job was at Burger King, putting pucks in the flame-broiler, 8th grade had to get my principal to signoff, and I could only work 2 hour shifts. It was nuts.  They would fill the breakroom with kids, all of us off the clock.  When a rush came in, the manager pops in and says "I need a few of you", and we'd clock in.  Once the rush was done, they'd have us clock out and go back to the breakroom.  Might work one hour if we were lucky. (Scumbag owner, but we had a blast)

Bustersdad

Cutting lawns and waiting on tables at a local restaurant.