How old were you when you got your first....

[Stschil]

Job

The 8th grade education theme got me thinking. I had my first steady job when I was 13. We lived down the road from a local golf course and I started caddying nearly every evening and every weekend when I was in 7th grade, in 1977, (yeah that long ago) and I've never been without employment since.

 

[eldirector]

First steady job? Maybe 15 or so. Worked at a local burger joint. Rode my bike 7 miles each way, rain or shine, day or night.

Before that, I cut grass in the summer and "pet sit" for folks in the neighborhood when they vacationed. Started that in jr. high, so maybe 12 or 13?

 

[jblomenberg16]

Think I was about 6th or 7th grade. Started cutting the neighbor's grass with Dad's push mower and weed eater. I would push it and carry the weed eater, or pull it behind my bike.

Made about $100 cash a week. That was about 1991-92. Did that all the way through high school.

 

[snorko]

First paying gig, outside babysitting and lawn mowing, selling cotton candy at the Shrine Circus. Later had a job helping a bookstore move. Both short term jobs.

First regular job was as a dishwasher/bus boy at the Cork 'N Cleaver in Evansville. Worked up to head cook and prep.

 

[woody24]

Used to detassel corn and bail hay starting when I was 12. Did that until I was 16. Had back surgery, and then started working for the local computer repair shop until I left for college.

Worked at K's Merchandise and K-Mart while in college. And my first real job was after I graduated at 23.

 

[giovani]

Started mowing lawns at age 11,got my first real job at 15 at a local grocery store.

Almost forgot I was a substitute paperboy the year before I started mowing,so 10 yo actualy.

 

[lovemachine]

I was 13 when I first started working.


I'm 29 years old now, and I'm STILL working here...

 

[eldirector]

working.
.

Working? Really?

 

[lovemachine]

Working? Really?

Shuddup.

 

[Stschil]

I was 13 when I first started working.


I'm 29 years old now, and I'm STILL working here...

Working? Really?

Is making mix tapes for Mom Phillys to dance to work?

 

[Ted]

Newspaper delivery at 14.

Before that, mowing and trimming grass, and shoveling snow.

 

[lovemachine]

Is making mix tapes for Mom Phillys to dance to work?

-1 truck drivers.

 

[churchmouse]

Same as ted...Mowing, shoveling, paper route, taking the trash out for some elderly folks around me. Washing their cars and windows. Building or re-building Mini-bikes and go-karts as well as bicycles. I made a lot of money fixing all the bikes in the area. turning 20" bikes into sting-rays was very profitable at that time. Spoke lacing 3 speed assembly's from British bikes into the 20" bikes was a sweet deal as well. Ahh, those were the days. Cash was king.

 

[Vince49]

Nine years old when I started delivering the Indianapolis News six days a week. Thirteen when I started pumping gas and washing cars at the local ENCO station. All gas stations were full service back then. I do not remember how much I made on the paper route but I started at fifty cents an hour at the gas station and got a raise to sixty five cents after my first year.

 

[MrsXtremeVel]

Babysat from the age of 11-16. ( my last babysitting job, the kids gave me Chicken Pox...and they were brats! ) No more $1.00 an hour for me! Got a " real " job making $3.45 an hour in a convenience store until I graduated and finished college. $3.45 you say??? That was big bucks in the 80's for a teenager! Ten cents above minimum wage!

 

[Mosinguy]

I'm a Liberal and like my handouts.

 

[tryingtosurvive03]

Work

Started real young for my grandpa stacking hay on wagons and in the barn. Then feeding a guys cattle every day, I remember I was 14 and he sent me to another farm and I told him I didn't have a license and he said you know how to drive if there is a problem tell them to call me. Lol Then I figured out I had started a trend to follow many years ahead,get up get to work and make some body rich!

 

[Nacho Man]

Working construction the day after graduating hs. I got a job as a rent a cop too, lol. Too bad they didnt have smart phones back then, it would have been a plessure to work security.

 

[IndyDave1776]

First paying gig, outside babysitting and lawn mowing, selling cotton candy at the Shrine Circus. Later had a job helping a bookstore move. Both short term jobs.

First regular job was as a dishwasher/bus boy at the Cork 'N Cleaver in Evansville. Worked up to head cook and prep.

I found a picture of Snorko working as head cook!

 

[IndyDave1776]

I'm a Liberal and like my handouts.

In that case, you're the most conservative liberal I ever met!