How old were you when you got your first job?

I was 13 when I started to work for my father. 16 when I got my first paying job.

I was 16, and worked at McDonalds for 2 years..I actually loved it there..Its all teenagers so it was like partytime alot...fun first job for sure

My first paying job - 20 (I spent my teen years in a very rural area where people either worked on family farms or commuted elsewhere to work).

I did a lot of volunteering before that though for a local charity - very responsible admin duties and such. It didn't pay, but it was great experience.

Originally Posted by lionessrampant

I worked at a band and orchestra supply store. And we had commission so when people came in for oboe reeds, it never failed that we tried to sell them a cello or a drum set.

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Since I own a (VERY basic) cello, I actually know how hilarious that is.

Any notable successes?

lookinglass: "bit happens"! Love it!

My first job was at 9 when I went strawberry picking in the summer. Did that for quite a few years, then "graduated" to apple picking!

I was 14, I had to get a permit to work PT. I got a job at the Deb shop in the mall. I was good too, it was alot of fun working there.

ETS, this is if you are not counting babysitting, which I did & got paid for at 12. But didn't receive a paper check and taxes & stuff.

Originally Posted by furryferals

My first ' job'(it wasn't a real job)

was helping my dad,he was a 'milk man' and I used to help him on his deliveries and collecting payments and I got paid ' tips' by customers,I was 5 years old and my dad went to one house for their milk money and I went to next door,Of course the world was a safer place back then

I loved it,it was cold work but I used to earn between £1-2 in one night and that wasn't bad for a five year old in 1971

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My father was a door to door milkman also and I would go with him on his route also! small world! You don't find too many people around that say their father were milkmen!

My first *real* job was when I was 16, working in a donut shop.

16 for me at a Pizza place...

Worked there for 2 years, cause it was so much fun.

Originally Posted by Trouts mom

I was 16, and worked at McDonalds for 2 years..I actually loved it there..Its all teenagers so it was like partytime alot...fun first job for sure

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My first job was Mickey D's too! I worked there for almost 4 years though, and I loved it (most of the time )

12, I got a job working a farm stand during strawberry season. Obviously it was under the table, but it was 6 bucks an hour and I worked it every day after school and on weekends, and I felt like the richest girl ever!

15 - I worked at a Hallmark/Flower Shop...I loved it! Got to design huge window displays for every holiday (Halloween was the best!) and make gorgeous flower arrangements every day.

I started working at the age of 12 my family owned a restaurant that I worked at! Started babysitting at 11.

I started working at a snowball stand when I was 14, but I had been babysitting for a couple years before that.

I got my first job at nineteen right after I graduated High School. (There's nothing wrong with your all's math, I had to take two grades twice.) I was a teaching assissistant for Disabled Children and I hated it!

My first job was at 9 when I went strawberry picking in the summer. Did that for quite a few years, then "graduated" to apple picking![/quote]

Mine too was in the strawberry"industry". Our neighbor owned the largest "pick you own" strawberry operation in Wisconsin. We were about 9 yrsold and right after school ended for the year my sis and I went to work cutting the blossoms and berries off 1 yr old plants-slave labor I tell ya!!! We used scissors-right handed ones but I'm left handed!! After a couple years we started recruiting other suckers oops I mean neighbor kids to do this too as hated it. We graduted to weeding then parking duties and row assignments we would pick orders for customers and local stores too-we did this until we graduated from high school!!

Originally Posted by AbbysMom

My father was a door to door milkman also and I would go with him on his route also! small world! You don't find too many people around that say their father were milkmen!

My first *real* job was when I was 16, working in a donut shop.

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My Dad was a milkman's helper when he was a kid in Ottawa. He had lots of stories about that.

My first paying job was a 5 a.m. paper-route when I was 12. I gave that up for a baby-sitting job: 3 kids, ages 1, 2, & 3, and 3 disabled men (it was a sheltered-care facility). Eventually, there were 9 men living there. On weekends, I'd be there from before lunch until 9 or 10 pm. I did EVERYTHING, from taking care of the kids to cooking supper for 12 people. I got a whopping 50cents an hour! And I did that for 4 years. Geez, I should have kept the paper-route!

My first paying job was at 16 at my cousins restaurant. I worked weekends and it was horrible, we had to bleach and scrub EVERYTHING. I'd get in at 8 and sometimes it was 10pm on Sundays and i'd still be there. Lets say my teachers werent surprised when i didnt show up on Mondays.

My first paycheck job is the one im at now. Im 18 and Im working at a greeting card factory as a receptionist/secretary/graphic artist/foreign relations, etc. I hate it!

I actually got the job because Im good at computer stuff and I can speak English (better than my native language of spanish).

Im thinking of quitting soon though. My boss likes to take advantage of people. I want to see what sucker hes going to get to work for him after I leave. No one is going to work as a secretary for minimum wage!

I started working construction when I was 16. Then when I was 19, I started doing landscaping in the summer. It's pretty good pay. After I got used to it I was making about $15000 for 2 months of work.

My first legal job was when I was 17, I think...I worked at McDonald's for about a week...until I got sick with the flu real bad and after calling in for 3 days they told me that if I didn't come back the next day I would be fired. Well...I was still sick the next day...so I called in and quit. Before that I had an under the table job during the summers helping out where my mom worked assisting with inventory and filing papers and such.

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