ANSWERS: 100
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Babysitting two little terrors from 7a-3p, five days a week for a lousy $60 a week! If they were good, maybe it would've been worth it! haha
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unloading 18 wheeler trucks full of bags of dirt and mexican pottery.
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I washed dishes in a chinesse place
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My first job was as a cashier at McDonald...it was really cool. i would never go back to working there, even though the experience i got from working there has really help me out.
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i had a newsagent assistant job at 16.
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I did landscaping work.
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I worked in a dinner theater as a backstage manager at the age of 10. I was pretty good, too!
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First job? Newspaper boy. Completely and utterly not worth it. First REAL job, as a dishwasher for Swiss Chalet. The pay was good for a 16 yr old just startin out. I made great friendships there. I found my 1st love there. I experienced great management and moved up to higher kitchen positions. I stayed there for almost 5 years.... I had a blast.
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writing for a small-time magazine.
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Cashier at a supermarket.
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After getting born or before that?
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Working as cook at a fish and chips cafe.
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My best friend and i started up a dog walking business of our own when we were about 12-13, we only made about $4 an hour ( that was to share not each) lol but we had lots of fun chatting and getting fit.
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barman in a brothel,summer of '75.
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Fry cook. How cleshay...
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I was I temp. I filed, enveloped, and sat in a chair. Good pay though.
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Working in a tobacco field in Connecticut, summer of '78 and '79. Cutting tobacco and bundling it. Hard, sweaty, nasty work. I was never in better shape in my entire life than I was those two summers.
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mcdonalds,but know i can't eat the food the smell brings back to many pig out memories
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paper route in Granada Hills, in the summer Dairy Queen was on the way so there went my earnings for the day I was about 12 years old
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Dishwasher in the Girl's Dormitory at Ohio Wesleyan University. Yes, it was a great way way to meet women and keep my hands clean.
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I worked in the snack bar at the Sacramento Zoo
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Calling people on the phone to take surveys
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i worked at FYE (a music store) in our local mall when i was 17.
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Trimming Christmas trees in the middle of summer so they have that triangular shape. It was in Georgia and I got paid $2.85 an hour. I was also told if the machette hit me in the leg to call for the guy and he would come get me on the four wheeler. "In the mean time, if you can get to a tree just put some pine sap in the wound to slow the bleeding," were the instructions given to me.
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i worked for a local news paper and had a route.
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Unfortunately...it was Little Ceasers...back when I was like 15 yrs. old haha
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My first job was at McDonald's. I was 18.
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I was 15, and I was a waitress at a little restaurant near my place. I got bad tips, and my boss was a d*ck, but I was making money and that felt good.
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Selling electrical equipment.
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Translator from english to serbian on local TV channell in Nish (serbia).
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I worked the counter at a restaurant that delivered steaks.
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Age 12. Assistant grounds keeper at an Anglican church ... the one other guy tended the flowers, shrubs, trees, and such, while I was the guy who cut the grass (summer), shoveled the snow from the sidewalk, all around the ½city block (winter), and raked the leaves (autumn). It paid a flat $125.00 per month, which I used to pay for my martial arts lessons and training equipment.
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When I was 14, I taught survival camping at the Southeast Alabama Scout Reservation in Centerville, Alabama. If you don't consider that a real job (which it actually was because my paychecks came from the Scout council), then my other first job was moving furniture for D.C. Loftin Moving and Storage of Dothan. Sometimes, I drove the truck, International R180 with a 12 speed Road Ranger transmission, and sometimes I packed boxes in the homes. It paid almost nothing but I learned a lot from the real drivers and packers, most of whom owed their paychecks back to the company owner for having bought moonshine on credit. It was also tedious and dangerous, as when one mover through a freezer at me and told me to catch it, or when an overhead door slipped loose and drive a pointed stake into the top of my head, which my mother said explained a lot.
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In high school I worked at Round Table Pizza.
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first and only job: sales associate/dive at a store called DOTS. i dress mannequins. it's like being paid to play with giant barbies w/o heads.
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Hostess at a family restaurant.
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Tele-marketing...
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dispatching for a trucking company :)
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Well, after various babysitting and house sitting jobs in my teens, my first proper job was working for the Girl Scouts helping run week-long day camps in state parks around the area.
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Schlotzsky's Deli. Started as a cashier at 16, worked up to store manager in 2 years.
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Playing the piano for ballet classes. I was 13. My employer wouldn't pay me weekly, she insisted i was paid half-termly. So at the end of each half-term i got a cheque for more money than i had ever seen before. It was great.
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Bussboy/Waitress/FoodPrep.
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I worked in a drug store, first I rang up all the cigarette purchases, then I moved up to pharmacy helper and finally I worked in the liquor department.
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Ah my first job was as a bag boy for Kroger's, the grocery store. My next job was at a retirement home, that was fun!:)
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Telephone operator at the YMCA. ("Number please")!
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Picking Veggies on my grand parent's farm. I picked beans at 15 cents a pound.
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My first job, (part-time), was custodial at an office building. 2 hours a night, twice a week. First official job, (full-time, and then some), dishwasher at a truck stop. I lied and said I was 15, (I was 14 and needed the money, BAD), and worked from 40-70 hours a week, AND went to school. I've been working full-time ever since, (or at least until forced retirement at age 43). Custodial job - $10 a night. Dishwasher - $1.25 an hour (yee-haw).
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Contempo Casuals. A clothing store kind of like Charlotte Russe.
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My first job was at a place that cooked and delivered steaks. It was called Steak on Wheels and it was in Columbus MS.
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I was a senior in HS and my parents didn't have alot of money so I was kinda forced to work to pay for the prom and all the other things I wanted It was part time for 5 hours a day after school and all day saturday. I bagged groceries swept and mopped the floors took out the trash stocked shelves and went on deliveries with the delivery driver. It was for a Key Food supermarket in Brooklyn NY.
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At 18 at the Internal Revenue Service. I spent 10 years there
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I was 12 years old and worked in the kitchen of a Kentucky Fried Chicken until I was 16, when I got to start running the register.
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I was 15 when I started working at a small pastry/bakery shop. It was named 'Paris Pastry'.
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I was 17 I worked stocking shelves bagging groceries sweeping and mopping the floors and going out with the delivery driver to help with deliveries for the key food store on 86th St in Bay Ridge Brooklyn.
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about 16 years old..I washed floors in a hospital kitchen after school.
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When I was 14 I landed a job as a dishwasher in a billiards hall. I could not legally even enter through the front door or step out of the kitchen during business hours. :)
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I was 15, at the Jewish Community Center for kids, which is the reason why I don't want kids. But anyway, I had to help kids in their bathing suits, lunches, etc, and the kids were kinda mean and somewhat rude. Aside from that, I mopped the floors and cleaned up after the kids.
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I was 18 years old and my first job was at a Mervyn's for Christmas help.
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I was 14years and 7months old and still at high school when I started my apprenticeships...I can build you a house from the ground up
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I worked in albertsons deli....I really hated it. There was too much drama working, with old ladies. (I hope Im not like them when I get older :P)
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Paper delivery.
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Working for my dad as a carpenter.
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I ran the children's activities at a big hotel here in Virginia Beach the summer I was 15. Bratty kids dumped off by parents who didn't want to spend time with them on the family vacation. It was enough to make me want to get my tubes tied.
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jack in the box - and no it wasn't dirty much to everyone's surprise =)
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convience store clerk (also curretn job)
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Military service (conscription)
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I started working for my parents' business doing manual labor (installing flooring type of work) when I was about 10. At 16 I worked some summer construction jobs, and then moved up to being a waiter at a Pizza Hut. At 18 I was in the Army.
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I was 16 and worked the summer at a food concession in the park. I made cotton candy. In those days, the employer didn't have to worry about liability insurance problems.
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At a swimm club; checking passes,taking guest fees and working the food stand.
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Picking tobacco when I was 15. Hard, back-breaking, filthy work. But we were paid in cash and, oddly enough I learned about the importance of a work ethic and helping out your co-workers in those fields. I carry those lessons with me today.
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Shoveling horse poops. I also had the lawnmower job. Sweat and calluses galore. I was 10.
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Mowing lawns and raking leaves in the 60's. I was 9 or 10. Teaching me responsibility, I remember my Dad taking me to a local store and I bought a new Lawnmower on credit. Although not legally obligated (under 18), the owner of the store had me sign the contract. I made payments of $8 per week for 8 weeks. Good lesson and a good memory.
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Working for my parents making coils and transformers for airplanes. I did it for 10 years.
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My first job was/is Resident Leech at my parents place =D
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I was a dishwasher at a restaurant.
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I worked in a tomato-processing factory sorting rotten tomatoes from good tomatoes on a production line. I worked there for one day.
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Newspaper Stuffer... putting the fliers and ads into newspapers by hand.
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mowing lawns when i was 8 years old on Guam. It being a tropical island in the pacific, Grass grows about three times faster so in one weeks time, the lawn would be about ten inches high and so thick that it took all of my strengh to push that mower just 5 or 6 ft. by this time the thick and humid grass would make the engine stall out. it would stick to the underside of the mower and clog the blade.My dad would then help me turn the mower on it's side to clear the grass from it. it would take me about four hours to do one yard and i would get paid 4 dollars.
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Working in a fast food restaurant. It felt really good getting that first paycheck and spending it on anything I wanted.
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Waitress...I left after 2 days and never again.
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High SchoolMath teacher, summer job 1973, payroll clerk summer job 1974. Algebra and geometry teacher, summer job 1975.
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Stacking hay .25 cents an hour.
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Picking grapes for a week when I was 9 years old. I still do not drink wine...
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I was a waitress, and even do I am shy, I can say I really hustle for my money...lol when they had gay nights I was making money and when they had old people nights I would conversate with them and make that money....I really loved it no complaints, then again my boss loved me and protected me because I was the youngest and the other waiters hated that...oh well!
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White Castles!
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I wrapped gifts in a gift shop when I was 15. It was my favorite thing to do anyhow, so it was kinda neat. This really older lady always told me I was doing it wrong--she was really into this "wrapping" things--so that was a downer. I did that two or three christmases.
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My first job was being a maid at one of the local hotels in my town. :)
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Newspaper boy (on a bicycle).
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Other than home chores, 11yo - Stock clerk in one of my Dad's groceries. By 12 I was doing another one myself.
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A full time,night-shift, waitress at Waffle-House when I was 16
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Delivering penysavers, 11 years old.
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10 mowing yards
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Shoveling snow from the neighbors driveway. I was about 10 or 11 then.
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I worked at a bicycle shop for six years, I've recently resigned to pursue a more 'relavent to my career goals' job.
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trimming Christmas trees with a machete in the GA summers 14
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college board--Marshall Fields (Milwaukee) 17 years old.
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sonic (iwasn't good at it becuse i bearly speek english)
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other than chores ... it was mowing an older ladies lawn that turned into 3 more yards by the end of the summer... Money for a 13 yr old... what could be more dangerous... lol
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Bartender.
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G'day Mopar Muscle, Thanks for your question. I was a public servant in the Defence Force superannuation fund in Australia. Regards
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