# What was your first job?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-job/26025>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 18, 2000, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-job/26025 "2000-07-18T21:33:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![MadPoet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8c91f0/32.png) [@MadPoet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadPoet)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2000, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-job/26025/41 "2000-07-19T21:36:09Z")

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I refused to work in food service or in a grocery store. So I worked for a Software Etc for a year or two. It was kind of a novelty for some people to have someone working the store that actually knew about computers. Of course the top salesperson was a large breasted blonde, so perhaps my skills were wasted there.

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**Author:** ![SuaSponte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@SuaSponte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuaSponte)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2000, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-job/26025/42 "2000-07-20T00:08:04Z")

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While my buddy and I had a pretty serious lawn mowing operation by the age of 13, my first “real” job was as handyman, with the same buddy as a partner, in the priest’s residence at my high school. It was a cool old Italianate Manor, with lot’s of hidden passages, etc., so we would often take the afternoon off and drink stolen beer. We had a great scam going. The first month, we’d work at a decent but measured pace, to give the priests an idea of how long particular jobs took. After that, we’d blow through whatever assignment and take the afternoon off.  
I wonder if they’d take me back …  
Sua

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**Author:** ![Fillet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/2acd7d/32.png) [@Fillet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fillet)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2000, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-job/26025/43 "2000-07-20T01:47:50Z")

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I was 15 when I started at Carvel’s (ice cream store, for anyone not familiar), & got paid $3.50/hr. I only worked there for 4 months, but I got so sick of the smell of ice cream that I rarely ate it for several years after.

And having seen what I saw, I will NEVER have marshmallow topping on a sundae again…

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**Author:** ![Merlot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3e96dc/32.png) [@Merlot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merlot)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2000, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-job/26025/44 "2000-07-20T02:18:00Z")

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My first job was an inventory clerk at an auto parts store. I think I made $3.25/hour because both my father and my sister worked at the store also.

I think because of my time there I am extremely concerned with how clean a man’s hands are. It is the FIRST thing I notice…

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**Author:** ![justwannano](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ab992/32.png) [@justwannano](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justwannano)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2000, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-job/26025/45 "2000-07-20T03:30:55Z")

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Except for mowing lawns I was a dishwasher. It was Hot but hey I made about $1.35 an hour.

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