My first job I was 14, paid minimum wage and was a Stripper…
Um, that is a linen stripper for a motel in Cody, Wy. It was great. I had a golf cart and would go to all the empty rooms before the maids and strip all of the linen and dirty towels out of the room. Then I would leave fresh linen for the maids to use in making up the rooms.
I loved that golf cart.
Started working for Hardee’s in 1989 at the tender age of 14. Easily the worst job I’ve ever had.
Loungeboy(serving drinks) in pub , 16 years old . £8 a night +tips .
Aside from the traditional lawn mowing, my first job was when I was about 16. There was a shooting competition in the Angeles National Forest, and I was in the pit pulling targets for two days. I think I made $50.
Second job was after school and on weekends. I installed bindings at a ski shop in the desert. (The mountains were only an hour or so away.) A skiing accident kept me on crutches and out of the shop.
Third job was a clerk in a store at Magic Mountain, which turned into the store-magician job. That one ended in a car wreck on the way home.
Census taker, cashier at K-Mart, then data entry at Edwards Air Force Base. (I love the smell of jet fuel in the morning!) Went on to data processor, then more in-depth processing for a defense contractor in L.A. After 9 years, we ran out of contracts, so off to Lockheed as a CAD operator. Project closed, out of work, eventually found a job working in accounts receivable processing and analysis.
Been doing that for the past 6 years. Lots of experience. Respect of my teammates and customers. I’m the “go-to guy” when no one else can solve the problems.
That’s my résumé. I’m actively looking for a position in Seattle. Any takers?
My first real job was at a movie theater. Started as a ticket taker, moved up to the concession stand, then finally hit the big time working in the box office!. It was a pretty good job - I worked there the last two years of high school, then during summer and holiday breaks in college. I even worked there part time when I went back to college to get my teaching certification. Had to wear a dorky uniform that consisted of a bow tie and red vest. But I got to see a lot of movies for free. And I have a pretty good collection of movie posters from about 1982 to 1992.
My first job was in a bowling alley/restaurant/bar when I was wee lad of 14. Mostly I was a busboy/diswasher for the restaurant. It was where I learned to steal beer.
Count me as part of the 10%, Milo. My first job outside of babysitting was giving McDonald’s birthday parties for kids on weekends. Some weekends, we wouldn’t have any parties scheduled and I didn’t have to work. Other weekends, they were booked every two hours from 11am to 8pm.
I got paid minimum wage and we weren’t allowed to accept tips. Of course, the people who decided “no tips” had obviously never spent 8 hours covered in icing, being drooled on by strange children, searching for lost dirty diapers in the ball pit, climbing up in the Playland to wash vomit off the slide, trying to balance 20 ice cream sundaes on a plastic tray while a couple dozen preschoolers try to climb up your leg and trying to explain to mom why it really isn’t a good idea to give Junior the entire cake to play with and throw at people just because it is his first birthday!!!
Needless to say, I accepted tips. I even got tipped over 100% of the cost of the party once!
I volunteered for two consecutive summers at at pre-school/day-care when I was 13. I was an alumnus of this school, passed by it everyday, and still felt a sort of bond to the place. I got to take care of 60 hyperactive 3-4 year olds. Loved it.
Later I realized just how many used condoms I’d see in the parking lot in the mornings. I think maybe I’d blocked it out.
And um, the condoms thing has nothing to do with my bond to the place. 
man-whore.
nah… shoe salesman.getting £3 an hour. in 1996. I was 16.
after that… I sold my soul to Ronald
First real job: Bagging groceries in an A & P grocery store. Paid $0.50 per hour, plus tips—back then the bag boy took the groceries to the customer’s car.
1976…I was a starter at a golf course. Once the players got off the 1st green, I sent the second group to the tee box.
Boring as hell for a 13 yr old.
In the winter of that year, I was a wheel man at a Smitty’s Restuarant.
To continue in the same vein, am I the only one here who caddied? Not a bad gig for a young teenager. You pick what days you want to work, and spend a lot of time hanging around the caddyshack pitching quarters and playing cards. Average decent day was $10 or so for a single (this wasn’t the nineties, or even the eighties, folks).
Oh yeah, my first job was also the 1st job I was ever fired from.
My first real job was cleaning campsites (read: hauling garbage) at Lake Degray (a Corp park) in the summer of 1980 for $3.10 an hour.
The first job I ever got paid for was when I had a paper route at age 12. My first real job (with a real paycheck) was as a box boy (what the hell is a courtesy clerk?) in a liquor store. 1982. I think I made about $3.00 per hour.
When I was 13, I was a male prostitute for teenage girls.
When I was 14, I sold crack to pregnant teens.
My first real job, which I held for the better part of three years, was as a pizza delivery driver for a local mom-and-pop pizza joint in town. I made $5.00/hr plus tips all under the table. By the time I had left the place I had been there longer than anyone else, INCLUDING the owners (the shop changed ownership while I was working there). My primary job description was as a delivery driver, but as drivers we also handled all of the clean-up and prep in the back room, and after being there about a year I could also make the pizzas, work the grill and the Fry-o-lator, and pretty much run the joint.
For the record, my parents gave me a loan to buy a $750 dollar car, which I had repayed them within less than 2 months. On a good nite I could clear $50 bucks in tips, and on Sundays, when I worked open to close, I took home atleast $100 easily. It was a great job, and I still miss it.
My first job was on our farm. We had 30 acres of tobacco (which was good in those days). I started working in the fields with my brothers when I was 9.
Der Wienerschnitzel - age 16. Started at $4.25/hr, quit 11 months later at $4.75/hr. Definitely the worse job I have ever had, next to tech support of course.
The Egg Farm. What a horrible experience.
My first job was at a Roy Rogers on the Mass Pike in Massachusetts. I filled out the application, showed up for work the first day. They brought out a hairnet and asked me to put it on. I ran out to the parking lot and fortunately my mom was still there. End of that job.
Real first job (other than babysitting) was as a waitress in a Friendly’s.