Escapists First Jobs
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My first job was stringing wires between lightposts for a local power company. It was stupid heavy work, and I worked 60-70 hour weeks for 2 months straight. It paid well though ($20/hr plus double overtime), and opened up a whole bunch of jobs elsewhere, because I could prove that I could do heavy work, and allowed me to get some easier stocking/inventory jobs at local businesses that fit into my schooling schedule.
My first was as a "kitchen assistant" which basically translates as washing dishes and peeling spuds.
My favourite one though has to be when I picked grapes over the summer, it was hard and sweaty labour in high sun but it was satisfying and the people were great.
My favourite one though has to be when I picked grapes over the summer, it was hard and sweaty labour in high sun but it was satisfying and the people were great.
I worked for my high school... after school sorting, building and keeping track of computers. My senior year, I did a lot of BIOS flashing for the Y2K fix.
If you mean out of high school, though... I started off as a lot attendant at a BMW dealership. I drove, parked, and washed cars... and assisted mechanics in fixing 'em. All for $7.25 an hour.
If you mean out of high school, though... I started off as a lot attendant at a BMW dealership. I drove, parked, and washed cars... and assisted mechanics in fixing 'em. All for $7.25 an hour.
Asda (UK supermarket). Got the job of working on checkouts and pushing trolleys when I was 17. It fitted nicely around my college hours and I worked the same shifts as my best mate. 4 years later I still have the same job cause it works around my uni semesters.
I'm still in college, and I still have my first real job, working at The UPS Store. We're the largest store in Michigan, and after 4 year, I've gotten raises for hard work, and since we got a new employee I'm training him. Basically I'm the top dog under the owner, basically running the place whenever he's not in. The pay is good, and everyone I work with is awesome, and I actually find logistics pretty interesting, so the only downside is dealing with stupid/asshole customers. Luckily most of the customers are regulars who know what they're doing, businessmen(and women)so it's pretty cool
I was a security guard. It was pretty shit at the time -- Just turned 18, overweight nerdy guy standing around 6 nights a week keeping an eye on a couple of car lots. Kinda threw it in after a couple of weeks because of the 'Big burly black guys covered with tats' who wanted to pick fights with people in a uniform. That, and the seriously shitty management/back up they had going on.
Book shelver at a public library. I am still there, until I finish high school. I absolutly love my job. I have basically no boss. When I am done putting the books on the shelves, I am done for the night, so I just hang out and talk to the patrons for about an hour. Plus, I haven't had to by a book for the year I have worked there.
My first job was in a Pizza Hut for the summer after I graduated High School. Boring but ultimately easy. Most of my co-workers were nice too.
Not a bad first job at all.
Not a bad first job at all.
My very first job was at an Ice house. My girlfriend at the time got a job there, her co-worker quit and she asked me if I wanted a job. I started work on July 3rd, the night before I stayed up until 5:00 in the morning watching "A Clockwork Orange".
The "Clockwork Orange" thing isn't relevant, I just remember it a bunch. I worked with my girlfriend until she quit about a year and half later, and I got my sister her first job in my GF's place. We stayed until my sister kind of quit, and then I was let go in 2010.
The "Clockwork Orange" thing isn't relevant, I just remember it a bunch. I worked with my girlfriend until she quit about a year and half later, and I got my sister her first job in my GF's place. We stayed until my sister kind of quit, and then I was let go in 2010.
I worked in a shop that refilled printer cartridges. You'd be amazed how pissy people get over their ink cartridges.
Still, it was easy enough and I could finally afford my own pretty things.
Still, it was easy enough and I could finally afford my own pretty things.
Worked as a Lab Asst. My first day of work involved dumping and defrosting entire freezer of pee samples. My second day was a freezer of pee, brain and poop and blood samples and so on for a week. Then chemical organization, test tube cleaning and other random lab jobs after I leveled up out of the poop game.
A few weeks later i got a second job as a dog groomer... RIGHT BACK IN THE PEE AND POOP GAME.
A few weeks later i got a second job as a dog groomer... RIGHT BACK IN THE PEE AND POOP GAME.
I worked at a grocery store owned by the Roundys corporation called Pick N Save. It paid me 6:50 an hour to do a bit of everything, from bagging, to stocking, to pushing carts, to pick ups, to cleaning bathrooms.
I was ok with it till one day some old lady crapped all over the floor and I was told to clean it up. Then I started stealing rotercy chickens for dinner, then I got fired and hauled off in a police car. They sued me and I ended up dishing out 850 dollars.
Fuck that store. They were just going to throw that chicken out anyway.
I was ok with it till one day some old lady crapped all over the floor and I was told to clean it up. Then I started stealing rotercy chickens for dinner, then I got fired and hauled off in a police car. They sued me and I ended up dishing out 850 dollars.
Fuck that store. They were just going to throw that chicken out anyway.
I started working for a new local restaurant that served Italian food as a dish washer/prep cook. It was horribly managed, the food was awful as the owner was too cheap to pay for chefs who were actually trained, and the ones who were trained were fired because of petty shit. We always out of several things on the menu any given night. Eventually business died down for the restaurant and a few months after I quit (Because I got a new job that gave me a consistent schedule and enough hours) it closed down.
The job itself was mostly easy. The only thing I had to put up with was the owner who would come in and tell you how to do something then fuck up after he attempts said thing, and among other annoyances like yell at me for leaving right when my shift was over and then the next day asking why I was working a few minutes after my replacement came in. -_-
The job itself was mostly easy. The only thing I had to put up with was the owner who would come in and tell you how to do something then fuck up after he attempts said thing, and among other annoyances like yell at me for leaving right when my shift was over and then the next day asking why I was working a few minutes after my replacement came in. -_-
It reveals my age, but my first job was working at a video rental store in a little town. It was one of only two, so I managed to at least half of everyone.
Turned out to be a great experience, immediately exemplified my work ethic, and I managed to become a lot less shy having to work with the public.
I find it's worth it to learn from every job, crappy or not. I've worked my way through everything I've done, held at least two jobs for over ten years at one point, and now find myself doing something that I truly love, with a lot of fantastic professionals.
OP, congrats on the first job. You'll find that doing everything that is asked of you, and the first time it is asked of you, will usually exceed expectations, because /so/ many people fall below expectations in entry level positions like that. Standing out is how to get ahead, even if it's just by a nose.
Turned out to be a great experience, immediately exemplified my work ethic, and I managed to become a lot less shy having to work with the public.
I find it's worth it to learn from every job, crappy or not. I've worked my way through everything I've done, held at least two jobs for over ten years at one point, and now find myself doing something that I truly love, with a lot of fantastic professionals.
OP, congrats on the first job. You'll find that doing everything that is asked of you, and the first time it is asked of you, will usually exceed expectations, because /so/ many people fall below expectations in entry level positions like that. Standing out is how to get ahead, even if it's just by a nose.
part-time (sunday only time i could work) job in a cafe , i didn't like working there cause on sundays EVERYONE comes to that bloody cafe. Though my second working as a cleaner was better, yet to get decent job cause still at university (for another 4 more months and then free!)