First job experiences?

[Esotera]

My first job was a paper round for £15 a week, and I'm pretty sure that it was actually illegal as no-one paid tax and it started too early for my age. It pretty much sucked & I quit after six weeks.

My current job is my first proper one and I test software; it's pretty decent, just in the South-East of England which sucks. The work is easy and it pays well, only downside is that it can get a bit boring sometimes.

 

[endnuen]

I was a lifeguard at age 16-18 and a swimming instructor at 15-17 or there about.

Right now I'm studying Electrical Engineering and is in an internship at the largest company in the world in it's field, doing project work. Right now i'm coordinating the moving and reorganizing of a production line along with a few other small projects. Exciting stuff.

For the record, I'm 23.

 

[Mel Theofficegamergirl]

My first job was at an icecream shop when I was 14. It was easy enough and fuck yeah, free icecream.

Since then I've worked as...A seamstress, a photographer, call center rep, an seo specialist, a writer, a phone sales person, a bar tender, musician, an assistant manager (at a bar), an artist, and a Barista. I'm actually looking for my next job right now, thinkin' about getting some type of cooking job at a local hotel or something. Sounds good, yeah?

 

[Tdoodle]

Still in my first job, got a part-time cleaning job at the hospital when I was still in 6th form because at the time I had no idea what I wanted to do. There are a few good things about it - £8 an hour is pretty solid, the hours are decent (3 1/2 from 5pm, so I have a whole day and can still go out at night) and most of the time I'm unsupervised so I can just get on with what needs doing - but I'm looking forward to getting out, it's a really tedious job and I'm not a fan of most of the people I work with.

In practical terms it's basically perfect - I get to earn £150 a wekk while getting on with the kind of voluntary work and studying that, fingers crossed, will sort me out with an apprenticeship in a few months - but I'm not going to miss it when I'm gone.

 

[Chemical Alia]

My first job was as a secretary at Northampton County Juvenile Detention during the summer when I was 17. My mom has worked there since I was little and I knew all the probation officers, so it was actually a pretty fun job. Hated answering the phones because of all the angry parents, but I'm one of those people who actually doesn't mind filing for hours.

 

[antidonkey]

My first job was at the ripe old age of 16. The deal was....if I wanted a car, I had to have a job. If the job got in the way of school, then the job went away as did the car. It was at a local pizza joint. I started out as a busboy/dishwasher. Eventually I moved up to the front area making pizzas and various other foods and whipping up batches of dough before we shutdown for the night. It sucked and it paid minimum wage (at the time $4.25). By the time I left I was making $4.50...so three years and only 25 cents for raises. God that place sucked. I did get to have sex with a coworker in one of the supply closets though so it wasn't a total waste.

 

[IndomitableSam]

Burger King at 16. Utter hell. They hired my sister too after they interviewed me, since we were twins. It was just bad. 5am shift starts even when there was school, weeks inbetween shifts, and they treated you horribly.

I had a flare-up of an eye-thing I get every few years where I go partially blind in one (if not both) eyes and was not allowed to work due to the grill and hot oil and such and they got super mad at me. Didn't give me any shifts even after I got the all-clear to go back, so I figured I was fired. Then I got a call weeks later saying "you're supposed to be at work, where are you?" I quit over the phone. My sister didn't last much longer as they started giving her 5am Saturday and Sunday shifts. Which was probably them being petty.

Following that, a string of terrible retail jobs that everyone has where you're abused, assaulted, insulted, groped, stolen from, and everything you can think of that's horrible is done to you.

... Glad I'm done with that now. I"m also old enough now not to take shit from anyone so I wouldn't last in retail anymore. I'd be arrested for talking/fighting back.

 

[Call Me Jose]

My first job was at KFC as a cook at the age of 15, not at all legal either working with all that oil, luckily I only got badly burned once and it wasn't by oil, I started at $6.25 and didn't get a raise for the 3 years I worked there. I don't know why I stay there so long, I guess its just my habit to stay (loyal to) where I am. It wasn't a great job but I did get all the free food I wanted, which I'm sure by now has changed, I've also worked at a bank. I will never again by my personal choice (unless I have to feed a family) work at a bank.

 

[Scarim Coral]

I'm nearly 25 and I've only just got my first job.

I ain't gonna say where, because I don't want you jerkbags ruining it for me

It's a customer service/administration role, and I've learned a very important lesson.

Customers can be the whiniest, pettiest, most entitled fuckwads in the universe.

I'm 25 and I just got my first job months ago too!

I'm pretty much a sales assistant in a retail store that sell cheap branded stuff or stuff that are alot cheaper to other retail chain store.
I guess I should be consider fortunate that the customers are either local (half of which are elderly people) or tourist which most of the time are pleasent people.

 

[WolfThomas]

Man my first job was amazing, I was a bit scared, but it felt...

...oh err at Big W when I was like 15. I hated it.

 

[Lionsfan]

My first job was at a pizza place. I spent my time mopping, cleaning, taking orders, making pizzas, and just generally doing a whole bunch of grunt work. And I loved every second of that job. Yeah it sucked when the orders piled up, but my coworkers were awesome, and it really taught me about working hard

 

[sextus the crazy]

I'm 19 and got my first job about a year ago. I was an assistant coach for my highschool's cross country running team. Wasn't to taxing; my role was to lead runs and whip the guys into shape and act as the coach's herding dog. Luckily, the teams made of good people and they respected my authoritas. That only lasted for the season. Since then, I've been volunteering at my local military history museum.

 

[Soxafloppin]

When I was 16 in a trendy clothes shop called Clockwork Orange, worked with a bunch of pretentious cunts. Left and got a job in Leisure Centre, and I'm still there. I'm 20 by the way.

 

[KiloFox]

I'm nearly 25 and I've only just got my first job.

I ain't gonna say where, because I don't want you jerkbags ruining it for me

It's a customer service/administration role, and I've learned a very important lesson.

Customers can be the whiniest, pettiest, most entitled fuckwads in the universe.

welcome to the world of customer service my friend... where customers get to come to you with complaints even though you have absolutely no power to do anything about it. ain't it grand?

OT: my first job was a paper route at like... 13... my first REAL job was working the lunch lines at my high school Sophomore year as a cashier...

 

[Genocidicles]

Worked in a shoe store when I was seventeen. Absolutely hated it because it was boiling hot and the never ending torrent of pop music being played.

Glad it was only a summer job.

 

[Hero in a half shell]

I'm coming 24 in November and I just got my first job; computer programmer!

Before that I was just doing odd jobs around the village like cutting peoples grass, painting walls, killing mudcrabs, etc.

 

[an annoyed writer]

My first paid job was nice. At age 17 I worked at a library where I cleaned DVDs, organized shelves, and some other miscellaneous stuff. I got paid minimum wage though, which sucked, but it was great money at the time, and the people were friendly and the office politics was down to a bare minimum.

A year later, I started work at Walmart. Pay was better, but holy fuck is that a hostile work environment. Work that's hard on the body and workplace politics up the wazoo, as well as a shit-ton of nepotism. I've been there for two years, and I really hate that place. My friend and I are actually planning to quit next month(I'm using up my vacation days soon) and go do something else. I'm tired of feeling half-dead and I'd love to have more energy for actual exercise rather than the bullshit stocking does to you (I could swear my shoulder wasn't this misshapen two years ago, etc. etc.). If you've met someone who has a personality that resembles Borderlands's General Knoxx, Chances are you've met one of those sad saps that works at or has worked at a place like WalMart. That place will do that to you.

 

[maninahat]

My first job was when I was 16, working voluntarily at my local hospital. Saw some pretty unpleasnat things. Next year, I got my first paying job at a fine dining restaurant, and saw even more unpleasant things. £3.15 an hour was my wage.

Somehow, Octogenerians suffering from Parkinsons or brain damage are still easier and less distressing to work with than disatisfied customers.

 

[maninahat]

Howdy ya'll!
So, by some random stroke of luck, I have happened to stumble upon a job! Crazy, I know.
So yeah, at the ever exciting age of 18 I've just got my first job at a bank firm called Nationwide. Not sure what I'll be doing exactly, but whatever it is I'll be doing it for £10 so whatever.

I was just pondering what everyone else's first job experiences may have been like? Good? Bad? Well paid? Dull?
Share it with us!

Jesus christ, what the hell did you put on your CV? I've been looking for work for months, and I've worked in practically every industry under the sun. I mean, congratulations and all, but please don't mind me resenting you for the rest of your life.

 

[maninahat]

Lifeguard at a waterpark. I sat around for 8-10 hours watching people not drown in 2 feet of water day in and day out.

Only upside, I was practically payed minimum wage to sit and watch cute girls in bikinis all day ;D

I've been to a few water parks in my time. Do life guards ever get offered dates, or do people keep their distance?