Your first job ever.
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Planting chrysanthemums in a huge greenhouse when I was...12 or something. Only did it for a couple of weeks. It was almost literally backbreaking work. I was already pretty tall when I was 12, and had a pretty weak back, so sitting on a metal tube on my knees for hours on end planting tiny saplings wasn't exactly the job for me. Paid pretty good if you were good at it (you get payed for each box of flowers you plant; the faster you plant, the more cash you get), hence why it was a pretty popular job among local teens although it was illegal. That kind of work is getting done by Polish worker immigrants now, and they can do it legal ;-) Hence why I started working at the local supermarket as a jack-of-all-trades when I was 15, still work there (18 now). Pays....decent-ish, 3.56 euro's an hour.
my first (and only so far) job was as a receptionist for my provinces sport programs office. i pretty much sit behind my laptop from four till ten-thirty occasionally directing people to there meeting room and validating parking. i also don`t pay taxes (no one ever told me if that was normal or not) and after the first few hours there is pretty much no work to do so i can break out a tv aand play xbox the rest of the night, its pretty much the best job for a student ever.
first job at age 14 was with my uncle managing a shooting range. I mostly handled cleaning and cashier although I'm very uncertain till this day on how one goes about purchasing a weapon.
15 I got wendy's so I paid abit more attention to loud customers than to loud gunshots.
I'm 18 now and enjoy multi tasking between these two careers...bout to finish high school too so I guess I can drop wendy's.
15 I got wendy's so I paid abit more attention to loud customers than to loud gunshots.
I'm 18 now and enjoy multi tasking between these two careers...bout to finish high school too so I guess I can drop wendy's.
Other than a paper round? Worked at a guitar shop, got it when I was 15, still do it now. Pretty damn good.
I got my first proper job a few weeks ago. I had just done work experiacne in a computer repair shop and they gave me a job afterwards due to my "awesomeness"
Yes that what they said
So far im loving it, i get paid to build computers, and everyone there is funny as can be
Yes that what they said
So far im loving it, i get paid to build computers, and everyone there is funny as can be
When I was 15 my mom got my best friend and I a job at the Honda dealership where she worked. We washed cars with another guy at 3 in the morning. Getting paid to play with pressure washers, go to McDonalds, and sing terrible versions of Bon Jovi Journey Tenacious D and whatever else we could think of. Yea, it was a pretty sweet gig.
Well, let me educate you 
A curly wurly is a twisty length of caramel coated in delicious cadburys dairy milk chocolate. They are a favourite for kids in England as they only cost about 15p (which is not very much) although with inflation probably now cost about £65 + VAT
A curly wurly is a twisty length of caramel coated in delicious cadburys dairy milk chocolate. They are a favourite for kids in England as they only cost about 15p (which is not very much) although with inflation probably now cost about £65 + VAT
When I was in high school, I was hired by the government to stand watch over a secure area of a high value military installation, using state of the art equipment to prevent civilians from...
harassing the native birds.
I couldn't make that up.
harassing the native birds.
I couldn't make that up.
Aside from a job gluing pieces of brick to pieces of cardboard when I was a small child (they were sent to Japan so that people could see what the brick looked like before they bought it) my first job was at Safeway. I was the meat department *****.
Have you ever watched the butchers working? You know how when they open the packages and there's blood all over the place, they pour it into a gigantic bucket? And when they trim off excess fat, they toss it in the same bucket? And when they have too big a buildup of bone dust on the saw, they put it in the same bucket also? You may not have seen this, but when food expires and starts to rot, it goes in the same bucket.
My job was to clean that bucket.
Have you ever watched the butchers working? You know how when they open the packages and there's blood all over the place, they pour it into a gigantic bucket? And when they trim off excess fat, they toss it in the same bucket? And when they have too big a buildup of bone dust on the saw, they put it in the same bucket also? You may not have seen this, but when food expires and starts to rot, it goes in the same bucket.
My job was to clean that bucket.
Probably like a lot of other people on this list, McDonald's. It was the only place hiring people who were 15. I spent 2 and a half years there, and was never once looked at for promotion, just because I didn't work enough ours to satisfy them.
I was a relief piano teacher at a music school. The pay wasn't too bad at all and i could just sit down in an air conditioned room and teach some kids some basic stuff for 1 and a half hours.
It was paying about 15 or 16 (That's in SGD, it's about 11 USD at that time) an hour and it only required my grade 5 qualifications. I'm back to studying full time now though, only did that during the holidays cause it was the easiest and most well paying job i could find
It was paying about 15 or 16 (That's in SGD, it's about 11 USD at that time) an hour and it only required my grade 5 qualifications. I'm back to studying full time now though, only did that during the holidays cause it was the easiest and most well paying job i could find
It's not an actual job, but I've been doing occasional voice recordings since I was 13. Not like radio dramas or anything, it's just simple slow-talking for CDs to teach kids English.
The pay is awesome. I got about 100 reais an hour, which is around fifty dollars.
The pay is awesome. I got about 100 reais an hour, which is around fifty dollars.