Your first job.

[DipDipDive]

Mine was at a florist in my hometown. I worked there for almost 2 years when I was in high school. I cleaned flowers and made bows out of ribbon all day and I loved it.

How's about you? What was your first job? Did you love it or hate it?

[Freebasser]

I made ice cream in an ice cream factory for 6 months.

Not as fun as it sounds.

[beastiegirrl101]

I was a shampoo girl / receptionist at a salon. I loved it for the most part. It was perfect for my HS school schedule, I only worked 3 days a week...Thurs-Sat and it was all cash under the table, plus I got tips. Washing the old lady heads was pretty gross considering they came in once a week to get their hair set. I would have to use scalding HOT water to melt the hairspray that they would continue to spray all week even though their hair wasnt moving anyway. I had to wash some dudes beard once too.

oh and back to school time was always fun with the kids with lice.

[Loppfessor]

My first job was making ribs at a pizza and ribs joint with my best friend...we were fired for goofing off and being underage within weeks of starting. Then I got a job at a more different better pizza joint. I worked there all through high school and the owners got mad when I quit because they wanted me to make a "career" out of it....creepy

[jabumbo]

i was a golf caddy at a country club for 3 and a half summers


good pay,all in cash, every time you worked. so that was nice. but there were a lot of assholes around so thats why i stopped going

[QueenAdrock]

Movie theater in Maryland. They hired only teenagers and opened at 4:00 PM on weekdays and all day on the weekends. That way, they could pay us $5.15 an hour and screw us outta proper work breaks and no one would complain because we were all so young and unknowledgable.

A lot of the job SUCKED. Serving popcorn, ripping tickets. I hated working at the concession stand. However, box office rocked because I carded people older than me and got to deny them tickets which totally made me feel like a badass 15 year old. :cool:

[Otis Driftwood]

Worked in an iron foundry...

[icy manipulator]

Checkouts at Woolworths. i got fired taking lots of red bulls after 18 months. not too bad pay too, and lots of hot girls worked on the checkouts

[Planetary]

i was a golf caddy at a country club for 3 and a half summers


good pay,all in cash, every time you worked. so that was nice. but there were a lot of assholes around so thats why i stopped going

did your manager ever start fights with you?

Patty Tanager, the caddy manager. Yeah, it rhymes, big whoop, wanna fight about it?

[QueenAdrock]

ahahha (y)

[DipDipDive]

I wouldn't have quit my first job if it hadn't been for the fact that they got really forgetful about giving me my paychecks. Towards the end, I was getting 4 checks all at once at the end of the month instead of 1 per week. Lame-o. (n) But otherwise it ruled.

[TAL]

My first was at a factory that makes lawn furniture. I was there for a year between schools.

Not counting summer jobs.

[kll]

My first job was my favorite job.

$5/hour tax free

Working in the snack shack at the Little League field from 11-16 yrs old, every baseball season.

The umpires were all high school boys, so I flipped burgers, sold candy and sodas, flirted with the cute boys and watched baseball games all day. It was the best!

[DipDipDive]

My first job was my favorite job.

$5/hour tax free

Working in the snack shack at the Little League field from 11-16 yrs old, every baseball season.

The umpires were all high school boys, so I flipped burgers, sold candy and sodas, flirted with the cute boys and watched baseball games all day. It was the best!

omg jealous :o

I think my first job was my favorite job, too. I've toyed with the notion of becoming a florist because they get to work in a really happy, pretty, sensory environment every day.

[ms.peachy]

I worked at the local boarding and grooming kennel. Cleaning up dog poo wasn't the most exciting job in the world, but tbh it really wasn't so bad. Got to play with the nice doggies, so that was OK.

[TAL]

I want my next job to be sending a PM to ms.peachy, but she's making it very difficult.

[ScarySquirrel]

I worked at the local pizzeria as a dishwasher with aspirations to someday work my way up to a server/cook.

But, they only let me work on Fridays. For four hours. So I quit about a month into it.

[Justin]

My first job was working at Carnifax Ferry State Park in West Virginia. The park is a landmark for a battle during the Civil War.

My job was basically to make sure everything was clean and neat. I also remember helping build trails and those little wooden bridges over little streams.

Here is the website to the park http://www.carnifexferrybattlefieldstatepark.com/

[Kid Presentable]

Paper run. First job with shifts started at age 15 at the local arcade. I was so wrong about how much poon that would get me. (n)

[Funky Pepp]

I worked in a meat factory. I had to pack sausages in a cold store
right after the summervacations. It was damn cold and they didn't
get my healthtest-results (tuberculosis) until I finished my vacation-
job. The best thing about the job was, that you could eat the cut-off
"waste"-ends :D

Well, it payed my guitar, so it wasn't that bad...

[Kid Presentable]

I worked at a pie cafe in the mall, and we wore really slutty german maid outfits. Our only customers were old ladies and hot guys, the guys came in because all of the girl were beautiful and dressed scandulous.

I worked there my last two years of high school, and made a shit load of tips. I later found out they were shut down for insect infestation. eww!

good times though, I grew up fast working there.
Into a 32 year old man? damn

[Kid Presentable]

who am i kidding, who am i foolin when they be like

[beastieangel01]

I was 16. My friend worked at the seasonal Hickory Farms kiosk inside Sears selling gift baskets of cheese and meats and all that stuff. I said I wanted a job so he asked the manager if they needed more people and voila, I worked there.

I remember using all my money on christmas gifts for people. And having a crush on the guy that worked in electronics. But he was 21. But we ended up making out one day anyway. Haha :(

anyway I liked it. It was a really easy job and I'd always have free food.

[Nivvie]

Underage waitressing in a posh golf club.

[MC Moot]

I worked in a saw mill,with an East Indian cat who just wanted a purple trans am....that's all he really wanted....he cut off 4 of his fingers one day,when we were ripping plywood in the rain.....I quit.....he got his Trans Am when workers comp came through and I went and got a higher education....

[cosmo105]

chinese bakery. the other employees called the owner Dragon Lady. i had to memorize the prices of all the dozens of things they sold, and they changed 2 times within the first 3 weeks i was there. and every single night we had to take a damp soapy washcloth and wipe down every. single. surface. of every. single. cabinet. behind and in front of the counter. she would go over the corners with her fingers and if there was a mote of dust, ohhh you were fucked. the only benefits were on the days she wasn't there, we could take home the extra cakes and pies and pastries that hadn't sold that day. otherwise she watched you like a fucking hawk.

i remember once wringing a towel out over a sink (which was painful because she insisted we use boiling water from the fucking coffee machine) and she yelled at me for not folding it twice and then wringing it in the way she wanted me to. YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO WRING A TOWEL RIGHT?! minimum wage, paid under the table.

i quit after a month.

[MC Moot]

[QUOTE=cosmo105]chinese bakery. the other employees called the owner Dragon Lady. QUOTE]

mmmmmm BBQ Pork Buns! Hope the experience didn't turn you off those or egg custard bun thingy's.....:)

[The Notorious LOL]

washed dishes at a truck stop. Friday night was the fish fry and when I was done the neighborhood cats would try to hump me lol

[Ugly Cat]

fish fry? ;)

[The Notorious LOL]

;)

[DipDipDive]

Could the two of you at least TRY to tone it down when you know I'm online? At least ATTEMPT to do this behind my back and not right in front of my face? :(

[Yorkshire~Rose]

I had a saturday job when i was 16/17 at Athena - the poster/greeting card/stuff you really don't need shop. I loved it.

Movie theater....

A lot of the job SUCKED. Serving popcorn, ripping tickets. I hated working at the concession stand. However, box office rocked because I carded people older than me and got to deny them tickets which totally made me feel like a badass 15 year old. :cool:

I worked in a cinema for 2 years when i was at university and i loved it. I liked working the box office too and also on the floor - kicking snotty 12 years olds out for talking was my vocation in life.

Cleaning the screens out after each showing sucked though. Some people are filthy. I once found a pair of dirty knickers, a large cup of wee (still warm), a used condom and a human poo.
Not all in the same screen at the same time though...:D

[QueenAdrock]

That sucks. The worst I had to deal with was vomit. I just held the bag while someone else shoveled it in, lol.

I found $20 in the theater once. It was pretty sweet. Oh, and whenever they took inventory we'd go ahead and pig out on the candy/ice cream/slurpee stuff the day before. That was awesome too. Oh, and being able to have free popcorn and watch movies on your breaks.

Overall, it wasn't too bad, just when it got busy and we were running around behind the counter and sliding on butter and falling on our asses. That was bad.

[paul jones]

my first job was cookin bacon at a sandwich factory

[hitmonlee]

worked at hungry jack's (burger king) for 3 years from when i was 14.
i loved and hated it.
if the manager was cool, i didn't mind much. unless it was school holidays or football season, it was pretty chilled.

eventually we got this ass of a manager, who never ever let me make burgers. i LOVED making the burgers. no, he says, you are too good on drive-thru. so i would purposely not suggest sell to customers, but did he move me? noooo :mad: prick.

eventually some bad shit happened, and i felt like too many people knew me from the store. er.. i got paranoid. and sick of doing drive-thru. so i quit.

[mickill]

I was mostly self-employed until around 19; I began mowing lawns when I was 14. Then I started making leather "African" medallions, which I sold at school to wannabe rappers and various tweens for $20 a pop.

In my senior year at high school, I got this gig painting Keith Haring-styled stick figures all over old jeans for around $100 a pair. The guy who recruited me to do the work would in turn sell the jeans for $300 or so a pair. I began finding it a little too time consuming, though, seeing as I was the only one doing the work. The guy wanted to make me a partner eventually, but I declined. Pretty soon I just quit. Soon after, he founded Dish (and later Fidelity) jeans and became a millionaire.

[befsquire]

i was a lifeguard.

[Auton]

backroom at babies r us. i wanted to kill myself.

[mikizee]

I worked at mcdonalds from when i was 14 to when i was 20. Yes thats right, 6 years!! Of hell!!!

Checkouts at Woolworths. i got fired taking lots of red bulls after 18 months. not too bad pay too, and lots of hot girls worked on the checkouts

Now my job is to come and fix and replace printers and eftpos pinpads and customer displays and controllers at checkouts at Woolworths when the checkout chick (icy) breaks them. You're right about the hot girls tho!

[marsdaddy]

Summer between my 2nd and 3rd year of high school, I helped my mom's hairdresser run his shop. Swept up hair, gave shampoos, collected money, made bank deposits, ordered supplies. The only part I didn't care for was I had to wake his ass up everyday, as he was usually hung over and couldn't make it to his daily 10 am appointments. Oh, that and I had to get in line to get paid.

After about 2 months, I left for a job scooping ice cream and worked there for 4 years -- through the next two of high school and on breaks during college. I loved that job!

[HEIRESS]

my first job lasted a looooooooong time

I was 1 month shy of 16 and was at the post office at the local drugstore photocopying my typed resume and the girl was like "oh resumes, you should put one in here"

so I did and was called for an interview and hired the next day

I worked random week nights and weekends either at the front cash, doing stock or as a postal worker in the post office which also included a sears catalogue outlet
I also got too moonlight as a pharmacy tech in the pharmacy which was pretty dope
and around 18 I became acting manager on weekends when the full time lady had her time off
so even though it was "one" job I got to play many roles all in one place

I worked there until the day I graduated from university 6.5 years later because even after highschool the pharmacist who owned the joint liked me so much she would work around even my crazy volleyball schedule and around my second job when I had to get one during university

TRUE STORY!

[jlees_mcsd]

My first job was as a cashier at Taco Bell. I got my food 1/2 off and after 2 months I got to do steam table. It was cool, I have ADD so I was really good at the drive-thru. It wasn't bad for a first job.

[Tone Capone]

I guess my first job was when I was 13 and I started a "business" mowing lawns... that doesn't really count though... When I was 14 I was a roofer. I don't think that counts though either.

I guess my first official job would be when I turned 16 I got a job at McDonald's. I liked it a lot during the first month or so... then it got old.

[Otis Driftwood]

I worked in a meat factory. I had to pack sausages in a cold store
right after the summervacations. It was damn cold and they didn't
get my healthtest-results (tuberculosis) until I finished my vacation-
job. The best thing about the job was, that you could eat the cut-off
"waste"-ends :D

*kotz*
Winner for most disgusting first job! :eek: