childhood jobs...

[na§tee]

.. when i say childhood, i mean jobs you had while you were at school, before you went to university or the army or, uh, whatever people do after 18 years of age.

was talking about it today with my library weekend job colleagues and one girl obviously belonged to a very entrepreneurial family - her sister created and sold fake scabs so people could look "hard" :confused: whatevs, man!

include a wage, too.

i worked at the local pharmacy after school some days - so probably about 90 minutes or so work - for about a fiver a day. i served customers. i even gave out prescriptions which is probably hella against the law but OH WELL! i ordered products which were needed and, um, opened deliveries and yadda yadda yadda.

summer job wise i was a housemaid at the main hotel on lewis :/ oh man. it was hard work. cleaning that many rooms and making that many beds is harder than it looks, i tells yah. i am the bed making hero, btw. i can put on king-sized duvet cover with one hand. ME STRONG!

please share your slave labour or otherwise.

[Helvete]

Worked in a supermarket bakery at 16, started off packing, but then became a baker. Did that for 2 years, it was pretty shitty actually, especially working at the hot ovens in the summer. I used to go and steal ice creams from the frozen dept. and then hang out in the big blast freezers until I cooled down. Pay was terrible, and we were treated like any disposable teenage supermarket workers were, but it was a hell of a laugh when the managers weren't in on Friday and Saturday nights. Hockey with doughnuts and broomsticks, baseball with rolls and french baguettes, basketball with dough and the various machine hoppers. And of course all the food in the supermarket to steal and cook in the ovens.

Finally had enough coming up to my 18th birthday, as I wasn't allowed the time off, even though I had cover and gave enough notice. So just walked on out of there, it was great.

Then worked in a hotel for 2 years, easy as fuck, boring as fuck, paid lots of money and in central London, good for old lazy people, not for young people who want to travel and shoot stuff.

[Gareth]

when i was 16 i stocked shelves and did checkout at a food wholesalers
it was pretty much just afterschool/weekend work, and heaps of dudes from my school worked there so it wasnt too bad
NZ$8 p/h
or
US$5.49 p/h

[Dorothy Wood]

I was a babysitter for like $5/hr, maybe less, starting when I was about 13.

when I was 15, I worked for my city's parks and recreation department cleaning up a park and setting up baseball diamonds and keeping score for baseball and softball games. I got to drive golf carts around. I think they paid me $4.25/hr. :(

at 16, I was the youngest member of a group hired to reorganize and revamp a summer playground program. $4.75/hr :( I did that for 3 summers. I think I probably got a 25 cent raise every year.

senior year in high school I worked at an afterschool program with kids with behavioral disorders. my life was threatened almost daily, but I wasn't ever scared really. I forget how much that paid.

[monkey]

i babysat. depending who i babysat, the pay ranged from $5-10/hr. at one particular house, they had a huge pool. i was supposed to be there when the kids got home from daycamp and feed them a snack and throw them in the pool till the parents got home or they got bored. that was awesome. i was a very tan teenager.

one summer i worked part time at a small market as a checkout girl. $5.75/hr, with all the deli sammiches i wanted. it was ok.

my senior year of hs i started working at a doctor's office as a filing girl. started at $7/hr. eventually, i ended up making double that and becoming a technician and being able to poke people's eyes. that was fun! except that office was turning my soul black. :(

[King PSYZ]

My first job was working at a Christmas Tree lot at 15. Nothing better than an overweight 15 year old with a gas powered chain saw and nightly workouts of lifting 50-100 lb trees for 6 hours at a time. Talk about the makings of a classic horror franchise...

Highly illegal, and if it weren't for the fact I made good tips, would have been a total sham as my pay enevelope at the end of the season was like $300.

[zorra_chiflada]

i worked as a waitress at a chinese restaraunt when i was 15. they were bastards to me and ended up firing me because they thought i was a stupid incompetant westerner. :(

[ggirlballa]

i want a job dammit

[TurdBerglar]

oh no you don't

[ggirlballa]

i have nothing to do cept hang around my house & be bored, i'd rather have a job & actually be doing something & getting paid for it

[zorra_chiflada]

take advantage of being young and not having to be responsible for anything. you'll miss it when you're older.

[ggirlballa]

take advantage of being young and not having to be responsible for anything. you'll miss it when you're older.

(lb)


thanks zorra(y)

[Pres Zount]

at about ten or eleven I sold bags of shit on the side of the road for fifty cents. At about 13 I worked with my sister on an egg farm.

At fifteen I worked in the barbeque section of a hardware store. Now I work in the barbeque section of a different hardware store.

[TOY]

When I was 16, I worked at a place similar to where I work now. I sorted through mail -- medical bills and shit. $800 bi-weekly :)

At 17, I was a hostess at a popular local restaurant/bar. Horrible pay. Left there this summer making $7.50 bi-weekly (tips were hit-or-miss depending if I was on take-out that day/night or if people actually understood YOU TIP THE HO, TOO). That place made me so depressed, like, the customers were real cunts. And OLD.

Now, at 19, I'm an "enrollment processor". Good pay, decent benefits, vacay and sick time... But as soon as I save up enough money to get a car, I'm quitting and moving to Philly. School or no school. I'm gone.

[trailerprincess]

I started with a paper round, just the local weekly one (not scary morning deliveries!) when I was about 14 I think

I also used to work in an old people's home helping in the kitchen for a couple of hours during the week and then maybe 5 hours at the weekend. I think I got £3 an hour or something horrible like that

Then I went to work in a greengrocer which was good but as it was one of those openfronted ones, I used to freeze my ass off all day. I did 8am to 6pm and got £20 - and as much fruit/veg I wanted!!

Then I went and worked in Sainsbury's on the checkouts throughout sixth form and during uni holidays. I think I started on about £4.50ph there. It was a laugh and there was loads of my friends from school working there too. Also, I worked Sundays so used to get double pay which rocked

[abcdefz]

Oh, lordy.

As a child-child-child, like early elementary school, I sold stationery door to door for commission.

Then I had a paper route and shovelled snow. Probably around 5th grade. Shovelling snow used to get me about $15-$25, I think. I think.

Then I unloaded produce trucks at a produce mart, shovelled snow, mowed lawns. 6th-7th grades.

Then I mostly mowed lawns in 8th grade.

At 16, I started working at Arby's, then the public library. Arby's was minimum wage, whatever that was. $3.75, $4? Library was about $5, which seemed big.

At 17-18, I worked in a record store and sold stereos. Minimum wage plus commissions; I did well.

[jennyb]

I got a job at a mom and pop type Pharmacy on the main street of my little home town at age 15. Worked there until I'z 22! When I go home to visit I pop in on some of the ladies I used to work with there. The thing I loved most about the job was chattin it up with all the elderly people in town. The worst part about it... I knew who had lice and who had STDs and icky stuff like that! Given the fact that this is a town of 3000 people too makes it extra icky to know those things.

[Loppfessor]

Isn't this just a cheap rip off of the "First job" thread???

[kll]

worked at the little league field from 11-16 years of age... (my favorite job ever)

15 worked at a burger joint called Fat Cat Burgers and my main job duty was to cover for the boss while he entertained females other than his wife

16 worked at a clothing store that carried a lot of surf/beach volleyball wear and a large Levi's jeans collection...

17 worked at a clothing store in the mall

18 worked a cosmetics counter