Remember your first job

My Dad owns several pharmacies. From the age of 14 I was working in those (usually to relieve people who were off etc) I earned the equivalent of $3 an hour and worked 18hrs a week.

Being the bosses son made it a slightly odd experience. People assumed I'd blab pretty much everything to my folks.

 

my first job was at a staples and i was 16. it was great at nighttime because legally they had to let me leave at 10 PM even when everone else was still cleaning up that's the one good thing about child labor laws, you get to go home early

 

I was a KMart employee in the 1970's, and the hourly wage was $2.50 per hour. We got paid weekly in cash. We had to ask the store manager or somebody in personnel or accounting to open this chainlink cage to hold our purses and coats when we "clocked in" -- we called that when we punched the timeclock. We had these very tacky turqoise blue shirts with the Kmart bade on it, that we had to wear. They made us pay a $3 deposit on it. The store manager was called "Squire" and the employees were called something too, but I don't recall. Could it be "Key"?

 

A Bagboy at Kroger. Made minimum wage plus tips and loved it. I smoked weed at work a lot.

 

Oh yeah that was back when I was CEO of the California Wal-Mart chain.

Lol I was a remodel labor grunt, I did all the crap work for a house remodel company.

It was O.K. I learned a lot of skills that I used for a long time.

 

Im only sixteen and started my first job just a few months ago. I work at mcdonalds, and I actually kind of like it. Everyone I work with is pretty nice and i've never had a problem with anyone. Usually I take orders or clean, so I dont have to cook or anything. Whats fun?.... Probably listening to people thats ordering in drive thru, its hilarious because most of the time they dont know you can hear them yet... so its pretty funny at what they say. Nothing is really screwed up about the job, except cleaning the guys bathroom (thats by far the worst part).

 

I made $1.20 an hour cutting brush with a mowing scythe during the summer of 1968, workin for the Highway dept......
Def unfun and was harrased by the other workers becuz of my long hair.

 

i worked at an apple orchard when i was 15. ran this huge machine that washed apples and sorted them by size. then i put the apples into bags. it was so freaking cold, and my hands would always be wet from the apples. i got paid $5 an hour, under the table. at the end of each day, i would get about $40. every day, the owners would cook a gigantic meal for lunch, which was awesome! but they'd always get on me for not sorting the apples correctly...so i'd get back at them by stealing Amish candy out of the boxes! man that toffee was so good! i'd eat tons of it!

 

when i was a cowgirl at a wild west town. ugh i hated it. hours in the hot sun in jeans and a shirt with a hat. and the little kids use to shoot things in my eyes (i worked at the shooting gallery)

 

I was 14 in 1976 I got 2 jobs one working for the tribe I belong to cleaning up the village for 6 hours then I had a hour off to eat dinner the worked on a dock unloading salmon boat from 5 pm to 10pm. The first job paid $3.10 an hour the second paid $5 an hour.

 

I worked at Burger King when I was 15. I really liked that job. It was way out in the rich people suburbs of Denver and I was the only white kid working there. I learned a lot of Spanish that I have since forgot. Every Friday night there was a big party at one of the assistant managers house with a ton of mexican beer and tequila and stuff. I made $7 an hour which I thought was pretty good for a 15 year old slacker.