What was your First Job?
#152
Aside from babysitting, I had a summer job in high school working in a factory that made the cardboard partitions you find in wine cartons and such. $2.00 an hour, full time. The only thing that made it tolerable was a friend working with me. Sexual harassment on the job from some of the guys working there, back then no one knew what it was. Glad things are better now.
#153
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babysitting for /50/hr in the 70's. teaching ceramics to kids. $5/2 1/2 hrs. Burger King for $1.35/hr. raises back then were .10/hr. boy have things changed. When I worked at Burger King, they had to hire 2 people to do my job!
#155
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Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Midwest
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Senior year if HS....Took a job at a discount store making the signage "in house". Manually typesetting each one. I left each day smelling like the turpentine that was used to clean off the ink on the metal letter blocks. I did not want this job initially but grew to enjoy it. I got to work will all of the department managers and the Executives in the store. This position led to subsequent positions on the sales floor which included promotions to department manager...then recruited to the specialty store that was a division of this company....promoted to store manager! It pays to take an entry level job and learn the ropes from there. Worked my way up! Spent 13 years with the company. I loved working retail (still do) but I was tired of working nights and then Sundays. I left to take a job in commision B to B sales....still doing this type of job 30 years later!
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#156
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Illinois
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My mom was a phone operator and she got me a job with AT&T as a long distance operator. I was 18 at the time. Did it while I was in college. That was back in the days when you had a big board in front of you and you had these cords to pick up calls when the lights appeared. One cord to answer and one to dial out. Totally cool!!
#157
I know its 6 years since I posted this.
#158
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Join Date: Jun 2017
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I forgot to add this............I worked summers at a Squid packing plant. I went to school from 8am to 12pm everyday in the afternoons I waited tables. All this at 16 and looking after my infant son. Soon after turning 17 I started my own business.
I know its 6 years since I posted this.
I know its 6 years since I posted this.
#159
My mom was a phone operator and she got me a job with AT&T as a long distance operator. I was 18 at the time. Did it while I was in college. That was back in the days when you had a big board in front of you and you had these cords to pick up calls when the lights appeared. One cord to answer and one to dial out. Totally cool!!
#160
I used to babysit a lot but the first real job was detassling corn. Now they have machines that you ride to reach teh tassles but then we had to walk with your arms in the air pulling out every tassle. That was not easy when the corn was really tall and I am only 5 foot. Still, I remember the job ans got a real sense of accomplishment with the first paycheck. I bought some of my school clothes and bought fabric to make some more.
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