mcdaniel023

My first job besides babysitting was as a tap dance teacher. Great memories.

Hope2quilt

My first job was working in an ice cream shop. I learned to make all the yummies with soft serve. I made $1.00 an hour. I thought I was rich. Minimum wage was $1.80 I think but I was only fifteen.

debp33

My first job was at a dry cleaners.

I still can't walk into a dry cleaners without the smell bringing back memories.

nativetexan

Department store sales, which i hate!

oldswimmer

My first job was when I was 12.....I washed windows for my fathers photography studio, and then picked up a couple other businesses downtown. I made about $10 every Saturday and thought I was rich! And I did bablysitting and then was a Red Cross water safety aide, earning admission to the pool for every morning I helped with swimming lessons.

RevPam

My first job (other than babysitting) was at the library shelving books for 50cents an hour. I loved it! I got first dibs on all the new Gothics!

AlwaysQuilting

At Arthur Murray Dance Studios in the evenings after high school.
We worked in a room that had a dozen phones, opened a phone book, ripped out a page, and started calling all the names on that page.
We'd offer them a free dance lesson.
I got paid 50cents an hour and received a 25cent bonus for anyone who actually came in for the lesson.
We had to use a fake name (mine was Ginger....too obvious I think now but back then I thought I was so clever.....you know from dancers Ginger Rogers and Fred Astair) and there was a script we HAD to follow tacked on the wall in front of us.
It was horrible. I could repeat that script in my sleep.
I don't think I ever had anyone show up for a lesson but I got 3 proposals because of my "sexy" voice.....lol.

Rhonda

Great memories! Love to hear the stories!

lovestosew

My first job was as a cashier in a grocery store when I was 16 in 1970. Minimum wage was $1.60, and I was making $2.22 an hour. Were my friends jealous. I ended up staying there until they closed in 1976, the year I got married. I was making $7.50 an hour, back then that was GOOD money.

Jan in VA

I worked three summers as a waitress in the Harbor Springs (MI) Country Club Golf Shop during lunch. My mom and grandmom were the chefs, my aunt baked all the bread, my brother caddied....a family affair! I was paid only in tips, but they were usually pretty good as the golfers were wealthy resorters and they thought I was so cute, LOL! I was 13.

I remember the first time I dropped a tray, I was SO embarrassed, but I was rich that day. :P :lol: 8-)

Jan in VA