babyboomerquilter

My first job was in 1965. It was selling popcorn and candy at our local movie theatre. I made $.75 cents an hour then I got promoted to ticket taker and got a raise to $1.00 an hour. LOL!Oh those were the days!

martha jo

My first regular job was half a day my senior year in high school. I worked as a secretary at the Methodist Church. 75 cents an hour = good pay for high school jobs in those days. Typed the bulletins on mimeograph stencils and ran them off. Oh, the typewriter was an Underwood manual. I didn't like being in the large buildings alone most of the time though (the buildings creaked). Changed to Firestone. Tv had just come in and lots were buying a tv at Firestone on credit so I worked in the credit department. I can't imagine Firestone selling Tv's but in those days they had appliances and tv's as well as tires. Tvs and appliances were much more expensive in those days compared to salaries.

cmagee84

McDonald's! yuck...haven't eaten there since!

roseOfsharon

My first summer job was sitting for FOUR mind you kids.I was going into Junior High that Fall. I made a whopping $20.00 a week and saved it for when school started and bought some clothes for school! That was very exciting for me.... if only the baby sitting had been as exciting! Yikes! They were a handful! :)

Chasing Hawk

A waitress at a Mexican restaurant. Just me and the boss worked there.

C.Cal Quilt Girl

Weighing Trucks out on a Dairy.... Flies, Darier air :)

cherylynne

I was a telephone operator, too. I was hired as a temp, but I worked for almost 4 years while I went to college. I made $78.00 a week and I was able to pay for my whole college tuition and books when I worked full time each summer.
The more calls you could get up, the faster the hours passed. We collected the money for the first three minutes, timed the call and collected the overtime. The coins were identified by the sound they made as the dropped into the telephone. We would make connections for emergency calls, announce person to person calls and ask for acceptance of collect calls. I don't think that the young adults of today even know there was such a thing as these different kinds of calls. That's OK, because I would never of dreamed of using texting, call waiting or apps.

kjdavis4

My first job was at an automotive wholesalers office, going through invoices to update inventories. It's been too long for me to remember how much I made. But it was my first real money.

Lisa_wanna_b_quilter

The first thing I did for serious money was to raise pigs. I picked up corn in the turns of all the fields near our house for part of their feed and hauled water to them in 5 gallon buckets.

My first real job was a bookkeeper in a grain elevator. Bookkeeper, scale master, truck prober, grain grade, etc.

DA Mayer

My first job was walking beans. We would walk in beanfields and either hoe or pull weeds. The best and worst job in the world. I also babysat- my very first time the couple stayed out until 4am. This was way before TV stayed on all night, and they didn't have books to read, I kept walking all over the house, checking on the kids, picking up, and doing a little cleaning because I didn't want to fall asleep. Funny how interesting a phone book can be....