Angelmerritt

Yup, there still around in Washington State.

mrsk

Hard to answer on the "real" first job, isn't it.
Well if we aren't counting walking beans(only done in when the beans are still small but weeds are big-pre weed killer days!) for my dad, babysitting, mowing lawns, picking apples at the local orchard, etc... I guess my first job (that Uncle Sam was involved) was working for So-Fro Fabrics. I think I got $2.35/hr & my girlfriend got a "raise" for getting me to work there because it made me low man on the totem pole, earning "student" wages. I think her raise was to $2.50/hr. And I must say I learned more at that job, about quirky people than any 16 year old should ever want to know! Once a fabriholic always a fabriholic! LOL!

Lisanne

Oh, yes, they're still around. I've seen them in mall food courts from New Jersey to California. Sometimes the stand is combined with another franchise, such as hot dogs or fish.

rfmikelson

My first real job was when I was in high school in Great Neck, New York at an exclusive market, where I compiled the bills for the meat market. My work station was the top of a freezer and the butchers referred to me as parts of a cow...sexual harassement was not heard of in the 50's...when they wanted to have fun they decided thay needed something out of the freezer...It was a game...but I was making money and sent the meat bills to folks who sent thair maids and chauffers in to pick up their orders...Sid Ceasar and othe wealthy folks! Later on when I was in college...I realized these butchers were into sexual harassement...little did I know...the 50's were the dark ages!

jackied

I was 16 and just been 'loaned' a horse from my brother-in-law. I got a job as a carhop so I could feed her and pay pasture rent. We lived in town with a wooded area behind the house where 4 of us girls kept our horses. I had other friends with horses and loved riding all day sat/sun.

dreamboat

At a grocery store sacking groceries and stocking shelves.
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HisPatchwork

I detasseled corn for two seasons...for the first few nights, i would close my eyes and see cornstalks going by! Several years later, when my brother detassled, he was falling asleep on the couch. When they told him to go to bed, he got up [in his sleep] walked over to mom's big spider plant, and yanked the center right out of it! LOL

HisPatchwork

I just had an orange julias Saturday at the Cherry Blossom Festival in Macon, GA...There was one at the new shopping area built in the last couple of years.

burnsk

My first job, right out of high school - I was hired as a receptionist/secretary and eventually worked my way up to being a stripper. I was the only girl in the place. I was working for a Lithographer. There wasn't a lot to do in the office once all the office work was done - letters, accounting books, bills sent, deposit made, etc. The phone rang out in the shop so I would go out in the back and chat with the guys as they worked and if the phone rang I could answer it out there. If someone came into the office a buzzer would sound. One of the jobs I got interested in was stripping negatives. Negatives were done in 'reverse'. The print and graphics were white and the background was an opaque dark muddy brown. We would put the negatives on a huge light box and strip out the little white spots that didn't belong on a page with a dark brown paint-like substance using a very fine tiny brush. From there they would make what they called a 'silver print' that would run through the presses to print flyers, papers, etc. We did a couple of local papers. So when prints were made the little odd spots didn't show on the paper. That was my job as a stripper. LOL Back then I was 38-20-36 so telling people I was a stripper raised a lot of eye brows.

My DD told my GS and GD one time that I used to be a stripper but never explained what the job really was. Every once in a while my dear GD will ask me if I still have the moves. Some day I'll have to explain to them what the job really was about. :lol: :lol:

ljorange

When my mom was a receptionist in our office she had to take some information from people who came in, one question was "What occupations have you had?". One woman listed that of Call Girl. Having come from a railroad town my mom knew what she meant, she was the person who called the engineers and crew for outgoing trains. Unfortunate name for an occupation!