Wonnie

Working at Walkers Fruit Juice stand in the Arcade at 16 with a Work Permit. Sounds really healthy, doesn't it, but we also sold hot dogs and milk shakes.

ptquilts

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.

lynnie

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!

JustAbitCrazy

My first job was as a dental assistant, the summer after graduation from high school, $1/hr. 1969.

Sandygirl

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!

Sandy.

Geri B

That reminds me...my first job (part time)was after high school..working in a local hospital switchboard-same set up..board with cords..fun and challenging......

Chasing Hawk

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.

Endora

Goodness, 16, and with a baby. I admire you. I was babysitting at age 16, but having a little one to care for around the clock, 24/7, wow, I don't think I could have done it at that age. So proud of you, Chasing Hawk.

osewme

Not counting baby sitting as my first job, I too worked on a switchboard in the school Superintendent's office. We had those same cords, peg holes & lights on ours also. The school switchboard was in the office along with the assistant Superintendent, their secretary & the school tax office. A couple of years of that job & the tax collector's secretary moved & I got to take over that job. I loved working there.

maryb119

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.