What was your first job, how old were u?

[Anonymous]

Unofficial: babysitting at 11
Official: KFC at 16, around $5/hr

[Anonymous]

Babysitting at 13 for my orthodontists kids. They paid me $8.00/hr.
Cashier at a local toy store at 16. Made $8.25/hr there.

[Anonymous]

I started very young doing odd jobs at my grandfather's plastic factory. I was 10 and would assemble boxes, pack items, things like that. I didn't work the whole day. I would just come to work with my mom and do these things when I got bored hanging out in my grandmom's office. I think I was paid by how much I did. When I was 15 or 16, I would work the whole day, paid by the hour. And when we were 18, we were permitted to operate machines. I often worked here during college breaks. This was paid under the table, can't remember how much.

It was not glamorous, and often physically demanding. The machines used heaters to melt and mold the plastic, and air conditioning would have made them ineffective. I would come home hot and tired, but I loved it. I enjoyed trying to increase my productivity and figuring out more efficient ways of doing things.

My first job on the books was at Toys R Us the summer after I graduated high school.

[Anonymous]

Whole foods, @19 and Quit in 2 months and started doing software development work. It taught me that I never want to do that kind of job.

[Anonymous]

babysitting and ironing when I was 10

[Anonymous]

13-babysitting $1/hr
14-cashier at Dairy Queen making min. wage in the early 90's

[Anonymous]

Clerk at people's drugstore (which later became CVS). I was 15

[Anonymous]

16 at Express (the clothing store).

[Anonymous]

Washington Post paper route at 12, can't remember the pay. Loved it.

Lifeguard at 15 for minimum wage at first. Slightly higher pay when I was head guard and then pool manager in late high school and early college.

[Anonymous]

Guy here--

My first real job was in a dentist's office at 14. It was great. I worked 3.5-4 hours per day after school. It was $5/hr. Enabled me to have spending money and buy hockey equipment. Did that for two years until I started playing varsity hockey and practiced five days per week after school.

[Anonymous]

^^^ I sorted files, answered phones, did stationary shit and cleaned toilets/emptied trash, and the like.

[Anonymous]

10/12 Babysitting neighborhood kids ($5 an hour)
13/15 catering gigs on and off with my grandpas friends company (7.50 an hour plus split tips from
Cash bar)
14-16 stage managing for a 'professional' theatre company ($300 every other week)
16-18 mcdonalds (minimum wage)
18 care homes ($12)

I am a millenniul, which you can probably tell by how much I made at my jobs

[Anonymous]

Real hourly job: 16, flipping burgers and frying chicken, 2.55/hr.
Prior jobs: babysitting (13, $3/hr.); paper route (14, about $20/week); temp. job stuffing envelopes (14, $2.35/hr.); DJ at roller disco (14, for free admission and the occasional $10 cash)

[Anonymous]

Babysitting doesnot count.

W2 dunkin donuts at 14...the day I could get mmyworkers permit.

[Anonymous]

8 - feeding calves after school on my family's 500 cow dairy farm.