What was your first job, how old were u?
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Anonymous
| Age 15.5 (to the day) I got a job at a local grocery store. I was "promoted" from cashier to floral department and later to customer service. I made min wage to start but by the time I left (age 19) I was up to 8.50 an hour which was amazing money to me. I was in the grocers union and got a week of paid vacation too!!! This was late 90s. |
Anonymous
| 13 or 14. Little Caesar's. I want to say $3.50/hr. This would've been around 1989. |
Anonymous
| Cleaning bathrooms in an office building. Age 11. $15 for two hours work, every other week. |
Anonymous
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11 - started babysitting and eventually nannying
16 - got a job working at JC Penney's for $3.35/hour, or whatever the minimum wage was. Worked retail for the next 7 years during college and right afterward. I also had jobs in restaurants, at my dad's bank and a paralegal placement firm, and some random temp jobs. (I sucked at stuffing envelopes, but taking inventory at walmart was kind of enjoyable.) 22 - got my first "real job" out of college. |
Anonymous
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Not counting babysitting for neighbors/family friends...
When I was a senior in high school (17 years old) I got a job at a small children's clothing boutique. It carried a lot of the upscale brands and also a lot of pageant dresses, flower girl dresses/mini tuxes for boys, first communion dresses, etc. I only worked there about 5 months--too much drama between the owner and employees (not really me--more just the older/long term employees.) At that time, minimum wage was $4.25/hr--they started me off at $5/hr and raised me to $5.50 within my first two months. |
Anonymous
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Mother's helper, age 12 (occasional weekends and after school--nothing formal. She just called if she needed me to ask if I was free).
Babysitting from age 13-17. Made $$$$$$$ for college. Since I was square and responsible, I was often allowed to bring a friend along after kids were asleep to watch a movie. Or else I did my homework. I got good grades doing night-time babysitting!  Also, people threw in nice tips if they came home to a clean kitchen and saw the playroom nicely tidied up.
Just FYI. Bbsitting is a serious cash cow. I'm shocked I can't find teenagers in my (admittedly upper MC) neighborhood who do it. Hell, I grew up upper MC... well, anyway... It's a good livin' for a teenager. |
Anonymous
| Summer youth internship @ 13 Years, working at a youth center art house. |
Anonymous
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Unofficial - babysitting since I was 12/13. approx $4 hr (for 4 kids!)
Semi-official - @ 14, my dad's law officer $8 hr - filing, answering phones, etc. Official Haagen Dazs in the mall @ 16 - $4.15 hr. |
Anonymous
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12 - worked for a caterer setting tables, kitchen help, cleanup
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Anonymous
| 13 years old, CIT for 8 weeks at a summer camp making $50 for the summer. I worked there for the next six summers as a counselor. I also began babysitting around 13 making $5 an hour. |
Anonymous
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First job I got money for -- tons of babysitting in my early teens.
First job with a pay stub -- when I was 16, office page for a U.S. senator (I did exciting tasks like carry things around to other offices and work the AutoPen.) In college I worked in the dining hall washing dishes and serving food before I got a job shelving books in the library. First full-time job out of college -- receptionist at an environmental non-profit. I feel like everyone should spend some time waiting tables or answering phones or working retail, so you've done it and you know what it's like. I won't forget the time I was working behind the dessert display freshman year and saw a good friend come through the food line. He was 2-3 feet away from me on the other side of the (clear) sneeze guard, and I said his name two or three times. He heard his name and looked all around trying to figure out where it was coming from -- and never saw me. Likewise, I won't forget the (otherwise friendly) coworker who got me to change the fax paper (back when it came in those thermal rolls) because, he said, "I went to law school so I don't have to do things like that." I hope to raise my kids to feel, as I do, that if a job is worth doing, it's worth me doing it. |
Anonymous
| 14, which was as soon as I could get a work permit from my school. |
ChuckMurphy
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| age 13 paperboy for the Boston Globe |
Anonymous
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11 - mother's helper, babysitter, $2/hr plus tip
14 - gymnastics instructor and shop manager, $5.50/hr |
Anonymous
| Busboy. Normandy farms potomac . |