when and where was your first real job...?

[dysfunctional press]

for me it was mcdonald's in 1975, and i had to change my birth certificate to get it, because i was only 14 at the time.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

1. The one I have now.

I was 23 when I started . It will be 2 years on Wednesday.

[deadparrot]

2. Wendy's, during sophomore year of HS.

It's a job I'd prefer to forget. :hi:

[Kali]

3. 1976 Danny's Pepper Tree Restaurant - Anchorage Alaska (waitress)

prior to that, babysitting, ironing and typing bibliography cards for a researcher

[jus_the_facts]

4. 1985....Filter Queen Salesperson....

[mainegreen]

5. Waiter, summer of 95 at a fancy restaurant.

Nothing like waiting tables when you can sell a $100 bottle of wine on a $75 dinner. Fat tips.

19 years old at the time.

[XemaSab]

6. Murrelet surveys, 2002

:D

[Breeze54]

7. Any job or 'paying with a paper check' job?

I was being paid for babysitting and snow shoveling when I was 12.

My first job that actually cut me a check on paper was
working as a page at the local library at the age of 15.
I put books away! ;)

[MassLiberal]

8. sounds familiar!

I too was babysitting when I was 11 or 12, and my first "real" job was working in the children's room of the town library, checking out books and reshelving them. I think I was 15 or 16 then.

[Breeze54]

9. Hey?! And we're

both from MA! lol Go figure!

It's a small world! ;)

[dysfunctional press]

11. "paper check job" is what i was going for...

not the baby-sitting, snow-shoveling, odd-jobs for the neighbor type of stuff...

[Breeze54]

14. I made a lot of $$ babysitting!

And I worked a lot of hours! Just saying!
Under the table was a good thing! :)

[dysfunctional press]

15. i made a lot of money before i started "working" too...

shoveling snow, mowing lawns, raking leaves, stuff like that.

you don't see too many boys being considered for babysitting duty.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

10. Hollywood Theatres, 1998.

:puke:

[ikojo]

12. My first job was delivering newspapers at

age 13. I did that for about a year and a half. Trust me it was a JOB. I did it all on my own, the folding and the delivering. My mom didn't get up to help with the folding nor did she drive me around on the route. I walked the route every morning. HATED Wednesdays and Sundays because they had ads which made the papers heavier.

[Rhythm]

13. I had a 7-day a week paper route -- 50+ customers

I got that job when i was 12, and kept it until i was 16, at which point i started working at Wendy's. I worked 40+ hrs a week all through high school.