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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-16-05 11:30 PM
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What was you first job as an adult.
My uncle got me a job working on the railroad. I was on a crew that maintained the tracks. It was backbreaking work,my hands were baby soft when I started. In no time my hands were like sandpaper and I was as strong as a bull.
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Radical Activist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-16-05 11:35 PM
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1. When I was an adult is debatable.
A few would say I still am not one.
But my first job out of college was working a political campaign for a county office. It only lasted four months and he lost, but it was a great time.
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RandomKoolzip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-16-05 11:36 PM
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2. Janitor.
4.50 an hour, in some shitty supermarket in New Orleans.
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mike_c Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-16-05 11:38 PM
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3. how do you define adult...?
I started work for a lumber yard at 15. Let's see, when I was 18 I worked for a factory, spray painting small appliance bodies on the night shift. Remember "avocado green?" Yep-- that was me.
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koopie57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-16-05 11:46 PM
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10. this reminded me
that my son started working at 14. He was and still is an assistant karate instructor. We started him at a karate school that was just starting to build a clientele. I choose this school cuz it had a strong female leader/role model. Well, he was one of the first to receive his black belt and he is a really nice kid, and so when she started needed help, she asked him.

What is the wierdest is to be with him at a karate function and be referred to as Mr. Xndfd'x mom. Or to hear people older than I refer to my som as Mr. Xndfd.
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koopie57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-16-05 11:39 PM
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4. oh the good old days of the chain gang ...
my husband did that too, only his daddy got him the job. Humm, maybe that is why today he won't talk to his dad????

My first job as an adult was working for AAA travel where I got paid 2.35 to tell people where to go.
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Book Lover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-16-05 11:40 PM
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5. As an adult,
I was a reaserch assistant for a professor I studies under. But my first paying job was when I was 13; I worked as a maid in the hotel where my father was a chef.
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MissB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-16-05 11:40 PM
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6. I was a cashier at Safeway
I started when I was 16. Worked there until I was 18, then moved to another state to go to college.
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Floogeldy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-16-05 11:43 PM
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7. Unloading Semis for Lee Way Motor Freight
It was backbreaking but paid union wages. I was in college at the time.

Crazy thing was, I got ripped on the way to my shift and busted my ass for eight hours.

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alittlelark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-16-05 11:44 PM
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8. Voice talent
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TheMightyFavog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-16-05 11:46 PM
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9. Grocery Clerk.
Bagged, carried out groceries, stocked shelves, mopped up when there was an accident. Real fun. :sarcasm:
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Rowdyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-16-05 11:49 PM
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11. First job out of college-degree in history from an excellent school.....
Minimum wage accounting clerk for a company that made electric blankets. It was a subsidiary of Sunbeam.

Later I became the assistant to the secretary to the chairman of the board. It also paid minimuum...
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Lone_Star_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-16-05 11:49 PM
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12. My great grandfather used to do that for a living
Of course that was way back in the day.

My first job when I was 18 was as a phone/counter girl at "Chow Now" Chinese food delivery place. I'll never forget that job. Our neighbor next door was a massage parlor and the girl's used to come over and pick up food dressed in their work clothes (negligees). It would stir the poor college guys up so bad that worked there it took an hour to get them back on track. :P
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