Your first job?

[superpug1]

I mowed the lawn of the local flight academy as well as being their janitor in office AND hanger, repacking bearings with grease for the landing gear, washing the planes, and even started stripping the paint from this one plane before I was let go.

I earning 5.50 an hour and that was in 2006. I would get 100 for washing a plane though. Got laid off when they decided to contract a company to do the cleaning.

[BlauK]

First real summer job at age of 15 as a shovelman for 2 months at road works.
Two previous summers as a part time paperboy won't likely count

[SPKmes]

Driving about the north Island (New Zealand) delivering womans clothing to retail shops, surfboard in the back. Dream job. Ladies and surf.

[midnight Target]

I was a counselor at a basketball / soccer sports camp near Lake Arrowhead California. All of the kids were from Beverly Hills or Brentwood. Almost all of them were spoiled brats. I worked for 4 weeks, had 2 days off, and 2 nights off (not the same day and night mind you). Made a whopping $185.00 after the guy who ran the place deducted room and board... It was a learning experience.

[Gixer]

Army.. Signed up at 18


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[Mr No Name]

My first job - prep cook / dishwasher at the Dixie Lee restaurant... 90 cents an hour... I was 14.

[vorticon]

Cribbing labourer for 10 bucks a hour.

[mg1942]

Sell high-end bling (jewelry) with my Iranian boss in downtown L.A. (17).

I had mixed feelings about attending Jewelry conventions because that's when I had to work 15+ hours for 5 days.... and get paid $200 a day (pain comes, relief and pleasure later)

[eskimo2]

I got my first job when I was in kindergarten.  I sold programs at the local minor league baseball park (Anchorage Glacier Pilots).  They always gave me the worst gate because I was a little punk, but I made sure that everyone who walked through the gate knew that I was selling programs.  “PROGRAMS!  GET YOUR PROGRAMS!”  Looking back, I’m most amazed that I made change at such an early age.

Later on I mowed lawns. 

Even later I worked at the Anchorage Hilton barbershop shining shoes.  My rent was that I had to sweep up the barbershop.  I was the worst shoe shine boy ever.  No one ever taught me how to shine shoes and I really sucked at it.  I didn’t know it and made money anyway.

In junior high I was a janitor and vacuumed, mopped, shampooed carpets, cleaned bathrooms, etc.  It was also at night (in the summers).  I hated it, but I made money.

Between 11th at 12 grades I started a business selling fireworks in Anchor Point Alaska.  My brother and his wife started doing the same elsewhere the next year.  We became partners after that.  By the time I left Alaska, we were spending over $100,000 a year on advertising.  I made a good living and it put me and most of my friends who worked for us through college, but I never really got rich. 

eskimo

[titanic3]

 Wow.. i feel bad fr you.. cleaning bathrooms in junior high? That's like telling a 3 year-old to clean his own vomit.... Eww.

[BOXGIRL]

worked for my dad's construction company during the summers starting at age 12 being the gopher you know (go for this go for that)..he paid me 5 bucks and hour....at 15 started at McDonalds..

[Trell]

Bagger at a local IGA, good first job.  had an owner that threatened to fire me about once a week.  Some how i still ended up leaving on my own.

[Slamfire]

Literally a watermelon shoveler.  First job was to spread fertilizer over a huge field by shovel/wheel barrel.  Took me entire summer to finish.  $5 a day - was 12 yrs old.  Got very muscular that summer 

[mtnman]

Believe it or not, my first job was as a shoeshine boy at a ritzy country club in northern Illinois.  $3.35/hour...

I also worked later in a pet store, and at a Boy Scout camp for seven summers (was only going to be for 3, but then I met a hot chick (my future wife) who was living locally and babysitting for the Camp Director's kids...).  I worked there as an archery/shooting sports director, lived in a tipi for a season there as the Living History Director,  and spent four years directing the high-ropes "adventure" course 30-40 feet up in the trees...

MtnMan

[nirvana]

Automotive lube and basic maintenance technician.