First job you had...

[TheatreDiva612]

Posted: 6/4/06 at 11:31pm

I just applied to work at a video store. I love movies and the people there are really nice and fun. So hopefully that will work out. I've never had a job before. What were all of your first jobs?


EDIT: I mean, I sing at weddings/funerals, etc... I mean an hourly job where you have to go in every day. Updated On: 6/4/06 at 11:31 PM

[cturtle]

Posted: 6/4/06 at 11:35pm

mail/supply clerk for an insurance company. home video did not exist.

[Over_the_Moon]

Posted: 6/4/06 at 11:36pm

Newspaper reporter

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 6/4/06 at 11:37pm

I was 12 and I washed dishes in a diner.

[wonderwaiter]

Posted: 6/4/06 at 11:42pm

I worked on the Scream Machine at Six Flags Over Georgia. To this day, it was my favorite job.

[Madhatter]

Posted: 6/4/06 at 11:45pm

Next week I start working at an ice cream place.

[liotte]

Posted: 6/4/06 at 11:47pm

I worked at my temple as a Teacher's Aide and Office Assistant when I was in 8th grade.

In 10th, I also added working at a drug store.

[shermanslave]

Posted: 6/5/06 at 12:01am

I was dishwasher at Sirloin Stockade in Victoria, texas in 1984! I did it for about three or four weeks. Really gross. I recall that one time someone ordered a chicken fried steak with no grvay but it went out with gravy by accident. they brought it to me to rinse the gravy off and then they dropped it back into the grease to fry it again and sent it back. swear to god.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 6/5/06 at 12:02am

It was 9th grade. I worked at Nautica. Then DKNY. Then Barney's New York. That was the end of my retail career. Misery.

[TheatreDiva612]

Posted: 6/5/06 at 12:06am

that is just gross sherman!

[shermanslave]

Posted: 6/5/06 at 12:14am

Really gross. But I was only 17 so I was like' "uh,okay. Yes sir."

[LilDiva05]

Posted: 6/5/06 at 12:40am

I fed alligators at the Long Island Game Farm during the alligator shows. Also did some work at the same place with Animal Planet when they had a summer run with their dog stunt show. I was 14.

[Magical_Ms._Mistoffeles_72]

Posted: 6/5/06 at 1:01am

I babysat, and read to little kids

[YessicaB]

Posted: 6/5/06 at 3:33am

Same here. I babysat and distributed newspapers (which sucked, as I had to haul 5000lbs of newspaper up this hilly neighborhood and unlike in the States I had to actually bring it to the door of every damn house...)

[Kitzarina]

Posted: 6/5/06 at 4:20am

I was a lifeguard at a low-income public pool. It was essentially hell on Earth for $5.50 an hour.

But we did get to spray paint our lockers in the guard room; mine was navy with baby blue stars and Tinkerbell stickers.

[BroadwayChica]

Posted: 6/5/06 at 4:40am

I worked at a book shop. It was nerd heaven!

[FeelingElectric]

Posted: 6/5/06 at 5:28am

For six months,I was a clerk at this little video game store in a shopping center (Video Game Exchange, it dosen't even exist anymore, run out of buisness by the EbGames and Gamespots of the world). I felt like Randall from the movie Clerks the whole time, and dealt with people almost as stupid.

[colleen_lee]

Posted: 6/5/06 at 7:14am

I was 14 and I taught piano in the community education group piano program. In the summer I worked as a receptionist full-time.

[smiles]

Posted: 6/5/06 at 7:42am

does babysitting count?? If it doesn't when I was 16 I was a lifeguard......now I'm 19 and still a lifeguard......

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/5/06 at 10:02am

I fluffed the early Joe Gage films.

[best12bars]

Posted: 6/5/06 at 10:07am

My first job was in a discount store in the "Health and Beauty Aids" department.

It's not as GAY as it sounds. Or a glamorous.

I was mostly stocking toilet paper and maxi-pads.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 6/5/06 at 10:10am

7-11.

and, Namo, that didnt turn into a career?

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 6/5/06 at 10:13am

Blowing up baloons on the boardwalk for people to throw darts at and win a prize...when I got really good at it I was hired as Namo's replacement as fluffer.

[Patronus]

Posted: 6/5/06 at 10:21am

When I was 12, I worked in the local mini-mart type store that was on my street in my small town (Mableton, GA) mopping the floors everynight.

I made $5 a night which is pretty decent coin if you're 12.

From 14-18 I worked at one of those quick oil change places in the summer. HOT work in the humid south.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/5/06 at 10:24am

No, it didn't become a career, doodle, because there was this young Eve Harrington type, went by the name of "Boardwalk Boobs" back then, who climbed right over me on the way to the tops.