What was your first job?

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by OzzyKP


Newspapers definitely counts. Mowing lawns could count if you did it consistently. I delivered newspapers 7 days a week for 6 years, rain or shine. And had to go collect money from everyone too. That definitely counts.

I did newspapers once a week, I think?

I did the lawn like every two weeks or week?

It was nothing like working in a cannery. Although to be honest, not much is.

JM

[Blake]

Starting from about 8 years old I had to work for no pay after school every day on the farm (okay, about an hour or more a day, rain or shine, most days). Now maybe if my parents had bothered to pay me (at least peanuts!) then maybe I wouldn't have grown up shunning material wealth, hahah.
I'm trying to remember whether I had to run the farm truck into a post once or twice before my Dad figured out that little boys shouldn't be made to drive vehicles.
Those were interesting times!

I suppose my first paid job, was picking fruit over the summer holidays. I might have been about 14-15. Couldn't get away from the farm without a car, so my older sister and I worked at the same orchard once she had her driver's license.

[Wezil]

I took the definition of "job" as something I got paid by others (probably not family/friends/neighbours) to do. I had an "allowance" from an early age that required the performance of household chores (shovel snow, cut grass, etc) but I don't consider this a job.

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison


I thought it was Poundstretcher on Orpington High Street

That was in 1996-1997 as a Saturday job. I worked at the IPE in 1995 for the summer.

[Cort Haus]

Warehouseman.

[Kuciwalker]

Kid job: babysitting
Adult: research intern (16)

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Lancer
First real job was keeping the Soviets out of western europe.

Final score:
Soviets: 0
Lancer: 1

Good job

[phoenixcager]

Originally posted by Ecthy
The first job I got was a head job.

explains a lot ....

[b etor]

kid job - mowed lawns for the elderly of my neighborhood. 10-14.
normal job - worked at a clothes store. 16. oh and babysitting of course.

[Tuberski]

My first job was cleaning operating rooms in a hospital.

ACK!

[Harovan]

I worked a lot in my holidays when I was a schoolboy. Filled flasks with stinking dental compound and other stuff at the factory where my grandpa worked. Operated quick-fire targets for my father (he's shooting trainer). Fired clay pigeons for the same reason. Moved ill people in their beds to the operating rooms and back through the basement labyrinth of a big hospital. Worked in an army depot, loading, unloading and stacking boots and uniforms.

My first real job as a professional surveyor lasted less than a week. After this I joined the army and stayed there for 14 years.