What was your first job?

[Chase]

Getting this new section filled up. What was your first job?

My REAL first job was actually bailing and hauling hay at a farm on Rt. 7 in Bear. My first job for a actual company was cart pusher for Super G in Eden Square.

[TattdMom]

My first job was when I was 14; my mom managed the Cut n Curl in the Chestnut Hill shopping center. I was the shampoo girl on Saturdays and after school.

[frogman68]

Dishwasher at IHOP

[jpsickle]

Dishwasher at IHOP

They had IHOPs back then? Wow!!!

[jpsickle]

my first job was answering phones at a small company when I was 16. I had to put together binders and folders for different jobs as well

[Mark]

there was a corner pizza shop in my neighborhood that I used to hang out in. I used to watch the guy make pizza and cheesesteaks and started at 13 or 14 under the table making pizza and cheesesteaks.

At 15 I worked at Pathmark as a cashier and quickly moved up to CSM and then night store manager and closing manager before moving to my current position.

[Summerrain]

First job (punishment detail) was helping my neighbor butcher rabbits and chickens.... My first (paid) job was on a tobacco farm in North Carolina - sunup to sundown, picking tobacco.

[Naomi]

hung around the Photography Studio at 12 then they hired me under the table. First legal job was at Claymont Hardware at 15

[Kid Lester]

Sheesh. I had so many damn jobs by the time I was 17, can't really remember which came first. Started working at about 14. I was a dishwasher at a restaurant on school nights. I'd have the bus drop me off in town. I'd get in there around 3:45, and every dish from breakfast and lunch would be piled up and waiting for me. It'd take me till about 7 to get caught up, and then I'd just have to keep up with the dinner dishes. Had one of these puppies. Almost exactly the same, racks and everything:



There was a lot of stuff that'd have to been hand washed, though. Including all the huge stock pots and pans. To this day, I bust out a mean dish. Dishes don't bother me. Pretty sure I made $3.25 an hour for that job. Looking back now, I still remember it sucking just as much as it did then.

[Chase]

I think I made $7 an hour at super g pushing carts. Then they built the (then) Texaco across from buckley and DQ on Rt. 40 and the owner was at super g, he asked me if i wanted a job and i went to work there. pretty sure i was the first employee ever at that gas station. i worked there a few years.

[Hollow]

Another cart pusher here. Super Fresh on 896.

[Jessica]

oops.

[Jessica]

I babysat during the summers and on weekends from age 11 or 12 on, but my first taxed job was telemarketing one summer for MBNA. I was 15 years old, working 5pm-11pm, trying to get people with piss poor credit to take me up on a 21.9% loan. Awful. I made enough to go on my class trip to Europe, which was my one and only goal, and then I quit. If I remember correctly, I left for lunch and never came back. I called my Dad to pick me up from the McDonalds down the road.

He wasn't too happy.

Then came a brief stint at Macy's in the Men's Department. I forget why I left, I think I was just bored out of my skull.

From there I move on to waitressing at Friendlys. Weekends there were good money for a 16 or 17 year old kid and I stayed there half way through college.

The most fun I ever had at work, and that I probably ever will have at work, was when I worked at a coffee shop during my last two years of college. If it paid my mortgage I'd go back there in a heartbeat.

[motherof3]

I baby sat a lot from the time I was 11 or 12. But my first real job was at 15, I was a waitress at Cokesbury Village. I think the starting pay was $1.79. That was a fun job. It was pretty much all kids in high school working every night and weekends. We had a blast and used to all get together after work too. A bunch of people are getting together this Friday for a reunion before AI and McKain (sp?) 20 yr reunions.

[daisy dog]

My first job was as a delivery boy. I liked it because I was outside all day. I went to college and eventually I became an engineer. The rest of my career was designing weapons of mass destruction. I found it boring but it paid the bills.
Have you heard of the Aegis system on the destroyers? That is one job I worked on. Thankfully I am now retired.

[Naomi]

My first job was as a delivery boy. I liked it because I was outside all day. I went to college and eventually I became an engineer. The rest of my career was designing weapons of mass destruction. I found it boring but it paid the bills.
Have you heard of the Aegis system on the destroyers? That is one job I worked on. Thankfully I am now retired.

WMD's sounds interesting to me

[daisy dog]

WMD's sounds interesting to me

Nah-when you designed WMD's for many years it becomes boring.

[Sugr]

I also baby sat. That's how I paid for my class ring. Next was a cashier and parts clerk at Trak Auto until I went into the Navy.

[max1]

Chat & Chew (eww) restaurant at university plaza, dish washer. Ugh I hated that job.

[ScentsyLorien]

My first job was at KFC...I was 15ish. I still can't smell the stuff without getting queasy. I left that job to be a cart pusher at a food4less. It was union and I was ridiculously overpaid. I made it all the way up to cashier once I turned 18 and was allowed to sell booze and cigarettes where I became even more overpaid.

I left that job to move to Vegas. Big, big, mistake.