what was your first job??

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Cathlete
Just curious here. My first job was as a theatre usher for Hunt's Theatres in Wildwood, NJ in the summer of 1980. I remember with the utmost pride donning the black pants, white shirt, and, most importantly...the smokin' black clip on tie, baby....:p But the main event was the bright red usher coat I would style in on a nightly basis!!!

Of course, no usher uniform would be complete without the all important flashlight, used on more than one occasion to calm the masses or stop the necking!

It was the summer of 1980, and I still remember the movies I worked that summer, a veritable who's who of oscar nominees...

Xanadu w/Gene Kelly and Olivia Newtown John

Coal Miners' Daughter with Sissy Spack as the one-and-only Loretta Lynn

Blues Brothers with Belushi and Akroyd


The very best part, in addition to getting to see these cinema giants, was I got paid for the privlege!! A cool $2.00/hour, babee!!

A forty hour work week meant a sweet $67.00 simoleans to me...not even enough for Cathe's new workouts...:eek:

Those were the days...:p

Jerry:7
 
Sounds like a cool job Jerry.

Now be prepared to laugh! My first job at 16 in 1975 was at Hot Dog On A Stick...if you want to see the great (ha,ha) outfits here is a link http://www.hotdogonastick.com/frames.html

I actually worked there about 4 years with many of my High School friends. I learned how to make some killer lemonade. I also got to see some actors when I worked in the one at Santa Monica beach.

And the partying that went on....wow....:+ :7 }( :)
 
>OMG!!! My eyes!!! Now THAT was a uniform! Thanks for sharing,
>I think...;)
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>Jerry

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i was a vets assistant. i did this for about 2 years but i cried everyday b/c of the way some clients treated their pets and when we had to put old pets down. this is the main reason i decided not to become a vet
 
My first job was at 14 in 1989 I worked at an ice cream shop. I LOVED it! I worked with a bunch of my friends and the owner paid us under the table so we had no taxes, etc. taken out. When I got my second job at 16 I worked for a big company and boy, what a shocker it was when I got my first *real* check!;-)
 
That was THE coolest job, Carole!!! Love the outfit!

My first job was cleaning stables, grooming horses and ride them for the owners who only bought their horses as a status symbol.

I was 12, the money was lousy, but I got to do what I LOVED to do and would have had to pay for otherwise (well, not cleaning the stables but the riding).
 
My first Job was hardly as glamorous as the ones listed above. No uniforms required....I worked in a "Fish House" and headed shrimp, culled fish and opened scallops. Went to work whenever the boats came in and most of the time it was 2am!! I think that is why I am a night owl to this day. This was my job all through high school.
 
Walking beans. Farmers would hire ages 12 and up to work. When I turned 14 I worked as a corn pollinator and did that every summer until age 18. My DD did that this year for her first job, and things have not changed a bit. She did it the exact same way I did 32 years ago.
 
When in need of money in college, I started 3 jobs about the same time--don't remember which was first but I did them all for a while.

I was a tour guide for my college campus--funny because I'm a sort of shy person--but I can come out and act outgoing if necessary. Also, I started working in the instructional materials section of the library--where a lot of the education students found texts but we also had the fun kids' books and all the videos. That was a great job because I had plenty of time to get my studying done or to read children's books. Then about the same time I took a job as a waitress at a barbecue joint--another tough thing for a shy person. I remember they had to teach me how to yell properly when I came back to the kitchen to shout the orders. I pretty much hated that job but it made for much more interesting stories than the other jobs.

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Well, I remember I needed working papers since I was under 16. I was a cashier at the local grocery store back around 1984 or so. Right before they came out with UPC scanners so I did it the old fashioned way for a while.

We had elegant rainbow striped smocks.

That job started a many year near-OC thing with handwashing due to the nasty leaky meat packages and ugh, paper money. I never knew how filthy money was.

I did that for a few years until I was "promoted" to the Courtesy Booth.
 
It was in England. I was 15 and I was a "Saturday girl" in a bakery. The best part about it was that when we closed up on Saturday afternoon, the staff got to take home all the fresh cream cakes, because they wouldn't keep until the shop opened again on Monday. I can't even remember how much I got paid.
 
Besides babysitting, my first job was a fruit cutter in a dry yard.(dried apricots) We got paid by the box. It was hot and sticky work. The good news is I met my husband there the second summer I work there so it was all worth it.

Jean
 
>Walking beans. Farmers would hire ages 12 and up to work.
>When I turned 14 I worked as a corn pollinator and did that
>every summer until age 18. My DD did that this year for her
>first job, and things have not changed a bit. She did it the
>exact same way I did 32 years ago.


I walked beans as a young teenager, too!!! Between that and mowing lawns...
 
besides the summer camp helper jobs of the earlier years...

secretary. worked part time all the way through college. wow. that was 1980. just thinking about the hair and the clothes.

suri
 
I worked for a family friend in her Ice Cream Shop. I made $2.00/hr +miniscule tips. The shop was never cooler than 90 degrees, usually hotter due to all the machines running and no AC. We had to take apart the ENTIRE store and wash it down with bleach solution. It was hard work! We were only supposed to eat the soft serve ice cream for free. Lets just say I ate everything and anything I could get my hands on, and didn't pay a dime. For $2.00/hr, how could I afford to?

;-)

Sally
 
My first job was babysitting when I was 12 but my first "real" steady job was McDonald's when I was 16. I had a lot of fun working there because it was mostly all young people in high school like me.
 
I was raised in rural Virginia, at a time when tobacco was the cash-crop. At a very young age, my cousins and I helped my grandfather with his crop, and as I got older I was actually paid ($2.00 an hour!!!) to work with a farmer in my community. The bad part was that your day started around 5:00 am, but (the good part!) it had to end by noon, because "pulling" season was in late July and August...way too hot to be out doing that work. It was hot, nasty, sticky (tobacco has a waxy coating on its leaves...you had to scrub your hands with Lava soap to get it off) work, but I'm glad I did it.

As much as I am anti-smoking now, I do appreciate the hard work that went into my very first job. And, believe me, no one that I knew or was related to, ever got rich off of raising tobacco as a living.
 
I started babysitting when I was 12 for $1.00/hour but got my first real job at 16 working at Fannie May Candies. I can't remember the pay but it was in the late 70's so I'm sure it was $2.35/hour or somewhere in that range. The best part was eating all the chocolate I wanted!!! They encouraged you to try all the candy.
 
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