Your old teen years summer jobs

[Mikey]

Was reminiscing about some of my old teen summer jobs including ..

Unloaded, carried and laid sod for 2 years (was literally backbreaking)

Was an elementary school's janitor's helper when school was on summer vacation (was through a gov program)

Worked for a trucker hand cleaning 55 gallons drums (brutal)

Various yardwork at a commercial greenhouse (nice)

+ a few more shorter lasting ones …

How about you ?

[Nostalgiabuff]

I worked all through my teen years, not just summer. started with paper routes and then started in the food industry, ended up at Kmart for about 8 months and then Hess Gas Station for about 8 years through High School and College.

[Mikey]

^--- did Hess give you Christmas Truck discounts ?

[LonnieFisher]

I picked strawberries during the summer, but that was before I was a teenager.

[Marvelmania]

Lifeguard, taught little kids to swim
Mowing yards
Levi Straus, folding jeans in to containers

[PNGwynne]

Two paper routes, lawn care for elderly neighbors, then certified nursing assistant for several years.

[Wee67]

Funny, the mall stores post had me thinking about my teen jobs... and there were many, several at the same time-

-waited tables at Knight of Columbus Hall Bingo (when I was 13)
-dishwasher at Farrell's Ice Cream Parlor
-sales at the Gap, John Wanamaker's & Strawbridge & Clothier (Philly dept stores)
-painted lines for the Highway Dept
-cut grass at municipal parks for Middletown Twp near Philly.
-tended rides and then worked the cash offices at Sesame Place Amusement Park (even got to be Cookie Monster for a day)
-made copies for people at Kinko's (rough summer- 9-3 internship, 4-12 Kinko's, weekends at a Dept store and test subject once a week)
-test subject for product studies near University of Pennsylvania (never got super powers)

[rche]

worked from 13-15 throwing newspapers at an apartment complex, then from 15-18 at Eu-Can Bowl bowling alley doing just about every job imaginable from cleaning up to repairing the pinsetters. I have often considered writing short stories about the crazy characters I met working both of those jobs.

[ScottA]

Cut grass at Rhodes Furniture where my Mom worked. Once I turned 15 I worked at Durr Drug Co. unloading trucks and working in receiving. My Dad was Inventory Control Manager. I ended up working there off and on for almost 9 years.

[cjefferys]

14-15 Washing dishes in the kitchen of a British style pub. Cleaning up after a night of fish and chips orders was not fun. Nor was working in a hot kitchen in the middle of summer with no air conditioning.
15-20 Working as delivery boy, stock boy and kitchen cleaner a Tim Hortons (working at "Timmys" is a legal obligation of every Canadian teen )

[Treadwell]

I had a weekend job mowing and doing odd jobs for a dive shop for a year or two starting at age 15 when I got SCUBA certified.
Dad made me get a summer job at Winn-Dixie (grocery store chain in the southeast), that carried on after school started. I hated it, and hated most of my coworkers. I took a break in December, telling them my family was going on a trip (we weren't), and I never called back to be put back on the schedule. Did I mention I hated it?

A few months later (toward the end of my HS senior year) I started driving for Domino's. Did that on summers and other breaks all through college, and then full time for a while after that (but now we're out of the teen years).

[Nostalgiabuff]

^--- did Hess give you Christmas Truck discounts ?

no, and those trucks were a major headache to deal with

[Timothy2251]

Worked at Six Flags Great Adventure in Grounds/Janitorial. The stories I have from that time are amusing, heartbreaking and horrific.

[Mikey]

Worked at Six Flags Great Adventure in Grounds/Janitorial. The stories I have from that time are amusing, heartbreaking and horrific.

You sure you didn't work at Action Park ?

[palitoy]

In order:
Warehouse worker
Toy Store Clerk
Drywaller
Prep Chef
Pizza Chef
Interlocking Brick Layer
Variety Store Clerk
Comic Store Clerk
Contractor's Helper
Warehouse worker

I've been working since i was a pre-teen. Immigrant parent.