What was your first job ???

[Mikey]

Back in the day I enrolled in a special program for kids with dead parents... I forgot the name of the program

I wound up getting a summer job as a helper for our local school custodian.

Basically I was the janitor's gopher

It was great --- Could have done that forever if it paid more than $3.35 an hour

What was your first job ?

[Toy Timelord]

Summer job working for the water dept. i got shocked changing a water meter once. I was standing in an inch of water, and the numbskull electrician who wired the house used the water main as his ground.

[Mikey]

Summer job working for the water dept. i got shocked changing a water meter once. I was standing in an inch of water, and the numbskull electrician who wired the house used the water main as his ground.

I know what you saying ..................

Best if you didn't die (which I assumed you didn't) just go along with the program.

Same here --- they had me on a 30ft scaffold cleaning lights and I was terrified to death

[4NDR01D]

McDonald's -grill

[Werewolf]

Part time at Kay Bee Toys during Christmas. Not as fun as you'd think it would be.

[Earth 2 Chris]

Besides mowing yards, my first job, when I was 15, was at the local pharmacy up the street from me. This is where I bought most of my childhood comics. I started out sweeping floors, stocking, etc, but eventually ran the register, and even made deliveries. I left to become a Wal-Mart stockman when I was 17.

Chris

[luey]

Bagger/Courtesy Clerk @ Kroger 1986 , $3.30 an hour !! Had mowed yards and washed cars prior as a sole proprietor

[Toy Timelord]

I made $5.15 an hour with the water dept.

[pmwasson]

First real paying job was collecting shopping carts from the parking lot of a grocery store in '86.

[palitoy]

T&D Toys, stacking Transformer knock off toys (mostly Japanese robots from TV shows I'd yet to discover) $3 an hour under the table!

Ted and Dan were fly by night operators who routinely smelled of booze, dealt only cash and left in the middle of the night. They left me a box of unsold robots in lieu of my final cheque. five or six years later I sold them at a toy show for $120.

[boss]

Summer work for Public Works crew. Basically we mowed, cleared weeds for the city.

[samurainoir]

dishwasher at a fancy Austrian Restaurant.

[TrekStar]

The Mego Corp, (right I wish) dishwasher and grocery store bag bundler and shopping cart fetcher.

[kingdom warrior]

My Uncle's Hardware and carpet store in Brooklyn. Had a blast working there after school and weekends.

[Donkey Hoatie]

Besides the mowing lawns and stuff, first job was at 15 at the Public Library. Sorted and shelved books and worked with grade school kids during the summer reading program. The worst part was when times were slow and you were told to go "read the shelves." Essentially, they'd assign you a long stretch of 1000s of books and you had to make sure they were in the right order. It was mind-numbing. Generally, when that happened, I'd find a book and duck into one of the staff-only stairwells that went up to the top floor. Nobody ever came up them because they only led to an emergency exit, and patrons couldn't use them. I'd spend an hour or so reading an actual book and then lie and say the shelves looked in order after reading them. Did I feel guilty about this? No way. Not for the $3.35 I was getting per hour back then.