What was your first job ???

[thunderbolt]

Concession stand at the municipal pool. not sure what the pay was, guessing minimum wage, and free Charleston Chews.

[Toy Timelord]

Concession stand at the municipal pool. not sure what the pay was, guessing minimum wage, and free Charleston Chews.

I'd have loved that job as a teen.

[Grimm Jimm]

In high school I was a movie theater usher, and started the opening weekend of Gremlins! It was a 5 screen theater and we had everything that summer, Ghostbusters, Temple of Doom, The Last Starfighter, etc. The theater owners had a Drive In Theater that backed up to the main theater. It was a great era to be working there with movie output at the time! Made $2.85 an hour to start, but I had all the free movies, popcorn, and pop I could handle. Ended up marring one of the Candy Girls a few years later.

[warlock664]

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

Holy cow, that's eerily similar to my story!
I was loafing at the comic rack at the independent pharmacy in the town I grew up in when I overheard their then-current cleaning/stock boy quit. My mind started racing about all the comics I could buy with a job, so I ran home to ask permission to apply for the position. I went back and nervously asked to speak to the pharmacist, told him I had heard their previous boy quit, and asked if I could apply for the job. He considered me, noted that they usually liked to hire a high school age boy for the job (I was 13 at the time), but agreed to give me a shot.
I ended up working there for 10 years, through high school and college (on breaks and over summers), and only left after graduating pharmacy school. I've now been working in a pharmacy for 37 straight years!

[Bantha5]

Busboy in the restaurant at the local golf club, Worked up to waiter over the summer. Still can't watch the clubhouse scenes in Caddy Shack. Ryan

[Toy Timelord]

I delivered papers at the age of twelve, but I didn't count that because my payment was only exercise any profits went to gas for my dad's truck, and I quickly learned what a pain in the *** it was as it didn't ofer me any financial benefit.

[torgospizza]

I ended up working there for 10 years, through high school and college (on breaks and over summers), and only left after graduating pharmacy school. I've now been working in a pharmacy for 37 straight years!

Okay, for some odd reason, I've always thought you were in a touring metal band. No joke.

BTW, my first real job was in a small department store called Place's as a janitor/gopher/flunkie.

[ZombieJimC]

Pumping gas at Texaco age 16.

[ZombieJimC]

Did you get the comics?

Holy cow, that's eerily similar to my story!
I was loafing at the comic rack at the independent pharmacy in the town I grew up in when I overheard their then-current cleaning/stock boy quit. My mind started racing about all the comics I could buy with a job, so I ran home to ask permission to apply for the position. I went back and nervously asked to speak to the pharmacist, told him I had heard their previous boy quit, and asked if I could apply for the job. He considered me, noted that they usually liked to hire a high school age boy for the job (I was 13 at the time), but agreed to give me a shot.
I ended up working there for 10 years, through high school and college (on breaks and over summers), and only left after graduating pharmacy school. I've now been working in a pharmacy for 37 straight years!

[warlock664]

Did you get the comics?

Oh yeah!
I bought about $5 worth of comics after I got my first week's pay (or about 14 comicss, at $0.35 each!).

[TomStrong]

My first job was at a golf and tennis store. I strung tennis racquets and learned regripping and selling golf and tennis equipment. It was great, I learned a lot from it and had great fun. I made 5.00 an hour and thought it was wonderful. I was a senior in high school and worked there well into college. My boss really taught me a lot and I learned a ton about working with people. At the time I felt lucky because my friends that had jobs were all fast food or some sort of food service jobs. I played racquetball like a fiend and could restring my racquet and buy my other stuff at cost. Worked a lot of hours too while I went to school.

[EmergencyIan]

Worked at K-Mart for a couple of years. I started out at the check-outs and from there it seems I covered most departments, other than clothing.

- Ian

[Hedji]

Paper route as an early teen. Then I had a job for one day at a supermarket bringing in shopping carts from the cold. I promptly quit and worked at a Tuxedo rental store in the new mall. I was the only guy there, with lots of cute girls who worked with me. Great job.

[LonnieFisher]

Babysitting.

[Dark Shadow]

Toys R' Us in the "Pick Up" area: unloading trucks, moving pallets to the second floor stockroom with a forklift, maintaining/rotating lower & upper stockrooms, customer "carry outs" & "tie downs", assembly (bikes, etc), re-wrap, etc.