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  • madmarva
    Talkative Member
    • Jul 7, 2007
    • 6445

    #31
    I started working in my mom's catering business in the summer after the sixth grade. Washing dishes, loading the vans, sweeping, mowing, cleaning, measuring people for tuxedo rentals, answering the phone, making, checking out customers.

    Didn't do any cooking, but I did decorate a few cakes, lol.

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    • cjefferys
      Duke of Gloat
      • Apr 23, 2006
      • 10180

      #32
      My first job was as a dishwasher at a British restaurant/tavern. That only lasted a year, then I spent the next six years working as a kitchen cleaner/delivery driver (to other stores in our local chain) at Tim Hortons. All the free donuts and pop I wanted, plus lots of cute girls worked there too, and my mom was the bookkeeper for the franchise owner, so I was treated really well. Probably why I hung around so long.

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      • HardyGirl
        Mego Museum's Poster Girl
        • Apr 3, 2007
        • 13950

        #33
        Before libraries went hi tech, I was one of the people in the back putting the check out cards back in the books.
        "Do you believe, you believe in magic?
        'Cos I believe, I believe that I do,
        Yes, I can see I believe that it's magic
        If your mission is magic your love will shine true."

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        • ScottA
          Original Member
          • Jun 25, 2001
          • 12264

          #34
          I worked at a wholesale drug company during the summer I was 14 on the docks loading and unloading trucks and stocking shelves. My Dad worked there.

          I eventually worked there in receiving on-and-off during school for the next 9 years.
          sigpic WANTED: Boxed, Carded and Kresge Carded WGSH

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          • Bronxboykev
            Permanent Member
            • Mar 7, 2011
            • 3013

            #35
            Kitchen of a Catering Hall... Tardies in the Bronx... Now the Villa Barone Manor... Perks... All the Bred you could eat and Soda you could drink lol... New Years Eve was Mandatory work day... At the end of the night the Vianese desert table came back into the kitchen... Mike high whipped cream tower with Strawberries running down the side of it... Everyone grabbed a spoon and went to town ��

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            • Fuzzysnail
              Persistent Member
              • Feb 18, 2007
              • 1048

              #36
              Taco Bell in 1985. They paid 2.85 (student wage at the time) as I was only 15. My first day I cut three huge cans of olives into thirds with a plastic serated edge. The manager told me if I was willing to come back after that I could have the job. I worked there for 11 years working my way up to store manager (3 stores) and was offered a regional position when I finally quit for my current job. Waaay too much stress. Stuffing tacos was fun when I was in High School though. Its like any job...its the people you work with that makes it fun....

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              • Rallygirl
                Kitsch rules!
                • May 31, 2008
                • 736

                #37
                The first summer I worked, I had three little jobs; picking blueberries, potting evergreens, and loading trucks with turkeys destined to become Mr. Turkey lunch meat. My first dealing-with-the-public job the next summer was as salad bar girl at Wendy's.
                sigpic

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                • Wee67
                  Museum Correspondent
                  • Apr 2, 2002
                  • 10603

                  #38
                  The Knights of Columbus Hall let me wait tables when I was 13 at their weekly bingo night. I remember acting like a big deal because I was the only kid in my class with a job. What a dolt.
                  WANTED - Solid-Boxed WGSH's, C.8 or better.

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                  • MegoMark71
                    Permanent Member
                    • Dec 18, 2008
                    • 3383

                    #39
                    My 1st job was working at a summer day care.

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                    • Hector
                      el Hombre de Acero
                      • May 19, 2003
                      • 31852

                      #40
                      Paper route, and I loved it.
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                      • Mego Milk
                        Custom Mego Maker
                        • Jun 3, 2007
                        • 2843

                        #41
                        White Castle!

                        mmmmm...

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                        • Mikey
                          Verbose Member
                          • Aug 9, 2001
                          • 47258

                          #42
                          OMG, if I worked at White Castle I would have been dead of a heart attack in about 2 months

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                          • Toy Timelord
                            Banned
                            • Aug 4, 2014
                            • 680

                            #43
                            I can only eat there every so often.

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                            • Hector
                              el Hombre de Acero
                              • May 19, 2003
                              • 31852

                              #44
                              Originally posted by Mikey
                              OMG, if I worked at White Castle I would have been dead of a heart attack in about 2 months
                              I was a teen when I got a job at a local mom & pops burger joint...after the owner yelled at me...I told him to shove his burgers where the sun don't shine.

                              Time I lasted at that job...exactly two hours...

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                              • starsky
                                veteran member
                                • Aug 26, 2007
                                • 6207

                                #45
                                toys r us as a cashier and stocker. i eventually told the manager i just wanted to stock especially aisle 7c!!! lol

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