What was your first job ???

[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!

[ZombieJimC]

Pumping gas at Texaco age 16.

[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.

[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.

[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

[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!

[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.

[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.

[thunderbolt]

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

[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.

[kingdom warrior]

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

[TrekStar]

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

[samurainoir]

dishwasher at a fancy Austrian Restaurant.

[boss]

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

[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.