First Job

[Gopher Gary]

I was inspired by rock hound to make this thread, and he also made me think of Some_Bloke. My first job was a summer job in a crappy little amusement park, giving breaks to people who ran rides, and otherwise walking around sweeping up cigarette butts and other bits of litter. After that I worked in fast food. At the time I thought both were awesome. 

[Parts]

I washed dishes for a caterer when he needed extra help, my first every day of the week job was in my brothers photo store/lab when his partner was out for two months for an operation.  While in college I worked in the library and started installing insulation during the summers which is what I am still doing today 

["couldbecousin"]

Other than a few weeks of babysitting, I didn't have a job till I was 19.  I worked at a local supermarket, in the bakery and deli departments.  All that luscious food around me for 8 hours at a time ... guess what I spent most of my money on. 

[Gopher Gary]

guess what I spent most of my money on. 

I spent all my money on clothes and party supplies. 

["couldbecousin"]

guess what I spent most of my money on. 

I spent all my money on clothes and party supplies. 

Party supplies    or ... "party supplies"?    

[Lord of the Ales]

I did car washing at a local garage as a kid, with a paper round from 13 and helped out with my dad's market stall. First 'proper' job at 16 was over the summer I left school in a local factory, capping sample tubes for hospitals, it was shit pay and on piece rates so I blistered the hell out of my fingers the first week or two until they grew callouses. Did evenings in a restaurant kitchen doing veg prep, cleaning and washing up for three years after that while I was between other jobs and studying. That was a fun job at times but fucking hard work when it was busy. The chefs were a laugh though and the gaffer used to give us free food and buy us beers in the restaurant bar when we closed up.   

[Gopher Gary]

guess what I spent most of my money on. 

I spent all my money on clothes and party supplies. 

Party supplies    or ... "party supplies"?    

I plead the fifth. 

[RageBeoulve]

Mine was assembling filtration baskets for water treatment.

[Pyraxis]

Mine was $5 to draw a logo for a crappy '90's website.

My first regular job was a summer in high school where I did web design, multimedia for a course supplement, and various other graphic-y things for a university department.

I tried to get normal food-service summer jobs. Nobody wanted my autistic self.

['andersom']

I sucked at economics. I did all kinds of things, because I thought someone had to do it. And I did not get paid. So, plenty of baby-sitting and  voluntary stuff.
First paid thing was awesome though. Paid lousy, but did come with food, shelter and lots of mud. I was in an emergency excavation. A few years I went there for a couple of weeks. Pay? 75 guilder a week. Work, over forty hours. Experience? Awesome. And when it was hot, we'd start an hour early, and we'd end the day in the sea. Loved it.
After that, I got some receptionist telephonist jobs as a student.

[rock hound]

Mine was working in a Cider Mill that made apple juice, cider, vinegar.  I was too young to work with machinery, so my job was to put boxes on the assembly/bottle fill lines, get stuff from the warehouse, clean cider vats, etc.  I was 16 at the time.  It was a summer job and it was hot stinky work for the then minimum wage of $1,65 and hour.........back in 1972.

[MLA]

Paper route at 14.  If that doesn't count, then washing dishes at a resort hotel at 15.

[Icequeen]

I was a waitress at a little, but busy restaurant.

In a month, I managed to break 4 glass coffee pots, drop and break countless dishes and run into my boss while carrying a tray full of food and dump it on her.

She was really cool though, she finally called me in and just said "you know,  you're not really good at this, but I don't want to fire you from your first job."  I just said, " I know, can we just say I quit, because I don't want to do this ever again."

Clumsy people make bad waitresses.   

[odeon]

My very first job was when I was 13, selling morning papers door to door during weekends.

My first "real" job was when I was 17. I was an electrician's apprentice and helper for six weeks during the summer. Pretty cool, actually, since he worked for the local hydroelectric power plant and I got to see all the cool stuff. At the time, Westinghouse was conducting research at the site, using scale models of various plants throughout Sweden.

[renaeden]

My first job was at KFC, just doing kitchen stuff at first but then they wanted me on the front counter, serving customers. I lasted two weeks before being fired because I wasn't a "people person".