| | What was your first real job?Page 1 of 2 (1, 2) | Apart from helping here and there and getting some compensation for it. Like babysitting for couple hours here and there or helping in building a garage for a friend of family...
What was your first real job? Where you had to be at a specific time and you were getting your paycheque through payroll department of the company.
How old were you?
As for me: I was a part time (evening) ESL Teacher for Grade 1 & 3 in Elementary School in Poland. I was 14 at that time. | |
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| What was your first real job?
Posted: 10/29/2006 12:19:02 PM | I was 17 & waitressing at a truck-stop in my hometown. My sister-in-law was a cook there & encouraged me to apply, saying with my bubbly personality & good work ethic, I'd make a killing in tips! LOL
She was right, worked there 6 months & paid for my grad stuff, like my ring, jacket & dress...just with tips! | |
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| What was your first real job?
Posted: 10/29/2006 12:24:46 PM | 14 years old I was a Bus boy at Humpty's Egg Place. I now make more in one hour than I used to in an eight hour day 
Scary thought, I've been working for more than half my life, I guess I am old. | |
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| What was your first real job?
Posted: 10/29/2006 12:28:31 PM | ^^ I hear that! ^^^
$2 an hour
Of course, a teenburger was only $1, petrol was $.50 a gallon, cigs $.50 a pack, and draught beer $.25
When did I get this age?
^^BG^^ | |
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| What was your first real job?
Posted: 10/29/2006 12:29:20 PM | 16 selling shoes at Forzani's locker room.
Good times, but the comparisons to Al Bundy drove me up and down the wall several times a day. | |
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| What was your first real job?
Posted: 10/29/2006 12:45:27 PM | I was 15 and I got at jod at the ice rink as a "Rink Rat" during "Public Skating" .I had to wear a bright orange vest and make sure no one broke the "Rules".
It turned into summer jobs mowing the parks lawns around town.
Helped me buy my frist car. | |
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| What was your first real job?
Posted: 10/29/2006 12:51:54 PM | I worked at a coffee bar on Whyte called "Caffe Latte" when I was 16, it was above Savoy. Anyways, my boss was the one who introduced me to Blues music as well sexual harrassment.  | |
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| What was your first real job?
Posted: 10/29/2006 1:09:21 PM | I was 11, i would drive the tractor on the tobaco farm. Had to get up at around 600 and we were in the fields by 645 or so.
Drive that thing from 7 till 1 or 2 at the latest. Depending on how fast the guys were picking up leaves.
When you are 11 and work in the fields, all the other guys are like 14 and up...it was tough at times.
Btw it isnt a real tractor how you see it here in Alberta. it's more of an engine and you hold the steering to go straight in the row. When they guys have filled up a "baggies" full of leaves they yell "WOohh" and i pull the clutch to stop the tractor. When they say "Goooo" release the clutch ...
I mean it was a summer job, otherwise my first real job was the Army. | |
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| What was your first real job?
Posted: 10/29/2006 1:15:38 PM | | My first real summer job was when I was 14, I worked on a bee farm. Aside from that, when I was 17 I started working as a waitres/cook/grocery cashier in my small town cafe/grocery store. | |
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| What was your first real job?
Posted: 10/29/2006 1:18:40 PM | I delivered flyers all over Canyon Meadows for Sizzling Rice when it was owned by a family friend when I was in Grade 5.. I think in an hour I made about 5 bucks.
Grade 11.. I worked for the Calgary Stampede sweeping the Grandstand after the Rodeo and a Concession staff during the Grandstand Show for 4.50 an hour.. | |
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Posted: 10/29/2006 5:01:10 PM | 14 - Usherette at the Stampede Corral - 1.65/hr went up to 1.75 when I turned 16!
I remember my first paycheque was $42. !! I thought i was a weathly girl  I worked there til I was 24 and expecting the boy - of course had 2-3 jobs at any one time
(and as some of u know i'm back there now) | |
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Posted: 10/29/2006 5:09:09 PM | | The age old job guys like I had as kids. Stacking hay bales. Was 90 above and the chaff was so itchy you wanted to scream. Farm work is not the same anymore now. | |
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| What was your first real job?
Posted: 10/29/2006 5:12:39 PM | it was 1979 and i was 15. i quit school and got a job as a photographer at Northtown Mall. or so they told me i would be a photographer. in actuality, i was the guy who took the poloroids of the kids with santa. i has to wear green tights and pointy little shoes. and our santa was an older woman (she even had chin whiskers). she was fired after a few complaints from nutty parents and the whole thing blew up and made the papers and tv. the triple five people who would go on to build west edmonton mall were forced to rehire "mrs. claus" after a huge backlash from the media.
i did look great in spandex tho.
bradley | |
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| What was your first real job?
Posted: 10/29/2006 5:17:46 PM | I worked at the Drive In theatre in the place i grew up in back east.
I was 14 and it was the BEST job to ever have at that age....your breaks you could go hang with your friends in their cars!
The only downside was Sunday nights, which were Porn nights and our boss made sure he blacked out the window where we could usually watch the movies from inside the concession booth and he also taught us to put the change for customers on the counter instead of touching their hands to give it back to them..funny thing is it took me until i was almost 20 to realize why he told us to do that...ahhh..the joys of innocence! | |
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Posted: 10/29/2006 5:20:34 PM | Gee Limepopsicle how do I live up to that1 
I was 14 and worked at Dairy Queen. I lasted about a year and when I realized that I would not be getting on the desert side because I couldnt get that damn curly cue on the cone right I was out of there! | |
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| What was your first real job?
Posted: 10/29/2006 5:24:59 PM | | me i was 12 or 13 where i worked for dyckee dee selling ice cream on bikes ringing the bells which annoyed most parents and yes i was the guy who rode the bike fast to see the kids chasing me and yelling then at 15 i worked for the horse race track counting money in the money room that was fun thats when we still had the one and two dollar bills | |
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Posted: 10/29/2006 5:27:51 PM | | Gawd...where i grew up all the D.ickie Dee drivers were creepy old men with comb-overs...you would have been a chick magnet in my town....young and with access to all the ice cream we could stuff in our faces..mmmmmm | |
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Posted: 10/29/2006 7:27:44 PM | | Burger King @ 14...flipped Burgers, got banned from the kitchen then 'cleaned' tables and trash duty. Went back to school that September....and life has never been the same for me since! | |
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| What was your first real job?
Posted: 10/29/2006 7:59:27 PM | oh my I cleaned houseboats for 2 years and it sucked, even went to work drunk after my 19th b-day, had to sew on some curtain hooks in the penthouse and threw up everywhere!
And in the end they screwed me out of 2 weeks pay cause I got fired!! | |
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