re: What first job did you want as a teen vs the job you had?

I wanted to work at Red's in Lafayette, ended up cleaning trailer tanks for a gas/oil trucking company. It paid $3 more an hour but was the most physically demanding job I've ever had besides framing and hanging sheetrock.

First job was working at a newspaper Saturday nights during high school. As an adult I tried a lot of things, banker, design engineer, manager at a large corporation, medical physicist, healthcare consultant. But really, I always wanted to just be a tugboat captain.

Paper route, learned basic management skills and accountability. The only other job I wanted then was to play for the Yankees.

The flumes, get it right

Wanted, dunno wasn’t much in the way of options.

Got - legbolting mobile homes on the production line as a summer job. Got moved up to finishing up and inspections after a few weeks. Apparently trying to do a good job on the worst job in the place got noticed when a couple people called out and they moved me up to fill in. One of the call outs got to leg bolt when they came back

I started when I was 15 and first job was with an environmental specialist company that my father knew of. I remember going in to interview and they had special licenses to "study" game fish so everyone had an aquarium with game fish and let me feed a bass by hand. They proceeded to tell me they had a contract to monitor wildlife on the grounds of a WWII base with massive spills and leaks. They literally spent summers trapping wildlife... fish, mammals, reptiles of all sizes and species from deer to fish to salamanders to insects. This was a dream first job.

My actual job... I cleaned shite, literal shite from testing equipment from the other contracts with sewage plants. I spent two years with a carrot dangled in front of me to trap wildlife. They tracked, netted, tranquilizied, scuba dived (dove?), you name it! While I cleaned equipment and testing apparatuses from the sewage plants. The thing was the tester was in full HAZMAT attire... suit respirator, goggles etc.

They dont care about the cleaning guy. Im back there with water hose, covering my eyes with one hand and making sure my mouth was closed praying I dont get blow back when I pulled handle of water hose garden sprayer. I did nothing but clean with dawn and a toilet bowl scrubber.

After my 2nd year, I dumped environmental and went civil. I never went on a wildlife trip.

Wanted to work at the local video rental store.

Ended up working on my uncles farm.

I never wanted to work as a teenager, but my first job was as a hotel cleaner.

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So you were a drug dealer?

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If you smoked weed at Harrison High School (Justin Fields' HS) in the mid-90's, I pinched your sack.

It started as a way to get free weed. Buy an oz, split it into dimes and 20's, end up with a free quarter.

But it was so easy to sell, it didn't take long to start buying QP's and breaking those down the same way, and then you had more free stuff than you could even smoke, so you start breaking that down and selling it too, and that's when the money really starts rolling in. Quality didn't matter at the time, it was just whether or not you had inventory. The 99% white middle class teens couldn't get enough. "Is it good?" "No, it sucks." "Ok, I'll take it". There was no price haggling. There were never disputes, everything was always square. The only sketchy parts were dealing with our supplier. Those were actual shady AF adults with meetings in the middle of nowhere and shite like in movies.

I never escalated to anything above weed (sales). And when I graduated and went off to college, I gave it (sales) all up completely. Unfortunately, my little bro did not. He ended up dead 12 years later.

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i worked as a ice cream dude for a week

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Only a week? Didn't meet your weed sales quota?