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re: What was your first real job in high school? Like where you had to clock in, etc.

Posted on 3/9/26 at 10:53 am to
Posted by deaconjones35
Thibodaux
Member since Sep 2009
9899 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 10:53 am to
Piccadilly in Houma. Made a solid $3.35 an hour and it was rough washing dishes / pots. I eventually made it to the line to serve sides and breads. That's when I started making the sweet moolah!
This post was edited on 3/9/26 at 11:13 am
Posted by LSUchumble
Wake Forest, NC
Member since Jun 2009
139 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 10:59 am to
Service Merchandise. Worked in Electronics then switched over to warehouse.
This post was edited on 3/9/26 at 11:01 am
Posted by SpotCheckBilly
Member since May 2020
8524 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 11:01 am to
A nursery, doing landscaping, sales, potting, weeding, whatever.
Posted by Grievous Angel
Tuscaloosa, AL
Member since Dec 2008
10895 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 11:02 am to
Mom and pop clothing/fashion store.

Basically just a janitor...sweeping, vacuuming, cleaning toilets.

Eventually added sales but had no commission and still had to clean the shitters.

After that a Bus Boy at an all you can eat catfish restaurant.

After that, walmart...manually pushing buggies up the blacktop hill in Mississippi was no joke. You absolutely could never keep up. There were no motorized assists either.

Then, college.
Posted by lowhound
Effie
Member since Aug 2014
10408 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 11:03 am to
Summer job as a construction labor on a commercial project. Digging ditches, tying rebar, pouring concrete, cleaning bricks, carrying sheetrock, sweeping, etc. That'll toughen up a kid over the course of a summer between 10th & 11th grade. Definitely made me want to make better grades.
Posted by Mr Clean
Power I-Formation
Member since Aug 2006
53519 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 11:05 am to
Sacking groceries at Big Star supermarket in Many.

Sometimes the shifts were from 8 to 8. We got off around 9 to 9:30 after cleaning the store. I think it's illegal for minors to work that long now.
This post was edited on 3/9/26 at 11:05 am
Posted by LouisianaLady
Member since Mar 2009
83035 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 11:06 am to
I was a carhop at Sonic.

But Winn Dixie was my next job. I worked with the florist.
Posted by AlxTgr
Kyre Banorg
Member since Oct 2003
87411 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 11:09 am to
Lifeguard.
Posted by CottonWasKing
4,8,15,16,23,42
Member since Jun 2011
29539 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 11:22 am to
Hoeing cotton when I was 12
Posted by 3nOut
I don't really care, Margaret
Member since Jan 2013
32403 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 11:30 am to
1997. I flipped burgers and ran a cash register for a mall burger shop for $5/hour in cash paid every week.

I was 14.

lot of illegal things done there.
Posted by madmaxvol
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Member since Oct 2011
22210 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 11:33 am to
Freshman and Sophomore years of HS, I got a job selling cokes at Neyland Stadium for Tennessee Football games. Junior year I delivered pizzas.
Posted by andwesway
Zachary, LA
Member since Jun 2016
3401 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 11:38 am to
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Service Merchandise. Worked in Electronics then switched over to warehouse.


Which one? I was at Cortana from 1996 through 1999.
Posted by Banned
Member since Feb 2026
331 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 11:43 am to
Bruno's grocery store in Center Point, AL in the mid 1990s.

Best and most fun I've ever had at a job.

All my friends worked there.

Good memories.
Posted by YungFO
Dallas
Member since Mar 2018
1126 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 11:44 am to
Waiter at a shitty little restaurant called wings pizza a things. Ran by a drug riddled family.
Posted by Violent Hip Swivel
Member since Aug 2023
9438 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 11:44 am to
Bag boy at the Piggly Wiggly. Stole Lunchables and smoked a bunch of dope beind the dumpsters.
Posted by Capt ST
High Plains
Member since Aug 2011
13674 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 11:56 am to
Fun Fair park, ride operator before getting moved to concessions.
Posted by HoustonGumbeauxGuy
Member since Jul 2011
33528 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 11:58 am to
Worked at a movie theater in the early/mid 90s. All employees start in the concession stand, it is the grunt work and you stay about an hour after close just to thoroughly clean up all the nastiness. It looks pristine that night and in the morning until the first few movies start, then it looks like a fricking pigpen all over again.
This post was edited on 3/9/26 at 12:06 pm
Posted by HoustonGumbeauxGuy
Member since Jul 2011
33528 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 11:59 am to
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Fun Fair park, ride operator


You may be be personally responsible for me throwing up numerous times after riding the spider
This post was edited on 3/9/26 at 12:00 pm
Posted by Alley
Smashville
Member since Sep 2005
3252 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 12:05 pm to
Posted by Capt ST
High Plains
Member since Aug 2011
13674 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 12:08 pm to
quote:

You may be be personally responsible for me throwing up numerous times after riding the spider


As long as it was after, it was the ones puking while the machine was wide open that sucked.
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