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Where was your first job, and how old were you when you started?

Posted on 8/30/15 at 7:35 pm
Posted by phantom70815
Walker, U.S.A
Member since Jan 2010
1467 posts
Posted on 8/30/15 at 7:35 pm
My first job was at the old Putt-Putt golf course around Florida and Airline, not too far from where Fun Fair Park used to be. I was 16, and the year was 1987. I made $3.35/hr. Good times.
This post was edited on 8/30/15 at 7:44 pm
Posted by Spankum
The Sip
Member since Jan 2007
63332 posts
Posted on 8/30/15 at 7:36 pm to
first job was driving a farm tractor when I was 14....
Posted by Sho Nuff
Oahu
Member since Feb 2009
14197 posts
Posted on 8/30/15 at 7:38 pm to
My first job was over the summer before high school, I was 12 freaking years old and worked at my aunt's new restaurant. I scraped silverware from rust for a month, then I helped in the kitchen. Couldn't have an illegal worker showing in public
Posted by Agforlife
Somewhere in the Brazos Valley
Member since Nov 2012
20102 posts
Posted on 8/30/15 at 7:38 pm to
Cutting hay in the summer and feeding cows in the winter $2.75 hr 1981
Posted by Caymus
Houston
Member since Jul 2015
1234 posts
Posted on 8/30/15 at 7:38 pm to
Lifeguard at 15. General handy work for grandparents before that.
Posted by Buck Dancer
New Orleans
Member since Jan 2008
4869 posts
Posted on 8/30/15 at 7:38 pm to
First job was escaping the vagina, age 001.
Posted by malvin
Member since Apr 2013
4628 posts
Posted on 8/30/15 at 7:38 pm to
Started helping my dad on the farm when I was a kid. Don't remember how old I was when I actually started doing work instead of playing in the dirt. But I know as soon as I was strong enough to hold the clutch in and let it out slow enough I was driving tractors
Posted by MottLaneKid
Gonzales
Member since Apr 2012
4543 posts
Posted on 8/30/15 at 7:39 pm to
16 years old: Winn-Dixie. Little John and Florida Bvld.
Posted by LSUintheNW
At your mom’s house
Member since Aug 2009
37026 posts
Posted on 8/30/15 at 7:40 pm to
McDonald's on East Judge Perez in da Parish, was 16. 4.35/hour.

Katrina took it out and it was never rebuilt.
Posted by OMLandshark
Member since Apr 2009
120445 posts
Posted on 8/30/15 at 7:40 pm to
Car washer for a dealership at 15. Had to wash every car on the lot every week. Hot as hell on that asphalt. My best friend growing up also washed cars at the dealership next door, but he only had to do it inside. Lucky bastard.
This post was edited on 8/30/15 at 7:41 pm
Posted by okietiger
Chelsea F.C. Fan
Member since Oct 2005
42757 posts
Posted on 8/30/15 at 7:40 pm to
Wheat harvest in Western Oklahoma after my Junior year in high school.

Made like $8-10 an hour, and we worked out there for like 2 weeks, 70 hours per week. I felt like a when I got that $1000+ paycheck.
This post was edited on 8/30/15 at 7:48 pm
Posted by SEClint
New Orleans, LA/Portland, OR
Member since Nov 2006
49487 posts
Posted on 8/30/15 at 7:41 pm to
Digging graves in the cemetery, I was 14. I no shite started on halloween.
Posted by shutterspeed
MS Gulf Coast
Member since May 2007
73856 posts
Posted on 8/30/15 at 7:41 pm to
Student worker during the summer for the State of La at 15.

$300+ every two weeks.
Posted by Backinthe615
Member since Nov 2011
6871 posts
Posted on 8/30/15 at 7:41 pm to
Paperboy. Had a bench leg beagle named Leroy that would tag along. Leroy had asthma and the neighbors could hear when the paper was close.

*forgot age: 10/11human years.
This post was edited on 8/30/15 at 7:45 pm
Posted by Cmlsu5618
Destin, FL
Member since Sep 2010
3763 posts
Posted on 8/30/15 at 7:42 pm to
Started a car wash in my apartment complex. I was 12.
Posted by Salmon
I helped draft the email
Member since Feb 2008
86740 posts
Posted on 8/30/15 at 7:42 pm to
I worked for my Dad during the summers doing bitch work for his construction company starting around 13, but I don't know if that counts.

My first "real" job was my senior year in HS, working in the lumber yard at Sutherlands making $5.15/hr. It was quite the pay cut from working with my Dad, but for some reason I was did not want to work for my Dad once I got older. Guess it just wasn't cool or something. Teenagers are retarded.
This post was edited on 8/30/15 at 7:46 pm
Posted by 7thWardTiger
Richmond, Texas
Member since Nov 2009
24670 posts
Posted on 8/30/15 at 7:42 pm to
My first real job(read paycheck and not just paid in cash) was working in the meat department of a grocery store, packaging the pick 5 meats, stocking shelves, cleaning up, etc. I was 15.
Posted by PurpleandGold Motown
Waltzing Between the Raindrops
Member since Oct 2007
24903 posts
Posted on 8/30/15 at 7:43 pm to
14. Cashier at Western Super Market.
Posted by PolyPusher86
St. George
Member since Jun 2010
3357 posts
Posted on 8/30/15 at 7:43 pm to
Throwing hay in a hayfield @ 13, that'll make a man out of Ya
Posted by ginms
Ridgeland Ms
Member since Aug 2007
1885 posts
Posted on 8/30/15 at 7:46 pm to
I had a great job life guarding at our local town swimming pool. Wow, what fun and I have no idea what we were paid. No way it could have covered the fun and crazy times we had.
Early 70's.
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